I suppose you get into astronomy because you're interested in outer space. Your question is like asking a soil scientist about something you found on a pavement.

There's a mild hybrid Qashqai. A friend of mine hired one and drove it into a bus.

This thread is some deadpan comedy gold.

The traditional approach in Java has been to let those things happen in third party space, then form an expert group to standardise a shared API for them. That was done with XML parsers and ORM fairly successfully. It doesn't always work, as with your examples - there was an attempt with logging, but it was done badly, JSR-305 ran around, etc. But I think it's a much better approach than the JDK maintainers trying to get it right first time.

A skilled programmer can write APL in any language.

You don't have a refrigerator or freezer?

Intelligence is knowing how to talk to anyone. Wisdom is knowing not to.

Humans are social creatures. We need socialization. It also helps keep us sharp mentally.

You also never know what you might experience from talking to someone. You may make a life-long friend. Or learn about something you didn't know.

It doesn't mean blab about things you shouldn't, being insensitive, etc - but isolation is not the answer.

Mercurial has serial numbers which work like this ("revision numbers"), but you can only see your local repo's serial number. There's no concept of a public revision number authority.

Microsoft Visual SourceSafe worked like this, but badly.

Or just rocking up to the nearest village with a thousand dollars in cash and asking where the pilot is.

What? He completely misses Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. Luckily that's pretty straightforward: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41v3L0zCkNY