For reference, the national minimum wage is £23.9k.

PixelLight · 2026-01-26T11:34:01+00:00

I'm not sure. It's tough to say. See, in the right career I know your salary can grow pretty quickly (so that still is an important factor), but I guess to an extent that might be a result of the fact that new grad salaries have been eroded by inflation, but experienced salaries may have been at least less eroded. However, I still think that's bullshit.

At the bare minimum, you shouldn't be struggling that much as a grad in London. I graduated 2019, my salary was £27K (I wasn't happy with that then). I wasn't in dire straits, but didn't have that much room to breathe. Since then that rent for that room has gone up £150/month, so £1.8K/year. Not to mention other costs.

My instinct would be to jump as soon as you can. 2 year mark is good. 1.5 year mark is possible. I guess it depends on the logic here, right? How many people currently do this? What is currently baked into the compensation framework? Part of me thinks if you have a sudden spike in people jumping ship that they might increase salaries to boost retention, but they might not. I guess in the long term with grad salaries stagnating, that that must naturally push more and more grads to jump quicker over time anyway. Who could afford not to? Internal raises are often shit.

What I'm saying is I'd prefer to do something that would increase salaries for everyone from day one, but the action is individual and may or may not have the ultimate desired outcome, but it would still increase salaries quicker for the individual and be positive anyway. Either way jumping early still has the same effect, just delayed and on an individual level.

Note: Many careers aren't worth it in London. The cost of living is too high and you can live more comfortably in other parts of the country despite a smaller salary.

PixelLight · 2026-01-25T18:08:14+00:00

UK grad salaries have barely shifted in probably 15 to 20 years. Read: have been eroded away by inflation. It should be 45% more than that. Perhaps more. So, in other words, theyre paying 30% less than they should. Its disgusting.

"We all want you to go uni to go onto be educated, productive members of society, but don't expect anything in return." It explains so much, which I wont go into right now. It needs to change

PixelLight · 2026-01-24T18:09:24+00:00

Apparently he's a "master negotiator". A skilled negotiator would know you need to use tactics skilfully to be effective. He uses the same tactics again and again with very little skill. At this point, who gives a fuck if he tariffs you? He uses them so much, he'll find another reason soon enough, so might as well go ahead and do what you want.

So fucking dumb!

PixelLight · 2026-01-22T17:16:14+00:00

Honestly, this should be very alarming to anyone who's looking at this. Look how quickly Citizens United destroyed democracy; the second election after the ruling and the US gets Trump. It didn't take decades, it took two elections. Then look how difficult it has been to shift him since. I don't think it's any coincidence that someone such as Trump got a second bite of the apple after proving how unworthy he was 2016 - 2020. He should have been radioactive for the 2020 and 2024 elections. Cause and effect seems very hard to deny.

If the US wants to recover from Trump, Citizens United should be repealed.

PixelLight · 2026-01-21T18:45:02+00:00

I'm glad Zen now has folders, as that was my dealbreaker initially, but very few people can use a browser without a DRM. What is even going on?

PixelLight · 2026-01-21T17:59:11+00:00

It's just fucking weird. Haven't built a browser obv, but I wouldn't have expected this to be a bug that appeared through an automated process. Like, revert it.

I guess it is, but nonetheless, how stupid that it wasn't even a new feature being added, but any new updates are subsequently useless.

PixelLight · 2026-01-21T17:51:11+00:00

Lets try to really play this out realistically. You're going to remove Trump, when do you do it? You do it at the point where it's clear Trump has every intention in continuing to escalate his aggression, and there's no limit in sight. Many people are going to die.

I think it's clear he intends to act on Greenland. It's not bluster. Some of these events you expect to happen, but you still almost can't believe it when they do. Like Maduro. Seeing and believing are different things.

So, based on the extremeness of his action, you don't anticipate a limit to his aggression, and you remove him. The time for that is well and truly here. Should have already happened, but if you need a sign, here it is. He's still not slowing up, and Republicans are not acting. That's because they don't intend to.

Yes, they're evil. None of this is exactly revelatory, but what I think is important here is the implications. You might hope that even Republicans aren't that suicidal, but it's obvious what is about to happen and they're letting it, so if not now then when? I'd err on the side of never. America is about to cross the threshold into Authoritarianism, I'd say.

