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Post by rustyboy »

kbf wrote: post #59

Mental health. I recently passed out in public and had to finally admit to myself that I’m severely burnt out. I had ignored the signs and mentally written off the concept of burnout as a bit of a wishy-washy mostly “emotional” concept and not as the very real psychological AND physiological condition that doesn’t just go away if you get a good nights sleep and a day off. It was emotional to actually read up on it an…

> my disillusionment with work, deteriorating relationships and steady decline in my ability to carry out daily tasks weren’t signs of a personal lack of interest or effort, but an inevitability resulting from the position I had put myself in.

Wow this is exactly what i'm suffering from right now... I recently thought about applying to a more serious tech team at my company given i've slowly slipped into a basic DBA/PM roll.

But i'm worried it's only going to make it worse. What does the science or your peers say is the key to getting help?

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

jkestner wrote: post #191

Citizen science! It's great when people realize they can answer their own questions with observation and data, and for activism because data is a powerful story. One friend of mine started https://publiclab.org to feed this, and another is doing data journalism to highlight holes in the government's environmental data. https://www.muckrock.com/project/ A rules-configurable sensor tool I made a long time ago was used…

Your kids school has a makerspace - that sounds awesome can you provide any more details?

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Post by sotix »

philip1209 wrote: post #251

Low-plastic living. I read a book by the world's first zero-waste restaurant, Silo. The book got me thinking about how different our lives would be if oil were expensive. "Pretend oil is really expensive" is a good proxy for doing things that are "eco-friendly." Since reading the book, I've tried to eliminate single-use plastic from most of my life. It's incredibly hard. Everything from my socks to my vegetable packa…

I have been doing this for about 2 years now. Got a few glass mason jars that I fill up with items like rice and nuts from the bulk bin at the grocery store. Peanut butter and jelly both come in glass jars. I get just about everything else from a local farm share where the items are not packaged in anything. It’s nice not dealing with plastic with my food. I used to throw so much of it away. Now most of my food waste is compostable.

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Post by windowshopping »

solardev wrote: post #7

There is a new show on HBO called Scavengers Reign, and it's become my favorite scifi story ever. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21056886/ It's kinda like watching Planet Earth about another ecosystem, with a strong focus on judgment-free ecology (ie there isn't good and evil, just different flora and fauna and otherwise interacting both with their normal food webs and with human outsiders). It really tickles the envir…

This sounded really cool so I went and checked it out, turned it off within 10 min. Was just kind of silly, felt more like someone having fun with drawing than someone really trying to do any sort of serious ecological design.

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Post by Lornedon »

lcall wrote: post #117
surprisetalk wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm producing tools for the following: • converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) • easy legislative templates and meetups for removing billboards from your municipality • low-powered and repairable permacomputing hardware designs • tools for improving home ventilation • software for retrofitting walkable infrastructure into existing towns and cities

> converting gendered restrooms to all-gender restrooms (with or without permission) I believe, for a long list of reasons, that families with stably married mother/father are the best way to preserve humanity and that they are most stable without wandering eyes. Avoiding having wandering eyes, or wandering loyalties, in turn, is helped when we make it easier for people to manage and direct sexual attraction to keep…

I feel that broad overgeneralizations like this are often just self-revelation.

This reads like you find people besides your wife attractive, but rather than recognizing this as normal and healthy, you vilify and repress it. But you see (part of) the responsibility for avoiding your thoughts with others, and expect of them to act according to your needs and wants.

The thought of people of the other gender using a toilet near you is sexual to you and you don't like that, but this is a you problem.

Also, I don't know whether your "stably married mother/father" is just heteronormative or deliberately excluding same-sex couples, but if it's the latter, your "belief" is demonstrably wrong. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6309949/

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Post by fuzzer371 »

a3_nm wrote: post #129

The following open research problem. Given an undirected graph G with two vertices s and t, the task is to determine whether there is an undirected path connecting s and t which is simple (no repeated vertices) and has length divisible by 3. It is not known whether this problem is NP-hard, or whether it can be solved in polynomial time; apparently the question is open since the early 90s. (The problem is also open fo…

I mean, so what if there is?

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Post by bombcar »

globalnode wrote: post #270
scruple wrote: post #96

Board game design, but specifically solo and 2-player co-op games that have a small footprint, small board states, and are easy to play. I've been looking for offline hobbies and recently got into solo board gaming, on top of playing games with my wife a couple of times a month. I work in gamesdev and I want to retain a creative outlet in the direction of gaming, because I just really enjoy it, but I also want to sto…

never heard of solo board games before, is it possible?

There are quite a few of them - either basically puzzle solving ones, scoring against a benchmark, or “defeat random events from a deck”.
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