https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-projekt-bucketchallenge

I learned pretty late that you can get along very well with people who have vastly different taste and as long as your ideals are not directly contradicting, it still works.

So I guess my suggestion is: don't artificially limit your pool of potential friends by looking for the perfect match. No need to find your soul-copy. Someone with whom concersation flows is just fine.

Personally I think it's good you are not forced to present in English. I know enough people who are not comfortable enough with English to present in it. There are also some niche topics that have a focus on Germany. For these sometimes German brings a bit of nuance/local flair that you can't really translate. For these I'm happy that German is available as the original and then the translators will do their best to provide an English second best.

To some degree I find it inevitable that conferences situated in countries that are not native English speaking will have some program points in the local language. As long as they offer help with understanding the content, I don't see an issue with this, regardless of how big/influential they are.

It could be used as an excuse why more costly options to avoid pain and suffering in old people might not be covered by insurance anymore.

People could be talked into it for various reasons.

Canada is a good example of a country where I think the base to make it work in a positive way is given. Their insurance covers a lot of treatments for basically everyone. The country cares about its citizens in a way that makes you believe they won't use euthanasia as a cop out to avoid paying for medical care.

If these circumstances are not given, euthanasia can easily be seen as an easy way to get rid of people who are too expensive for society or too cumbersome to take care of.

You can read this title in an alarming way or just the same in a way that says "the law is working and people actually want this option".

On the other hand, without warning going dark for 4 work day hours a few days before exhibition would look terrible if any serious question came up.

So I don't think it's literally responding within the hour, but it comes pretty dang close. You have to keep in mind that being an artist creating art and being an artist setting up an exhibition are basically two different jobs and if you end up doing them in parallel at the same time, that's your problem right there.

In my personal experience it's the app that fosters it. Many companies who ask for reviews follow up anything below 5 stars or 10/10 with "how can we improve?" Or some similar questions. This is friction they generate for me as a user if I rate anything below top tier.

Personally for me 5 stars or 10/10 would be service that is so good I couldn't even tell you how to do it. I couldn't tell you how to improve to that state unless the business in question is something I'm very familiar with. Still I sometimes find myself handing out 5 stars because otherwise I have to find something to complain about and I just can't think of anything.

So that is what has made 5 stars for me go from "mind blowingly outstanding" to "nothing to complain".

What I agree with: We have built ourselves a society where it is far too easy to fall into a secluded lifestyle. That's not a problem for everyone but it does supercharge depression and anxiety. Both of these lead to you thinking that being left alone is good for you when actually looking at any research about them is not the case in the absolute majority of cases. Both get worse with lower amount of social contact and extrusion structure in your life. In the past the pressure to go outside and have some structure was much higher and thus depression and anxiety probably had more of a grave period where people around you had a chance of realizing you were getting worse and you had a chance of still pulling yourself out of it enough to get help early. Today the behavior of someone who is just really happy alone and somebody who is spiralling into depression becomes ever harder for me to tell apart.

The rest of the article to me just reads like "but I'm an extrovert and I liked it better the way it was before". Yeah, sorry not sorry? If your friends take more effort to get them to do a pub tour these days maybe they just weren't as much into pub tours as you are? Yes, the pandemic changed our society from catering mainly to extroverts to one that now makes it much easier to be not cut off entirely while taking time for yourself as an introvert. If you don't want your introvert friends to be able to have that, you're the problem in that picture.

The issue here I guess are malfunctions or rather cheap products with bad calibration. For total safety you'd have to get someone to measure input and output of the laser.

I'd love to reassure you about something like low input power, but at the end of the day with cheap products you don't know. If a higher powered laser was cheaper at the time of production, the extra milliwatts would probably be negligible compared to overall power consumption of the robot.

So the lidar is unlikely to immediately cause eye damage at a glimpse, but if your kid likes to chase the robot and thus might look into it for longer periods of time, maybe look into options of checking the laser's actual input power.

In my case, that's exactly what they need. Sales people creep me out and make me want to hide under my weighted blanket. Sales engineers are the blessing that makes sales calls informative and bearable. I don't know how companies find and recruit them, but they make it happen and I'm very happy they do.

Of course long term relationships don't magically shield you against STI, but I'd hope there is enough trust to share test results of any kind that are relevant to this matter if you are having the discussion about going fluid bond. And you probably know the person well enough to know if they are reliable with taking their meds on time.

I dream of a job where I can be a specialist, actually learn what I'm working with and focus on one thing for an entire day. But no, I'm a one-person show (in a team with another "specialist" who singelhandedly manages our entire IAM-structure from user management to integration to strategic planning) and all I can do is try to patch things up with my ideas of how things probably should work and applying more duct tape and prayers.

I recently mentioned that I really don't feel like specialist is the role I'm working here and I was asked why I feel the need to have a bigger role. I don't "need" it. I AM not a specialist. Never have been and with his job never will be. Also I wonder why the role of director for my team is still vacant after half a year. It's a mystery. It must look like such a good opportunity.

I don't have full blown aphantasia I think but mental images are always very hazy and dark to me and calling them up takes immense effort. Seems like I'm a 4 on the VVIQ scale.

On the other hand, imaginations in psychotherapy, be it for exposure it for revisiting childhood places and moments, still work for me. They are just not very visual. They contain emotions and haptic aspects, sometimes sounds and smells, but the visual is kind of like really old polaroid pictures. They frizzle out at the edges really quickly, they never move, the colors are muted and sometimes off.

At least now I know that people who claim that books evoke vibrant mental images in them are not bullshitting me. And I can stop sitting there with Lord of the Rings in hand, staring at a wall for 10 minutes and wondering why I still don't manage to "see" what Moria looks like.

I fully expect myself to do the same when managing people. But most answers here are different. They take pride and claim part of the success as theirs and looking at this from the IC's perspective, I don't disagree.

Sure, there are people who go at this from a "you'd be nothing without me"-approach and that's not good either. But as manager of a team you can do a good and a bad job and good managers are so important for the team.

You should learn to see your part in the team's success and your role in helping someone grow. I'm not sure how you change your mindset on this, but I think if you want to stick to management, that's your only way to make it work.

And again - as an IC I believe it is justified. I've worked under good and bad managers and bad managers can ruin the job for the entire team while good managers don't just help you be more productive. They help you grow as a person and as a contributor and they enable the team to work on things that make an impact instead of burning up their energy with the thing that looks most fancy to leadership.

I'm not sure if this is something everyone can get accustomed to see, but it is something that I see in some managers and I hope they can get their endorphins from it.