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> There is basically nothing the captain is legally barred from doing while the plane is en route. This is pretty wide of the mark. They have a lot of authority, yes, as it's the f…

That's completely wrong. Tailgating is prohibited in all 50 states. Driving fast while too close behind another vehicle is a major cause of serious accidents. This is real basic st…

There's even a section Wikipedia about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity#Russian_... Their final paragraph is straight up conspiracy theory. Little wonder the…

> There was a big zillionaire conference where they talked about slave collars What? Do you have a link?

Sloppy use of version control doesn't make you more effective. It just doesn't work that way. Torvalds himself writes up proper commit messages even for his toy projects. [0][1] I …

This sounds a lot like the tactical tornado archetype. From A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout: > Almost every software development organization has at least one de…

Again, in my experience, that isn't it. It's like NASA's rules. People who write garbage commit messages and have a chaotic and unconsidered version control workflow, generally lac…

Think of a major FOSS project in a technically challenging domain. Every single one of them insists on proper version-control discipline. [0,1,2,3,4] If enough of the following app…

> you never use “git annotate” or your IDE to see who wrote a line of code whose purpose puzzles you, and go to the commit message to see what they were trying to accomplish? This …