Traf444

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by Traf444 5y ago
I agree with what you say in general, but... One of the problems today for me is that most people is skeptic because they cannot understand the answer to the question they ask. Sooner or later I have to rely on an expert in most areas of sc
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by Traf444 5y ago
I agree that this erodes some trust and I can understand and agree with people that are upset about this change. They did inform us though, even though the language used could use less marketing speech, instead of trying to fly it in under
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by Traf444 5y ago
No, you throw out nonsense single line sentences that say and contribute nothing.
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by Traf444 5y ago
A politician will not act on anything unless it will hurt their chances of getting re-elected. Humans in general are very short term creatures and we fail at having a long term perspective on most things. That's also the reason why I b
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by Traf444 5y ago
From what I perceive one of the problems is funding. This is not strictly related to what you write and more about research in general, but most researchers seem to avoid submitting negative results. Disproving something can be just as impo
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by Traf444 5y ago
That's not what I tried to say. It's up to you as a user to make due diligence and make an informed decision if you want to use the software or not. Any serious project would have some form of web of trust and know who has commit
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by Traf444 5y ago
I guess you have never had commit rights to any Linux distribution or such? You don't get commit rights as a random person, so yes, a commit can usually be traced back to a person. Sure, the committer could have received a patch from a