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> I've deliberately avoided mentioning any specific heresies here.

Which, looking at the replies, is a mistake, because everyone projects the least charitable interpretation and/or assumes the article is dog-whistling.

The problem is that there are heresies and heresies, and conflating everything together isn't helpful.

To give one extreme of a "heresy": It's reasonable to not want to associate with someone if they're (in your perspective) ideologically reprehensible. In that sense, it was a bit aberrant that in the past most people would look the other way at stuff like racism and antisemitism in academia or the workplace ("none of my business," "not related to their professional skills," etc.)

But when other people think of "heresies" they might be talking about approving of a right-wing policy in a left-wing environment, or (moreso in the past) being labelled "communist," or taking contrary stances on things like wage equality.

So to reiterate my point, the article is flawed and can only lead to noisy nuance-less arguments until it spends more time defining "heresy."
Cancel culture strikes again
None of the competing thoughtcrime tribes seem to care about things like free thought, discourse, etc. This is the frightening part to me--people in the "other tribe" aren't worthy of things like due process, and authoritarian approaches are fine as long as they are aimed at the "other".

I know history repeats itself but wow, c'mon.. the 20th century wasn't that long ago.
I got an ipad pro recently and I was shocked there's not a swipe option for typing on the standard keyboard. After using the Google keyboard every day for years, not being able to type with one finger without lifting it after every letter feels like a huge step back. I feel like this is something where old physical keyboard conventions have persisted on mobile even though we have a proven better ux now. And for anyone who disagrees, tap away - but at least give me the option.
I think all research into it is dead after trying to use AI and they don't care that it's a little broken.

iOS was extremely behind Android for years by refusing to allow different keyboards, Swype closed down as a company, and Swiftkey stopped trying after Microsoft bought and integrated them.

It's definitely the fastest way to type English on a phone but companies seem to have extracted all money they can get from it and don't really care about the tech anymore.
Actually this is not a bad idea, but the required conversion might be a bit expensive. A better idea IMO would be to convert the first floor to an open-access showering / bathing / clothes washing / personal storage setup with attendants to cut down on people trying to use it as a heroin shooting gallery. Maybe put in a free veterinary clinic for those with homeless pets, hey maybe even a free medical clinic for humans too. Trying to set it up for people to sleep and live there, though, that would be a bit much.
Precisely my thoughts.

> In the late 1980s a new ideology of this type appeared in US universities

I don't think this was new. Liberality tends to go hand in hand with seeking reality, as discovering something and then adopting it requires intellectual big-tentism. Perhaps the author bemoans the rise of bureaucracy within the university, which has demonstrably increased?

My concern is that these arguments about moral puritanicalism aren't without merit, but that they are often ignore the cancerous alt-right, which is bereft of morality beyond racial nationalism. Perhaps the cancel culture creedal concern is considered to be salvageable.
I'm not sure Kanye West or Donald Trump would be considered poster-boys of good mental health...
Genuinely funny coming from the dude who insta-blocks anyone who even mildly disagrees with him about _anything_ on Twitter.
I get that global warming is an issue but I don’t think nuclear winter is our best option at this point
It's not "don't say gay", it's "don't subject, expect or mandate young kids to learn stuff about things like sexual orientation (or even gender identity) that they cannot possibly relate with prior to the biological changes of adolescence, and that are enough of a minefield for adults already. Leave this stuff to family and broader society for the time being."
well to be fair russia supported india in the war of 1971
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> Here's one: I don't believe that gender identity is a valid concept. Does that make for a hostile work environment or "deny the existence" of anyone? I submit to you that the answer is no, except for die-hard adherents of the new ideology. Well, that simply isn't my religion, and I resent attempts to force it on me.

Here's the question:

Are you tolerant of people who do? Or do you make the lives of those people (who viscerally feel their gender identity to be true) more difficult than those who share your belief?

