Three things.

First, you likely need a break because you are using some kind of willpower to keep going. The easiest way to not need willpower of your own is to rely on someone else’s. You learn to work hard by having someone else working hard next to you. I’m currently working on landscaping my back yard. Each day, all I can bring myself to do is fill up one wheelbarrow full of dirt and then distribute it, because I am doing it all alone. But for the past 4 days, I have been working 8/9/10 hour days of constant physical labor, because I am doing it with a group of people. I don’t really care about the project, but I’m getting paid. But the reason I can keep going when I’m fatigued and my body aches is because I see the people around me working, and want to help them. After all, if I don’t work, it is more work for them. I want to help my coworkers and do my fair share. I want to avoid being shamed for being lazy, and I want the social praise of working as hard or harder than anyone else. If you really want the secret to being your best self, fhe answer is: love other people enough to help them.

Next, saying you need a break from your break is a feeling I’m familiar with. You know why I need a break from my break? Because I am on my phone. Being on your phone, or staring at a screen, is not relaxing or restorative. If you “take a break” by scrolling lemmy or watching netflix, you aren’t really taking a very restful break - at least mentally. Why? Because the way these things keep you interested is by being exciting, and the way to make things exciting is to introduce fear and conflict. These emotions will ramp up ypur stress level and make you feel more tired. If you are taking a break, actually take a break. Sit down and close your eyes for a bit. Lay on the couch and stare at the ceiling. Meet a friend and spend and hour laying in the grass at the park talking about nothing in particular. Be bored. The one thing I know that consistently motivates me to do something is being bored. So if you need a break, throw your fucking phone across the room (case recommended) and be bored for a while.

Finally, if you are well and truly tired, I re-recommend sleep. If you don’t sleep well… do it. Figure it out. There are tons of strategies, systems, science, and snake oil. Fucking try shit. The things that work for me:

1. Establish a consistent but realistic bed time. I do midnight.
2. Outside extreme circumstances, no naps.
3. Ensure your sleeping area is as dark as possible.
4. Remove your phone/screens from your sleeping area. Dont do things other than sleep and fuck in bed.
5. Use blue light blocking glasses before bed. They are cheap.
6. If at all possible, wake up naturally instead of using an alarm clock. If you must use a clock, get a sunrise alarm that uses light instead of sound. They are annoyingly expensive.
7. Aim for 9 hours of sleep each night. Experts say 8) But you’re gonna fuck up.
8. If you can’t stop worrying or thinking, start journalling before bed. You can write down things you are worried about, plans for the next day, etc. Find something that works for you to get the clutter out of your brain.
9. If you can’t fall asleep but your brain isn’t spinning, doing a body scan/yoga nidra, or meditating can help. I also notice that I feel more rested for the same amount of time in bed when I do these things before sleeping.

Wtf is cyber? Cybersecurity…?

I will say that, for the most part, minors are worthless.

Unless you have a specific combo major+minor for a specific field you are interested in entering, then minors will play essentially no role in the hiring process - other than maybe some casual conversation during interviews. They are essentially seen as hobbies. If you minor in CS, eg, a company looking for developers will have little interest in hiring you without some other evidence that you know how to develop software.

Meanwhile, for your own personal skills that you could put into practice to be useful in a workplace, again, the minor will likely not be very useful. Usually you gain actual useful skills for the workplace at the 4000 level. Minors typically require a bunch of pre-recs, and top out with a handful of classes at tha 3000 level. The earlier classes in the degree are there to lay the foundation.

My vote: if you can hit your credit hours needed for your degree solely with your majors courseload, just do that. Graduate early if possible. Save time and money.

If not, take the easiest classes you can to hit your required credit hours. Use your free time to get an internship/part time job in your field, study more for your major classes in order to get a high gpa, or just, like, have an enjoyable and vibrant social life.

If you want to diversify your potential income streams, get on track to work in a trade. Carpenters, electricians, plumbers, welders, etc probably won’t be automated out of a job anytime soon. You don’t really need any formal classes for this - just ask around and start working for a local plumbing company or whatever.

But honestly, if you really want the best skills for the workplace - fuck getting a minor, and instead work on your people skills. Instead of going to class, go out and learn how to strike up a friendly conversation with a stranger. Go do something dumb and embarassing, and learn that doing dumb, embarassing things is fine. Train your brain to be optimistic, focused on the positives and opportinities in life, and learn to express this mindset to others. Learn to have uncomfortable conversations, where you tell someone something that you know they won’t like, and which might make them dislike you. It’s a lot easier to find work when you have lots of friends who know you’re smart, cool, and hard working.

