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> ...as the constraints of the solution space go from physical (tension, voltage, pressure) to non-physical (interpersonal relations, public perception, aesthetic judgment), the activity goes from more engineer-y to less engineer-y.

This would put industrial engineering deeply in "less engineer-y" territory, IMO.

I think someone is very engineer-y when they pick a simple, easy bridge design which requires less skilled labor to produce, even if this takes them away from working with more juicy physics problems.
Is it the #2 most common passion project here though.
To confirm, this is Nature - if Nature is not authoritative on science... what is?
Indeed, the principal seems to often be forgotten. The why of monolith vs citadel vs microservices is ignored by some people.

This results in K8s-driven-development instead of microservices.
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Actually, I am a real engineer, and designing gearboxes for airplanes is quite real. So are programmers engineers or not?

Consider real engineering at Boeing. There are engineers and technicians (aka draftsmen) working side by side. They are often doing the same work. The difference, as far as Boeing is concerned, is the engineers have a degree in engineering and the technicians do not.

But if they are often doing exactly the same thing, what's the real difference?

Think of it another way. Think of an auto mechanic. He can fix your car. He can take your car apart and put it back together. He can customize it. But is he an auto engineer (who often does those tasks, too)?

Nope.

A programmer, technician, mechanic plugs numbers into formulas, follows instructions and procedures and practices laid out by an engineer.

An engineer derives the formulas, writes the instructions, develops the procedures, and refines the practices.

For example, a technician builds a band pass filter by using a circuit he's already used before and knows works. Maybe he'll tweak the RC values. An engineer will drive the RC values needed by understanding the calculation. The technician may use calculation (though they rarely do), but they don't understand where the formula comes from. An engineer does.

In software, a programmer calls a sort function from the supplied library. An engineer writes the sort function, and can tell you its complexity and why the algorithm he chose (or invented) is the most appropriate one for the particular sorting task, and what the cases are where the sort will perform poorly, and why.
Is it possible to attach files to notes?
Ugh. This inspired me to check the B2B application I'm responsible for as a manager. Guess what I found:

<input type="hidden" name="userId" value ="{{session.userId}}">

I'm sure you can guess what it's used for and what it's not compared against.
In fact we would be using a lot more simulators.
Jesus. There's no words. My heart breaks.

Thank you for giving us your thoughts. I hope to live up to the standard you set with the clearly towering love you shared with your wife. I'm dumb, young, unwise so I'll dare to presume: I am certain she would have told you how important you are to her, how much she loves you and how thankful she was that you shared your life with her.

Sorry, I try not to be emotional. Especially on a forum like HN where rationality and clarity of thought seem to be the M.O. Its impossible to imagine what you've gone through and what you're going through. I send you a huge, digital, hairy man hug my dude.
in my linkedin I am :D
This mentality seems like a recipe for procrastination. Yes it would great if I always could be at my optimal functioning for whatever task is at hand. This never happens and my brain tries to convince me that I am too tired, hungry, or whatever else before starting an important task.

On the very important areas of my life, it is much more helpful that I do something each day to try to make progress. On the busiest or hardest days, this might just be watching 5 minutes of a video on that topic. That keeps up my habit of doing something and makes it less likely that I will forget things.

If I am 100% productive at doing something that isn't important, the result on my life is no progress.
Hm, just today I did something I don't normally do, which is timeblock my day! As in not just the meetings I have, but wrote down my plan for all the time in between.

Now, I haven't gotten to all of them and some things slipped. I have the luxury of that not being a huge issue. Still, it felt good knowing that whenever I thought to myself "I should be doing something" I already had one and only one thing on deck at a given time, literally.
Back in highschool I had an old USB drive with a Linux install, it worked fine. I also had a copy of tor browser, so I could watch YouTube. Good times. I learned quite a bit about networking and windows security.
I hate Perforce (most because of bugs) BUT the in progress CL workflow is better than this.

Git should introduce stages and allow you to have any number of stages. Git should also have some porcelain around stashing all but one stage and restoring all etc etc.
Thousands of Ukrainians are training in case Russia invades
https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/12/28/pinephone-p...

It’s running already (well as close as possible for mobile). But they say «in a year» it’ll be usable as a daily driver too.
Forget gaming, their end goal is a metaverse monopoly.
I maintain an offensively big knowledge graph, and I feel like you're both right -- building those connections manually is both mind-expanding and somewhat labor intensive.

If I have a conversation with X and discover they're an expert about Y, learning fact Z, I like to record Z as a file, and link it to both X and Y. That forces me to keep X and Y as entities in the graph. Which, if I care about them, is worth doing.