The line is crossed with the latter.
What Has Happened to Jira?
A bank deposit is a debt, right?
Yup. It is conveniently one-side. I don't think it's by design, just accident. When you've concluded that there is a partisan problem, it takes a lot mental discipline (more than even some prominent technology figures have) to see it on both sides of an acrimonious divide. Nothing could be more cancel-culture than ethnic nationalism and efforts to disenfranchise large groups of persons.

Who even came up with the phrase cancel culture to begin with? When? Why does it rhyme and is a just a few syllables? Why doesn't anyone who creates and pushes these slogan/memes and what their motivation is?
I use Joplin with Hetzners storage box service to keep my notes in sync.
Actually, I’m describing peoples misconceptions and fears to any process that penetrates deep below ground for resources (energy included). The general public will always be bringing up perceived or real dangers to drilling that deep (as they should, there is a lot of dangerous chemicals and radioactive materials that come from large well bores).
By this logic, we should also stop allowing passenger cars on the freeways between those cities, and let shipping companies pay for road maintenance if they care.
It’s pretty insane. Notice any comment which is against witch hunt culture is being downvoted. The tech industry is fairly heavily ideologically captured because of where startup culture is largely based (SF).

Edit: and now it’s flagged.
even round knobs aren't safe. i had a pair that would work together: one jumping to turn the knob while the other stuck their paw under the door and pulled.
That's a bad faith argument. He isn't complaining being shunned out of some culture, he is talking about people losing their job, people losing access to platforms that contain lots of people who want to listen to them.
Thank you!

So far the project hasn't cost anything directly financial, just my time which I intend to keep putting into the project because I enjoy it :). I use pyinfra day to day and it's great to see others getting use out of it!

There's a small but growing list of excellent contributors who really help drive things along and I'd love to grow that. A lot of time I put into the project recently and going onward is more around documentation and community to help with this.

I suppose another thing to note here is at it's core pyinfra is a pretty small codebase that doesn't require massive (time/money) effort to work on. The majority of code is in the operations themselves which I don't foresee expanding much (in favor of 3rd party packages).

Hope this provides some detail!
Yes, it does. You don't get to decide for other people who or what they are.
And bonus, if they can't find new work Elon's got them covered with sweet new diggs.
Lol no. I don't know what it is with the fear porn over nukes. If you're more than 8 miles from the city that gets nuked you just have to stay inside for a week and you'll survive with a slightly higher chance of getting cancer. Your windows will probably get blown out and you'll have to tape trash bags over them but keep in mind that's a sonic effect; the wavefront from the blast is what causes it, not actual material from the site which takes much longer to propagate. Fallout particles are large and only suspend, not dissolved, in the air. So all you have to do to avoid it is stay inside and wait for the low half life radioisotopes to decay.

Given the awful state of most US cities a nuclear war could arguably improve the US.
> The clearest evidence of this [that some x-ist statements may be true] is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth doesn't work that way. The same statement can't be true when one person says it, but x-ist, and therefore false, when another person does.

The argument doesn't support it's conclusion: it _could_ be that all potentially x-ist statements are false, but they are only x-ist when certain people say them. In other words, whether they are x-ist depends on who says them, but they may still be all false (regardless of who says them).
That's fine. You are welcome to believe that.

What you can't do is harass people, deny them service, or make their lives a misery.

No one is forcing you to believe in something. They're asking you not to be an arsehole about something which doesn't affect your life.
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This was genuinely immersive and terrifying as a 13-14 year old. I think this game seeded my interest in graphics technology. Delightful to read about it now.
GitHub Copilot and Childlike Wonder
I feel like a pariah sometimes in those discussions.

I agree with PG in that I'm also not too happy with the "only X can be x-ist", but on the other hand I'm also not a conspiracy nut that talks non-stop about "critical race theory". I'm also not free speech absolutist, as I'm ok with things like European law criminalizing Nazism or glorification of genocide.

I feel like I'm constantly against three very radical groups, and there's nobody representing me.

