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Laid off in 2023 and coped by retiring early at age 48. I look for remote jobs every now and then, but they are getting scarce. Will not be working in office or even hybrid if I do…

I get what he's doing and why and even agree with some/most of it. But a subtle pervasive holier-than-thou attitude in the writing just turns me off.

I burned out bad last year and quit during the summer. As soon as I gave notice, everything became better. I spent the past year learning daytrading (not going well) and working on…

Embedded software development, $165/hour Mostly PIC16/18/32, some STM32.

Whenever I leave tabs open in FF, it'll consume 3GB+ of memory and slow my computer to a crawl. I do the same in Chrome and it'll consume maybe 2GB RAM and it's fine. I want to use…

May I ask what you did when you quit programming? Are you still doing the same thing now?

Linode, and let me tell you why... I had an unimportant side project running on a Linode VPS. I left it running, almost forgot about it and wasn't checking emails associated with t…

> Additionally contract work allows you to change up the projects you work more easily. How often do you change jobs as a contractor? What range of rates would you recommend target…

> excellent developers decide they simply couldn't take the pressure and head out for something easier Been working since late 90's with a 1.5 year break for grad school, but going…

Thank you, you've given me a lot to be optimistic about.

> Realistically you can't retire, not with two pre-teen kids. Yeah, I think I realize this deep down, and part of why I don't want to. > I took about 3 years off in my 40s How did …

Work climate is much different here in the manic U.S. I'd gladly take the 20% pay cut and be passed over for promotions. I actively decline promotion to team lead/management anyway…

Thanks for your reply. It really encapsulates all the best advice I've gotten from all places. > But also understand that you're probably not going to make the best decisions about…

I would absolutely love to find a software position with 24-32 hour week, but I have not heard of such a thing, short of going out on your own and freelancing. No employer I know o…

I fully admit the "can't" is mostly in my head. Need to work up the courage to do so, due to many reasons. Societal (what a bum!), family (what kind of role model would I be for ki…

Pre-pandemic, I'd take 3-4 weeks a year. I've only taken a 2 weeks off this past year, mainly because there's no where to go, so I've taken the 2 weeks just for mental health. Ever…

No, don't have a financial advisor, but considering one now. Before I burnt out, I was also planning to early retire around 50, when my nest egg should be at least $5M. Thanks for …

2.8M nut, about 50/50 in regular/retirement accounts. I'm mid 40's, married with two pre-teen kids, annual expenses of $80K, live in HCOL area (Southern California). Would you FIRE…

What's your FIRE number, if you don't mind, and what area do you live in (HCOL/LCOL, urban/rural, etc.)?

This is why porch piracy will increase. I suspect the intersection of people who are non-violent druggies and who are porch pirates is huge. I hate porch pirates.

We wouldn't need this VPN if Google didn't suck up all our information in the first place.

Anyone know how nanomsg ( https://nanomsg.org ) or nng ( https://github.com/nanomsg/nng ) compares? Interesting that nanomsg tries to better zeromq ( https://nanomsg.org/documentat…

OK, never mind, it just takes a while for it to be deleted (around 10-15 seconds). I've just been impatient.

But when I delete the last bookmark for a given tag, I still see the tag in the tag editor, even after a page refresh. And I can still click on the tag which brings up 0 bookmarks.…