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Is it only related to software development where you feel drained after doing something mental for an extended period of time?

For example, what if you play a complex video game that requires skillful choices and mental effort? You might be making split second decisions many thousands of times over an 8 hour time frame.

For me, it all boils down to being genuinely interested in what I'm doing (and you can't fake this). If it's a programming gig that I really enjoy, then I will want to do it from the moment I wake up until I goto sleep and this might be 16+ hours (with reasonable breaks for food, etc.) but there would be multiple productive 4+ hour stretches in that 1 day. The same could be said for a video game that I like.

If anything I feel less drained at the end of those programming sessions because it feels like you accomplished a lot, and you look forward to the next session (it's all positive feedback). It's almost like getting some type of runner's high, except for your mind.

I only find myself feeling drained when it feels like I have to force my way through the work. I have no idea how low level chemicals work in your brain but just based on personal experience I would guess it takes a lot more mental effort to do something you don't enjoy for many hours a day. If your day is filled with mostly negativity, that's going to be very draining. It's might be similar to how if you hang out with someone who does nothing but complain or has a negative spin on everything you end up feeling drained. I struggled with that for a long time (being the negative one). It helped to become mindful of these things so you can reprogram yourself and make decisions that avoid feeling that way.

Just based on what you wrote, you're saying you only work a few hours a day but then waste the rest of the day away in meetings and trying to look busy. I'm no psychologist but it sounds like you're spending a majority of your day in a stressful / negative mindset. It would really suck if you had to "fake work" for 4+ hours a day to look busy so you don't draw suspicion while also being constantly interrupted every time you try to start something. I'm 100% sure I would be drained if my work environment was the same as yours.
That's just US-centric. For example, you probably don't know off the bat what happened on 22.06.41 either, but if someone buys an ad in a Russian newspaper encoding these figures, it would be perfectly reasonable to say "everyone knows".
Somewhat relevant, this tattoo says "香港" (Hong Kong) or "加油" (Add Oil) when rotated:

https://twitter.com/natashakhanhk/status/1164060311743156224
Where do you work that gives you this option if you don't mind sharing a little more?
Isn’t that how a functioning democratic republic is supposed to work?
Li Ka-shing is well aware. His job ad for a Chinese PA was featured in the news for its salary (HK$1Mpa) and very high requirements (expert level in modern and classical Chinese and Chinese history, 20+ years experience).

https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/world/breakingnews/1567579
Father of three. Yes and no.

> and if so, why?

Yes. Chemical change in my brain / body causing me to love those little buggers more than life itself.

No. A bit of free time and piece and quiet would be nice occasionally and to selfishly do what I want, when I want, how I want.

> would you have preferred to go child-free, in retrospect?

At the time of the first born, most definitely. But girlfriend got pregnant "fairly" young at 24. She wanted to keep it, no further discussion had.

In retrospect, that is a very hard one. Very much aware of the "grass is greener" paradigm and to be "happy with what you got". But overall, I don't think I would change anything.
If you mean the jet airplane is the simpler of the two, I would agree. The famous Roche Biochemical Pathways chart of just those mecahnisms that are understood illustrates this perfectly: http://www.expasy.ch/cgi-bin/show_thumbnails.pl
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> This is true for consoles

Sure, but the author specifically mentions "People who grew up with Nintendo and Sega"
> The conclusion is inescapable: if productivity means anything at all, a worker should be able to earn the same standard of living as a 1950 worker in only 11 hours per week.

The logical conclusion from this seems to me to be "productivity doesn't mean anything". If we all have four times as much stuff as in 1950 (rather than working fewer hours) then where is it? Obviously there have been a lot of amazing technological developments since the fifties but most of them aren't that expensive: if you sold your computer/phone/etc. you wouldn't be four times richer.
As a Scrum Master the final comment bugs me. The Sprint is a team effort, you might have been assigned user stories, but if your velocity is higher than others then you need to improve your estimations and you need to help others finish their user stories. Your scrum team does not sound like a team, but a collection of individuals.
The negatives are bad, sure, but it's like someone complaining about how bad college was and past work experiences were; the bad usually help you to learn the good. I wouldn't trade my 4-year old son for anything in the world.
I think it was both a good idea, and at the same time the biggest cause of stress and strife in our marriage. The ups and downs of life are larger with kids. You will experience moments of profound joy, and balance them with great struggles. And at the end of it all, you have your own family to grow old with. You trade a hard youth for a better old age. Which seems to match, philosophically, with the startup idea of working hard for a few years to be in a better place when it is done.

