I remember that my therapist (highly recommend that too if possible, being in germany health insurance automatically covers it) after seeing me suffer for a long time pressed me to exercise which I had not done in years (I was pretty skinny too). When I started running I hated the first two times. I could not run for more than 2km and I was done afterwards. Third time magically I could run for 3km without feeling like I was dying. Fast forward 3 or 4 months of running every other day I was running 10km and it almost felt like a positive form of addiction and I was even getting runners high from time to time.
I vividly remember one day around that time I was on my way to a therapy session and I started crying in joy while on my bike, literally sobbing because I was so happy about how much my life has improved simply by changing this one variable. I went from "I don't know if I can live like this another year" to "I love my life and I can accept my handicap as an occasional unwanted companion but now I define what my life is and not my anxiety".
Yes. I went to therapy for a while and my therapist tried it with me and it felt beneficial. Not that my anxiety went away but I lessened notably which to be honest surprised me. After doing it in two consecutive sessions she told me I can always try the same procedure at home and instead of following her hand I can pick two spots on the wall and move my eyes between them while going through the process internally. I found it works equally well and I still use it as a tool which helps.
I use Feastr and complement it with Captain Cook if I feel like trying something new. Took me about a month to pick out what I liked (I am vegetarian and I try to gain weight) and which dont take too long to prepare.
I definitely spend more time preparing food this way (more than i save from just buying groceries once a week instead of 2-3 times a week)but I see that as the cost of living healthy.
Used to have panic attacks and constant anxiety (without knowing what they are and what was wrong with me) every day for about 2 years triggered by a bad cannabis experience . Turned out I was predespositioned and it runs in my dads family. It started to mix with depression. 7 Years later I still sometimes get panic attacks and anxiety and dystonic thoughts, especially when my perceived stress is high (I work as a freelance SE).
I have identified following long term factors that help bringing frequency and severity down significantly (talking about going from daily to maybe once every few months):
- Exercise 4 times a week (preferably running)
- Eat healthy (I cut sugar and eat according to an app 90% of the time)
- Being outside every day and exposing myself to sunlight
- Balancing alone time with social time according to my needs
- Walk away from things that stress me out for no real benefit (that also means walking away from people)
- Do not overpromise
Factors that help me coping when it hits anyway:
- Breath slowly, deeply and on exhale remind myself that its only temporary
- Put my feet on a cold floor
- Smile and nod
- Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (google it)
- Walk outside
As someone who is currently making a living as a frontend dev I feel you - however for anything more visually advanced and everything less standard (and I understand that it is debatable whether that should be done in the first place) it's often quite difficult to achieve a certain visual effect in all the other gui toolkits I have tried (QT, PyGtk). Often image-blending modes, configurable shadows, animations (especially on those properties) and dynamical effects either are not available at all or not as simple to set up as I am used to. Nevertheless I'd like to be educated which framework would be a good fit for building your typical animation rich dribbble/behance design with glassmorphism shadow magic and whatnot without writing custom shaders. Maybe Flutter?
And with (financial) protection for those who refuse to partake and report the crime. I guess the person pressing the dump button would usually make just above minimum wage and would be considered unimportant enough to fire if he stood up for what's right so there is no incentive except for a moral one which I would argue is not enough for most people.
I can vouch for that book too. About 3 years ago I used it as the main text book for a QC course and came back to it multiple times during my master thesis. For me it was just concise enough to stay focused but not get lost every other sentence (unlike 90% of math books I worked through). However the parent is right in that it is a little outdated when it comes to the physical realizations and maybe some algorithmic findings.
Anyway it was an invaluable resource for me and I would love a new revision from both authors.
At my current gig we do that too for a dead simple frontend. a couple of simple tables and cards, a navigation and a footer and we're easily over 2mb. But as I have been told that's what happens when Google analytics gets pulled in and all the code needs to adhere to enterprise style DDD (in a react app mind you). Apparently 400 layers of indirection and encapsulation are the way to go...
edit: Just looked it up. header has a logo and 5 links. footer has a scroll to top button and 10 links. both responsive. How many lines of code you ask? A little over 3400.
I'm confused by some comments here. Speaking out about one evil isn't warranted if there is another that could also be addressed? This flavor of whataboutism is not helping anyone is it?
I am not sure who is harmed in them talking about inclusion and recognition of people who have suffered systemic disadvantage or loss. They are not rallying people up to riot. And even if you don't like the violence which happens at some protests (which I wouldn't like either) there is much more to the idea than the riots which everyone is so focused on. Discrediting the movement because of violence caused by few is a shallow perspective which doesn't address the problem that the movement wanted to solve in the first place.
edit: I see comments vanishing in case anyone is wondering who I was referring to
I would like that in Germany too. Here it's fixed but if you get caught speeding beyond a threshold your driver's license gets suspended we also get points and with a certain amount of points you are not allowed to drive anymore at all.
I completely sympathize with those people and as you stated the law was broken and I think the proper law should be enforced. Yet, from what I gather people are still on the fence even if all laws are considered properly because even with the windmills 3 miles away they will hate on them.
I live in Germany and I am in the camp of those who believe that paying for pretty clean and sustainable energy source with having a couple of turbines installed and "ruining" the view of some places is worth it (as long as it is planned with at least some degree of care). But of course a lot of it is nimbyism as support for renewables and clean sources or energy is rather high.
