If you make a good faith edit, it is rolled back, you challenge the rollback again in good faith, and are then told "You are not here to build an encyclopedia", that's how you know you've run into the duke of a little fiefdom.

"not here to build an encyclopedia" is code for "you do things that defy approved thought".

strncpy() should always have null terminated on truncation. I can't think of a single time i've ever used it where i didn't want it to terminate

Somebody is mad that the git maintainers think their ideas are dumb.

BTW where did bitkeeper go, Epic?

Anyone who has force push permission can make changes. Period. That's how git works.

Why am I seeing so many totally clueless posts in /. now?

Idiotic. Git has this built in. You can git rewrite history but all of the hashes will be different and tags wrong.

You mean Hanlon's Razor

Uh. Scifi isn't science. There are many many many good non-fiction reasons population caps are a problem, though most have to do with economics.

And controlling breeding is not the same as limiting immigration.

Exactly. Don't get me wrong. They're both idiotic.

This is the dumbest analogy for this i've seen yet

"Across" not "against". Morons.

Broadcom has always been a shit company, from the very beginning.

All of the idiotic "packaging formats" basically bundle their own complete OS (or at minimum a compete standalone runtime).

Propane != NG

"tracability" of a weapon to *solve a crime* is pure movie/TV nonsense.

You've been watching too many tv shows with poorly lit (in dim blue light) high tech forensics labs featuring zoom/enhance.