I'm willing to give Dorico a shot, but that's a lot of years of muscle memory to re-train unless it can be configured to use the same keyboard shortcuts.
Red Hat Principal Consultant here, July will be 7 years at the company for me.
Before IBM purchase: travel to clients, build and/or fix their stuff, recommend improvements
After IBM purchase: travel to clients, build and/or fix their stuff, recommend improvements
At least on my side of the aisle I haven't noticed any notable changes in my day to day work for Red Hat. IBM has been very light touch on our consulting services.
Once I realized I only liked soft drinks because of the carbonation, it was easy to switch to seltzer water. Now not only can I not stand most sugary drinks, I've almost entirely lost my sweet-tooth for everything. I basically only drink water, coffee, and whiskey in various proportions but mostly water. A little cream in the coffee.
I'm still ok with honey, and every once in a while I have a hankering for a single scoop of ice cream or custard.
A few times a year I get a migraine or super bad headache. A can of coke, when you don't ever drink it otherwise, is super effective against headaches.
I'm a consultant for Red Hat. I'm assigned a number of clients at a time, travel onsite (or work remote) to fix or build their systems, and sometimes supervise small teams as part of larger engagements.
Red Hat gives me my assignments for the next few weeks or months, tell me what end result everyone wants to see, and sends me to go get it done. I'm 100% trusted to do the job, no micromanagement. If I need help I'm a phone call away from expert engineers in all of our products. I have a TS clearance, so I'm onsite more often than not because I'm working on disconnected networks.
While I technically have a manager, they're more like a handler or mission control. He hands me my tasks, tells me the lay of the land, and gives me access to anything I need for the job. I'm not really "managed" on a day-to-day basis. Every engagement has it's own project manager that I work with closely but even that is a peer relationship, no supervisory.
I travel constantly but love it. 200+ nights in a hotel every year for the past 5 years. My wife's job is mostly remote, so she joins me on occasion, and I can get her plane tickets with my racked up mileage points.
I can "pay" for our vacations entirely with loyalty points (car, hotel, plane).
One thing I love about Red Hat is everyone pushes each other forward. Co-workers reach down and pull their colleagues up behind them. Never before have I felt such a sense that my colleagues have my back all the way. A very "we're all in this together" attitude throughout the company. Also, while you're always encouraged to move up the promotion ladder if you want, if you've found a niche that you're comfy in then that's supported to. There's no up-or-out like some organizations, and no forced ranking thank Yoba.
tl;dr Red Hat completely trusts me to do my job, and does everything it can to help me succeed. It's awesome.
Many moons ago I had a job with a private office. Brass nameplate on the door. I asked the intern who sat at a desk outside in the hall to kick me if I ever started acting all-pretentious-like. She agreed with great enthusiasm, but thankfully I kept a solid head about me.
I had the most ridiculously comfy couch in my office. Blue, threadbare, worn-in. Every time anyone sat down in it I warned them that they were going to fall asleep if they stayed there too long. Without fail, I'd hear wood sawing after a manner of minutes. Vendors, colleagues, the CIO, the CEO, my wife dropping by to visit, that couch was insidious.
The one we had was pretty great too, but not quite as intoxicatingly good as yours.
But, it had a big, brass buddha at one end. Rub the belly for good karma...
This thread is getting me to seriously consider another one. Just started a new company and we all know how that is. A comfy couch might be just the thing.
Before IBM purchase: Travel to clients, build and/or fix their things, suggest improvements.
After IBM purchase: Travel to clients, build and/or fix their things, suggest improvements.
At least from my side of Red Hat I've experienced zero changes in how I go about my work. In fact, my schedule is even more packed now, we can barely keep up with the demand. As far as I can tell IBM has left us alone to do our thing. Maybe it's different for other departments.
However, since you're effectively brute forcing a match on an unknown key, the universe may go cold and dark before your content arises, for any content larger than 128 bits or so.
But you’ll restart with it in not-yet-lost-it state and will lose it eventually. There is nothing useful in /dev/random, really, apart from the entropy for crypto. Trillions of trillions of … of trillions unique virtual atoms of no particular value.
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