I generally think I'm a good programmer, and Rust was tremendously difficult at times. I eventually managed to solve all the problems I had (usually around multiple scopes that need mutable access to some data, or conflicting lifetimes).

But I don't learn the language of the month. I noticed Rust articles for at least two years before I decided a personal project would work well in Rust. I waited a decade before using python for anything more than absolutely necessary. (In that time, Python got a lot better, so I don't feel like I missed out.)

I had the hardest time with Haskell. It was educational but I never did anything useful with it.

Telegram uses 240 MB after being open for only ten minutes. (Windows 11.)

I don't think Tinder shows third party ads. Most dating apps probably don't, since they want to sell their own premium "points", and they engineer it so you think you won't actually meet anyone unless you pay. (Whether this is true or not I can't say.)

A dating app with ads is a good dating app! Because it's not engineered to fail until you fork out increasing amounts of cash.

As for popular apps, I'm sure you are right about weather apps. That might not apply to a military situation though. I don't know but I have to keep an open mind.

As for dating apps, I only have experience with Tinder, but I don't recall it showing any third party ads. So any such app is automatically ruled out. And other apps like QR scanners are not often opened, are not allowed to access location data unless explicitly allowed, and can't even run/start in the background on most Android phones. (The last point depends heavily on the manufacturer, but for instance Xiaomi locks apps down so hard that you need to take several steps to even be sure your alarm will reliably ring! A QR scanner has zero chance of being able to send any information except on the rare occasions I use it.)

Plus, I assume there's a reason they needed to use a single app, not a category like "dating apps", "weather apps", or all apps for that matter. Unless there's a single app with ads that is obviously GPS enabled and more used than Grindr, they made the only reasonable choice. And if a typical programmer can't name five equal alternatives, Grindr was still a pretty reasonable choice.

Grindr is normally going to run with location access, often with GPS turned on. Can you think of any other apps that are so popular and leak precise location data with advertiser IDs?

That apartheid doesn't exist. Arabs and Muslims can be Israeli citizens. What rights do they lack that White or Jewish citizens have? However I would be very surprised if there is a legal route for a Palestinian to become a citizen.

This exists. It is the network view, for example: https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmp...

It is critical when evaluating which fork is active and developed, yet it doesn't do anything to solve the problem of original repos being abandoned.

Have you thought about any solutions to this problem? Given that fork authors can communicate with each other, and they can see each other's commit graph, is there a way they could come to consensus about what the successor is for the unmaintained original repository? Is there any realistic way to convince fork maintainers to re-fork from the successor?

It's a good idea, but if you charge everyone China would make their own github, it would become popular, and collaboration between Chinese and Western developers would end.

If you only charge people when they have public repos, it acts as a barrier that stops people from doing one of the actions they really should do to become a good open source participant.

Plus black hat organizations tend to have access to a bunch of stolen credit card numbers.

Because the verbatim reproduction is not on purpose in this case. It's so far from on purpose that it shouldn't even have been possible (say, based on the max known text compressibility).

The non-English characters in your post are ironic.

Isn't this pretty standard when criminal acts have been committed? If a pregnant woman is assaulted leading to the death of the fetus, isn't that considered murder? I'm not gonna google this, but maybe somebody less paranoid can.

Mandatory caveat: it is highly controversial. I just searched for meta analyses and couldn't find anything supporting it. There's just enough evidence that it can't be totally ruled out.

I see. My point, based on who I replied to, was that this style of enlarged cutaway diagram is appropriate, but I did not analyze it for accuracy of content.

Being in Asia, I often order products from China. When I compare to Amazon, I find the Amazon products often cost 7x more. That applies to all kinds of stuff, but not the highest end products. Though it's possible I just suck at searching, I often can't find very premium products in China--light backpacking gear, yes--true ultralight gear, no.

I digress, but Amazon is not that cheap relative to the actual cost of products.