Sounds like he just created a Slack channel where people could chit-chat about "sustainability" much like they chat about football or ESports.
Then he found out these guys actually spend all their working lives implementing plugins that do little more than display "Your site needed 0.04663kg of CO2 to run this year" next to a green leaf.
Seeing how they spent 1,5 years on this and have little more to show than "concepts of a plan" he was right to shut this down.
Yeah I'm just not wasting my life (or professional time) learning Groovy, Maven, DotNET project files, DotNET 4.8, Gradle, Azure DevOps, Grafana, Prometheus, Docker, Docker compose, Kubernetes, Jenkins etc et all.
I need those things once at project setup. I copy-paste and change a bit.
Why copy-paste? It's a proven strategy with a high success rate despite little effort behind it.
I also don't want to learn templating for every little DSL I need to write one file per project with.
But if you love doing it "the right way", you're welcome to do that work for me.
Any long-lived project's build will have to be updated/improved at various times throughout its lifetime so there needs to be somebody around who truly understands the build.
First, I think mental problems discussed more than ever: Anxiety, autism, inability to focus and yes, burnout. The "only few see" simply isn't true.
Second, the article mixes in some adjacent topics, such as purchasing power. Why? I don't know, but it blows the amount of stuff the article would have to supplement way out of proportion, before even the core message (burnout) was discussed.
Third, I'm always amazed how many people think they are different. You're not. If you care for a family member (children, elderly, disabled..), commute 2400 miles and work 7 days a week, you will burn out. But it won't be a surprise to anyone but you.
What you need is sleep, friends and sports, same as any social animal inhabiting a very real, very physical body.
Fourth, I'm not sure what you want others to do. Instead of complaining about the suggestions, write down what you would have wanted.
As other people have posted elsewhere in this, purchasing power and the economy is linked to the incentives that cause people to burn out. You keep pushing against the tide because you want that promotion or raise because costs go up over time. Or because you want to do something costly that you think will improve your life, such as having a child or moving somewhere or fixing an annoyance in your life.
Some people surely burn out because they're just obsessive, but many people, myself included, slide into it because "just 4 more months of this and I can afford X".
The asterisk is DLSS4 is using AI to generate extra frames, rather than rendering extra frames, which hurts image stability and leads to annoying fuzziness/flickering. So it's not comparing like with like.
Also since they're not coming from the game engine, they don't actually react as the game would, so they don't have advantages in terms of response times that actual frame rate does.
On the contrary, they need to be optimized so badly that they run like shit on 2025 graphics cards despite looking the exact same as games from years ago
There's probably a better way, but I use this graphical element zapper from Ublock Origin to hide distracting elements.
Works wonders for sites that I visit regularly. StackOverflow: Do I need related posts? The left sidebar (whatever it is they have there, I have forgotten already)? Their footer?
Then he found out these guys actually spend all their working lives implementing plugins that do little more than display "Your site needed 0.04663kg of CO2 to run this year" next to a green leaf.
Seeing how they spent 1,5 years on this and have little more to show than "concepts of a plan" he was right to shut this down.
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