Just stop working more than 35-40 hours a week. If you get no bonus because of this action, that's not so bad. If you get let go because of it, the next one could be more tolerant. You are not a slave, so don't act like one.
If you strictly want things that are not vector databases, you can choose to categorize each item with multi-hierarchical categories. To query, just filter for items belonging to the categories that interest you. As a bonus, this approach is a lot more interpretable than using embeddings.
There is a different way to think about it which is that the work could in principle be better structured to automatically be associated with more pleasure.
Stamina is often fueled by stimulant drugs which exert a toll on the user. I used five unique ones this morning, and I know it's going to be tough to get proper sleep. As long as one uses their time well, there is no substitute for work-life balance.
I would argue the original post is talking about stamina on a different scale. Stamina over years. Not over the course of a day or week, fueled by stimulants.
An activity or thing that holds deep meaning to you personally will be the stimulant to one's stamina. Love for your child will allow you to take care of him/her despite being insanely sleep deprived. I think the concept is much more broader than just work.
That isn't stamina, but perhaps a corrective for the lack of stamina. The stimulation is meant to increase pleasure, hence making it easier to stick with something. Stamina means the ability to endure the lack of pleasure in pursuit of the good.
That sounds like a false dichotomy as it's suggesting that pleasure may not coexist with the good. Typically they do coexist. Typically it is pursuit of the good that brings innate pleasure. If there is insufficient pleasure from work, it's typically because it's insufficiently good. The chemicals are an attempt to fill the gap.
> That sounds like a false dichotomy as it's suggesting that pleasure may not coexist with the good.
I didn't say they couldn't. But they don't always, for one reason or another. We're flawed, we have bad habits, we have vices, we have disordered tastes, etc. These can steer us away from the good toward destructive ends, even though they may provide us with a cheap and empty source of fleeting pleasure.
> If there is insufficient pleasure from work, it's typically because it's insufficiently good.
Continuing the thought above, there are plenty of things we know that are good for us that we nonetheless don't want to do. We struggle to do them, but this does not mean they are insufficiently good, not in the least! It means we are not sufficiently good. Perseverance (or stamina, to use the author's terminology) means enduring unpleasantness, even suffering, for the sake of the good. The more perfect a human being is, however, the more pleasure is aligned with the good, because a more perfect human being is better aligned with the good. Indeed, in a perfect human being, if the situation demanded it, suffering and dying for a worthy good would be a pleasure.
What is experienced as pleasure is not fixed and determined only by the object, but also conditioned by the subject. The reason is similar to the difference between good and bad taste. Good taste is an alignment with and receptivity to the objective good, while bad taste is rooted in dullness, or a disorder of receptivity, or whatever.
The solution here is simple: require user logins for data retrieval. Each user gets a quota as per a standard bucket algorithm. Don't overcomplicate a non-issue.
requiring logins for /everything/ would close up the web. Now... requiring a login for viewing git blame (which is resource intensive) might be a good idea...
If you are taking out $200 from an ATM you are probably buying something from a local store. Groceries, car mechanic, maybe going to a bar, something like that. Good luck paying for that with Monero.
Oh and I hope you don't lose your cold storage (or the keys for it), because thats basically the same as losing cold hard cash. You could also pay for some sort of managed cold wallet but (1) whats the point? You're basically back to banks then; and (2) congrats, you are now paying $$$ to hold $$$.
I'm a big fan of crypto, and I think it does bring valuable things to the world, but it is no where near ready to replace regular consumer fiat transactions.
For the record, there is no such thing as a managed cold wallet. Crypto is either exchange-custodied or self-custodied. If someone is given the unencrypted keys, it's as bad as donating your crypto to them.
At least various major gift cards can be purchased using crypto. This is not sufficient for real world use, but it is not nothing either. Substantial real world use will have to wait for the collapse of national currencies due to their exponential debt.
There are managed cold wallets of various flavors - either managed hardware, multisig partners, or in some cases just sales shenanigans where they are full key custodians but call it cold storage. Its a problematic part of crypto from a foundational perspective.
They seize it from criminals, not from everyday citizens. Also, with Monero, as long as your keys are safe, its's not going to be seized. It is unlike Bitcoin in that a wallet's balance isn't even trackable by outsiders.
Docker is good for deployment, but devcontainer is nice for development. Devcontainer uses Docker under the hood. Both are also critically important for security isolation unless one is explicitly using jails.
There have been incremental evolutionary improvements that were brought forth by each of the packages you named. uv just goes a lot further than the previous one. There have been others that deserve an honorary mention, e.g. pip-tools, pdm, hatch, etc. It's going to be very hard for anything to top uv.
Just you wait till someone shows you how Rust is to Python what Python is to shell scripts. For one, null safety is a major issue in most corporate Python code, and much less of an issue in Rust code.
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