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There's also the OpenEEG project

http://openeeg.sourceforge.net/doc/

Expectations: Ansible and Azure DevOps

Reality: armor locations in GTA IV

I miss my walks in the sun. Also had a short nasty cold like 3 weeks ago which came back yesterday. Might be the coronavirus, might be something else. Gonna stay home unless it gets ambulance call worthy.

desudesutalk[1] on imageboards. Lainchan has a special board for ddt and I've seen some sporadic messages on 4chan.

[1] https://github.com/desudesutalk/desudesutalk

Makes the acronym less offensive.

I kinda stumbled onto a viable "build" for this game by being a socially awkward neckbeard, but female. No makeup, conference t-shirts with jeans and hikers, video games and 4chan for water cooler talk topics. I get automatically considered more competent than I actually am.

It goes the other way too, some cultures have the belief that outward displays of happiness invite misfortune, especially around nosy strangers, aka happiness researchers.

I'm split between the Garmin and Mi Band 4. The stress tracking features on the vivosmart really tempt me, but I'm concerned about the irreplaceable band and the whole change in ecosystem as I currently use an old model Mi Band.

My heart goes out to you. I have the exact same problem and it's not just with work. I've been unable to write long form since the beginning of high school. Funnily enough I managed to scrape through most of an English degree program until I dropped out in the fourth year.

IM is usually ok, unless I expect to be criticized.

My remote fiasco is pretty similar to yours. Eventually it got cut from a full time job to an hour a month maintenance gig. I ended it when I started an in-office job and supposedly sign again for easier paperwork. I've been putting it off for like 3 months and old boss doesn't even send reminders anymore.

Current job is very scrummy, very social. Coworkers are a chair roll away, so no email. Right now there's a lot of work and scarcely have time to go inside my head. I hope it helps, I really do.

A Canon V-20 for 5€, believed to be a keyboard by seller.

It's a CBT journal phone app that debuted here a few months ago.

The artist is Deborah Azzopardi (https://deborahazzopardi.co.uk/)

It can be hell on earth if you're junior with impostor syndrome. Never quite sure if you're doing enough. I ended up taking a long break and then working in an office. It's still too early to tell if it's an improvement.

Looks we need more game development in schools, as it's the most math heavy thing close to modern kids' lives.

I'm a KZ fan. Most models have detachable cables with several replacement options, including Bluetooth. My current main is ZS6, very neutral, but the angular metal body can be quite uncomfortable. Before that I had ZST which was way more comfortable and had more bass, although the instrument separation wasn't as good. Still the best $20 I've ever spent on music.

Had the same shower thought as you. If selective breeding can make a chihuahua out of the wolf, why not make aquatic cattle out of the whale? Plenty of pastures in the ocean.

Microsoft have a lot of decent ergo keyboard offerings. A friend with wrecked wrists swears by his Sculpt Ergonomic (within your budget and stocked by many physical stores so you can try it in person), although it acts funny under Linux. I have a Comfort Curve 3000 which is under $20. It's the only curved keyboard in this price range I know of.

T420 with a ram upgrade (10GB total) and an eGPU dock forced into a desktop replacement role.

You just can't beat the ease of access to the guts. Swapping the RAM was easier than on a desktop. Great Linux support, huge aftermarket. Ultrabay slot allows for an easy on the wallet small SSD for OS + data HDD setup. Hell, the entire laptop can be bought for $200 or less.

Not a great laptop for the road though, at least for me. I plan to buy an X series (X220 or even an IBM era laptop given the 51nb treatment) or another 10-12" business laptop.

Even if someone figures it out, they won't dare say it out loud lest they get fired by a twitter lynch mob.

Seems to be a newer version of what I did, so my gripes might be fixed. https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x

Only worked through a part of it, but left a pretty good impression. Writing style was pleasant to read, sometimes imagined it read in Bob Ross' voice. Only Scratch has a shorter "zero to moving pictures" time. The language manual is so tightly integrated with the book it doesn't leave a single character of code unexplained (I've read beginner's books that never explained "+=" while using it in code samples). My only nitpick is that the design recipe wasn't sufficiently explained and it finally clicked when I tried the edx course based on the first part of HtDP, which has its own problems like a plodding pace and unchallenging excercises. All in all a great beginner's book.

Another option that solves the problem, at least for 9-to-5-ers is holding elections on Sundays. It's done that way in my country and it seems to be convenient enough. There's still a national holiday, but only for schoolchildren as the polling stations are in schools and it takes time to remove the election materials.

Bulgarian here, Randian types around here prefer interbellum modernist architecture to the full blown Brutalism.

As for the more extreme postwar architecture, it feels quite homey to me. Although I like it best when it's subverted by the inhabitants, humans living and leaving their mark, think flowers growing in a concrete crack.

Exactly. Just being hired once brings you a step ahead of other fresh grads.

I second the recommendation against remote work at this career stage. My first tech job was (and it still kinda is) remote with a very hands off boss and I managed to burn myself out with very little work and acquire one hell of a procrastination/anxiety problem. Got moved to part-time maintenance with the expected pay cut and I'm slowly getting better now.

Of course, my story is a worst case scenario, but it's good to know how sideways things can go.

Nice to learn that Bulgarian is not the only language that is so precise about relations. However, many of these words are disappearing from usage as families get smaller and younger people don't learn them.

It might be just what motorsport needs these days.

No meatbag in the car removes a lot of limitations introduced for safety reasons, so more exciting race types can be introduced, both old (group B rally, anyone?) and new. Benefits for consumer self driving tech are just gravy.

This. Your pre-trip research should include checking if there's any family history of psychosis.

I'm in the same pickle. I get burnout symptoms at the 6 month mark no matter what I do and paid leave doesn't help, only honest to goodness NEET life. I plan to find a way to cope with it by finding something that's lucrative and done in short stints. Which is going to be hard for a neophyte like me with only a passing interest in tech.

Had a conversation about that with a friend on IRC last night and got some interesting insights. His main point was that enjoying the process is the most important thing about a job being enjoyable. Because the process is after all, the thing you do day in, day out.

The most interesting people I've ever met who travelled Europe for most of the year, funded their trips by picking strawberries in Denmark in the summer. However, they were masters at frugality. Couchsurfing, hitchhiking, eating at the cheapest places, thrift shopping, the works.

In theory, couple of months of inflated tech salary should be perfect for such a lifestyle, but strangely enough I don't know any techies living like that. I personally blame the lifestyle creep. Most of my tech worker friends and since recently, myself have quite expensive hobbies.

Quite a rambling post, but I hope it can give someone ideas. Off-hand comments by random anons on HN and other places have often inspired me.

>One thing I like to do is to imagine my current surroundings are in a foreign country, and for some reason it makes things more interesting and less mundane.

This is brilliant! Just tried it on my pizza run and it definitely works for me too. Been in the same place for 8 years and it's starting to get grating despite all the rich culture (one of the oldest living cities in Europe)

Gotta love the internet for the tiny little things said by random anons that can improve your life.

Recently learned that many digital recorders have a tuner feature while looking for a cheap one for field recordings. Might be worth a shot.