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Ask HN: At what age is “too old” to work in tech as a software engineer?
I am 28 and a third-year medical student with a minor in CS from undergrad (biology major). I like medicine but I really don't feel it's my calling.

I do however enjoy software engineering but admittedly, I have never done it outside of my own hobbies, which it's been many years since I've coded. Therefore, I don't know if I would love it because doing it as a career is much different than toying around on things I'm interested in. I'm really interested in backend & API engineering and building scalable systems, things like applications that support huge loads and concurrency and learning that at large organizations and then eventually helping a startup scale up as an early engineer.

I was interested in software engineering as a career (and finishing with a CS degree with the CS credits I've completed from undergrad), but as Paul Graham most famously said not to hire engineers over 30.

While that, as an absolute, may be BS, I do have a lurking fear there is some truth to that, and that I'll never fit in at this stage in my life.

From software engineers I've asked there seems to be an implicit agreement that ageism is very real against older developers. I am also worried because if I get started at this point, I would be way behind people who started right out of college and I'd be in my 40s by the time I could catch up financially.

I am also worried about employability after 40, when almost everyone will be significantly younger than me, and then being laid off and afterwards finding it very difficult to find a job.

So while I understand I can get a job in the near future, I am terrified of long-term prospects. For context, I really don't have any money saved and am in debt because of school loans.

I feel as if I've already gone too deep in the hole and that I should just only do programming after my residency is over. I am not happy at all, but changing careers also has to make financial sense and if I am going to be discriminated against just because of my age then I don't think it is worth it.

Many people have told me "do what your heart wants" but they don't wake up with my debt.

Would love your opinions! (also thank you for reading. I know this is a sensitive topic and been asked about before, but I am curious about any new insight gained post-pandemic during the emergence of remote-first work cultures)
I have an Android TV and streaming subscriptions. If I want to stream something I have to find out what service carries it, open the right app, and attempt to type the title with the arrow keys on the remote. For me, it's much easier to torrent.
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I checked and the same information regarding the attempted login appears in my LastPass "Account History". I also talked to support and they've confirmed this.
MikroTik hAP AC2 is decent. Supports a boatload of features and doesn't really support a cloud account (it'll phone home with it's serial if you use their builtin DDNS feature though).

Routes 1G, wifi is only 2x2 MIMO though so you won't get "amazing 9999 Gbit wifi) which you'll never get in real life anyways because of airtime congestion.

They have a noob UI, "pro" UI and CLI.

Both UI and CLI has all features (9x%, some features are hidden from gui while in beta).
Yes, I was never homeschooled, but my first reaction to this was "why are you surveying the parents and not the kids"?
The linked youtube video [0] is in Russian, but very watchable with translated captions.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiAWYUZLJ1s
That makes sense, almost 7 wks, about $330/wk.

Weekly deals are often better than daily, not sure if there are monthly deals. Probably there should be some kind of long-term special deals too.
I'm aware that rockets have them but we have much stronger safety standards for passenger airplanes than we do for rockets. What I've heard is that it's very hard to build a hydrogen tank which is both lightweight and safe enough in the event of a crash or other incident to meet general civilian aviation standards.

I'd love to be wrong on that but given the obvious appeal there must be some thorny engineering challenges for an idea which has been batted around since the 1950s.
I was not. So, UBSan also "sanitizes" defined but undesirable behaviour from the language under the label "undefined". Great nomenclature there.

It also, by the looks of things, does not provide a way to say you want wrapping if that's what you did intend, you can only disable the sanitizer for the component that gets false positives. I don't know whether Zig has this, but Rust does (e.g. functions like wrapping_add() which of course inline to a single CPU instruction, and the Wrapping<> generic that implies all operations on that type are wrapping)

But you are then correct that this catches such overflows. Thanks for pointing to -fsanitize=unsigned-integer-overflow.

Since we're on the topic of sanitizers. These are great for AoC where I always run my real input under Debug anyway, but not much use in real systems where of course the edge case will inevitably happen in the uninstrumented production system and not in your unit tests...
If somebody like China is caught sabotaging JWST the fallout could be immense. They would be accused of trying to hold back human progress, and I could easily imagine high profile Chinese scientists leaving the country and science institutions boycotting China. It's not worth the risk.
While I get your point, that seems to me to be obviously a rhetorical question posed to give Adam and his wife an opportunity to explain what they're up to.
no thanks

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Look at the email headers and post them here. Was the email actually from lastpass????!!!
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> C Is Not a Low-level Language Anymore

Pretty sure C was always considered a high-level language.
IF you're willing to do the work, an option would be get an HP T730 from eBay, add a low profile Intel quad port I340 or I350 adapter and perhaps add a little more RAM (depending on the T730 you get 4GB-8GB is more than sufficient), and then install pfsense, opnsense, DD-WRT, openwrt or anything else on it. You will have a great little router/firewall that is much more capable than almost anything else in this price range.

