I don’t know where you are, but this isn’t always enough. If it’s your employer’s IP it’s not yours to license to begin with.

In my situation, it even extends to any hobby projects I work on and I don’t think my situation is unusual.

That said, most employers don’t care about hobby projects with no earning potential.

I used to do this when I had a 1.5 hours commute (one way). If you can avoid it, don’t do it. The world is not built for people that have to get up at 5 and be in bed by 10. I would run on 6.5 hours of sleep on average and I was constantly exhausted.

If you’re a developer like me, it affects your productivity as well as your health. I would carpool, so I could nod off for a few winks on the way home. Sometimes when I was the one driving. It’s bad for you. Don’t do it.

If you must do it, the key is to make it a habit. Go to bed at the same time every night. Give yourself enough time to fall asleep and get a full 7-8 hours. Put away devices. Avoid any caffeine and alcohol after lunch. Get in shape if you can, it will help you sleep better. Avoid spicy foods in the evenings.

Stick to the schedule even on weekends, or at least don’t try to make up for lost sleep then. It doesn’t work.

You can still tinker, but you will have little time except weekends. Write down your ideas during the week and then hit the ground running when you have free time.

Don’t forget to take time for yourself, family and touching some grass. Your computers will always be there. People will not.

This sounds like an idea related to the InterPlanetary File System, where files are peer-to-peer and cannot be taken offline. It’s not a terribly new idea, but I’ve not seen any widespread implementations of it.

I think people underestimate how difficult moderation is at scale. There’s a reason why The Algorithm exists: past a certain scale, even just wading through a chronological feed of posts and keeping illegal content out of it becomes laborious. You will see influencers on the fediverse complaining about that already. With a P2P system, moderation isn’t just difficult, it’s impossible. Once something is out there it can’t be removed. Finding and maintaining a good balance is just a really, really difficult problem to solve.

Sometimes, that of course is a feature, like IPFS being used to bypass government censorship, but every coin has a flipside.

I hear you, and I agree. I did just upgrade my ok PC because I had saved up the money and wanted to get the most for them before the tariffs take effect. Before that I was gaming in a decently capable laptop about 4 years old, and before that I used hand-me-downs and upgraded maybe every 5-10 years. With the exception of this last upgrade, I’ve stayed about mid-tier for GPU and other components.

While consoles may be less expensive up front, I don’t care about exclusives and I grew up as a PC gamer who still can’t use a controller right. I’m also a developer so I can justify the upgrades when I have the money for it.

When asked, I typically tell people to pick a budget and get the most computer you can get within that. If you’re always wanting “the best” your can always spend more money for some increase in performance. Don’t spend money you don’t have.

The cost of PC gaming keeps getting worse every year and the near future doesn’t look very promising. With fewer gamers being able to afford upgrades, I except that will have a chilling effect on game studios and independent developers as well.

Yes. The periods are just part of the name like any other letter, so 5 is compared to m, and numbers sort before letters. You can add something like ‘.0’ to make it sort more naturally. Look up an ASCII table to get a feeling for how strings are sorted.

Yep, I’m a big fan. It’s definitely an acquired taste, though.

Salty licorice

Yes this is a thing and it’s been around for quite some time. If you’re trying to approximate TeX, you may also be interested in MathML.

I need to go lay down; I’m having flashbacks to the good old days of “XML everywhere for everything all the time”.

For those not in the US: it may be covered, but normally it’s a separate insurance plan and not covered by your regular health insurance.

It also varies what type of “dental” care. Some mouth/gum surgeries may be covered by the health plan. I think most dental plans cover checkups. All this varies wildly with your employer and insurance election, though.

I don’t. I don’t work for a library, but judging from my local library branch, they don’t have the funding to retain competent IT staff. This isn’t about what they could or should do. It’s about not being an asshole to people that are already barely hanging on with what they have.

Please don’t do this. People working at libraries aren’t paid enough to deal with that bullshit.

You don’t say what type of programming you do, or if you’re just learning or developing professionally, but maybe something fully online would work? For example repl.it, stackblitz, or Visual Studio Code for the Web.

I second the suggestion for getting a Bluetooth keyboard for the iPad.

Excellent point. I had forgotten about this. I work for a non profit so I’m ok, but yes you should absolutely check the terms of the license before using. On the upside, almost everything is markdown files in regular folders, so you can fall back to vim anytime.

I don’t know if this will work for you, and I’m not sure if you’re only looking for TUI editors, but Obsidian has vi key bindings and a lot of plugins.

Disclaimer: I have not tried the vi key bindings in Obsidian.

Another one I use is vscode. It has a ton of markdown plugins and vi key bindings. It also has a nice preview window.

Another Darknet Diaries fan here. Very approachable, centered around cyber security and privacy. It’s the only one I am currently listening to, but I am going to check out some of the others from this thread.

What do you mean? RedHat even used to come with an installer localized in their language.

It really depends on how much you can tolerate. I don’t know if full time is 40 hours in Germany like it is in the US.

If you have an option to try it for some time and fall back to plan B, why not do that? Then you can tell if the money is worth the extra work time.

• Commodore 64 (kernal)
• Amiga OS
• MS-DOS 3.2, 5.0
• Windows 3.1
• Slackware Linux
• Windows NT 4
• RedHat Linux
• Windows XP
• Ubuntu Linux
• Windows 7
• Windows 10
• Rasbian
• PopOS

Roughly in order of appearance. Personal devices only. I used many more for work.

To manage packages on the terminal, I personally like to use aptitude which has a nice visual interface to find, install, and remove packages. It also lets you resolve conflicts interactively. If you do not want a separate tool, you can use apt-cache search to search for new packages.

As is typical with Linux, there are multiple ways to do it. I found an article that outlines a few alternatives.