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  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•How do you time manage and prioritize your work and projects?
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    9 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.orgtoGreen Energy@slrpnk.net•Can somebody please explain why the world hasn't gone nuclear yet?
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    10 months ago

    There were several incidents (ref. 1), but in particular Fukushima in 2011 changed a lot, as it was a modern type of power plant.

    It reignited discussions regarding safety and (under the impression of 9/11) fears that nuclear power facilities could be targeted by terror attacks.

    With current regulations new reactors can cost some 20 to 40 billion, making it one of the most expensive sources of electrical energy. Costs for decomissioning are significant as well. Both building and decomissioning costs are typically passed on to tax payers.

    Also, permanent storage of used burning rods is hard, nobody wants nuclear waste buried in their neighborhood. Given its half life of ~240 000 years, it may also be difficult to communicate its dangers to future generations (ref. 2).

    The currently most common sources of burning material (Uranium) stem from - large parts - politically controverse regions and may in sum last some estimated 80-100 years, quite short given some 10-20 years of construction time per plant.

    This is not talking about thorium and salt reactors, but technical challenges and costs seem to be limiting for these technologies, in particular as long as the default infrastructure exists.

    edit: the ‘new’ types are more complex and not suited for weapons in general.

    1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents?wprov=sfla1

    2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUXwrWMS-x8

  • xtrapoletariat@beehaw.orgtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Done with r/Privacy on Reddit
    61·
    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.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•What's a great buy it once Android app?
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    2 years ago

    Just wanted to add that it’s a music sequencing/composition/recording tool. I also bought it some 20 years ago and they really delivered the lifetime free upgrade thing - bought some upgrades and plug-in packs now and then nonetheless - - great tool. I feel that presently, I use roughly 20% of its features, but I never find the time to dig deeper.

    edit: refering to the Desktop version