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Ask HN: How to Deal with Burnout?
Over the last 2-3 or so years I've experienced intense burnout in my workplace accompanied with an intense feeling of guilt and hopelessness. Guilt because I feel I'm not performing up to expectations, that I'm doing very little to earn my (very decent) salary. Hopelessness because I fear this feeling will haunt me at any future job and that whatever job I may find the conditions will turn out to be worse than my current one.

I work as a technical support manager for a small company. The job is remote and I've been at it for close to 10 years now. I'm self-taught and was hired as a support representative but quickly took over a lot more responsibilities. My bosses are of the type that is very hands-off and were always very happy with my performance.

For many people this would be a dream job. Remote work with good pay with management that is easy to work with and a lot of freedom. But I just can't do this anymore. The smallest things irritate me. Completing the simplest tasks feels like a huge chore. Total inability to concentrate and get things done.

A year ago I talked to management and we decided to hire another person to take over most of my mundane responsibilities and to move to a more managerial position. In this new position I haven't been able to find the motivation to lead and complete any new projects.

I continuously think about quitting but fear that this lack of motivation will continue and I'll either become jobless or end up doing the same thing at another company with worse conditions and worse pay. I believe I'm a very capable person but I am a 39 year old true generalist with no college degree or programming projects that I can present in my CV. It will be extremely difficult to get my foot at the door.

Looking for advice from people who faced burnout and were able to beat it in whatever way possible. Either managed to reverse the situation and stayed in the same job or you moved to a different job/career which now makes you happy.
Snowy owl visits New York's Central Park for first time since 1890
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Eggs are breakfast food.
>> drawbacks of restricting drug manufacturing

Ya, like how if you get the recipe for a drug only slightly wrong you turn it from useful tool to deadly poison. I want the FDA inspecting facilities. I want them testing purity, and then testing the tests that they use test the previously tested test. When I buy aspirin I want to know it is aspirin and not anything else. "Let the market decide" doesn't help me once I'm poisoned. Please government, regulate drug manufacturers.
I love this writeup, esp around how the dev team architected the work to derisk the work before hardware was available and how the emulator/instruction interpreter actually sped up development velocity over using hardware directly.
There are a few standard fonts, but no one wants to use them.
I might be an old fogie but I don't want car integration. I just want phone accommodation. I want a good place to mount it and I want its audio to come out my stereo. Maybe play controls on my steering wheel but that's it. The car doesn't need its own software. My car is fourteen years old. Hopefully my next car will last at least that long. Sundar Pichai himself could personally promise me that my car will receive security updates for twenty years and I'd still laugh in his face at the very idea.
After working with media and payments startups, I was looking for something more directly impactful. Found it in droves!

Unfortunately, due to the nature of our work, we're not currently hiring outside the United States.
Is that the metric we use for what is legal?

Because alcohol and sugar are hardly safe to use long term, yet no problems with legality.
Like other large open-source projects by Google, Microsoft and others, contributors sign a contributor's agreement that gives Oracle joint ownership. This means that, in addition to the GPL license, either you or Oracle can license that code as you or they please. This is a fairly standard practice.[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contributor_License_Agreement
Bad deployment system. You should do an A/B deployment and warm up the services/caches before the switch, so that the architecture handles the problem and not the programming language/VM.

At FastComments we run our E2E tests on the new instance to JIT the app. Before the Jit API calls can take 100ms, and after 10-30ms. Still, that is fast enough that most people wouldn't notice...

Also, the problem is not Java. Your application probably has way too many abstractions for a simple login page.
The miniseries Spartacus (recommended!) decided to pit women gladiators against male ones. Both the men and women were obviously highly fit and ripped. Try as they might, the filmmakers simply couldn't make it look like a fair fight.
Maybe in next 20 they will fix scaling issues when using screens with different DPI settings
This has to be one of the oddest and most blatant media plays I've ever seen...

Seriously, I'm completely flabbergasted on this one.
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I don't know if this is a consideration, but the reason Sony's PlayStation 3 included "OtherOS" feature was so that it would be classified as a computer instead of a gaming console to avoid a stiff import tax.

I wonder if there's a difference between making Stadia available via an app store and having it pre-installed or advertised as a core function of the device?
I’ve thought for a while that “hard” drugs ought to be made available with a license. Every year you check up with your doctor and a mental health specialist, and if things seem to be in order (no physiological damage from drug use, no arrests, no job loss from drug abuse etc) you get your license to buy consumer quantities of cocaine, mushrooms, whatever.

