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I hadn't thought about this until I recently saw it (lazily) translated to Swedish literally, where it would traditionally be written more akin to "net fortune".

And yeah, "worth" feels super weird.

I bought it in late 2013, so 12 years from purchase.

Intel lists the launch date of the CPU (Atom D2500) as Q3'11, making it 14 years old when OpenSUSE Leap 16 was released.

It looks like Intel was releasing Atom CPUs without SSE4.1/4.2 up until 2013, e.g. Atom Z2420.

No strcpy either 7 months ago

I don't see a problem with that, but for the record, the title on the site is lower-case for me (both browser tab title, and the header when in reader mode).

It exists, hence e.g. AGPL.

But for most open source licenses, that example would be within bounds. The grandparent comment objected to not respecting the license.

But that Commit-Id footer has no functional effect. I don't see how it would help me if I have a clone of the repo, and my upstream (in this case, the debian maintainer) rebases.

Which you won't.

Why not? Doesn't it make sense to be able to track the history of what patches have been applied for a debian package?

Rebasing would mean there's no continuous versioning of the "patches on top", which might be undesirable. Also, the history rewriting might make cooperation difficult.

Merges would avoid those problems, but are harder to do if there are lots of conflicts, as you can't fix conflicts patch by patch.

Perhaps a workflow based on merges-of-rebases or rebase-and-overwrite-merge would work, but I don't think it's fair to say "oh just rebase".

We have that in Sweden and Finland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_public_access_to_...

The principle says that information is non-confidential by default, rather than the other way around.

We can request almost any information held by government agencies, including copies of communication like email and documents.

One thing that has surprised European acquaintances is the fact that this includes government-held info about individuals, e.g. address and tax returns.

A terminal maximized on my screen says:

    ~$ echo $((2 * LINES * COLUMNS)) triangles
    34272 triangles
That's nothing for a modern GPU. For example, this benchmark[1] says to expect on the order of 10-800 million tri/s. At the low end of that, you'd have a frame time of 3.427ms -- 292 fps.

The original Playstation could do 180 000 textured polygons per second[2], so it could've managed ~5 fps. Of course, you wouldn't render that many chars at its available output resolutions anyway. :)

[1] https://github.com/ctsilva/triangle-rendering-benchmarks#:~:... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_technical_specific...

we should have a software building code

This made my brain go "Oh no, not this again. Open source projects don't owe you..." etc etc.

or you can't use it commercially or for safety-critical things

Oh. Yeah, okay, absolutely! For safety-critical, I would like to think the responsibility already lies with the integrator/seller, but making it explicitly so can't hurt.

Some do. Most don't.

Remember, the deal includes universal health care, tuition-free university, government-backed sick pay, five or six weeks of paid vacation, and more.

I'm from Sweden, which has a similar system. I could not have afforded to attend university in the US system. Here, I could -- with my (government low-interest) student loans being spent only on my living expenses, not tuition. As a result, Sweden has an extra engineer we otherwise wouldn't have, with a good salary contributing to the tax base.

That seems like the opposite of dystopian to me.