I moved from Fusion360 to FreeCAD. It definitely has a learning curve. But I took a few weeks to properly learn it, and I can now do all I did in Fusion. It’s not as polished (although getting there with recent versions) and not as powerful for some applications. But it’s free, open source, and I can laugh at Autodesk and their subscription fees.

They don’t fit in his luggage (or would be smashed) so that’s the easiest way to take them onboard. Maybe purchased as gifts to relatives.

Due to the nature of git, all developers already have a complete backup of the project and the entire history without a separate remote.

More backups are always good of course.

Check if it’s signed with the developer signature, that’s the only way to verify authenticity

Except the difficulty in migrating from GitHub is not moving the source code, that’s the trivial part.

It’s moving the discussions, issues, releases, free CI on GitHub Actions, free hosting on GitHub Pages, stars, visibility, existing community around the project on GitHub, losing contributors. These are the problems, not configuring git for another remote.

No, that’s not why Google Glass failed. It would have failed even with a perfect display.

You do have to accept the gift though. You can’t just force a game onto someone.

They know. But many people will look at the screw, see it’s some weird thing they don’t have a screwdriver for, and decide to take the car to an authorized dealership instead of trying to repair an issue themselves.

Some will just buy the special screwdriver. But that doesn’t matter, what’s important is that some won’t, and the line goes up. You also have to look at it as yet another small barrier to repairability. It’s not stopping you by itself, but every single barrier adds up and stops more people.

You never used cheat codes in GTA San Andreas and the like? It’s a lot of fun

The data shows everyone uses their Windows 11 taskbar at the bottom of the screen. You can’t argue with that.

It’s often implemented with JavaScript, yes

They were not only not allowing it, they immediately blocked the user’s attempt to put it on their servers and banned the user for even trying. That’s as far from allowing it as possible.

It’s a joke, the corn is a type of crop, and this one is bad.

Yeah, but that’s an argument against being able to live forever, not an argument against evolution being able to happen, if you did.

That is indeed what happens, and it is helpful. But I disagree evolution wouldn’t happen without it.

There is also nothing inherently wrong with “optimization” and “automation”. It’s just that they are buzzwords and how the tech bros approach these topics.

Hmm, why can’t there be evolution without death? As long as organisms reproduce, genes are passed on, and some reproduce more successfully than others, why would it matter if existing individuals stay around or not? I don’t see how it makes evolution fundamentally impossible.

It was NOT found to be untrue. Full stop. It was found to be unsubstantiated.

You are right, I was imprecise. What I meant is that “it was not found to be true”, not that “it was found to be not true”.

Yeah, he was stupid to have that idea. But nobody was actually wronged in the end.

I think it looks good for the integrity of Linus that he took the blame and never revealed the identity of the logistics employee that made the mistake of misassigning the prototype for the auction. He could’ve easily thrown them under the bus and fired them instead, because their mistake did real reputational damage to the company.