That thumbnail is more like arse technica

Oh no! That bomb killing a family of four emitted CO2 when exploring and burnt down a totally healthy tree! Why does no one think about the environment??

Program a video game

True. How could it be a free market if corporations are not allowed to form a cartel and agree on a price for a product that is literally vital for many people?

In what countries is it illegal?

“works”

Sounds illegal where I am living. Where is this happening?

What if they just smelled or otherwise knew it was fake?

Let’s assume the reflection is coming from just one flat glass pane.

Also “petal.” Wouldn’t be surprised if the cybertruck’s brake pedal would come off as easily as a flower petal.

Reminds me of the Chinese issue: you run over someone, but they are likely not dead. Will you save their life but accept having to pay for whatever healthcare costs they have until they are recovered? Or will you run over them again, to make sure they die and your punishment will be a lot lighter?

Or crush them. Depending on hardness.

Wow I didn’t know effective altruism was so bad. When someone explained me the basic idea some years ago, it sounded quite sensible. Along the lines of: “if you give a man a fish you will feed him for a day. If you teach a man how to fish, you will feed him for a lifetime.”

Prevents nuclear annihilation

See https://sopuli.xyz/comment/8474008

The maintainer is a human that needs to eat every day, and not just whenever their services are needed. So at least, the sum of money would need to be a few times higher than whatever labour the fix takes.

But then, the maintainer’s ability to fix these bugs doesn’t come from nowhere. They worked on this project for likely a long time, which would also need to be taken into account when agreeing on a sum.

Further, this would be business to business. And those contracts often include the value that the client gets out of the software. So if Microsoft makes billions from this open source library, then the maintainer’s - as a business - should receive a payment that reflects this for the fix.

All that implies that a few thousand is not nearly enough. Maybe 100k and the maintainer would budge.

The tweet is from today. The ffmpeg team felt like it needed to be said.

Such a great piece of art displaying one of the many issues with stack overflow.

They’ll probably cancel that feature well ahead of your death.

Yeah but the last requires you to explicitly distinguish between the two cases.