Have you felt tired like hell?
Have you felt tired like hell?
After writing lots of codes for my OS, I'm frustrated like hell right now. friends, what ya supposed to do, if you're tired like hell.
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don't despair.
Lean back, do something different and as for os deving - call it a day, if nothing works out as intended. There's no need to crave for immediate success. It's a hobby - for me - and therefore supposed to be enjoyed.
stay safe
Lean back, do something different and as for os deving - call it a day, if nothing works out as intended. There's no need to crave for immediate success. It's a hobby - for me - and therefore supposed to be enjoyed.
stay safe
... the osdever formerly known as beyond infinity ...
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Re: Have you felt tired like hell?
write some aplications,demos,gamesMilo wrote:After writing lots of codes for my OS, I'm frustrated like hell right now. friends, what ya supposed to do, if you're tired like hell.
something easy to code with quick results as oposed to OS development.
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Ironic that I should say this, but: sleep (I'm a diagnosed insomniac, and without medication, sleep becomes a weekly thing)
Here comes my long-winded elaboration:
We don't really know all that much about sleep but some very interesting studies have proposed some amazing ideas. By monitoring the brain activity of mice, scientists learned enough to understand what the mouse was doing (running, eating, sniffing around) by simply listening to pops and clicks that represented brain-wave activity. These pops and clicks could even identify in which direction the mouse was moving.
I forget names but one day this scientist was listening to the brainwave patterns of a mouse while it was sleeping (they seemed somehow sinusoidal), when he noticed that the brain activity started up again. From the sound he could tell the mouse was running through it's maze (I believe that the pops/clicks identified directions that, if mapped, were the _exact_ same as the maze, but I don't know that for certain). Much to his surprise, he found the mouse was still asleep! (Mind you, this particular scientist was so familiar with the pops/clicks that he could tell you what it was doing with his back turned to it)
What more, they found that when the mouse had been introduced to two completely different mazes during the day, the activity at night suggested that the mouse brain had developed a hybrid of the two mazes-a completely new maze-and the mouse (or, it's brain, rather) was traversing through it.
Farther studies into human sleep have found that people do very similar things. As you sleep, your brain reviews the events of the day. Think of it as if you could splice together moments of the day into one shorter clip, everything happening all at the same time. Your brain plays this clip continuously. Then, your brain starts to sort of, turn down the volume of this clip, so only the most significant events of the day are still "audible". This behavior is believed to be the reason that many musicians report being able to flawlessly play difficult pieces that they just could not get down during practice, after a night of sleep. I think this also works hand-in-hand with memory functions of the brain -- which is why it's harder to recall events of very little importance to you (what did you order for lunch the other day? how much did it cost?).
Once your brain has singled out the most important events, it starts to "free associate." It recalls other events and memories and mixes them with these new important events -- like the mouse, with the two mazes. Yet another scientist had his subjects play this full-body virtual-reality ski game. The fact that it was full-body was important because it forces you to be completely involved -- making it stand out as an important event. A significant amount of the patients, when they were waken after a short period of sleep, said they were dreaming of skiing down a slope in the game. But what's extremely interesting, is that when the subjects were waken after 2 hours of sleep, they reported hybrid dreams. For example, someone reported that he was traveling rapidly through a forest, and his body was stiff, he was standing straight up and down and his legs did not move -- it was as if he was on a conveyor belt. His brain understood the skiing being an outdoor activity, and free-associated with another outdoor venue: a forest.
Just the same, if you're working on an OS and you run into a situation where, you don't how to design something, or you don't know why a certain algorithm just does not seem to work, or any fork-in-the-road, really, a good night of sleep will let your brain work on the problem -- unconsciously! The next day, you may not have the answer (and conversely, you may!), but you should have ideas or at least be a little better off than you were the night before.
Also, at the cellular level, organisms that were deprived of sleep did not correctly fold proteins, which resulted in misshapen protein structures. These protein structures are considered toxic because they can't serve their function, and this is what we attribute pissy moods, inability to concentrate, overall inefficient operation, etc to. After being able to sleep, these deformed proteins were cleaned out of the system. This point isn't necessarily anything to do with OS development, but if you do any sort of bodybuilding or routine exercise, this point should make sleep very very important to you.
most of the stories/information above came from this really good podcast, but I cannot remember which one. If anyone knows they should post the link because it's ridiculously interesting.
