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> Lastly, WFH for years can result in a serious mental health decline. If you think you're doing fine after 1 year, come see me after 5. You'll realize by the end of it just how important water cooler conversation is for your BRAIN. You'll recognize just how bad it can be to see (as a function of your time alive) MOSTLY just your home. It does a number on you.

This is just down to nothing more then poor discipline and lazily wanting an office to fill the gap for you. I have been working from home for 9 years now, 5 days a week. You know how I solve the issue, I go outside. I go and run. I take my dogs out for a walk. I also meet with friends to eat / drink coffee. I look after myself. The time I save commuting means I can do things like cook myself a proper lunch, go and have a nap if I did not sleep great the night before. I have much more freedom to balance my life. I agree though, if I sit at my desk all day inside and then stop work to go and sit on the couch and watch Netflix, sure it's going to be detrimental to my mental health.

I feel directly opposite to this, I am way more productive working from home as a programmer, for this reason alone:

https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt...

Also I find modern tools easily make up for not being in close proximity.

Best of all as an engineering lead, I am not restricted to hiring in the small pool of engineers who can travel to the physical location of an office. I can hire talent world wide

> I had a stronger work/life separation. I rarely turned on my work laptop at home.

To be fair, that's a matter of personal discipline. There is nothing to stop you closing your laptop at 5pm and leaving it until the next day to open it again.

Rekor is just that. It's a merkle tree implementation (with extras such as timestamping)

https://github.com/sigstore/rekor

Maybe take a look at rekor, part of the sigstore project, it's built specifically for software supply chain transparency (disclaimer I am one of the community). Being a transparency log, you get much better guarantees around inclusion proof (it uses a merkle tree):

https://github.com/sigstore/rekor

Maybe take a look at rekor, part of the sigstore project, it's built specifically for software supply chain transparency (disclaimer I am one of the community):

https://github.com/sigstore/rekor

I would even say a less, my kids will often have a specific ask 'can I watch some TV' where I can reply 'yes/no/later/that's really good/bad' and then its done. A co-worker will sometimes not even have a specific ask, but are instead looking for some idle chat.

Microsoft are going big on rust and wasm. They have had their fingers burned to much in the past from being late adopters (linux, containers etc) and don't want to be at the back again.

Dark themes are very popular, and it makes sense as they look so cool. I would still encourage anyone to try light themes out, the fatigue you experience is notably less. I made the switch a while ago and really noticed how less tired I felt after a days work.

Hey, one of the developers here (Luke) - This was a case of Dan said one thing and it came out on paper with a different slant then intended.

For the record this will be quite different model, as in there won't be any criteria to use the service. This will be a non-profit / free to use service with no need to apply to join etc. We see the more that people use this, the better the protections for all.

We are largely basing this off Let's Encrypts model of public good, more than the aforementioned programs.

Context is important, as outlined from the article:

> However, the key lies in an earlier agreement that AstraZeneca made back in May with the U.K., which was a binding deal establishing “the development of a dedicated supply chain for the U.K.,” an AstraZeneca spokesperson said.

One official close to the U.K. contract said the agreement began as an email in April from the U.K. government saying it would provide £65 million to help the University of Oxford execute its production plan. It later evolved into a fully-fledged contract between the government and the British-Swedish company, which also might explain why it took until August for the contract to be signed.

Most important, however, is that it meant that the British government was “effectively a major shareholder” in the jab’s development as early as April. After Oxford and AstraZeneca agreed to team up at the end of April, for example, the British government filled seats on Oxford-AstraZeneca joint liaison committees.

“Protecting the U.K.‘s supply was a central objective ... as that was being negotiated from April onwards,” the official said. Even though this isn't explicitly stated in the contract, the official said that the government’s role in the early stages of the vaccine meant “there is absolutely no way that AstraZeneca would have been able to enter a contract which gave away equal priority of access to the U.K. doses.”

This British supply was therefore already secured by the time four EU countries — Germany, the Netherlands, France and Italy — signed an agreement in June to obtain up to 300 million doses of the vaccines. The countries’ deal at the time was a fairly bare-bones agreement, and it’s unclear whether it established a European supply chain, but over the summer it was transferred into the formal purchasing agreement managed by the Commission.

> signed a day after the EU contract.

I have been following this quite closely, and this is complete new to me. I would really like to see a source on this, otherwise it should be considered false information.