skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this terminology actually causes harm we should see trans people and groups propose such a change, not an industry group looking for a PR opportunity.
How could you isolate such an effect? I'm sure the problem is linked to society as a whole -- the words only make sense because people relate them to genetalia.

People have done research by asking people what they think about such gendered terms, and people in the less represented gender (in whichever situation you are talking about) tend to dislike them.
The distributed ledger adds security, longevity, ownership, and provenance: eg. a token is purchased from an artist, and it can be held and traded (ie. "owned") for as many years as the blockchain continues to survive. Unlike the ownership of a file or record in a centralized database, which are mutable and based on a single source of trust, the blockchain acts as a social consensus mechanism, i.e. we can all agree that "wallet X owns digital token Y".

To your second point: much of today's art is not manifested by a single physical artefact. Conceptual art has been around for a long time; ownership of conceptual art is not new[1], but the advent of blockchain gives a new vehicle and distribution mechanism for it, in particular digital and software art.

[1] - https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-conceptual-art...
Someone who was involved with the early founding of that company has posted here before. It's as rotten as the cigarette companies. They're on a level bellow even consumer electronics OS vendors.
I've only had 2 hour build times when I was compiling a rust toolchain on an emulated ARM system running on x86.
Which is clearly a more useable syntax
Before investing in Robinhood or trusting with your money, read these documents
> with permission.

Most people barely understand the impact of their choices, that includes realising that all their (DNA) data will be logged forever if they ever let it touch the US. It is not reasonable to take this stance when the US tech company playbook has been to as obtusely as possible gain "permission" to do whatever they want.
While I agree that the compile times are bizarre, I don't think we can jump to conclusions such as "such astronomical compile times are rather a result of terrible code quality" without knowing more about what's being compiled and under what conditions it was being compiled!
Which is the less represented gender here?
Seems like this (a new way to extract copper from regions with active volcanoes) would make Michigan, a non-volcanic area suitable for traditional mining methods, less attractive for copper mining rather than more.
In the real world energy isn’t always fungible. The location of the energy can be an important factor in something’s overall efficiency.

If you need the end product at a particular location, the transport costs can overwhelm any differences in efficiency.

The same also applies if you have excess energy in a particular location that you want to use.

In either case, the transport costs can make using the less efficient process, the more energy efficient choice overall.
I like ideas like this but in my current situation this is simply kinda dumb[0]:

When I code anything for fun I don't even need to try it, I'm 100% sure I could use my 2004 laptop for this, it fits the specs except for too much ram and I played around with it as recently as last year.

When I need to visit certain websites that will make the poor computer nearly explode, it's not a challenge for me, it's simply a horrible experience waiting 3 minutes for your page to load (in Chrome, I tried it). Or I need to use lynx.

For work.. I think I might even get by with just needing to wait 5x as long for the compiles. I will get by with using vim and grep instead of IntelliJ. The real problem would be Outlook for the Web and Slack, not the code. (Maybe JIRA, not sure).

But, worst of all, the things I actually enjoy, playing certain video games, that's the only thing that dies right in the water, because they won't run.

So not sure if "challenge" is the correct word. Or my computing needs are simply not so high, most of the time.

[0]: Not sure how to phrase it better, I don't mean to disparage the idea, the author, or anyone doing that. I'm simply _very_ confident that I can predict what will happen for me exactly, on a case by case basis - so it doesn't sound fun to take part.
Netflix and tangping
You're saying it should be reactionary, that someone should get angry first. You're also making assumptions about the people pushing for this. Why not pre-empt it and save everyone a lot of headaches? You don't need to be a victim or to be offended to realize a problem and work on a fix. I mean I'm not affected or offended by your comment, yet here I am.
I assume it's looking at more than faces then? Gait, earlobes, etc.
I believe that question is also offensive to someone, somewhere, hence not allowed.
Does that actually matter?
I don't know enough about carbon capture to agree with the statement that it's directly proportional to land height. Even if it were, trying to calculate an inch of height difference through rotating cover crops and possible inches of snow at different points throughout the year seems infeasible at best.

Same for weighing - this sounds like an implementation nightmare. The cost of equipment and time to weigh every piece of vegetation grown (then the cost of developing the mathematical models to subtract out carbon emissions, possible loss of carbon sink, etc.) sounds wildly expensive for something easily gamed by any nontrustworthy farmer.

That said though, if you have a vision for this that would solve these problems, you could probably create an extremely successful startup with it. There's hundreds of millions of dollars in the market of carbon indulgences.
Exactly. The false dichotomy they bring forward anytime people mention the adverse health effects is really impossible to swallow.

There have always been products to battle nicotine addiction. They should compare this to those.
Google has been open about expanding beyond search to make more money from search.
Maybe less represented gender likes this terminology less because they understand it less(because they are less represented)

I'm just saying waving away the need for proving points before taking acion is doing more harm than good
I agree that vaping is far safer than smoking cigarettes.