On a more pragmatic note, the idea that brains change when you have kids to make you more nurturing and empathetic sounds good for a career. It would help with communications and teamwork to be stronger in those areas.
>'A suburb of Austin' may not be rural by many definitions. Its another city? Look at a map. See all those spaces between a city and its suburbs, and the next city and its suburbs? That's where 'rural' is.

Except no one who talks about "city dwellers" is talking about people living in small towns or suburbs. And if I am living in a city, it doesn't conform to any of the political or cultural assumptions that the urban/rural divide makes about "city dwellers." It also isn't nearly as rural as your definition of "rural," although I've lived in those areas as well. I certainly don't think it would be accurate to lump the culture and community of the town I'm in with LA or New York - certainly people there would consider me rural.

And maybe that's one problem - "city dweller" and "rural" are vague and subjective labels.

>So just call me Mr. Populist Myth I guess.

The myth is that your experience is typical for Americans not living in large cities. It's an outlier, not the norm.
Ask HN: Is psychotherapy useful? How to find a good therapist?
Testing the debit card with a fingerprint reader
Calling something propaganda by omission is still not a rebuttal, especially when that rebuttal also fails to provide any of the supposedly "omitted" facts.

You can't just ignore things you disagree with because they are biased.
Carl Sagan did, I recall a quote of his talking about the composition of the brain and he says something along the lines of "to consider that we live in a universe which permits the construction of biological machines as intricate and as subtle as we"
I think the Chinese have different point of view about the protest. The lack of support is not because of the CCP propaganda.
The Mainland Chinese view about Hong Kong in the current protest environment is not any different from what the Mainland Hong Kong for the past few years

The view in The Mainland Chinese is HK ppls are racist and snobbish towards Mainland Chinese . Which is If you spoken to HK peoples. That is not far from reality.
Here a couple of links to illustrate
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-16828134
https://qz.com/442887/how-hong-kong-is-different-from-china-...

At the same time Mainland Chinese look at hk problems is an economic problem. Due to insecurity of the rising china and inequality created since the British policy.
If WeWork could figure out how to do what it’s doing without actually owning real estate or holding long term leases, it might be closer to a tech company. That isn’t the case, though. Their network are their own buildings and their financial structure looks much more like that of an asset heavy real estate holding company.
Unreliable parsers are an issue of yaml.
There is irony Apple has a physical card used as a token to transfer financial and transaction information.

Then again... Wallet needs an iPhone to work ;)
Guide and Templates for 1:1 Meetings
Make new content à la Old School RuneScape?
Ah shit, here we go again. This how it starts, the mighty socialism.
Yea, there are a lot of outage posts. It does kinda illustrate how many people depend on these core services though; and how little distributeiness or elasticity is built into the system.

Linux repos and ISO download sites have TONS of mirrors, sometimes contributed by companies, but also a lot of universities, government and public institutions.

Why is one of the largest core open source repositories centralized and private? Why are we so dependent on AWS, Google and others for large chunks of Internet services to be accessible?

There is a deeper question here than just the outages; but rather why they affect so many people.
> Software to me is extremely mentally demanding and draining, it requires short burts of extreme concentration, but what is more draining is making up the remaining 4-5 hours looking busy.

Well said! I haven't met a single software engineer who hasn't described something similar to me. I'm the same, I like to wake up early, enjoy my first coffee and then I feel the most productive for the first 4 hours of the day. In those first 4 hours in my morning, often exactly between 8 and 12 I get a shitload of work done. I get so much done that it feels like a real milestone every day. The feeling of being contend afterwards makes it really hard to get into the same focused mindset back again after lunch. After I had my lunch meal I often spend no more than 1-2 hours just doing minor post-real-work tasks, email replies, etc. before mentally signing off completely and calling it a day.

Asking a software engineer to work a certain number of hours per week is useless. It's better to agree on a certain scope of work that one would like to see get done and then let them off the hook as soon as it's done. Some people can do a 3 day burst of 8 hours, but then are so destroyed on a Thursday or Friday that they won't get ANY work done. Others like me are productive every day, but only for ~4-5 hours. Either way, only a fool will think that they will get more out of an SE than they are actually able to focus on. They will just say that something took longer, a bug was holding them back or whatever.