I’m sure there are solid arguments against a license structure but I haven’t imagined a better middle ground between total prohibition and 19th century style cocaine in cough syrup.
Most people wouldn't need heroin if big pharma, doctors, and pharmacists didn't flood the country with oxycodone in the first place.
The second one should read “or it becomes a large scale ad data gathering opportunity”. That’s the value of Maps and Gmail IMO.
I think a lot about Treasure, a quirky game developer that tended to make a bunch of strange games in the past. I think their studio director and founder, Masato Maegawa, understood the value in being more hands-off in a leadership role. [1] [2] Part of me feels like Amazon and Google thought their super-direct top-down style would be successful in a creative project involving larger team, unaware of the lessons previous game developers had learned.

Hardspace: Shipbreaker, on the other hand had a unqiue idea and was a critical success, and in a retrospective the developers were very explicit not to impose a top-down attitude to development. [3] (disclaimer: I work at Blackbird Interactive, but not on Hardspace: Shipbreaker)

[1] http://iwataasks.nintendo.com/interviews/#/wii/sinandpunishm...

[2] http://shmuplations.com/aliensoldier/

[3] https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1026825/Forging-Hardspace-Ship...
> I thought everybody felt that way.

Does it incur any impact on your life? Was it a thought or a challenge?
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I think a helpful point for most would be that hermeneutics is the study of how to interpret things (most generally). For example, how do we interpret the constitution of the USA? You choose a hermeneutic either implicitly or explicitly by which you then interpret the document.

I think the duality in US politics today is largely one of what hermeneutic one uses to interpret the news, for example.
Eggs hold things together. Cake, enriched breads, sauces, breading on your fried foods...
>> what panic would it cause if the scientists say "We don't know at this point <<

this is the crux of message management; panicing people are desparate for return of predictability, anyone who provides that will have happy customers for a while.

the idea that the information in raw form that the professionals use is somehow not of public utility needs to go away. this is part one of a double punch the next being the discovery that while data was sequestered, the general populus was lied to about it. Not that that IS what is happening here, but getting caught out doing that is beyond discrediting.

its not good policy to build an abberant world view among your population that will culminate in being crushed by reality, this is why people panic in the first place, and the solution seems to be keep cycling that way so that panic is assauged by building another alternate belief that looks comfortable. its like the trope where someone is hiding/slash disposing of the body while having a conversation accross the house designed to prevent someone walking in before its all hidden away.
I want to love these things but the first one appears to be unfinished, and the second has hardware you have to assemble and then depends on an android app that appears to be quite flaky from the reviews. I would very much like a radio enabled encrypted communications system to complement Briar, but both of these look extremely iffy currently.
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This is so popular for so many years that, I questioned why someone would use a VLC cone for traffic diversions ( when I first saw one)
Is software dev really a more valuable job than bus driver?
I assume tomjen3 was referring to browser extensions that block ads on the YouTube website.
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I agree with much of what you say, but if you change it to "It's Amazon's fault, not ours", that's where I diverge.

Slack did fuck up here, as evidenced by the outage and you seem to at least partially agree by the fact that Slack learned a lesson. Further, I think that "understanding how your system scales up from a low baseline to a high level of utilization (such as Black Friday/Cyber Monday for e-commerce, or special event launches, or a SuperBowl ad landing page)" is a standard, "par for the course" cloud engineering topic to be on top of nowadays.
> as their bodies are better at withstanding G-Forces

Likely coming from being shorter. The heart doesn't have to push the blood as far uphill.

Women do indeed fight, but not until it gets desperate.
It's funny but where I see a spiralling mental health crisis are the people who think the WSB subreddit is comparable to a president who attempted a coup.
Thank you! My crux was to expand the vocabulary using texts I enjoy (not the testing itself). One could call this "very active reading", where I try to fill in words from the context.
If people are unemployed or underemployed and you save regardless that waste of productive work doesn't reappear through magic in the future. It's just gone.
quick followup, after checking my old links and making a new sign up. it does seem like the inrupt.com pod has a bit better /more up to date design. Accessibility, while not perfect, does seem to be improved. (quick WAVE tool check)

Things are still fairly confusing for new users though. And some how tos I wrote down from then no longer work. Which is not the worst thing, as some of the tutorials required you to hover over and wait to be able to edit things.

