I kind of got caught out by this by attending A&E with severe uveitis. It turns out there are no eye specialist departments or referrals from A&E so it all needs to happen through private opticians. Personally did not realise opticians could do prescriptions beyond prescribing specific lens types.

My eye was so swollen that it ultimately needed atropine to unstick my pupil from the lens, in addition to steroids to fix the underlying condition.

Everyone in the comments are ignoring the tax advantages of being married. Let’s focus on the real issues, folks.

Curious about the adult figures because I’d guess they are lower but obviously can’t say anything for sure.

You’ll get cheffed up and put in a spliff if you set foot in central London

Actually as someone who does sometimes do interviews: acting like an asshole with a big ego will wreck your chances big time.

Who cares what those creeps say? Australia has harsh asylum laws and also the highest rate of approval for more immigration in the world. Labour are finally doing something right here.

Tell them I could do the interview better than them

I’ve got a couple dumb friends/colleagues too but just change the subject when they mention politics

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Yes, I experience something similar working for one of the two major gambling companies in the US. It is possible to move and get a raise; several colleagues have done so moving to Black Rock or JP Morgan which both have high barriers to entry and are more demanding of your time.

I’m based in the UK so not sure if the job market is as toxic as the US with LLM CVs and HR/TA processing of said CVs. When I did recruiting a year or so ago I found a lot of CVs that people had generated from their LinkedIn profiles and they looked terrible: do not say you are a 10X developer rockstar on your CV!

At the moment I’ve been at the company for over 2 years so that affords me a lot of rights in the UK and in a climate where there are a lot of layoffs, I’d hesitate to move. Like a few years back I was being spammed with recruiters trying to get me to join Spotify months before they axed their entire data team - if I’d gone for it I would have been totally screwed and with a mortgage I don’t feel I can take risks.

It’s a business: They want to avoid controversy and this musician is controversial.

Sucks, because he is probably right or at least not wrong in his views, but this is the society we’ve all built together.

I work in gambling and have done for over 3 years. I do it for the paycheck.

Edit: My last job was in adtech doing web attribution online and I initially thought at least the gambling customers are willingly signing up instead of just being spied on without their consent in many cases… Then I read some of the comments on my company’s subreddit and it made me wonder if certan customers were able to consent in a meaningful sense.

Me too but my wife gets upset when I call it that

Where on the “knowing people” is understanding people can be too similar. Like Two Queen Bees arguing in a group is a classic but imo it happens to varying degrees in other personality types/facets like, "“Hey you guys both like guitar you’ll get along…” Awkward silence after 20 mins because some people put everything into their hobbies.

Want a feel if that is above or below water on the iceberg

more of a pedant

I believe there is also a flag for portage -g I think that will download the binary for any package.

I suppose the argument for fun would be from people who enjoy tweaking USE flags and other things but only on specific packages or have a very low-end PC which cannot compile much.

You could have a kernel-bin installed then spend endless amounts of time tinkering replacing glib with musl (which seems popular on IRC lol).

Install Gentoo <— used to be a meme

In the past few years it has become much more user friendly. The install process is very similar to installing Arch, pretty much copy/pasting commands from the wiki (which is even easier if you SSH into the install media from another PC/phone).

The kernel used to require configured by hand so that only relevant drivers were installed for your system; nowadays there is a full fat kernel like you would get with another distro that requires no configuring, called gentoo-kernel-bin.

There are system profiles that cover the widest variety of CPU architectures of any distro to my knowledge. It used to even support extremely old archs before certain core python packages started needing rust as a dep.

Complex apps like Firefox and Rust both have binary versions in the package manager so you don’t need to spend a long time waiting for them to compile on an old PC.

Obviously, won’t be everyone’s cup of tea but if you are a bit adventurous it is an option.

I’m not sure the strategy of hiring someone who has personally injected every single drug into his veins at some point in his life to be health chief was ever going to work out.

At least they should give him all the diseases too so we can see if the drugs work!

Admittedly it is a pretty funny nickname but personally I find it amusing because he’s so non-threatening

Pretty safe to say he’s over-hated. Even like colleagues of mine whom I suspect do not follow politics closely refer to him as things like “Kier Stalin”.

Maybe I’m old fashioned but a PM is essentially an admin role – why do we expect that they be inspirational too.