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Procrastination

Imagine your manager saying to you: "I've reviewed your salary and I think we are paying you too little, so I would like us to negotiate your raise." - and then proposing a larger sum than you were expecting.

After (allegedly) coronavirus infection I'm still constantly tired and unmotivated to even eat a week after all symptoms disappeared.

Yay me 😒

Sick again. Yay 🙃

Yes, fuck me in particular

The first would be playing some Pac-Man on a bootleg ZX Spectrum that my uncle made (allegedly, he made more than one and sold them).

Outside of games, had a Win95 PC at some point. I don't remember much as that was something around 20 years ago.

Took vacation. Started to feel even worse than before.

Yay

Fell sick on vacation.

Fucking great. Yeah, fuck me in particular.

I guess I am having what is called a burnout.

I feel braindead, unmotivated to do anything, constantly tired and sleepy, and the only thing I want is to hibernate and wake up somewhere in spring.

Seems like mention notifications are broken yet again 🤔

My family had no particular reaction. I wanted to be a programmer since school, and they knew it was my intended goal.
I guess, my uncle being a professional programmer was something that showed it is a good choice.

Found this unusual keyboard layout on the internet. Looks like a better version of a standard 80% layout.

What do you think about it?

Got Kahlua, vodka and cream. My Friday is going to be quite good.

I probably should learn how to take vacations more often, not only when I feel mentally exhausted souch that I can't really do anything

I guess it's a sort of a mix of depression and burnout right now. I want to do nothing and I am constantly procrastinating. Also, very frequent sleepiness.

PS: was going to post in rants, but it's sort of random stuff rather than a rant.

How to get a fast MR approval 101:
Tell the reviewers that you've had a trivial merge conflict due to other colleague adding unit tests in the same file as yourself, which causes the approvals in Gitlab to vanish.
They assume they had given the approval previously and just push the button.

Being a mentor stresses me a bit. It was nicer to work alone without the need of assigning tasks to someone else.

Quite an underwhelming rant. I know. I don't have much to rant about.

Merge request

Title: Fix bugs
178 files, +615, -743

And it had passed review by not one, but two (allegedly) intelligent people.

HOW. THE. FUCK?!

Luckily I am overtaking that domain and won't allow such bullshit. Mainly because I will be the author of the commits.

Why arePC cases so damn useless and ugly nowadays. It's either a cheapo metal box with perforation on the side panel (why?!), Or a decent one with filters but also with a shitty and useless glass panel formo reason.

Why can't cases be just functional metal boxes with filters? Why all that useless shit?

I really wonder who is that genius from API team who decided that a namespace with the name "main" is a great fucking idea...

Because of this shit I've had to resort to hacky pImpl implementation of the API.

I've realized something...

I am depression. The Depressman! 🐒

None. I think, I have no other skill I could utilize professionaly.

Pretty much a sort of research work. The first assignment was: "look, we have this CAD viewer, but we would want to eventually optimize the structure of the mesh, so here's this method of minimizing the memory footprint. Try implementing it and integrating it with our application."

PS: the method is using triangle strips, where the next triangle uses two vertexes of the previous one, theoretically reducing the memory footprint of the mesh by 2/3 if the mesh is fully optimized. In the end, due to memory and performance constraints (this had to run on the first gen iPad), and overall application architecture, on the fly striping was unfeasible and gained no benefit, because striping an arbitrary mesh is a fucking hard task.

Another one was an implementation of smooth shading by recalculating vertex normals in runtime.

And yet another blackout.

Yesterday it was a free day for me because of blackout. Today starts the same.

I guess I should take a vacation soon.

I've chosen system/embedded programming because I liked system programming and did not like anything connected with web, frontend or UI.

So far it seems like it was a good choice. Even though web was not such a clusterfuck before, it was already repulsive.

Blackout. I guess it's time to hibernate under a blanket.

Some rhythmic psytrance or full-on.

That's basically everything I need to good into semi-flow state.

Sometimes an energy drink can give additional kick.

What do you live for?

Week long fever. Hazy mind. Productivity level "mashed potato".

Sucks to be me lately.