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  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you time manage and prioritize your work and projects?
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    1 month ago

    Personal experience, obviously:

    1. enforce time limits on apps (like 45 min messaging/social per day), e.g. using built-in tools => frees a lot of time
    2. streamline communication, i.e., do not be available 24/7 for mail, chat, etc. Instead, define time windows to check and answer your channels
    3. Use some Pomodore timer [1] to focus on specific tasks for a few hours. Minimize distractions as far as possible in that time window.
    4. Sleep. Working tired is a black hole for time management.
    5. Do sports/seek nature to keep the stress level down.
    6. Plan honest to your capabilities, sometimes the 80% solution will do (yes, this can be hard to accept)
    7. A simple hand-written checkboxed ToDo list per day is helpful, take 5-10 minutes to compile it before your day starts.

    [1] Goodtime

  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.orgtoGreen Energy@slrpnk.net•Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?
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    2 months ago

    There were several incidents (ref. 1), but in particular Fukushima in 2011 changed a lot, as it was a modern type of power plant.

    It reignited discussions regarding safety and (under the impression of 9/11) fears that nuclear power facilities could be targeted by terror attacks.

    With current regulations new reactors can cost some 20 to 40 billion, making it one of the most expensive sources of electrical energy. Costs for decomissioning are significant as well. Both building and decomissioning costs are typically passed on to tax payers.

    Also, permanent storage of used burning rods is hard, nobody wants nuclear waste buried in their neighborhood. Given its half life of ~240 000 years, it may also be difficult to communicate its dangers to future generations (ref. 2).

    The currently most common sources of burning material (Uranium) stem from - large parts - politically controverse regions and may in sum last some estimated 80-100 years, quite short given some 10-20 years of construction time per plant.

    This is not talking about thorium and salt reactors, but technical challenges and costs seem to be limiting for these technologies, in particular as long as the default infrastructure exists.

    edit: the ‘new’ types are more complex and not suited for weapons in general.

    1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents?wprov=sfla1

    2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUXwrWMS-x8

  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.orgtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•duplicates
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    9 months ago

    I always found the actual challenge to decide what to get rid of once the duplicates where found.

    Some tools I tried would also ask file-by-file, which I found a bit useless for thousand of files. Yet, I cannot even express a set of rules to decide this in general, so I’m not blaming the tools.

    In particular, with picture collections I also came to the conclusion that some redundancy is probably ok rather than accidentially deleting data that I duplicated on purpose and simply forgot why.

  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a great buy it once Android app?
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    11 months ago

    Just wanted to add that it’s a music sequencing/composition/recording tool. I also bought it some 20 years ago and they really delivered the lifetime free upgrade thing - bought some upgrades and plug-in packs now and then nonetheless - - great tool. I feel that presently, I use roughly 20% of its features, but I never find the time to dig deeper.

    edit: refering to the Desktop version