> I'd like to see more studies in this area and some more regulations on the "juice" for vapes.

Remember the media chaos when the "vaping lung disease" was making the cycle? This was likely due to the juice they were using. It contained vitamin E acetate and was found primarily in THC vape juice. Normal e-cigs have standard VG/PG, nicotine and food grade flavoring. And that's it.

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/basic_information/e-cigarettes/s...
how?

male and female clearly described which goes where. if you interchange "plug" , I won't know which cable extender or plug or cable will I buy.
Saul Perlmutter is a Nobel Prize winning astrophysicist and has been talking about doing this.

https://twitter.com/ChrisG_NSF/status/1412845923521204237?re...
It's not though, it's generally reserved for the bedroom and private spaces.
When already decommissioned fossil power plants get reactivated to mine bitcoin, I think it's safe to say that a ban of cryptocurrencies would have a significant impact.
They have been, for decades. The response has always been "to succeed this kind of change needs to come from within the industry".
I don't think it's comparable. Firefox used to be very popular before Chrome. Linux has never had substantial marketshare. People switched away for a multitude of reasons but very few appear to have been using Firefox because of privacy concerns, only that it was better than IE. If privacy is the best pitch I have to convince the average user to use Firefox instead of Chrome, I'm at the limit of how much I can help Mozilla push their agenda.
Why not outright ban it?
Thanks so much for all your support and sharing your thoughts. It means a lot to me. :)
How does it show that when Edge+Firefox mobile usage share is <1% according to that data source?
Thew fact alone that sex is being put away as "ewwwww" shows where the real problem lies.
Now master and slave was already somewhat ridiculous discussion.
This discussion is really a flag waver, as there is no negative connotation with different sexes.
Usually written by self acclaimed experts.
Most rich governments are a lot more chill about dissent.
Not surprisingly, "software engineers" keep insisting that Casey is somehow wrong here without providing any tangible reason why. You can follow the saga on twitter: https://twitter.com/cmuratori

I find this whole thing pretty emblematic of some huge issues in modern development culture. People are confidently telling a seasoned, respected programmer who's had their hand in more code than most people have ever seen and who's been in the industry for longer than many of them have been alive that he doesn't know what he's talking about. That'd be ok really, if they could demonstrate their case, but of course none of them do.

The state of software these days is abysmal and it's because of attitudes like what Casey is dealing with being pervasive. We should be collectively ashamed as an industry, but we aren't, because this industry attracts the kind of condescending know-it-all who has no shame.
Colonial politics of UK has been kept alive even during XXI century: Northern Ireland, Gibraltar, etc. The issue here is that the people in UK has been "educated" in thinking that the British Empire was a good thing, instead of thinking what it was: "a brutal and slaving war-machine".

ed - ah, you're British? Gotcha.
Who is outraged and who is bullying in this case? It looks like the industry is being proactive and is pre-empting outrage. Using gendered terminology is unnecessary anyway, to the point where it becomes childish (giggle, boy plug goes into girl socket and you get sparks)
It's mainly a logistics problem; there's more than enough nitrogen in the Solar system.

We just need to solve the simple problem of moving it from the atmosphere of Venus to where we want it to be. ;)
At the scales we're talking about, even a halving or quartering of the population of any country with more than... 50 million people, won't mean that those nations will go extinct.

Plus, once there's an abundance of things (land, houses/apartments, etc.), numbers tend to move back up, or at least stabilize.
Compiling linkerd-proxy took me also north of an hour on an Intel 6850k. Most of the time was spent compiling dependencies though. I also compiled envoy proxy which also took more than an hour.

Subsequent rust builds for linkerd-proxy were quite fast. For envoy most time was spent in Bazel itself. Probably because I just did a Bazel build instead of specifying a more specific target.
Is the rat race making us all Depressed and Anxious?

Isn't this part of the overall understated minimalism movement?

Chop wood, carry water.
Volkswagen, BMW Fined $1B by EU for Pollution Cartel
I've had individuals in affected groups ask me why I was using particular words as far as 30 years back. (in that case, it was IDE).

It's not really my place to be asserting that it's not offensive or causing harm, when it costs very little to be less offensive and more precise.
Puritanism is back, baby!
Debian bullseye: changes in util-linux
Next up: AI cabling suggested to be sold in multi-packs only, so that you have spares if the first identifies differently to your requirement.

Note that we already have 'couplers' that allow 'mating' female-female or male-male cable ends, so I think any argument that it's homophobic language or whatever is on thin ground. Really the only valid (if I can call it that) argument against it is the author's 'eewwww', but.. really?
I usually fails at link time doesn't it?
absolutely agree. this feels like someone wants to do "something" but does actually nothing. this won't help or stop the abuse/hate/discrimination against women or trans (please dont hate me if i let someone out :()

purely a PR move.
>Although I'm a heavy Emacs user, I never understood why is magit so praised. IMHO, source control just doesn't belong to IDE.