I'm tired of radicalism coming from three different directions.
And of course the manager or whoever is replacing him. But as people have said I don't know how a junior could delay the project by a month in any sane company, isn't the code reviewed? Don't they have some kind of process for changes?
> what life has been like for most people, for most of history

Aren't most people in the majority, in whatever metric is under consideration, by definition? Which tends to be the in-group in democracies?
In America, people are paying to buy Ring and Nest cameras to further the privately built surveillance state. The best part is that the most common reason for doing so is package theft, but police won't really do anything about your stolen Amazon package, so what do cameras really facilitate?
I'm not an expert on Pakistan and I'm generalizing. Generalization is necessary to say anything including "the US shouldn't be training African armies" (something I agree with). As I said in my previous post, Pakistan may not fit the pattern but plenty of other Muslim countries do.

I recognize your claim that Zia, a military dictator, was the source of Pakistani Islamism. I would ask you (I don't know, I'm genuinely interested): in Pakistan, today, is the military more or less Islamist than the populace?

> Like which ones? Most of them try to co-opt Islam as way to bolster their legitimacy. And they crackdown on any movement they see as a threat to their power, Islamic or otherwise.

I agree with your description: these countries "co-opt Islam as way to bolster their legitimacy". My point is that they are less religious than the populace. They execute actual Islamists who are a threat to their power.
They could always try to revisit synthetic fuel methodology as there’s a long history of that in Europe. Can try novel technology, conservation or throwing money at the marketplace. Europe rebuilt from devastation a few times over the last century. I suspect they can deal with energy cost.
For those that do find these useful, do you have a mental image? The "close your eyes and focus your attention on something" just falls very flat for me. I did have a decent experience with counting things. Breaths, steps, pedals, stairs, etc. That said, I don't really think I can claim any lasting improvement from anything. (Besides the exercise...)
It's always the company's fault: either they didn't vet the candidate for good culture match, or they didn't provide a good Jr. Ramp up plan (being a jr dev remotely is extremely though), they didn't provide clear/firm enough ongoing feedback and as you said, they didn't provide the right expectations.

For a Jr remote SWE position, I would expect heavy pair programming the 3 first months.
> I see it as the drives violating the at that time current ATA spec.

How are they violating the spec if

> It just didn't describe how to transfer a double word.

The standard was vague, because it specified (a) there is a double-word value, and (b) communication goes over a single-word data bus, but not (c) how to transfer the double-word value over the single-word data bus, leading to drive manufacturers pick the way they liked the most.
> Minor thing but

You might be over-interpreting the phrase.

Novelty drives "news", including here on HN. Every now and then you see a post to a generic product page. Usually after a big release. And the inevitable comment is "what about it? I've been using it for years".

So naturally we see more articles about new-ish or lesser-known modifications to core tools. E.g. zsh. An article about Oh-My-Zsh would even attract the eyerolls because it's so popular and well-known among the commentariat here.

I speculate that GP was saying "Is it just me, or are others pretty happy with the original that does not merit a post here? Am I missing something awesome from the novelty bucket?"

If GP was not saying that, then I will!

I've run zsh and vim and tmux for ... very very long times, though obviously varying between tools.

In all cases, I run them with largely stock config, only minor changes and customization. Vim has a dozen lines of config plus a few custom file formats, tmux gets a hundred lines or so of config, zsh gets functions and aliases. That's about it.

I check out all the novel bits, sometimes even test them. But I always come back to stock with my minor config.

So yes, stock zsh is 100% adequate for intensive daily use. Some people put spoilers and pinstripes on their cars. I do not.
> Who is holding that stance?

The one who was willing to risk nuclear war for Russian actions, it's above in this comment thread. I am making pretty reasonable guess that the same person was not wanting nuclear war over similar actions of US.
Thousands of new viruses discovered in the ocean
Hang on, when did anyone in this thread say they were not against bombing innocents? You’re making rather bold assumptions here.
This was exactly me and my girlfriend at the time (still good friends today). We were obsessed with the game, we both beat it several times then explored the world of custom missions. I think our mutual favorite was "Hush Hush, Sweet Harlot".

