That is an example of the system not working. That they are doing this implies that maybe the system has been fixed. It is hard to know.

Even hand coded projects need more than 6 months before I’ll replace anything in my stacks. Too many projects start with great intention but then the founder gets bored (life gets in the way?) and they go unmaintained. Really I’m looking for projects that enough developers have got involved in that I can be confident it won’t go stagnant. I could be one of those developers, but I don’t have enough time to contribute to all the different projects I use (I barely have time to contribute to the one project I maintain)

The system is working: nobody is perfect, but we have redundancy in place to detect problems and fix them latter.

The real dangerous systems are the ones where problems are covered up and ignored. You will get a false impression that they are safe until it is too late.

For the simple cases, a language package manager is easier to write and makes things easy. However, simple cases aren’t at everything and for the more complex cases, such as what C and C++ is commonly used for, a language package manager is not complex enough to handle all the little weird special cases and so it would be a bad idea.

Those who use a language for something complex will not use the built-in package manager. Realistically though, very few people are writing complex software and so this objection, although real, is probably a pedantic thing that doesn’t affect you.

Probably more expensive than AliBaba. Which might or might not mean better quality.

I’m researching building my own because I’m so fed up with only being able to find garbage. Good luck in your journey. I haven’t built my own yet, but all I lack is the time to focus on a project.

That is unfortunately expensive as time goes on. Parts have a markup, even third party. Unless there are a lot of others maintaining the same model parts will go out of production. You beet buy a lathe and milling machine.

What do those words mean? They are far to broad. What does my opinion on Tariffs have to do with my opinion on health care?

Classical liberal (but not liberal) at least has meaning - lets not kill each other even though we are of different religions (and in the last 200 years expanded to: lets not hold slaves and lets allow women to have rights). However because that is so broad there is lots of room for disagreement on details within that category.

I know more than one place that uses monitors for safety messages. If they overlay that there will be bug court cases. Likely criminal

I can’t say for sure from pictures but my guess is everything is safe for in water use and so no worry. It doesn’t take much to drain the water out

Depends but i would say quarter is way too much. Generally dimensioned lumber is close enough that right on is just fine but rough cut needs more tolerance. My habit was often a 32 less and the rest breaks off with no danger to the blade.

Treated wood should be treated through and so no need to treat the ends

Circular saw with the blade set such that it just barely will cut all the way through.

I’ve been a professional before. Where it mattered we cut the ends off in place that same way.

I saw rants very much like yours 30 years ago - before you first masters…

A masters has always to my knowledge been one additional year after you have a 4 year degree. So that they only require 1 year for the second degree is expected - you already have a 4 year degree, a masters is one additional year of advance study on top of it.

While someone can, in practice that doesn’t happen in most cases

What is the practical difference between code not accepted and code hidden?

The source is available but not in a form that will be accepted upstream. Often for good reason, but that doesn’t do you any good.

Those are not exceptions.

You are very shrilly yourself. Plenty of companies have shown it isn’t hard to take GPL without contributed back. There are high odds you are using a chrome based browser to read this - did you know that is a GPL project because once upon a time it was khtml (from the KDE project), but the changes were never contributed back. Many embedded companies have their own fork of linux as well - their changes are all available as the GPL requires, but the changes won’t be accepted to the kernel as is and so the fact that they are available is useless.

Meanwhile there are many companies using FreeBSD who choose to contribute their changes back, just like some companies choose to contribute back to various GPL projects they use.