If you like fantasy, "The Eye of the World" by Robert Jordan. A new narration by Rosamund Pike was recently released corresponding to Amazon's release of their live-action series of this series.
Overall, it's a well written, engaging story that begins an amazing series, should you become interested and desire to continue reading/listening. Weighs in at nearly 33 hours, so there's no way you'll have to start something different midway. And if you like it, there are 13 more installments in this epic fantasy.
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Yeah, there's so much great content here, sometimes I too seem to not get to the purely tech stuff. You may be interested in lobste.rs. I've found that they have nearly the same tech content, but lobste.rs is tech only.
Thanks for reminding me about lobste.rs. Last time I checked it out there weren't many comments which didn't inspire me to leave a comment. My favorite part of HN was the potential discussions to be had and its great to see lobste.rs now has more comments than what I used to remember.
Odd, I was sure I had a lobste.rs account but it says my username is invalid. Do you have an invite available?
I receive monthly Table of Contents [ToC] alert emails from specific journals in which I'm interested, mainly chemistry and physics. This typically involves simply creating an account at the publishers website and choosing which of their journals you'd like to receive ToC alerts for, e.g. the American Chemical Society (acs.org), and then sign up for e.g. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation alerts.
Also, for computational chemistry, at least, there's the Computational Chemistry Highlights blog [ http://www.compchemhighlights.org/ ], which selects (what they think are) interesting papers published within the past two years or so.
Finally, I follow scientiests' blogs and social media, who will typically share excellent papers that they find. Email lists like the Computational Chemistry List [ ccl.net ] will usually discuss papers as they relate to the conversations at hand.
Unfortunately, many of the excellent chemistry journals are behind pay walls.
This is how I harvest info for chemistry. I think it's highly probably that this same method could be used for all scholarly disciplines.
Death seems like the best way out of an unbearable position. You're intelligent; you've analyzed the options the best you can; you can't find anything else. I've been there. I'm bipolar, type 1. I think I may know what you're going through.
Realize that life doesn't have to be this way and that there are things that you can do to make it better. Realize that you're not able to make full use of your intelligence in the state you're in. You need help making choices and analyzing your situation. Professional help.
Talking to a psychologist and being treated by a psychiatrist turned my life around. Again, I'm bipolar, so my condition may be more permanent than yours. Remember, taking medication isn't a sign of weakness. Many people only need to take it to get out of their current rut and then cast it off as soon as they see the light of day. I was against taking medication for a long time. But then I realized that brain tissue can be diseased just as any other bodily tissue can be diseased.
Something else that helps is to interact with your loved ones more: friends, family, anyone who you love and who loves you too. Talk to them. Let them know what's going on in your life. If you don't have anyone like this in your life, I'm sorry. This may be contributing to your suicidal thoughts.
As others have said, a good diet, exercise, vitamins, and plenty of fresh air and sunshine go a long way.
These are things that will help long term and will probably keep you from returning to this state. But, first, you need radical intervention.
Make an appointment with a therapist. Today. Be completely open with them. Do as they say. Don't think you're smarter than they are. Remember, right now you're not capable of using your mind to its full capacity. You're sick. Let a professional help you. Right away.
Install the bash-completion package. [1]
You'll then find a directory /etc/bash_completion.d/ which has all of the commands the package knows about. The number of commands can be extended.
