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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I thought Google was a mess until I started working at a Microsoft shop for the first time. Boy it's astonishing. I've got two versions of Outlook on my computer, neither of which is as quick to load as Thunderbird was 20 years ag
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I went to Australia recently, which is famous for requiring age verification on websites. When I first landed, Discord blocked a few channels I was in, but within a couple hours it was all unblocked with no action from me. Both Reddit and D
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I've never had to do a selfie or a passport for Reddit or Discord, including in the US and Australia.
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
Are there professional degrees like that for, say, mathematics or physics? An aside, the Actuarial profession's fellowship credentials (FSA/FCAS) are considered to be roughly equivalent in content to a professional doctorate (not
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I didn't use generative AI much until a couple months ago. My last employer had a copilot license that I dabbled in in 2024, and wasn't impressed with, and then I spent the latter half of 2025 and early 2026 budget traveling/
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
There's a specific singularity theory of AI that is very popular. Eliezer Yudkowsky helped popularize it among the Bay Area "rationalist" community, and it has this idea that AGI necessarily implies a self improving system th
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
My high school government teacher told us about his vasectomy. Not related to the thread but your comment just reminded me of that.
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
Have you interacted with a typical class of 30 children lately? Maybe 1 or 2 of them are doing what you described, but 15 of them don't understand how to navigate a basic filesystem because they haven't used anything more advanced
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
From the article: > “Vulnerability-Trust exercise” From your parent comment: > the facilitator tried to get to the bottom of tensions between the CTO and head of sales I was referring specifically to these sorts of things. Retreat doe
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I mostly feel that people should be more selective about who and how they open up to in general in life. There's a lot to talk about that's not your past experiences with depression, and those don't need to be talked about to
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
Is this an actual situation or a weird hypothetical? Perfect health is only really a requirement for the military, pilots, and a couple other niche roles. No medication history would constitute illegal discrimination for 99% of jobs in the
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I think that's something people have increasingly forgotten. My grandparents were active in their church for decades. They didn't talk about my grandmother's serious mental health struggles with the other parishioners. People
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I think there's a difference between getting employees who work remotely from each other into the same room for a week, and a "retreat" offsite where pseudo-theraputic approaches are used to try to get employees to open up or
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I think a lot of it is that the US doesn't take a paternalistic approach to mental healthcare or addiction treatment, so there are a lot of junkies and people with psychosis out on the streets in many cities. My understanding is that i
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
English actually has the exact same saying "You're not made of sugar, you won't melt." A lot of people in car dependent regions have forgotten that you can dress for the weather, and that people have been traveling in al
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I live in New Zealand, where they are big efforts to cull non-native wildlife, including all mammalian predators. There are traplines through the woods here, and I remember seeing a Department of Conservation visitor centre with a diorama o
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
It's hard to describe. In upper level math (real analysis and the like) in college I would write every single thing the professor wrote on the chalkboard down in my notebook. I didn't really study or do much homework, but copying
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I think you're right. It's very easy in any hobby to make the gear side of the hobby be disproportionate to how much you actually do the hobby. Think someone who's spent $3k on camping gear and constantly researches gear, but
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
Writing notes by hand feels like it etches the concepts into my brain in a way that listening alone does not. Typing does not have the same feel. I have never learned how to do something substantially difficult (math, foreign language, any
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I recommend it. I'd been living in places that were a class 9 on the bortle scale, with occasional camping trips to places that were a class 5. I recently moved to the south island of New Zealand, and it's a class 4 in town and a
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
There's a podcast I listened to as it came out when I was a teenager. I'm now relistening to it over a decade later, and I distinctly remember walking home from the bus stop with it coming through wired earbuds from my ipod.
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
To second this, most (non-applied) mathematicians work first with paper and pencil or on a chalkboard, and the act of writing out the symbols is a part of thinking about them. Typing doesn't wire into the brain in the same way. Think o
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
Definitely agreed. I have a bachelor's in math and took an abstract algebra course as part of it. I also took a couple computer science courses in college and work as a data engineer. My only real exposure to networking is from an AWS
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
Great links. Yeah, it's not really a global "I have nothing to hide from any government whatsoever" but more of a "I don't have chat logs about overstaying or smuggling," which is what they're likely to im
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
They have screen readers.
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
Maybe I should've specified: I have seen many anecdotes of RCS being substantially more unreliable on GrapheneOS than it is on stock Android.
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
My understanding was that you have to install google messages to get RCS to work and on google's end it gets finicky about device ids. I read a couple blogs where people found RCS to be really unstable on GrapheneOS even with a couple
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I've been looking into GrapheneOS as a longtime Pixel user who is thinking of becoming a bit more security conscious. But, looking around at its current state RE: RCS and camera apps, I think it makes the most sense to stick with stock
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I will say (if you have that first 5-10 years of experience or so), there is real value in becoming an expert in some enterprise technology that was extremely popular 20+ years ago. The COBOL consultants getting $500 an hour right before Y2
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by annzabelle 3mo ago
I recommend if you're looking into inpatient treatment and you're not an acute danger to yourself or others, look into partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient programs instead. I know Kaiser covers some at least

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