This is the biggest take-away from this post to be honest; had no idea it could do anything like that. Sometimes it's the little things...

You can get something similar with the CLI using:

  go tool pprof -weblist='mypkgname' cpu.out     # Generate HTML and open
  go tool pprof -list='mypkgname' cpu.out        # Generate text to stdout

In my experience it's even worse outside of tech.

Because I really need a job I've just been applying to everything. Minimum wage: I don't care. In a way I'm actually looking forward to just show up, do my job, and go home, without stress.

But I get almost no response on those. And I actually spent MORE time for cover letters for those than the tech stuff. On tech I get a response (interview or rejection) for about 1 in 4. Outside of tech? About 1 in 30.

I guess "15 years CV as software dev, that guy is too smart for us" or something like that.

I keep reading about "labour shortages" for lots of low-skilled jobs... Hmkay...

Also not eligible for social security because I'm technically homeless (as in: renting "unofficially").

Might be properly homeless soon... No idea what I'll do.

I don't have a right to work in tech or a high salary, and fine, there's a downwards turn. No problem. But that I have no options beyond "burn all your savings and go homeless fuck you" has left me rather ... disappointed.

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is: it's not "tech hiring" that's the problem. It's just "hiring" or "companies" or whatever.

Compare this to a year ago when I got a reply to almost every application I sent out.

I'm kind of kicking myself for being so picky; I haven't had a job in a few years and running out of money (I was never that well-off, but coming from a working-class background I don't live an expensive life). I've had a few bad experiences and I wanted to find something I really liked (I actually had a very well paid "Silicon Valley type" job for a company most here will know last year which I quit after 3 months because they gave me fuck all to do and I felt their engineering ethos was horrible – it just didn't feel right accepting a huge salary and not working for it).

I've literally been fired from jobs where I was one of the better performers for the singular reason for struggling to be there at 8am every day, and where this didn't matter at all for the position if I started at 8am or 10am (for some positions it obviously does matter). That I often worked longer than many others didn't seem to matter; people take it as a marker and that's that.

5:30am is utterly ridiculous; that's just the middle of the night.

Ehh...

"I want to share another idea in this post to keep it open-source [..] Let me know what you guys think" is not a "policy change on a whim". It's an idea. It was not "walked back" on, because it was ... just an idea.

Your comment is a horrible misrepresentation of what's actually in the post.

I don't know anything about terraform, but I've written some applications where I intentionally don't automatically change the output (which in my case is usually bold text, I don't use colours much) because I expect no one will ever use the output for scripting . That's not "poor programming", it's a choice because there is no perfect solution that fits 100% of the cases.

I suspect that may probably be the best choice for terraform as well, but I never used it.

You don't really need to know anything about shells to write a CLI app, other than basic shell conventions (- for flags, things like that). You don't even need to know all that much about terminals, just some bare basics if you want to do colours or whatnot. All of this can be summarized in a page or two.

If you want to write a ncurses-like library: that's a different story. But then it's no longer a CLI app.

CLI apps are probably the easiest applications that accept user input to make. Compared to GUI or web apps the amount of knowledge you need is almost trivial.

> Of course, the whole premise of dating sites is wrong. The best way to make connections is in person, by going places regularly and seeing the same people frequently... building some non-romantic connections first which may grow into something more. Dating sites assume that if "I think I like you" and "you think you like me" then we are a match!. This sets up big expectations too soon...

In principle, I guess, but my experience is that many social spaces of all types are overwhelmingly male. There are probably some commentaries to be made about that, but I'm not sure what.

And while it can set up certain expectations, I don't think that needs to be a bad thing, necessarily.