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Because he's anti-vax. This is the future where everyone says they're not aligned with whatever idea then does everything they can to promote and propagate that idea. They'll even deny that the idea exists while spreading it as far as they can.
>But quitting doesn't really seem like a helpful option.

Once you hit full burnout, you'll realize that you don't really have a choice, unfortunately. You will have to stop. Whether that means quitting depends on your situation but, in any case, you won't be able to continue on your current path.

>And until I have enough to retire, I have to keep grinding.

This is the trap that pushes us into burnout. By definition, it happens when we get to a place where we're making enough that retirement (or other financial goal) becomes an option on some timeline we think we can stomach. Then, we worry that the cost of improving upon our current situation (or even replicating it) is too high. So, we settle into a game of essentially trying to outlast the misery. In reality, our quality of life is so miserable that it's simply not worth it. We recognize the problem, but we convince ourselves that we don't have a choice.

But, the premise itself is an illusion. There are always other options, some of which are far less costly than we imagine (and certainly less costly than destroying ourselves). It sometimes takes walking away from the burnout situation to recognize our full option-set, so we get stuck in a loop, the confinement and stress of which adds to our burnout.

One way out is to simply say to yourself, "I can no longer live this way" and intenralize that it's really not an option to continue. You will then be able to see new opportunities for change, as well as assign the proper cost to making those changes. In other words, you'll start to gain the perspective you need to move forward.
I think you saw a "doesn't" that wasn't there in the opening line: "This person understands what actual burnout is." The Netflix reference was from the original post.
Honest question, help me understand where this argument is wrong:

if those with natural antibodies are encouraged to get a vaccination in order to gain "additional protection"...

those with a vaccination be encouraged to expose themselves to covid-19 in hope to get a breakthrough infection to generate natural antibodies for "additional protection"?
Yeah, health coverage can be tricky. I'm unemployed ("on sabbatical") and bought my own plan through healthcare.gov for about $12/day.
The study compared against 2-dose vaccinated. The three groups are as follows:

1. Two-dose vaccinated
2. Previously infected and not vaccinated
3. Previously infected and single-dose vaccinated
Remember the Sonos "recycling" program? Deliberately brick old devices to get a discount on a new device.
This exact issue shows up when I type in Terminal, and it makes me annoyed every time.

I used to have this on my work computer, and through some debugging tools that are not available publically or on macOS, I was able to track it down to my shell spawning a git process very frequently; until you mentioned this I suspected that this was the case on my MBP as well.

Could it be that this is just generally true? I don't remember this on my 2014 MBP, just my new 2019 16" MBP. Supposedly the latter is a more powerful machine.

It's gotten so bad that I frequently consider wiping my computer and seeing whether it'll be fixed with a new environment.
He needs more mainstream influence. Spotify does not promote itself well.
I think most folks assume that people in their twenties will just go without dental/vision/pharma in the US and grab a cheapo bronze tier plan off the ACA unless they have a preexisting condition that requires some regular treatment.

I agree that the costs are higher in the US and it makes dealing with stress more difficult but... the US is a terrible place to be if absolutely anything is wrong with you - so assuming you could take a pleasant sabbatical there seems unwise. It'd almost certainly be cheaper to move overseas and pay whatever monthly fee the local government charges to temporarily enroll on their healthcare and it sucks - but, again, it's the US where healthcare is a stressful burden yall have to deal with - I was born there and emigrated and I've been quite happy myself.
If you aimed for similar class (ultraportable), you're going to be in pretty much the same ballpark. Ultraportable CPUs are normally in the sub 15W (peak) now, and screens are

The embodied energy of the laptop is high (estimate in the ~5GJ range) (http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2011/papers/hotnetsX-...).

Ballparking now... assuming 5GJ of embodied energy, 20W power draw, 100% duty cycle, you'll need to run a laptop for about 8 years for its power draw to match its embodied energy. That means that changing laptops much more frequently than that will probably result in net higher energy consumption. Obviously, the lower the power consumption gets, the longer the "payoff" period becomes - this is why servers which might have 10x the embodied energy, but >40x the power draw are still economical to have more rapid hardware refresh cycles.
If that is such an universally understood principle then a lot of people are badly misinformed. I can’t count how often I hear “if everybody just took the vaccine the virus would be gone within insert timespan” even in academic circles.
Am I right reading this to see that they never actually compared a vaccinated group to a group that had received no vaccines? I think the groups compared here were people with no history of infection and at least two doses and people with a history of infection and at most one dose
And the humor of the images comes from our initial expectations and how different they are from our actual understanding of what we're seeing.
I'm wishing you best of luck on your recovery. I also have a bit of unsolicited advice for those in a similar situation.

it's better to pace things. If I find myself working at 1am, I know I'm acting silly. My employer won't thank me for it either. They don't want maximum output. They want someone who is dependable also the next morning. If your life is nothing but work you are also bound to get depressed. Your employer doesn't want an unproductive worker so make sure to take at least an hour for yourself and eight in your bed. If seven hours of meetings are causing you not to work during business hours you should tell your manager man hours are being poured down the drain and the team is working at 10% of it's capacity even without vacations. I never had a manager who doesn't listen to such arguments. You will still be a somewhat disgruntled employee because if it was fun they'd have someone pay to do your work. But you won't experience any other symptoms.
Have you tried talking about this with your manager? Jumping straight to FMLA is making a lot of assumptions about the company and what they might be willing to do to retain you.

