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.
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.
>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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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 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).