Well, then there are two things you never understood, the second being that source control totally belongs to an IDE :)

>Why learn how to use git with Emacs/magit, vim, IntelliJ IDEA, Eclipse, Visual Studio / Code, ... when you can just master the official command line client and forget about the rest

(1) Because you don't want the mental switch.

(2) Because you get better and more immediate visibility (from changed file markers to inline diff).

(3) Because you can do things faster (e.g. right click a file and chose "show file history" or "compare with version...").

(4) Because you can use the same shortcuts, scripting, and other facilities you use elsewhere in the IDE to work with your SCM

(5) Because it has immensely better discoverability (cli discoverability being usually low, with git flags being much worse than the typical case).

and several more reasons besides...

Not to mention that the very same (non-)argument could be said against running your build from the IDE, for doing debug in the IDE ("just master GDB, etc."), for searching on the IDE ("just use grep"), and so on...
I’ve been exploring this as well with the same hardware stack. Any interest in collaborating? If so, hit me up with the info in my profile.
Why is male and female terminology bad here? Are we disputing that men have penises and women have vaginas? That doesn’t imply that you can’t have a sex change. Do trans people not generally convert their genitalia to match the destination sex?
In my experience (C++ dev at work) C++ generally feels slower than Rust.

Edit: I quickly realised, this might only because of Rust's—in my opinion—superior type system and tooling, so maybe it just requires less waiting for compilations than when working C++.

Edit 2: I've never actually measured Rust compilation times, but even for large-ish graphical codebases (wezterm, alacritty, bevy games) I've compiled from scratch, it felt noticeably faster even then.
Well sure our history is one of pathetic murderous species, with few exceptions. That doesn't make it anyhow being OK with what your/their ancestors did, does it.

Whataboutism about ancient civilizations does detract from current topic, Great Britain is the same place as 80 years ago, same government, same everything. Heck, almost the same queen. Same for France for example.

But sure you can try desperately to come up with excuses to avoid any responsibility and enjoy the riches your ancestors stole from poor folks. What do you think most western Europe has been doing for past 70 years?

It gets even better - out of guilt (at least 'officially'), they allow young smart folks from former enslaved colonies to study there with few restrictions compared to rest of population. Of course most will stay and not return. The poor place remains poor, but what do wealthy nations care, economy goes forward and demographic crisis is averted for another few years.
Samsung Internet and Opera are downstream users of Chromium. They do some work on the UI and sync but that's about it.

There are only 3 "more than a UI change" browsers with any significant usage share now, Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.
Is plug and socket any better? Aren’t you assigning binary signal processing roles to a spectrum? What if they want to identify simply as connectors?
The technology isn’t even close to dealing with the scale of the problem, but sadly that’s not the primary issue.

The US, China, India, Russia, etc are unwilling to pay for significantly accelerated reductions in CO2 emissions even when directly economically beneficial. Carbon capture isn’t free and frankly nobody is willing to pay for it.
Am I the only believing it should be a free market, where each company follows the strategy it prefers?

Let the market decide if repairability is desired or not. If customers really want it, certainly there will be companies offering it.

Much better to have millions voting with their money and purchases than a few bureaucrats deciding how they believe things should be.
> But with a lot of other cables there's a mix of inny bits and outy bits

If there's a mixture, is plug & socket any clearer?
I don't understand sinhala but if it is classified as Indo Aryan language and not Dravidian, then that is the reason.

There will be always be some influence and loanwords from neighbouring languages but comparative linguistics can tell origin / family of the language pretty accurately.
> beating the previous national high temperature mark by more than 4C in one go, as happened in Canada last week, is virtually unprecedented.

This event should be a warning call to all people who believe that a global warming of only 2 degrees Celsius will be barely noticeable.

One positive effect is that scientists have collected a lot of data that will help them improve climate models.
I personally am much more excited by “sliders” than the structure-aware diffs. Marking additions between [], it is the difference between e.g.

handle_case [some new
case over multiple lines
handle_case] some existing case

[ check_invariant();
}

function newFunc(){
...
] check_invariant();
}

And

[handle_case some
new case]
handle_case old case

[function newFunc(){
...
check_invariant();
}]
But how does calling something plug and socket make any difference to this. The assignment for some types is still ambiguous.
Compiling Servo, a web browser engine, takes 5-6 minutes for an optimized build from scratch on my 6C/12T machine. So no, 2 hour build times are not normal for all but the largest software projects.
"There is a Chinese citizen that is a very mediocre MMA fighter who goes around and challenges so called "grand masters" to show how full of BS they are."

This guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xu_Xiaodong
Teenagers vaping then switching to regular cigarettes is one of the big concerns.
... and girls are murdered (same in ie India)
Performing it is. Talking about it is not. At least not when I was a kid, unless you were from some really socially conservative family.
It isn't because of scale. Producing CO2 emissions is easy, capturing it will require an equal amount of capturing capacity. Unless we invent something that can scale up to capture 100% of current emissions (or even just 10%), reducing CO2 emissions will remain more economically viable.

The other problem is of course that if we can capture co2, the producers will just ramp up production. Compare with electricity production; if production goes up, cost goes down, consumption increases (because cheaper) and they will have to ramp production up again.
Well said:

"To put it more simply – neutral language is always better for technical terminology, because it’s clearer, more accessible to more people, and includes the people who provide the talent and skills that make industries and technologies work. End of story."
It’s not ironic that my response was pedantic, it was the entire point. When you engage in pedantic nerd sniping you just open yourself up for even more pedantic nerd sniping.

“Can’t” can mean impossible, or it can mean nobody can do it. Compare “you can’t go back in time” with “you can’t lift a horse”.
In Magit you can easily select arbitrary regions of code to stage (or chunks as you would via the command line). I haven't seen any git interface that is as intuitive for this task.
Bloomberg LP NY Is Hiring a Sr Software Engr for the Storage Engineering Team
I did hear they other day they're finally increasing the cost of emission rights whilst lowering the amount of emissions in the "quota". There's probably a lot of trickery and cheating happening in that area though, like Tesla selling its emissions rights for a billion dollar because they don't have emissions themselves.
Not really. Most of the women are observant Muslims (but not Taliban-level) in that society, even though the Koran doesn't directly speak to women, but they disagree with 2 practises: home imprisonment (extreme mate-guarding) and one-sided divorce court (women can't initiate a divorce, even if the husband is mentally ill or can't afford a family.)

It sounds like the Taliban are also doing forced marriages for widows and girls, which for the women affected means some will pick up a rifle to defend themselves.

Traditional Muslim life is that virgin women marry a provider for life, so divorce or being widowed is a catastrophe and the woman's normal life is basically over. So the option of getting killed while a widow is not seen as a bad thing. In addition, getting killed while waging jihad is the only certain path to heaven in Islam, so that has a strong draw too (well, for men. It's not clear how women go to heaven in Islam, if at all. Raw deal, ya?)

(The Muslim women who left England for this region found out the hard way what life in the 7th century was like for them. The ones interviewed said all their children died, and they were serially married off to soldiers. In some cases their British citizenship was revoked because the authorities don't know what they're dealing with or what ideology they follow after leaving the West.)
I found some other interesting ones in the linked Google website:

https://developers.google.com/style/inclusive-documentation
I'm French. I find cooking relaxing.
Plug/socket terminology is not necessarily the same as male/female terminology. The socket can be male, if it is the one with the metal pins. The power connector on the back of a PC is a good example.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_of_connectors_and_faste...

Of course, people aren't necessarily using the terminology completely correctly as it is.

And then there's the connectors on fancy RF equipment that can assume either role!
I have worked for 3 years on a project where it took a whole week to get the code compiled, signed by an external company and deployed to the device so that I could see the results.

I just learned to work without compiling for a long time. Over time my productivity increased and the number of bugs fell dramatically.

Working this way requires you to really think about what you are doing, which is always a good idea.

This was over a decade ago and now I work mostly on Java backends and I am happy that I typically spend days or even weeks without ever compiling the code and that it usually works the first time I run it.

I can't think how I could get back. It looks really strange to me to observe other developers constantly compiling and running their code just to see if it works. It kinda looks as if they did not exactly understand what they are doing because if they did, they would be confident the implementation works.

The only time when I actually run a lot of compile/execute iterations is when I actually don't know how something works. I typically do this to learn, and I typically use a separate toy project for this.
Bloomberg is hiring SRE – Security Infrastructure
Still better than a failed jet fighter. At least we will have working telescope. Even if all we get out of it are some photos for a wallpaper for PC. Still better value as something is better then nothing in this case.
I've been doing CSS in all kinds of flavors for over 20 years now. Tailwind is the first approach I've tried that's both enjoyable and maintainable.
There is no incentive to sell it as something to make you quit
Oh dear. The distinction between sex and gender again.

Back in the days of RS232, I owned a cable known as a "gender-bender". This was long before the days of Boy George. It was 8" long, and had a female DB-25 connector on each end. These things were also known as "eight-inch couplers", a term into which you could also read sexual connotations.
But this lacks the compact syntax of LINC. I don't think there is a real equivalent in other languages (I don't know F#).
The plug is part of the cable, the socket is part of the device. The geometry of the connector itself is irrelevant.