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Also last month's because I just realised I forgot to tweet it...
@catteboots@twitter.com

I'm gonna start insisting people call me a "computer warlock" anytime they say "wizard"

Ironically, Supermicro boards are probably the safest ones to buy now, because they're under such intense federal scrutiny. And all the other boards you might buy instead are all manufactured in the same country, sooooo...

Also my morning, dealing with this shit on top of trying to force my brain to get into programming mode

I've spent like the entire last week spinning in circles, unable to focus, and wasting time on constant indecision just trying to do some really basic sockets programming and I feel like I wouldn't even pass a first year programming course working like this.

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Also painfully aware that if this were literally any other job, I probably wouldn't be able to keep that job in my current state, either. Which is another reason I'm stuck here, even if I could find another place that might take me.

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Did the falling asleep thing again yesterday. Despite that, too tired to function this morning, took the morning off.

I'm painfully aware that I'm only dealing with this by burning through a backlog of vacation days I technically shouldn't even have been allowed to keep.

Geeeez, I'm far from a "everything has to be written in highly optimized C, with impossible to follow variables because it saves 512b" type. But using 35% of a modern CPU to type some letters is obscene.

re: insects 

@thingywott they live in the steam tunnels beneath the buildings at work. Sometimes they get out onto the main floors, but they mostly stay down there.

THAT WE KNOW OF!

@PK actually wait, that's really good, I'm doing that for my next cat.

@PK okay but maybe the cat's name is icon did you think of that huh

re: abuse 

@Nurbs (also not A HUNDRED PERCENT SURE this thread is the right place for that particular low effort joke, but I'm gonna roll with it unless it's a problem)

re: abuse 

@Nurbs at least until you get GRS send toot

Poll for full time software developers 

Are you experiencing symptoms of burnout?

Either way, please take part in this poll!
strawpoll.me/16533935

For those in need of it, this article has a nicely succinct list of common burnout symptoms.
verywellmind.com/stress-and-bu

Please boost! ^^

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