One of my nerd-quizzes I hade at interviews before was "what letters in what case are NOT flags to GNU ls".

The answer is 'man ls'. And: 'almost all letters of unicode'.

À pull request is just you requesting someone to pull from you in git proper.

So the maintainer adds you as a remote and pulls from you.

There’s really nothing resembling a “pull request” that’s used by 99.999% of git users. We have merge requests. But we call them pull requests for some dumb reason.

Here in Sweden non-competes without a financial agreement is void. And those that offer some financial are probably OK, but haven't been tried extensively.

The non-competes I've signed have offered 60% of my base pay for six months (the length of the non-compete) if I cannot find a job because of the contract if the company exercise it.

They never have exercised it for me.

Those sorts of agreements are generally still allowed with these anti non-compete laws. If there is a specific non-compete contract that is signed, with money being paid for it directly, that is fine. That is a normal contract where both sides trade something of value.

The types that are banned are ones that set the restriction as a part of a normal employment contract, where there is no specific compensation given for accepting the non-compete and where the employee can't decide to abandon the non-compete in return for not getting the extra money.

Yeah, those contracts are not valid here as the right to livelihood will trump that contract.

So even if you sign that clause you are not bound by it.

The problem is allowing companies to do contracts that their lawyers know are null and void (like the above) but the employee may not know.

Employees thinking they are subject to legal penalties/fight due to a non-enforceable non-compete gets the company 90% of what they want, anyway, and so to prevent that they should be strongly punished.

> So even if you sign that clause you are not bound by it.

Jimmy John's was making its low-level employees sign non-competes, for example. This was ridiculous on its face, and probably wouldn't hold up in court. However, the people affected by it were least able to take it to court.

Right, the way it would work is that you are getting some sort of payment every month for not competing. If you choose to start competing, those payments stop. You can choose to stop the non-compete at any time, you are just giving up that income stream.

In New Zealand it has been like that for ever, but no one knew, and employers used them and employees abide.

Partly it was naked power.

What hacks are you relying on that makes it impossible to upgrade to 1.25 or even 1.26?

Does it even matter?

There's a book about the sibling construction: the cat ladder. It's called "Arcatecture"[0].

0: https://brigitteschuster.com/swiss-cat-ladders

That's amazing. I need to add several smaller ladders for my elderly cat, and a couple of the ideas will fit the limited space I have.

Thank you!

At work in the 90s we gave tons of old Sparcstation 10s away. They rapidly replaced all IPX and IPS at the computer clubs around Sweden. One Volvo was destined for Luleå and was really weighted down with a trunk full of pizza boxes.

GPL was a response to Symbolics incorporating public domain into their software without giving back to the community (and Lisp Machines).

1990 DEC VT1000

> soaked with tempera paint Or even etching liquid, then you need to replace the lens.

Dan Europe has a flow as discussed in the article and both the foundation and the regulated insurance branch is registered in Malta.