I remember here in Canada there were concerns about this sort of thing when rolling out our proof-of-vaccination system, but practically speaking, the number of people with both the technical understanding and inclination to do this is surely too small to have a meaningful impact on COVID spread.
On a similar note, I've heard that the words for animals, like cow or pig, tend to be Germanic while the words for their meat, like beef or pork tend to be Latin.
Although, I cancelled my Netflix subscription a few years ago because I felt like I was watching too much. Same reason I quit World of Warcraft back in the day :)
It seems a bit disingenuous to say "emacs can do everything" citing org, slime, and auctex, which are probably the three highest-quality extensions out there (maybe throw in magit too). In my experience this level of polish is not consistent, e.g. python or java support is much less robust. Emacs is indeed great for many things, but not everything.
A work-around I've been using on Linux is to set the GTK_THEME environment variable to the "high contrast" theme. With that theme it will draw a black outline around the focused tab.
It could also just be that people generally have fewer responsibilities and probably a higher risk tolerance earlier in life. Once you get into your thirties you might have a family, be more established in a given career path, be thinking more seriously about saving for retirement, etc. For all of the big inventions or successful companies you're thinking of, there are likely many more that turned out to be failures, and that's less of a setback to someone in their twenties.
I encountered this issue in the Google Keep application, which has a periodic reminder feature. I set a reminder for August 31, repeating monthly, but this results in it skipping months with 30 days as I discovered at the end of September.
This was an a well-written and interesting post, but the bug doesn't seem all that weird to me. I'm sure there are numerous race conditions lurking in decade+ old code that are waiting for someone to trip on them.
Is the choice of 16 as the "limit" value based on benchmarking? As opposed to just doing something like "!buffer[0] && !memcmp(buffer, buffer + 1, size - 1)" which uses the same principle.
This video of a crash test between a 2009 Chevy Malibu and 1959 Bel Air is a good illustration of the improvements that have been made in car safety https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U
Quirky as it is, I believe Terry Davis's TempleOS actually allowes REPL-style development in its C dialect (HolyC). I'm not sure how exactly it works, but it's able to compile and execute statements as you type them in.
I would have guessed seeing one product sold out would make other similar not-sold-out products less appealing. Like, if brand A is sold out but not brand B, I'm going to wonder what's wrong with brand B. Is it inferior in some way?
Completely unrelated to your point, but I had to check what "sourdough dressing" was. And, yeah, it's a salad dressing with bread blended into it. I've heard of doing that, but kinda want to try it now.
Along similar lines, I think the fact that many cities aren't particularly bike-safe causes (some) cyclists to behave more assertively to the annoyance of motorists. This adversarial relationship hinders potential political cooperation. Admittedly, when I'm driving my car or riding my bike, I often find myself getting mad at people for doing things I know I also do when riding my bike or driving my car.
As I understand it, wlroots is more of a library that you can build a Wayland compositor on top of (sway being one example). It's not a compositor in and of itself.
It still might be a good choice for LXQt if they do plan on supporting Wayland, though.