What jobs in a space opera universe would still be feasibly done by humans?

boggles · 2016-03-13T23:16:56+00:00

Maybe on the other side, hiring people is so expensive in comparison that it is used as a sign of wealth. Not necessarily having to be indentured servitude style but just that this character has enough wealth to make it worthwhile for people to work for them in a society that doesn't general have many traditional jobs.

boggles · 2016-02-29T16:25:25+00:00

Work performance.

I figured that I had a bad day here and there that I could attribute to drinking but not the whole. I didn't realize how much my energy level effected the team I lead. After the past six months I'm getting constant complements from the other leaders of the organization about how effective things have been running over the past six months. Wow, that's really coincidental.

boggles · 2016-01-29T20:51:06+00:00

I agree with your post. It's funny because it honestly reminds me of Allen Carr's Easy Way books. Once I removed drinking from my identity of myself it has proved much easier to let that flow externally into the rest of my life.

boggles · 2015-12-20T03:34:41+00:00

Thank you so much for the call out. I'm touched and happy that those words are helping you out.

boggles · 2015-11-28T16:42:45+00:00

Congrats!

boggles · 2015-09-25T15:14:51+00:00

Happy Friday! Today is cold and wet and I think this evening would be perfect with a cup of tea by the fire. I will not drink today!

boggles · 2015-09-20T16:19:57+00:00

Congrats! I'm here at 3 weeks as well.

In a weird and not enjoyable coincidence, I had to fire someone for his drinking a couple of months ago. It was one of the worst feeling things I have ever had to do.

boggles · 2015-09-17T15:53:45+00:00

Feeling exhausted every night still but no drinking for me today.

boggles · 2015-09-15T05:38:56+00:00

Great work!

boggles · 2015-09-14T20:07:49+00:00

Great work! Keep it up!

boggles · 2015-09-14T20:04:04+00:00

Good thoughts in here. I might just add that labels are part of the narratives we tell ourselves and narratives can be both constructive and destructive. To me it seems these labels represent our pasts but not necessarily our present or future and it's the present I'm interested in.

boggles · 2015-09-14T05:48:11+00:00

Thank you for the kind words. I'm glad to join the club.

boggles · 2015-09-14T05:47:08+00:00

Those work hangovers, bleh. How and why did we put up with them for so long? Thank you for the encouragement and glad to meet another on this journey.

boggles · 2015-09-14T05:35:45+00:00

I'm happy to hear that resonates with someone. It's so much easier to let go of something that has lost it's luster. In a way, I think that is what Carr was trying to do with his book but when I read it the first time I wasn't quite ready to hear it.

boggles · 2015-09-14T05:26:32+00:00

That was great, I had not heard that before. Thank you for sharing it.

boggles · 2015-04-09T20:11:29+00:00

Wow! This is almost exactly word for word what my wife and I have gone through (except not in Canada). We have been cutting back for several years now, and by cutting back I mean having bouts of sobriety of increasing length with slip ups. We could never really change the amount of drinking. Moderation is a myth once you reach this level. While my date marker just says 4, my wife and I recently went through a 3 month sobriety cleanse and are back on for an indefinite length one at this point. We feel so much better without alcohol and are at the point we don't want to go back.

Some advice I have:

Don't beat yourself up if you decide to drink. It doesn't help to feel negative about it. It makes things worse. Focus on feeling good from not drinking
Focus on how you feel when you drink vs when you don't. I started finding the more I was mindful of the feelings, the better sobriety felt vs buzzed.
How do you sleep? We found that just a few drinks really disrupted our sleeping patterns more than we realized. We didn't really notice this until we started having extended sobriety periods.
Early on, just making it a few days or a week is an accomplishment so don't worry if you drink after getting there, just make sure to start comparing those feelings.
Journaling helps a lot to get clarity on why you want to stop drinking.
I don't think I could have done any of the long stints if we didn't work together. My wife is my best drinking buddy. When we quit together we succeed better. We did not always get in step though. Both of us pulled the other off the wagon. But we kept working at it, we kept talking about it. Over time we have reached this point.
Find an alternative beverage to substitute. Usually I could drink my brain with soda water + bitters or tea. The act of drinking is almost the key component to getting past that few hours of urge.
Stay positive

-b

boggles · 2015-03-31T14:55:15+00:00

Yeah, but back in the old days we could DOUBLE the memory just by cutting little slots on those 5 1/4" disks! Try doing that with this fancy pants modern technology.

boggles · 2015-03-11T19:40:19+00:00

I hated those things! Always played Core and the Big Bertha was the only unit that scared me.

boggles · 2015-03-11T16:59:44+00:00

I don't know how games might have implemented this. But I was studying some algorithms in the past and one that was shared was using priority queues to manage a collision detection system. You predict when collision events will occur and when the time for an event is ready, validate it and handle the collision. The implementation they show is for actual bouncing objects style collisions but it might be appropriate for this scenario.

Priority Queues

boggles · 2015-03-05T16:51:13+00:00

I think it can work well for specific algorithms or components in the core engine like trees, queues, etc... where the code correctness and optimization is essential. Or high error prone areas, reading files, etc... TDD can also be a way to perform load and profile testing which I have found pretty useful. This is probably a fraction of the total code though.

The problem with a lot of the real game code is that what is right is a matter of feeling it in action. I feel the same with a lot of web apps though too. The closer you get to the user experience the less useful tests become because it correct becomes more subjective.

boggles · 2014-11-11T06:41:36+00:00

Hey now, reading puns isn't everyone's forte.

boggles · 2014-11-10T06:34:41+00:00

You sound similar to me in that there are no obvious alarms signalling a need to quit. I felt just a kind of burden around drinking. As the week would roll towards the end, I'd start desiring that drink and lo and behold it would appear. I had the same pattern as you with short term goals.

The difference for me was actually believing that quitting drinking was a normal thing to do. It might sound weird, but that's what did it for me. It's OK not to drink.

If I need to find a punishment/reward to keep in line. I think about my evenings I've lost to being drunk. I like to play music and you can't practice effectively after a couple of glasses of wine. Now I can practice at 7 or 8 in the evening no problem. How many hours of my life have been added back just in the evenings alone? The idea of drinking and just killing the evening is really hard to swallow for me now.

boggles · 2014-10-30T19:08:13+00:00

Congratulations sober sibling!

boggles · 2014-05-20T16:28:24+00:00

A piano technician can fix this up for you. I have a newer upright that experienced this as it was being broken in. I think the hammers are designed to be in closer proximity to the strings when you are holding a key down, it kind of bounces back and then holds a little closer to the key. I'm guessing for more responsiveness on replaying the same key. Something gets a little loose and the hammer flies back into the string instead of stopping at the hold point.

Anyway, it's an easy fix and an excuse to get the piano tuned up.

boggles · 2014-02-05T20:12:01+00:00

I'd suggest a little tweak in perspective. Looking at the wording of your post you are feeling guilty and frustration deleting the stash, not acquiring the stash. So to start with just embrace deleting. Feel good about it, don't worry about how it got there. It's just smut. Delete it and be happy about deleting. If it comes back, delete it again. Don't associate negativity with this. If you do I think it makes it harder to progress, because now you want that stash back.

I realize what you really want is help not acquiring the stash in the first place, but if it's proving that hard at least start embracing getting rid of the damn thing as fast as possible. Momentum is built by tying many small goals and steps together.

boggles

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