NOTE: this is effectively a thin client PC, so you can try different router/firewalls to pick which works best for you. There are also commercial options that people prefer such as Untangle, Sophos and so on. Sophos even has a free home version.

There are other alternates to HP T730, but you may have to look around.

It should come to around ~$100-$120 depending on luck, since it's eBay.
Doesn't matter, because you cän OVERCLOQQ!1!!

https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/bootloader/pepe2k

https://github.com/pepe2k/u-boot_mod

No, seriously ;-) What you are thinking of is probably described here https://openwrt.org/docs/techref/hardware/switch and has a long history.

Basically it depends on having opensourced drivers, or at least specifications
for the internals of the affected switcheroos, which wasn't the case for many chips for a long time, and still isn't for all of them.

Then there is the part of writing a unifying and usable abstraction for all of that, which also isn't fully there yet, at least not for every device under the sun.

Read up here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/networking/switchdev....
None, really. At least not in the sense of what people usually mean by "spiritual". That is, I don't pray to (or believe in) any gods or deities of any sort, or even believe in any actual thing called a "spirit". So that doesn't leave much room for spirituality.

The closest I come to any of this is something I like to do now and then which I suppose is a little bit like meditation. I'll put on some nice pleasant, non-distracting music which doesn't tend to make me think of anything in particular, close my eyes, and just try not to think about anything for a while, and immerse myself in just the sensation I'm feeling. But really, this is just away to kinda "clear my mind" and relax, I'm not sure I'd describe the experience as spiritual at all.

Beyond that, I do get something out of reading Zen Buddhist literature at times. But Zen, to me, is more of a philosophy and a way of thinking, than a religion. And I wouldn't say I'm an adherent or practitioner of Zen, it's just something I enjoy reading / thinking about sometimes.
not sure, but this seems pretty bad! fwiw, i haven't used lastpass in at least a year. i've been using 1password.
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> For a blog? I disagree, because the point of a blog is to read the author’s comments, not those of third parties.

The author has posted several comments in the comment section, so even by your definition the blog fails to meet functional standards. However, IMO, the distinction between the author's comments and user comments is arbitrary, both are text meant to be read by readers, and those readers without JS are missing a ton of discussion that's happening in the comments, including discussion with the author. There's actually more to read in the comment section than in the blog post itself.

> All that being written, it would be awesome to have a static site generator which were called by a hook in a dynamic comment server. I actually would like to write one someday!

I have actually seen a system like this implemented at company I used to work for. A posted comment would be stored in a sqlite database before a request to rebuild the comment section is fired (as a partial, to avoid re-rendering the whole page/site), subsequently dumping the new build into the CDN (with some debounce logic to throttle high comment traffic). The rebuild was typically sub-second and performed very well.
I’ve found that reporting spam you receive to spamcop.net helps if you’re vigilant about it.
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Seconded!

Also #112 with Simon Amstell was good as was the recent episode with Harry Hill.
swift, too
There's an official self-host open source version as well ( the one you linked is unofficial), but it's rather heavy ( multiple .NET services, MS SQL) and not adapted for small scales.
I'm an atheist but I think that religion and religious values are a positive force for society.

The most spiritual experience I have is when I'm out in nature alone and I see something beautiful like a sunset over the sea. These moments make me feel connected to nature and to the past. I can imagine my ancestors seeing similar things since hundreds of thousands of years. It's comforting to know that some things don't change much.

Spirituality is the struggle to find something that's both meaningful and eternal. Nature's time scales aren't eternal but they're pretty large and easy for my simple atheist mind to conceptualize.
I don't think you have thought this through. Businesses are peoples livelihoods. You have a lot of problems to solve with an intervention like you're suggesting. Based on the "I don't care, figure it out" attitude, I'm guessing you are still pretty young and can't see very far past your face with issues this complex. Not aiming to be rude, but this kind of half-baked, largely emotional argument detracts from the value of discussions, and drives away thoughtful commentators.
Would it be possible to have something like this that works by writing to a PROM? That would make it immutable at the hardware level.
https://www.reddit.com/r/MagicLantern/comments/rpvv2n/fyi_si...

They are aware and are working on it.

Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20211210011209/https://magiclant...
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Seems confirmed by the Magic Lantern team: https://old.reddit.com/r/MagicLantern/comments/rpvv2n/fyi_si...
"Beyond all doubt" is doubtful since, taking your assertions for granted, he only manifested himself to an infinitesimally small cross-section of humanity.
I cannot see anything that's closer to "positive energy" than making people laugh a bit :)
How old approximately was your account? I used my master password the last time in 2017... were our master passwords compromised back then... and someone held on to them for that long? That seems improbable?
Same here, I use KeePass on several Windows machines, and on a couple of Android phones (using KeePass2Android). I use a cheap VPS as a central point for syncing - so I can make changes on any machine, then sync them over SFTP, which merges the changes into the database on the VPS. I can then hit sync on any of the other machines, and it will pull down the latest database over SFTP and merge in the changes.

