Can't speak for this person as I wouldn't have volunteered to make these changes myself, but it's possible that he thinks implementing "harmless" versions sooner can provide a legal basis to decline to provide "harmful" versions later.

I'd personally wait for the legal challenges against non-compliant systems before moving into malicious compliance if necessary.

By choice. Maybe they choose it to comfort Odo, or maybe because other humanoids recognize them as like Odo (the only shapeshifter they'd known before).

Daylight is full-spectrum, not just cool. Flicker-free and high color rendering index. If you can get that in a bulb (bit more expensive than cheap LEDs) it's quite nice indoors.

We might be the same

Update my mesa drivers mid-game? Yea fuck it why not

Code is easy in a vacuum. 50 moving parts all with their own quirks and insufficient testing is how you get stuff like this to happen.

Microsoft blocks people from downloading stuff all the time for unknowable reasons. You have to either reset your IP or go through customer support to fix it. I did the latter and they did not tell me why I was blocked in the first place.

Quoting a relatively famous mathematician, linear algebra is one of the few branches of math we've really truly understood. It's very, very well behaved

It depends on your velocity

Spin them

The previous code exists under an irrevocable open source license, so they are entitled to it. Also, fuck off.

Not backwards compatible, will never ever happen

If anything, the eternal September would have started when Reddit killed itself. I can't imagine people thinking it's starting now.