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Last year alone, 40 people died in Spain in a train derailment. In total, how many people have died over the last 100 years because of something a software engineer did?

One of the bonus features of the movie Ratatouille has a short video-game sequence about it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=-2xD9ShhMZU

So a software evangelist pretending to be humanitarian aid

It's completely naive. To say "we need to be better," you first have to define who "we" are and, by extension, *who isn't*.

Drawing that line is what constitutes a community in the first place. It's the entire reason the EU was created: to define a "we".

The idealistic no-borders vision is only achievable by expanding the nation-state until it covers the whole planet. And probably will only happen when it find outsiders to define itself against, Mars, aliens, whatever ends up counting as "not us."

"Chai" means "tea", so "Chai Tea" is "Tea Tea".

"ATM" means "Automatic Teller Machine", so "ATM Machine" is "Automatic Teller Machine Machine".

Both are mentioned in the animated movie "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse".

What is this, the "lean methodology" for OSS? Every other repo of that user is a placeholder with an ellaborated README but zero code.

I also always block traffic from China, India, Pakistan, and Russia, after observing that 90%+ of the spam/scanning was coming from those countries.

At least for China, I imagine most of the real humans might use a VPN anyway

Yes, but it’s 20k and all the time in the world.

Why you would anyone eats at a restaurant when they can buy the ingredients at the supermarket and download recipes from the Internet?

Why software companies pay for software instead of making it themselves?

Same reason

Is there any charity (older than five years) where the majority of the money doesn’t go to administrative staff?

Established in 2009. Who started as president that year?

I think he's saying he uses his website's URL in his tutorial examples, and other tutorials have copied them as-is

And you know this because of your firsthand experience observing it... or because the media told you so? Considering how readily the media is willing to lie for engagement, the truth is more likely to be the opposite of what they report.

I see Haiku but not BeOS

At least you know it wasn’t written by AI… maybe it was left in a draft state because the author disliked the idea of being accused of writing it with AI

Funny, I was thinking the same for the people under 30

Or you can use tailwind-ui components that look way more polished.

Another big advantage of the Tailwind approach is that you can copy any component you see on the web, paste it in your project, and it will look the same (unless custom classes are used). No need to hunt down and adapt the whole cascade of styles for each tag.

In that sense, Tailwind has some of the earlier-Internet charm where you learned by seeing what others were doing.

The best translation for “te quiero” is “I care about you”

Are you a teenager? Believing after college age that that "rule" is some kind of law is kind of ridiculous

If you have time to play video games, you probably have time to sleep well and exercise... which is proved to be positively correlated with well-being

Reminds me to the old MSDOS "Alley Cat" game: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Alley_Cat_1984

I complained about that for years until one day I founded you can actually remap Ctrl+C in your terminal, and the usual kill signal will still work when nothing is selected.

https://jpscaletti.com/p/5/til-remap-copy

Is not a built in text editor, is a command to open programmatically your default text editor to edit a file (new or existing).

There are several cases when you would want to do that, for example, think on the git CLI, that opens one so you can write a commit message, etc.

And is not only about using the EDITOR variable, most non-programmers doesn’t have one defined or it points to vim or something equally terrible for non technical users.

But not a texteditor.

You can use this library for that: https://pypi.org/project/texteditor/

(Disclaimer: I’m the author)

It does, but that the fact that the ponzy scheme that is cryptocurrency hasn't been made illegal by now should angers me even more.

I think real child porn should be 100% on that list.

However, even what child porn "is" sometimes depends of the culture or even the political climate. Like with the Japanese "lolis" (erotic drawings of fictional minor-looking girls), illegal in some countries but fine in others (so far).

KDE activities are separated instances of all your desktops. So you can have a set of desktops with open applications, background images, etc. for "Work", and other for "Personal", for example.

There is a middleman, two, actually, this site and GitHub, but no one is "cashing out", for now at least.

What about VISA?

The Verge is down, but the post can be read here: https://archive.is/PWbbw