The real beauty of making those connections is the act of classifying something can cause you to explicitly recognize what concepts it is related to, and formulate precisely what the connection is.

The real pain point is knowing what your future self will wish your past self kept a file on. Some ideas (generally more social science-related ones, but also something like a bug involving the interaction of a lot of disparate technologies) are so cross-cutting that I'd need to make five parent concepts to file them "completely", and often then I'd like to file those parent concepts further. I generally don't.
In Prolog :- is the if operator.
What's the benefit of pretending everything happened in one discrete commit? I'm not sure I see the value, only information destroyed
You can also enable auto-squash by default:

git config --global rebase.autoSquash true
I was wondering about this too. Setting aside DNS over HTTPS, I can't see it either.

Will every router in the EU do L4 switching to rewrite traffic to port 53?

Assuming it can even be pulled off, I can only see if failing badly.
That Atlantic article is too long and doesn't get to the point. Philosophers are faster than this.
I like the design, but what's would you like to improve over Goodreads?
I'm English and I'm not. It's a short sighted bid by a PM who's dying on his arse to try and keep support from his lunatic 'covid sceptic' backbenchers.

Masks are a simple and effective way of keeping down community transmission and it is a ridiculous stance to take when case loads remain high.

I will continue to wear a mask.
I think it depends on your goals. If what you want is achieve better movement, you’d better turn off that TV.

But if you just want to burn fat, well I’m not sure that focusing on it would change anything.

Proprioception is a nice thing to exercise, though.
From personal experience with a family friend and bitcoin scammers, this does not work any better than prior forms of verification.

The scammers just convince you to take a picture and send it to them and then they submit it on your behalf.
I used to use Semantic Synchrony, for which the creation and linking processes are much faster. Every little keypress counts. My SmSn graph is as a result much more connected than my org-roam graph. I still refer to it, but try not to build it out much, because the Git review process is so time consuming. For me org-roam's killer feature is that version control is so easy.
> While that spurred more than 130 countries to agree a deal to ensure big companies pay a global minimum tax rate of 15%, aimed at making it harder for them to avoid taxation, the millionaires said the wealthy still needed to contribute more.

For too long we've let the supporters of inequality get away with arguments like "Well if you increased taxes on the rich / corporations, they'd just move somewhere else". While such claims may be true up to a point, they miss the fact that these coordination problems can be solved, even in the face of vested interests trying to profit off defecting from the common good.
actually "doctor" comes from the latin "to teach"

There's only one robust doctor test and it doesn't involve etymology.
If someone else's mother refers to you as such, then you're a doctor.
Unfortunately Rio Tinto already beat them to the autonomy market. AutoHaul, their self-driving solution, has been in use for the past few years operating on around 1800km of track. Around 50 trains at any given time are currently driverless throughout Australia, including navigating level crossings without issue.

https://www.railjournal.com/in_depth/rise-machines-rio-tinto...
> to the point where the invented categories had reified into something kinda real

The "kinda" in that sentence is doing a lot of heavy lifting. It's a "real" social construct. It's not "real" in the sense of representing "real" human nature, or a "real" order of how things ought to be, which is how that social construct is wielded in practice.
I do not care to research the specifics, but I think it's a weak, not terribly moral argument to say that slander is allowed due to "religious freedom". To me, such freedom means you can practice in peace with those in agreement with you, not act against others in some $GOD's name.

If your beliefs make you think some people aren't really people, I can see that being something to invalidate serving in government or falling under hate speech/discrimination laws. Lots of bad history here...
Ugh, wasn't aware of this and it's an issue because I now live on an RV and thus won't have Internet access all the time. Just opened a chargeback because of this.
+1

About 7 years ago I got a massage and went to a store in a location that usually caused me a ton of stress due to the driving and the parking and how overcrowded the store gets. After the massage I did not experience any stress; 0, none, zip, zilch. My muscles were completely relaxed and had 0 stress in them.

At that moment I realized that stress doesn't cause tightness, but tightness causes stress, for me. Relaxed muscles relaxes my mind.
> Is a Doctor of Philosophy a real doctor?

Actually, a Doctor of Philosophy is the only real doctor.
That argument could be made, of course, but (like all arguments) only by presenting evidence and reasons to believe that one side’s proposals result in (or would result in) election fraud.
Take at least 3-4 weeks off.

If you can exercise or do other physical activities like going for a walk. Disconnect completely after work, get a feature phone. A lot of people having burnouts due to being over connected and even more so with remote work.

Walk really slow and try to be in the actual moment.

Do things you’ve been putting off for ever due to feeling burned out. That book that’s been sitting on the shelf for a year, that lego set or doodling book or the guitar you swore you were going to learn.

See people for a coffee, drink or other activity.

