the way our cities / communities are designed. Most Europeans will walk 10,000 steps in their average day; most Americans will struggle to get half that. It makes a huge difference over several years/decades.
everytime you wad up a piece of paper and Kobe Bryant it into the rubbish bin, you're doing differential calculus in your head. The starting velocity and trajectory of the paper wad is decided upon based on the parabola's first and second derivatives.
You may not know it, but you're definitely using the calculus "intuitively" - that's why the paper doesn't land right in front of you, or into the next room over, even if you miss the basket.
My hot take on the issue: Don't regulate the guns per-se; regulate the bullets. An adult (only adults should be shopping for ammunition?) must take end-to-end responsibility and ownership of each bullet the purchase, and subsequently fire. You own the bullet from the time you take it home to the store to the time it comes to rest after firing out of a gun.
The guns, other than as a mechanism for firing bullets, are not particularly harmful; certainly not more harmful than a baseball bat or a car. It's really the bullets coming out of the gun(s) we as a society are worried about.
If your bullet (out of your gun, or any other even) harms property, you as the bullet/gun owner have financial responsibility of that damage. Your bullet harms a person, intentionally or not, you are responsible. Doesn't matter if your kid took it to school, or someone stole your gun & bullets; you are responsible. Many these firearm "accidents" and negligent discharges, kids getting into the guns, etc would go away if the customer at the gun store was made very aware of exactly what liability they were taking on, complete with stories and anecdotes about how irresponsible gun owners have been (financially, or otherwise) ruined by their carelessness.
If we held gun owners to the responsibility they are supposedly taking on simplicity when choosing to own a firearm, this conversation would be much easier. Why are we not crucifying the parent(s) of this most recent shooter, who were the owner(s) of the gun and bullets used in the school in Texas?
The problem with this is how you identify the ammo used. If you print on the shell casing, it can be re-used after it is ejected from the rifle at the range leading to reasonable doubt about it's origin. There is also no way to tag the bullet itself. Tagging firearms and regulating them is much much easier. Can you imagine the police checking that each and every shell in a box of 300 is tagged?
With regards to the most recent shooter, as far as I can tell, their only parent was a grandparent who they shot and killed before attacking the school.
Gogs / gitea fan here. Used both, can recommend either. One-liner docker command to set up & a simple docker-compose.yml to declare everything in one place.
I haven't taken any time off since I began working. I have taken several vacations over the last 5 years, between 3-10 days in length (some variance in types, destinations, etc.).
> There could be a middle ground where you don't have to quit your job and that your employer would be happy to accommodate (if they care about their employees).
I would love to discuss this type of exchange - how should I approach this with my current boss? My team has about 5 people but about 10 peoples' worth of incoming work - we are all feeling the pain. I'm fully ready to amicably part ways & not come back - but it seems like it's common to come back to the place one departs from.
Several years ago my friend told his manager he was quitting and left to hike the PCT for 6 months. Not long after he finished up his old job got in touch for contract work, and has been doing that since. He does a form of tech/PM consulting, not development, but I could see something similar happening in your case if you did the same.
You could frame it to your boss as you're leaving to take off time for a couple of months and just mention that you could be interested in coming back and go from there. Obviously no guarantees in either direction.
I think you have some salient points; I would stay busy in the sense of making things (software) while I'm away.
> You will find another job unless you quit into the start of the recession..
This is probably what I fear, and why I'm asking around. With the inflation & supply chain issues recently, and with the current yield curve inversion, at least in a short-to-medium term sense I think the music is going to stop soon. But macro-economies are cyclical and although bad stuff spreads quickly, I don't think software specifically will have much of a dip even if some other economic sectors do.
I wasn't a professional in 2000-2003 after that downturn, but I was online during that time & witnessed the steady decline of "tech". I'm cautious of the "this time it's different" thesis, but the analog-only lifestyle that was possible in 2000 isn't what people do today - there will be long-term demand for what we/I do (this is my opinion).
To address the point directly: I think if we are starting a recession now-ish, in 6 months' time the subsequent upswing might already be starting - I recall Apr - Sept 2020. I'm confident that I'm average-or-above, which should guarantee work somewhere. If the recession starts in 6 months, I have another 6 months' runway still comfortably, and I can start the search early. I recall in previous recessions companies are still hiring developers.
> Boredom breeds a gambling habit. Don't use your free time to trade exciting markets.
This is sound advice; I only gamble in the sense of a family-and-friends regular poker night. I buy bonds & index funds on a set schedule otherwise in markets. I'm not attracted to gambling; I've met people who are, I don't think it's me. But like you say, don't take chances.
> Be accountable to yourself. Try to something meaningful to show for yourself when you're done.
It sounds like based on yours and other commentary, if the "me" time is successful, I should have artifacts to show it. The time off shouldn't represent a material issue during the subsequent job search. Since you say you have personal experience, what is your anecdote? what did you do, what would you have done differently?
Maybe apply to YC or some other seed stage fund with your best idea once you spend a few months developing the concept and talking to potential customers. By the time the process completes you should be well recharged too.
My startup was funded through revenues from day zero, the world entered a recession soon after, and that was a motherf** hard grind. Spending other peoples risk capital would be easier on yourself.
