andrejserafim

Several countries in Europe are planning to build more damns after the last very dry summer.

I agree. I use syncthing for syncing phones and laptops. For data like photos, which aren't really updated. It works very nice. And for documents updated by one user, moving between devices is totally seamless.

That being said i understand how it works at a high level.

I've switched from photoprism to immich. Immich is a much more active project, bugs are fixed, face recognition is an order of magnitude better, just an overall more solid experience. If you are choosing, I wouldn't doubt for a second to go with immich.

I appreciate you say this with humour. But if you voluntary or due to circumstances out of your control cannot distract you brain... At least nine starts thinking. The energy cost is high, but I always end up with a very profound experience and some great outcomes.

So I wouldn't cross out "staring at a wall" as inarguably invaluable. It's what's going on in your head when you do it. Same as when reading that book.

This and also being able to satisfy an itch at any moment. Be it youtube or facebook, whatever your favourite drug is. It's infinitely available and is much easier than any other form of activity.

But in an of itself doesn't create anything. Mindless content consumption doesn't even leave memories sometimes, what to say of ideas.

I'm in my mid-30s. And your advice is really what I've come to realize. When I took my last promotion into engineering management, I had ambitions to become the next CTO in this company. But having been in the job for a couple of years, I have come to realize that the CTO role in this specific company would take me into more of the things I enjoy less in my current role.

At the same time, my current role has a neat balance of technical and softer aspects. So why chase the "career" if I'm already in a good place. Focusing on my family and out of work priorities just makes so much more sense.

It's probably the first time, I've rejected a path to a promotion.

Our anecdata: we store telemetry per thing. After loading a month worth of data - timescaldb as hosted by their cloud ran a difference aggregation in seconds. Clickhouse routinely did it in 20 millis.

Simple avg, etc were better, but always clickhouse was an order of magnitude faster than timescale. We didn't invest a whole bunch into optimization other than trying some indexing strategies in timescaledb.

So for our use case the choice is clear.

Works fine for me ;)

Then it's no longer just your data. Someone else now also has a copy. How do you know they don't leak it or provide it to someone? There's value in hhavingyour data only local with some off-site arrangement.

Syncthing is great! Are you using zerotier for transport security. Or does it improve speed as well? Off-site syncs are far too slow for me. Luckily, it's very rare that I have to do them.

Disclaimer: used to work at GS. Left to work remotely in another region.

GS is a big company. There's lots of people there. Some 8k people are in the tech division. And the employer competition there is not just with other financial firms. But also with the rest of the tech sector.

So as other commenters say, if other places offer similar conditions, but also remote work. It may be a differentiator. In practise though - working from home for tech some days a week has been totally normal for years. So I expect little actual impact on the company.

Same here. Love it!

Switched the missus as well. Since it easier to have a homogenous set of machines.

She's as non-technical as they come. But browsers work the same. So she hardly noticed. Most modern casual usage is on the web anyways.

And for advanced things I haven't yet found a thing I couldn't easily do.

That's it. I believe, like in any market the top earners, who are hard to get and hurt when they go will continue to get high pay. Since even if you include the world (and most jobs don't, they include some timezones, jurisdictions only) the market is still rather small.

But if you're just the average developer, like most of us really are - the higher competition will surely make it harder to negotiate higher pay.