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Saudi Arabia felt Twitter was a problem, so they paid Elon to take it down in a way it wouldn't come back.

You don't have to use it....

So, Linux is written by system programmers for system programmers.

This must be one of the most uninformed comment in a long time. Already 2001, there was quite a lot of UI work being done by the company Eazel, founded by Andy Hertzfeld who from Apple and with a bunch of former Apple people. Around the same time, Ximian (I think) was pushing project Utopia with the idea to form project teams of people from kernel devs up to UX, to ensure common tasks worked out of the box. One result of this is that printer configuration on Linux is a much easier than on any other OS. This all happened 20+ years ago, there have been quite a lot of UX people involved after that. And my experience is that people with little prior knowledge have an easier time with a modern Gnome desktop, than with Windows. The problem here is that most people know Windows to some extent, and are used to the weird quirks there, but any slight inconvenience on a new OS make them quit.

That depends on the job I want to do. But generally my selection is something like this.

1. Is it a short simple script: Bash
2. Longer script, then a more competent dynamic language like Perl/Python.
3. Backend, a strong typed compiled language, with as few runtime errors as possible. If it depends on some particular API, the language with good enough bindings.

Preferred backend language, Rust, since that have the least runtime errors, thanks to its strong typing and the great error handling. But I also use Go if it have better libs for what I do, or Java for situations where that is more suitable.

In the annoying popup, there is a cog wheel, clicking that will show a menu. That menu have a checked checkbox, Always offer to translate, uncheck that.

Yes, you have a point. However adding heat is often implicit when talking about melting stuff. However, if it requires 3400C, then the answer would probably include a comment about that.

Well, I agree. But what I mean is that when people ask physics questions, it is often implicitly understood to mean under current conditions. You rarely hear normal people or kids (who I find asks most of the physics question) include anything about frictionless vacuums in the question. (For reference: https://xkcd.com/669/ ). So, for the egg question, regular people would most likely consider the answer to be "No, except under very special circumstances". But, I agree with you that if a simple Yes/No answer is expected, it have to be Yes.

Well, for eggs, that are carbon based, you will in fact have problems since carbon doesn't have a liquid state at regular atmospheric pressure. I guess you can add pressure, but is that really what we mean when asking a question if something melt?

It might be interesting to watch the Jackie Chan episode of Every Frame is a Painting, for an analysis of the difference between Hollywood and Hong Kong. This will explain why Jackie Chan is so much better in his Hong Kong movies.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1PCtIaM_GQ

No ads disguised as search results. Actually, no ads at all. Great search results. Lenses.

Also, there is a solution for incognito mode. And ad supported, in practice means tracked by advertisers, and hence you are the product.

All these services turning into shit, are the services without a viable business model to begin with. What I find interesting is that it is obviously possible to become leading in a field, just by burning investors money.

Even if it might be fun to see Elon lose money, remember that Starlink is very important to Ukraine to defend themselves against Russia.

They don't require CLA, since it's MIT license. So what they showcase is the benefit of copyleft.

Short about the garage myth https://money.cnn.com/galleries/2011/smallbusiness/1103/gallery.business_creation_myths/4.html

When you compare "idea to deployment" speed, a dynamic language will always win. However, much of this win is due to a dynamic language will let you deploy with a lot of bugs. So, you will then have to spend lot of time fixing production issues. Rust will force you to fix most of these issues before you can deploy, hence it feels slower in this aspect. I previously worked for 10 years with a huge perl code base, and I trade the deployment speed for stability in production any time.

Until Eric is caught cheating on his girlfriend with Alice....

I'd be happy if all movie posters looked like this from now on. They are brilliant!

I think they actually tried to take MS to court, but lost since they had stolen the ideas from Xerox in the first place.

Also, MS pays computer makers to preinstall Windows.