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by alt_422568 4mo ago
> There is basically nothing the captain is legally barred from doing while the plane is en route. This is pretty wide of the mark. They have a lot of authority, yes, as it's the flipside of the flight's safety being their res
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by alt_422568 4mo ago
That's completely wrong. Tailgating is prohibited in all 50 states. Driving fast while too close behind another vehicle is a major cause of serious accidents. This is real basic stuff that every driver is expected to know. Trying to no
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by alt_422568 4mo ago
There's even a section Wikipedia about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_Dignity#Russian_... Their final paragraph is straight up conspiracy theory. Little wonder they grumble about Wikipedia in thei
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by alt_422568 4mo ago
> There was a big zillionaire conference where they talked about slave collars What? Do you have a link?
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by alt_422568 5mo ago
Sloppy use of version control doesn't make you more effective. It just doesn't work that way. Torvalds himself writes up proper commit messages even for his toy projects. [0][1] I really doubt it takes him much time or effort. You
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by alt_422568 5mo ago
This sounds a lot like the tactical tornado archetype. From A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout: > Almost every software development organization has at least one developer who takes tactical programming to the extrem
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by alt_422568 5mo ago
Again, in my experience, that isn't it. It's like NASA's rules. People who write garbage commit messages and have a chaotic and unconsidered version control workflow, generally lack the skill to do otherwise. As they lack ver
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by alt_422568 5mo ago
Think of a major FOSS project in a technically challenging domain. Every single one of them insists on proper version-control discipline. [0,1,2,3,4] If enough of the following apply strongly enough to your project: * Very small codebase *
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by alt_422568 5mo ago
> you never use “git annotate” or your IDE to see who wrote a line of code whose purpose puzzles you, and go to the commit message to see what they were trying to accomplish? This is invaluable to me as long as commit messages are clear.