Much easier to look at though. ymmv

for historical/hysterical reference, I uploaded my old solid adventuress file, it is not up to date, and some of the css is not always showing the right colors, ect.

but you can see some of the directions I was looking into then:
https://pod.inrupt.com/metahari/public/solidnotes/SolidAdven...
Hi, if it is possible, I really can't find where and how.
There was lots of mainstream coverage when the law was passed. A few examples:

https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/09/politics/oregon-decriminalize...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/11/04/election-dr...

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/04/us/ballot-measures-propos...

In fact, I think you would be hard-pressed to find any news outlet that didn't cover it.

That the law goes into effect today is a bit of a technicality, so it's not surprising that most of the coverage was back in November.
That's a pretty interesting thought, I hadn't at all considered the "cloud native game" angle.

Based purely on my own experience with games, I tend to think that for the best results, you'd need a really good game studio to learn how to make a cloud game; I'm not sure you want a really good cloud company to learn how to make a game.

But it's still a really good point. Was the Stadia studio explicitly for these kind of cloud-gaming-enabled games?
Show HN: Blogline – A personal blogging app with privacy in mind. Should
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A cost effective way of deploying models on AWS is to use 'zappa' (autotemplating for lambda + API gateway).

This just works, and costs my team less for a year than one week of Sagemaker or kubernetes architectures.

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Are you seriously comparing tobacco bootlegging with drug trafficking? Wake me up when tobacco bootleggers are having gang wars in large cities using semi-automatic weapons and responsible for a large percentage of our murder rate.

Tax avoidance happens everywhere and it’s contribution to our violent crime rate is minute.

And why would your friend rob anyone if his heroin cost a fraction of today’s price, and he could easily procure it? And if he faced no Neil time for buying it legally?
> Why it can't spin these side projects off into their own companies to survive or die on their own merits I don't know.

They would only do that if the spinoff made them a noticeable amount of money. I suspect that is rarely the case.
Recently I came across this
https://shadow.tech/

They do something promising and better (?)
My guess would be that disentangling a project from all proprietary dependencies is very expensive.
Journey to the Savage Planet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_to_the_Savage_Planet

*through acquisition
Yes, its beautiful. Would never go back to 1080.
For comparison, how do you feel about Transmeta?
Honestly, the free falling B61 you let us 'participate' in storing and delivering aren't protecting us, they make us a target. So Fuck OFF, will ya?
Amazon is next, I guaranty you FANG has no idea on how to makes game. The smart move is to buy studios, don't start from scratch.

Also lot of people on this thread don't undertsand that it's the gamestudio shuting down not Stadia the cloud platform.
Jade Raymond needs to write a memoir.
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I had the exact same thought. There is no feeling like the frustration of a disappointing ending after being engrossed in a Neal Stephenson book.

When they were paper books at least you could throw them across the room. Now that would break my phone.
Do your motivation problems keep recurring, causing real problems at work/school, at home or in your personal relationships in a way that is beyond your control and that has persisted for more than six months?

If you answer yes to this, I would recommend talking to a professional. No one can diagnose you online (with the exception of professionals offering remote sessions).
I set up a Win10 box recently and was kind of stunned to find that the built-in Media Player is now b0rked to the extent that it can't play media. Practically any media. Even with codec packs installed it won't play any of my hundreds of h264 DVD rips, it won't play the few WMVs I still have kicking around, it won't even play bloody MP3s. I think I found one weird-codec MP4 and a couple of ancient AVIs it deigned to accept, but that was it.

Or I can spend 30 seconds installing VLC and be 100% confident that it'll handle anything I throw at it. If I could fit a Lascaux cave wall into a USB port it'd play it.

Congrats to everyone involved in making this software. The world would be a sadder and more frustrating place without it.
I've created a couple Android apps that I published. I did it mostly to learn and have fun. They weren't really successful and I didn't make any money, but there are/were (haven't checked lately) a few thousand installs.
Repl.it __logs
curl -s https://blog.repl.it/"username: hi"
Personally, as a person with ADHD, I am fine with that restriction.
Ask HN: Proportional Coding Fonts?
Hello.

I really like the way that code looks when displayed with a proportional font, except for three things:

1) The punctuation characters (ex. parentheses, braces and spaces at the start of a line) are often too narrow.
2) I miss having coding ligatures (where => becomes one symbol, for example).
3) I really wish I could use proper elastic tab-stops.

Does anyone have any recommendations for proportional fonts that are nice to code with, or setups that improve upon just using a regular non-monospace font?
The creator of VLC player Olivier Pomel founded a company about a decade later and called it Datadog.
What do you use them for, if you don't mind me asking?
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