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>For example the FBI told social media companies the the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation

They didn't, they only gave a general warning to watch out for misinformation[1].

Facebook censored the Hunter Biden laptop story on their own volition. Zuckerberg mentioned FBI in that Rogan interview to muddy the waters and deflect responsibility. He didn't actually say that FBI ordered them to do anything.

[1] - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fbi-responds-...

This explanation doesn't make much sense. If Ukraine maybe joining NATO in an unspecified future is such a big threat to Russia, then surely Finland joining it right now is an even bigger threat. Not to mention that Poland and the Baltic states already are NATO members.

Russia's security is guaranteed by nukes. Security definitely wasn't the reason why Russia has invaded Ukraine.

>The wording was changed in C11

And here's an exact quote from the C11 standard:

>If the quotient a/b is representable, the expression (a/b)*b + a%b shall equal a; otherwise, the behavior of both a/b and a%b is undefined.

http://port70.net/~nsz/c/c11/n1570.html#6.5.5p6

>How is this censorship? They are a company and can do business with whoever they please.

Just because a private company does it, doesn't mean it isn't censorship. Of course, you may argue that it's in a good cause, but nonetheless, it's still censorship.

I feel XKCD 1357 has greatly contributed to the degradation of the discourse on this topic. The concept of free speech is not synonymous with the legal protections provided by American law.

Calling this[1] "an article about racist dog names" is a complete misrepresentation. It's a critique of a study published in Social Psychology Quarterly, which is an official journal of the American Sociological Association.

[1] - https://stuartritchie.substack.com/p/dog-name-racism

I think it's an interesting historicial curiosity.

See also:

SSH trademarks and the OpenSSH product name - http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2001-Feb...

ssh(R) trademark issues: comments and proposal - http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2001-Feb...

IETF proceedings March 2001 - https://www.ietf.org/proceedings/50/ietf50-120.htm

Naturally, commit messages aren't the only criteria I'm using. But I wasted way too much time in my life on deciphering the purpose of 20+ year old commits to ignore this.

Even if you're a solo dev, you will likely still have to debug your old code in the future. I'm sure most of HN is familiar with the Chesterton's fence. Proper commit messages aid you in understanding why the changes were made. This especially matters in complex codebases, like compilers.

>How many developers are there?

According to GitHub, there are 132 contributors. Probably most of them were one-off drive-by PRs, but nonetheless, it's definitely not a one person project anymore.

What was broken? How it was broken? Why it was fixed this way? That information is vital during "git blame".

Take a look at the commit histories of the other projects I've linked. Their commit messages are much more elaborate.

When I'm evaluating an open-source project, I always check the quality of its commit messages. I don't care about following a specific format or something, all that matters is whether they are informative or not.

Sadly, Odin doesn't seem to pass the test. It's full of commits labeled with just "fix <thing>": https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/commits/master

A few examples of projects with better commit messages:

Linux kernel: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commits/master

gcc: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commits/master

Perl: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/commits/blead

Wayland: https://github.com/wayland-project/wayland/commits/main

The fact that it's both men and women in Israel could be significant. I heard stories about people meeting their romantic partners in the army during the mandatory service.

Birth rates are low pretty much everywhere in the developed world, but South Korea is an outlier in how low they are. For example, Japan's fertility rate is 1.3, compared to Korea's 0.84. That's a huge difference.

It's possible there's something unique to South Korea that causes it. Perhaps it's mandatory 2 years of military service for males. Or maybe their famously judgmental culture. I don't know.