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Re:Forty years of GNU and the free software movement on Tuesday September 19, 2023 @01:41PM (#37573418)
> you aren't the one owning the computer

Sounds to me like they are more relevant than ever. :)

Re:Cancer cells die in microgravity conditions – study on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:42AM (#21711078)
What is the control? Do cancer cells normally live if they are taken out of the body?
Re:Announcing WSL 2 on Monday May 13, 2019 @06:56AM (#19897935)
So they are writing their own kernel, but moving to using a VM? Why not use an existing kernel if they are moving to using a VM...?
Re:Overcoming Intuition in Programming on Monday January 04, 2016 @05:11AM (#10834772)
> I get a lot of questions from aspiring programmers on what’s the best tool or languages to learn. It’s almost always a premature question to ask.

I often think about how to answer this question to beginners as well. I think he is right, the answer is probably "it doesn't matter".

I've noticed the same thing as a contractor. I only seem to get hired if I am one of the first few bidders. Otherwise there is a slim chance I will get noticed.
"Push-pull-rebase bottleneck: if you rebase and push and someone beats you to it, you have to pull, rebase, and try again. This gets worse as commit rate increases and people do needless legwork. Facebook has moved to server-side rebasing on push to mostly eliminate this pain point. (This is part of a still-experimental feature in Mercurial, which should hopefully lose its experimental flag soon.)"

What if there are merge conflicts? I don't know about Mercurial, but in Git there are tons of cases where rebasing cannot happen automatically.

Re:Show HN: Create musical chords out of YouTube videos on Monday February 09, 2015 @10:53PM (#9025302)
Haven't tried this one yet, but I've used theorytab before. Wish it had more songs. http://www.hooktheory.com/theorytab

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