Complex PTSD/trauma, anxiety and a degrading life situation are stopping me from having a life, period. Let alone enjoying the simple pleasures like creating software.
Hopefully, I will manage to get out of this hole at one point.
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Also, I don't think json is that bad for quick software utities, if you're already using it for data interchange, there are parsers for every language, I think it's a superior option to designing a custom config language (up to a point of course).
There have been better, cleaner, leaner, FOSS operating systems out there for decades, why support, or even give mindshare to something like Windows?
The divergence from mainline linux, creating a new HAL interface, so much code and logic duplication which already existed elsewhere as FOSS software.
Racket was developed by PLT Inc.
What's so wrong about crawling or using automated tools? With today's networks and hardware performance most websites shouldn't concern themselves with denial-of-service type of attacks, unless they're past a certain threshold of popularity.
The reason I claim it is a very unfair situation, is because it offers a significant cushion to a particular class of people (parents), paid out of the taxes of everyone, and yet there are significant minorities of people falling through the cracks. For instance, due to a malfunctioning health-sector I've seen people who break a leg outside working hours get a significant paid leave, and yet people with job-caused mental illness (e.g. burnout) lose their job, and attain NEET status, with 0 state support (for the less fortunate, this is the road to homelessness and a whole lot of other problems). Of course, due to being low status groups, their are not in a position to negociate or lobby their interests to the law-makers. This is just an example, and I know the people disadvantaged by this policy are a small minority (single males for instance), but I think the state should provide equal opportunity to everyone, and for that reason, paying a certain subgroup of people with taxes taken from everyone is an unfair proposition in my book. (Of course, in this particular Eastern Bloc country, fairness is the least of worries, most state institutions are barely functional due to widespread corruption).
Of course, if you've got a population decline problem, like many of the European countries have, then incentivising birth is too good a solution to ignore.
But I still think the most fair/correct approach is having the employer pay for the leave, and factor that into wages/hiring. It's only fair to pay more/hire someone whose potential contribution/output is higher(although I know this is a sensitive topic that's become quite a taboo recently, I think around here people are more prone to think critically than the general public).
So you could give yourself a PhD title, but the signalling power of that title would be close to 0. You wouldn't get any more prestige by doing that.
Also note that PhD is a very poor choice if what you're after is acquiring knowledge in a specific field, because in most institutions, you'll be pressured to publish novel research, which optimizes for the popularity/citation count of the work. When learning, what you really need is to put solid fundamentals in place, and expand in a breadth-first fashion. This sometimes takes more time than the deadlines for delivering research allows, so you'll have no choice but to focus on one tiny area that you're actually dealing with, an area that for 99% of the PhD is almost completely irrelevant. (This paragraph is an anecdote, but the point still stands. Of course your adviser has a massive influence, of course there are institutions that will help you thrive, and of course doing a PhD is still very useful, for a lot of reasons.)
Or, now that I think of it, hopefully it won't be.
Then after spending a few years in employment, the environment getting more and more toxic (and less and less about technical excellency and more and more about dirty politics), you can lose sight of how that stress gradually eats away at you. Ultimately, I just couldn't work anymore, I couldn't focus. I started having panic attacks. I was completely lifeless, fatigued all the time. I would later find out that my endocrine system had become completely out of whack. Long story short, it took me well over an year to get to be barely functioning again. I had a lot of anxiety symptoms, and clearly fit 100% most technical descriptions of burnout (but don't put too much weight to it, after all burnout is just a label attached to a set of symptoms). But worst of all, you become very cynical. Your brain gradually gets rewired to model the world as a cold, harsh, evil environment, where most everyone is against you. You end up in a state of learned helplessness, you fall victim to avoidant behavior to sooth this permanent state of doom that you're feeling.
The way out is learning to relax. Learning to rewire your brain, to have fun again. Learning to solve your anxiety problem. Following the steps from a book like "Anxiety & Phobia Workbook" by Edmund-Bourne is almost mandatory. Exercising regularly is mandatory. Depending on how deep you are in the hole, how much social support you have, this may be one of the hardest thing you achieve in your life (keep in mind that most drug addicts never make it out alive - see "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts" by Gabor Mate).
In short, it may be that you stress yourself too much. Life can and should be a joy. What I've described above is my experience, which is closer to one end of the spectrum, but even if your issues are much more minor, the same rules apply. But again, the chances are small that anxiety is the source of your issues, given the limited information in your post.
I have very little front-end experience (most of the web dev work I've done was hand-written javascript). But having the overhead of a big, comprehensive framework such as React, Angualar already seems like an overkill to me. But having several such frameworks on the same page seems outrageous, it cannot be considered good engineering. Where are the engineering good practices of efficiency, craftsmanship etc?
There are hobbyists claiming up to 300x (at this level you can clearly see bacteria), by stacking two lenses.
In any case, there are extremely cheap DIY solutions out there, but it may not be worth it for you.
Some ideas: https://www.wired.com/2011/03/diy-cellphone-microscope/
But as others suggest, taking an older version, or even simpler unices(xv6,netbsd) might be easier.
If a frame absorbs some of that vibration, it is naturally going to absorb some of your energy. So "harshest" ride quality isn't exactly the term I'd assign to aluminum.