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No, I'm not mistaken about precision because I never brought it up. It's a strawman solely of your own construction. (I, instead, suggested a much less precise rule, prohibiting al…

I do disagree with the rule, but I fear you're having a knee-jerk reaction either to me or to any criticism of the rule and thereby missing my point, which I don't believe you've a…

If you're going to prevent me from responding and having my response visible, then go ahead and just delete my original comment. I have, of course, personally read all these justif…

The problem here is there's no way to figure out the "spirit" without having followed a rather extensive history - and the fact that the same justifications are repeated every time…

The problem here is there's no way to know the "spirit" without knowledge of its history. Why not just say what you mean, instead? If the desire is "no replies that are or might sp…

How is this posting to complain? It's a question about a potential existential threat in the form of recent regulatory scrutiny.

What about the ongoing cost of waste and eventual cost of decommissioning? Are those affected by quantity of fuel used (or, more specifically, by Transatomic's design)?

Indeed, appending an empty string to -i doesn't modify it in any way, AFAIK. It's that the GNU version doesn't require an argument, but, if an argument is to be provided, it must b…

At some point, though, if you're the one complaining about a specific detail, in a way, you're the (only) one. I've seen plenty of un-portable shell scripting, too, but my professi…

This strikes me a bit like a "doctor, it hurts when I go like that" problem. What's the use case [1] for using a zero-length suffix argument (i.e. editing the file "in place" with …

> the right sterile environment This has echos of No True Scotsman. Computer storage media also have ideal conditions that can be used to extend their lifetimes (though, granted, n…

> the outperforming endurance of DNA compared to any modern hardware This struck me as a strange analogy, considering DNA's inherent fragility, but it would make more sense compare…

> Vendors have support plans and SLAs so if you need 24/7 support then make sure that is indeed what you're paying for. Those are totally useless during an existential crisis witho…

> they would solve it for you That hasn't been my experience, at least not on any suitable time scale. I strongly suspect that the vast majority of those of us who have worked some…

> California has about 8.5% of the US population. I think you misread the line for California in your footnoted reference #1, which shows it at 12.14%.

> you seem to be treating bus stops independent of alternative means of transportation Perhaps you misunderstood my point, which was more about data and statistics, as is the artic…

I'd argue that it's not over sampling at all, but, rather, that the measure of "average bus arrival time" is what's invalid or misleading. After all, the point of the bus arrivals …

> the original posters words Since those words never mentioned contributing back, I was, understandably confused. > I am saying that contributing back doesn't happen magically beca…

> The event did occur. I saw the source with my own eyes. You didn't say so, and, even now, you're only implicitly saying there was a GPL violation. The details are important, in o…