While there are many potential reasons someone burns out - one thing I've heard/learned from therapist is that almost universally everyone burned out is in a state where your judgement/evaluation/estimation is off. In "fight or flight" and "tunnel vision" type of off.
And due to that you shouldn't make any drastic and far reaching decisions untill you get that somewhat "recalibrated".
I mean sure - decide to overdo exercise for the rest of your life. Just don't decide to get a divorce, sell the house and spend all the money in short amount of time.
And yes it's rather weird to find yourself (temporarily) not working. And instead of going like "Yay I finally have time to do all (or at least some of) those things I always wanted/postponed/did-tiny-chunks-of/etc". Not feeling like any of those things are engaging, recharging or fun.
The best advice I've got is do something more physical and away from screen. Like make/build something (small or bigger), plant some fruit/vegetables, fix some stuff around the house ...
Oh and make sure you get up at same time each morning (having school age kids helps). Early in the day (ideally even from day before, though coming up on during morning) have some specific plan on things you'll do that day. Not necessarily achieve some output - just say "3 hours planting tomatoes in the garden".
Focus on following through with the plan - but without stressing that things take you longer than you expected (hence not plant X tomatoes in 3 hours).
And for relaxing/fun stuff - keep trying a mix of new/different stuff, as well as old things that used to be fun.
Does anyone recall/knows/can find an article (blog post) written by USA based investigative journalist that previously looked/reported on various problems/viruses/deaseases accidentally released by CDC and such?
I can't find the article/post now ... I recall it was written just as initial international investigation happened and released statement that "It's highly unlikely Covid-19 originated from Wuhan research center".
Guy mentioned things like lab technician carrying box with vials (with faded labels made using type writer) from one building to another and some of vials breaking (luckily not the one containing smallpox).
And there was also something about specific room/lab (I think in CDC) in new/rebuilt building where door didn't quite have a good seal - being fixed by duct tape.
And we'll the gist of it is - there's a long history even within USA/CDC to downplay/hide such accidents.
Actually I just realized that from lock screen of my phone, tapping on emergency also shows "What's my location".
Besides GPS, it sadly also needs/uses internet connection and then shows street address.
Oh and last time our car died in some small town with unpronounceable German name - once I called insurance (with roadside assistance module), operator sent me SMS, shortened URL opened up web browser and page asked for permission to get GPS access, and 10 seconds later she had exact Lat/Long on her screen.
Here is a service that lets you request anyone's location like the insurance operator did for you. Super easy and handy when you're trying to find someone who's not able to find their coordinates on their phone themselves.
Agreed. It's definitely something you should bookmark or add as an icon on your phone.
Another neat app is Backcountry SOS which is nice because it gathers your location and status and doesn't require an internet connection. It generates a text message you can send to 911 or anyone else.
Generally, you may be able to get an SMS out in an area with marginal cellphone coverage even when voice doesn't work. Turn on voice roaming for better results.
If someone wants to get idea of how hard it can be, without leaving house ...
Playing Death Stranding comes close.
Obviously game has realtime location/map, with isometric/topographic view also available, which makes it much easier than it would be in real world - reading off a paper map and guestimating where on that map you might be.
So basically try to check map and plan the route (e.g. reach a river/canyon/house/junction and then go left) ahead, and then either don't check the map (because it shows exactly where you are), or have a screenshot of it from before you left one of drop locations.
Did you notice it started to work worse over last ~2 years?
I shared problems in another comment here - TL;DR: worked seemingly good some 3+ years ago, started being flaky before covid, and seems much worse since covid.
So even if remote area was covered with cellular network, I would not rely on location sharing to show where I am not even where I was.
It seems to be working just the same as before. Maybe it's interacting poorly with a phone feature of yours like Battery Saver or something? I also think my Pixel 5 is like worse at a few of these things than my Pixel 2 so who knows.
That stuff might be part. Though in some combinations the phone (and battery saving settings or such) haven't changed.
And although on one hand going from being at same place for hours if not days (home during covid), and then in just 10-15min reaching another place without any or with really bad cellular reception could be messing with optimizations of location sharing.
I recall few situations where both wife and I were next to each other, both phones running google maps at the moment, each hitting on refreshing/retrying getting the other ones location - and thing still showing us as currently offline.
At some point personal/family emergency meant that instead of "regular" 1800km of both wife and myself driving across Europe - I was about to drive that on my own, all in one go/day. And then few days later back.
To ease her mind - I turned on family/emergency location sharing in Google Maps.
Afterward we realized it's supper convinient way to avoid those "How long before you (and one of kids that either one of us would pick up) are home?" calls.
Although starting shortly before Covid the functionality seems to have taken a nose dive. Like randomly showing one of us is in different city (e.g. Amsterdam vs Rotterdam), or now during Covid often saying "Offline, along with last known location from 1h ago (which tends to be home) and what was battery level at the time".
Actually it seems like some engineer (pre covid) though of optimizing refresh time for Google Maps location sharing based on how much it changes over some recent time.
And now combination of WFH meaning it's same place for majority of the day and that TTL being high, and literally all grocery stores we go to having no cellphone signal (I mean not even SMS can make it) putting us in edge of an edge case.
Google has been really tightening the strings on background execution. Maybe double check that Maps and Play Services are allowed unlimited data access, and exempted from battery savings (if you have that enabled).
Just to be sure I'm getting the question - you want to use rsync(1), and you're wondering if there's a good way to guard your code that's using/calling it from underlying changes in rsync options and output, how to read status/progress and such?
Here's an example of library that wraps rsync https://metacpan.org/pod/File::Rsync - you can provide callback functions that will be called for each line of stdout/stderr.
Granted it's in Perl - and chances are your code isn't written in Perl. So if you can't find something similar for your language of choice, and if you can't be bothered with checking out implementation in Perl and rewriting it...
And next to those - Perlito can "Compile Perl to Java/JavaScript/Python/Ruby/Go/etc" https://github.com/fglock/Perlito. I think we had/have some Perl code running in production Hadoop/JVM.
I'd imagine that chances are high that whatever name you pick for something in one language - there would be another language in this world in which same or similar word means bad/offensive thing.
This is basically the first time I hear about any country with a bias against developers without university degree.
Sure there might be general immigration law blockers.
Though pretty much anywhere in Europe that I've checked or know about. At least in IT/Development, you can get a highly skilled migrant work visa without university degree.
And just to be sure - with "I can not afford moving to another country" is not money but family/personal reasons, right?
So reevaluating such deep life questions (Do you believe/like what you do) during early stages of burnout is a bad idea.