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I know this isn't an objective question, but what medication did your doctor prescribe you for anxiety?

Ah, btw, hope it will be useful (just personal exp)

I have tried different sleep medications, but the one that worked best for me was Mirtazapine. Although it is an atypical tetracyclic antidepressant, it works well before bedtime, plus it can be taken not regularly, but only when needed.

My doctor and I tried escitalopram (lexapro?) and setraline, but the former turned me into a sleepy vegetable 18 hours a day, I could stay in bed all day, or even all week, even with the lowest dosage. The second one had no effect at all, whether I drank it or not.

I also tried Quetiapine for sleep, it has a plus in that it does not cause any dependence and it is easy to stop taking it, but its effectiveness is so bad, although it is better than nothing if you have terrible problems with sleep.

I was diagnosed at university. Around my freshman year, which is over 10 years ago. In my country there were not many ADHD specialists and medications in circulation at first, mostly atomoxetine was used, but it made me sick (nausea, stomach pain). Eventually Concerta was introduced to the local market and things got much better with it.

After migrating to Europe, I was re-diagnosed by a good specialist with all the right methodologies and then got prescriptions for Elvanse (in the US it's kind of like Vyvanse, I think) 30mg and clonazepam 1mg to control anxiety.

Been taking it for a couple years now, works pretty well.

Not so long ago I have seen studies on which Elvanse is considered almost the best drug among analogs, so I can only recommend it. It is quite mild and has a long release.

From personal experience: it is better to refrain from coffee and caffeinated drinks in general when taking medication.

weaker university rankings

Really? As far as I know, the most authoritative ranking in academia is the Shanghai ranking[0], where, apart from outliners in the US with gigabudgets, most of the top are made up of European universities. The top looks rather like that, except for a “bunch” of mega popular US universities, the rest are quite mediocre.

[0] https://www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/arwu/2023

For devices like Simula One, it's dead on arrival due to the mindshare of the Oculus / Meta Quest.

I don't understand why you (and other users here) compare this to Oculus. Oculus is a Redmi phone of VR. Yeah, people buy it, and most individuals (~70% of steam users) buy 1080 monitors.

Still, there is a considerable market for 6k Apple Displays or 4k monitors. And people still buy top-tier phones for ~1k USD when they can buy a model for 250-300 and get 90% features and performance (usually except camera) of a 1k device.

I got Oculus Quest and used a few other VR and still will consider Simula because it's a device for me, someone who buys 6k Apple Display, 64 GB ram laptops, and 3080Ti GPU. Someone who wants crisp fonts, high PPI, optimized DE for Linux system. Because I need it for my needs, and there are million people like me.

Some of these people in Ukraine are hardcore neo-Nazis, and we are giving them weapons

And still, there is Trump in the US who won the race and mass shooting from nazis. Why does the US get any weapons?

It's strange rhetoric because there are many nazis in the US with regular hate crimes in media, but it will be hard to find any hate crimes in Ukraine. Politically, nazi apologists in the US government got much more support than in Ukraine. From the last news after parliament election

The main mouthpiece of the nationalists, Yarosh scored 0.7% of the vote in the presidential elections. In Russia, Sobchak (one of the opposition leaders) scored about the same. The number of seats in the parliament is 1 (one) for the nationalists from the "Samopomich" party, while the pro-Russian "OB" has 6. There is no right sector (nationalist supporters) at all in the new gathering.

Even with Putin's message that there are "no country like Ukraine, no Ukrainian language and culture, no Ukrainians as people at all," all that things that black people also can see in the US, there are LESS nationalist supporters than Russian supporters (a country, who started proxy war for 8 years already) in Ukraine.

Yeah, it seems like nazi to me.

The membership levels are also.. Disturbing?

Yeah, it feels strange to have these images. There are already discussions to change them in Ukrainian community because it's not really connected to what organization do.

People from Ukraine IT community don't care because they got all the information about the organization without language barriers, but this images seems to be a problem from the outside perspective as this is the first thing that people would notice.

Anyway, thank you for your feedback (I'm not from the organization, I know a few people who help there)

If you want to code in Haskell or Lisp in Europe, good luck. I can agree with points around salary and diploma, but not on that one.

Scala, Haskell, Ocaml, Clojure, Coq, Idris are much more significant in the EU than in the US. Many Ph.D. contribute to language and ecosystem, and you can easily find exciting projects with them, not only crypto.

Even GHC was developed mainly by the EU and British people. The Swiss academy created Scala. Coq and Ocaml are big in French academy circles.

It's also a problem for me because I'm working from Eastern Europe (I can pay only 5% tax on all income up to 250k euro on remote). I primarily work with US companies, salaries are outstanding, but usually interesting FP-ish things are done in the EU, where wages are lower.

And I am on remote, so there is no profit for me to earn less with better social and government benefits like people in West Europe.

