aoeuhtns

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by aoeuhtns 6y ago
Yup, after years of trying to make nextcloud, syncthing, etc work for my workflow (copy from flat photos folder on device -> flat photos staging folder on backup server, then a cron job organizes it into folders by year/month), I fi
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by aoeuhtns 6y ago
Great story! Could relate to some of the emotions as I went from a founder ceo in biotech to sales engineer in tech, to software engg, then manager, then back to software engg with some unintentional devops detour in the middle! That '
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by aoeuhtns 6y ago
Thanks for the pointer, it was very interesting! Not sure I've come across anything like this before.
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by aoeuhtns 6y ago
Don't understand the negative comments here and on their subreddit... Secure Value Recovery and the associated PIN seems like an advance in the state of the art -- nobody else seems to do this. All users have to do is remember a few nu
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by aoeuhtns 6y ago
nice, thanks for the ebuild!
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by aoeuhtns 7y ago
Practically no evolutionary biologist thinks that. All organisms living today have evolved for equally long. You've described a criteria - "logical brain" - and then evaluated currently living organisms based on that, and det
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by aoeuhtns 8y ago
My progression (total comp): India: 2010 - $7k 2011 - $8k 2012 - $10k 2013 - degree 2014 - degree US SF Bay Area: 2015 - $110k - Sales engg 2016 - $125k - SWE / Devops 2017 - $150k - Senior SWE / Devops
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by aoeuhtns 9y ago
I guess so... but headline-grabbing news around immigration does seem to pop up more. And then I have to dive into that and figure out if this applies to us or not. Definitely leaving a bad taste. Some amount of "lock-in" period t
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by aoeuhtns 9y ago
As an immigrant on H1B, if it wasn't for the quality of work and people here in the valley, I'd definitely look to go elsewhere with my skills because of this incessant existential risk to our life in this country. This administra
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by aoeuhtns 9y ago
Magit in emacs. Probably one of the killer applications for emacs.
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by aoeuhtns 10y ago
And why I work in IT after doing so much biology.
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by aoeuhtns 10y ago
Run as daemon https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon
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by aoeuhtns 10y ago
Going by the comments here, I am surprised by how few people seem to use Linux on their laptop! Maybe selection bias due to the thread topic? Of course, not everything will work, but for me, they often fall into the nice-to-have category of