You are describing AI integrated into other products. Pretty sure lots of people like using chatgpt to answer their questions or AI inage generators to make extremely niche porn.

I just accepted a long time ago that being “smart” didn’t mean I was actually good at anything other than calculus - which it really worth approximately jack.

And then I looked at where I was in life, and where I wanted to be, and saw that if I wanted to traverse from A to B, I would have to work really, really hard. So I did that.

I mean, the reason you have no work ethic now is because… you don’t put the work in. Literally all work ethic is is deciding to put the work in over and over again until it becomes a habit. Having a work ethic is not an immutible trait that you developed in childhood - it is a habit you can develop, whivh will also always be dependent on your circumstances at any given moment and the actions of those around you.

Want a better work ethic? Improve your sleep, pick meaningful goals, and surround yourself with other people who are aggressively working towards similar goals. Then just keep showing up.

Agreed with pretty much everything here. My notes:

1. Read about software patterns - the gang of 4 book and Fowlers book are classics. This will help you read and understand legacy code, and write your own code with understandable structures and naming conventions.
2. All skill learning inevitably comes with making mistakes that you regret later, and which will make you look dumb. Embrace it. If you have to think too hard to come up with a clever name for a variable, give it a stupid long name - the dev 5 years later working on your code would much rather have a variable with a name so long it runs off the page, but actually describes its purpose accurately, than a short named variable that is “clever”. If you or someone else thinks of a better name later, renaming variables is trivial. Interpreting variable purpose from an unclear name is not. Similarly, make your methods short - really, really short. If you have 10 lines of code and put them each in their own method, great! Maybe it isnt the fastest code to read - but readable method names will make it obvious what each line does, and combining independent methods together is far easier than breaking one massive method into chunks.
3. TDD (or BDD) is awesome for turning most of the things listed here into habits. It also, ime, makes boring enterprise software development far more enjoyable, since you start by making a long checklist of itty bitty tasks, and then get to check a new one off every 5 or 10 minutes, knowing that the task is done.
4. The best way to learn how to write better code is pair programming with a more senior developer. Often employers will refuse to budget time for this since “how can we justify paying two developers to write the code one developer could?” The fact is, developing like this typically decreases development time as juniors’ code ends up more readable and with fewer bugs, reducing time spend on fixing bugs later - the most time-intensive part of any software project. If managers still won’t budge - fuck 'em. Do it anyway. Getting someone to critique your code in real time - even for just 30 minutes per day - will rapidly improve your skills.

He’s a hero. Not the hero Pheonix needs, but the one it deserves.

Yeah, there seem to be two definitions of ghosting.

The actual definition is when someone you have an established relationship with cuts off all communication without explaination. For example, if your girlfriend of a year and a half just stopped responding to all texts and calls and blocks you on all socials, that would be ghosting.

Then there is the terminally online and emotionally fragile definition, which is when literally anyone doesn’t respond to your messages with the utmost urgency and priority. Eg, a girl you matched with on a dating app doesn’t keep your endless boring conversations going. Or, as here, a friend doesn’t respond to a text immediately.

Unfortunately, the second definition tends to predominate online, and it’s hard not to feel the cringe when someone uses it.

No. I can write enumerated lists without being a bot, dipshit

I mean, if you are doing actual science, I assume you will want access to all the other science that has been done, so you will still want to read the science published in Elsevier journals. So no, there is no alternative.

ghosting is leaving someone on “read” for more than 2 days.

This is totally normal behavior. People are busy. Sometimes they read your message and say to themselves “I see this now, but I’m feeling stressed and busy right now - I’ll reply later when I can write a good response.” But then later happens, and it turns out they are tired and forgetful.

Especially if you are just trying to have a casual conversation - people will treat these messages as lower priority and also as requiring more emotional energy, since the conversation isn’t urgent but they don’t want to write dismissive one word responses.

I recommend:

1. Send texts primarily to exchange information or make arrangements to meet.
2. If you want to have a conversation, either meet in person or have a phone call.
3. If a person has failed to respond to a text, then wait until the next time you have some reason to contact them - which could be as simple as “I want to talk to them”. At which point, text them the info you need to give to them and/or pitch a time to meet up or have a phone call. If they don’t respond to this, I tend to follow up with a snarky “HellooOOOoooo”. And then if they don’t respond to that, a sincere message asking if they are okay. If they still don’t respond to that, depending on the friendship, I may either write them off, or ask mutual friends what is going on.

