Readit NewsRelated, is it difficult all over the US to find mental health resources? Wait times for counselors and therapists are months+. Additionally, insurance seems to not cover mental health stuff well if at all, if you're lucky to get an appointment it seems you're paying out of pocket.
Yes, many (if not most?) providers stopped taking insurance for various reasons. The rates provided by insurers are a fraction of the rates they can get charging out of pocket. And insurers try to shorten therapy sessions, or ask why a patient still needs therapy, etc.
I don’t know why mental health specifically has these issues out of all the medical professions though.
fancyfish commented on On a great interview question behdadesfahbod.medium.com... · Posted by u/behdad
The best interview question I've ever heard: Someone is sitting shopping online with their cursor hovering over "Add to Cart". From the moment they physically click on it to the moment the page refreshes, tell me everything you can think of that happens.
Responses are awesome because it gives you an idea of what this person's background is and what breadth of knowledge they have and what they think is cool or exciting. Maybe they start with a contact closing and signals being denounced, or an interrupt being triggered, or the OS and window manager, or the browser and DOM events, or HTTP or TLS or TCP or Ethernet or WiFi or LTE or routing and the tiers of network infrastructure or DNS or load balancing or proxies or web servers and tiers of API services or databases... It's can lead to some really fun technical conversation, follow up about how they learned the things they know and experiences they've had, and most of the time the interviewer learns something too.
A twist on the old “what happens when you type google.com into your address bar and press enter” question. If I were answering I’d talk about a couple areas I can adapt from the repo below, and save some time to also talk about API services and DBs to differentiate it from the usual answer. It is indeed a fun question!
I came across the same realization after disconnecting from twitter. I am signed into multiple places using twitter. Even though I have deactivated my account, I have to reactivate every time to login on a site like disqus.
FB, Twit, Goog, need to separate oauth login from the rest of their service.
Can you trigger the reset password flow on disqus, etc? That’s what I’ve done on a few sites to disconnect from 3rd party oauth and use email instead.
fancyfish commented on Google combines Maps and Waze teams in restructuring move wsj.com/articles/google-c... · Posted by u/stingrae
I have been surprised Waze has stuck around as long as it has. I stopped using it a number of years ago, but my wife still uses it.
I have used Waze regularly since 2014, and my perception is that it plans more aggressive routes (trickier turns, using side streets, etc) to shave off a few more minutes than Maps, whereas Maps will stick to the major, less complicated routes. But I haven't used Maps for routing lately, so I wouldn't be surprised if Waze/Maps are more similar than I realize.
fancyfish commented on Apple is quietly pushing a TV ad product with media agencies digiday.com/media/apple-i... · Posted by u/ksec
It's morally dubious to pick and choose what laws you follow. It doesn't matter if you think they are monopolies, that's not your judgment to make
It's well-accepted in psychology/sociology that moral development extends beyond simply following the law, i.e. using the law as a stand-in for moral principles. E.g. in Kohlberg's stages of moral development[1], there is a post-conventional stage where an individual develops a moral code independent of laws, and views laws as a social contract that can be disobeyed if it violates his/her morals. Laws are a good guideline, but are not an absolute moral framework.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Kohlberg%27s_stages_o...
fancyfish commented on We want to make Nix better determinate.systems/posts... · Posted by u/biggestlou
Make the documentation up to the modern standards. If I have to open a single random blog or Github repository to find out what to do and piece it together like a puzzle - it is impossible to adapt at organizational scale.
It is also complex enough to require a modern Language Server.
This has been my experience also. I finished the Nix Pills, and got some personal Python/Haskell projects built using nixpkgs by following the nixpkgs language-specific documentation, but anything off the beaten path is going to involve lots of blog posts and clicking through source code. For example in the Haskell world there are so many blog posts that go in different directions from the nixpkgs docs, using flakes, haskell.nix, etc.
We adopted it in an organization of ~100 engineers, and the only way it’s been possible is having a full-time Nix team writing custom Nix functions specific for our environment and projects. That team also does “Nix help desk” work for one-off questions.
Once it works, it does a great job of hermetic builds, easy Docker images, easy to add cross-repo dependencies mixing C++/Python etc. But there are too many rough edges I can’t recommend it in the general case over Dockerfiles, Bazel or language-specific tooling, Cmake, etc. Pick something simpler, ideally whatever is popular for your language.
fancyfish commented on DoorDash and pizza arbitrage (2020) readmargins.com/p/doordas... · Posted by u/jer0me
> it would have cost me a lot more ($10 time + $5 gas!) to pick it up myself.
Can we stop doing this? Our free time has zero monetary value. Every minute of our lives is not billable, and it's disingenuous to frame it that way.
Sure, avoiding 40 minutes of driving time might be worth $10 to you (it is to me, too), but... just say that, maybe?
And I agree with you in general that the grandparent's example was maybe not the common case. Sure, sometimes people get late-night munchies and make a small delivery order to Taco Bell, but I would hope that most orders are at least for a single, full, lunch- or dinner-sized meal, and will often be for multiple people. Delivery is still certainly more expensive than going into the store, but not having to deal with driving somewhere to pick it up also has value to many.
Agreed, I see this often where people confuse their marginal income (e.g. $0) with their total income. Most are paid a salary and don’t just choose to work an extra hour on a moment’s notice. Let alone the possibility of working 24x7 and having billable hours like a switch they can flip at any time.
The framing of something “costing me my time” has never made sense to me especially when someone tries to actually quantify it.
I need the notifications for a taxi not marketing for groceries during the week