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@retoor I'd say your english is pretty gooda. There are a couple of dopamine hobbies I can think of, but it really depends on the person. Do you like being outside? (I know it's cold right now)
Also for the patience thing, it could also very well be that you have adopted the expectations from working with a high level lang and projecting it on other langs (e.g. making an api python is super easy, in C not so much). It's something I noticed as well, and having re-adjusted my expectations it helps quite a bit.
Are you making sure you're getting enough sleep btw? If you're tired/fatigued, it can shorten your patience quite a bit as well -
some people are too patient for their own good. the skill that defines me as a person is sensing how things _should_ be, even in absence of examples.
Having no knowledge of polyamorous relationships even existing, at the age of eight, I realized that monogamy was wrong. Then, with the entire world being turned into React zombies, I sensed that this was not the way to do things. I've never seen examples that confirmed what I believed in, yet I persevered and got out of that cult.
Extreme patience would've been my ideas' kryptonite. “No, things are as they should be, just be more patient in dealing with this BS”…
Why automate things at all if you're patient enough to run them by hand every time? Why optimize UI performance/demand UIs to be good if you're patient enough to use laggy UIs? Too much patience is the enemy of efficiency and optimization.
I'm not saying patience is a trait to get rid of, I'm saying that too much of everything is always bad. -
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> Having no knowledge of polyamorous relationships even existing, at the age of eight, I realized that monogamy was wrong
Funnily enough, I had the opposite realization. It is not the "natural order" of things, but it is the systemic culture humans have adopted for the betterment of society as a whole. I did some research on it, and there are a couple of reasons why monogamy is the standard. If you want to look at examples of poly- you might want to look at the middle east/north africa. I can give you some of the history if you're interested (also not trying to convince you otherwise, it's just an interesting topic), just @ me -
@retoor Fuck the gym, want to make me cranky and short-tempered, make me go to the gym.
When you're out on a walk, is there anything you like looking at? I'm a big fan of architecture and will go explore a city. As for nature, I can appreciate it, but it won't get me out the house.
Audiobooks/Reading/Donald Ducks? If you need something to occupy you, what are your habits when you aren't allowed/able to do anything, do you fidget with your hands, zone out, daydream about code? Would you put down a book if you're in the middle of it to go code on a whim?
How much energy do you want to invest in the hobby? I like scuba diving, but I don't do it often.
Often, the easiest way for me to break away from "computer stuff" is to go somewhere in person out of the house (but I tend not to enjoy doing that). Or at the very least out of the room with the computer/displays.
You could also try the Dutch's favourite hobby cleaning ;P -
@retoor
> Sex, but that doesn't last.
If you're cooming for dopamine all day, you'd need assistance + after the 20th orgasm in a row, you'll likely pass out (I guess you could count that as catching up on sleep).
I've attached an image of the BBCs we were staring at when we first got here (I wonder if devrant can handle a 40mb image 😅, nope didn't like it, 12mb? nope)
I haven't heard of gogs, I might use it with the inevitable NAS.
Sounds to me like you're inundated with code wherever you go. Dopamine, at the end of the day, comes from whatever you feel to be an achievement. If reading is fine, I'd look up some side topics you find interesting, e.g. history or philosophy. Although, I'd probably recommend "the design of everyday things" or something that can stretch your mind in someone way, some mystery maybe? Do you read comics/manga (other than Donald Duck)?
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@retoor Also did I remember right that you have a guitar to play, why not try it with a copy of rocksmith?
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my dopamine is music (to which I dance, usually on drugs while doing other activities), gambling (very strong but maybe not the best habit for everybody)
fighting on the Internet I guess, before I got sick
some good games can give you lots of dopamine. like if they are difficult or have competition, if they feel "unfair" then I get hyper focused and obsessed
... also ye I take vacations where I binge watch a TV show for multiple days and sleep very little, sometimes drugs involved. I guess books can be capturing but it's very rare
... umm I'd go around and find new communities or sus websites and explore them, and that can be fun for a few hours too I guess. cuz it's new things and that gives me dopamine and gets me interested
playing Minecraft. evidently everybody with ADHD into that
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The most productive way of development is going slow and don't make a lot mistakes. Lately, I'm doing the opposite. It's often not your skills or knowledge but just your patience / expectation to be managed. Since I switched from C to Python I got the mindset that everything should be possible to make in short time with low effort. Being used to do a lot of effort because of C development gave me a lot of patience and upgraded me to be a better dev at any language. But sadly, I notice it's a skill you can lose. How to retrain my patience. Doing a lot of C again. But I want to have the patience NOW (retoor said impatiently). What a paradoxale dilemma shit. You have to do patient stuff to be become patient whey really sucks and sucks if you became inpatient.
Very underrated skill that actually says a lot about you as programmer: patience.
With enough patience you can master anything. Without it, you're depending on tools that allow you to. That's OK, but there's always some price to be paid. Many time it's the ignorance not knowing how the tools work and thus how it actually works. Some people can live with that, others don't. Knowing how somethings works is relative anyway. Do you know how it works until the language level? Kernel level? Framework level? Everyone chooses themselves what the limit is I guess. My limit is the C api / kernel interface.
Random thoughts. I'm just bit frustrating performing low lately and speculating about what to do about it. I just don't have a different hobby than programming. Doing something else for a while to give brain a rest would be best but it should be something raising dopemine. TV / gaming doesn't do that for me.
Sigh, how to do absolutely nothing. I did it for a 1,5 year full time but that was because of medication. Now it's impossible.
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