Exactly. When I was self employed, my monthly invoice was almost always in the 5 figures. From that you pay your VAT every quarter, save up for income taxes, pay all sorts of insurances, and what you’ve got left is a lot less, but the initial transfer looks very good.

In Europe (maybe also elsewhere outside the US?) nearly all transactions are simply direct bank transactions. Occasionally facilitated through some app, but usually it’s just your own bank’s app. Nobody has used checks for decades, and the only reason we’re using credit cards is because the US keeps forcing them on us.

It’s only “no time off” if that’s what you want. It’s time off whenever you want (and sometimes when you don’t want).

This is what I’m saying: it depends on your workflow.

Rebasing is dangerous if you rebase shared history. If you rebase a local branch, you have to be aware of how much of that local branch you may already have shared.

On top of that, if you’ve got a lot of commits you’re rebasing in a merge conflict that can become extremely repetitive.

So ideally, you only rebase single commits that you haven’t pushed yet. As long as you do that: always pull main and rebase on top of that before you push single commits, rebasing is fine. But the more you deviate from that, the riskier it becomes.

I’m not a fan of changing history in general. Rebase can also he dangerous.

I think ultimately it’s a matter of scale. Sometimes it can be useful to look into the details of the development of a single feature, but in a large project, that rarely happens. I’m not a fan of squashing, but for large projects, it helps to keep your history manageable.

That’s my preferred strategy too. Currently building lego Rivendell, reading the Hobbit to my kid and looking for a new LotR edition to buy. (I want a modern Dutch edition with separate map, but it doesn’t seem to exist.)

Yeah, it really looks like Germany has learned the wrong lesson from the Holocaust.

It’s because they’ve read the books, know they’re popular, want to be hip and interesting, and completely miss the morality of the books they think they love.

Look at Musk naming barges after space ships from a society where people can change gender practically at will, yet can’t deal with the fact that his daughter is transgender.

It’s true. They have access to true socialised healthcare that they deny to everybody else. They are well aware of its advantages.

Note that several prominent Jews, including Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein, opposed the creation of a Jewish state in a 1948 letter, warning of fascism and comparing the precursor of Likud to the Nazi party.

I don’t understand why the countries who object to genocide don’t organise their own counter song festival. Let’s see which one gets bigger.

Does that require candles?

Again? Haven’t we gone through this already?

Better funded.