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ahh. I know the exact month and year as well. March 2004.

Also probably fair to include burnout, chronic-fatigue/post-viral/long-covid, moderate to clinical depression, anhedonia, cardiac problems, auto immune diseases. Tired and fatigued are also super different. Sleepy vs tired, wired, and lacking the capacity to physically function effectively.

Growth = stress + rest. When physical or mental stress outpace rest you will get tired. The intensity and duration being the big differentiator.

I disagree with this. An entire business day is a long time to do nothing. I've always loved jobs where there was enough strategic direction to know what to focus on but enough latitude where you could actually do it. I can't think of anyone (not suffering from pure burnout) that didn't devour meaningful work that had well written requirements.

Just because covid turned out to be a global disaster doesn't mean everything will be. There were multiple SARS outbreaks in the ever so pleasant 2000's. Oh Ebola might have gone airborne in the 90's and has made some cameos since then.

We all dropped the ball on covid, but that doesn't mean everything is going to get the same foothold. I guess what I'm saying is that I will wash my groceries again if something crazy shows up but let's not assume global pandemics are just going to kick off constantly.

I thank them for keeping my kids safe, but I do blame them for making traffic a bit too heavy.

Setting aside the normal disgust I have for this process, I did some googling to make sure there wasn't some important reason why this isn't a repulsive process.

"the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984.[14] This law permitted local and federal law enforcement agencies to share seized assets "... it appears to be motivated by all the wrong reasons.

It has origins in English law and has pretty much been used in a tyrannical way the entire time. I tried to see the other side at least.

Thanks for posting the link so I didn't have to.

Same. Started in early 2004 and never let up. I had been in Toronto quite a bit in 2003 and coincidentally there was a SARs event that broke out in Toronto that year. I was sick several times but at some point a switch flicked and I never got better. Totally anecdotal, but a genuine account of my last 20 years. There was a longitudinal study done over 10 years that showed chronic fatigue (n=32 i think... so a small study)

I was hoping the long haul covid research would provide some insight but the truth is that anyone with post-viral long haul symptoms gets left behind.

You might be a bit arrogant, or driven, or passionate. You are surrounded by people that might be lazy, less intelligent, or less capable.

Odds are that you are enthusiastic to embark on your new career and you haven't been exposed to some parts of the real world yet.

Young developers are often smart, passionate, driven. They also fall for a million traps... reinventing the wheel, worrying about trivial things like syntax instead of the big picture, tripping over every new, soon to be discarded library/stack/tool.

Older developers are usually good at making things happen, but are often cautious, unimaginative, uninspired. They are good at delivering real world value though.

Just assume the cognitive dissonance you are experiencing is the result of having drive and education without enough real world experience to make sense of it all. You will do fine.

Some people have genetics that make mu and delta opiate receptors respond to alcohol in an unfortunate way. Easy fix, just don't be born as one of those people /s.

Ahh well. Good game all. It's been two years, we are never escaping this.

If they haven't found anything better than turbine engines and jet fuel there is no way.

Wow the Cirrus is looking pretty good for how much damage it did to the Metro. Flight surfaces are still there and it's only broken in half of the parachute landing. Guessing it might not have been controllable after the collision.

Ahh boy that title. Clicking on the link to probably realize that this is totally harmless and my initial reaction is due to how much I've been stuck inside for a year.

I wouldn't be too cocky if you're healthy. I got hit with a nasty flu in the early 2000's and never recovered. It was like someone flicked a switch and I went from young perfectly healthy to a low grade off an on flu since then. This happened with SARs in 2003 and is well documented. For the first year you think you are just run down, but then it never improves for decades and you just sort of miss out on your whole life.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3071317/

It is an equity exchange where investors, tax payers, the Federal government, and the fixed income market subsidize stock buy backs and executive bonuses.

I'm joking but it is alarming how many resources we seem to be sacrificing for a meager 5-7% average ROI. We are trying to eliminate market corrections at the expense of ??? who knows. It's cheap capital for business that are probably creating too many services and products that don't add a ton of value to anyone's lives.

I agree with you, but would like one counterpoint. There are plenty of planes that are aerodynamically unstable and require fly by wire/computers for satisfactory flight characteristics.

Fighters like relaxed aerodynamic roll stability for roll rate. Now pitch stability issues are troubling. I don't think engineers would purposely relax pitch stability unless they had to.

I guess I'm saying you might want an airplane aerodynamically unstable in roll, but pretty much never in pitch so the fly by wire argument might not be valid here.

There is a good book called The Victorian Internet that covers the development of long distance communication up to the electric telegraph. People did all the same stuff with it. Front running trades and horse races, hooking up with other telegraphers. I can't remember all the details but it was fascinating how much of it paralleled the early internet.

Prototyping, hobbyists, people who host a site about cats and don't need 1000 extra lbs of server side weight. Spinning up a simple API to learn a new client side library. Anywhere that tooling and configuration is getting in the way of someone learning something new. Seems perfect for some uses.

Anyone care to guess what the ratio is between trans people that are offended by the pronoun issue vs liberal college kids that are offended on behalf of the trans community?

Yes I realize that saying this on hacker news or reddit is grounds for heavy downvotes and hate mail but good god people. This is all political gaming, not compassion.

No one actually cares, but a small minority will throw a temper tantrum for political leverage.

Google doesn't actually care either. I hate call it virtue signaling but that's totally what it is even though that term is completely worn out at this point.

I was using this particular case as an example of why those of us in the U.S should be grateful for the First Amendment.

You understood that from the beginning but it rubbed you the wrong way for some reason. Let me guess, you think that offensive speech shouldn't fall under the protection of the 1st Amendment? That would be a real shocker.

I get the impression that you are asking that not because you don't know the answer, but because this is a politically motivated topic for you and you don't like the implication.

Well not to worry. There are plenty of Americans that openly advocate to make offensive speech illegal. THEN it will be time to live in fear of the state because a cartoon could have resulted in some prison time.

By 'could happen' do you mean 'already happened'? What about the guy with the pug?

Well it's coming from the left this time.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."

Ahhhhhh goes down smooth every time.

This was a barrier for me as well. There are options. I have a 65 foot wire that goes from my house to a tree. It's virtually invisible. I've had many people in my yard an nobody has ever noticed it. I've worked pretty much the whole world with it.

There are also "compromise" antennas that use inductors and other trickery to be shorter. Are they efficient? Not great, but people make contacts on them everyday. (I have a 4-5 foot antenna that can operated on the same bands as my 65 foot antenna although it's not super efficient.

There are loop antennas that are tiny and portable but they can get expensive.

Also their are people that use an antenna tuner to tune a random piece of wire or even their gutters to get a workable HF antenna.

Sorry to be that guy but it is for good reason. Don't learn Morse Code visually. The time it takes to convert an audible signal into a visual representation is simply too long to be able to decode a real Morse Code signal.

I learned visually at first and the amount of effort it took to unlearn it was unbelievable. You have to learn by hearing the audible character and have your brain immediately translated it through shear practice and repetition.

If you have to convert it to a visual dot dash symbol in your head you will be too slow to ever have a conversation on the air.

In hundreds of contacts on CW I've never once talked politics with anyone. I understand that isn't your question but the bandwidth is too low to waste on useless garbage. That and CW operators are a tighter community so an opposing political opinion isn't as divisive with that much common ground.