Or just "slopping" maybe? "Stop slopping up code."

Which is a fairly shocking thing to say really. I thought promised to be less of a dick a while ago. Guess he couldn't keep it up.

So why can't Linux just do whatever the Windows update does?

FreeCAD 1.0 is actually pretty good now. Definitely usable if you're only doing basic things.

SolveSpace is also nice but it has some deal-breaker limitations like not supporting chamfers/bevels.

It's basically vaguebooking.

At the time it made way more sense because the "traditional" smart watches were way worse. Not even one day battery life. I would say Pebble still wins on size though - actually normal watch sized.

As for why they didn't catch on.. Probably a little bit ahead of their time, and also less shiny.

Yep, whenever they fix a bug it's added in a new flag that nobody knows about.

git --enable-sane-behaviour

Totally depends what you end up working on as a programmer. If it's web apps, you'll be totally fine. All you need is basic arithmetic. Writing a game engine? You'll need to know some basic to moderate matrix maths...

If you're doing formal verification using unbounded model checking... good fucking luck.

On average I would say most programming tasks need very little maths. If you can add and multiply you'll be fine. Definitely sounds like you'll be ok.

Unless the binary size difference is insane, who would say "oh well we were going to pick the library that wasn't riddled with security issues but we decided to save 2MB instead, hope that makes you feel better about your $12m cybersecurity fine!".

Good. I had a couple of answers to one of my questions that just wasted my time before I realised they were AI. The authors didn't get banned annoyingly.

This sounds like a great improvement. I have read the sudo source code and anyone that seriously thinks there's no problem with it being SUID is crazy.

That said the whole security model of sudo makes no sense. As soon as you can access a sudoers' account you can trivially steal their password by MitMing sudo and waiting.

Yeah IIRC it deletes them, which is as mad as you would expect. Maybe they've fixed that since I used it last which was some years ago.