Paraphrasing a story someone told on HN: "everyone brags that they hire only the top 1% of developers. Problem is that can't be true, if 100% of the developers here get hired eventually." What's happening is that every time they decide to hire someone, they filter out 99% of what's left on the market and find someone. Then another company filters out 99% of what's left after that, and so on… until all developers have been distributed equally among the companies.

A lot of work for nothing? Why not skip filtering?

Maybe it's that if one company doesn't bother to filter, they will end up with a worse crop over time than the others. (Assuming that filtering is possible, but that's another topic.)

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex. Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”

― Marilyn Frye

• In Catalan, unstressed "o" is pronounced [u]. Example: Montserrat, oral, al·legoria
• In Catalan, "x" at the start of a word is pronounced [ʃ] ("sh"). Example: xocolata, Xina, Xoriço
• In Catalan, pronounce dimarts. Result "dimars" because ending -rts drops the t.
• In Catalan, pronounce molt. Result: "mol" because ending -lt drops the t.
• In Catalan, pronounce xocolata. Result: "shokolata"
• In Catalan, pronounce hola, molt de gust. Result: "ola, mol de gust"
• In Catalan, pronounce dependent. Result: "dependen" because ending -nt drops the t.
• In Catalan, "ç" is pronounced [s]. Example: plaça, Barça
• In Catalan, "h" at the start of a word is pronounced not at all (silent). Example: home, hotel, historia
• @anki In Catalan, "d" between vowels
• In Catalan, Tarragona, Palma and Andorra follow the same word-stress rule: stress the next-to-last syllable
• In Catalan, cerveses, Cases and Rambles folow the same word-stress rule: stress the next-to-last syllable
• In Catalan, where is main stress in "visiten"? viSIten
• In Catalan, where is main stress in "restaurant"? restaurANT
• In Catalan, where is main stress in "vocal"? vocAL
• In Catalan, where is main stress in "hotel"? hoTEL
• In Catalan, where is main stress in "música"? MUsica

#tech

Normally, you specify which physical keyboard KMonad should apply its rules to, through an address on Linux /dev/input/by-id/.... Some Bluetooth keyboards are made wrong and don't get a persistent ID. What can you do then?

Here's the Bash script I run after every connect to find it by heuristic. I'm quite proud of it :-)

(In here, the file-path /home/kept/sysconf/kmonad/trust.kbd just points to my kmonad config file, replace as needed)

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Find the current /dev/input/event for my bluetooth keeb, assuming I only have
# one connected.
MY_KBD="$(udevadm info /dev/input/event* | grep blue | head -1 | sed 's/.*\(event[^\/$]*\).*/\1/g')"
export MY_KBD
NEW_KMONAD_CONFIG="$(envsubst < /home/kept/sysconf/kmonad/trust.kbd)"

echo "$NEW_KMONAD_CONFIG" | sudo kmonad /dev/stdin

That's not the whole story yet. The kmonad config (again /home/kept/sysconf/kmonad/trust.kbd, named after the cheap & bad Trust Bluetooth Keyboard—don't buy it) also needs an edit, so that it contains the magic string $MY_KBD in the device-file declaration:

(device-file "/dev/input/$MY_KBD")