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> kind of proves the point

I don't think it proves anything other than the wanted to work on something else.

Every minute spent tracking down a lady getting an abortion is a minute not spent tracking down a murderer or a rapist or similar.

> And then we have a bunch of folks assuming they know better about C that its own authors?

Barthes aside, C's changed a lot in the years since they left.

The only safe program by this measure is the one that's never ran.

> you could tell different brands apart from far away

This is just the tyranny of air resistance and fuel economy.

I wouldn't buy one either (it's been illegal in my country for ~150 years).

In both cases, you know what's meant by "chemicals" (the broad category of things like preservatives, colorings, and similar, that you find in lists like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_number) and "sugar" (refined white sugar, corn syrup, and similar that are added to foods one would not traditionally expect to have that).

I think we're all better off with cocaine and fentanyl not available at local convenience stores.

This is in the same category of statements as "ACTUALLY, everything in food is a chemical".

Crony capitalism is just regular capitalism.

The enumerate is a better solution than the one in the blog post.

> Many of my fondest memories of technology come from times past...

Is that because of the technology or because of who you were at the time?

It was a while ago (20-ish years?) and I'm forgetting the details, but it was RMS and I think the package was emacs.

> 95% of the infrastructure around you was built in a world prior to the sham obstructionist cudgel of "environmental impact studies" even existed.

Yeah and that's how we got a messed up environment.

> If you were asked, would you have voted to allow the building of your own home, the infrastructure and roads around it, and the businesses whose tax revenue funds your local municipality you suddenly are so concerned about?

My town isn't perfect in those terms but it's probably about as good as possible, so yes I would have. Of all the places I've lived, tho, there's certainly lots of thing I would have opposed, given the chance, like all those highways.

> What I can see is a fairly clear indication that they do not want contributions from people whose politics differ from theirs

This is the same FSF that in the past has refused contributions from people whose politics include "I would like this software to run on my windows/apple/other proprietary platform". They're extremely political.

> can't

Won't, they call it malware: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-million...

I want development history to be squashed. I want to have a nice clean `git log` that I can look back thru and not see a mess of 'WIP' and 'fix' and other noise.

Unless you're saving every keystroke from your editor you're already squashing history, we're just arguing about degrees.

> creating a branch starting at the problematic commit

Code always lives in a context, and when you're fixing a problem that exists in top-of-main the context of the fix needs to be top-of-main, not some commit way back in history. Also if you do it that way, you'd better hope that no later commit also touches that same line.

> I then get people coming to me and complaining they can't merge

A team needs to agree on git practice in advance, and not have one wildcard go off and do their own thing.

May as well ask how to fake authenticity.

> condescending

How can you be "condescending" to a company?

You just need more esoteric hobbies.

Most of them are just restatements of each other, with the occasional pet peeve thrown in.

Andrew Windsor walks around a free man.

> original immigrants/colonists were looking for a specific kind of religious freedom they couldn't have

The ones who landed at Plymouth Rock were, sort of, but I'm not sure how representative they were of the time.

> because they hated the way the system worked in their original countries

48/56 of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were born in the 13 colonies, and I think for a lot of them what they hated about the way the system worked is that they weren't fully part of it. ("No taxation without representation")

> But they clearly didn't have market penetration

In 1939 80% of households had radios, there were over 1400 stations and 4 networks.

> Doom and Quake were made by quite small teams

Doom came out in 1993, all teams were "small" by 2026 standards.