Executive Overflow

Portuguese translation: Sobrecarga / excesso de tarefas / atividades (no dia a dia)

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English term or phrase:Executive Overflow
Portuguese translation:Sobrecarga / excesso de tarefas / atividades (no dia a dia)
Entered by: Lilian Magalhães

20:21 Jun 10, 2019
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Tech/Engineering - Astronomy & Space / NASA
English term or phrase: Executive Overflow
Program Alarm 1202: Executive Overflow in Everyday Life

When Apollo 11 was rocketing to the lunar surface, the on-board computer began to issue 1201 and 1202 program alarms. The codes meant that the computer had so much to do, it couldn’t get it all done in real time, and so it had to postpone some of its tasks. I know how that computer feels. My day is often filled with 1202 codes. I’ll occasionally change my chat status to 1202, although few people get the joke.
Like Milo of Croton (who supposedly lifted a newborn calf every day until he was eventually lifting a full-grow cow), I have steadily, if accidentally, grown increasingly busier so that every moment of my day is filled. Even time that should, in theory, be relaxing, is spent multitasking. When I walk, I listen to audio-books. When I do chores around the house, I’m listening to podcasts. When I write code at the day job, I am listening to music. Few and far between are the times where I sit and do nothing at all.
Yesterday, I reluctantly turned down an radio interview request because I have too much going on right now. A few years ago, I would have jumped through all kinds of hoops for an opportunity like that. But those 1202s were buzzing, reminding me I had too much to do, that I couldn’t get it all done in real-time, and so I had to postpone some tasks.
Over the years my default setting has morphed from idle to busy. If I ever find myself with nothing to do, I feel lazy. The daily buzz of the 1202 alarms acts like stimulant.
For the past year or so, I’ve had a recurring day dream. In this reverie, I find myself on a farm in some remote place, like Montana or Wyoming. In one direction is a vast, empty plain, and blue sky as far as the eye can see. In the other direction, snow-capped mountains tower in the distance. I spend my days splitting wood, building a fence, and sitting idle on the porch. There’s no Internet, no television, no streaming music, no iPhone, or MacBook. There’s no email to check, no Twitter notifications, no to-do list. This is the place I go to hide from the 1202s. I can never stay very long, because the grating buzz of the alarms soon penetrates into that imagined place.
Lilian Magalhães
Brazil
Local time: 04:19
Sobrecarga / excesso de tarefas / atividades (no dia a dia)
Explanation:
Sugestão

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Note added at 25 minutos (2019-06-10 20:47:31 GMT)
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O texto faz uma metáfora entre o evento ocorrido na Apollo 11 (sobrecarga no computador) e o excesso de tarefas que o narrador se impõe no dia a dia, acho interessante traduzir para passar corretamente a mensagem.



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Note added at 1 día 3 horas (2019-06-11 23:36:24 GMT) Post-grading
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Muito obrigada, Lilian!
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Andrea Pilenso
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Summary of answers provided
4overflow executivo / transbordamento de dados executivo
Lucas Felix dos Santos
4Fluxo do excesso das atribulações na memória
Klebiano Barbosa de Souza
4Sobrecarga / excesso de tarefas / atividades (no dia a dia)
Andrea Pilenso


  

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executive overflow
overflow executivo / transbordamento de dados executivo


Explanation:
Sugiro manter o termo overflow por se tratar de um termo que é da informática e geralmente não o traduzimos. Trata-se de quando o limite de processamento de um computador chega ao limite, tendo então de aguardar para que novas tarefas sejam realizadas. Veja só:

"My checklist says 1202 is an "executive overflow," meaning simply that the computer has been called upon to do too many things at once and is forced to postpone some of them. A little farther along, at just three thousand feet above the surface, the computer flashes 1201, another overflow condition, and again the ground is superquick to respond with reassurances."

Ainda assim, é possível verter o termo para "transbordamento de dados", mas não é muito corrente, pelo que me parece.

https://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-11-4.html
https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transbordamento_de_dados

Lucas Felix dos Santos
Brazil
Local time: 04:19
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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20 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
executive overflow
Fluxo do excesso das atribulações na memória


Explanation:
Tenho a impressão de que o narrador expõe um dilema no contexto: em boa parte de seu tempo, ele encontra-se atribulado em situações variadas, inclusive nos momentos em que deveria estar fazendo coisa alguma. No entanto, até mesmo no lugar de seus sonhos, onde deveria estar relaxando e fruindo a vista das belas paisagens - completamente desconectado do mundo virtual, ou dos equipamentos eletrônicos -, ele não consegue entregar-se plenamente à vivência destes instantes, pois seus pensamentos, nos momentos mais improváveis, acabam rememorando boa parte de todas aquelas atribulações recorrentes em seu cotidiano.

Klebiano Barbosa de Souza
Brazil
Local time: 04:19
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
executive overflow
Sobrecarga / excesso de tarefas / atividades (no dia a dia)


Explanation:
Sugestão

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Note added at 25 minutos (2019-06-10 20:47:31 GMT)
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O texto faz uma metáfora entre o evento ocorrido na Apollo 11 (sobrecarga no computador) e o excesso de tarefas que o narrador se impõe no dia a dia, acho interessante traduzir para passar corretamente a mensagem.



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Note added at 1 día 3 horas (2019-06-11 23:36:24 GMT) Post-grading
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Muito obrigada, Lilian!

Andrea Pilenso
Brazil
Local time: 04:19
Native speaker of: Portuguese
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