Write down every problem in your life like you are going to post about it on lemmy asking for advice.

Wait a week.

Read it again, and give yourself the advice you would give someone on Lemmy.

Strategies for overcoming this:

1. Just do literally anything. Even if the doing of the thing is really unpleasant, it will take up at least some of your mental focus. Usually people suggest doing healthy things like going for a walk, talking to a friend, doing chores, or engaging in a hobby. I am recommending rolling off the couch, and then rolling back and forth between your back and your stomach. Yes, this is included in “literally anything”. Yes, you will feel better if you do it for long enough.
2. Throw your phone across the room. And your laptop. And the tv remote. Now stare at the ceiling. Distracting yourself from the thoughts you are having by consuming mass media feel better than sitting with the thoughts, but is ultimately counterproductive. If staring at the ceiling is too much, roll back and forth on the floor.
3. Scream. I like obscenities, but you can pick anything you want. Sobbing can be a powerful combo move. At least if you scream, you are doing something more than silently letting your thoughts brew inside you while you continue looking like a lifeless zombie.
4. Talk to yourself. Literally say the thoughts you are thinking out loud to yourself. It turns out, you aren’t that interesting to listen to when you keep talking about the same thing. Eventually you’ll start coming up with novel ideas for the new season of the great british bake off.

This time it’s different, though.

Why?

Homelessness world wide is at an all time high, and a huge swath of people can’t afford all the basic necessities anymore.

I highly doubt your homelessness stat. If it is at an all time high by any metric, it is almost certainly a statistical artifact from (1) increased homelessness in developed nations, where tracking is decent and (2) improved tracking in developing nations. Meanwhile the people who can’t afford “basic necessities” are, again, in developed nations - places where the notion of what constitutes basic necessities would be considered grand opulance in many parts of developing nations.

Instead, the majority of people in the world have seen improvements to their quality of life over the past 20, 40, and 60 years. Improved water and sanitation systems, more robust and resiliant food systems, greater access to life saving medical care, huge drops in infant mortality, hugely increased access to technology and education.

If an economic crash happens now, will the 99% of the people finally wake up and just TAKE the resources from that 1%, like it or not?

This is, quite frankly, a ridiculous fantasy. The wealth of the top 1% primarily exists not in vaults of gold bars, but in the ownership of what are intangible human constructs. Particular segments of land (lines on a map); businesses (organized structures of people); intellectual property (literally just ideas).

Elon Musk, for example, has a large portion of his wealth in Tesla. Of course, Tesla has physical assets in its factories and such. But most of the value of the company is speculative - people expecting Tesla to be wildly successful in the future. The next part of its value comes from IP - the exclusive ownership of its various inventions and innovations. And another part comes from the organizational structure itself and the knowledge and intelligence of the individuals who make up that structure. At its root, the value of Tesla is the goose that lays the golden eggs (Musk’s cult of personality and the expertise of the individuals that make up the business) and investor confidence that the goose will continue laying golden eggs. In your glorious revolution, presumably Musk will be beheaded, and all the Tesla employees will scatter to the far winds as the proletariat storms their offices. Without the stable interaction of these technical experts, no more innovation happens, and investor confidence dries up (assuming the investors weren’t also beheaded). The wealth of Tesla, then, does not go to the people, but goes up in smoke.

A revolution premised purely on taking assets from the rich has a predictable ending: in the slim chance that the revolution succeeds, even if the tangible wealth is equally distributed to the people (also a slim chance), the engine that generated that wealth has been destroyed and, deprived of the ability to generate new wealth, the people eventually spend away their windfall and are left with less than they had before they started. This sort of phenomenon was literally the impetus for Adam Smith to write The Wealth of Nations. Spain had spent a couple centuries robbing the Americas of its gold via murder and slavery - enough to literally collapse the price of gold in Europe. And yet, during Smith’s time, Spain was in dire financial straights while England was the world’s predominant economic power. Why? Because England had invested in technology and had developed industrial factories. It had invested in public and private institutions (ie, structures of people) that would continuously generate new wealth, rather than relying on hoarding gold bars.

The “glorious revolution” fantasy, meanwhile, is largely counterproductive to the actual goal of improving normal people’s lives and improving the equality of political and economic power, because it plays into the childish notion that if we just throw a big enough temper tantrum, then we will get our way. And maybe that might be true for a brief moment. It is certainly true for some children some of the time that if they yell and scream and cry enough, they will be given the ice cream they want. But they only get that ice cream because there is an adult there, listening to them cry, who has a job that makes money that they can then use to buy the ice cream. The problem is that, ice cream or not, at the end of the day the child is still a child, completely dependent on the adult to provide for all their needs and make all their important descisions. The child gains real autonomy in their lives not when they throw “The Glorious Temper Tantrum” - they gain it when they get a job outside the purview of their caregivers and are able to spend the money they make at that job on the things of their own choosing.

