devnullbyte

I have had a few stints of trying out emacs. I used spacemacs, doom and rolled my own. It never gained any traction for me. I think the reason for this, is that the amount of time I would put into memorizing all the shortcuts and control / meta combinations, setting up all the lisp plugins (and then remembering their control key / meta combinations) is just not worth it for the time lost setting up and learning for the productivity gained. I am better to just use an IDE with all its bells and whistles and for general terminal work my old simple VIM set up easily does the job.

As far as org-mode, meh. I really don't see whats so amazing about collapsible to-do notes anymore. As for email, listening to music etc, I am sorry, but browsers do that job very well and with zero time needed to scour around blogs trying to get them to work.

It might be due to your home sitation as well. I have my wife and kids, so I have the opportunity to go and chat with them or grab some lunch. I remember when I WFH'ed on my own as a singleton and I did not like it as much, as I was on my own for a good 8 hours a day. We are very social creatures. You only have to look a prisons. You're surrounded by criminals, quite a few who are manipulative / hostile or just hard work from untreated mental conditions, yet the form of punishment is to place you on your own into Solitary confinement.

Nothing wrong with a friendly face, its more that it can throw you out of your flow, especially when trying to debug some code. This describes it best:

https://heeris.id.au/trinkets/ProgrammerInterrupted.png

This for me is why WFH suits me so well. In my morning I get around 4 hours of pure uninterrupted coding (as long as I stay off here or reddit).

Interesting that he decided to take the approach of not copying any code, that must have been a helluva challenge with the early boot phase assembly.

Quick question. I develop with VMs a lot and use vagrant to set up an sshfs share from my local repo mounted within the VM as shared drive. This sort of does the job, but it's a bit spotty, sometimes I can save my code, and then build the source, but sshfs has been to slow and I end up building without the freshly saved changes. Is there a better way of doing thus native to vscode?

Dam dude, what sort of people are you working with or interviewing for, that they see having a wife or family as a negative? That's just crazy. Is this valley based start ups or something of that ilk?

Just keep learning and don't go stale and stay associated with tech that is going redundant. This is what I have always done and its done me well. I am 48 now and having a blast in my career hacking away on exciting projects.

Me to mate. I think its silicon valley thing.

I am 48 and having a blast in my career now, I am getting my hands on all sorts of interesting things to learn.

The only people who I have seen struggle with this are those who just go stale. I have friend who is a C++ programmer, and for 30 years all he has worked on is some logic controller software used in trains and energy systems. He is getting close to retirement, but if things go tits up due to COVIDs impact, he will very likely be unemployable. Me on the other hand. I get daily connect requests and job interests put my way on linked in.

Just in case anyone reads this and gets very worried about getting older and being destitute, its certainly not always the case.

I am 48 years old and having a blast. I am team lead working in the companies CTO office. I play around with build systems, making everything cloud native (kubernetes) and I get to work on a good amount of upstream open source projects. My company does not see my age at all, they just see me keeping busy and constantly pushing to learn new tech. I would say overall in our team, the under 25's are the minority.

I think you're attitude helps. I still feel like I am a kid in my head and I get massively excited about tech , even more as time passes. There is always something new to learn.

"that sits in front of " does that denote that miminal refactor / re-architecture is needed for a rest based application, trying to get an idea of how easy it is to start using keycloak?

Thanks. There is in fact a CTO who is very supportive.

> Don't try to make everyone happy.

Excellent point, I am thinking of printing that out and framing it somewhere.

So glad I don't work for a company anymore where I have to base my OS choice solely on using MS office products.

I use a kanban board.

[Backlog] [Active] [Done]

All new tasks go into [Backlog]. In the morning I move the backlog cards around based on priority, the higher or more urgent items positioned at the top. The top three then move into [Active]. [Active] has a limit of no more than 3 items. As items are completed they move into [Done] and are replaced by new items from [Backlog], again up to a limit of three. I limit [Active] (they call it a WIP limit) to make sure I don't take on 5-6 tasks and start feeling overwhelmed or despondent for not getting much done as I am flitting between items (spinning plates on sticks).

I use trello, you get a few boards for free.

gah, sick of people posting paywalled medium links. I honestly think hacker news should assess if medium links should even be allowed..

I cannot read them as I hit the monthly quota from clicking on links to open articles and realize I don't really have an interest in reading them after consuming the first paragraph. Don't get me wrong, this is not just me being cheap and expecting everything for free. I can understand someone wanting to pay a subscription if they read and enjoy content there, but as a means to receive social media views, its flawed.

Working..I was working at home before, so its not a real big change for me, apart from my kids are at home.

At least they have a public health service to worry about in the first place.

regarding screen time, from the source you provide:

"We don't know if it's being caused by the screen time," said Dowling. "We don't know yet if it's a bad thing. It won't be until we follow them over time that we will see if there are outcomes that are associated with the differences that we're seeing in this single snapshot."

Is Blippi the son of Timmy Mallet?

got to socialize those loses!

That's ignoring intent they expressed to implement very long isolation measures for the elderly. Thier approach might be flawed, but let's debate it based on what has actually been stated.

Britain reminds me of the drunk guy who falls down a flight of stairs and then rolls back onto their feet unharmed.

The other interesting factor is how it will impact Gerontocracy which is the norm for most eastern and western governments alike. We see this playing out in in Iran.

Not OP, but I remember reading about this. The summary was it's too early to establish long term damage. The scarring is present, but its bound to be on patient who recovered a mere few weeks ago.

I developed this a while ago and it was used as gate check in a Linux Foundation project. Its essentially the same as the OP project (regex based), but without the GUI.

https://anteater.github.io/

Network-Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE) using something like clevis / tang can be used or a sealing the luks passowd in a TPM.

This is why I run ultra marathons, often in the mountains in incredibly bad weather. Well I should rephrase this, I run the first 20-40 miles, the rest is a hike, until the last ten of so miles which are a zombie shuffle. The thing is though, I spend hours just on my own (most of the time), with only my own wits to keep me going and entertained. I also get to side up real close to nature at it's rawest.

It also sounds like a really messy system working between the two, I guess it works for this guy, but no idea why HN is getting so doey eyed about this.

Strikes me as a good decision.

The deal is that core networks are supplied by European NEP's mostly Nokia and Ericsson and radio elements are supplied by Huawei. There is very little information can be gleamed from from RAN, its all encrypted between the end point and the core network. Anyone wanting to harvest data will want to backdoor core network elements.

Another factor is that Huawei code has been provided and audited for a number of years now. Sure that is not full proof, but its way more than we have had available from any US vendors. I will be honest, as it stands I would trust a huawei box, way more than a cisco box.

On another note I expect this is a political play. The UK gets to not piss off the Americans too much (well putting aside Trump and his crazies) and the Chinese see us as favorable still. It's also quite interesting how this is coming off the back of Trump stating his displeasure at the UK governments plans to tax the tech giants more, with most of them being companies who are spying on global citizens at a volume never seen before.

Would also be good to include how BT uses a merkel tree, that's quite a key component in the software.

That code is nonsense. It's a perl script that messes around with cowsay and does not make a single tpm command.