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"Public health recommendations promoting physical activity should incorporate advice to avoid periods of sedentary behaviour."

How do we interpret and apply information like this? Many people work in front a computer these days so it can't actually be applied to them (read us).

I mean everyone hates homework, but I was a straight A student all throughout gradeschool. I did what I was told, but in college I learned that the professors aren't always doing what is in your best interest.

I think it really depends how early children and young adults encounter and take notice of this.

Which cop?

"Athletic departments are self-funded by donations, TV rights, ticket sales, and merchandise, and they take no money that would otherwise be allocated to academics"

That is absolutely not true. At least $300 a semester of my tuition went to our sports programs. And I went to a public university in the US. We don't even have that prestigious a football team. I can't imagine how much students pay at schools like Alabama.

If you've efficient you shouldn't try to keep up the same hours. That's just multiplying the work you're doing by your increase in efficiency. If you work 5x as fast as everyone else, but work the same hours, you're doing 5x as much work.

I'm suggesting to work more efficient as well as work less hours. Then you have more time to spend on relaxation and the things you want to do. That is how this modern society should view work, but we don't

Work doesn't have to mean your fulltime job. Work can mean a side project that you're passionate about, or a side business.

When is being more efficient at anything a bad idea? If you can get your day job done in 2 hours vs 8, maybe you can argue for a raise or the ability to work from home.

Is the parking $20,000?

Get out of that toxic relationship if it's not what you want (which it sounds like it isn't).

Replace that relationship with a social life that you enjoy, friends that care about you, and be around people that actually make you happy.

Holy crap you need to get out of there. I think literally any job can be better than that one. There is so much out there, just try hard and take the leap.

I hope you find something soon. Look outside your area for jobs that pay for relocation if you have been having trouble finding jobs in your area, or look for remote jobs. There are tons of remote jobs right now, it's a huge industry that a lot of people don't consider.

P.S. - GO TO HR, THEY CAN HELP. Your boss should be fired tomorrow for that bullshit.

Exactly the same experience for me! Conversation at my last job felt fake and forced, and everyone knew it.

I don't know how my coworkers still work there. Nobody else left but me. Are people just blind to their own suffering? What is the deal with that?

Well that does suck. I had the opposite experience with Waterfall and Agile.

My previous job (Waterfall) used such a heavy process that I was coding 10% of the time. Which is what I was hired to do. I'm a software engineer. Coding 10% of the time is unacceptable. But everyone working there had been doing that, some of them for 20+ years. It was like a prison sentence.

Luckily I was able to escape and got a fantastic job working at a small game studio that loosely uses Agile. The process is the last thing on my mind, and most days I don't even look at our Jira board. Maybe once or twice a week I look at it.

I used to work in a place where I was surrounded by these "normies" for a lack of a better term. I had absolutely nothing in common with any of my coworkers. Maybe one of them because we both enjoyed expensive coffee, but that was superficial at best.

I was miserable for the year and a half I was there, and I found a new job where everyone is a nerd. I love every single minute of my "work" day.

Your environment can poison your self image, so leave and find somewhere that suits you better. Personal fit in a company is sometimes more important than the tech you're working on.

Well I gotta say, I've worked in Waterfall and now Agile and I couldn't even explain how much better it is. I feel like I can actually do my job now instead of worrying every day about process. You won't know how much better you're going to have it until you switch.

Waterfall is a shackle around your hands and feet keeping you from getting actual work done.

That being said, if you have an Agile consultant who is not able to convince you (because he doesn't sound like a nice person to work with) that sucks, and I hope you can find someone else.

I'm 3 years into my career and I can tell you I felt exactly the same way.

A few things:

- You don't need to buy a house outright, get a loan. The only big cost is just the downpayment (5-20% of the price)

- There are no shortage of jobs out there for you as a new grad, but there are very few good jobs (at least where I live, YMMV). It's ok to work somewhere you don't like that pays the bills for a year and then find something better once you have more experience

- Another point on housing: rent as long as you can because mobility is a blessing. You may find a fantastic job across the country, and if you have a house it will make it that much harder to leave. Imo, stability is for older people who know they're going to work for a single company the rest of their careers.

A lot of this is opinion, so take it how you will.

Are you trying to justify arguing that they're not actually at a high stress level? That doesn't seem very nice. 3.5 and 4.5 are perfectly within 1 to 5 so I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

Well my local news organizations are particularly bad as well, so not really.

I feel exactly the same way. I stopped using social media and reading the news a few months ago and I've never been happier in my adult life. It's shocking how much regular reading of negative news can impact your emotional health. I even considered myself on the verge of depression at one point. As soon as I stopped reading the news daily and completely cut myself off of social media, my mood and emotional wellbeing began improving.

There's nothing you're missing out on by doing this, only the spread of fearmongering by the media. The world is not ending tomorrow, and experiencing your own life is more important than vicariously experiencing all the negative things in the world through the internet.

The default text and settings didn't do anything, so I'm not exactly sure what I should be expecting from this site. Did this work for anyone else?

Edit: I can't get it to spit out anything no matter what I do.

I've tried mindfulness and melatonin before. Definitely took melatonin long enough to get the side effects. I'll try to get back into mindfulness but it was a difficult habit to form.

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll definitely check out this pillow.

I guess this is a little off topic, but can anyone recommend a good side sleeper pillow? I've bought around 6 pillows in the last few years and all of them cause me to wake up with neck and back pain because they don't hold my head up.

I've had insomnia for a long time and I'm still tackling the causes. I'm definitely going to try one of these weighted blankets, and maybe a sleep mask. I made the leap a few months ago to buy a Casper mattress and that's helped a lot. It's not as dramatic a difference as I'd hoped but replacing a ?? year old mattress with anything is better.

TSMC has already shrunken their die to 7nm. Intel can't keep up anymore. AMD wins this generation.

Does this entropy of gravity theory lend itself to the possibility of modeling the expansion of the universe?

I'm confused, is this actually controlling parameters in some physical system or is it merely a simulation of biological life?

Please everyone:

Before you brand your software, google the name! It's not difficult!

https://www.presidio.com/

That salary price is nowhere near the minimum wage in the US. $45,000 is around $21.63/hr. Although most places pay more than minimum wage, the current federal minimum wage is $7.25/hr.

Also, you'll be hard pressed to find a livable house for that cheap. The average price of a home in the US in 2019 is $226,800 [2].

The numbers just don't work. Most people can't afford a house right now.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage_in_the_United_S... [2] https://www.businessinsider.com/cost-to-buy-a-house-in-every...

Well there's no way he gave up his entire stake in the company. I would assume he continues on as part of the board, or at least an advisory role.

I used this to quit Facebook. It's an almost Pavlovian trick. You start to associate your habit with a negative connotation because you know that a short workout will follow.

So where does using the "tabs to spaces" tool lie here?

I technically press the tab button but my edit inserts 4 spaces.

Very common in the US unfortunately. And even if it's not explicitly prohibited, it's common courtesy to never discuss your wages at work. It has just become part of the culture.

I tried it years ago, but I think I had too little experience to understand the use case back then. I hadn't ever done any functional programming at that point so it kind of went over my head.

I still hate Haskell. But maybe I would like Lisp? A lot of people here seem to love it so that's why I made this thread :)