I followed the inquiry when it was ongoing — all of the depositions were live on YouTube. The level of both hubris and incompetence involved in that case was breathtaking.

(Nearly) everybody does, it's not an American thing. It takes a bit of personal discipline to avoid it.

The idea is that it slices the Amen Break into however many slices you specify, and the list being sorted is the indices for those slices. At each step, it plays the slice the pivot is being compared to.

Because it only plays the samples being compared, it never plays the sorted chunks, so it's missing a "punchline" of sorts.

There's a bazillion ways to discuss a topic that don't involve giving advice with unearned confidence. Even just saying "My experience is that doing X helped" instead of "You should do X" is a massive massive difference.

> e.g. the mantra of 'upstream early; upstream often'

This is the gold standard, sure. In practice, you end up maintaining a branch simply because upstream isn't merging your changes on your timescale, or because you don't quite match their design — this is completely reasonable on both sides, because they have different priorities.