fractional CTO, founder, microPE
- RamblingCTOBurnout, anxiety disorders, panic attacks. One of them.
- And burn out isn't "I hate my job and don't enjoy it more". It's fatigue so hard that you feel like you haven't slept after waking up. I hate that burnout is thrown around so easily. It's something that should be moved to therapy and a long time off, not "switch jobs". If that fixes your burnout, it's early stages or not burnout.
I had burnout this year and was too dumbfounded in the supermarket to buy what I always buy or drive a car. I didn't have any mental capacity anymore. Like an IQ of 20 and the physical energy of a 100 year old.
- Yeah something like that!
Agreed. Writers are kind of artists and we lose something when we lose them. Same for sensible people doing business.
- QoL certainly has its effect on suicide rates. I assume that life is the shittier, the more people opt to leave on their own terms. Just look at russia, absolute shithole and it's on rank 11.
If people are happy, you have less suicides. I don't need a study for that.
- I've just had this topic with friends. How can finland and the nordics be further up than, say, spain? Have they ever been? Sure, materialistic safety is better up there. But the way of living, at least in my experience, is way higher. Look at suicide rates and alcoholism and such.
I'll spoil it: - Finland 38 - Norway 71 - Spain 137
(fun fact: USA is 31)
ranked by suicide. If you visit it, and the vibes and feelings you have don't match the statistics, the statistics are shit I'd say. And maybe cities and rural areas destroy this statistic. But what do I know (but the article agrees with me)
- Not sure my point gets across tbh. What you describe is that the person getting fired is "only a writer" to the board. I think that ship has sailed. Call it personal brand, taste, whatever. I think you need to provide more nowadays than "I can do exactly this predefined job". I find it hard to find the right words right now.
Do I think that this is a good thing? No. I don't think most people have taste (tm) nor that we should live in a world where only the most distinguished have work. I'm just observing what happens in my world. Maybe it's going to burn us all to the ground, but it is what it is if you wanna make money.
- I'm talking about writers and software developers. Not everyone. The mob is already here, in the comments. You can't automate taste so far. That's why I'm saying: if you, as a writer, bring no taste because you're the equivalent of a code money, what are you expecting?
- Most people are doing bullshit jobs. Are we surprised they are automated away? Taste and general intelligence won't be imho. That's all I'm saying. Take agency over the career you're building. Too many people settle for whatever.
- This just shows how amateurish the German state apparatus is when it comes to things like this. Maybe they're playing a game one level deeper and show them only what they want the Russians to see or see it as inevitable, I don't know. But I don't have high trust in our defense.
- Pretty standard in europe. Easier to manouver, to park and you get away with more. Also cheaper.
- I'm so annoyed by this negativity. Is AI perfect? No, far from it. Does it have a positive impact on productivity? 100%. Do I care about financials? Absolutely not. There's the regular hype cycle. But these idiotic takes like "dotcom 2.0" and "AI winter" are just and show that the author has no clue what they are talking about.
- Good that it works for you. I don't care about it enough to run a bunch of docker images (which need docker to run) which have a bigger impact on performance than two chrome tabs for sure.
davinci resolve doens't need docker. Or any of the other examples you used.
Imagine you're running a local supabase stack, zed, chrome and then try to spawn this thing on a regular laptop. It's not about postgres natively.
- What exactly is the advantage of running something like a restaurant vs what I do at home which is just cook it myself?
-> convenience, collaboration, mobility
- Not sure if your serious? I don't want a fucking SaaS stack running on my macbook for a small graphics tool? It's about the resource, the power, the battery, the heat, the CPU I care about. I don't want that.
- Yes, and? I quoted that part. But why do I want a full backend stack running via docker on my machine for this? That sucks.
- That's a pity:
> Penpot Desktop loads the Penpot web application like a browser does. For offline use, the built-in local instance creator can set up and run a local Penpot instance via Docker (per the official self‑hosting guide).
- I think apple was more open in the past like with pixelmator? But maybe only after a delay.
- Imagine life without coffee or cocoa ... Gotta have some pleasures in life!
- I can only repeat myself: you guys are trying to pick me apart while you know exactly what I mean. Sometimes hard definitions won't cut it and you have to use common sense. 80-90% clean is sufficient.
Some things need to be processed to be edible. Wheat is one of those. And wheat is typically trash. It's cheap carbohydrates.
Also: I don't buy bread typically. Sometimes, rarely, wholegrain sourdough bread. But I'm also german and have access to "healthy" bread.
Life is really simple:
veggies, fruits, raw meat (no sausages and not that much red meat), dairy (you can buy UHT milk obv.) but not much cheese, wholegrain carbs if you must (pasta is ok, rice also). Some processed foods are ok: cocoa, coffee beans, see salt, yoghurt, kimchi (check label), tofu (occasionally), olive oil etc. etc.
As basic as possible with pre-checked exceptions. This isn't something you can define in a clear cut manner. And it also depends on the country.
The thing is that if you only skip junk food you'll still eat sooo much junk.