I love chartjs. It's so easy to get started with it and comes with a lot of great features out of the box. I just wish its animation system was a little more extensive like giving me the option to animate ticks and grid lines for eye candy on load.
My name is Kevin. I'm 27 and I'm from (west) germany. Most people I get to know will bring the topic up. I got a master's degree in physics and I have heard people say something like 'your name doesn't fit your profile at all' more times than I can count. I've seen girls in my sphere discard guys on Tinder partly due to being named Kevin. People do joke about the name and that's ok.
It's not terrible but it isn't great either.
Same in physics. You'd think it would get better after a few semesters but it kind of became one of the constants during my studies. Especially in math 1-4 and in almost every theoretical physics lecture I attended. The worst was quantum field theory with a close second in classical mechanics. Most students, the tutors and the professors somehow really liked to appear superior. Asking things in general during a lecture was almost frowned upon in most cases. Nobody wanted to acknowledge their "inadequacy". I vividly remember the faces of people looking with elitist impatience (for a lack of a better term) at those who dared to ask for a different explanation or a repetition if something was unclear.
German (from Hamburg) here. We jaywalk all the time. Of course if there is heavy traffic then people usually go to the next traffic light as it will be faster but in my almost 30 years I have heard of maybe 1 incident where the police actually stopped a friend of mine. They didn't issue a fine and let him off with a warning.
Should have named it Pypelines. But seriously though I am not sure what the benefits over multiprocessing are. It looks a little cryptic at first sight.
I never knew you were on HN but I'll use this opportunity hoping that you'll read this. Recently I finished my masters thesis in quantum machine learning (I'm a physicist) and I think without the amazing book you wrote with Isaac Chuang I would not have been able to do it. So this is meant as a huge thank you! I tried other QC books but I found yours the most insightful and approachable.
On another note I also enjoy your essays on SRS and it encouraged me to start learning Japanese using it.
Financial uncertainties, publish or parish culture and inappropriate performance metrics seem like the perfect cocktail for depression and anxiety. Probably why the rate of mental health issues for academics surges. I just finished my masters in physics and while I like the romantic idea of dedicating the next portion of my life to research and aim for a PhD, when I think about it I also see all the sad, tired and stressed out faces of PhD students and postdocs in my institute, most of them working well beyond 60hr/week, many of them having mental health issues and somehow everyone is just accepting it. The companies I worked at part time during my studies, while also putting some pressure on the workforce, have not shown this level of dispair. I don't really know what to do and feel a little lost on the subject. I just wish things were better in academia.
Wouldn't DDoS be incredibly hard to pull off given YouTubes vast resources? I mean they generate so much traffic all the time and serve so many requests a second I don't know if botnets of that size exist. Anyone here more knowledgeable?
Not gonna argue with this, I just wanted to point out that it's not without mistakes. For Students of the 12th grade it's super well done. For those more concerned with correctness and completeness: For example saying a basis is a _finite_ set of vectors is not generally correct. And I would like to have seen that the Pauli matrices generate all single Qubit rotations. And saying that a bra in itself is simply the conjugate transpose of a state or that <bra|ket> would simply be a multiplication ommits all the cases in which the state is not a simple numerical vector in some basis but perhaps a function of many variables. So read it with caution, but read it nonetheless.
Looks like a nice introduction with lots of concrete examples although while reading through it I spotted a couple of minor things that are poorly worded/wrong or other things are omitted which are rather interesting from a quantum computing perspective.
Normally I only lurk here but I wanted to say that I support your claim. Been suffering from anxiety and later also depression for almost 5 years now. After 3 years I started jogging every other day. My good episodes last so much longer, bad ones are less severe, panic attacks have decreased from daily or weekly to every 3 - 6 months and are much shorter and better to handle and the general feeling of unease have also decreased. Also I did behavioural therapy from the start and never took medication. The therapy helped by giving me methods I could used when the panic kicked in or dark thoughts would begin clouding my mind. But sports helped me to feel good again for the first time in years. That was incredibly empowering. Even if it doesn't appear to help after the first exercise, give it a little time and watch the magic.
Nice article.
About two years ago I wanted to make my pc completely silent as well. It turned out that the cheapest solution for me was to put the pc in another room that I don't sit in and put long hdmi + USB cables through the wall. I also soldered on a longer cable with a power button so I can start the pc from my room. The only downside for me is that I had to run cables along my walls through a conduit but I think in total I paid less than 40€.
Which makes sense if you can pay. But for low income house holds it's a decision between live long poverty or death.
Here in Germany I am pretty glad that whatever I have I can go to a doctor or hospital and not get a single bill for it. Tops I have to pay 5€ for a prescription even if the drug is 120€ normally. And surely even in universal health care systems standards can be very high. It's a matter of investment.
Generally speaking yes! That's what companies do that create masks for lithography so that the structures the manufacturers can create are smaller than the wavelength they use in the process. (See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_lithography).
The article states that generally this is rather computationally expensive and I would wager that an analogous concept would be too. Perhaps a Neural Network could be trained to infer corrections and maybe that would be feasible then but maybe someone else with more experience in the field can elaborate on that.