JimBrimble35

SQLGate sounds like what the news will call the data breach that happens when everyone who switched to this DBMS gets back door'ed

Let's start a movement similar to flat Earth, but instead it's Spherical Black Hole. I refuse to believe that a black hole is anything but a sphere no matter what evidence I'm shown.

Something to consider regarding longevity expectations for things like capacitors would be the input tolerances they're designed for. In many cases the capacitors that fail don't fail because they have reached the end of their physical life. Instead the manufacturer chose a component that could only handle the lowest nominal load not accounting for things spikes in electrical input due to normal power system anomalies.

A number of years ago I pulled an otherwise perfectly good Samsung 46" TV out of the dumpster. While researching how to fix it I found that if they had simply installed higher rated capacitors to begin with, the TV would not have stopped working.

Wait, are you blaming consumers for the short life of the products they buy?

Sort of a chicken and egg problem I guess. What came first, the short lived product, or the consumer's desire to buy something newer and shinier.

People definitely want to buy new shiny things, but I fully disagree that product cycles and lifespans are the result of that desire. Companies have positioned themselves to scale uncontrollably at that cost of product lifespans. They make more money if people buy a new thing every 18 months, so they make the thing fail every 18 months instead of making something that has a longer term life. This practice can only be characterized as wasteful and greedy.

Spending less on components that are guaranteed to fail _is_ a malicious act. Apparently we're so far down the rabbit hole now that there are actually people who think that planned obsolescence is a feature. You're blowing my mind here in the worst possible way.

Along with what you've described, which covers a huge swath of the problems I found with observables is this:

https://twitter.com/git_commit_m/status/1014915134949429248

There is a pretty huge documentation problem with observables.

I think that's an interesting argument, but I also think you need to consider the type of tooling and the reach of content in today's world. The apparatus that we have for tracking an identifying individuals and their media consumption habits gives unprecedented control over perception at a very granular level.

It also sounds like the events that you mention were dealt with quickly and severely, maybe they would have been more severe threats given the space and time to form more completely.

My fear is that we'll get to a point where people won't know about the suffering or injustice that is occurring in the world without physically going to the places where it's happening. Or that people will have to go to extreme lengths or break the law simply to escape their filter bubble.

/tinfoil hat

I fully support scrubbing hateful content from any place where it appears.

I think people should take note though, that this is the exact point in time when the machinery for censoring and filtering the internet is being implemented. Although hateful speech is a great use case for this technology I can't help but wonder what it will get pointed at next. This isn't the kind of development that can sit back idly after performing its primary function.

I don't think it's (always) about being obsessed with social validation though, it's a new societal norm brought about by social media. In fact it's the _hook_ it's why people use social media at all, because you can _share your life_ with people in a way that wasn't possible before. The raising of children being a major part of that life. I would go as far as to say that the children aren't actually the subject in these posts, the real subject is the parent's life and the posts containing images and anecdotes of their kids are a side effect.

Maybe this is an opportunity for some social media company to get ahead of this and use facial recognition to tag people across ages. If the user decides that they don't want their image to appear on someone else's account, they can go through the images granularly and take them down.

I think what I'm getting at is that this is _new_. It's as new as is the ability of a 14 year old to express their frustration with something and have an audience of millions. I don't think the solution here is to tell parents that it's inappropriate to post about their children online. I think the real solution has more to do with finding a comfortable balance and set of controls so that everyone's interests can be accounted for.

p.s. I shuddered while typing "14 year old to express their frustration with something and have an audience of millions". The next 50 years are going to contain some _hard_ times.

Why quit? Why not just tell your parents to make their accounts private, or remove the images that you're not comfortable with? I feel like there are solutions here that don't involve delaying the parent's participation in social media until the child is old enough to choose to accept it.