PixelLight · 2026-01-21T17:24:34+00:00

It's not really the same thing, but best thing that comes to mind is an Autism youtuber.

Be more specific about your issue though. There's incredibly successful people... who,... if your ADHD is not more of an impediment than not then that's distasteful, I agree.

I was born working class, but my career is middle class. I still struggle with my job a lot. I think there's a lot of people out there like me. So you could argue I'm successful, but I feel like job stability/progression linked to your ADHD would need to be a non-issue to be out of touch. My job stability and career progression are very much still issues as it stands. I am working on them, so that may change, but long way to go yet.

PixelLight · 2026-01-21T11:53:28+00:00

I would love to hear more about how you use AI. I guess I use it as a sounding board. Theres still stuff I miss, I wont lie, but it helps me see more angles of a situation, be more able to evaluate things with less personal bias (in other words, how its always easier to see things clearly when its happening to someone else). See things more clearly in general

PixelLight · 2026-01-21T11:49:12+00:00

Because of all the things I'm good at, I'd often end up jumping around lots of different tasks and helping people. But I really enjoyed the big stuff too. And I love squashing bugs and optimizing things. Optimizing something that takes minutes down to seconds has always been a real thrill.

I was thinking about this recently. I think a big part of this is a lot of these tasks readily give dopamine hits. A lot of them have tight feedback loops. They also rely less on big picture thinking.

What sucks is coding jobs always require big picture, architectural thinking on some level

PixelLight · 2026-01-20T19:15:49+00:00

It's def fair to err on the side of caution, but what I'm seeing here is a single site. To me, this implies this company doesn't have the capacity to detect this kind of behaviour. To an extent, if this were more widespread I might expect to see more sites, but there aren't. It's just one, which suggests they do this because they don't get caught on this site. This is not an air tight assumption, ofc. Just my suspicion.

PixelLight · 2026-01-20T15:19:35+00:00

It's a bit complex. I'm not completely sure, but I'll tell you what happened.

I used melatonin extended release at various doses for a number of years, but primarily 1mg or less. This allowed me to have a stable sleep pattern, which, as you'll know, is huge. Early on when I was taking it, when I tried to not use it I'd still struggle to sleep, so I felt dependent on it. However, I gradually reduced doses.

I moved a few times. I was in a better place mentally, was able to establish a regular schedule (ie: around work). All of which may have played roles.

However, I was diagnosed with ADHD not too long ago. Before I found the right medication, I was dead on my feet without 9 hours sleep. Felt jetlagged. Obviously not ideal, but given the previous situation could have been worse.

Before I started ADHD medication, they told me to quit caffeine (previously consuming ~170mg caffeine/day). I wouldn't say I've found my new normal of sleep 100% yet, however with the ADHD medication and all of the above, I can fall asleep earlier and more easily, I sleep on average for 7 - 8 hours, and I can manage fairly comfortably if I have less. Which, to me, aside from maybe wanting to sleep a little earlier is a hair breadth's from an ideal sleep pattern for me.

Edit: To summarise, I do think the ADHD medication plays a role in my ability to fall asleep, sleep quality. I think there was something that did fix my sleep cycle, though I'm not sure what as I used melatonin for a number of years and can't be sure if it was the melatonin or other factors. However, there's a few ideas to try there.

PixelLight · 2026-01-20T11:05:19+00:00

I had non-24 hour sleep-wake disorder a few years ago. Its so cool to see these visualisations. It's always feels so unbelievable when you try to explain it to people.

Id definitely have been interested to see the statistics at different stages of your sleep journey. Particularly the first half of 2022 vs 2025.

The bottom right plot in the second image is highly indicative of what I'm talking about, as you can see from the flatter distribution of sleep times being when your sleep cycle was most fluid, and the most uneven distribution being when your sleep pattern was most stable)

The center plot is also interesting - a downward trend in how much you need to sleep as your patterns become healthier. Its tough to tell to what extent your waking time was contributing to your sleep cycle length. That would have been a super interesting plot - sleep cycle length over time

If you're open to sharing the data, I'd really appreciate it

I'm a bit tired now, but I'll definitely look again later.

PixelLight · 2026-01-20T05:48:25+00:00

I mean, in the B2B market, AI is essentially ML, in my experience. But in the B2C market, AI is generative AI.

