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"With my recent scaling-back of the rosco_m68k project that’s been getting all my free time for the past couple of years, I needed a fun project to do during my

"With my recent scaling-back of the rosco_m68k project that’s been getting all my free time for the past couple of years, I needed a fun project to do during my time off, and I ideally wanted to take a break from Motorola 68k assembly and electronics and do something different." All of your free time is consumed in programming? Isn't it a bit absurd to have your entire life revolve around programming?

jdlshore 4y ago
Not nearly as absurd as thinking it’s okay to criticize strangers’ hobbies.
gavinray 4y ago
I don't think so, if that's your passion and you have no other hobbies. Why is programming for fun worse than birdwatching or building model trains? My joke is always: "Wait, you guys are getting paid for this?"
- nnoitra 4y ago
  Yeah but birdwatching at least implies that the activity is varied. What if someone was laying bricks for 9 hours and then came home ate dinner and then laid bricks for 3 more hours and did this for years and then took a vacation and laid bricks during the vacation as well? The line is murky between passionate, dedicated, obsessed and insane. I mean, do we understand that we get a single shot at life. This year we'll be as young as we'll ever be. Why do we behave as if though we have endless days that we can just toss away and be done with. Programming full-time and then also during free time and vacations is simply put not healthy no matter how much Elon Musk and the west glamourise it. It simply leaves no time whatsoever for taking care of health, spending time with family, travelling, photography, reading novels, meeting romantic partners etc.
  - noone_youknow 4y ago
    > What if someone was laying bricks for 9 hours and then came home ate dinner and then laid bricks for 3 more hours and did this for years and then took a vacation and laid bricks during the vacation as well? Well, then I would surmise that they must really enjoy laying bricks. And if that's the case, then more power to them :) > I mean, do we understand that we get a single shot at life. I'm pretty sure we do. And some of us are lucky enough that we get to choose how we spend it :)

jdlshore 4y ago

Not nearly as absurd as thinking it’s okay to criticize strangers’ hobbies.

gavinray 4y ago

I don't think so, if that's your passion and you have no other hobbies. Why is programming for fun worse than birdwatching or building model trains? My joke is always: "Wait, you guys are getting paid for this?"

nnoitra 4y ago
Yeah but birdwatching at least implies that the activity is varied. What if someone was laying bricks for 9 hours and then came home ate dinner and then laid bricks for 3 more hours and did this for years and then took a vacation and laid bricks during the vacation as well? The line is murky between passionate, dedicated, obsessed and insane. I mean, do we understand that we get a single shot at life. This year we'll be as young as we'll ever be. Why do we behave as if though we have endless days that we can just toss away and be done with. Programming full-time and then also during free time and vacations is simply put not healthy no matter how much Elon Musk and the west glamourise it. It simply leaves no time whatsoever for taking care of health, spending time with family, travelling, photography, reading novels, meeting romantic partners etc.
- noone_youknow 4y ago
  > What if someone was laying bricks for 9 hours and then came home ate dinner and then laid bricks for 3 more hours and did this for years and then took a vacation and laid bricks during the vacation as well? Well, then I would surmise that they must really enjoy laying bricks. And if that's the case, then more power to them :) > I mean, do we understand that we get a single shot at life. I'm pretty sure we do. And some of us are lucky enough that we get to choose how we spend it :)