As much as this concerns the child's social media life, it's also a matter of the parent's experience. Parents post this stuff to share, and commiserate, and participate with other parents in the experience of parenthood. I find it difficult to accept that this girl will grow up and privately horde all of her children's images and information until they give consent to release it. Teenager tend to struggle with the fact that the people around them have lives as well.

All that said, I operate my social media very differently than this girls parent's seem to. I prune and keep friends lists very inner circle, I never post anything publicly, and I often show my children the pictures that I'm posting and get them involved in the process. they won't be surprised about social media when they become teenagers.

I think the next generation of people are just going to need to develop a thicker digital skin.

I have a recurring nightmare that the semester is almost over and I haven't been to a single one of the math classes that I need to graduate because I keep forgetting about it and I know I'm too far behind to ever catch up. I've been out of college for _years_.

I think my math anxiety started in high school as a result of teachers moving through material too quickly in a learning style that didn't match up with how I learn. Once you get a little bit behind it can be really hard to find your way back in.

Yeah, you might have more success that way. I take 3mg right before bed and I find I fall asleep a lot faster than I do without it. Especially if I've been on a screen before bed or my brain just doesn't want to shut up.

if you're thinking about trying the option where you take it a few hours before bed time, make sure you're going to bed at a consistent target time (10pm for example). Since this method is more targeted at resetting your circadian rhythm.

If you feel like you have more serious sleep/wake problems I would definitely recommend seeing a specialist. I was surprised to learn that people who say things like "I can't go to sleep until x o'clock" or "I can't stay awake beyond x time" probably suffer from circadian rhythm problems that are treatable.. but the treatment isn't always as intuitive as you might think.

I would not have guessed that. I imagine you could order it through amazon or a similar service?

Weird, where are you that Melatonin is prescription only and difficult to obtain? I Can get it at any drug and grocery store I walk into in a variety of doses.

As I understand it, Melatonin can be administered as a hypotic (taken in larger doses (1mg - 3mg) before bed), or it can be taken in smaller doses hours before bed to trigger the natural release of Melatonin and start the sleep cycle. (I mentioned this in another comment).

I recall listening to a sleep specialist on a radio show one morning (how's that for citing my sources).

Apparently there are two different methodologies for administering Melatonin. One is to use a higher dose(1mg - 3mg) before sleep (~an hour) as a hypnotic. The other is to take a much lower dose, closer to the 0.3mg you suggested, roughly 4 - 6 hours before the desired bed time.

The latter is used for modifying the circadian rhythm , and fixing problems with sleep wake cycles.

I think the primary takeaway from that show was that people should discuss their sleep problems and treatment with a doctor that specializes in sleep. The treatments and science can be somewhat counter intuitive.

Taking into consideration the content of this post, as well as the company posting it, this is essentially an invitation to participate in the newest release of the homogenization of web design.

There are already skilled and talented designers/developers out there producing "Web-Design 3.0" sites, but they are doing so at a much higher budget than the average SMB is going to shell out. The tool being advertised brings these layouts and design ideas to a broader range of designers, and allows for projects with this look and feel to be completed at a lower cost.

I actually really like this as a business opportunity. Anyone with a reasonable pipeline of clients could start using this to crank out sites for SMBs and turn a decent profit.

"high-performance knowledge worker that places a lot of self-worth in the quality of his work "

I have a very similar story to yours and it took me a few years to figure this out. You may have to learn to accept a lower level of performance from yourself. You may need to accept that you can't put out the type of quality that you used to, and at the speed you used to. Burn out is _serious_ and it can drag you down a pretty dark path. Beating yourself up over not being who you know you are will make things a lot worse. It isn't easy to do, but it also isn't permanent. It's better to let things go for a while (maybe even a year or two) until you are in a place mentally where you can handle the load of your own expectations (in combination with the load of all the different stressors in your life).

Move slowly and accept a long timeline for recovery. I'm finding that it is still quite easy to slip back into burnout if I push too hard. Spend time working on basic self care. Are you sleeping well? Are you eating healthy food? Are there any chronic health concerns that you could take this time to address? Are you depressed? Consuming too much alcohol? You might find that the way back starts with just taking care of yourself, and doing what you can to shield yourself from internal and external stressors.