There is an insightful summary of all the issues from HashiCorp founder when trying to establish an international remote-first company.

I can agree on almost everything from his post because my employer (startup) is trying to do the same, we are a US-company, in the process of acquiring by one of the giants, and I'm working and living in Ukraine with a US-based contract.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17022563

I like to think about NFT as an easy method of buying art from artists. There are many platforms for this with classical purchase mechanics, but as an artist myself, I love the idea of an auction-based platform for this era of digital art.

Right now, there are no mechanism for extraordinary digital artists to make their art expensive like IRL art. The best thing is you can do commissions for people, but it's hard for them to maintain their rights (both for artist and customer).

Maybe NFT will be more prominent with some "data registry" between platforms to make it global to check your rights on items, and great artists can sell their art for a more reasonable price. For now, IRL art is like a "club for friends," and digital artists are not taken as seriously as they, even when digital one draw some almost masterpieces and spent 3-6 months on every item.

This year I started my leetcode grinding for interview purposes. But when I look back, I can tell that's all this practice and analysis of solutions made me a much better engineer than before. The most impactful thing in my 6+ year career was my understanding of how to think effectively about my code.

Before that, I got some basic knowledge about CS theory, master theorem, asymptotic, all these things, and was a typical skeptical developer who was thinking like, "yeah, that's cool, but you don't actually need it. At all, basic knowledge is enough."

Today, I will recommend that anyone go through basic algo and ds courses (Sedgwick book or course, Skiena book too) and try to practice them.

Now I'm even trying to participate in leetcode and codeforces contests. In the end, after the first months of frustration about how stupid I was and how I couldn't find a solution to easy problems, it's started to be fun, and I loved it.

I used Atom before VSCode. I'm still in love with its minimalistic design and somehow font rendering in Atom better than in VSCode (still not sure why, I tried to play with settings and stuff, but nothing changed). It was the first prominent Sublime Text alternative with JS that I use every day and quickly wrote my extensions, hack it and play with it. There were even interesting decisions like a Rust-based rendering engine[1] using graphics without HTML and DOM (the same old problem with faster text rendering with web techs).

In my opinion, the ONE big thing that killed Atom was LSP[2]. VSCode was slightly better in everything, but good performance and LSP destroyed Atom and damaged all other editors (like Sublime).

But MS plays dirty here too. In VSCode, LSP works with many inner hacks. You can't get the same experience with LSP in other editors because some features are part of the editor, not just LSP. But I think LSP is excellent and use it in Emacs and Vim too. For Rust, it's maintained by the Rust team and the default "engine" for editors.

Anyway, I'm still using Atom today with a minimalistic theme and setup to edit markdown files with code and as a text editor with a friendly GUI overall.

1) https://github.com/atom-archive/xray

2) https://langserver.org/

Try the "E Ink Mobius Carta", I think it's the best now.

You can find e-readers with 10.3" displays, 227 PPI, double front-lit (warm and cold, you can mix them for the best experience, work independently), full android on the device.

To be precise, I'm talking about the Onyx Boox Note series (note 2, note 3, note air) that I picked after my previous kindles and pocketbook. It's awesome.

Android is adapted for the best experience with its unique features, you can use any application in google play, and the screen is so good in "speed mode" that you can browse the web and even watch youtube. Stylus for notes, and you can buy a "paperlike" protector for the screen.

For now, it's the best one from around five different e-readers that I have before.

If you want to take notes, there is Remarkable 2. You can check PocketBookt InkPad Color, Onyx Nova Color, Onyx Poke2 Color, and Kobo if you wish for color display.

Check this blog for, there are excellent comparisons and reviews for almost every model you can find on the market https://blog.the-ebook-reader.com/

The last time I checked, there was only one manufacturer with patents on e-ink tech, all the models on the market use the same screens. Even e-ink is more like a brand, not a technology name Remind me how "you need to google something" became a synonym to "you need to search something."

And from the discussion you posted, I was probably right about the market state at the moment. Damn, what a shame, another monopolized market without real competition.

I understand what you are talking about, but this is not how rules apply to stores' apps. (not sure about App Store, I'm mainly working with Google Play).

You can read the legal part of Google Play, starting from section 8 and to the end. https://play.google.com/about/developer-distribution-agreeme...

TLDR: it's your responsibility to observe any regulation change and decision by google in your app. Suppose any content got banned on the platform by "applicable law" in any country's jurisdiction. In that case, you must apply this decision to your app because, legally, you must inherit all Google's decisions. If you don't do that, your app can get takedown without any notice.

I'm not sure when Google changed its policy about Crimea. I can verify it from my ex-company experience and legal department. Around 2015 our application got takedown without any details because we provide access to people who live in Crimea. Still, after our legal department contacted Google, they answered that it's our responsibility to observe these decisions and apply them.