Moreover, the salaries which SE get are so high that an employer isn't paying for the time anyway. They pay for the skill which is being applied during that time, so what's the point in making them commit a certain amount of time. Absolutely useless... well... hopefully one day things will change..
Many women I know wish society wouldnt pressure them to work so they could stay home and be a mother.

The current economic situation in the US is prohibitive to this family structure as well.

The combination of those two things is a huge problem in our society.
That's a good one. My English is not sufficient to come up with this. There's also a Chinese pun story[0] with 92 characters with the same sound but different tone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
I doubt branching would stop them from releasing new content for Classic WOW, if only people would be interested in playing that and paying for the game.

I am sure they won't do full blown expansion for Classic, but new content within lvl 60 cap does actually make sense. It's also possible, that at some point, when people get bored with this content they can bump the tier to TBC (1st expansion). They could probably also keep all of those running at the same time, and people could choose which tier they wan't to stop them. It all comes down to people voting with their wallets I guess.
Really illustrates the importance of our own second amendment.
Oh man. This thread is really something else.

Like...for miles in every direction, all I can see are pitchforks, and here I am standing alone on a small hill thinking to myself "Holy shit. That's the Spiderweb software guy. I've played every single one of his games, EVERY SINGLE ONE, and loved all of them."

The graphics in the games are exactly as good as they need to be to make wonderful story-driven RPGs.
This is the equivalent of Nintendo disabling profile pictures because of people abusing it with penis pictures.
Everything I absolutely loved about WoW is inaccessible to me 15 years later now that I have kids and a job.

I'm really curious to learn about the sustained user count of those who never played classic.
I suggest you look into the history of companies like TLRY and the current state of BYND.
What was lacking? The GUI on Gitlab is phenomenal imo.
Functional Primer – Ideas and Patterns
its Activision wearing blizzard's dead skin. Most blizzard "minds" have left for other pastures.
> You'd need a very heavy chamber to keep the vacuum balloon from collapsing.

That was my original question: is it technically feasible to make such a chamber from light enough materials (my first guess would be some carbon tubes supporting a carbon fiber tarp or something like that.

> Edison's light bulbs did not float.

One could argue that it was too small (of course I imagine making a massive lightbulb would not make for a good solid structure, also glass is heavy). A hot air balloon does not float either if you lest it too much.
> alters them both in some ways.

meh, not really. I don't think you can equate having to walk around mother+baby type stores on your weekend with growing a baby inside you.

Life doesn't change "that" much for fathers during the pregnancy apart from support the mother with the changes she is going through

After the birth, then hold on, the ride is now beginning and everything you ever know is turned upside down
you're going to get downvoted the all the protestant work ethic people that think labor is virtuous per se - "an honest day's work is reward in and of itself" type thing (forgetting or conveniently omitting that these values/virtues were defined by capital not labor). I agree with you and many more would too if they didn't see themselves as "temporarily aggrieved millionaires".
> Personally I am satisfied with just downloading the file ignoring 404 status.

That would be convenient, and follows the "deal with it or ignore it and render what you can" pattern followed by browsers in the face of malformed HTML, but...

> I wonder which should be the correct behavior?

I'd argue that displaying the "not found" message, and aborting any other transfer, would be the more correct thing to do, despite being less convenient. Something thinks there is an error condition while responding the request, so can you really trust any content returned by the response to be as it should be?
Based on the title, I assumed someone might have implemented the notebook from Death Note. I'm both disappointed and much relieved that it's not the case.
I don't remember Word for DOS (say, 5.0) being especially unstable AT ALL.
Having kids is incredible. My youngest is 6 (others are 8 and 10), and sleeps 10-11 hours now. They are already hilarious little people, and not having them in my life would be empty and unbearable.

Re: "completely insane to voluntarily sign up for that" I hear the same thing here often about joining or running a startup and putting in 100+ hours per week.

The only reason I regret having kids is because of the planet they will be inheriting, and all of the shit they will have to deal with.
Google services needs a Mean Time Before Finish indicator.
>They who work in the daycares are not a "serf class", they are paid professionals

I wouldn't say 'professionals', in the United States daycare workers can expect to make a little more than minimum wage to start and might get up to 10-11$ an hour for dealing with the maximum number of kids allowed by law all day.

And unless you're talking some elite, gotta get on a waiting list and pay 30 grand a year to send one kid, anyone that passes a background check can get a job in daycare.
Had similar thoughts.

I think a lot of people have rose tinted glasses on and simply don't remember how simple the game used to be and how far it's evolved since.

