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MehreenTahir wrote: or I'm too affected by the studies that the only way out I find is social media
And that's probably the problem. When I was studying, I always found time to go out and have fun. Heck during my FB time I was going out even more than usually, FB was the channel to organize us and to hang the pictures of the parties so all of us could have a copy. That was the nice thing. Once it was obvious the direction they were moving, I stopped using it.
But... again, if your studies affect you, social media is not the solution. You just need to delete the "media" and replace it with interaction. Go out, have a drink with friends, go to party on the weekend or do some trecking or whatever you like. Get fresh air and interact with people.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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MehreenTahir wrote: Is it just me or do feel the same way? 
I heard similar before.
..but I never used FaceBook or Twitter and the likes and even my smartphone is usually at home, uncharged. I don't want to be called during work, unless it is something that the receptionist puts through. Anyone calling the private number will have to wait until I am home and finished eating.
Seen this weeks poll?
Survey Results - What bugs you the most when coding?[^]
I can see how social media interrupts your flow; once you compile it may be tempting to look and feel the need to answer.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: even my smartphone is usually at home
I usually do that but again when I'm back to my place the first thing I do is check my phone and well social media accounts 
Feels like a drug now and I don't know how to overcome it (at least not yet) 
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It is. Do you take your phone with you when going to the toilet?
If it is important, they'll call again in a few minutes anyway. Addictions are easier to avoid than to break - I have never attempted to quit smoking, and only once did I try to do away with coffee.
The difference with those substances with phones and social media is the point that other people try to encourage you to use them. People expect that you're available to answer, and expect that you make time for it. That social aspect will make it harder to break than an antisocial habit like smoking.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Do you take your phone with you when going to the toilet?
Thankfully no and never 
Eddy Vluggen wrote: The difference with those substances with phones and social media is the point that other people try to encourage you to use them
That's one of the main reasons I couldn't avoid social media more than a few days and well, a part of me is kinda afraid of losing friends I'm only in touch with social media including international friends. But then I'm being more and more depressed and at least 50% credit goes to social media. 
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MehreenTahir wrote: a part of me is kinda afraid of losing friends I'm only in touch with social media including international friends.
When was the last time you seen each other in real life? There's a lot of contacts that I lost over the years, and despite me being a bit of a hermit I always get new ones.
MehreenTahir wrote: But then I'm being more and more depressed and at least 50% credit goes to social media. 
I hope you are having some friends outside social media? Or is SM eating your time away so much you're becoming isolated?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Or is SM eating your time away so much you're becoming isolated?
Actually I'm using social media not to isolate myself otherwise all I want at the moment is to be alone. Does that even make sense? 
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MehreenTahir wrote: Actually I'm using social media not to isolate myself otherwise all I want at the moment is to be alone. Does that even make sense?
Yes. We're a social species, and rely often on talents of others.
Still, some seek solitude for different reasons and for most it is a bad idea. Without having other people as a touchstone and keeping one rational, we tend to magnify certain things.
Not sure if you should share the reason why you want to be alone, but it sounds like it is making the dependence on social media worse.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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How long did it take you to come to this conclusion? That's nothing new here. Social media causes people to be anxious and depressed.
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Took me long enough to have fallen for the trap. 
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Most of the replies, including this one, are from older folks who have not been subjected to SM until they grew a strong sense of self. I suggest that you have an addictive personality trait and you will probably not be able to wean yourself off SM without help.
Get some help, there are probably a number of organisations out there who can help you.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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The only social media I use is FB (strictly through the web interface). I find it immensely useful to keep in touch with my family friends who are spread throughout the world. I'm also a member of a few FB groups related to my hobbies (playing music and collecting model cars) and have made some very useful real-life connections as a result. I also browse FB only a few times a day: usually with my morning coffee, and just before I go to bed at night.
/ravi
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It's not just how you feel, it's scientifically proven[^] 
CP adds to this feeling too.
I see all of you talking about technologies I don't know and writing articles I don't understand and it gives me a feeling of inferiority that's holding me back professionally and financially 
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MehreenTahir wrote: I've been feeling like social media is just adding to my anxiety and I tend to waste more time using social media than doing any productive work.
In a nutshell -- what's social media? That pretty much states my relationship to it. And yes, you're absolutely right -- a waste of time, can be stressful, and seriously distracting.
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When you're working on code to where every bit of progress is a battle but also an accomplishment, but you're working for days trying to get to a "ground zero" where it actually does something significant - anything, just to prove its black little heart beats.
I got my CodeDomResolver able to resolve types contextually depending on scope.
I feel like Dr. Frankenstein right now. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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Well done, now you deserve a rest 
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What a diplomatic way of telling me to stuff it. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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I have had a similar thing over the last several days. I was overhauling my trace message system because I noticed it had about 6ms of overhead per message and I thought that was a bit excessive. After the rewrite it's down to 4us of overhead now and has a few nice enhancements in addition. That works out to a 1500% increase in performance so I am rather jazzed about it.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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That's a pretty impressive improvement. 
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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honey the codewitch wrote: When you're working on code to where every bit of progress is a battle but also an accomplishment, but you're working for days trying to get to a "ground zero" where it actually does something significant - anything, just to prove its black little heart beats.
Are you describing dating or coding?
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I recently ran some tests on specific types of NVME SSDs, as well as an adapter that connects these drives directly to the PCIe bus.
I believe the test results will be of interest to some of our members, but writing about it will not make much sense unless I mention the make and model of the items I tested. Will this be acceptable or will it be classified as spam?
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I checked on a similar thing when I wrote this article: Take three tablets and call me in the morning - the Chuwi Hi12[^]
And the response from Chris was that reviews are fine - indeed encouraged - and I guess "Testing and comparing" SSD's would come under that purview.
I'd say "Yes - go for it!"
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Great! Thanks!
By the way: The purpose of my writing is not to compare specific products, but to compare technologies: The relative performance of SATA SSDs vs. NVME SSDs that plug into the PCIe bus.
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Keep it technical and objective and you won't have problems
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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One of the keystones, I think, of Good Programming(TM) is to get your tools to do the work, and to do it smartly. This can require a little bit of thinking around corners, but they payout is worthwhile.
In C++ probably the premier example is templates. Sure you can use them for std::vector<T> style containers but you can also use them to coerce your compiler into doing complicated calculations at compile time, like generating parse tables - work your code doesn't have to do at runtime.
In C# one of the most overlooked hidden gems in this category is the garbage collector itself.
What it is, is a fancy graph manager. This is awesome for managing Document Object Model or Abstract Syntax Tree type structures.
For example I have code that works with an external AST called the CodeDOM. I use it to hold the information i get back from parsing my mini programming language (a subset of C#)
The problem with that AST is it doesn't contain all the information i need, so I have to tag it. and tagging can make things stale. If i tag a node with a parent node, what happen when that entire subtree is removed?
Using WeakReference<T> you can tell the garbage collector to let you know when nobody else is holding on to the object anymore, so you can toss it.
So I just keep my cache current using a refresh routine but also judicious use of WeakReference in all my state tags. So when the tree gets altered my dead nodes get pruned automatically.
If I didn't do this, I'd have to somehow track it myself, or make Refresh() more resource hungry.
The GC is your friend, people.
This has been a public service announcement.
When I was growin' up, I was the smartest kid I knew. Maybe that was just because I didn't know that many kids. All I know is now I feel the opposite.
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