ByteJunk

I may have run in your acquaintance work, stuff along the lines of

200 OK

{ error_code: s23, error_msg: "An error was encountered when performing the operation" }

If you happen to run into him, kindly tackle him in the groin for me.

Thanks!

Not gonna lie, I was expecting this to end with The Undertaker throwing Mankind off Hell In A Cell.

Oceans rise, empires faaaaaaaall...

Oh yeah, I remember using tortoiseCVS briefly.

Mercurial and Bazaar also showed up at around the same time as git, I think all spurred by BitKeeper ending their free licenses for Linux kernel devs.

An interesting shot to the foot, that one.

BitKeeper was a proprietary version control system that somehow (and with a lot of controversy) ended up being adopted by a big chunk of the Linux kernel developers, while others were adamant against it.

In any case, they provided free licenses to Linux devs, with some feature restrictions (including not being able to see full version history) only available for premium clients, while Devs who worked on open source competing systems were even barred from buying a licence.

When someone started to work on a client that allowed access to these locked away features, they revoked the free licenses, and a host of solutions started being developed immediately. Linus Thorvalds himself started work on git, and that eventually got adopted by the whole Linux ecosystem and, nowadays, the world.

As for BitKeeper, it's been dead for years now.

Tee-hee.

Destroyed cars?

The damage included "deep scratches and punctured tires."

From the article. A quick polish and a time swap and they're as good as new.

The damage included "deep scratches and punctured tires."

Probably about the same as any other car.

Edit:

a 2015 Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) study found that the Tesla Model S had higher claim frequencies, severities and overall losses than comparable large luxury cars. The higher claim severity was thought to be attributed to the car’s battery replacement cost — a whopping $16,000.

So teslas insurance has always been more expensive, and this sure isn't going to help.

This thread hurts my brain.

Are you arguing my point for me? Indeed, Sanders is exceptional, truly one of a kind - I'm not being sarcastic here, he really is a remarkable person.

But how many times did he get to run for president? Zero. Both times he was shut down. In any normal country, I have no doubts he would have been president.

What conclusions you decide to take are up to you, don't make that my responsibility. You can take it lying down if that's what you prefer, we tend to go out and make a bit of a mess around here.

Your conclusion is wrong, in that I didn't say they're fake, I said that they serve as a way for different mega wealthy people to take turns at serving their own interests. Which may be a synonym or not, depending on your perspective.

But I did imply that non-plutocrats have zero sway in elections, because of how the system is stacked for the two parties because of many different aspects, but one of the obvious ones is just how much money you need to run a successful campaign.

What part of it is theory? Citizens United was the final confirmation that made it legal and ever since it's done in broad daylight.

You'd be better off asking that to a republican, but to me, no.

From a diplomatic perspective, they don't seem closer at all because of the tariff escalation. Going forward, depends on how well the heads of state get along.

From the kind of government perspective, they seem very much apart as well. China is your typical autocracy, with all power centered around the president. In the US, corporations and billionaires have too much power for trump to pull all the power to itself, so it's an oligarchy in a trenchcoat with trump's head peeking out (and Musk's also showing...).