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The problem is that our industry clings to this bizarre ritual where we test for skills that are completely orthogonal to the actual job.

I agree. And it's not a good sign for the industry when engineers have to spend months working up to being good at answering these questions just to get the job.

I'm currently experiencing this with a Tauri-based app. Nix has been great for us for local dev and service builds, but building an application inside of Nix that needs to run outside of it has been challenging to say the least.

The educational institutions meant well, but the students took the wrong message from their accommodations and assumed it was always the world's responsibility to bend to their personal quirks rather than the other way around.

This is kind of a toxic perspective and could be why you have so many problems with your neurodiverse coworkers. If you believe they should never require accommodations and are always expected to conform to the rest of society, then you don't understand what that experience is like and how further debilitating it can actually be.

I think they are claiming the opposite and that autistic people don't lack theory of mind, but that the theory of mind claim is stemmed from their communication impaiarment. I am no expert, but I think they are trying to overcome the idea you're presenting.

Because theory-of-mind tasks rely heavily on “fairly complex language” (San José Cáceres, Keren, Booth, & Happé, 2014, p. 608) and because autism, by diagnostic definition, involves communication impairment (Gernsbacher, Morson, & Grace, 2016), it is unsurprising that autistic participants with communication impairment perform less well than nonautistic participants without communication impairment. And because autistic people vary in their communication impairment (Gernsbacher, Geye, & Ellis Weismer, 2005), it is unsurprising that autistic people vary in their theory-of-mind task performance.

This is not true. There are not enough Scientologists with power in the industry for this to be a real thing.

Sorry for the late response, but I don't have any more information about it as it's mostly anecdotal based on my experience. The best explanation I have come up with is the high blood pressure lowers the amount of oxygenated blood in the brain making it harder to produce dopamine, which it is already struggling to do.

Jurassic Systems 3 years ago

What's notable to me about this is that he clearly does believe he is sparing no expense because he's shelling out so much money on tech and everything, he just doesn't view human labor as valuable.

This is very related to a theory I have that as my blood pressure has gotten higher over the years my ADHD also gets more difficult to manage. Guanfacine has also helped my symptoms more than anything and it was first brought to market as a blood pressure medication.

I'd guess that with unlimited vacation time, $0 is paid out.

Yes and I believe this policy started at Netflix where they have (had?) higher relative salaries to compensate for this, but most companies that implement unlimited PTO skip that part.

I use PowerDNS's dnsdist[1] which forwards to a blocky[2] server which then resolves from a local PowerDNS recursor. dnsdist is there mainly to provide a fallback if the local server is unavailable so I don't lose complete functionality.

I would generally recommend using anything other than your ISP's DNS servers.

AdGuard has a pretty good list of available providers: https://adguard-dns.io/kb/general/dns-providers/

[1] https://dnsdist.org/ [2] https://0xerr0r.github.io/blocky/

I can't speak to performance because the workloads aren't really intense, but I run a small 3 node cluster using k3s and Longhorn and Longhorn has been really great.

It was easy to setup and has been reliably running with very minimal maintanence since.