It sounds a bit complicated reading this back, but in reality it's pretty straightforward.
That's not the case. Back in the day you would use some sort of "monitor" program to assemble that code (or to disassemble code already in memory).

For example, the C64 Action Replay cartridge had a built-in monitor. Software machine code monitors and assemblers were also available.
Look into teachings of Gurdjieff. Having similar background as yours, I was interested due to the fact that there is no need to believe anything from anybody else, and you should test everything you believe by yourself.
I don't remotely see how an ide could help highlight which functions are insecure to call reflectively, other than linting, and that applies to both and only helps so much.
Large power transformers have efficiencies in the 98-99.75% range.

I don't doubt switch mode could be smaller and cheaper up to some size, but I am struggling to see transformers larger than about 5 mva being replaced with power electronics.

Solar farms etc have inverters in modules I believe 500 kva each - and of course the power electronics are necessary there, there is no substitute.

I have a 20 MVA transformer that is nearly at end of life and would be open to cheaper replacements.
> > The eternal September was the point in time when the internet culture stopped reproducing

> Sometimes it was lost, but sometimes it was just diluted. I suspect most the time it was the latter.

No, it just stopped existing. You can't go find it somewhere or anything.

> If the culture was beneficial, then given enough time it should return in some semblance or another.

That's not how anything works.

> There is a lot in common with people in the U.S. worried about immigrants changing their own culture, which they see as "American"

Not really, because those people are worried about an immigrant minority, not worried about an immigrant supermajority.

You would do better to look at the same example in the opposite way: immigrant parents worried that their children will become native English speakers and lose the family language and traditions.
I've found MakeMKV to be much more reliable than Handbrake for ripping.
Thanks, that's pretty damning.
No one asks if Excel or Hearthstone or Git or other desktop applications have progressive enhancement, it's unfortunate but these days no one should be asking it about web pages either.

The web is an application platform, it stopped being about documents years ago. Whatever you may feel about Xforms, its spec was published nearly 20 years ago and even now HTML forms still cannot do something as basic as a PUT request without JS or workarounds.

It's clear that browser vendors expect you to use JS for basic functionality, and for document distribution you'll be using PDF anyway so why try to pigeonhole the web onto something it is not? What's to be gained by pretending otherwise?
Yes, the same information appears in my Account History and LastPass support confirmed it.

So in this case, it's not a phishing attempt unfortunately.
Kind of how Ethereum uses "gas" to make sure that bad/lazy actors won't waste CPU cycles when running smart contracts.
Do you ever store your LastPass in your clipboard? Malicious apps on some platforms can access your clipboard without your knowledge. Do you use a clipboard manager? Is it trustworthy? Does it store data safely on disk?

Good questions to ask yourself
To me, it serves as a warning and a life long lesson. I was formally mormon and didn't get out because the thought of a all powerful man in the sky made me extra special was silly. I got out because I looked into the history of the church and found that the founder and his successors were obvious con-men. Like, so obvious that years of indoctrination ultimately gave way.

Had the founder any moral character and I frankly might still be a mormon today. (though, tbh, it was likely because of his immorality that mormonism has survived. I'd probably not be around as I'm from a large family that likely wouldn't have happened without mormonism).

The lesson I took from that is to challenge my world views, don't take assumed knowledge for granted, and to be extra super wary of anyone trying to tug on emotions to motivate me into action.
AKA "The reason why Roblox is allowed on the App Store and iDOS 2 isn't".
Love this idea and execution, thanks for sharing
I picked up on Darknet Diaries from recommendations in a previous HN podcast thread.

Some of the physical pen test episodes are totally gripping! Well worth a listen.

Great podcast.
You have an innocent mind. :)
I think he shines best either in his books (the first, "Rationalist Spirituality" is very short and gives a good intro to his thought) or in YT interviews. The one with John Vervaeke or Curt Jaimungal are good picks. The blog is interesting but tend to also be an outlet for personal tantrums :) I've started a telegram channel to chit-chat about this topic.

Anyway I guess the only relevant thing I want to share is that there are at least 2 paths to build for ourselves a consistent, integral worldview (one where meaning can be found, as meaning can only be found where there is structure): Propositional to Participative, or Participative to Propositional. That is, satisfy the brain, and open up the space to the transcendental, or go all the way into direct experience and then let the brain catch up. BK is path #1, Spira is path #2, and they have been very helpful to me.
First of all, there are plenty of different data structures in Common Lisp. I don't know any Lisp resource that will tell you or encourage you to use lists for everything. For example, I think all the major Common Lisp books encourage you, explicitly, to use the advantages of different data structures.

