drakonka

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by drakonka 5y ago
Even though I was born just a few years before the collapse of the Soviet Union, some of the descriptions in this article resonate. I don't remember what time of the year we had mandarins, but when it happened it felt like a very speci
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by drakonka 5y ago
* Pet insurance. Saved my ass several times. I would've found a way to pay for my cats' emergency treatment regardless, but it was nice not to get stuck with a sudden several-thousand-dollar bill after emergency surgery. * AWS S3
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by drakonka 5y ago
My ideal arrangement is fully remote and mostly async, with maybe a 2-4 hour (remote) overlap in the day.
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I don't think the issue is the task's perceived complexity; the issue is that it is simply not considered to be the most important task in their likely very long backlog of tasks.
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Same here. I usually start here if I am considering an interesting sounding product, but am not sure if a better option is already known to exist. 90% of the time if I google "[product type] wirecutter" I get a "Top x of [ins
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by drakonka 5y ago
Check out The Machineries of Empire series by Yoon Ha Lee. The first instalment (Ninefox Gambit) is one of my favorite books. The physics of the world is based on an interesting "calendrical" system which relies on the population&
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by drakonka 5y ago
I have been programming professionally for >10 years and even though I've done some personal web projects and did some freelance web dev very early on, I haven't done what I would classify as "web dev" professionally
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by drakonka 5y ago
I used to be left handed as a child, but my grandfather would refuse to look at my drawings if I drew them with my left hand. This (successfully, I guess?) prompted me to start trying to draw with my right hand so that he'd look at my
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by drakonka 5y ago
I have been using an app called FitNotes on Android for all of my gym tracking for what must be about seven years now. It is very simple, has zero ads, and provides exactly the features I need for lifting without any unnecessary bloat. I&#x
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by drakonka 5y ago
I've been using a Kindle Voyager since around 2016 I think. I still use it because it has been reliable, the screen is nice on my eyes, and it has physical buttons.
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I'm in Scandanavia and luckily have never run into any mention of any personality or IQ test at any interview process or recruiter discussion, both in the context of big and small companies. Never heard any friends bring them up, eithe
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by drakonka 5y ago
I am also in Scanadinavia, and honestly from your post I am getting an "everything is wrong with everyone else" vibe - which is usually a sign that you may want to look closer at yourself. Hiring processes are certainly not perfec
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by drakonka 5y ago
I'm glad more options for a peaceful chosen death are becoming available. Between a sudden, unexpected death and dying in pain from a progressive disease, my "ideal" way to die would be chosen death before a progressive disea
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by drakonka 5y ago
Mindfulness has certainly become a bit of a buzz word in recent years, but to dismiss it completely as if it isn't a real thing seems like a waste. It isn't some indefinable concept: mindfulness has been practiced in various forms
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by drakonka 5y ago
I should also try to sell things I don't need. I've never done this because it just seems like so much hassle to take photos of the stuff, post the ad, handle the shipping, answer any questions, etc. There are some resell services
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by drakonka 5y ago
What are you anxious about when living alone? Just being alone, or the thought that something might happen to you and no one would know? I love living alone, but sometimes at night I do get a pang of anxiety: what if I choke on something an
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by drakonka 5y ago
I am not sure exactly what bad financial management means to you, but to me it means a habit of impulse buying, so I'll focus on that here. This is always something I have struggled with, and it has required constant maintenance over t
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by drakonka 5y ago
I think the problem for now is more pronounced with dogs than cats, but I just checked my Maine Coon breeder's site. Out of their two current litters, only one is from one of their own cats; two are from other breeders in the same coun
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I donate to Good Food Institute, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, and Nonhuman Rights Project.
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I don't do anything special to care for my eyes and they don't tend to feel obviously fatigued from screen time, but I sit near a window and regularly take breaks to look outside at the forest or the construction nearby which I th
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by drakonka 5y ago
We moved to the US from a post-soviet country when I was around 12 and one night a few weeks or months later my dad came home with a Dell PC. It _may_ have been a Dell Dimension 4100, but I can't remember for sure. Pretty sure it was r
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by drakonka 5y ago
A Huskee Cup. Low maintenance, made from coffee husk, great seal with the lid, and I love that it can hold hot coffee but not burn your hands due to the fins running along the body. Many local coffee shops also give me a discount on takeawa
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It depends on what your intention was when buying the stocks in the first place. I've only invested in low cost index funds and gold outside of my fun bucket, with the expectation that the value will fluctuate over the years. I don&#x2
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Most people see their job as "just a job" and for many people that's absolutely fine. They have a stable income and can do things they're passionate about in their free time. Those women you think were pushed and hate it
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This is so great, thank you.
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Happy Thanksgiving! There is no Thanksgiving in my country, but I have been reflecting on my work life as we approach the end of the year and I'm really thankful for having gotten to spend 14 happy years working with a bunch of differe
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Yes; the only thing that makes my ebike a "Moped Class II" instead of an ebike is its throttle. I am able to legally use bike lanes, but also need to have traffic insurance to use it. It's been a life saver during the pandemi
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by drakonka 5y ago
I am sorry in advance if this is going to be too rambly or not at all what you are looking for, but the subject of story-telling has been very close to me lately as over the last year I've started publishing fiction. This depends large
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Not being "100% tech bro" is usually a positive. Assuming your technical skills are where you say they are, I would focus on your communication and making sure you are able to clearly verbalize your thought processes in an intervi
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Having done backend and now moving to frontend, I would not say either one of them is harder than the other. They're completely different. Having said that, my backend experience can help with taking relevant context into account when

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