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So many ways for splitting across multiple discs... git bundle, split tar files, etc. Now if it came with a userfs layer that lets users disc jockey and use the repo without copyin…

Ok, I'll keep it short: I'm far from alone being surprised that a sort allocates temporary memory... C++ is used by a lot of different people with a lot of different background, an…

It's not so simple that you can just declare what is surprising. Surprise depends on context, and not everyone will have the same context as you. You say you would expect the term …

Why? Just for this edge case? It could be faster and/or allow smaller code size to allow this to be undefined. Undefined is also different from "depends on the compiler", because w…

Many interesting ideas in there. To move forward, I suggest thinking less about the implementation details and more about the concepts around your approach in this system. For exam…

There is a disconnect in ownership between roads and sidewalks that makes it all very political: "Sidewalks in front of homes can be a source of puzzlement over just who or what ow…

/dcc send instructions.txt

Systemd is the hammer and the problem looks like a nail to the systemd developers. In this case systemd seems to be reinventing process groups, in a totally different way, instead …

The Rhine does not flow through Denmark.

Wikipedia disagrees with that: "The term "brutalism" was originally coined by the Swedish architect Hans Asplund to describe Villa Göth in Uppsala, designed in 1949 by his contempo…

Absolutely go for it! Post it even if you feel uncertain about it, just be clear about that, and about what your patch is trying to achieve, when the unexpected behaviour happens, …

This just begs for some hardware with an e-ink display for a tabletop xkcd...

Ghosting is with three keys pressed: If there is a key A that is in the same row as a key B plus and also in the same column as a key C, then a fourth key (the 'ghost') appears to …

The money spend where '1/10 the money' was needed to save their lives is additional money spent, not 'instead money'. In this particular case, the 'instead money' was pure profits …

With your reasoning, for example, the private prison companies would be valued incorrectly high (as do the companies that make the green lights for traffic intersections, the doors…

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