I’m wondering the exact same thing

The podcast source transcript has more context. Apparently “him” was whoever was in charge of MSBNx, an unrelated, Bayesian Network thing, which Bill Gates was also obsessed with.

Yes, I do get paid. Sometimes considerably (for what tech writing can provide).

Indeed, writing tech articles on Medium has allowed me to get some extra income/free-time in between jobs, which I use to upskill myself and then share what I learn with the community (with some amount of friction regarding the paywall). This self-reinforcing loop is quite appealing to me, and - I would argue - aligns somewhat with my take on the Kantian categorical imperative.

For what it’s worth, I like the typesetting. Medium also has extremely good SEO, likely from some direct negotiation with search engines, I assume. Eventually I plan to move my tech writings to my own blog, with some sort of minimal ad system, no paywalls. Also, I usually unpaywall my tech articles after the window of high income dries up.

I updated the post to use the “friend link” which should allow you to read for free. (I didn’t realize you could edit the link on lemmy after publishing).

in which case I’d much rather pay directly to the authors.

All my stories have a link to my ko-fi at the end, but the income from that is significantly less than what I get from Medium directly.

Edit: Thanks @hayk@lemmy.ml for donating! Much appreciated!

Hmm, you must be Germænic or nordic. You know, places in which the soccer ball freezes during winter before the invention of frost resistant turf

Thanks bro, just doing my best to keep our kind employed and informed. Long live the machine whisperers

Every software system worth its salt should have safeguards against Nokia nunchuck attacks.

You probably have an extension which removes the “Friend link” query param from the URL

Thanks! I borrowed the open source katana bit from unix surrealism

Hey, I really appreciate that. I’m glad you find it useful.

I got you, boss man. Enjoy the raw speed

Cool, thanks! Look like there are things like xrandr for Wayland with this functionality. the burn-in is not so bad right now but I’ll keep this in mind.

Yes! I use it all the time. No idea why it’s not more popular

.bashrc:

# Prompt
# "Make it simple, just the dollar sign"
# "Say no more, fam"
# - if error code is not 0, then prepend [N] where N is the error code
# - if user is root, use red and #
blue='\e[34m'
red='\e[31m'
bold='\e[1m'
reset='\e[0m'
PS1='$( status=$?; [ $status -ne 0 ] && echo "[$status] ")\['"$blue""$bold"'\]$\['"$reset"'\] '

if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
  PS1='$( status=$?; [ $status -ne 0 ] && echo "[$status] ")\['"$red""$bold"'\]#\['"$reset"'\] '
fi

.inputrc:

# vi mode, change to 'emacs' here if you prefer
set editing-mode vi

# vi INSERT prompt
set vi-ins-mode-string "\1\e[30;44m\2 INS \1\e[0m\2 "

# vi NORMAL prompt
set vi-cmd-mode-string "\1\e[30;47m\2 NOR \1\e[0m\2 "

answered in post

Good idea, I opened a feature request

It’s also traditional to eat raw meat, but we discovered fire at some point.

You also don’t need the dash for the short options.

True, but I refuse to entertain such a non-standard option format. It’s already enough to tolerate find’s.

It was OP

it’s surely one of the CSS lines of all time

magnificent