I am curious what they've done with the mechanics though. Some were broken by expacs, some were fixed, wonder what they rolled back and what they left.
> auto-displays the content in TextEdit

wow, that's kind of "brave" thing to do for a file marked as `application/binary` mime type. it has `.txt` extension however as filename

of course I have no idea how TextEdit behaves with big binary files, but such apps on Windows/Linux can't handle it well (usually hangs forever/for a long time)
Not since I became an IntelliJ user. Auto-save, who coulda thought of that?

Oh wait, I did--in the DOS based editor I wrote in High School in 1991, mine auto-saved and flushed the data to disk. Not sure what was so hard about that feature. Although with caching in various places, it was still possible to lose data. I even demo-ed the feature in class by unplugging the computer.
I am a backed developer 90% of the time, but I currently have to work on a Typescript / React application that an agency did for us - cleaning up the bugs.

Is there a good resource to demonstrate how to get around the problems you get with typing? At the moment I am using @ts-ignore to get things done. (Saying "you are probably doing it wrong" isn't really very helpful).
They'll stop playing?
Since when does libc include "rich" things like regex, serialization and http?? Even C++ standard lib is mostly containers and algorithms.

libc is barely a standard library, it's almost nothing.
Personal anecdota: it definitely seems like a huge part of the people in my city (Zurich) are working 80% (4-day week for 80% pay).
I think a more nuanced way of defining iii is that the intelligence an agent is capable of is limited by the extent to which it is capable of perceiving and interacting with an environment.

At one level this has to be true, if it weren't I could plop a black box on the table and say I've invented AGI it just can't interact with anyone, and you would have no recourse but accept my statement. We must necessarily define intelligence as the interaction that the agent can perform with some environment otherwise we'd have no way to know of its intelligence.
There are so many ways we become dependent of github, that nobody will shame on us because we are impacted by a github outage. In this context, is it useful to protect against outages ? It may be cheaper to do nothing.
As a HKer, I think it is likely to be deliberate.

A lot of big corporations/wealthy people had ads on HK newspaper front page explicitly condemning the protesters. Li Ka Shing could have done the same but he didn't.
"Tiananmen Square" is the English name for the event. The name in Chinese is the "June 4th Incident", much like 9/11 in English.

Since the blog is in English, a "translation" might have been helpful; but since he goes so much into Mandarin, perhaps he assumes his readers are already familiar with the Chinese name.
Maybe it's 404, because: "This study is no longer active. Thank you for your participation."
Should the not focus their attention on the centers with the highest population?
> so they used their own SSD pack things.

Minor nitpick: they’re miniPCIe SATA (not NVMe) SSDs in a fancy housing with some fancy pin remapping for the outer connector
After 25 years of making games, he is directing the art. The art style hasn’t changed - that doesn’t happen over a span of decades without direction.

His art direction just doesn’t match the tastes of a large number of folks. Neither did H.R. Geiger’s. Nothing wrong with that.
Awesome, thanks for sharing.
Apple refining methods to reset and calibrate future iPhone toxic gas sensors
I don't usually remember Cinco de Mayo :>
While it is very true that the memory is much bigger bottleneck than the CPU in computing today, it is a quite a bit disingenuous for the "in-memory" computing crowd to keep pointing to dramatic difference in energy needed for a memory transaction in "their vs ours" solution.

Yes, onchip SRAM can take single picojoules vs hundred picojules per bit on external DRAM, but using external DRAM is a perfectly valid design decision that does not dramatically increase the power consumption because CPUs have large caches and very smart prefetch logic. Some algorithms may seem to demand tens of gigabits of memory bandwidth on paper, but in reality smart prefetchers can reduce that to hundreds megabits.

Where things like this matters is scalability. Parallel computing performance scales not much with memory bandwidths per CPU, but with the number of individual CPUs, threads and their prefetch units. Here, the decision to have hundreds of wimpy CPUs, but all with individual memory access will be valid.

Edit: typo fix
I can't fathom what life is like in such a small country.

If 1 major company goes out of business, does it cause chaos?

High unemployment and lower tax revenue sounds like any moment the country could find itself in an economic depression.

In my local area this almost happened.
K8s: Security release v1.15.3 v1.14.6 v1.13.10 – CVE-2019-9512 and CVE-2019-9514
Right. Proteins alone, there are something link 10^9 in one cell. Plus all the 'parts' the proteins deal with (many more)
Sad news, the natural order of the planet is being disrupted while the world continues about its ways.