FWIW, I’ve a relative who dislikes fish, but who often makes an exception for local fish & chips. Locally the preference is for haddock which is what’s generally served, and what that relative gets.

The same relative is less fond of cod, so I guess the advice there, if any, is if you try cod and don’t like it, try haddock. Or vice versa.

Ada is a language that leaves a lot of things “implementation dependent” as it’s not supposed to grant easy access to underlying data types like those you’ll find in C, or literally on the silicon. You’re supposed to be able to declare your own integer type of any size and the compiler is supposed to figure it out. If it chooses to use a native data type, then so be it.

This doesn’t guarantee the correctness of the compiler nor the programmer who absolutely has to work with native types because it’s an embedded system though.

This has ended in disaster at least once: https://itsfoss.com/a-floating-point-error-that-caused-a-damage-worth-half-a-billion/

ELI5

paradigm

You must know some terrifying five-year-olds.

How documents are stored by MS Office has changed constantly over the last 40 years, as have the feature sets of the different applications, for which a new variant format if not a new format outright might be created each time. The file extension is a guide but not a complete indicator of what’s going on inside.

Microsoft have the advantage of knowing the exact structure of all the previous formats so they can auto-detect and load a document transparently without the user having any idea there might have been a difference.

Because the formats are proprietary, and follow no published standard (or not fully published), third parties like LibreOffice have to literally reverse engineer every single one of those formats and variants every time a new one pops up. It’s a game of whack-a-mole. Moving goalposts like I said.

And it’s often the case that reverse-engineering a format covers only, say, 99% of cases; those used in most of the documents that a would-be reverse engineer has seen. And then someone tries to use LibreOffice to open a document with a feature from the other 1% and it looks incompetent.

There’s also that it would be illegal to decompile a copy of MS Office to figure out exactly how it does it, so they have to work from the documents that MS Office generates and take their best guess. If Microsoft got even a whiff of the idea that someone working on LibreOffice had decompiled it, the whole project would be sued into oblivion.

Those are moving goalposts. The LibreOffice devs do their best, but they’ll always be a step behind. The correct solution is to get people to move away from closed yet ever-changing standards made by monoliths who wish to retain a monopoly.

Note that I’m not saying that’s easy or even possible. Only that it’s correct.

Where I live, most stops have been in place for decades if not a century at this point. No-one remembers why the all ones that exist now exist where they do, only that they exist there. Some actually migrate over time due to new construction and other factors.

But to guess how they got where they are, at least generally speaking, someone would have designed routes for public transport around main roads and important industrial areas mainly so that workers could get to work in a morning. Businesses may have even lobbied local government or bus companies for a stop near where they were if one wasn’t already planned to be there.

Anecdotally, I know a stop near where my parents live was deliberately placed at the far side of a road junction so that factory workers who wanted to get off there were getting off past a fare boundary. That meant that if they caught the bus closer to work rather than a quarter mile up the road, they’d have to pay extra money. Actually, it’s so old a thoroughfare it might have been a horse-drawn tram stop originally. Same fare shenanigans though.

That stop migrated to the “cheaper” side of the road junction nearly 30 years ago, but as far as I know, it’s still treated as though the fare boundary occurs before it.

Anecdote 2: There have been embarrassing stories of workmen upgrading bus stop shelters only for locals to tell them, and the local news, that the bus service that would have stopped at it has long since been cancelled due to budget cuts. Bureaucracy is a wonderful thing.

I tend to use right shift for pretty much everything. The arrow glyph has worn off the key I use it so much.

Important factors:

1. British English keyboards, like the one I have, tend to be ISO, with a larger shift key on the right. Bigger target. Easier to hit.

2. I have at least a couple of passwords that each have at least one shifted character from the left side of the keyboard and it’s much easier to use both hands when I need to type those.

3. It might even go back to the fact that most of my early typing was on a Commodore 64C and the positions of surrounding keys. Hitting shift-lock or run/stop by mistake would have been a nuisance. Caps lock isn’t quite as annoying because it’s not a literal mechanical toggle, but even so, the right shift avoids that particular error.

You think admins will be affected by this? Doubtful.

You’ll be lucky if it lets you block him in the first place, but it probably won’t have the required effect.

From what I understood on the recent "live"stream, it can be turned off.

But as others have said, there are many performance mods that don’t change the core game experience. Getting those set up can be a bit of a chore, even if you choose a different launcher that manages them for you, but it can be worth it.

Until very recently I had Minecraft Java running smoothly on a PC that was 13 years old. 1st gen i7 with a similarly aged Nvidia card.

…and I still run the same mods on the new PC. Saves energy, and reduces fan noise a bit, so might as well.

$ man woman 
No manual entry for woman

Linux knows the importance of consent / If you’re not one already, Linux can’t help you understand / <Your own interpretation here>

The only plan Russia and its allies will accept is one that has Ukraine’s complete, immediate and unconditional surrender. Anything else will be “dismissed” in similar fashion.

My roof and my walls are not the same thing, but if demolish my walls, will my roof hover there magically?

You completely skipped the part about what you’re buying and selling. That’s not suspicious at all.

Yes

Google could close the Chromium source at any time. There might be promises and provisions that they’ll never do that, but if they do, who has the money to sue them? And who, of those, can’t be bought?

“So what, people can run with the last good codebase!”

Sure, until there’s a critical bug that Google don’t publish which then cripples Chromium until the maintainers figure it out, or else Google (deliberately or otherwise) take web standards down an unexpected path requiring massive changes, also making life hard for the fork maintainers.

And don’t say “that’ll never happen”. Need I gesture broadly at the state of the world?

There’s always vacuum decay. Simply put, the entire universe could be in an unstable “false vacuum” state and all it would take is something suitably cataclysmic, yet of a form beyond that we can detect, and what we know of as spacetime would unravel from that point outwards at light speed, undetectable until it hits us. If you’ve ever seen those slow motion videos of a water balloon popping, it’d be a bit like that, with us on the bit of balloon that hasn’t quite “realised” that half the balloon is gone already.

But then, predictions range from “complete annihilation of all things” to “imperceptible shift in cosmological constants that doesn’t affect much at all”. Heck, it might have already happened once or twice if that’s the case.

But if it hasn’t… POP!

In this instance, I think there was some suggestion to write code in mostly lower case, including all user variables, or at least inCamelCaseLikeThis with a leading lower case letter, and so to make True and False stand out, they’ve got to be capitalised.

I mean. They could have been TRUE and FALSE. Would that have been preferable? Or how about a slightly more Pythonic style: __true__ and __false__

FWIW, the new user flag is a green leaf over on fedia.io. Different platforms do it differently. Or not at all.

IMO, this needs a different name. It’s too similar to “Saidit”, one of sites that sprang up as a refuge for the edgier (or sicker) content that Reddit wanted rid of about 10 years ago, and unlike Voat, it’s still live.

If you’re one of the right-wing trolls and/or edgelords who used to hop between Reddit and 4chan back in the day, it might be the place for you. Otherwise, probably best to steer clear.

Either way, steering clear of similar names might be a good idea.

Ah, the old Ben Shapiro logic. If you don’t want your house that’s at risk of flooding, don’t worry, simply sell it! Someone’s bound to give you a good price for it!