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  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldtoProgrammer Humor@programming.devA relatable situation
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    I’ve had plenty of breakthroughs at 9PM, but most of those could have been gotten at 11AM the next day without neglecting my family.

    You’re a better coder than I am/was then. Everytime, without fail, if I took that break at 9pm, left work, and came back the next day, I never solved that problem.

    You come into the office the next day and you have more/new problems to solve on top of the one you were trying to solve the night before, and you have to try to get back ‘into the zone’ of the problem solving for that one single problem (especially when you’ve had to do a bunch of configurations to your IDE for the last-night problem being worked on), very problematic to do when the office is busy.

    Speaking of, forgot to mention that point, but working late usually gives you a quieter office environment to work in. Its always why I would try to start work at 10am (or later) on any project I was one, give me an hour or three of "quiet’ at the end of the day to wrap up work uninterrupted.

    Edit: Forgot to mention in my reply, but …

    without neglecting my family

    I made sure to never do that. Balancing Life/Work is always tough, but staying employeed with a great income sometimes takes better care of your family than being home late for dinner one evening.

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  • After 5PM stop looking for a fix, start looking for a stopping point and write up some notes to review when you’re fresh again.

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    No. My best successes were when I stayed on point and pushed through the fatigue and solved the problem. Taking a ‘go to bed and come back to the office fresh’ type of break would inevitably set me back, as I would have to pick up my train of thought again, to get back “into the zone” of the problem and solving it. Its another form of an interruption while you are trying to concentrate, and can interrupt an ‘Eureka!’ moment in problem solving.

    It truly sucks having to work the extra hours, and if the project management is so bad that you’re doing it all the time, then you need to find other work, but sometimes, ‘sticking it out’ is the solution to the problem, finishing what you started.

    Having said that, if I’ve pushed through the fatigue multiple times in multiple hours, so that its super hard to push again, THEN that would be the point where I walk away from the problem for the evening. Its not an either/or thing, but its definately stick around and try to solve longer than the advice I’m replying to would suggest.

    One last thing. The above advice was given by someone who spent most of their career self-employeed and working an hourly rate. You’re expected to solve the problems others can’t because you’re getting paid more, and your time is compensated accordingly to the amount of work you are putting in. If you are a salaried employee, especially one who is low paid, I would then advise you to consider other things than strict professionalism, like QoL issues vs compensation gained, etc.

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  • I’m also not sure how it works with the licenses of the instance it’s posted on, and the instances that federate with, store and reproduce the content.

    My understanding is a license would stays with the content, no matter where the content is replicated. I also declare that my content is licensed in my user account description as well.

    As far as the labeling goes, I normally have it say a little more than what I did in my last comment. Having read your comment and double checking on the Creative Commons site, I did decide to change it to be more descriptive as you advised.

    But if you go back through my personal comment history, about nine and a half months or so, you’ll see that there’s been a large quantity conversation about this licensing link, so having just recently returned to Lemmy I was trying to shorten it down, figuring just the actual license information itself was enough of the declaration.

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  • You said your lid and seat are totally independent - suggesting you can leave the seat up but close the lid.

    I believe that’s an interpretation mistake on your part (the italicized part).

    I was responding in disagreement to your comment about how both of them have to both be up together, or both down together, to actually use the toilet.

    A reminder of what I was responding to…

    So she asks me to always make sure to put the seat down for her,

    Seat is down if thenlid is down.

    Our lid is seperate from the seat. One can be done down while the other one is still up.

    I wasn’t commenting on what order they stack on top of each other.

    I feel like I’m being trolled myself tbh.

    For the record, not trolling at all, it’s not what I do.

    So lets just shake our headsbin unison and carry on.

    And yes, this is definitely not a subject we should be continuing to talk about. Have a good day.

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