"I plan and I scheme"

Before I started to recover I had a list of all the things that I expected myself to do. I even broke it down into the quarters of the year that I expected to achieve things by. That list, and the consequences of planning and self expectation had nearly terminal consequences. Consider that, and be gentle with your own expectations. I still record my ideas and the things that I want to do, but they aren't actionable. They'll still be waiting for me when I'm ready.

This comment shows a fairly incomplete knowledge of the mental health spectrum. Not that I'm an expert myself, but I will weigh in with the knowledge I do have.

"would that be considered depressed?"

The article refers mostly to the absence of anger from the adult diagnosis of depression, and talks about how it may be valuable to include it. To be considered depressed, I would say that the individual would probably have to fit other metrics for the diagnosis for depression as well.

"Where do we draw the line"

We don't, really. Mental health is a complex spectrum of behaviors. Perhaps Jobs was depressed, perhaps he suffered from some un-diagnosed OCD or he had symptoms from any number of other known psychological issues. Maybe he just learned to be a dick early in life and that was part of his personality. If we pick apart peoples personalities and compare them to symptoms, we'll find a fit for everyone, but that isn't really helpful anyway.

Yes. To be clear I think this is a terrible idea, but the appeal of the power this could wield as an investigative tool will likely outweigh all arguments against it.

This is interesting. I could see this being used for a sort of Shazam of anonymized voice data.

You have access to anonymous voice data (from service providers, messaging services etc.), but you can't connect that data to an individual without alienating their rights. Something like this could be used to filter that data for specific voice prints if you have a warrant.

Tinfoil hat take: It won't be long until voice prints are collected and shared for the majority of the population and connected to individuals via ad networks. It would be relatively simple for somewhere like Starbucks to install microphones, cancel out the in-store music, and keyword conversations for advertising purposes. The time for powerful privacy legislation is now.

Probably an unpopular statement, but man does this happen a lot with fortnite. They even have a section in their help pages specifically for unauthorized purchases by family members. Also, they don't seem to care at all about who's payment method is associated with an account. You even get kids taking pictures of their parent's credit cards and passing them around.

I'll never forget my grandfather's last words (word really). Seconds before he passed, he mustered up enough energy to call out "NO" quite loudly. Then he was gone. I still find his last expression somewhat haunting, although I suspect that the whole "dying" thing hadn't become real to him until that very last moment when he knew it was inevitable.

But are people actually cutting their Netflix subscriptions because they play so much fortnite? I get that the game has a widely varied demographic, but I would assume that a majority of people putting in large amounts of "Consumer Screen Time" are probably still dependents of their parents, who likely maintain a household media streaming subscription of some kind.

I can't imagine that instances of people cutting out media streaming entirely in favor of gaming are significant enough to pose the kind of threat that Netflix is stating. If so, HBO and Hulu and all the others are in similar peril and the entire entertainment economy is due for unprecedented upheaval.

Maybe I'm an outlier in how I use streaming services, but I don't really understand why "Consumer Screen Time" is their most valuable metric. Whether I'm playing Fortnite or not my Netflix account is paid for and waiting. I keep it around for kids shows, or for breaks when I want to stream something instead of gaming. Some months I stream more than others, but I _maintain_ my subscription because it serves me when I need it.

This looks like spin to me. I'm much more likely to cut off my subscription due to a lack of satisfying content than distraction by other sources of entertainment. That's probably the message they are trying to push to the background with this "Consumer Screen Time" metric. As content competition increases with other established producers, the likelihood that Netflix original content will be enough for current customers to maintain their subscriptions is reduced. Netflix originals already tend to have a specific "flavor" which I'm not particularly fond of.

There's only enough room in my media budget for one, maybe two services, so whichever one has the content I want gets my money.