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sonnyg··on Ask HN: How do you recharge your batteries?
Any advice you get here will at most be useful for those people who are occasionally suffering from low energy during the normal course of life.

You, as you yourself stated, are having a total burnout. You need professional help. Try looking for different kinds of help if the waiting list is too long for what you need the most. Some kind of group therapy perhaps, somebody who is helping people build up strength after Long Covid perhaps. Consider moving back to be with your family or another group of people who will be supportive.

If doing a masters and having a 30 hours job at the same time has brought you to a burnout (triggered perhaps by some other events in your life). Then you can't recover while you keep on doing those two. Something will have to go (the job, or the study) while you recover. That is a very difficult thing to face and accept, but once the body and the mind has a breakdown after prolonged stress, there is no other way to recover. Any advice you get to get you back on your feet in two weeks is for the normal "pushed yourself a bit too much for a few months or a year" cases.

sonnyg··on Ancient civilisation under eastern Turkey estimated to be 11k-13k years old
Definitely a spoiler for most people. Even though many will start to guess where it is going.
sonnyg··on Tell HN: Opening a New Hackerspace in the Netherlands
Great recommendation. And it seems they have an open day coming up, next Saturday. We will try to go by. Thanks.
sonnyg··on Tell HN: Opening a New Hackerspace in the Netherlands
Cool! The one on Eerste Schinkelstraat will be very convenient. Thanks.

EDIT: And it seems that they have a website and a wiki https://laglab.org/ https://ikiwiki.laglab.org/

sonnyg··on Tell HN: Opening a New Hackerspace in the Netherlands
Nice!! Do you happen to know any similar spaces where a 10 year old can further explore programming, technology or science?

My son's teacher recommended that he skip a grade but I would rather keep him in the same grade and give him other fun things to do on the side. He's currently most interested in programming, making stop motion films and chess, but I think some exposure to physics or chemistry might grab his attention too.

Preferably close to Amsterdam, but a short drive is doable too.

sonnyg··on India explores setting up rupee trade accounts with Russia to soften sanctions
As an Indian, I wish that India would take a stronger stance against the Putin regime. I can understand them trying to stay neutral against a historic ally though, that is the reality of the modern geopolitics.

At the very least, I hope they keep out of the way of the countries that are standing with Ukraine today. There is clearly only one right side at this stage of this invasion.

sonnyg··on Down the Rabbit Hole: The world of estranged parents' forums (2015)
Not sure what you need exactly but BPDFamily https://www.bpdfamily.com/ (especially the forums) is a great resource for people with a BPD person in their lives. Good luck.
sonnyg··on New emails released in the McDonald’s ice cream machine lawsuit
Oh wow! Thanks for that gem. I have managed to never eat from FEBO but the next time somebody suggests it, I can add a little nerdy know-it-all to my snub :-P
sonnyg··on Reinstate SBSK comment sections on YouTube
More about SBSK - https://sbsk.org/story/
sonnyg··on Reinstate SBSK comment sections on YouTube
Special Books by Special Kids (SBSK) is a very inspiring project that gives thousands of disabled children a place where they can express themselves and find acceptance and encouragement.

The comments on their Youtube videos are a valuable place where disabled children, their parents and other adults can connect with each other. It seems that Youtube has disabled the comments on their video channel. Is there anybody here from Youtube who can help resolve this?

sonnyg··on Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita
For people who have read it, what translation do you recommend?
sonnyg··on Show HN: Graffiti – jar analyser
Also executablble should be executable.
sonnyg··on Music for Programming
I recently discovered Second Toughest via a colleague and it has become one of my favourite programming music album too. And yes, I have also listened to NIN/Ministry to focus in the past. Not so much any more though.
sonnyg··on Your Lifestyle Has Already Been Designed (2010)
What was old is new again :) - In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
sonnyg··on 'Babylon 5' star Michael O'Hare dies at 60
Thanks for the link. I finally got around to reading it. I remember that it was rather jarring at the start of the second season to find that Sinclair was gone. This finally explains it. What a pity! Even though I grew to really like Sheridan, B5 would have been even better with Sinclair all the way through. I wonder what Sheridan's quotable lines and monologues would have been like coming from Sinclair.
sonnyg··on 'Babylon 5' star Michael O'Hare dies at 60
What a bummer! I watched the whole B5 series again last year, and it was as good as I remembered it from the first time. It is just perfect. I guess I will be watching it again every ten years or so for the rest of my life. You will be missed, Commander Sinclair.