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Cake day: July 25th, 2023
  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you time manage and prioritize your work and projects?
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    7 months 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.orgtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•duplicates
    7·
    1 year 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.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Done with r/Privacy on Reddit
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    1 year ago

    What do you recommend?

    If Signal was not simple, my family and friends would likely use Telegram or WhatsApp. Even switching to Signal required a number of (general) newspaper articles criticising the status quo. It’s likely not optimal, but okayish and sharing opinions and holiday impressions feels a bit better.

    Switching a service is a slow, difficult process and many contacts will not follow, given they would abandon other contacts among friends, family, parents at school, sports teams, … (now, I’m here, using 4+ solutions).

    If training or even curiosity for the technical process is required, very few people will follow. If it takes me (with strong IT background) more than 30 minutes to understand/implement, I may have a decent private solution, but I will feel quite lonely soon.

  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.orgto> Greentext@lemmy.ml•Anon questions our energy sector
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    1 year ago

    Nuclear power is usually not abandoned for being dangerous, but because it’s weirdly complex to keep it safe as compared to the alternatives [1]. This makes it one of the most expensive ways to produce energy (at least given European regulations). Also, the raw material is expected to be quite rare relatively soon.

    I guess this may be more about the way caveman made their fire… and the multi-billion cavedollar structure for holding the magic stone can be annoying.

    [1] reading other comments, I feel like it is necessary to clarify that by alternatives, I do refer to green energy like wind, solar and water, plus energy storage.

    I agree that atomic energy is preferable to fossil energy in almost all regards. The most convincing aspect for me is that you can see, pack and store your by-products, at least somehow, while CO₂ emissions can only insufficiently be handled using carbon capture and storage (CCS).

    People tend to understand dangers with visible effects easier (impressive boom) than indirect effects like climate change (less impressive, slow motion, yet possibly apocalyptic boom).