@Nudhul Thankfully, my situation isn't the "worrying" sort, for all paths forward are stable. I do find thinking on things, undistracted, during long walks with my dog keeps me observant of my own thoughts if that makes any sense. I can see the story my mind is weaving which helps to explain why I think the way that I do and extends an avenue to reshape it if I so choose.
@Nudhul The first step is to do something that will make you or the world around you better: practice a skill, read a book, clean a room, take a walk, etc.
@RustyCrab@PurpCat@lina In a corporate setting, it's really easy to ask IT for another hard drive, and they'll send over a dude to plug in another 2 TB SSD in under 30 minutes. The steady flow of new disks is cheaper than paying an engineer to pare back the dev install size.
@RustyCrab@PurpCat@lina I was at a job that needed a nightly sync between international offices with deltas in the 500 to 1000 GB range; loading the data up on an SSD and "same day" shipping it was a serious consideration.
@RustyCrab@PurpCat@eric@professionalbigot69@Nudhul I know about volume sweeps, and they're sort of like what I'm talking about, but dead reckoning is used a lot in network protocols that have a ton of entities with very predictable changes. Instead of sending an "I'm here heading this way" message every so and so milliseconds, you send "I'm here and my speed is ~ changing at ~ a second; my heading is ~ changing at ~ a second." You then don't need to send any more updates until you stray significantly from your stated path.
@PurpCat@ChristiJunior@djsumdog@LukeAlmighty The phenotype's tendency to stick with strange and stupid ideas is why when they're successful they are super successful; they're high risk, high reward personified.