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by greaterthan3 4y ago
>For example the FBI told social media companies the the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation They didn't, they only gave a general warning to watch out for misinformation[1]. Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop stor
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
This explanation doesn't make much sense. If Ukraine maybe joining NATO in an unspecified future is such a big threat to Russia, then surely Finland joining it right now is an even bigger threat. Not to mention that Poland and the Balt
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
>The wording was changed in C11 And here's an exact quote from the C11 standard: >If the quotient a/b is representable, the expression (a/b)*b + a%b shall equal a; otherwise, the behavior of both a/b and a%b is und
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
>How is this censorship? They are a company and can do business with whoever they please. Just because a private company does it, doesn't mean it isn't censorship. Of course, you may argue that it's in a good cause, but no
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
Calling this[1] "an article about racist dog names" is a complete misrepresentation. It's a critique of a study published in Social Psychology Quarterly, which is an official journal of the American Sociological Association.
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Secure Shell inventor denied trademark request (2001)(computerworld.com)
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
I think it's an interesting historicial curiosity. See also: SSH trademarks and the OpenSSH product name - http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2001-Feb... ssh(R) trademark issues: comments and
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
Naturally, commit messages aren't the only criteria I'm using. But I wasted way too much time in my life on deciphering the purpose of 20+ year old commits to ignore this.
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
Even if you're a solo dev, you will likely still have to debug your old code in the future. I'm sure most of HN is familiar with the Chesterton's fence. Proper commit messages aid you in understanding why the changes were mad
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
>How many developers are there? According to GitHub, there are 132 contributors. Probably most of them were one-off drive-by PRs, but nonetheless, it's definitely not a one person project anymore.
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
What was broken? How it was broken? Why it was fixed this way? That information is vital during "git blame". Take a look at the commit histories of the other projects I've linked. Their commit messages are much more elaborate
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
When I'm evaluating an open-source project, I always check the quality of its commit messages. I don't care about following a specific format or something, all that matters is whether they are informative or not. Sadly, Odin doesn
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
The fact that it's both men and women in Israel could be significant. I heard stories about people meeting their romantic partners in the army during the mandatory service.
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by greaterthan3 4y ago
Birth rates are low pretty much everywhere in the developed world, but South Korea is an outlier in how low they are. For example, Japan's fertility rate is 1.3, compared to Korea's 0.84. That's a huge difference. It's p