anujsharmax

Hi, I just built something to help my wife's clinic by quantifying the problems patients come with - give it a try for free (don't treat it as medical advise without talking to your dermatologist). I don't store any data - everything gets deleted in a day.

> "Because the majority of doctors are overworked, exhausted, and discontent, they've normalized their misery and pretend that it's not as bad as it seems"

This quote from the study hit me.

So many people are unhappy with the amount of unproductive work they do (e.g. administration work for doctors). But no one wants to change it?

> how would you determine which one an individual is dealing with?

The individual needs to talk to an expert (a doctor or a therapist) to find this.

Many medical issues show similar symptoms - we go to a doctor for a physical issue, then why do we think we know enough to diagnose mental issues?

These things are complex, and it is okay to ask for help.

> It's a short life, so I want to be careful with this decision, to avoid any future regrets. Because I can't decide on this, I end up not getting anything done. Time continues to march on, while I'm still stuck with not knowing what to do.

I loved most of the advice other people have given you. Follow the advice that you think is the best, but remember, You are more than the work you do.

You are being too hard on yourself - take care of your mental health as well. Talk to someone you trust.

Your life goals and priorities will change throughout your life. In the end, everyone will have some regrets (for different reasons). You just get to choose your own.

Pretty much Emacs (Spacemacs specifically) for anything once the OS boots up.

> 3. Consequently, most of the processing units now deployed in 4-core-and-up machines are doing nothing most of the time but generating waste heat.

The cores are not being wasted because we don't know how to parallelize computations - as evident by the scientific software run for high performance computing applications, which scales upto million cores.

Business decisions are responsible for these wastages. For example, many engineering software are licensed per core - so if you are using it on 16 cores, it costs A LOT more than using it on 4 cores. In some cases the licensing costs of the engineering software are higher than the cost of the hardware. So no one cares if few cores are wasted.

SICP is one of the books that I've seen everyone recommend - and I never understood what is so special about it, until I finally read it!

It feels very similar to a mathematical book. Rather than learning about the syntax, or the programming rules It teaches a way of thinking. I agree it is hard - but I don't know if it could be simpler.

In the end programming is not about computers or programs - but people solving problems. It teaches people to solve problems using computers.