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prof, 11 months ago

I study Software Design where I'm the "class representative", work 20h a week, I'm also planning my wedding and I have to manage a lot of family and friend stuff. There's a lot on my plate and feeling overwhelmed has become the norm for me.

What helps for me is:

• I keep a master to-do list where I put in all my tasks with their respective deadlines, categorised in topic, but all collected in the same list. (I use Microsoft To-Do for that)
• I plan days where I do certain tasks and on those days I make myself a prioritised list in handwriting which tasks to do in which order
• I also share a calender and to-do list with my partner, so we can keep on track of eachother even when not communicating everything we do directly
• And I think the most important thing to do when I'm feeling overwhelmed is just starting with something. The next point on your list without considering what else you could do.

That's the gist of what works for me. There are also some motivational techniques for "how to start doing". One of those is "eat the frog" where you pick the worst item from your to-do list and finish it, then the other tasks will be less daunting. Another one is starting with a super easy or small task to get you into a flow state of actually doing stuff. Both work for me in different situations and mindsets 😄

I hope that helps somehow.

prof, 11 months ago

Contributing to open source projects is pretty much just altruism.

If we're talking about protection of people integrating open source code in their proprietary code we'll always have issues. It doesn't matter if we declare our projects under GPL, AGPL, LGPL, CC or whatever, unless they do shoddy work, we won't be able to know what code snippets, libraries or frameworks they're using when source code isn't disclosed.

People that want to be assholes will always be assholes. If you feel like giving back, contribute to an open source project. If you don't, don't. But making it about evil corporations is a bit meh. Even a company like Amazon is actively contributing to improving Java, offering the Amazon Corretto JDK for free. So the path forward may just be trying to be the change yourself, and making sure the company you're working for is also giving back somehow.

prof, 11 months ago

Find ich immer wieder arg wie schnell sowas geht. Da bin ich froh, dass ich als Kind sehr gut Schwimmen gelernt hab und mir mein Vati auch beigebracht hat wie man tun soll, wenn man nicht mehr kann.

Vor kurzem hab ich erst (leider) ein Video gesehen in dem ein Paar sich filmt als sie nur mit den Füßen in einen See gehen, der maximal knietief am Ufer ist und auch relativ flach hineingeht. Er fällt um, kriegt Panik und bewegt sich immer tiefer rein, sie will ihm helfen und wird von ihm dabei aber runtergedrückt. Beide können nicht schwimmen, gehen unter und das wars.

Ich möchte anmerken, dass ich mir sowas nicht regelmäßig reinziehe 😅

prof, 11 months ago

Also was ich so rausgelesen habe scheints hauptsächlich an Panik, Kreislaufproblemen durch kaltes Wasser oder an Krämpfen zu liegen. In nem anderen Artikel von ihnen führens auch an, dass die Leute sich oft einfach überschätzen was ihre Schwimmfähigkeit angeht. Strömungen in Flüssen sind das nächste, da kann man schon mitgerissen werden, und dann ist auch Verletzungsgefahr gegeben.

Aber ja, ich bin voll bei dir. In ruhigen Wasser kann ich ewig schwimmen und bin ich mal müde dann leg ich mich einfach flach auf den Rücken. Manche können das scheinbar einfach nicht.

prof, 1 year ago

Short and sweet, thanks for explaining.

prof, 1 year ago

Since they’re locking Consoles to 30 fps I’m worried their Recommended settings are using that as baseline as well.

If that’s the case I’ll wait for some IT hero with too much free time to upload their optimisation mod to nexus 😂

prof, 1 year ago

My tactic of waiting a year until a newly released game is fully patched and grabbing it with a discount has yet to fail me.