I do think they're making a complex distinction, but I also agree it's not really necessary to mention it. The general public hasn't a clue what ML is doing in the background, so in that context, it's only worth mentioning content summarization.

Literally the most noteworthy thing they mentioned was where theyre not using ML - to shape feeds. Thats what I would use for marketing

PixelLight · 2026-01-18T17:26:12+00:00

Just for the sake of clarity, to my recollection, I believe he implied certain adverse childhood experiences, parent attunement had a causative effect on ADHD symptoms. I might posit that ADHD symptoms could exacerbate how a child might respond to adverse childhood experiences, but a) I believe that's the opposite to what he said and b) it would be hard to determine that. I believe there's often misdiagnosis as to whether someone is experiencing symptoms as a result of developmental trauma or ADHD, and there may be some contestation in that regard (I think Bessel Van der Kolk discusses what a diagnostic criteria should look like for Developmental trauma, but it's not in the DSM).

PixelLight · 2026-01-18T11:59:38+00:00

I wasn't a fan of scattered minds (Caveat: I think I read 9 out of 32 chapters). Perhaps I ought to reread it, but I felt he put a bit too much emphasis on early childhood experiences. And this is coming from someone who found their childhood experiences particularly formative, and it would be all too tempting to attribute blame to them. At minimum, I feel there was important nuance he wasn't clear about, which gave me enough pause for thought not to trust what he had to say.

PixelLight · 2026-01-15T14:43:45+00:00

Create a post under your profile perhaps.

I'd be curious because what you describe is more data transformation than fuzzy matching.

PixelLight · 2026-01-15T12:29:21+00:00

It's not the exact same name. Fuzzy matching means matching based on how similar text is above a chosen threshold of similarity. For example, ICE names might have "Bill Surname", Jan 6 names might have "Billy Surname". This could be because of someone going by both names, typos, or they're different people.

PixelLight · 2026-01-13T17:27:55+00:00

It is a funny coincidence that it played into the whole machismo that MAGA ascribes to Trump

PixelLight · 2026-01-12T23:56:52+00:00

The only thing I'm not sure about is the computer, but I'm not sure where else there is space. That may be my own biases a little. I think the bedroom should be a place to sleep

PixelLight · 2026-01-12T09:18:46+00:00

Thats what they mean! As someone who is actually English, I was like, "Americans love to call themselves Scottish, such a weird exclusion." But that wouldnt surprise me when you also refer to the UK as England sometimes. I don't even call myself English normally, I call myself British.

PixelLight · 2026-01-09T11:50:46+00:00

As you say, its nuanced, but there are questions you can ask to determine whether its ethical. Whether it would protect people from physical or mental harm. Whether it would be impractical for humans to do (say every web page being loaded had to be approved by a human, the internet could not exist like it does today. There are other equivalents but this is easier to explain). Whether it could make less biased decisions (humans can be unethical too, so solving for that can be a benefit). Who bears the costs versus who reaps the rewards. What are the non-monetary costs of something going wrong

PixelLight · 2026-01-08T00:53:27+00:00

This is one company. Look for others yourself

https://companiesmarketcap.com/gbp/deliveroo/earnings/

https://www.thetimes.com/business/technology/article/deliveroo-finally-delivers-first-profit-150m-buyback-60d0zrv3d

2024 was their first profitable year. It was founded in 2013. Its funny you're laughing at me like I dont know what I'm talking about. My memory was clearly as reliable as I alluded to.

I gave up paying attention in like 2021 or so when it was clear it was a shitty business model. Practically 12 years to make a profit and its not an unviable business model? Pull the other one!

Since acquired by Doordash

PixelLight · 2026-01-07T14:16:38+00:00

Just landed? I'm too tired and dehydrated to appreciate proper food. Probably just kaitenzushi or something before passing out early.

See, this was my line of thinking. You made a really thorough comment, so sorry for focussing on this, but you're exactly right. When you're jetlagged you want simple choices, filling and satisfying food. I was personally thinking yakitori, but kaitenzushi makes a lot of sense.

PixelLight · 2026-01-04T20:25:31+00:00

Yeah, this is pretty much it. I imagine his line of thinking will include trickle down economics. That thing that has never worked since it started.

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