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It's not easy coming up with a name that sounds at least somewhat OK in >24 languages.

I'm still waiting on my current, 60 hours of use a week, mid-2019 MacBook Pro to die or have any sort of malfunction so I can justify buying a new one. Its battery life has seen better days but that's basically it.

Linotype machines are marvellous and I'd highly recommend seeing them in action should you ever get the chance. They are the perfect intersection between a rube goldberg machine and a mechanical marvel to excite a part of my brain that I can't even properly put into words.

I won't resort to naming and shaming here but if you ever get contacted by a UK agency that 'resources vividly', immediately request a removal of your contact info per GDPR or you will get phoned daily for months on end.

Node-RED is much more focused on IoT as far as I can tell, although the UIs look comparable.

You might enjoy https://pypi.org/project/htmlq/

Yes. The first one is more like a user complaint than an actual reproducible bug report.

I don't think many phone OEMs will actually take the effort to muck around in the lock screen mechanisms.

Not true at all. I've done work for insurance companies in the past as well. While it's true most of them will not diverge from their standard contracts, some are very open to clients suggesting 'custom' insurance no matter how obscure the clauses. The only caveat of course being that it will cost you substantial amounts.

I also work in insurance industry as a software dev - nothing that I have seen would let insure someone who would go under-prepared. One could fill in form that he goes fully prepared but once lied insurance company won't pay anything.

If you break the terms of the contracts you won't get covered of course. Same as with car insurance where you won't get coverage if you were DUI.

It acts as a "pre-emptive" tax shift. If more people pay taxes there's going to be less pressure on the government to set an ever higher tax rate, because now they receive more money while levying the same amount.

Why do you want to kill them?

Many providers in the EU will also gladly block connections based on IMEI if you can prove you're the owner of said IMEI.

Finder.app and Preview.app are surprisingly decent format conversion tools

Belgium is very similar in that regard. Our politicians are very talented in turning what should be straightforward processes into complex bureaucratic puzzles that require at the least an advanced degree in accounting to solve. So frustrating as it's holding SMEs back.

Language can change and words can take up new meanings.

I was lucky enough to experience a 2 year long project in which everything that went wrong was blamed on the developers. Project managers breathing down your neck, feeling so pressured you barely dare take a bathroom break, the whole shebang.

Quit working for them and now I'm a freelance dev.

They asked me to get back on the project and I said fine, that'll be €700/day. After some grumbling they realized they had no other option so they agreed.

The project is still failing due to bad management but I no longer care. I believe to now feel the same sense of calm around chaos and failure like you do.

A lot of developers have real mental scars from bad projects like this, because they get duped into thinking it's a matter of personal pride to see it trough.

It's not. Your primary concern should always be personal health.

The only safe way to drive an F1 car is with remote control.

Well, there does exist this standard by the Specialty Coffee Association specifically intended as a reference for testing: https://sca.coffee/research/coffee-standards

It suggests that the 'cupping vessel' be "between 7 and 9 fluid ounces (207 ml to 266 ml), with a top diameter of between 3 and 3.5 inches (76 - 89 mm)"

Coincidentally: it’s also the only programming language I know of where someone has written a lengthy blog post about how I’m in fact, not too dumb to comprehend it.

Correct. Which is strange, because both "intern" and "intra" mean as much as "internal". I never understood why "externational" isn't a word.

This reminds me of an idea I had in mind a while ago.

It would've been similar to this (like some kind of "Startup Graveyard") but slightly more extensive: interviews with the founders and the lessons they learned from it, what "type" of failure they suffered from (misinterpreting the market, lack of skills, etc).

I ultimately gave up on the idea because none of the founders I contacted wanted to truly spill the beans on what went wrong (the best I tended to get was some vague PR mumbling).

33 people: 0.00000045810% of the earth's population

100 people: 0.00000134736% of the earth's population

Seems fairly comparable to me.

Thank you for that link, super interesting! It made me interested in trying out Clojure and seeing what it's all about.

Linux support would be amazing!

But disregarding my preference, what is your analytics showing in terms of OS usage?

You can use it while you're at the gym.

Congratulations, your comment is both unfunny and unfounded in reality.

I really hope this article doesn't make anyone actually try to get rid of these arachnids although I'm sure "hygiene" companies will be all over this in a few years.

Spiders are living on your FACE! Please buy our stuff.

Are DuckDuckGo instant answers being considered as well?

I'm wondering what kind of transport layer protocols are used to transmit data to and from vessels in space. It's hardly going to be plain TCP, right?

Purescript.