Here comes my long-winded elaboration:
We don't really know all that much about sleep but some very interesting studies have proposed some amazing ideas. By monitoring the brain activity of mice, scientists learned enough to understand what the mouse was doing (running, eating, sniffing around) by simply listening to pops and clicks that represented brain-wave activity. These pops and clicks could even identify in which direction the mouse was moving.
I forget names but one day this scientist was listening to the brainwave patterns of a mouse while it was sleeping (they seemed somehow sinusoidal), when he noticed that the brain activity started up again. From the sound he could tell the mouse was running through it's maze (I believe that the pops/clicks identified directions that, if mapped, were the _exact_ same as the maze, but I don't know that for certain). Much to his surprise, he found the mouse was still asleep! (Mind you, this particular scientist was so familiar with the pops/clicks that he could tell you what it was doing with his back turned to it)
What more, they found that when the mouse had been introduced to two completely different mazes during the day, the activity at night suggested that the mouse brain had developed a hybrid of the two mazes-a completely new maze-and the mouse (or, it's brain, rather) was traversing through it.
Farther studies into human sleep have found that people do very similar things. As you sleep, your brain reviews the events of the day. Think of it as if you could splice together moments of the day into one shorter clip, everything happening all at the same time. Your brain plays this clip continuously. Then, your brain starts to sort of, turn down the volume of this clip, so only the most significant events of the day are still "audible". This behavior is believed to be the reason that many musicians report being able to flawlessly play difficult pieces that they just could not get down during practice, after a night of sleep. I think this also works hand-in-hand with memory functions of the brain -- which is why it's harder to recall events of very little importance to you (what did you order for lunch the other day? how much did it cost?).
Once your brain has singled out the most important events, it starts to "free associate." It recalls other events and memories and mixes them with these new important events -- like the mouse, with the two mazes. Yet another scientist had his subjects play this full-body virtual-reality ski game. The fact that it was full-body was important because it forces you to be completely involved -- making it stand out as an important event. A significant amount of the patients, when they were waken after a short period of sleep, said they were dreaming of skiing down a slope in the game. But what's extremely interesting, is that when the subjects were waken after 2 hours of sleep, they reported hybrid dreams. For example, someone reported that he was traveling rapidly through a forest, and his body was stiff, he was standing straight up and down and his legs did not move -- it was as if he was on a conveyor belt. His brain understood the skiing being an outdoor activity, and free-associated with another outdoor venue: a forest.
Just the same, if you're working on an OS and you run into a situation where, you don't how to design something, or you don't know why a certain algorithm just does not seem to work, or any fork-in-the-road, really, a good night of sleep will let your brain work on the problem -- unconsciously! The next day, you may not have the answer (and conversely, you may!), but you should have ideas or at least be a little better off than you were the night before.
Also, at the cellular level, organisms that were deprived of sleep did not correctly fold proteins, which resulted in misshapen protein structures. These protein structures are considered toxic because they can't serve their function, and this is what we attribute pissy moods, inability to concentrate, overall inefficient operation, etc to. After being able to sleep, these deformed proteins were cleaned out of the system. This point isn't necessarily anything to do with OS development, but if you do any sort of bodybuilding or routine exercise, this point should make sleep very very important to you.
most of the stories/information above came from this really good podcast, but I cannot remember which one. If anyone knows they should post the link because it's ridiculously interesting.
As mean as this sounds, Im glad im not alone in this feeling of total frustration.
I am no stranger to long, restless nights, obsessing about efficiency or flaws in my design.
Usually, I cant just play games to enjoy myself or relax, because I understand the mechanics far too easily or.. I simply get fedup with using everyone elses stuff, rather than my own.
Usually, I just.. drift.
I listen to music, draw pictures and read
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~Z
I am no stranger to long, restless nights, obsessing about efficiency or flaws in my design.
Usually, I cant just play games to enjoy myself or relax, because I understand the mechanics far too easily or.. I simply get fedup with using everyone elses stuff, rather than my own.
Usually, I just.. drift.
I listen to music, draw pictures and read
.~Z
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I read you learn faster in spurts, instead of whole chunks at a time. For learning something (reading/doing) then taking a break and coming back is better. I am not sure how long you should wait. It could be until the next day which could have something to do with sleeping.
Also your diet of food with have a large impact on how tired you are. This is especially true for doing lots of physically draining work or even stressing work. Try eating more nutritious foods instead of fast food and greases.
Also your diet of food with have a large impact on how tired you are. This is especially true for doing lots of physically draining work or even stressing work. Try eating more nutritious foods instead of fast food and greases.