Avoiding burnout is often about learning the painful lessons of separating your professional life from your actual life and it’s not an easy task.

We tend to forget to stop and smell the roses.
If you still want the domain email address you can register the domain with either google or cloudflare and then set up email forwarding to a personal email of your choice.
Jealous that you've got to attend one of their groups. That's so awesome.

Their work has helped my second marriage to be 10x what my first one was.

Them teaching me to tell the difficult truths was a big part of that.
EDIT: should have used rolling resistance, not friction, so the final figure here is at least an order of magnitude too big, maybe two.

To me, the numbers just don't add up. Let's assume

- 0.2 as the coefficient of kinetic friction between the wheels and the rail [1]

- the car holds 100 tons [2]

- batteries can store 250 Wh/kg [3]

How much battery is needed to combat friction for one mile? (normal force times friction coefficient times distance, then scaled to battery capacity)

> (100 tons * 10 m/s^2 * 0.2 * 1 mile) / (250 Wh/kg)

> = 324 kg

So, 324 kg of lithium ion battery is needed per mile? Am I doing something wrong here because this looks completely untenable.

[1]: https://the-contact-patch.com/book/rail/r1717-friction-betwe...

[2]: https://www.csx.com/index.cfm/customers/resources/equipment/...

[3]: https://www.cei.washington.edu/education/science-of-solar/ba...
> but it's an ergonomics change, not one of capability.

Isn't that a bit of an empty argument. Literally anything Turing complete is an ergonomics change when compared to anything else Turing complete.

We are writing for the same computer. There's nothing different (fundamentally) about the kernel and my program.
My recommendations:

Mental Health

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Get on an anti-anxiety medication if you can / want to. They can be really helpful to take the edge off for a while until you return to normal.

My therapist is the one I info-dump and bitch about work to. I don't have any particularly deep psychological trauma. I just want to pay someone to complain about work to, so they can give me feedback and things to try. It isn't fair to your friends and family to constantly be absorbing your pain.

I learned this the hard way after losing friends because I was "too negative and whiny."

Hobbies

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I read a book called "atomic habits" and I liked it a lot.

Basically, when I have a hobby, I track TIME, not "goals." Goals are too nebulous. Time is something I can keep track of easily and more time === more good at hobby. ( Kind-of. It is at least a decent metric to track. )

I picked up guitar, beer making, smoking meat, running, game development, all during the pandemic. I hear you! I just jumped around until I found something that stuck. Don't give up on finding a hobby! But don't stick with you you aren't enjoying.

Work

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I wouldn't tell your work you are "burned out." People... can suck. And do you really need a bunch of opinions and attention around how stressed out and tired of the job you are? No, not really.

Maybe reach out to individuals privately if you want some support but also: see section 1: Your friends/coworkers are not your therapist.

As for specific reasons... for me it is other people. The work is fine, but dealing with personalities, and boredom, and stress... it gets exhausting.

Try to identify the people who are causing you the most stress and try to interact with them as little as possible. Keep a journal. If they are being outright abusive, write it down in the journal, and eventually you will have something you can present to justify your request to be distanced from them.
So a plumber is an engineer. It’s easy: an engineer is someone who has a degree in engineering (whether or not such degrees should be degrees on engineering is another question). The current trend of calling programmers/developers engineers is a pure business trend (it originated in HR departments).
The Grammys didn't even recognize After Hours smdh
I once heard a saying, "the future of music is not music." All through history, most recently with Autotune and previously with rap music (and further back in other ways), we hear people saying, "that's not music!" Invariably, these styles establish themselves and time moves on. I mean, if you want to talk about antipathy and outright-racist music criticism and hatred being thoroughly demolished, let us look at how rap has taken over Country music, because it has. 30 years ago half of everybody didn't consider rap to be music. Do you remember people saying "(c)rap" or "hippity-hop?" It wasn't that long ago!

You say music died not when Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper went down, but with the advent of one musical effect among many in the recording signal path (and I bet a lot more of your favorite artists use Autotune than you realize). Emotional connection is just what you like about the music. Many people think Death Metal has no feeling, or that Yacht Rock is dead-eyed pablum, or that any toddler could make a dance music track. After all it's just a drum machine, or cocaine, or screaming, and where's the love?

>Ask people on the street to actually name a Kanye West song and most of them struggle.

It's been a long time since my phone set on shuffle allowed me to memorize the title of anything. There just isn't the repetition that fixed-format radio and "I can afford one 12-song album per month," gave people. That's how you memorize song names, or you hum it into Vocaroo and hope an internet stranger helps you out. It's absolutely irrational to blame Autotune for this state of affairs, and if anything it made songs more identifiable! It just so happens that people and song titles aren't as tightly connected anymore. I don't know how you can say that without knowing a song's title the music doesn't even exist.

