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Super interesting - you are describing my experience with fasting to a tee, it’s almost eerie.

I also have a eating window of about 2 hours. It’s super easy to follow on since I never eat breakfast and most days I skip lunch too. The only time I eat lunch of theres a social reason, e.g going out to eat with a college or friend and I don’t want to weird them out by not eating.

I’ve done multiple 2 day water-fasts and my longest fast was 5 days. What you mention about electrolytes is 100% my experience as well, you need to make sure you get enough salt even if that means just drinking plain salt water. Not supplementing 5-10g of salt really makes me feel like shit very quickly during a water fast.

> After you become more aware of your bodies hunger sensations and all the habits you have wrapped around food, the biggest thing with "fasting" is making sure you get enough electrolytes.

This is the big thing that many people don’t understand about how you function when you’re fasting. They think its like a Low Calorie Diet where you end up hungry and low energy all the time, but its strictly the opposite from my experience. Whats super interesting in my mind is this awereness that you also describe of understanding your body more. I can tell if I am hungry just because of the hunger hormone (which has basically no relation to if you actually need food), and if I am actually starving and need to eat because my body is lacking nutrients. It’s subtle but you can actually train yourself to notice this.
Eh, as a 20 year old I've been told my whole life that I'll be paying for social security but never see the money.

Same for most of my peers.
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Actually I never tried but I was scared by the small print of GH not using RDS themselves [1] and Ghost relying on lower-level features that might be not easily available in RDS. Also I had the impression you have to setup a normal non-RDS replica attached to your RDS master?

[1] https://github.com/github/gh-ost/blob/master/doc/rds.md
> Does anyone have a plausible model of how Airbnb can ever make over 5x more revenue than it’s making today?

By doing it's own hotels/properties.
Do you by any chance use social media? Is it possible that your bleak assessment of the state of the world has been influenced by it, and the hopelessness you are promoting is acquired from your media environment, and is part of a socially contagious spiral of anxiety & depression that you are passing on to others through this particular social medium?

Doctors don’t generally say to patients “yes, your life really is terrible and you are right to be anxious and/or depressed”. The nature of the illness lies in our response to the reality of the world.

In my view you could come up with a list of bad things similar to yours for any age in history. This is not a uniquely bad time to be alive. (I’d argue there has never been a better time, but that’s a separate matter). What seems to have changed is our coping mechanisms.
To stay sharp employers want to see you keeping up with new trends, doing side projects, or improving in some way.

I don't think this is actually true. Employers don't give a crap about your side projects, what you do in your free time, or what you learn at the weekends. Many don't even want you to learn things in your job. The reason it's so widely believed in our industry is four-fold;

- people who are "Twitter famous" devs often work as developer advocates for businesses, and spend their work days building small projects to demonstrate things. Then they talk about them but never mention that they're work projects. Their audience thinks "I could never get to build that in office hours, must be a side project!" and extrapolate from there that getting to be a rich and famous dev advocate means working on weekends.

- devs involved in hiring say they want to look at Github repos. I've been hiring devs for the last 15 years and while I do look at repos if they're available I still interview loads of people who don't have them. In fact, to be honest, having public repos is more likely to push me to rule someone out rather than arrange a chat. Most people's public repos are examples of very bad quick hacks, starter projects with no additional work, or things so poorly documented I can't even tell what they are.

- we like making side projects and need an excuse to spend time on them. When your partner or kids or parents are nagging you to do something being able to stress that our career will wither away to nothing if we don't spend time on something on Sunday night is useful.

- it's a route out of a bad job. If you're working with tech you don't like, at an employer who refuses to give you a training budget, and you don't have any opportunity to learn things in work time, then side projects are an obvious alternative. A better alternative is to find a job where you can grow. An important thing to note about this is that there are a ton of skills that are really hard to learn at home on a weekend (running meetings, talking to clients, using focus groups, mentoring juniors, writing clear docs, etc). Being a dev is about much more than coding after all.
Every other rich person is constantly trying to align themselves with the political left like it's somehow the correct moral choice. This moral grandstanding is what most sensible people dislike about the current state of the left, especially when so many of the ideologies are truly far-fetched. Elon is just saying what most politically "normal" people are thinking, whether on the left or right. Everyone is tired of pretending, and also glad that someone with that amount of money is pushing back, even if just a tiny bit.
Imagine you were born in 1900.

When you're 14, World War I begins and ends when you're 18 with 22 million dead.

Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing 50 million people. And you're alive and 20 years old.

When you're 29 you survive the global economic crisis that started with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, causing inflation, unemployment and famine.

When you're 33 years old the nazis come to power.