Durov didn't wait for a takedown and applied app stores' decision to Telegram. Anyway, I think his message about this "silent day" is stupid, and the worst thing that can happen for Telegram is probably takedown for Russian users in stores for a few weeks.

I just checked now, and you have access to this bot if you are registered with any other phone number except these from Russia. My Ukraine and US numbers work fine with the bot.

UPD.: To clarify, I don't say everything happened because of this Google legal agreement, I'm not so into everything in Russia politics, Telegram, etc. It's my stupid opinion on the whole situation, with assumptions based on my experience. Take it with a grain of salt.

There was news about Russian investments in Telegram and agreements between Telegram and the Russian government, so maybe it's part of agreements, nothing more.

There was a request from opposition to Apple about that, and they got an official answer. You can read it on Twitter

https://twitter.com/ioannZH/status/1438750081402953728

Yeah, that's an old story, but there were engineering offices of a few big US companies in Russian before. Almost all of them left in 2010x when they understood what was going on there. Same for Belarus, companies moved their offices to Ukraine and other Eastern European countries.

They want to market and engineers there, but they don't want to risk working in authoritative countries with batshit crazy wannabe emperors. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/12/google-closes-...

They asked, but before this situation, there were no serious reasons for that. But a few days ago, the Navalny organization (FBK) was declared by the court to the status of an extremist organization. They just put the opposition on one list with terrorist organizations like ISIS and the Taliban.

For now, Google and Apple ban "another dangerous organization," not political opposition. Google and Apple already censor all the content and application for local markets.

It's nothing new. Many youtube videos are restricted in some countries but accessible in others. Companies want to make money, not to play political games, and to declare war for freedom. It's not their responsibility. But in Russia, many local players dream about a ban of Google and Apple to finally take all the market.

Mail.ru, Yandex, Vkontakte, Sber, etc., all these companies got money from an oligarchy in Russian, and for them, Google and Apple are the leading competitors in the market. Many local clones of google search, mail, WhatsApp, youtube, twitch, TikTok, and other services, but they can't win the market because of US companies.

I think, in the future, Russia will ban US giants on their market. Everything goes to this.

I'm not sure about Tor, but I know from my friends in Russian, who have direct access to this information, that the Russian government inherits all the practices and technologies from China, with DPI and all the things. Now even VPN + shadowsocks won't be a permanent solution.

It's obvious cooperation of governments that can help each other, one with tech to control, and the other with cheap resources for manufacturing. (you can google how Russian almost sold part of territories to China, there are even cities where all the administration are Chinese).

The US is by definition an oligarchic state

Yep, I saw a few types of researches before. The US is, by all definitions, an oligarchy.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

This is shadier than it seems. The opposition organization FBK (ФБК) was just called out as "extremists," and with this government decision, they wrote mails to Google and Apple to block "extremists." There are published answers from Apple with details.

https://twitter.com/ioannZH/status/1438750081402953728

Any government can easily classify any opposition as "extremists" now and Apple and Google will ban them.

If we want to solve a problem, we have to solve the problem in the reality we have (flawed as it is), not the reality we want.

I totally agree here. It's not better than typical procrastination with waiting for "ideal env" to do anything. It won't happen. The "magic monday" when it's will be the best time to solve a problem won't happen. You try to solve it, or you don't.

it seems like you might be suggesting that women owning guns might be a solution to that problem?

I'm not sure about that one. Would it actually help women in that situation? I'm not even sure if that won't just create additional problems without any help for the original case.

I was surprised (and mostly shocked) by the ISP oligopoly in the US. When I heard that it killed Google Fiber and even such a money giant as Google can't properly fight it, I finally understood how bad it is.

It there any perspectives of game-changing in that field? And what can be done to change it?

I'm genuinely curious about it.

Is it such a big deal with numbers? I mean, yeah, maybe some teenage girl with an astrological sign in her bio will be mad, but anyway, do people really care?

Well, while I was replying, I just remembered that Chinese companies usually skip 4 in their models because it's an "unlucky number."

Maybe you're right. Still, it's a funny thing if it's true.

Thanks for the informative answer.

Cant the "roots" be also in segregation problems before? If I remember correctly what I learned early, it was called something like "red lining" created "bad neighborhoods" in cities.

My guess is that Ukrainians just don't have time for that kind of nonsense. If someone is violent, they are put away quickly.

It is mostly true for Ukraine. But the real curse, as I said, is not organized crime, gangs, or someone with a firearm. The biggest problem in Ukraine is domestic violence. Most police officers don't have any weapon here except pepper sprays, stun guns, and other non-lethal tools. They usually fight with a drunk 40-something man who will get drunk and try to kill his family after that.

