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The bulk of your rebuttal is exactly my own point. Peer review doesn't actually prove anything one way or the other. The ultimate truthfulness of a cited proof is all that matters. The idea that cited proofs should be peer reviewed don't add intrinsic validity, it just fosters academic laziness.

"Boy that's a fantastical claim that doesn't seem right; but all the citations are peer reviewed and I see nothing obviously wrong so I guess its true!" -OR- "Boy That's a fantastical claim that doesn't seem right; I don't see anything obviously wrong here so lets double check the cited proofs they based this on."

What's the practical upside to only using peer-reviewed proofs besides speed at the cost of fidelity? What's the practical downside to using unreviewed proofs besides "more work"?

Sure it does. It's predicted by games theory, preached as gospel by capitalist economics, and proved by history.

We even have an axiom for it: Power Corrupts.

"Your Wells Fargo bank accounts perfectly safe from bank employees because armored cars are used to transport money. They don't let normal bank employees into the back of those vehicles. Only licensed and bonded security guards are allowed."

We abstract away the concept of memory addresses and pointers in some languages. Great! Until your program segfaults and now because you don't understand how memory addresses or layout work you can't tell what part of your code is causing the problem nor why it is a problem at all. Is the problem even in your code or one of the dozen module packages you imported because you were told to(they will explain the modules in a later chapter)? Why your object instance disappears between calls in an app because you didn't access it quickly enough or the 'right' way and the GC reaped it. WTF even is a garbage collector and why do we need it(again, they will cover that in a later chapter)

Modern computers are like airplanes. Why would you make a piloting student learn on an old, purely mechanical Cessna prop plane instead of a modern Gulfstream? The Gultstream is way safer, way faster and way harder to crash after all.

They already didn't play fair.

Even crazier; what if we had a standard, well supported build system that we could included with every OS and distro?

Nah, thats crazy talk. Lets repackage an entire OS so you can run an OS while your running your OS so you can listen to internet radio.

Capitalism!

You sure?

Legit companies don't want the info and anyone that wants the info isn't doing anything legal with it.

The video is using intel's onboard vga chipset which plays extra nice with intel's onboard EFI. You can bet the framebuffer code between the EFI and 3rd party hardware(AMD/NVidia) sucks much, much worse

I expect ServerFault posts about grephic instability in fedora 29 any minute now...

Users can apt-get all they want and it'll even be available next boot provided they shut down properly.

There are tons of other dubious and dire socioeconomic "firsts" for this generation that would affect such scores. Sugar packed, nutritionally light, chemically flavored foodstuffs. Totally-Not-poverty. 60 hour work weeks across multiple jobs...

Not that PDFium is any worse than Adobe, but certainly not much better.

if by "new" you mean well over a decade old...

Hell, just reissue with GPLv3. That'll still kill it pretty well.

Why indeed?

There is no good or evil but thinking makes it so...

side note; I HATE the trend in the level of abstraction away from hardware. Seems about as short sighted as GP doctors abstracting away human anatomy. They mostly treat illnesses and proscribe medication; why should they need to know the names of bones in a human body? There are orthopedic specialists for that!

Modern displays at 1920x1080 in millions of colors.

30 years ago a terminal was the whole display and nothing more. Now its a single window amid dozens of other windows including content ranging from high definition video to real-time rasterized 3D graphics.

Yes, that's progress.

It's been done before by people with more credibility than a message board user.

Dev: I don't gotta worry about setting up Auth on my mongo instance for dev/testing. Deploy/Admins will handle it in production...

Admins: They delivered a container package from CI so we assumed they had set up authentication correctly...

Skiddie: Om nom nom...

Also, who says that HTTP content is always plaintext?