I use Ubuntu at work. No issues with it.

If C is so great, why do you have to hack in garbage collection?

I bought some of the Star Trek branded wines a few years back. They were unremarkable.

This just blew my mind. I had always assumed Java was older. I started writing hobby projects in Java in the 90s. I don’t think I heard about Python until the early 2000s.

I use Chewy. They were able to verify the prescription with my vet and I can reorder as needed.

I find it difficult to believe that breaking down steel to be 3d printed into large structures for a bridge is faster or more energy efficient than casting the parts instead.

Why is half this article about population decline? The writing also seems weird in places. AI generated, maybe?

“why” is a perfectly valid question to ask

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem

… it would sync overwriting the currently deployed version in qa. I obviously don’t want this.

Then don’t allow the deployed software to be overwritten while tests are running? Your test environment should be treated as a singleton. Your CI system shouldn’t be able to affect the deployment while it’s being used.