When you're 39, World War II begins and ends when you're 45 years old with a 60 million dead. In the Holocaust 6 million Jews die.

When you're 52, the Korean War begins. When you're 64, the Vietnam War begins and ends when you're 75.

A child born in 1985 thinks his grandparents have no idea how difficult life is, but they have survived several wars and catastrophes.

--Quoted from somewhere
That's a little over simplified the complexity of making a decision. A decision rarely reach a fully supported level of consensus in any cases. The process is more focused on reaching an accepted level for everyone, which usually means "I don't like it but that's FINE so I won't block it". The consensus of decision is grey instead of black or white.

Also, "the holders of divergent opinions must be minimized", not really. You can even continue without a consensus as far as it doesn't hurt anyone else.

"wisdom of the crowds" means respect everyone's opinion IMO. Direct attack to your colleagues will end up with warning from managers or being fired. It doesn't have any meaning of enforcing maximium level of consensus.

The problem of "try my best to prove I'm not WRONG" is much broader than Google's company culture. It's part of our self defense process and has been well identified in psychology (Well, same emotion as what you feel in this thread when someone opposed your opinon, your are trying to prove you have better understanding of the problem or smarter than them as you described yourself). Google's culture is trying to (maybe not that successful) minimize that type of self defense since it's harmful in many cases.
For a sufficiently big company, or in an area of particular shortage of opportunities, you actually do - you're guaranteed someone will undercut themselves.

Further, if a job is sometimes done by people "on the side" who have low income requirements. (Jobs seen as student jobs come to mind.)
Consider the early 20th century. Some ostensibly irrelevant political figure was assassinated which rapidly spiraled into the "war to end all wars" in which about 20 million people were killed, in a world population of 1.7 billion - so more than 1% of people. In relatively short order this led to the Great Depression in which over 10 years the global economy collapsed leading to mass suicide, starvation, and disorder.

And we were just warming up. After that it turns out that the war to end all wars was just the pregame show. An eccentric vegetarian artist with a knack for riling up crowds decided to declare a literal genocidal war on the world, and for some time it looked very much like he was going to win. It only ended after another 80 million deaths (about 3% of the world population this time), the deployment of nuclear weapons, and countless war crimes.

And then? Decades of people got to live in the great times where every day there was a real and legitimate concern of imminent nuclear war (which did nearly blast off multiple times) to the point that nuclear drills were a part of the classroom, and people building their own nuclear doomsday bunkers was not only not eccentric but just plain ole pragmatism.

The point of this is not just to emphasize that the past was unimaginably and exponentially worse than the present in every imaginable way, but rather that there was no widespread mental health collapse. And there was no "shielding" kids from anything, when the world was literally burning in front of their eyes. So clearly something has changed, and it's not just that things have just gotten bad or that people are now uniquely aware of that. I have my own hypothesis, but this post is already too long. I'll conclude with a song which this post reminded me of:

Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g

Lyrics: https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/Billy-Joel/We-Didn-t-Start...

Meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Didn%27t_Start_the_Fire#His...
That's the problem of all CSV formats, wrong or custom implementations.

Someone will generate wrong usv e.g. escape or encapsulate values.

And if you get that wrong format no one cares if they gave you a wrong format. => Your parser grows and grows...
I just finished Outer Wilds, it was a surprising game, worth to play.
It's not an overkill if you want to keep existing switches or automate just some of them and not have a potpourri on your walls.

Shellies are also noticeably cheaper.
didn't it? I coulda swore i saw it on nbc news on tv, and i know i saw it in the washington post.
Are you saying you did fast or did not fast?
Of course there is - I've gone to Shenzhen several times and hired people to build my kickstarter - including supplying of most of the parts, building the PCBs, assembling the boards etc - the only time I ever interacted with the government was the guy behind the immigration desk on the way in and out again (I have an APEC business card so I don't need to apply for visas, just show up at the door and show it)
As a manager, I can say that I do make purchasing decisions based off Gartner’s Magic Quadrant.

The reason I use this is because it helps me to easily identify potential vendors and products that can help me achieve the goals of my company.

The Magic Quadrant allows me to see how different companies compare to one another in terms of their position in the market and how they perform compared with their peers. The quadrant also includes a brief description of each vendor or product so that I can get a better understanding of what each one does before deciding whether or not it would be beneficial for my business.
Also, XML is the pinnacle of communication. How many conferences have I been to on it? I'm going to be using XMLSpy til I die!

- you, if you'd been born 20 years earlier
but in this case, the value of janitorial services will increase, as there will be fewer and fewer people doing it. Thus, at some point, the balance would be reached where someone would choose janitorial work again.

