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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 12, 2020 @06:14PM (#24760055)
I wonder what will catch up with us exactly. A serious question - because I'm by no means young, and I'm still in the "forever tinkering" phase. I wish I could spend 8 or 10 hours on it on a regular basis - but the job that's funding my tinkering is also taking away the time for it.
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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by nosianu on Monday October 12, 2020 @09:21PM (#24761361)
I think the point is that most people don't have such amazing genes that spending even more time than just work for decades in front of a monitor does not impact their bodies. The worst part is sitting. I want to move my body, and I sacrificed computer hours. I don't watch any TV at all already either, so there's nothing I could move from that time-budget to programming projects.
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Re:Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus o... by secondcoming on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @06:29AM (#24764106)
Life, other priorities.
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