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Same as the story. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.

I don't know much about electronics or iPhone hardware. Does anyone know if it would be possible to get old devices with dead batteries to boot when connected to a proper power supply? I don't mean a cell phone charger, but connecting the positive and ground (and whatever else?) from a bench power supply to the appropriate solder points on the phones mainboard itself?

Funcom's Anarchy Online just had it's 20th anniversary and feels the same way. It's easy to log back in and see the virtual world, but without players inhabiting the space it's missing the context that really caused these virtual spaces to be so significant in my, and I assume many other's, memories.

I'm assuming they're 2004 version of Battlestar Galactica.

Having worked at a university, but not in this domain, my 2-cents is that what they're trying to say is that can't afford the paperwork in the context of the the associated internal political war that commonly comes along with trying to do anything like this in academia.

YMM but, in my area Amazon is only doing the last mile delivery. Theres a large parking lot in the industrial part of town where you can watch UPS, FedEx, and OnTrac branded trucks and van load packages into Amazon branded vans. The same type of van to van transfer seems to be happening pretty regularly at the local UPS store as well.

Possibly, but how can we be 100% sure without the ability to compare behavior? If I were following this line of research I'd still want to know if there's any difference in the nature of a failure when it comes from within the OS (possibly simulated by half -f) and the situation the parent OP pointed out where the instance just goes poof without sending any kind of signal to the OS itself.

"Based on the data collected, most users seem to prefer..." is better than, "Based on my training and personal experiences, I think users would prefer..."

It is a lot easier to come to a common agreement on something as objective as statistical significance when compared to personal feelings and opinions.

Exactly.

I was inches away from a total breakdown this past November after putting in months of long (some up to 90 hour) weeks.

Following the conclusion of the project I took some time off; almost an entire month (thank god for the xmas/new year holidays). For me, it was that or compromise my long-term health. The time off came and went, and I didn't feel revitalized at all, not a single bit. I started to think the problem was me. However, more recently I took another vacation, but this one was only a week long. In this instance though, when I came back from my time away, I felt more like myself, more productive, and happier than I had in years.

So what was the difference? During my first vacation I was still on-call, I was still expected to reply to emails and chat in a timely manner, review pull requests and so on --- you know, the stuff that is part of the "off-the-clock" aspect of many of our jobs. Essentially, while physically I wasn't at work, mentally I didn't leave the office for a single second.

This second vacation? It was the first time I my spouse of eight years and I were able to take a vacation together, in my mind it was the honeymoon we never got to have. So, I spoke with my management and asked for permission to go completely offline for the week. After some negotiation, I was granted the permission to do so. When I left the office for the last time before starting my holiday, I sat in my car and disabled all work related notifications and alerts, then I just sat there for as long as it took for the panic of knowing those notifications were disabled to subside.

It may feel like you're only taking 30 seconds out of your time away from work to send off a quick two-sentence e-mail reply or thumb-up a tiny pull request. However, many of us are already too deep in the hole of a workaholic mindset to even see all of the hidden costs of such behaviors and thinking, regardless if they are personal, professional, mental, or physical.

(P.S. Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Frquhar, the founders of Atlassian, hosted a great presentation/panel discussion during the 2016 Atlassian Summit where they talked about and hosted a panel discussion surrounding the issues of workaholism and burnout and how they handle it at Atlassian.

During this sessions they spoke about how within Atlassian, if somebody (probably of significant importance at least...) is exhibiting the typical signs of burnout as we currently understand them they will force the affected employee to take a vacation, not a stay-at-home vacation, but an go-out-and-have-fun type vacation. They've even gone as far to conspire with the spouses of affected employees to ensure that they leave their company provided devices at home and do not bring them with them on vacation)

P.P.S. If you are interested in learning more about workaholsim and burn out: what it feels like, how to spot it within your team and colleagues, and how to actually help those being affected by it -- I would suggest you check out Avleen Vig's USENIX LISA 2016 presentation [Don't Burn Out or Fade Away](https://www.slideshare.net/avleenvig/dont-burn-out-or-fade-a...)

Thank you!