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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by a3n on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:06AM (#26133457)
> Rattenborg found that ducks with a bird on either side of them put their entire brain to sleep and kept both eyes closed. "However, the ducks at the end of the row slept more with one half of the brain at a time," he says. "And when they did that they directed the open eye away from the other birds, as if they were looking for approaching predators."

When I park my semi truck in a truck parking lot in late afternoon or evening, if the space on either side is empty I leave my parking lights on, until both spaces are filled.

And if I'm unlucky enough to park on the end of the row, I leave my parking lights on all night long. And go to sleep with half my brain awake.

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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by nightowl_games on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:21AM (#26133596)
Tell me more about how you are a semi truck driver on hacker news. Where you once in the tech industry? Do you just find it interesting here?
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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by a3n on Sunday February 14, 2021 @11:36AM (#26133721)
Used to be in tech. Rage quit my last tech job when I was past my fresh date.
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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by ubertoop on Sunday February 14, 2021 @03:07PM (#26135753)
Wow. I would love to hear more about this. A lot of people on here suffer from burnout in some form or another, and I would imagine very view actually cut the cord. Do you have a writeup anywhere about your experience?
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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by a3n on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:21PM (#26146119)
I sort of do. I've sent hundreds of emails and pics home to the fam. I aim to put some of them up. Eventually.

Oh, here. I sent one of those to my boss, and it got forwarded and shared internally, and with my permission the company put it up on their Facebook page.

I'm not on Facebook. If it's still up, I imagine you can find it by searching "Swift Transportation" and "Aaron".

As for burnout ... You'll probably miss the money. I'm making half what I was, and I was nowhere near SV salary expectation.

EDIT: I don't speak for ... disavow all knowledge ... etc etc

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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by TheRealSteel on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:17PM (#26134075)
I'm not them, but I'm a non-programmer on HN. I'd love to be a professional programmer but I'm simply too stupid. I continue to teach myself and learn in my spare time.
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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by nightowl_games on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:00PM (#26135052)
Programming is really about persistence, focus and dedication. I'm not naturally very intelligent but I am extremely stubborn so I simply keep trying, keep reading, keep googling until I solve the problem.
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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by TheRealSteel on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:12PM (#26137204)
That describes me perfectly. I feel as if I've taken months to do stuff a normal person would've prototyped in an afternoon and it's all thru sheer stubbornness. I'm hoping I get good enough to be employed but I still have a long way to go.
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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by zebnyc on Sunday February 14, 2021 @03:19PM (#26135854)
I second what nightowl_games is saying. I hope you are not equating programming with an ability to crunch through leetcode problems. There is more to programming than that.

There are plenty of companies out there which hire folks without putting them through the leetcode hazing ritual.

Cheers

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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by TheRealSteel on Sunday February 14, 2021 @06:16PM (#26137231)
Thankyou. I certainly hope so. I wouldn't have a hope in hell of passing any of the programming interview questions I see posted.

I'm trying. So far my biggest problem has been not getting interviews because recruiters pretty much slam the phone down the nanosecond they ask me how many years professional experience I have so far and I answer honestly.

I'm trying to get some projects into a usable state so I have a few things to point to and say "well I created this and this", but I'm... I'm not fast at this, at all.

Currently stuck on trying to pass an array of floats from C++ back to C# and getting a bunch of random values and NaNs

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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by coldtea on Sunday February 14, 2021 @12:13PM (#26134039)
>Rattenborg found that ducks with a bird on either side of them put their entire brain to sleep and kept both eyes closed. "However, the ducks at the end of the row slept more with one half of the brain at a time," he says.

So it's better to sleep with two partners at a time? I've always maintained this to my spouse!

>When I park my semi truck in a truck parking lot in late afternoon or evening, if the space on either side is empty I leave my parking lights on, until both spaces are filled.

So, how do you deal with one driving off early while you're sleeping? Or does that not traditionally happen?

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Re:Left brain hemisphere more awake the first night sleeping... by a3n on Sunday February 14, 2021 @02:28PM (#26135361)
I just hope for the best. There's only so much you can do.
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