hallettj

I've mainly worked as an employee so I don't have as much experience with freelance gigs. But nearly every job I've had in 18 years has been through networking. Organizing and speaking at programming meetups opened a lot of doors for me. It gets a lot of attention on me while I get a chance to present myself as an expert.

Eventually I'd worked with enough people that when I've been looking for work I find I know people who've moved to new companies that are hiring.

I'm gonna take a couple of stabs in the dark.

According to this Stack Overflow answer using tee can prevent the prompt from drawing which makes it appear that a script has not terminated. The answerer's workaround is to put a very short sleep command after the tee command.

If this is what happened to you maybe the reason the script works in bash but not in zsh is because you have different prompts configured in those two shells.

Another idea is to replace tee with sponge from moreutils. The difference is that sponge waits for the end of stdin before it starts writing which can avoid problems in some situations.

I find the Thomas the Tank Engine cartoons frustrating for exactly this reason. Not the original books or the episodes narrated by Ring Star and George Carlin that are directly based on them - those are fine. I mean the CGI crap where in every episode Thomas does something stupid, and gets to be a hero for fixing his own mess.

Hooray! It's a sequel, and not a reboot! Legend of Korra was great for being similar but different compared to Last Airbender. If we get something that's similar but different in a different way that would be lovely.

And there is an upcoming feature film about Aang? Maybe that will take place between the end of Last Airbender and the beginning of Legend of Korra? We saw flashbacks with glimpses of reconciling the four nations after the war, and founding Republic City. It seems like there is plenty more story to tell there.

We live in a capitalist society. Most of Typst is open source including the CLI, library, and IDE support; and the source is Rust so why not share in a Rust community?

Oh yeah, and Nix has the advantage that you don't need containers. If you want to run a graphical app in a container it might be tricky to access the window manager on the host system. Maybe that's why you were setting up i3? Yeah, containers are great and flexible, but they also have a variety of downsides so Nix is better ;)

I agree; and I wanted to mention that you don't need NixOS which is a full distro. Nix the package manager can be installed on any Linux distro, on Macos, or on Windows with WSL. You can set up your reproducible environment by including a devenv config in your repo, or a Nix flake.

There is documentation available for flakes here: https://zero-to-nix.com/concepts/flakes/

They can flash by pressing the button. On some flashlights partially pressing and releasing the button flashes the light off and on. That's a notable difference from, say, lanterns where you need a cover or shield for signalling.

The problem with "torch" is that there's already a thing called "torch", and now I don't know which thing you mean. The word "flashlight" has avoided critical ambiguity in many of our Indiana Jones movies.

A pidgin language is a simplified language that appears when people need to communicate with each other, but they don't have a common language. But if the situation lasts long enough for children to grow up learning the mixture of languages as their native language then it quickly evolves into a creole. The difference is that a creole is not a simplified language, and it has regular grammar. While growing up children always "reanalyze" their language to regularize grammar and fill in gaps in expressiveness. This is a main driver in shifts in all languages. The effect is especially profound when starting from an irregular, simplified language.

Because of reanalysis pidgins tend to either be temporary, or to give way to creoles. I don't know of a pidgin that exists in the US right now. There are creoles - there are some details here

I love the soil science memes! I don't have much background to understand them myself, but I have a pedologist friend who gets a kick out of them.

What a comfy business-class runabout they've got! Why didn't they use that more often?

Probably refers to Trump's proposal to mass deport Palestinians, and to turn Palestine into a "luxury riviera". But given Netanyahu's own horrifying behavior I respect the stylistic choice of the article leaving it ambiguous.