> United States is so rare that a child would have to be outside unsupervised for, on average, 750,000 years before being snatched by a stranger.

Is this stat from 1980s or recent? If recent, what may be the likelihood that such stats are the outcome of parents' paranoia?

There are 300 kid abductions per year in the US, more or less the same amount of people who got struck by lightning or the same about of kids who drown in swimming pool. I don't see any hysteria around two of these topics though

Is that 300 kid abductions by strangers? Because just based on the amber alerts that I get where the police suspect a parent that number can not possibly be correct if not.

> Is that 300 kid abductions by strangers?

Correct. The number of abductions of children by their parents is three orders of magnitude higher.

I mean I certainly see a lot of talk about swimming pools being extremely dangerous for kids.

Gun ownership advocates in particular love to bring up the stat that it's more dangerous for a household with kids to have a swimming pool than a gun.

Two kids in 4 to 16 range, and two adults in 30 to 46 age ranges have been using Debian on daily basis for almost a decade now. At least three of them are pretty "average home user". There has been forced use of windows (since school and employers wanted), but for home use Debian has always been better due to less maintenance needs and no distractions.

> This is the approach I've taken with SQLite in production environments. Turn on WAL and the problem gets even easier to solve.

A few months back a better solution was provided by SQLite: sqlite3_rsync

https://www.sqlite.org/rsync.html

Try brainfuck...

Jokes aside... it's so trendy to bash bash that it's not funny anymore. Bash is still quite reliable for work that usually gets done in CI, and nearly maintenance free if used well.

I prefer python there, although we do test/deploy on Windows too, so it's nice to have a common python script for Windows and Linux CI. Not interested in making bash work on Windows or scripting in powershell. And although it's a lot more awkward to use python than bash for invoking subprocesses, it's nicer in most other ways.

These days, AI Copilots are quite good at helping write and maintain bash (and shell) scripts, that it's not much of a prolem.

Was any plan made/ proposed since Jan 20?

One would be surprised to find out how many humans live with foreign objects embedded in their body, for removal is riskier than the object left in body as it is.

Check out Infosys "global education center".

LICENSE 404, though Readme says MIT.

Should be repeatedly posted by some automation, every few months.

vi: 1976 GNU Emacs : 1984 BIND: 1986

are (along with too many other projects) from way before Nov 1993, where "The Total Growth of Open Source" graph starts from 0.

It all depends on how you're counting. For one, "open source" was not a phrase before 1998, so there is some retrofitting of Free Software projects. But also, there isn't a registry, it's rather difficult to be more than approximate with this. The article is very specific about their methodology, I'm only using one graph as a general example.

From the paper

> "The database contains data from January 1990 until May 2007. Of this time horizon, we analyze the time frame from January 1995 to December 2006. We omit data before 1995 because it is too sparse to be useful"

> "Large distributions like Debian are counted as one project. Popular projects such as GNU Emacs are counted as projects of their own, little known or obsolete packages such as the Zoo archive utility are ignored"

So even though methodology is "very specific", it seems very incomplete/ inaccurate/ selective. Even Linux kernel, as per their source, started in 2005 (https://openhub.net/p/linux).

Source: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/45813632_The_Total_...