We all know the Daniel Radcliffe story, right?
(He performed The Elements from memory on a UK talk show, which was allegedly what got him hired to play Weird Al in his 'biopic' - https://youtu.be/rSAaiYKF0cs?si=MRbiCH20VMCCcnuz )
NFS is more graceful in reconnecting when the TCP channel is reset, which is a great benefit.
It also implements more filesystem functionality, as a "df" report will correctly reflect the remote filesystem's usage.
EDIT: NFSv4 also offers "delegations," which give complete control of a file to a client in an expiring lease; the latest NFS clients also have "polite delegations," which tacitly extend the lease period.
SSHFS is very handy for a "quick and dirty" mount, though, with minimal configuration.
I myself went to other way around. While my VPN infra is very stable, I went
into repo route. I use my very simple DVFS repo utility to sync files
and never looked back. I like to have multiple copies of stuff here and there.
Very sad news - been using vim for decades, still use it every day as pretty much all of my colleagues use VSCode... I met him briefly at FOSDEM 20+ years ago, will have to see if I can find the photo I took of him looking slightly bemused when I showed him vim running on a Linux-ified iPaq with a touchscreen and no keyboard!
As others have said, time to make a donation in his honour.
I'm an experienced senior engineer, currently in Hong Kong but relocating to the UK this month, looking for work starting early April, either fully remote or hybrid accessible from Leeds. In my last 3 jobs, I've worked for a pan-Asian logistics start-up as the 'code owner' of the core backend engine, a large European bank as the senior engineer in an informal devops team building internal tools to modernise operations, and freelance building sites for an accounting firm. In the past I've worked on websites/APIs, Android apps, the Unix kernel, and also spent a while working in a bra factory...
It's a bit of a cliche, but when asked I say I'm looking to work on a good problem, with good people, using good tech. Beyond that - I'm flexible!
That's exactly what happened to me during lockdown - hired at a bank on a fixed-term contract, purely by phone interview. When I started, they required me to work on-site because I wasn't permanent staff and therefore had to be supervised, except my manager wasn't on-site and I was there for over 2 months before meeting him in person - they were actually quite strict about separation because they were worried about the operational risk of an office outbreak.
It wasn't until I broke my toe and was told by the doctor to minimise my walking they they allowed me to (technically temporarily) work from home...
This is completely the opposite of my experience. Most developers work from home, but managers are more likely to be in the office because their job is meeting lots of people.
I'm sure you only mean to be anti-royalist^, but the implication for the rest of the citizens by birth of this fairly multicultural country is extremely intolerant if not racist.
^Understanding that just makes it a baseless & lazy argument, a joke at best.
Experienced engineer, originally from the UK, worked on a large variety of different products at different levels of tech stack.
Recently, mostly backend Python/Django, but also non-code expertise like mentoring, code review, workflow, troubleshooting, etc.
Previously: PHP, shell, C (Unix kernel and system utils), Android/Java, Linux, some HTML/CSS/JS, little bits of Kotlin and Golang, also bras.