The point of the grandparent post was saying that there should be a blanket raise in minimum wages. I'm saying that there shouldn't be, but that more lucrative opportunities are created instead such as up-skilling into higher paying work, or entrepreneurship (which entails taking a risk, so the state assumes a small amount of that risk for the low income earner to do it).

This naturally increases the competition, and then the true value of low-paid work will become apparent.
It is a bug of light switches that they share the state of the device they command. A forgivable one, given how light switches have worked, historically.

This is fine for one switch, but it doesn’t scale to N switches. If you have more than one switch, you now have to synchronize the light state to all switches.

A better switch would have a spring loaded neutral position which you deflect towards the state you want. That way each switch is sending commands to the light, not trying to match its state.

Multi switch lights would benefit from this. That includes physical switches, as well as software ones.
The financial crisis of 2008 (2007-2009?) was not that significant in large parts of the world. I was living in Finland, and many of my friends were graduating and finding jobs around that time. From our point of view, the crisis was something that happened mostly in the news and had little effect on the real world.

The depression in the early 1990s was another story. It may have hit Finland worse than the Great Depression in the 1930s.
I'd like to think that, with emotional maturity, one can choose at times to not engage with others in the common space... without that feeling awkward / anti-social. But otherwise, yeah, the social obligation to always say hi and come up with small talk can be taxing.
Times are certainly tough at different points in history, but they are extremely mentally and emotionally taxing right now and we keep hitting new peaks. We continue to accelerate the destruction of the earth and yet nothing is being done about it. When the everyday person is obsessed with EV cars instead of composting and planting native plants in their yard instead of wastelands of homogeneous lawns and committing genocide against insects and other animals in their yard, it becomes extremely demoralizing.

People don't do anything useful about anything now, and I think that is the most depressing of all. There's rabble about stuff on social media, politicians don't do anything but move the U.S. more towards and oligarchy, and corporations keep selling us stuff to consume, which consumers then lap up.

The Internet is the single most divisive technology ever created by humanity, and it does nothing but distance us from one another. There's never been greater threats to humanity than the Internet and its woes and the already arrived environmental and climate crisis.

That's not even considering the deep financial stress people are under these days. Even just 30 years ago, my parents bought a lot and built a house for $100,000. That barely covers tuition at most universities, and a similar sized house now costs around $1,000,000 just to buy. Just as recent as the late 90s and early 2000s, gas was under a dollar. We're sitting at $4.50 now. People can't afford the number of kids people used to have and must delay even having one or two kids well into their 30s, often due to financial constraints. Minimum wage has barely doubled since my teenage years, and yet everything is exponentially more expensive. Then there is the onslaught of several other socioeconomic factors.

People, aside from the wealthy, are getting slammed from literally every direction, and there is no concerted effort to improve any of it. It's not hard to understand why people are depressed more than ever.
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https://tutanota.com is cheap and supposedly good for your privacy.

https://www.gandi.net/ is a good cheaper alternative if you don't care about privacy.

https://protonmail.com is a bit more expensive, but also worth mentionning.
I don't know, it just seems to me that having two engineers devoted to find ways that you can save money, whom, presumably also get rewarded by how much they save (this could just be a nice speech by someone but I think if you saved significant amounts maybe a bonus?) would inevitably lead to some situations where they realize that the grade of cement or something similar had not been specified for something and it probably means that, barring significant seismic events in an area that has a fault that has not done anything significant for a century, the thing being built would not need any repair for 45 years instead of 65.

Obviously this example is not a real world one as construction is not my area of expertise but I do think I have insights into mundane human mendacity. Then again I am also prone to cynicism.
While that sort of « hobbie tribalism » is definitely a North American trope, I think the main point (it's more likely for people to have incentives aligned in a way that you don't understand than it is for them to be stupid) stands.
> Don't try to downplay the role of internet, mobile devices and social media.

The first thing that was said is that Social media definitely amplifies it. I don’t think that’s a dismissal.. you don’t have to be on social media, you just have to hear or read or watch the news.
oxnrtr is in this conversation too. And when describing the length of a document, "pages" universally means the number of printed pages it would occupy, not the number of computer files it's stored in.
> Yeah, we will probably survive for the next 50 years at least.

I feel like you are fundamentally misinformed here. It has never been the case that IPCC predicted "end of the world" in terms of climate predictions, even in the worst case. And in fact things have been improving since the worst predictions. We are currently headed to a 3 degrees C temperature increase. Which will cause global hardship on a massive level, but it's not anywhere near what's needed to wipe out even civilization let alone all/most humans.

