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Let me counter with my own anecdote.

Every researcher I've met in the last 10 years needs some version of Linux to get their job done effectively. Largely because tools like Python/Numpy have replaced stagnated (due to years of monopoly) tools like Matlab and they are much easier to setup and use on Linux.

Mind you, I am not talking just computer scientists. Biology, physics, maths, all use linux based setups.

onikolas7on Sledding athletes are taking their lives

There are many instances of redesign due to safety concerns. The clean and press was removed from weightlifting because it was very bad for the back. Some judo throws (such as ones that twisted the knee) where also removed for safety reasons.

onikolas7on The Go Language was rid of blacklist/whitelist and master/slave

My least favorite tech term is "infant mortality"[1] from reliability engineering. Just very bad naming taste.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve

onikolas7on Dark Horse Discord

Lets hope Linus needs voice and chat one day...

onikolas7on When your data doesn’t fit in memory: the basic techniques

Fun fact for non CS people, which this article seems to address.

Nothing fits: disk to RAM, RAM to L3, L3 to L2, L2 to L1, L1 to registers. We are just lucky that many programs have spatial and temporal locality.