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Re:Ask HN: Widespread Apathy? on Thursday June 13, 2024 @04:38PM (#40674434)
It’s not what I meant.
Re:Ask HN: Widespread Apathy? on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:33PM (#40673641)
Over-hiring in the zero interest years. It resulted in the hiring of non-qualified personnel and of qualified personnel with no concrete plans on how to utilize them. Either is a buzz kill, especially when the chickens came home to roost with respect to results (revenues) vs ballooned valuations.
Re:Introduction to Locality-Sensitive Hashing on Friday December 23, 2022 @02:53PM (#34109912)
Read the article and googled a bit - what are more example use cases for LSH behind those described?
Re:The Limits to Blockchain Scalability on Sunday May 23, 2021 @04:16PM (#27258188)
It takes time.
Re:Folly – Faceboook’s open source C++ library on Thursday April 16, 2020 @10:35AM (#22889779)
Could you elaborate on that? What aspects of using clang as opposed to gcc were so beneficial?
Re:Show HN: 2M fully loaded concurrent WebSockets on Tuesday May 07, 2019 @03:54AM (#19847389)
How would you do that?
Re:How do you focus while depressed? on Friday March 18, 2011 @07:40PM (#2342471)
While I guess that's besides the point, how long into the future were those goals set?
Re:How do you focus while depressed? on Friday March 18, 2011 @07:39PM (#2342467)
Yea, HN and FB are the two great procrastinators :)

And Thanks!

Re:How do you focus while depressed? on Friday March 18, 2011 @07:37PM (#2342464)
I am seeing a psychologist. I considered taking meds but decided not to due to possible long term side effects (IMO... to each his own regarding long term risk I guess)
Re:How do you focus while depressed? on Friday March 18, 2011 @12:20PM (#2340868)
yea, it passes, but what worries me is that it keeps returning...
Re:How do you focus while depressed? on Friday March 18, 2011 @12:18PM (#2340862)
Thanks mate! Appreciated :)
Re:How do you focus while depressed? on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:57AM (#2339891)
thanks! in the past I treated such down time as a time to regroup, but we live in a world with deadlines and sometimes rigid schedules where it's not always possible to step back.

This is not a whine... I'm with a fairly productive mindset "usually", so perhaps it doubly hurts when I can't be productive or take life by the mouthful.

Re:How do you focus while depressed? on Friday March 18, 2011 @05:49AM (#2339883)
very interesting... I use metal to wake up when I'm tired, but for the apathetic periods it may also be interesting. will try.
Re:How do you focus while depressed? on Thursday March 17, 2011 @02:44PM (#2337431)
I guess this is true, but even when I keep these habits (i.e. exercise, albeit too "mechanically") (and right now admittedly I fail to do so), the lack of focus I'm talking about is not only in the sense of "what direction should I take in my life", but in the sense of me trying to read and grok something or need to do some math exercise and am unable to focus.

How do you focus while depressed?

As many times before, I'm currently in a depression period. While I can find reasons for my depression, as years go by I'm starting to think that it's just periodic and "that's life" for me. I'm in therapy, although not taking any medications.Many times when I am in such a period I find myself either procrastinating or, when I finally gather the willpower to work on what's important (v.s. some...

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