> Even if you don't live in one of those places, you'll be feeling the effects through shortages (as we're currently experiencing a very small taste of in Europe), refugees and political instability.

The shortages in Europe are largely self-inflicted by poor vetting of business partners and "perfect is the enemy of better" behavior and have basically no relation to climate change.
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Social media is bad. What is even worse is that smartphones allow people to use it anywhere, whenever they feel bored. The impact isn't massive just on mental health, but also on general productivity and people's social lives. It's just way too addicting.

I work in tech and constantly feel like moving into a forest without internet connection for these reasons.
I’m not sure this is true. I’ve probably spoken with 500+ teams myself and by and large folks use default settings.
Yup, killing the family unit is a shot still heard.
You're falsely generalizing your specific situation into a full proof for a general ethical policy, though.

What if, instead of the same day, it had been the next day when you noticed you now had the drill bit, long after you brought it home? Would you still think you had an imperative to return it? Would it still feel like deliberate theft?

How about if you didn't notice that you had it, and it fell out of your pocket at some point on your way home, and then you realized the next day that that had happened? Would you feel an ethical wrongness that could only be righted by retracing your steps to find the store's lost drill bit, so it could be returned? Or would you accept this as just a series of accidents with neutral ethical value — like e.g. goods being damaged in shipping?

What if, instead of a drill bit, you found after you walked out of the store that you had a $5 bill stuck to your shoe? Would you feel the need to walk back inside and ask who lost the $5 bill?
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What is/was your motivation for two, three and even four day dry fasts?
I agree with you on something: too many discussions mention 'screen time' as if anything done on a screen was perfectly equivalent. I really feel that playing a videogame/coding/doomscrolling/watching ads/reading/... are all very different activities with different consequences.
History has proven that making people feel bad about themselves is a very effective marketing tactic.

Algorithms shove skinny, tan and pretty in our faces while advertising things to make us skinny, tan and pretty.

Unconstrained by morals would you rather try to sell to someone of good or poor mental health?

And, what constraints have we placed?
Massive issue here is that I did not seen anyone say "grand-grandparents had it easy". Especially not, I have not seen anyone in places affected with above say that. What I have seen is American 20-40 years old saying boomers had it easier. Boomers were not affected by any of the above, they were born after WWII.

If you was born in 1900, you would be 122 years old now.
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> How does "too aware" get defined? Who defines it?

It doesn't seem that difficult to get a proxy for awareness; perhaps "more aware" had been a better choice of words. But however it's measured, it's not unreasonable to assume that social media can promote awareness, and that thus the effect of social issues on mental health can still be mediated by social media.
Most IPOed stocks already autocorrected except meme and crypto - these may be to come, but their impact on the overall economy may seem minimal (not tied in S&P 500 except Tesla)
From htmx.org:

> htmx gives you access to AJAX, CSS Transitions, WebSockets and Server Sent Events directly in HTML

That sounds a lot like AngularJS (i.e. v1). It got its name from HTML tags being angular, implying that things previously done in JavaScript could now be done with something resembling HTML. We all know how that worked out.
This person takes minimalism to the next level. But interesting idea.
Stowing large electronic items (bigger than a cell phone) is a safety requirement, and it’s likely that flight attendants have much less leeway in safety requirements than other aspects of the job.

(Please note that I’m not arguing that’s it’s a reasonable requirement, just that FAs likely don’t have the authority to ignore violations.)
It's been more than one year since I made and published xplr in an attempt to satisfy my terminal productivity needs. xplr has come a long way since then, thanks to the awesome contributors who kept me encouraged.
xplr is now available in almost every major developer friendly platforms via official repositories, thanks to the maintainers (see https://repology.org/project/xplr/versions).
Also, thanks to Brodie Robertson for introducing xplr to a broader audience via his YouTube channel. Although, a little outdated, the basic building blocks are explained well here: https://youtu.be/MaVRtYh1IRU.
The ecosystem is still immature, but it works, as I've been using it for my daily needs.
Yes, exactly. If quick obvious troubleshooting isn't making progress immediately, then unrack it is the smart real-world answer, which is different from the fantasy interview-world answer.

A service outage can be a lot more expensive than new hardware costs. The team can troubleshoot the hardware later, offline, when they have time.
Even boring as it may sound, definitely something I would read, since I known React well but don’t feel like bothering to much with vue atm, but would like to understand the difference / nuances.
45 Drives is a brand ;). Modern servers are reasonably power efficient, and solar helps a lot.

I've got a high density 42RU rack at home, it's a fun hobby.
Without paywall: https://archive.ph/BVHqO