Funny you mentioned France. Japan won the world pastry competition held in France. The french came second.

How about that?

Thank you for explaining this. I was alawys amazed how the japanese would take the cuisine from other countries and make it better in all aspects than the country that originated it.

And people take pride in what they do, and try their best.

I saw a RedBull race and was impressed about the agility of the pilots.

But I like jets more because they go faster. And they have afterburners. And they go vertical faster than any propeller plane will ever be able to. And the margin of error is smaller. Espcially closer to the ground.

It is worth mentuoning though they do all that in trainer jets, not actual fighter jets. Which is not that cool. I would loved it more of they would fly actual fighters.

The other factor is showing how good you are: sure, you can do formation flying in an Extra 300 or a C150, but doing it in a fighter jet show precission and skill, because it will not forgive you as easy as a slower moving plane.

And to your point: we have banana republics for a reason.

And this is why you update often, to keep up with the programming language ecosystem too. I have seen way too many times software unmaintained for years and then when it was actually time to upgrade it would take much more time to bring it to current framework versions than it would have taken if it was updated regularly throughout the years.

And I was not referring to hobby projects you do at home.

The thing with government stuff is that no one is held accountable. Even people “fired” from doing a lousy job in a place will just be transfered to another department or another government agency. No one really gets fired fired. And when you know nothing happens to your job… there is no incentive to be good at it.

Out of curiosty: what is the point you’re trying to make? That there are alternatives to dnsmasq? That somehow your software is “better”?

This plug provides zero value to the dnsmasq discussion.

As others have pointed out: the more used a software is, the more scrutiny it gets and more bugs or edge cases are found.

Nowadays, even with Ubuntu’s two year or so release cycle I have to use 3rd party packages to have up to date software (PHP being one) and not some version from three years ago.

We no longer live in a world (with few exceptions) where running a 3-5 year old distribution (still supported) makes sense.

What is the point of having AI write code in, say, Rust if you have no clue about Rust and how to debug it?

While I'm 99% sure it is not true, it makes me sleep better at night. And giggle a little when it goes down.