ThrowawayP (u/ThrowawayP)

ThrowawayP commented on Flunking my Anthropic interview again taylor.town/flunking-anth... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

mft_ · 4 months ago

> I can't turn my weird off

Why not?

If you have conscious insight into what behaviour is or isn't "weird" in a specific situation or environment, you absolutely can choose to turn it off, or at least damp it down. I'm not saying you should or shouldn't, and there's no judgement. But if you can identify it, you can choose.

ThrowawayP · 4 months ago

Because sometimes having been "weird" is only recognized in hindsight. Attempting to project a persona, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistic_masking, is already difficult at the best of times. It's especially difficult under stress, like being in an interview.

ThrowawayP commented on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android holdtherobot.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mikenew

alickz · 7 months ago

I don't know if this will help you visualize it or not, but here's a photo of someone using a TV as a monitor on a desk

https://i.imgur.com/mjcqjfZ.jpeg

I use my 4K TV as a monitor (though from ~8ft away) and for me Windows' scaling (found under Display in Control Panel) allow me to easily read text from so far away

Maybe it could help you

ThrowawayP · 7 months ago

The issue with the "keyboard in front of huge monitor" type of arrangement for people who need to get their face really, really close to the monitor is they have to lean far in and hunch over the keyboard, putting their arms in an uncomfortable position. Speaking from my own experience, this causes RSI problems fairly quickly. And the keyboard can't be moved farther back to allow the person's arms to be in a more natural position because the base of the TV or monitor blocks the way.

A monitor arm of the right length and height lets you sit so that the monitor is close to your face, floating at or beyond the front edge of the table, and the keyboard is physically behind the monitor, letting your arms be in a more natural position for typing.

ThrowawayP commented on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android holdtherobot.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/mikenew

johnh-hn · 7 months ago

Does anyone know if these glasses, or any other glasses, can be tried in-person and used on desktop? I'm legally blind, but have just enough vision to use a screen without a screen reader. The problem is I have to be about 6 inches from a 27 inch screen. I'm tall, and I'm almost bent in half to do it. It's been hell on my back and neck. I've only really made it work because I've modified so many things to get around it (i.e. customising Windows, Firefox, and so on).

The part that makes it so tough is monitor arms come in standard sizes and are nowhere near long enough or extend far enough for me to sit comfortably. My dad modified my desk for me years ago to mount a monitor arm on wooden blocks, but it means I can't move the monitor much.

Being able to wear glasses and ditch the monitor entirely would be a game changer for me. I know next to nothing about AR though, being as I assumed, perhaps wrongly, it isn't something that would work for me.

Edit: Thank you for the replies. It means a lot. I've got some options to explore here now thanks to you.

ThrowawayP · 7 months ago

> " ...I have to be about 6 inches from a 27 inch screen. I'm tall, and I'm almost bent in half to do it ... The part that makes it so tough is monitor arms come in standard sizes and are nowhere near long enough or extend far enough for me to sit comfortably ... "

Google for "long reach" monitor arms; some models have a reach of 30 to 40+ inches. They're not exactly cheap since they come from ergonomics vendors but they allow you to bring a large monitor as close to your face as you like and, depending on the model, clamp to a table like a standard monitor arm. I've had various models of them for a couple of decades now.

ThrowawayP commented on Father tries to block daughter's euthanasia in landmark Spanish case bbc.com/news/articles/crr... · Posted by u/impish9208

moralestapia · 10 months ago

Very wrong, if an issue is decided to be unethical, no party should take part in facilitating it.

You're also using a loaded argument.

>you absolutely should allow medical personnel to volunteer to assist

... implies you're already "for it".

Some people are against euthanasia, that does not make them wrong, even if you disagree with them. Act like an adult.

ThrowawayP · 10 months ago

"My body, my choice" applies to more than one issue related to bodily autonomy. Others get no say in what an individual may do with their own bodies.

ThrowawayP commented on What It's Like to Be a Sociopath nytimes.com/interactive/2... · Posted by u/mooreds

raccoonDivider · 2 years ago

Not to start a “does anyone else feel like this??” thread, but I wonder how common these traits are in tech workers. It’s kind of a cliché that CS attracts antisocial nerds. If a serious study were made, how many of those would actually meet the criteria for antisocial personality disorder?

Although diagnosis seems to rely a lot on someone’s behavior: if you don’t cause trouble, then it’s not a disease, just a personality trait. That seems a bit unfair to the people who would identify with this, could use psychiatric help to make human connection easier, but aren’t unreasonable enough to warrant medical attention.

ThrowawayP · 2 years ago

> "It’s kind of a cliché that CS attracts antisocial nerds."

Say what? CS attracts asocial nerds.

antisocial = commits crimes and harms society

asocial = introverted or unsociable

ThrowawayP commented on Is It Wrong to Cure Blindness? thefp.com/p/is-it-wrong-t... · Posted by u/fortran77

ThrowawayP · 2 years ago

Not one of the people preaching about "ableism" are giving themselves disabilities because they're oh so wonderful and that tells you really all you need to know that nonsense. Disabilities suck, take it from me, and no, it is not remotely wrong to cure them.

ThrowawayP commented on Shit life syndrome en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shi... · Posted by u/tjpnz

ThrowawayP · 2 years ago

There is an earlier claim to coining of Shit(ty) Life Syndrome not mentioned in the Wikipedia entry, a ha-ha-only-serious parody diagnosis in a medical humor collection named "Placebo Journal": https://authenticmedicine.com/2019/08/did-i-discover-the-con... Skip down to the "Diagnosis: SLS (classical type)" section for the meat of the parody if you don't want to go through the miscellanea that goes with a clinical visit report, although those bits are interesting in their own way.

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ThrowawayP · 3 years ago

"Ableism"? I'd give nearly everything I have to not have been born with my disability.

A thousand curses be on whoever came up with this nonsense and the sort who promulgate it.

ThrowawayP commented on Why staring at screens is making your eyeballs elongate – and how to stop it theguardian.com/society/2... · Posted by u/trashymctrash

ThrowawayP · 3 years ago

I've always wondered whether using a projector as a computer display avoids the near focus eyestrain problem. Does anybody know? Granted, 4k projectors aren't inexpensive but they're not unmanageable either.

ThrowawayP commented on What to do when you can no longer code? · Posted by u/slijmjim

ThrowawayP · 3 years ago

You don't necessarily have to stop coding. Various technologies such as voice recognition systems developed for users with disabilities exist and, with advancements in algorithms and the overabundance of processing power available on modern hardware, are much more capable than they were before. Businesses are also generally more receptive to accommodating employees with disabilities than they were in the past.

To address an uncomfortable point, yes, such systems are more awkward to use than typing and you may hate to have to use them and be unhappy to compare yourself against what you used to be able to do and what your peers remain able to do. I can only say, having a disability myself, that becoming disabled does indeed suck and that it may be of some small comfort to remember that everyone eventually becomes disabled by the progression of age.