This article tells us more about the author than anything else really. If they can see themselves spending their infinite leisure time on dopamine maxxing rather than being with humans... well, you do you man. If "work" is the only reason you get out of bed, form relationships, or do anything at all, please feel free to stay in bed.
It's scary but I truly believe that everyone should try and find meaning in life outside of their work (or make their "work" building or creating something they want to see exist in the world). Go step in a stream, pluck some guitar strings, sip a strong cocktail, touch grass...
I find a lot of meaning in my human connections. I will always have these, because I want to have them and put in work to grow and maintain them. I've taken a long career break and loved having time to read, exercise, see friends, and be an overall well-rounded human being. I don't see abundance as a universal problem here.
I've found the best way to do private trackers is to seed everything you download, all the time. If you seed enough of the long tail of things, ratio becomes easier. This also helps people get into a show that peaked a few years ago (after most of the seeders have moved on), which can be harder on public trackers.
That's a good idea, seeding the long tail in time rather than in popularity in a sense. This would probably be the best way for me to do it, but even then it requires a different sort of investment – more storage, and more constantly online storage.
My setup is optimised for being quiet and low power, and part of that means bulk HDD storage that is mostly spun down. Seeding a large long tail of data would probably mean a lot more disk activity.
Downloading activity is much lower than you think on private trackers since they have relatively few members, but yes, if you do this, every now and then your HDD will start making noise.
Fair point. I've been burnt by some private trackers before, and their seeming expectation of time investment, but I'll give one a go with this strategy at some point if I see one open for registration.
People who have to regularly take half a pill sometimes struggle with breaking the pill into clean halves, or don't like having to use a kitchen knife or whatever and clean it later.
Not every medication is manufactured in the precise doses required. To get to the right amount, a few common doses will be produced with score marks to allow easy(ish) division for a smaller amount. For example, one of my family members has needed a half-pill of thyroid medicine. Something like a 75mcg pill split in half to make it 37.5mcg.
Damn, imagine you're the tribe's only successful hunter. You're the only person that's ever brought a deer back to the fire. You're even really good at it.
But the deer...sometimes they just don't exist. And you checked very carefully. No prints, no rubbings, no hair, no trail. Nothing whatsoever. You even left a bit of hair under a rock one time and the next time you checked it was gone. The only evidence of the existence of deer is the pelt you wear and the memory of last night's dinner. Something happens to the deer in the woods.
Some weeks, you bring back a deer a day. The tribe sings song in your honor. But every time this happens, there are those who grow quite suspicious when you all of a sudden "haven't seen a deer in weeks" because what do you mean you haven't seen a deer you said there were hundreds of them yesterday.
You can try to bring them with you to see, but most aren't interested. The few you bring happen to come when the deer are plenty. You can't convince them to come when the deer have gone because they just went yesterday and saw the foot-print highways and scarred trees; they know trees don't heal overnight.
The real surprise is how small their balance sheet is given they're such a well known and loved name. 16m CZK is 0.7m USD annual revenue.
There are companies where you'd rather be the owner, and others where you'd rather be an employee, or a customer. I think the JetBrain's customers are the real winners in this one.
If you think this is historical, you have a lot to learn about production servers in the wild! =)
Just as a not-insignificant portion of the world still relies on a handful of ancient AS/400 systems, a pretty big portion of society depends on the good running of hand-configured Windows Server.
It seems that both blue and white collar jobs have their share of workplaces where in a do-the-task-or-maybe-get-fired situation, it's up to the employee to enforce their own boundaries and decide when saying no is a safer choice for their long term physical/mental safety. (Of course, sometimes you only realise this when it's too late.)