Secondly, there is no contradiction between the usefulness of structs and the usefulness of nested lists and the ability to reach directly into them. But structs are no more a universal solution than lists are, so I don't know why you would be so hung up on them---in particular since we aren't discussing a particular use case.

I think the "unreadable monstrosity" thing in its various forms boils down to non-lispers not being used to car/cdr. That may be a fact, but it isn't an argument (and it takes about 5 mins to remedy).
I compartmentalise. At work, I am satisfied by solving problems (with or without code) - this gives me some level of intrinsic satisfaction (internal value) even though it might not have a lot of external value (in the traditional "save the world sense"). I then use the funds I made from my day job to work on things that have external and internal value such as planting pollinator friendly gardens, cleaning my neighbourhood from trash, trying to get side projects profitable etc. At this point, I've kind of given up on finding a day job that has a lot of external value, has interesting problems and pays enough to allow for at least some savings.
I don't know.

The problem with the (any, for that matter) pandemic is, that we only have limited capabilities in the health service. If we all get sick at the same time, the system collapses and there will be drama and tragedy to an extend most of us can't comprehend. And it's simply the main goal to prevent that from happening. We have a vaccine which is clearly the best solution we have right now. So we should aim to vax as much people as we can. The remaining question is, how do we do this? Is a forced mandate this the best way to achieve this goal? I mean, we have a vaccine for about a year (?) now and everyone who's willing to get vaxxed has got the shot. How will those remaining 30% react?
I absolutely agree. I love KeePass and use it for everything... this LastPass account was setup to share passwords with others at an org that I worked at.

The problem is... that LastPass password, the one stored in KeePass, is presumably the one that was leaked.

Which is what is spooking me -- if someone has access to my entire KeePass file, it's game over.
The constrast of this reminded me of my city and the “urban prairie”, where previously crowded, close-to-downtown urban neighborhoods began to be abandoned, where 16 houses stood before, now maybe two or three, and the lots around those get overgrown with grasses, leaving behind a typical city street grid, streets and infrastructure and tall wild grassy fields where the houses were.
What's funny is how niche it got. At my school with uniforms which dictated the type of shoe you had to wear, the "cool" kids would steal these tags off the laces of the shoes in the stores in town. The coolest kids had the most tags hanging off their shoelaces O_O
Never heard. Googling "Huffing Bleach". And indeed it really seems to be a thing.

Anyways in Finnish Army Guerrilla Book you need only one drop of bleach for every 250 ml, and 24 hrs, to make it totally safe for any kind of use.
Has Google won the cloud storage wars?
Not an answer to OP but I had seen that that on HM a while ago : https://www.lesspass.com/
Really liked the idea of not having to rely on a third-party ... But I never used it because of Firefox master password and sync functionality. Too lazy.
No, you just need the belief that something more is beyond what you normally see and sense. Not a supernatural being. That is all that is required to be spiritual.

Although in reality we are only spiritual. Call it a very good haptic VR system if you will.

Our society is mainly atheists consumers. You wont find God on CNN or Amazon Prime
That seems strange because you'd think you may need the guarantee the pointer remains a pointer for an ABI? Or does it only do this in very limited circumstances? Do you know the term I can use to Google more info about this?
> In the case of Tumblr, this would be a reviewer going to search, typing in something like 'tits’ and finding porn.

I just don't get it. With the current state of image processing ML hacking together an NSFW detecting horizontally scalable service is a question of days.

Then you just have to mark all your NSFW content by a flag in a database and stop showing it to iOS devices. That will make people think a bit next time when they choose a new mobile phone.
> There aren't for you as a customer.

I guess it depends on the bank or on the country. In Russia some banks have a small fee (usually about $1-$2 per month) for using a debit card, some don't have and some will charge a fee unless you spend more than a certain amount every month or deposit a specific amount. There can also be a small fee for issuing/reissuing a card.

Then there are indirect costs. You will probably want to receive SMS notifications when your account is debited or credited, and this is not free for cards that don't have a monthly usage fee. There can even be a fee for withdrawing funds from a debit card (using issuer bank's ATM).

Recently I read through different banks' terms and there are lot of things they can charge you for. For example, one bank will charge a fee for counting coins or small bills if you bring too much of them. Or there can be a fee for withdrawing money in bank's office below certain limit.

Generally, it seems that banks don't like customers who don't pay a fee - directly or indirectly (when making a purchase).
Can you please post more information?

Was this an old LastPass account? You didn't use this master password elsewhere, etc.?

Thanks!