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What are some activities that put you in a state of 'flow'?
For those of you who may be unaware of 'flow', here is how it is described in Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow: Fortunately, cognitive work is not always aversive, and people sometimes...
For those of you who may be unaware of 'flow', here is how it is described in Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow:
Fortunately, cognitive work is not always aversive, and people sometimes expend considerable effort for long periods of time without having to exert willpower. The psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi has done more than anyone else to study this state of effortless attending, and the name he proposed for it, flow, has become part of the language. People who experience flow describe it as "a state of effortless concentration so deep that they lose their sense of time, of themselves, of their problems," and their descriptions of the job of that state are so compelling that Csikszentmihalyi has called it an "optimal experience." Many activities can induce a sense of flow, from painting to racing motorcycles - and for some fortunate authors I know, even writing a book is often an optimal experience. Flow neatly separates the two forms of effort: concentration on the task and the deliverate control of attention. Riding a motorcycle at 150 miles an hour and playing a competitive game of chess are certainly very effortful. In a state of flow, however, maintaining focused attention on these absorbing activities requires no exertion of self-control, thereby freeing resources to be directed to the task at hand.
For me, I would say getting into a just difficult enough programming problem or working on a data analysis can put me in this state where hours can slip away in the blink of an eye. The same thing for a game of Civilization V can do the same thing for me.
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NEC shows 'flying car' hovering steadily for minute
News article: NEC shows 'flying car' hovering steadily for minute Video of the car in action: NEC unveils flying car prototype
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Former FBI agent says agency is “hamstrung” by Trump in investigating white supremacist movements
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Cesar Sayoc, who mailed explosive devices to Trump’s critics, sentenced to 20 years in prison
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July confirmed as hottest month recorded
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Mental health support & discussion thread (August 2019 edition)
after a month sabbatical, we're back. this is pretty straightforward, i think: vent your experiences or things you need to get off your chest/share whatever you've found helps you mentally/etc....
after a month sabbatical, we're back. this is pretty straightforward, i think: vent your experiences or things you need to get off your chest/share whatever you've found helps you mentally/etc.
resources that might also be of some benefit to people:
- there is, as always, the invaluable list of country hotlines maintained by /r/SuicideWatch
- https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/ ("an online source of information for persons seeking treatment facilities in the United States or U.S. Territories for substance abuse/addiction and/or mental health problems")
- https://therapists.psychologytoday.com/rms/ (probably one of the best resources for finding a therapist)
- https://psychiatrists.psychologytoday.com/rms (ditto, with finding a psychiatrist)
- https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/index.shtml (covers some of the major mental disorders, their symptoms and treatments, and general topics like that)
- https://www.mentalhealth.gov/what-to-look-for (what symptoms to look for for major mental disorders)
- https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/help-yourself/ (US specific, but also covers ways you can help yourself and a bunch of ways to seek treatment or support)
- there's also some stuff over at /r/SWResources that might be worth checking out which is consistently updated.
and here is the june thread if you'd like to reference/update us on something you mentioned there.
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Slitherine has acquired the full publishing rights to the Master of Magic franchise from Atari
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India rescinds Kashmir’s autonomous status. Troop surge and media blackout in effect
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The absurdities of 'franchise fatigue' and 'sequelitis' (or, what is happening to the box office?!)
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Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents
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Wind Rose - Diggy Diggy Hole (2019)
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TEKKEN 7 | Season Pass 3 reveal trailer - PS4, XB1, PC
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Smash Bros Ultimate has set the record for the highest peak viewership in EVO history for any game, at over 279,000 viewers
@slasher: Smash Bros Ultimate has set the record for the highest peak viewership in EVO history for any game at over 279,000 Smash 4 lyfe #EVO19
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In the last eight years, at least sixteen high-profile attacks have been motivated by white nationalist conspiracy theories, killing 175 people worldwide
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Rant: Docker is a labyrinth maze of brick walls and show-stopping issues that has done nothing but slow my development
Firstly, I apologise for the rant. I guess this is a meek follow-up to my submission earlier in ~comp, questioning how to deploy Docker into production. Since then, I haven't been able to dedicate...
Firstly, I apologise for the rant. I guess this is a meek follow-up to my submission earlier in ~comp, questioning how to deploy Docker into production. Since then, I haven't been able to dedicate much time to solving any of the issues I've outlined in that thread, but what I will say is that docker has caused me nothing but pain, and I have realised zero benefits from attempting to utilise it. Right from the start, the syntax for docker, docker-compose, and Dockerfiles is confusing and full of edge cases which no one explains to you in the hype of actually discussing it:
- These 'images' you build grow to insane sizes unless you carefully construct and regiment your
RUN
,COPY
, and other commands. - Docker complains to you about leaving empty lines in multi-line RUN commands (which is itself, as I see it, basically a hack to get around something called a "layer limit"), even if it contains a comment (which is not an empty line) and does not provide a friendly explanation on how to solve this issue.
- There's basically no good distinction between bind mounts and volumes, and the syntax is even more confusing: declaring a
volumes
entry in a docker-compose.yml? You have no good idea if you're creating a volume or a bindmount. - Tutorials & documentation tends to either assume you're a power user who knows this sort of thing, or are so trivial they don't accurately represent a real-world solution, and are therefore basically useless.
I've suffered endless permissions issues trying to run portions of my application, such as being unable to write to log files, or do trivial things like clearing a cache—that I have tried a dozen different ways of fixing with zero success.
Then, when I run some things from within the docker container, such as tests, they can take an excruciatingly long time to run—only then did I discover that this is yet another docker issue. The whole point of docker is to abstract away the host OS and containerise things and it can't even do that.
So now I'm regenerating and rebuilding images and containers every 5 minutes trying to find a configuration that appears to work with the slow and complicated syntax of
docker rm $(docker ps -aq) -f
followed bydocker rmi $(docker images -q)
followed bydocker-compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d
, followed bydocker container exec -it php sh
.Docker-sync, kubernetes, docker-compose, images, containers. It's legitimately too much. I'm not a dev-ops or infrastructure guy. I just want to write code and have my app work. I don't have the money to employ anyone to solve this for me (I'm not even employing myself yet).
I guess you can say I've learnt my lesson. I'm sticking to git and a simple VPS for future endeavours. I don't know how you folks who manage to hype docker do it, and I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but Docker doesn't like me, and I don't like it.
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'Outcasts within the outcast community': Seattle's LGBTQ gun club upends stereotypes
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Facebook hit with new questions over Cambridge Analytica
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Onivim 2 pre-alpha is out!
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