>it's another thing that Miley Cyrus does. (Not to pick her out as a particularly great musician but she is a competent singer with a beautiful voice that stands on its own without processing.)

That's funny because my way of dismissing her is to call her a Brenda Lee ripoff. Thus, emotion gets sucked out in many different ways. There's no accounting for taste.

My free advice is to check out the stuff people don't think is music, because not-music is the future of music, and I feel there's probably always something valuable in evolution. If you don't like it, that doesn't mean you're closed-minded, but if you reject everything about it out of hand, you might be. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
Give it a try and compare. tig lets you either stage hunks ('u') or lines ('1'). You can also adjust the context ('[', ']') and split chunks ('\') and revert chunks ('!') all from the same view.
As someone who’s worked and managed in that type of environment and later left that world to start small companies, I was very glad, that this corporate insanity made it possible to hire great individuals away from big corporations.
This is a good blog on the subject by a friend of mine: https://ravik.substack.com/p/focus-flow-and-burnout
Does a reliable estimate exist of how much grid power bitcoin consumes?

Background: I've read about bitcoin miners who move their GPUs to locations where they can buy power very cheaply because the regular grid can't accept it. I'm wondering whether that's a rare exception or a significant part of what the big miners do.
You need a reason beyond money to do what you are doing. Without that you burn out quick and it takes a long time to recover. Find the reason and if there isn't one do something else.
I have automated a "release engineer" out of a job. Yea, the irony is strong.
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> also why on earth do you need to expose your suppliers (sendgrid) api keys to the frontend

It's the other way round: you need to make sure not to expose sensitive parts of your configuration to the client. That's an extra step you can forget about (or fail to consider in the first place).
You don't "force states to grant IDs to everyone who asks for it". You force states to issue IDs to all legal voters. States do not "provide IDs" to anyone - you are required to fill out paperwork, potentially travel and more.

In nations that do in fact have a national ID, everyone gets one, with little or no effort (certainly no need to travel), and if you wanted to mark the card "non-voting" that wouldn't be a big step.

Your right to vote is established by the US Constitution. A state can't burden that right. If a state wants to add an ID requirement, that's fine, but getting the ID must present no burden to any voter.

In reality, the conundrum here is entirely of conservatives' own making. On the one hand, they (non-exclusively) are adamantly against automatically issued national or even state IDs. On the other, they want to require ID for voting (ascribe whatever reason to this you want). You can't fulfill both these desires without violating the constitutional right to vote.
> Many subreddits are simply themed containers of creative writing. With all the media attention the AntiWork subreddit has gotten lately that brings more karma farmers and therefore more fiction. It's an entertaining read, but not likely true.

Exactly. Don't underestimate the volume of fake stories posted to Reddit.

I tried giving advice in several computer career subreddits for years. I was always stunned by the volume of obviously fake stories people would post about their boss or company or coworkers. Many of them are easy to debunk with even the slightest attention to detail or a quick browse of the user's posting history.

I could barely believe how frequently I'd read a post with some oddities, only to check the poster's history and see 5 different creative writing style lies posted to other subreddits with entirely different details. A lot of people really like using Reddit to create fake outrage stories, because it's a trivially easy way to collect a lot of upvotes and internet sympathy points.

Very strange phenomenon.
I was in the same boat at my first startup (a series of 70-100 hour weeks and I was completely fried by year 2.)

I had accumulated (and untouched) vacation time, so I wrapped up anything critical, drove to SFO, got on a plane to Mexico, and stayed for two weeks. I did not bring my laptop. I did nothing but swim, go to the beach, read (physical) novels and have nice meals at restaurants.

Exercise and sunshine pulled me out of a truly devastating spiral; it may not work in the same way for you, but could it hurt?

Good luck: I really feel for you.
It certainly doesn't for me. Once you listen to things (presumably things you like), it updates your suggestions and offers a lot of more fine-tuned stations and mixes.
Can't comment one way or the other on Whole 30, but my wife and I have drastically reduced our sugar consumption and it's made us feel significantly better. Eliminating it entirely is a huge pain, but choosing the lower/no sugar options whenever they're available has helped us cut out probably ~90% of our sugar consumption, and even just that has had a noticeable effect on our health.
> Think of senior engineer in a typical DevOps-y SaaS startup.

This stands out to me. If I thought of my work as "typical", I'd ask myself whether what I'm doing is worth my time. Whether it's fulfilling and has purpose. Whether I'm having an impact on the work and whether the work has an impact on whatever problem is being solved. That on its own is enough to cause me feeling burnt out, especially over a multi-month period of time.
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