annzabelle

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by annzabelle 4d ago
There are a ton of ways, big and small, where the work environment is much more relaxed and chill. For example, sick leave and vacation are separate. Recently I had scheduled to take vacation on a Thursday to go skiing, and then I had a col
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by annzabelle 7d ago
This is also a big challenge for airline pilots. The planes mostly fly themselves these days, and most takeoffs and landings are uneventful. Being an airline pilot involves an absolutely massive amount of business as usual and preparation,
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by annzabelle 7d ago
Macbook pros for a lot of us are effectively like daily driving a lifted Ford Raptor with a snorkel. Most of what I do on my personal device I easily could do on a Chromebook or tablet, and pretty much all of the rest is entirely possible o
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by annzabelle 7d ago
I know my Pixel has an accessibility setting that is effectively "make this device more usable for older people." It gets rid of the home screen/app switching/go back gestures and replaces them with the old icons at the
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by annzabelle 7d ago
I worked for a large unethical company in the US that worked to emulate big tech, and took a page out of Jack Welch's playbook (stack ranking etc). I was miserable working there and thinking of changing careers. I ended up moving to Ne
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by annzabelle 7d ago
> I suspect that almost all AVP/iPhone purchases are direct to consumer I have worked for multiple companies that provide iPhones to employees, but neither of them would budget for the newest best version, unlike with the macbook p
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by annzabelle 8d ago
Manichaeism did run into a lot of practicality challenges. In particular, the restrictions on diets and behavior for the priestly class were very extreme. No harvesting food, no stepping in puddles, strict veganism, and celibacy. I read a f
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by annzabelle 8d ago
I actually took a whole class in college on syncretic Christianity, and we had a unit on Goa, and there are Catholic shrines in Goa that are also frequented by Hindus, and you can find people there who identify as Christian but say that Vis
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by annzabelle 10d ago
If you have a smartphone from the last 5 years, you have to have done something unusual to it to not have an SMS app that also does RCS.
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by annzabelle 10d ago
It makes group messaging work a lot better, too. Previously, group chats with a mixture of ios and android users were really buggy leading to iPhone users significantly preferring group chats with all ios, which led to some social exclusion
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by annzabelle 10d ago
Americans have had unlimited texting plans for much longer than Europeans. I'm pretty sure most Americans had unlimited texts before Whatsapp existed, so there was never the move to it for economic reasons.
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by annzabelle 10d ago
Nearly everybody uses it in the USA. It's very common to text people through the default messaging app on your phone there (probably an outgrowth of the popularity of iPhones and iMessage), and backup options would be Instagram, Snapch
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by annzabelle 14d ago
There's a podcast (that's been on "hiatus" for 6 years) that I used to listen to that would do an air crash segment. The show was called Hello Internet, and I would always try to queue up the air crash episodes for any f
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by annzabelle 14d ago
It's interesting for interviews. I assume that people who have somewhat inaccurate memories but with a (possibly subconscious) egotistical filter do much better in interviews than those of us who have more accurate memories of exactly
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by annzabelle 14d ago
Both of you have to send them to the other person as a specific recipient (so not just putting it on your story). I'm not sure about opening them. For the two friends I'm thinking of, my impression is that they don't know eac
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by annzabelle 14d ago
I'm not sure if you are in this demographic, but a lot of people I know born in 1999-2003 or so in the US used snapchat as a primary method of communication for many years, and a large part of it was keeping up "snap streaks&quot
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by annzabelle 15d ago
I have to wonder how much of this is "would like a full time job but has a part time job paying over 26k." Because of mandatory benefits (such as health insurance) for full time workers, a lot of companies only hire part time work
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by annzabelle 15d ago
My impression of Australia (as an American who is living in New Zealand) is that there isn't the same financial benefit to working as a software engineer vs other careers as there is in the US, and there isn't the same stigma towa
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by annzabelle 15d ago
I would recommend avoiding any subreddit related to ADHD. I honestly would try to stick to materials written by mental health professionals and possibly talking to a therapist (your company might have an EAP that can help with this) over in
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by annzabelle 15d ago
Good idea. Feel free to try different options until you find something that you genuinely want to stick with. Running is just what I like, but my understanding of the current research is that it's more important to do something you act
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by annzabelle 15d ago
Any country or time zone restrictions for REMOTE jobs?
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by annzabelle 16d ago
On the non-medical options front, I will note that my lifelong hyperactive and neurotic tendencies dramatically improve with a 3-4 day a week distance running training regimen. I enjoy running enough, even though it is very difficult, that
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by annzabelle 16d ago
I listen to a lot of psychiatry podcasts, and they generally think that ADHD is being seriously overdiagnosed at this point. Executive dysfunction, especially that which was not impairing as a child, has a lot of potential causes. Anxiety,
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by annzabelle 16d ago
Have you gone down the rabbit hole of non stimulants? I have had bad reactions to every stimulant I tried since I developed bipolar 1 in my late teens (had taken them as a child for ADHD). I had a good response to strattera, but there'
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by annzabelle 16d ago
I have similar stimulant intolerance since I developed bipolar 1 in my late teens (had been diagnosed with ADHD at 7). I was off ADHD meds for several years, and have now tried a few of the nonstimulants. Strattera was subtle, but I had cle
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by annzabelle 17d ago
My understanding is a lot of it is voluntary migration. If you you're not paying rent, you don't have a job, and you've burned all your social support ties, you might as well get a greyhound to a place with good weather, good
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by annzabelle 17d ago
I once played mario kart with the stranger sitting next to me on a plane with the switch.
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by annzabelle 21d ago
Just because something is vegetarian, doesn't make it a vegetable in standard english usage.
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by annzabelle 21d ago
The last large company I worked for switched from self hosted github enterprise to github.com in January 2025 or so. I wonder how much egg is on that exec's face.
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by annzabelle 23d ago
Japan has one of the highest numbers of psychiatric beds in the world. That's what I'm referring to. If you're experiencing psychosis in public in Japan, you will be removed from public spaces. This is not true in the US.

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