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How does such a system sustain itself? The majority of the content on the internet is supported by ads with the expectation that you, a human that has money, will consume something…

If you are in charge of that tooling, how do you ensure the correctness of the work? Or is it that at this point the responsibility goes one level higher now where implementation d…

Betteridge's law proven correct once again. The answer to the headline is: no. Perhaps it will be true in the future, nobody knows. I'm skeptical the extent to which people publish…

It's fun to watch and somehow more approachable to me than a big program with lots of menus and virtual knobs.

This article was posted a few days ago, it was flagged and removed within an hour or two. I don't know what is different this time.

True for any Spanish speaking country.

That's a big number. I likely did something wrong but according to my hastily put calculations, Stripe has to improve favorable dispute result chance by 40% for this option to begi…

That’s a myth. In many parts of Mexico, if not everywhere, water treatment is bad and drinking tap water is not advised, so you buy purified water. It cost around 10 pesos (50 cent…

I read all entries about Rebecca last night after reading this one. It is such a visceral and devastating chronicle expressed in a beautiful way, it left me deeply moved. I wonder …

Maybe a big assumption, but perhaps one of the founders is a fan of Malazan Book of the Fallen. Karsa Orlong is a character in the book series. A solid character, not sure if I wou…

I'm from a Spanish speaking country. In the 90s one of the ubiquitous pencil brands had on their pencils the phrase "Sin plomo" or "No contiene plomo", can't remember which one, th…