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New comment by aoeuhtns in "Google Issues Quality Warning for Millions of Google Photos Users"

aoeuhtns — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 01:17:47 +0000

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 finally resorted to something manual. Termux + rsync on android. Every few days, I run the termux shortcut to rsync a folder, and delete what's copied over from my device. It just works.

New comment by aoeuhtns in "I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer"

aoeuhtns — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 18:53:42 +0000

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 'demotion' from founder ceo to sales engg was rough... but since it was in different geographies, I actually made more money and life quality was better!

New comment by aoeuhtns in "EmacsConf 2020 Talks"

aoeuhtns — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 22:04:10 +0000

Thanks for the pointer, it was very interesting! Not sure I've come across anything like this before.

New comment by aoeuhtns in "Signal PINs"

aoeuhtns — Wed, 20 May 2020 04:13:27 +0000

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 numbers.

I find it surprising that many users got so upset by the software asking them to set a password that they removed the app... seems a bit extreme. I guess if it was part of a "sign-up" flow, people would have been primed for it... But even then, it takes like just a minute to do it? /shrug

New comment by aoeuhtns in "Bringing GNU Emacs to native code [video]"

aoeuhtns — Mon, 04 May 2020 20:14:34 +0000

nice, thanks for the ebuild!

New comment by aoeuhtns in "Ask HN: Why do we think that “humans are the most evolved of 'all' animals”?"

aoeuhtns — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 18:30:18 +0000

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 determined humans to be the highest on that. That's not the same thing as being "most evolved".

Evolution has no "direction", no goal beyond the ability to survive. It's dysteleological.

Recommend The Big Picture by Sean Carrol for an overall overview of related questions.

New comment by aoeuhtns in "My Salary Progression in Tech"

aoeuhtns — Fri, 15 Mar 2019 22:51:33 +0000

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

  Changed companies
  2017 - $200k - Senior SWE / Devops

  Changed companies
  2018 - $240k - Devops / SWE (FAANG-like)

New comment by aoeuhtns in "DHS weighs major change to H-1B foreign tech worker visa program"

aoeuhtns — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 22:07:23 +0000

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 to laws so that people can plan their lives better would definitely help. But hey... I'm no lawmaker.

New comment by aoeuhtns in "DHS weighs major change to H-1B foreign tech worker visa program"

aoeuhtns — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 21:53:24 +0000

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 administration really stresses immigrants like me.

Like, are we staying here or are we not... can we plan to buy a house or not... should we plan our kids education here or elsewhere... should we save money here or elsewhere...

Pfft. Not sure if I'd have made the same decision going back 4 years. Friends who chased professional opportunities in Europe, Canada seem to have their visa stuff figured out. But over here, the rules just keep changing.

New comment by aoeuhtns in "Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations"

aoeuhtns — Mon, 18 Dec 2017 16:00:31 +0000

Magit in emacs. Probably one of the killer applications for emacs.

New comment by aoeuhtns in "Dropped (2014)"

aoeuhtns — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 17:25:41 +0000

And why I work in IT after doing so much biology.

New comment by aoeuhtns in "A vi-centric family tree of editors (2000)"

aoeuhtns — Mon, 28 Nov 2016 02:13:14 +0000

Run as daemon https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EmacsAsDaemon

New comment by aoeuhtns in "Switching from macOS: The Basics"

aoeuhtns — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:05:20 +0000

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 features, not a must-have. Maybe my preferences are not shared widely.

Been using Debian unstable and Xmonad for a long time, and it's hard to try and use anything else now. Most dev tools work natively ... no funky VMs to emulate, except Windows for Edge browser testing ... all works really well.