not to mention that the commands themselves obey absolutely zero *NIX conventions at all. Left a bad taste in my mouth ever since

Ah, there it is. The "you don't need that feature" attitude that made desktop Linux the roaring success it is today.

Results may vary for the C language, IPv4, X11, GTK, ALSA, and massive swathes of the CoreUtils.

...pretty sure there are competing abstraction layers to working with DBs other programming paradigms.

> OOP works on low complexity, small projects, but quickly falls apart at certain point, > More experienced people figured out some way around OOP to make it more robust,

I thought it fell apart?

> "oh, you just doing it wrong: insert excuse and advise here".

Wait til you learn what point-free style is in Haskell! Have fun!

> People who really though it through, and tried different approaches are the ones that hate it and are vocal about it.

So if you happen to like OOP, you just haven't thought it through. Thanks for the constructive comment!

>In my experience, the contrast is stark to another high-paid professional group: lawyers.

Database systems like WestLaw & word processing systems in the 80s and 90s were killer apps for law offices, so if lawyers are tech illiterate it's a recent phenomenon.

He just has a clear vested interest in the platform as is. Would we all be FOSS shills for making our living with OSS software & continuing to advocate for the conditions that make that possible?

> Various republican-aligned groups in the US actually cooperated with the NSDAP.

If we're bringing up stuff from the 1930s, you're not going to like what the Democrats were doing from then until 70s.

> French Revolution,

How did that turn out?

> American Revolution

There is no definition of leftism that would include the American independence movement. The conception of leftism didn't even exist!. My head is about ready to explode.

> Mexican Revolution

See French revolution.

>And the all time greatest threat to the world has been a right wing populist revolution; the rise of Nazi Germany.

Pick up a book on the Weimar Republic some day, you might learn something!

> Right wing revolutions tend to curtail rights like the Iranian Revolution

'Tend to'

I have been repeatedly informed that the Iranian revolution was a liberation from the Western Imperialists & therefore left-wing (yes, seriously).

Strangely omitted are the Russian, Chinese, & Cuban revolutions. I wonder why?

Frankly, I'm shocked the mods let this topic survive on the front-page for this long. It's a honeypot for every kind of crank to show up and start arguing (myself included) In summary, you guys need to put down the IDEs & start reading actual history books (not wikipedia & and half-assed bastardized regurgitations of Chomsky)

That's a pretty loose definition of 'major'.

Parliamentary systems sound pretty shitty then - keep in mind the Golden Dawn, UKIP, and any one of the perennial "let's deport all the Roma" parties also counts as a major political party under your definition.

It's no wonder copyright reform has completely stalled out over the last 20 years when all discussions devolve into the same repeated canards.

Is there a table or formula I can consult that will give this particular dumb person(myself) a handy guide for what amounts of addressable memory will introduce security risks for particular applications? Apparently more than 32-bits is obviously[0] a problem for email; what about databases? Should I feel bad I use more than 64GB of memory in my DB installations? Am I being irresponsible? What about web servers? How much risk does each additional bit of memory add?

My final question is, why does pretty much every other software maintainer not have a problem fixing the memory allocation themselves, obviating the need for external tools to fix these issues? I guess they're going the extra mile!

[0] So obvious a problem that sendmail, postfix, and exim don't require me to apply workarounds for it for some reason. Very irresponsible of them, if you ask me.

"Support for these legacy computing symbols includes 212 characters added in Version 13.0 to provide compatibility with a wide range of early home computers, or “microcomputers,” manufactured from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. These symbols also cover the teletext broadcasting standard originally developed in the early 1970s, and the Minitel standard developed in the 1980s. This collection of early microcomputer symbols includes support for the character sets of Amstrad CPC, Apple 8-bit, Atari 8 and 16- bit, Commodore 8 and 16-bit, MSX, Yamaha, RISC OS, and Tandy"

Can I express that to people who think a volunteer project owes them anything & couldn't be arsed to implement the project's functionality themselves in the first place? Somehow I don't think that would be a constructive use f time.