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> It is a call for more communication and understanding of different opinions. It's a poorly argued rationalization for antisocial behavior from someone with a bad case of engineer…

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> Back in college, I would go to house parties and bars and do everything that everyone else was doing; the only difference is that I would have a Coke in my hand instead of a Rum …

( https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882 ) has a dated (2000) example of metaclass usage in Python 2.

Are you willing to name the company? The ability to move that fast is an attractive quality for an employer.

> My guess is that the customer here is asking because of a mandate to prefer open source solutions wherever possible. I don't think that HPC or the DoE have anything close to such…

I think the customer is NERSC ( https://docs.nersc.gov/); the commands in the bug report match those described at ( https://docs.nersc.gov/development/compilers/base/ ).

I would respond with "F2018 conformance will be fixed sooner if you help."

I flagged it because it's a Well, Actually ( https://tirania.org/blog/archive/2011/Feb-17.html ) that makes an unsupported claim.

Never assume malice when machine learning will suffice as an explanation.

> AWS then stopped providing service to Parler due to the content they were hosting exposed by this action. Well within their rights! But they excuse the same sort of content hosed…

Every other automated system regularly screws up - why would Facebook be any different?

Both agencies have a long history of illegal domestic surveillance. The NSA's warrantless surveillance program ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(... ) a…

TL;DR the author thinks _GNU_SOURCE should be defined in the build system instead of in source files. She doesn't give a rationale.

> However, the manager of the other group should get some management training. He did a piss poor job at communicating. All it would've taken is explaining the group's prioritizati…

> I'm working on migrating our apps to the parent company's VM launching and deploy platform. Should be fairly straightforward, I think. Unfortunately, the deploy tooling isn't ent…

If it's an enterprise ( https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/10/02/why-are-enterprises-so-s... ) the latter will be a much easier sell to management. Paying for support is a given but con…

> Correct me if I’m wrong, but aren’t there open source licenses that don’t permit unauthorized distribution? If so, couldn’t they safely release the source code without worrying a…

> If information security people would spend the same amount of time they are spending complaining about this vulnerability trying to educate their organisations on the importance …

> The company that created Java went out of business and was sold to Oracle for a fraction of its original worth. So Java was a business failure -- or at least I'd be interested to…

Another possible reason is that the user can load help pages or search results even if the primary browser is broken, has a corrupt install, etc.