As an example: my SO was dealing with a lot of stress due to health reasons and tried to use FMLA. Her company let her do the paperwork, but ultimately let her take off 3 weeks of paid leave that didn’t count against her PTO. That gave her some room to breathe, but she started crashing again a few months later and tried to hand in her resignation. Welp. Her company is now giving her 6 months of paid leave with no hard obligation to return to work, just a request to be courteous and let them know if she’s not coming back so they can stop paying her.

If the first time that your manager is hearing about your situation is also your request to start taking FMLA immediately or else resign, your manager isn't going to be able to do much for you (and probably won't want to either, given the tough situation you will be putting them in on short notice.)

IMO our industry should really start considering sabbaticals as the next standardized perk. I think they would do a lot to prevent burnout and retain top performers.
"Both sides" is often two wrong sides. The world is not binary. Those who only listen to both sides might never notice that.
This is the problem with misinformation nowadays. Everything is "backed by studies." The problem is, the same study can be interpreted to support two opposing views.

Hell, I'm sure if this Saladino guy just completely made up a study and presented it as fact, the vast majority of the users will never bother to check if that study even exists, let alone verify the claims. Most listeners are just there to reaffirm their preexisting beliefs.

Personally, I just don't trust people that push such narrow solutions to complex systems (nutrition in this case).
As someone who does this, you’re not wrong, but I don’t know how many lightweight Linux distributions your typical person who can’t manage to install Linux would be able to, or want to use, even with some support.

The only thing I could see working is if you basically made it like ChromeOS, a locked down, web browser based machine. Which actually wouldn’t be the worst idea considering most people just use their computers to go on the internet.
He still posts Joe Rogan clips and I genuinely still enjoy listening to those.
I believe that's one ongoing effort to solve the issue (since it'd also ensure things like 802.11ax support). It's just low dev resources, I think - but this is from my just browsing the situation over the past few weeks, mind you. An actual FreeBSD dev should correct me if I'm wrong.

I also believe there's a hack floating around to forward ac from a Linux VM, which some use.
Joe Rogan moving to Spotify is like Twitter moving to requiring login.

The increased friction has resulted in stopping me from consuming two things that I should have been cutting down on anyway.
Yes, they always did. Natural immunity is the rule not the exception.
A nice paper book about copper, electricity and discrete components.
Depending on how far you want to go, there are VNC clients[1], toltec has opkg-installable stuff including at least one browser[2] known to work, and there are full OS replacements that let you run a full linux GUI[3] which can almost certainly run a normal-ish desktop browser.

So while this one won't work, there are options.

[1] https://github.com/reHackable/awesome-reMarkable
[2] https://toltec-dev.org/
[3] http://www.davisr.me/projects/parabola-rm/
Really impressive! I have the same issue, its pretty motivating to see this. How long did it take you?
well asp.net core is not really minimal or idomatic.
it pulls a whole framework your code doesn't do a lot of things that asp.net core would do. sadly since nancyfx died there arent that many c# http framework that are as lightweight as the golang once. asp.net core is more like java spring btw.
nowdays most c# http frameworks do call
`<FrameworkReference Include="Microsoft.AspNetCore.App" />` which is really really big compared to just Microsoft.NETCore.App most often the defaut aspnetcore also configures a "secure" application (working cors, etc.)
It's odd, though, that Rogan's podcast only started doing mid-episode ads after the move to Spotify. Prior to the move the only ads were at the beginning of the episode.
> If you aimed for similar class (ultraportable), you're going to be in pretty much the same ballpark. Ultraportable CPUs are normally in the sub 15W (peak) now, and screens are

I think this got truncated.
If you can safely afford to give it a proper try, and really want to, then go for it.

I don't miss working for marketing one bit. Programming is so empowering
Huh, curious about the out-of-tree driver - I haven't seen that.

I've considered donating funds to FreeBSD with the idea of earmarking them specifically for Wifi, but I don't know how much that actually helps...
Same here. I joined a company pre-IPO several years ago and even though though Wall-street just punished us (hint hint) I'm still making close to 1m per year due to stock appreciation vs when I joined.

