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> It's as if it's some sort of daily prayer. That's probably the whole point of it. Ask yourself daily: WWMD? "What Would Musk Do?"

How would I add another repository to the microsoft store in order to have nightly builds of a specific app or third party apps available? Is there an apt-like command line interfa…

Or about 3 horses.

Mergers like this are required to keep competition and the free market alive.

It's all good now, though. Nothing to worry about.

The name is burnt. They still are a company with business interests. While their interests might align today with the open source community this doesn't have to be so tomorrow and …

Or you can move immediately like many others. What would you gain by staying until it's too late?

They have reached the end goal of the big buyout. What more could they possibly want?

Migrating from GitHub to GitLab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYOXuOg9tQI this adresses some of the issues.

I wonder how Microsoft can manage to commercialize all the projects on GitHub. Maybe by providing an universal installer that works through the Windows Store. Maybe by adding a few…

It may not be in the job description but usually somebody has to clean the data by hand or build specialized tools before it can be used. Something as simple as a text field for en…

Your rules are basically "the winner takes it all in the long run". This is similar to reality but real actors can disappear. Individuals have a limited lifespan. Their offspring h…

The things that are on schedule are one part but there are other things not on the schedule when you have scheduled a few days to do programming. I find it hard to balance between …

How do you finance your daily living?

We would have to wait for a few decades to come to such conclusions with scientific methods. It's a political decision to market the event as such.

There is the 80 bit "long double" type that contains excess precision over the 64 bit double type. But if you want to write code that's both, portable, and reliable you have to tur…

Separate but equal. There can be different strategies that are exactly equal in terms of some performance measures.

They should have kept RAID behind yellow tape for years to come. There's just too many problems that can bite you once a physical disk fails and you really need that RAID to recove…

The autopilot is not a safety feature.

You misunderstood on the meta level. My point was that you want to use one feature of C++, you enable C++ to use this feature. Developer B wants to use ten other features. Develope…

The only argument for C and against C++ is the slippery slope of wanting to use one useful feature and ending up using a thousand features where noone is really sure what's actuall…

WhatsApp is even better than Telegram.

Do you remember the reaction test where a ball is rolling onto the road and you have to hit the breaks? This situation is more akin to a ball laying on the road already and you dri…

Lasers would probably need a lot of energy to cut that much material. Can somebody do a quick analysis how much it would probably cost using conventional/water/lasers?

The two graphs have different y-axis-scales.