Also probably fair to include burnout, chronic-fatigue/post-viral/long-covid, moderate to clinical depression, anhedonia, cardiac problems, auto immune diseases. Tired and fatigued are also super different. Sleepy vs tired, wired, and lacking the capacity to physically function effectively.
Growth = stress + rest. When physical or mental stress outpace rest you will get tired. The intensity and duration being the big differentiator.
I disagree with this. An entire business day is a long time to do nothing. I've always loved jobs where there was enough strategic direction to know what to focus on but enough latitude where you could actually do it. I can't think of anyone (not suffering from pure burnout) that didn't devour meaningful work that had well written requirements.
Just because covid turned out to be a global disaster doesn't mean everything will be. There were multiple SARS outbreaks in the ever so pleasant 2000's. Oh Ebola might have gone airborne in the 90's and has made some cameos since then.
We all dropped the ball on covid, but that doesn't mean everything is going to get the same foothold. I guess what I'm saying is that I will wash my groceries again if something crazy shows up but let's not assume global pandemics are just going to kick off constantly.
Setting aside the normal disgust I have for this process, I did some googling to make sure there wasn't some important reason why this isn't a repulsive process.
"the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.[14] This law permitted local and federal law enforcement agencies to share seized assets "... it appears to be motivated by all the wrong reasons.
It has origins in English law and has pretty much been used in a tyrannical way the entire time. I tried to see the other side at least.
Same. Started in early 2004 and never let up. I had been in Toronto quite a bit in 2003 and coincidentally there was a SARs event that broke out in Toronto that year. I was sick several times but at some point a switch flicked and I never got better. Totally anecdotal, but a genuine account of my last 20 years. There was a longitudinal study done over 10 years that showed chronic fatigue (n=32 i think... so a small study)
I was hoping the long haul covid research would provide some insight but the truth is that anyone with post-viral long haul symptoms gets left behind.
You might be a bit arrogant, or driven, or passionate. You are surrounded by people that might be lazy, less intelligent, or less capable.
Odds are that you are enthusiastic to embark on your new career and you haven't been exposed to some parts of the real world yet.
Young developers are often smart, passionate, driven. They also fall for a million traps... reinventing the wheel, worrying about trivial things like syntax instead of the big picture, tripping over every new, soon to be discarded library/stack/tool.
Older developers are usually good at making things happen, but are often cautious, unimaginative, uninspired. They are good at delivering real world value though.
Just assume the cognitive dissonance you are experiencing is the result of having drive and education without enough real world experience to make sense of it all. You will do fine.
Some people have genetics that make mu and delta opiate receptors respond to alcohol in an unfortunate way. Easy fix, just don't be born as one of those people /s.
Wow the Cirrus is looking pretty good for how much damage it did to the Metro. Flight surfaces are still there and it's only broken in half of the parachute landing. Guessing it might not have been controllable after the collision.
Ahh boy that title. Clicking on the link to probably realize that this is totally harmless and my initial reaction is due to how much I've been stuck inside for a year.
I wouldn't be too cocky if you're healthy. I got hit with a nasty flu in the early 2000's and never recovered. It was like someone flicked a switch and I went from young perfectly healthy to a low grade off an on flu since then. This happened with SARs in 2003 and is well documented. For the first year you think you are just run down, but then it never improves for decades and you just sort of miss out on your whole life.
It is an equity exchange where investors, tax payers, the Federal government, and the fixed income market subsidize stock buy backs and executive bonuses.
I'm joking but it is alarming how many resources we seem to be sacrificing for a meager 5-7% average ROI. We are trying to eliminate market corrections at the expense of ??? who knows. It's cheap capital for business that are probably creating too many services and products that don't add a ton of value to anyone's lives.
I agree with you, but would like one counterpoint. There are plenty of planes that are aerodynamically unstable and require fly by wire/computers for satisfactory flight characteristics.
Fighters like relaxed aerodynamic roll stability for roll rate. Now pitch stability issues are troubling. I don't think engineers would purposely relax pitch stability unless they had to.
I guess I'm saying you might want an airplane aerodynamically unstable in roll, but pretty much never in pitch so the fly by wire argument might not be valid here.
There is a good book called The Victorian Internet that covers the development of long distance communication up to the electric telegraph. People did all the same stuff with it. Front running trades and horse races, hooking up with other telegraphers. I can't remember all the details but it was fascinating how much of it paralleled the early internet.
Prototyping, hobbyists, people who host a site about cats and don't need 1000 extra lbs of server side weight. Spinning up a simple API to learn a new client side library. Anywhere that tooling and configuration is getting in the way of someone learning something new. Seems perfect for some uses.
Anyone care to guess what the ratio is between trans people that are offended by the pronoun issue vs liberal college kids that are offended on behalf of the trans community?
Yes I realize that saying this on hacker news or reddit is grounds for heavy downvotes and hate mail but good god people. This is all political gaming, not compassion.