Unfortunately I'm not worth getting paid that much, so my statement isn't a humble brag or anything, it's a realistic observation that my role + work isn't special and I shouldn't be making this amount. With rest/vest I will likely never get this high of a salary + equity package again.

In that sense I feel like I'm currently at my maximum earning potential even though I'm a mid-level engineer. Plus going back to leetcoding? Pfft.
If you're burnt out at a big company job where you have performed well up to that point for at least a few years, you may have more options than you think. You might ask for a leave of absence for a couple months. Even unpaid it'll probably end up being financially better than the alternatives, supposing that it's enough time for you to recover. Another option is to negotiate a separation. Don't just quit. Approach your HR professional and explain your situation and say you'd like to discuss next steps. Oftentimes in exchange for signing a general release you can convince them to sign off on a severance package. Assuming you're not at the director level or above, they will probably just plug some numbers into a spreadsheet and tell you a number. My understanding is that 1-2 weeks salary per year of service is pretty typical in SV at least. The advantage to this route is it keeps your employee file clean and you get a little cushion. Sometimes they'll also agree to not contest unemployment benefits.

If you really truly are burnt out, your alternative is to get PIPed and canned, so only forego the above if that's a better outcome for you. I'd advise against that route though, because it will damage your reputation and you may be ineligible for re-hire.
Dogmatic... really? It's hard for me to think of a less dogmatic public figure. His views are all over the place, change frequently, and aren't at all consistent with each other. His critics (on both right and left) generally seem to want him to be more dogmatic, not less; they want him to be consistent with their own preferred dogma.

To me Joe comes across as someone who's figuring it out as they go and doesn't have a filter. I personally find this refreshing compared to zealots who are certain they have all the right answers on very nuanced and complex topics.

Edit: Ok downvoters, what is Joe Rogan's "dogma"? Honest question.
I don't think there's any confusion of the finite and infinite numbers in Cantor's diagonalization argument. Here's the most generic form of Cantor's argument: there is no surjective function from a set A to its power set P(A).

We prove this by contradiction. Consider any function f: A -> P(A) , i.e. it takes elements of A and outputs subsets of A. Suppose this function is surjective: i.e. for all y in P(A) there is some x in A such that f(x) = y. But let q = { a in A | a is not in f(a) }. Clearly this is a valid set. And if f is surjective, there must be some x in A such that f(x) = q. Is x in q? If x were in q, then x would be in f(x), so that's a contradiction. If x were not in q, then by the definition of q x would be in q, which is also a contradiction. Thus we have a contradiction, so f cannot be surjective.

As you can see, nowhere do we make any logical jumps that would only make sense in the case of finite sets. This proof is as straightforward as the proof that there is no set of all sets. We don't use the axiom of choice, the argument is even valid in constructive mathematics (though you have to make some adjustments).

Now, we define one set X as being "less than" another set Y if and only if there is no surjective function from X to Y. You'll see that this definition corresponds exactly to the usual notions of size for finite sets, and makes intuitive sense (if for every y we have an x, there must be at least as many xs as ys). Now, just plug in the set of natural numbers into Cantor's theorem and you get: the power set of natural numbers is larger than the set of natural numbers.
I think 100 million isn't much considering the amount of influence he has. I guess getting an upfront 100 million is better than over the years though. Does anyone know how long his contract is with Spotify? It's it's longer than 2-3 years then he's losing money imo.
My 2017 MBP with Touchbar had keyboard issues (some keys popped out; replaced the whole keyboard), battery problems (it expanded and I replaced it, but it is expanding again), and screen issues (pretty sure is a thermal issue; after some hours of use the bottom of the screen started to went black to the point of being impossible to use and I had to stop using it and wait some hours to the black bars disappear). Pretty sure this is my last MBP.

Edit: typo
Joe Rogan is the one giving the gun is your scenario, so you're claiming we should blame him?
regarding reduction of observed antibody titre == evidence of waning natural immunity.

this is not evidence of waning immunity this is evidence of efficiency and conservation of function

the presence of antibodies has been used as an indicator that vaccination produces an immune response, unfortunately far too many people have conflated reduction of this antibody titre over time as a reduction of immunity, when it is a modality of immunity.

antibody titre is a better indicator of prophylactic efficacy than immune status.

unfortunately it is very inconveinient to work with T cells and B cells as a measure of intensity of immune response.

this however can be inferred by observation of changes in antibody titre following infections/challenges subsequent to reduction of post innocual antibody titre
Every influential social network already has disclaimers with links to authoritative information about C-19 for those who choose to inform themselves.

"Visit the covid 19 information center to learn more"

These are all over and post on Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, etc whenever certain keywords trigger it.
I think this is not enough. We need to replace all right of center entertainment with videos of Dr Fauci reminding us to wash our hands, wear masks, get our shots and do the right thing by staying home. Not enough people are getting this message.
They've always had a good point. This is yet another paper in a line of good (and unsurprising) research going back to vaccine trials in 2020.

