Tech companies spend effort on a FOSS project when either it’s their main product, or when they have no choice, it’s licensed under GPL and there are no BSD or Apache-licensed alternatives. Contributions are usually done by individual employees in their after-hours time, and most managers see it as directly benefitting their competition.

Other companies provide nothing, so it’s definitely better than average.

Nah, the kids I know learned C just fine. C is simple, C is all you need for writing kernel drivers, pointers are not that hard if you explain them well, it just feels really pedestrian compared to Python or Typescript.

It’s ultimately a question of money. Older guys with software engineering degrees and fancy salaries can spend their weekends doing free community service in the form of open-source development. Younger people have to worry about job and rent and bills, they simply don’t have that kind of free time.

Add to that the growing complexity of the software. Something that could be done by an university student before, like writing an OS from scratch, won’t be nearly as useful as it would in the '90-s, because it was already done before, now you have multiple OSes to choose from. And joining an existing software project is hit-or-miss, some are inclusive and some are an old boy club where you need to know the secret rules.

It’s a Python source with an executable flag set.

I guess plaintext garbage is big-endian.

I guess because ‘bin’ is a shorthand of ‘binary’, that is, the directory where all your executable files reside, so the developers felt a need to clarify that /usr/bin isn’t to be cleaned.

In Lua all arrays are just dictionaries with integer keys, a[0] will work just fine. It’s just that all built-in functions will expect arrays that start with index 1.

It’s called Plasma. Plaaaaaassssmmmaaaaaaaaa.

You can actually use / as a path separator on Windows in functions like fopen(), because it supports some ancient version of POSIX standard.

Missing a Raspberry PI 4 setup which hosts a print server, an RTP server with two surveillance webcams and no password, and also seeds a terabyte of torrents over the local flower shop’s unencrypted WiFi.

The first Google result is this: https://watchbird-ojs-tamu.tdl.org/watchbird/index.php/watchbird/article/view/1930#:~:text=But the notion that Teflon,hazard than everyday cooking oils.

So yeah, overheated Teflon does kill birds, but they have heated the pans to the temperature where a regular butter heated in the uncoated aluminium pan also kills birds.

Uhh, another myth. Do you own Teflon skillet that was produced in 90’s? Do you fry your food until it’s carbonized? Stop worrying about it, your cooking oil will become tar and be smelling like burning rubber long before Teflon coating will produce any chemicals.

Furthermore, the oil coating you are using to cure your cast iron is pretty much homemade Teflon, it also should not be heated above 260° C. Well, if you cook outdoors, all that cancer will fly up in the air and burn the ozone layer instead of your lungs, so it’s pretty safe.

But yeah, ceramic skillet is the answer. I own two, and the coating is pretty fragile, you don’t ever want to hit it with a knife or stab a fork into it or it will chip away, and overheating can crack it because of thermal expansion, but it’s as chemically inert as you can get, it’s pretty much glass.

I like the size of your pot.

It’s because you now need to do systemctl restart sshd instead of /etc/init.d/sshd restart, I see no other reason than having to learn new syntax.

Arguably, init.d scripts were easier to understand, and systemd is a bit of a black box, it somehow works, but who knows where it writes logs or saves the process pid (it’s all in the documentation somewhere), with init.d script you can just open the script itself and look.

I don’t think I care about shape, as long as it’s made from durum wheat. Now, we have a lot of pasta here that’s made from regular baking flour, it’s still very common in EE countries, and it’s damn cheap. You must boil it for 40 seconds and not a second more, or it instantly clumps all together and turns into a wallpaper glue.

I think your videocard is about to die.

I have switched from XTerm to Konsole only a year ago.

Microsoft does not see Windows as a product since Ballmer left. It’s more of a liability, because you cannot sell it twice, and you cannot sell a Windows subscription. Windows still makes them just 10% profits, but selling cloud servers and office suite nets them 60% of their profits.

Microsoft IoT is not even a thing, the power of Linux IoT is that you strip everything from your kernel until your system runs on 32 MB RAM.

It makes sense, digestive system is way better at filtering harmful chemicals than lungs.

It depends on how much are you willing to use pre-prepared ingredients. There is a huge variety of quality frozen dumplings where I live, the instructions are - boil for 10 minutes, and done!