I switched from Kubuntu to CachyOS last week, after 10 years or so. CachyOS is based on Arch, and did not disappoint so far, extremely fast, makes Ubuntu look old and sluggish. It’s really impressive. The basic installation was easy. The GUI package manager isn’t as polished but works. A little bit of terminal tweaking was required to install some packages (VMM and KRDC gave me some trouble) but the documentation was ok. Absolutely can recommend.
A little bit of reverse psychology might help in breaking the cycle.
Instead of obsessing over the things you think you should do, give yourself a task that is simply to try and do absolutely nothing. For example, go to a park, sit on a bench and do nothing. Drive to a mildly interesting, quiet place. Just observe. Watch the people passing by, the ducks in the pond drifting aimlessly about. Note how the trees are moving in the wind…
Do not use your smartphone. Don’t read or listen to music. No distractions. Whenever your mind goes back to unpleasant thoughts about what you “should” be doing, gently remind yourself that your only task right now is to do absolutely nothing. Just observe. You don’t have to enjoy it, so don’t stress yourself about it not being fun.
This can be very hard in the beginning. It might seem boring and pointless, and there will be a nagging feeling that you ought to do something instead. Let it go.
If you do this every day for at least an hour (ideally as long as possible), you’ll get used to being just fine in that moment. You might notice that the world just goes on whether you do something or not, and that’s fine. Your task is to sit here and do nothing. Take it seriously. It is important to remind yourself about that whenever the thoughts are bubbling up again. Let them go for the moment, it’s not the right time. You have a job to do and that is… doing nothing.
After a few weeks (or months, in my case) you will become good at really doing nothing, and initial boredom gives way to genuine calm. And this will enable you to have an intrinsic motivation to do something again, on your own terms.
You could still be identified by a lot of factors and the combination of those. IP address, email if provided, cookies + referrer on clicked links or loaded external images, browser fingerprint, clues from actual content in comments and posts, … It’s not that hard, a whole industry lives on this kind of surveillance data collection.
Not OP, but the votes being public (not only on comments but also on posts) make it really easy for someone with malicious intent to generate a profile on your interests, political and sexual orientation, health/mental issues, addictions and so on. It’s a goldmine of data that should be protected.
That happens when you think you don’t need experienced software devs any more, because the AI can do everything now. A seasoned developer/devOp/admin would have known that the production environment needs to have different credentials from staging and these need to be protected. If that is not possible with railway then it’s simply not a good product to use and (again) a good dev/admin would have seen this in the initial evaluation phase. Not preventing AI access to the production environment from the start is the third grave mistake. However, there’s none of it in the “lessons learned” section of the article. You have learned nothing and are bound to repeat your mistakes.
Good analogy. I’m gonna steal that :D
I don’t doubt that it is possible to create good code when focusing on programming best practices etc. and taking the time to check the AI output thoroughly. Time however is a luxury most of the devs in those companies don’t have, because they are expected to have a 10x code output. And thats why the shit hits the fan. Bad code gets reviewed under pressure, reviewers burn out or bore out and the codebase deteriorates over time.
This approach to coding is exactly what creates the problem. They will find out the hard way if they can continue to be productive when something breaks and AI is not available for whatever reason. Does anyone know how to fix it? Is the documentation sufficient to understand what the AI did?
Well… Given that the average person neither knows what data they are effectively giving US and Chinese companies, nor does anything against it, this poll is asking the wrong questions. Massive amounts of data collected for every single individual via ad-based surveillance (US) and IOT devices phoning home (China) is the reality we live in today. But the average person does not know about it and therefore can’t even grasp what is done to them. They don’t trust them, but they hand over the data anyway. This is basically a poll amongst cows in the slaughterhouse.
I have a suspicion they are focusing on short-term goals, because that is what those people usually do. For example, it’s probably hard to explain who should watch all the ads and buy all the advertised products when Facebook replaces their content and interactions with bot slop. They didn’t think this through. This isn’t some kind of visionary 4D chess. But it does not matter to them. When wasting 80 billion on a VR project that was doomed to fail from the beginning does not matter, nothing does.
This. The EU might be speculating on a regime change in April, which would be a much better option than causing damage now. At least that’s what I hope is going on.
If we’re not talking about the super rich, because there is only a few dozen of them, and they have their own parallel universe… it’s usually mannerisms, language clues (in articulation and content), but of course also signals like expensive clothing and accessories. Also the places where they meet. This opens the door for all kinds of grifters who emulate behaviour and style to get into those circles. Jeffrey Epstein is an (in)famous example for this.
There is an aspect mentioned in there which hits the nail on the head for me. I’m not a game developer, but a developer nonetheless, and this ongoing AI debacle is taking a toll on my mental health too. I know very well that LLMs are not going to replace me, and that most of it is just hype, ignorance and stupidity by people who don’t have a clue about what’s involved in software development.
But that’s beside the point really. What hurts is the blatant disregard of human skills and craftsmanship which are necessary for making good software, and this a level of disrespect to me and my profession which is hard to swallow. Furthermore, the uncertainty and mayhem created in the industry over what is basically a lie (there is no intelligence in AI) makes it really really difficult now to work. It’s a massively frustrating shit show of delusional people and I’d rather become a goat farmer.
I had this happen when a game at random times filled up the available memory so quickly that it froze completely before any OOM watchdog could catch it.
twice the average pension and more than normal people earn a month in Germany.
I know, but that’s the effective cost. You can get financial assistance though, it depends on things like “Pflegegrad” and other factors. But still, the system is horribly broken.
That’s a regular price for a basic nursing home as far as I know. We paid 3500 per month (7000 for two parents) for a nursing home that looked good at first but turned out to be horrible. Due to what I would call criminal negligence they both died after 1 1/2 years.
This does not reflect the general reality of German nursing homes at all. My experience with them is that most of them are just very grim places where old people are put to die quickly. The average time an elderly person lives in a nursing home in Germany is 2 years. That alone says a lot. It’s a profitable industry driven by overworked low-income workers. And it’s very expensive, even for the most basic of nursing homes. Having witnessed these horrors personally it makes me angry to read propaganda like this. Sure, there might be places where elderly are treated like this, but only if you can afford it. The vast majority of nursing homes are hell-holes. Germany can’t teach the world anything about good care for elderly people.
Well at least it’s better than most of the other European countries. Like the one where I live in, which had the most lukewarm, spineless and US bootlicking response imaginable. It’s an absolute shame
It’s a tough job, but someone has to do it.
…and no, I have no clue about what a police surgeon is either.
Or press Ctrl-S and take a nice walk outside