The discourse has become politicized, unfortunately, and for whatever reasons the voices of the pro-vaccine faction in the U.S. have become dominated by people who reflexively discount the science. This doesn't seem to be the case in Europe, where the EU-wide immunity passport treats those with prior documented infection the same as the fully vaccinated. This was pointed out to me on HN a few weeks ago, when I opined that it would be logistically impractical to verify and issue immunity passports to the previously infected.

Would it be better if those with a previous infection received a vaccine? Maybe. That's a more complex question. But at this juncture that's moving the goal posts; it's scientifically and politically unreasonable to make that demand.
they compare 3 groups.
see under "Methods"
> This is a great question for us non-lawyers.

How is it a great question?

In the US when two parties have a disagreement they can either discuss amongst themselves and resolve it, take it to a mediator to resolve it, or take it to the courts. In this instance, the courts became involved because UC Berkeley wasn't going to stop the expansion and the people and city felt that they had a case. Apparently the judge agreed with them. Like I said in my other comment, someone had to file a suit. The judge didn't intervene just because they were bored, someone filed suit.

> how can a judge tell a business where they can be and how many they service, if there's nothing illegal going on?

Read the article. Berkeley made initial expansion plans for around 1600 students by 2020, but exceeded 11k instead. This contradicted the initial agreement and plans with the city so the suit was filed. Also, UC Berkeley is not a business, it's a public state institution.
This is a powerful piece that resonates with my own experience. I went through a period of severe burnout that took me a couple years to recover from. One of my later insights was that burnout doesn't merely entail working too much (although that's certainly part of it); burnout often involves pouring too much of your heart and soul into something that does not love you back. I describe burnout now as a kind of "unrequited love."

So many of us go above and beyond for our companies/projects/teams/whatever. The author here describes overcommitting at work. We might have the best of intentions, but at some point, we don't see the returns we yearned for and start to question what all this self-sacrificial giving is for. That is when burnout really sets in. I've had friends burn out while working for hostile or indifferent managers, startups that are trending the wrong direction, companies that engage in illegal or unethical behavior, etc.

A second insight was that burnout can play a positive role in our lives. It's like a circuit breaker that trips to protect us from a damaging situation. When we feel burnout coming on, it's a warning to pay attention to an important misalignment in our lives.
Series play a big role in all of math...
Not mine, so I haven't looked at it closely. In general, however, I think there are many more addons that could work, and should work on Android.
Number 12 is quite something, it works with anything you look at after staring the center of the top image. I looked at my food and I could see it moving in a very odd manner, went back to image for 15 seconds and looked at the walls, same effect and repeated the same with other stuff and after 10 minutes I feel motion sickness like the one you get after spinning and losing your balance (not everyone gets this I think)
I'm less concerned about someone from a thousand years ago, as I am about me. COVID21 (or nukes or insert your favorite apocalypse) sweeps through and wipes out 90% of mankind.

We instantly lose our ability to manufacture ICs, which rely on a complex tech tree and supply chain to feed many-billion-dollar fabs. We'd like to continue to be able to:

- Control industrial machinery

- Communicate with each other

- Balance out bank accounts

- Etc.

1996-era computers can do almost everything 2021-era computers can do from the perspective of keeping society running. I won't have 3d games or machine learning, but accounting, word processing, and similar are fine. Most of the changes in the past quarter-century were in how we use computers, more so than fundamentals.

Having a cache can mean the difference between being set back 1000 years due to systemic collapse, or being set back 50 years.

This isn't a time capsule thing. This is about immediate, operational resilience when the last of my computers breaks without supply chains.
Oh, I remember this, from like 2000 (in CGI/Perl). Did it this way for ages then there was this ground-breaking company for ads called "DoubleClick" (I think) that did it all with cookies and js. Wonder whatever happened to them.
there's also the arduboy for something even simpler
Exactly. I used to enjoy Joe Rogan, but I have my podcast system and I'm unwilling to change. I'm absolutely not going to change from a working federated system via RSS/atom xml to a centralized system where the employees throw a hissy fit about crime-think. I'm sure Spotify converted many customers and at $100 million, Joe Rogan won regardless.
> And risk having to take a job that pays way less than before.

Would that really be so bad? If software dev is burning you out then why try a different career and a cheaper lifestyle. Or simply a lower-pressure job and a cheaper lifestyle (there are plenty of companies that don't do leetcode interviews).
Comedy is an occupation, not a profession. Actual professions have specialized training, a defined body of knowledge, ethical standards, and a formal certification process. For example: law, medicine, teaching, architecture, accountancy. Comedians have no more social responsibility than any other random person. There's no comedian's guild that's going to kick out a comic for being irresponsible.