Comments by "Fingers" (@digitalspecter) on "JRE Clips" channel.

  1. Yeah, I'm 40 and I've been a working as a programmer since I was 17. I've spent ungodly number of hours of my time learning things, and learning "new" things again and again (I say "new" because a lot of the old stuff just re-emerges in a new package but still requires studying). It exhausts you in the long run. Especially the cynicism that rises when you see ever increasing number of tools and abstraction layers and the whole "getting shit done" doesn't really get that much easier. I'm looking to change fields as well. I used to love coding and solving problems, these days it feels more like glueing a jigsaw puzzle together where all the pieces aren't even from the same puzzle.
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  2. Well, you can eat once a day and not be hungry. For me, hungriness seems to be related to blood sugar level swings. You can try to keep it steady with eating lots of small portions or changing diet to something that doesn't cause spikes and crashes. I cut carbs massively and to me the most magnificent effect was that I rarely feel the need to eat I am just not hungry. It's so liberating to not need to think about food constantly and not even having to plan your day so that there are no long gaps between meals.
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  3. Get a headlight reflector from a car... works a treat. That's what I used to light fires as a kid :D
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  4. Element 115 is extremely radioactive and has a half-life of less than a second. I wish people had at least elementary (cough) understanding of what this means.
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