Domestic violence is a curse for CIS countries. And even if Ukraine changed government and how everything works with new and young politicians, you can't change people. In the end, 40%+ of the population suffers violence, and most of them, of course, are women. Great inheritance from the Soviet era, where "no violence, no sex, no drugs, only happy people." https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Violence_against_women_in_Ukrain...

According to the estimation of OSCE the violence towards women is widespread in Ukraine and it is associated with three times more deaths than the ongoing War in Donbas in the Donbas region of Ukraine

Fragment from the Wiki article. More women get killed by their husbands than people die in the ongoing war with artillery, tanks, aviation, etc. This is as bad as you can imagine when you read it.

Want to know how Russia fights domestic violence? They just decriminalized it, that's all. They don't even try anymore, so the only help you can get is from non-profit organizations.

The U.S. has the rule of law, due process, innocent until proven guilty, etc.

It's the same here, and we use roman law, so there won't be any precedents what someone gets to the court. All cases are the exception and go through all the processes without looking back on the same cases.

Why would you think that the USA is the only country that has it? We even got incredible labor laws. They are so good that we don't even need unions for protection against companies. And just a reminder, that USA is #1 by prisoners in the world. https://www.statista.com/statistics/262961/countries-with-th...

Not so innocent, huh?

I know, most people in the USA think that other countries are like poor villages without tech and law there.

But even poor Ukraine is much more digitalized and advanced in tech. Still, even in the case of transparency of how the law works, where the budget goes (you can even vote with your mobile app where you want to spend budget money in your city), court cases, it's all digitalized, transparent, and easy to check by anyone.

To be more precise, here are some links on typical bankings[1][2], government open source big data on all information that happened in the country[3], digitalized id and passport, with all the documents and request for any data or papers[4], transparent government tenders[5] and one of big media project that does all the corruption investigations with big politicians in it[6]. And no one from journalists even got arrested for that.

With these links and information, I want to say that it's funny that people think that other countries got some shady government, there is no power of law, and all people are struggling without real freedom.

Do you have LGBT raves to block entrance to the White House and annoy the president? Because we do[7]

1. https://www.monobank.ua/?lang=en

2. https://next.privat24.ua/

3. https://opendata.gov.ua/en/

4. https://diia.gov.ua/

5. https://prozorro.gov.ua/

6. https://bihus.info/

7. https://strana.news/news/346451-muzykalnyj-prajd-na-bankovoj...

The rate of shooting in the USA was always strange to me. I'm from Ukraine, one of the poorest countries in Europe, the country that on hybrid "civil war" with Russia help for the militia.

There are many ex-militaries from volunteers who go to volunteer battalions. And many of them return with guns. But even with a state like that, you probably won't hear any gunshots in cities in your life. The first time I heard one was where I took a trip to the USA, random "gang" shooting in NY, as I remember.

From my perspective, as someone who is culturally not so integrated with the USA, I think the roots of this are how you see guns and feel around firearms at all. In my country, people are cautious about the idea of using a firearm against other people. Even if they have one, they probably do drunk shit with a knife, not with a gun.

Anyway, I also can't understand how any gangs are still alive in the USA in our time. Even my shittiest country eliminated all of them in the 90s, so are Russia and other CIS countries. You can find many documentation films about that on youtube. There is almost nothing left except massive graveyards of dead criminals with funny grave tomb pictures like "sitting in my first Mercedes Benz with a gun, cool guy."

I may be wrong somewhere. That's just my perspective as an outsider.

A majority of people there still support Putin.

And he knows that, but if he won the election with 60% of votes, it would show that there are other candidates or political parties with tremendous support. Yeah, they can exist and even win in different states across the country for different political roles.

Still, the idea that he wants to show to people is that he is supported by the majority and supported with overwhelming superiority in votes. He doesn't need fraud votes to win. He needs to fraud voting to show the dramatic differences in support.

It's all about image in people's heads.

The world of scanlations is always on edge. Usually, when publishers announce official translations of manga titles, fans drop translations of this title. It's not rare that publishers hire fans who were translating this title before for free as an official team.

To be more precise, the real reason why such sites are alive is that they delete titles that got licenses in Europe and the USA. Still, publishers can measure the popularity of titles and buy legal rights to publish it, because it's popular enough. It's harder to find manga "raws" than translated versions.

And by that, they're not 100% "illegal" for the western world, and asian companies are not so interested in fighting with scanlations because they need to combat piracy in their part of the world.

Sound reasonable, and I see additional payment systems as improvement mostly.

But I have concerns about additional stores, not about entropy and all the multistore problem from a UX perspective, but as a privacy threat. I like the current Apple politics "we are a hardware company, not another user data selling platform," and they do great things in that way.

But what happens, if Facebook move their apps to their store without any restrictions on privacy? So they can do anything they want, and not only they. If now App Store got strict rules about privacy, what will happen in that situation?

It's not so unbelievable that Facebook will try to get back their "data profit" from Apple users.