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xandrooon Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation

In this case, it appears you’re talking about a billion dollar hotdog.

> In June 2018, Elastic filed for an initial public offering with an estimated valuation of between 1.5 and 3 billion dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch

> Schuurman is Elastic’s biggest shareholder with a 19 percent stake valued at $1.1 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Banon, the chief executive officer, owns 12 percent of the Mountain View, California-based company.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elastic-software-founder-doub...

xandrooon Open source means surrendering your monopoly over commercial exploitation

> ES has always been a commercial enterprise

Doesn’t seem to be true.

> Shay Banon released the first version of Elasticsearch in February 2010.

> Elastic NV was founded in 2012 to provide commercial services and products around Elasticsearch and related software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch

xandrooon Zig 0.7.0 tagged

Alternatively, there may be unfound overflow bugs in that C/C++ code.

Worth noting that UB is also checked in ReleaseSafe mode. Related issue: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/2301

xandrooon Zig 0.7.0 tagged

It’s checked in debug modes (overflow is a runtime error). You can explicitly use the overflow operator (+%) if you know that’s the behavior you want.

xandrooon Biden wins White House, vowing new direction for divided U.S.

> Only one side denies medical consensus on vaccines

You’re incorrect about this one AFAIK. From the Safety of Childhood MMR Vaccine section of [0]:

> There are no differences between party groups about this issue. Moderates are a bit more likely than either conservatives or liberals to say that childhood vaccines are generally safe.

[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2015/07/01/chapter-5-pub...