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Comment · 1 year ago
Please don't blind bicycle drivers with your high beams. Driver will not see anything after you pass it from behind for minutes.
Comment · 1 year ago
Looks like for you SOLID is just so obvious and easy that it's not worth even thinking about. Maybe that's a sign you're working on code that is already adherent to it. Try working on projects that are violently against it, while still being a classic Java-like codebase to appreciate it.

I work on a big codebase, where most of the code is in Singletons and static methods, no interfaces, no DI frameworks. Maintaining this system and making serious modifications to it is a serious engineering effort, adding weeks to simple changes.

Comment · 1 year ago
Java date/time handling is plain beautiful. I'm glad other languages like js started adopting the same approach.
Comment · 1 year ago
This channel is not available anymore
Comment · 1 year ago
There are lots of district-level heating plants. They need some electricity to function.
Comment · 1 year ago
That was hilarious, thank you
Comment · 2 years ago
Or shortly after
Comment · 2 years ago
Cannot find any “Sun filled” products for Philips. Are you sure they’re called that?
Comment · 2 years ago
Nationalize the printing inkustrial complex
Comment · 2 years ago
May it be that trained workers are more important than a production building?

But likely, 2 planes hit the factory, and one missed. Only the miss that hit residential area is reported by government. I see this type of news all the time in Ukraine: "russian rocket hits a maternity hospital", while there is a huge factory in 300 meters that gets hit regularly, with no reporting about it.

Comment · 2 years ago
It is just listening to noises that would distort other unpleasant sounds in a way that they stop being distinguishable/audible. Not a therapy, just masking them temporarily. I know when the risk of disturbing noises is high, and turn on the noise beforehand, or right after it starts. Like, there is a kindergarten near my house, it is noisy, but predictable. So every day I close the window and turn on headphones during the time children are outside.

The therapy, unrelated to this coping approach, was focused on figuring out why I got sensitive to some noises in the first place during childhood. Very individual, but to give an example, appearance of stepfather in my life, whose eating habits were conflicting with the way I was raised before.

Comment · 2 years ago
I have misophonia too, related to chewing sounds. It actually developed in offices. I don’t really go to offices anymore. But the thing that definitely helped was listening to violent noises: wind storm in the forest, sound of jet engine, etc. Naturespace app for phones have some really high quality recordings. Well, that and psychotherapy. My mental health directly allows me to spend mental resources resisting all these emotions.
Comment · 2 years ago
And that cheap beeping sound of every appliance is just so obnoxious. You want to wash laundry overnight to lessen load on electricity generation during blackouts? It would beep for 30 minutes when it is done. No way to disable it but to wake up and turn the button. When everyone does it, the whole apartment complex is filled with beeping sounds all night.

I prefer the sound of air alarm now.

Comment · 2 years ago
In Ukraine last year we had scheduled blackouts. Let me tell you about the joy of waking up every other night to reset temperature alarm of the fridge. It could not be disabled, and it would beep for hours. My neighbors were not pleased when I was not at home for a week.
Comment · 3 years ago
Author of Designing Data-Intensive Applications book. It is such a well-written book, reading it right now, and cannot recommend enough.

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