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Isn’t he supposed to be CEO of like six companies (one of them public)? Oh, and preparing to take up a government role later this month?

Historians will have so much fun with him.

In what way do people who need a new job not have skin in the game?

But then it means the only people who apply will be the sort of people who tend not to even get phone screens… is that really who you want to be spending your time interviewing?

In the UK, most letting fees charged to tenants were banned a few years ago, because it was felt that letting agents were acting abusively. https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/tenant-fees-act

If I had to pay a fee to apply for a job, I’d assume that it was a scam and that there was no job on offer.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Brazil says 93% of the population live in Brazil’s main time zone.

So what?

I was wondering how much the day length actually varies in Brazil. Isn’t most of the country near the equator?

What should it have said about time zones?

Am I allowed to take lethal weaponry with me?

Or books? How many?

I guess people like to think the Americans are going to land on the moon again, or something.

And unless Easter is important enough for you that you count it as part of the calendar.

Seriously… Easter was the main motivation for the Gregorian calendar’s creation.

It seems that I had iTerm2 configured to display bold text as bright text (instead of bold). And I use bold, coloured text in my prompt, so that threw me.

I configured

    bold-is-bright = true

and suddenly everything looks fine. I'll see how I get on with it.

https://ghostty.org/docs/config/reference#bold-is-bright

One other, less important reason: if you want to have a drop shadow, then your background had better not already be truly black.

I tried Ghostty earlier in the week, but couldn’t get it set up to look the same as iterm2 (the colours are off and text looks different somehow with the same typeface at the same size). Which is just cosmetic but makes it feel wrong viscerally.

I’ll give it another go at the weekend.

Bash’s default prompt ends with a $ when it’s not running as root.

Avoid this next time by using a password manager, keeping the list of recovery codes for that password manager in a safe place or two, and checking every so often that you can still find the recovery codes.

Fair point

Or… you could enable dark mode for real in Settings -> Display & Brightness -> Appearance, and use reader mode for websites that don’t respect it.

It is to distinguish between “homeless and living on the streets” from “homeless and living on friends’ floors”?

Would you award more points for a higher or lower ball speed?

This would mean that basketball would suddenly become a more expensive game to play, would it not? What would that do to grassroots participation?

> By default Node.js will execute only files that contain no TypeScript features that require transformation, such as enums or namespaces.

There is a further switch, not yet switched on by default, that performs these transformations.

*linting

Musk is an immigrant.

Musk is exactly the sort of rootless global elite that so many nationalist populists have a problem with… but he gets a free pass.

Can I add a comment to some dead code so that it gets left alone? (Similar to how you can switch off minting for a single line.) Use case is when a utility function is currently unused, but probably will be needed again in the future.

Why not just trade using it?

Would I be able to print to PDF without cups?

If AGI resulted in software engineer employment getting wiped out, that would not result in governments introducing UBI, no.

I have my doubts that the people owning AGI would allow the rest of us to make money from them, when they could make money from them instead.

IIRC, it also disables the Javascript jit compiler and configuration profiles.

You should try to steel man this.

For example, were these laws created in response to recording devices being invented or becoming widely used? If so, could governments have a legitimate interest in establishing and enforcing generally expected standards of behaviour in order to maintain levels of trust in society?

This would not apply to people gossiping because gossiping predates governments.

Not saying this isn’t a scam, but on the phone number thing…

I sometimes leave my phone number off my CV, because

(a) I hate phone calls: the sound quality is shit and I have trouble understanding people. I much prefer zoom/teams/whatever

(b) I hate it when people (either hiring managers or recruiters) phone me while I’m in an interview… not handing out my phone number to all and sundry helps me avoid that

I’d really hate it if people interpreted “no phone number on CV” as meaning “probably a scammer” :-(

I’m not sure the ancients had even basic stats?

But also… didn’t it require a cultural shift from seeing psychological problems as being caused by demons, or as being part of the nature of a person, to seeing them as pathologies that could be cured?