So, too, with average people growing out of the controlling influence of the political and economic elite. Independence is achieved via building things - communities, relationships, physical infrastructure, businesses, governments, unions - which can be relied on instead of the options presented to us by the elites. And building things takes time and effort. It doesn’t happen overnight with a few molotovs and a good photo op - that’s the narrative the elites want you to believe, the one they put in all the popular movies and tv shows, because it is the strategy that is absolutely sure to fail. The idea that The Great Battle will be followed by Happily Ever After serves the elites because it tells us that we will win when we just put in a reasonable amount of effort right at the very last moment, and then we can relax. This is not how the world works. No - the world gets better when people put in unreasonable amounts of effort right now to gradually improve things and build things bit by bit, and keep putting in that effort for years and years and years. Sure, maybe there will someday be a tipping point or a big marker in history that we can point to and say “ah, that’s when things changed”. But make no mistake - that moment can only happen, and will only lead to a better world after the fact, because of the long term, boring hard work of people who care more about building things to help their friends than destroying things to hurt their enemies.

I dont think this is why no one is saying this. But the reason you shouldn’t do this is because of the Efficient Market Hypothesis. This is the same for basically any investment where you are trying to be “smart”, whether you are buying gold, low tech stocks, various currencies, crypto, etc. The fact is, sitting on your ass and clicking a few buttons on an investment website takes literally no effort - which is why there are trillions of dollars in investment funds trying to do it as profitably as possible. Every dollar in the market is competing to eak as much value out of every minute in the market as possible, and these dollars are very smart.

Like, if you graduated top of your class from MIT in financial analysis, you are still at an unimaginable disadvantage, because the evil capitalist hedge funds hired all your classmates, and also all the equivalent graduates for the past 40 years where they have all been competing against each other that whole time. And they have shit tons of money to spend on the best tech they can possibly afford in order to make tiny improvements in trade returns.

You can exchange dollars and euros on the open market, which means the banks and hedge funds can do that too, which means that the anticipated difference between the two is already priced in.

Right.

I will say also that if you want to hedge against AI, then you could invest in non-US based index funds.

Another option is to invest in something like real estate. Do the math and find something you can profit off of even with a down economy and you’ll be able to get your investment to ride out the hard times and earn in the good times. But similar to index investing, these investments should be made with an eye on long-term gains (on the order of decades).

A final option - possibly the best - is to invest in yourself. Put the money into good health (physical and mental), skills that pay dividends (like being able to cook or do your own repairs, or building a community around yourself of hard working, optimistic, and sensible individuals. Skills education can be a great investment - either going to a university (careful here with costs, but college graduates still do tend to have better lifetime earnings than non-graduates), a technical school (AI probably won’t replace plumbers for quite a while), informal self-teaching (you can learn a lot of skills just making personal projects at home or in a makerspace). And for the more ambitious, you can start your own business, which could be as simple as buying a ladder to clean people’s gutters or a snow plow attachment and truck to plow driveways and parking lots.

Hard times are coming - they always are. The people who do well in hard times are the ones with a diverse set of useful skills, a resiliant set of assets, a positive mindset, and a supportive community around them.

Riding out economic ups and downs is really just about good personal finance. The good advice is the same in good times and bad, which is why it is good advice - in economics, you never really know when good or bad times are coming.

1. Spend less
2. Earn more
3. Invest the difference

Explain how this is spamming

It’s not really the previously banned users that are the problem. It’s that the real heart and soul of Lemmy is c/2real4meirl or whatever - ie, depression memes.

Reddit initially became popular because it was fun and interesting. Lemmy has picked up some of the old reddit crowd by being a bit more tech focused - but for the most point the links and comments posted are doom and gloom. Either AI is taking all our jobs, or its a huge scam. The world is run by evil capitalists who personally want you, in particular, to have a meaningless and miserable life. But don’t worry, because we, the proletariat, will overthrow them in a violent revolution… just as soon as we stop doom scrolling and crying in bed - haha, amiright guys?

Nothing about this is fun or interesting. It is bitter, angering, and depressing. That is what drives people away.

I’ve never seen any ads. I think you downloaded a scam app. Newpipe is only on fdroid, or else direct download from their website