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A321321on Why do railway tracks have crushed stones alongside them?

Yes, there is. High speed rail quite often uses ballastless track [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballastless_track

A321321on State of OpenID Connect Providers

I am very surprised by this. I have successfully and interchangeably connected to many OpenId Connect providers, all without any issues. Providers like Azure, Ping, Octa, Auth0, ….

A321321on Shortest URLs on the Internet

Curl wasn’t able to normalise ip adresses till this commit [0]

[0] https://github.com/curl/curl/commit/56a037cc0ad1b2a770d0c08d...

A321321on Shortest URLs on the Internet

Yeah, that was a bug in curl till 7.77.

If you want to full details, see [0]

[0] https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/04/19/curl-those-funny-ipv4...

A321321on The SQLite Index Suggester

Microsoft SQL Server definitely has suggestions for missing indexes. The quality of the suggestions are debatable though

A321321on Goodbye, shitty Car extends Vehicle object-orientation tutorial (2011)

No, that’s not how new works. Any method in the base class will still call the “hidden” method.

https://dotnetfiddle.net/zcVPof