kutenai

I think you are right. I've been fully remote for about 13 years. I love it, but I also have other things to keep me busy. I am a member of the local tennis club, and have many friends and acquaintances there, as well as year-round activities. We also have many church friends in the area, and my wife and I do gardening and other outdoor activities, so, any "free time" that we end up with is easily filled.

Don't just be remote and a total couch potato, enjoy the freedom, and make the best of it.

You miss the point. "Scientists" literally lied about the nutritional issues, as well as the smoking. They were "bought off" by companies. Now, I'm sure you have 100% confidence that the "current administration" is 100% by the book and honest in all of their dealings. While, you might have had less than 100% confidence that the previous administration was. My point? You trust one group, but not another. I might trust the other, not your group. These "groups" (I mean political, business, whatever is controlling the narrative) will lie, cheat and steal to get "their" agenda across.

That last point is 100% undeniable!!! History has absolute clarity that political forces will force the narrative to their desired viewpoint, and say what you will, deny that to your own peril and ignorance.

So, do I "trust the science?". I have an MSEE (not a scientist, but educated). I trust the science, I just don't trust who controls the narrative, and historically this has a larger affect on what "science" concludes, than, uh, the actual science.

So, be as ignorant to the forces that control the narrative as you like. I'll remain skeptical, and look at both sides.

Oh, and, when the "forces that control the narrative" decide they must censure "one side", I'm hella suspicious of that.

Major Kudos to the Brits for recognizing this. Most sane thing I've heard out of anyone in a while.

Remember when the "science" claimed that low-fat, high carb diets were healthy? Doctors once said that smoking was 'safe'.

Science is 'right' up until it's wrong.

I have a subscription to Dailyburn.com It's a 30minute daily workout. I was quite faithful for a long time, but i've fallen off the wagon.

It's still a great solution, in spite of my personal issues with motivation.

Or, later, when all of your kids are moved out. I've been working at home for about 12 years now. I would not even start a conversation with a company that wanted me "onsite".

My work location exceeds anything any other company could possibly provide me. Except, maybe I don't have snacks sitting around all the time, I don't get free lunches.. and, I don't have a ping pong table to challenge my co-workers at.

I miss a few of those things, but, generally, I'm happier working at home.

I am fortunate to have a basement. I have an L-shaped uplift standing desk. I recently upgraded to an M1 Max Macboox pro, and I driver 4 external monitors with this. The main monitor is a 34" wide screen, the others are all 27". I "require" that the vertical resolution of all monitors be the same, at 1440, so that dragging windows between monitors is easier.

I use an Apple keyboard with touch Id, and a Logitech Mx Master3 mouse. I have a Blue microphone for video conferences. This is mounted to the desk behind the monitors on a boom, and hangs over the monitors but out of the scree area. I also have a Logitech webcam, since the laptop is off to the side.

I use OWC thunderbolt dock for 2 monitors, and a second thunderbolt to dual HDMI for the other 2. Works like a charm.

I don't move around the house much, since my setup is so custom.

If I travel for a few days, I'll bring the laptop and a small Asus USB-C portable monitor.

If I travel for longer periods of time, I have a pelican Air case that I am able to fit 3 monitors into. These are 24" QHD monitors, so all running 2560x1440 resolution.

I'd like to upgrade those 2560x1440 monitors to 27", but might need to get a new pelican air case, or get more careful with monitors in the existing case.

"Most" of my work is fine on the Mac, but some requires windows. I have a "company" PC laptop for this purpose, but also have my own "PC" Desktop with an 8 core i9, very fast nVME disk, and lots of memory.

I use both of the PC's via Microsoft Remote Desktop, so I can pretty seamlessly use Mac, Windows, and Linux as needed.

I've found that the M1 Mac actually runs Arm Windows pretty well, and I've even run a CAD program, Altium Designer, using it.. again, with impressive performance, given that it is emulating x86.

I'm extremely happy with the M1 mac.. pricey, but so far, well worth it.

The concept of "government should.." is fundamentally flawed. As soon as "government ... " starts taxing all the money from the right, then the GOVERNMENT simply BECOMES the rich, and that same power will corrupt those in power, be they democrat, republican, socialist.. it does not matter.

Once government "takes" all of the capital "for the presumed good of society", government will very rapidly become the enemy. Corruption will grow and grow, and society will be in the position of a corrupt, all powerful government.

It does not work folks. Read history, don't relive it like a bunch of idiotic sheep

I used it and disliked it. I can't exactly say why anymore, it was a while ago, but it just felt odd, and confusing.

I did not continue with it. Maybe the documentation was not written "to my tastes". I don't know how "mainstream" it is, but I suppose if it's initial taste has been better, I'd have stuck with it. I suspect there are others in my position, and hence, maybe it didn't take off as well as it could have.??

You are right. "most" was the wrong word to use. "some", not zero, might be better.. it is just speculation anyway.

Regardless of how much time they spent, they may have made others uncomfortable. I've heard that any kind of speech that makes someone uncomfortable is bad.

Is there a feasible alternative? Simply put, no.

I'll stick with my mac(s) for the foreseeable future. I have 2 MacPros (2011 cheese graters) and 2 mac pros, 2014 and 2017. I read most of the complaints (about Macs) here, and most of them are thin reasons to "not" use a mac.

- I literally NEVER turn my MBP's off. Just sleep them.

This works flawlessly 99.5% (estimated) of the time. I've never seen another notebook with Windows (especially) or Linux that could handle that. Nobody here claims that they do (so far) -- I read one complaint about power usage on a Linux pad.. so I assume this is still the case. Sleep mode sucks on most non-mac, not OSX machines

- Trackpad. Nothing touches the Mac trackpad. Nothing.

- App availability

I have so many QUALITY apps I've gotten on mac that just have no equivalents in Linux. Seriously, a TON, and more all the time. You can't even compare Pixelmator to Gimp, and the list of apps that are much better on OSX goes on and on.

- No Sweat OS Linux is great if you want to configure the shit out of your system. OSX is great if you want to NOT THINK MUCH about your system and just work. I prefer to spend my time working.

So, it's not all roses, we all hear the issues, keyboards have issues, apple does not play nice with NVidia (sucks having a MacPro right now), hardware IS more expensive... but, don't get fooled by the "Grass is greener on the other side" -- you'll have to keep convincing yourself it was a good mood, every single day.

Good luck with that

I've been programming for more than 3 decades. I actually learned Basic first, then DBase, then ASM. I didn't learn C until I'd been programming for about 8 hears. I then learned C++, and Perl, as well as SQL, etc..

I don't feel that learning C would have been the best choice to start with. And the stick shift analogy really not a very good one.

Nobody ever needs to learn to use a stick shift if they don't want to drive a stick. End of story. If you don't need C, you don't need it.

C is great for embedded programming, although I'd prefer at least a limited version of C++ myself. Pure C? I personally don't fine a lot of uses for it.

If your a web developer, or any one of a large number of modern programming areas, you may well NEVER need C or C++. To imply that all programmers need C, is, kind of antiquated IMO.

This is the best post yet. The rest are just biased dribble.

You should consider graduating from VIM and using IntelliJ. This is a cross platform tool, and there is a typescript plugin. I have not tried it, but IntelliJ is a great tool IMO, and well worth a good look.