Years after we broke up we remained friends, and one day she called me asking for help getting it to run on her then-new Windows Vista PC. I never could get it to work correctly so I cobbled together a working PIII era machine for her with Windows 2000 installed, and period correct GPU, and she was in sneaking heaven!

These days the GOG version plays perfectly well on modern hardware and OSes, no need for hacks or period hardware anymore.
> Can a statement be x-ist, for whatever value of x, and also true? If the answer is yes, then they're admitting to banning the truth

I disagree. The statement “very few women are capable of running a Fortune 500 company effectively” is factually true, but implicitly sexist (very few men are capable either).

By banning those sorts of statements you’re not banning the truth, you’re just quieting assholes.
I think Graham's essay conflates two phenomenon when he describes heresy as thought that people equate to a crime. In fairness to him, societies have conflated them also. But if we're talking about modern American society, they are fundamentally different but can smell the same to somebody who doesn't see the distinction.

A heresy is a position that damages trust. When someone publicly espouses a heretical position, they damage other people's trust in them to make good decisions and have good judgment. Now, you can also breach trust via committing a crime, so the overlap is clear. But nobody is going to jail for their heretical opinions. They can have privileges revoked or be passed over for promotion or advancement, but that's how organizing people to do hard things has always worked. Somebody who says women don't belong in space is going to end up as unqualified to be director of NASA as somebody who fundamentally and with great conviction mis-states the tyranny of the rocket equation. Both mark the person as a poor fit for a high-trust job were there opinion on those topics matters.

And people who believe themselves against "canceling" seem to often be in agreement even if they don't realize it of themselves. A talk was famously pulled from a security conference several years back because after the talk, people concluded that the speaker didn't know what they were talking about. The difference in opinion is on what constitutes a breach of trust, not on whether people can respond to such breaches by routing around other people.
It would require a careful voting power analysis, but his level of share ownership may already make him the defacto owner of twitter. Certainly he isn't that far from it already and could get there if he wanted to.
headspace helped with my insomnia immensely.
IPv4 exhaustion is still probable to happen at some point
Yeah I know Rhide! I didn't know it was still maintained, I thought it was deprecated in 2002.

It used to peg my cpu to 100% though back in the day when I used it. Hope they fixed that.

But I'd love something more modern.
Do you really think that young kids don't notice their parents affection for each other? Or that their older sibling is dating someone? Or that people get pregnant?
People allegedly don't make as much as they did last year so they pull off a multi million dollar theft of public infrastructure?
Modern airport security is fatal for overland airline flights of short durations. An hour by train? You could drive or train that in the time between when you're told you should be at the airport to the time the plane actually takes off
The "mixed" set of problems on ChessTempo is an excellent problem set with a large fraction being defensive. ChessTempo has some of the most interesting/instructive problems, and the community commentary on each problem (viewable after you fail or complete a problem) is priceless.
Even those weapons that are "given away" are first purchased by USA taxpayers. This whole dynamic was observed long ago by Eisenhower. Probably he could have done something to resist it, but puppets like Trump and Biden have very little say in the matter. The most they can do is pick among options when TPTB suffer from a lack of unanimity: see our pathetic withdrawal from Afghanistan. The last guy who really stood up to this, got shot in Dallas.

A stable prospering Ukraine is of no more value to the actual decision makers than a stable prospering DR Congo.
It does not really matter what your stance on that topic is. If your co-workers don't what to be called a certain way, just respect that. E.g. I don't want to be called by my full first name but rather a short version of it. If you deliberately disrespect my request that is simply hostile.
>Thief and Descent were pretty challenging compared to quake.

Well, after John Romero left id software in an disgruntled way during the development of Quake, id became creatively bankrupt, and their games were just tech demos for John Carmack's latest cutting edge 3D engine, wrapped in a half-baked "whatever, this is gonna sell" storyline and gameplay.
So, your new colleague says their name is Richard. You decide it’s hilarious to call him “dick” and refuse to stop even after he’s asked you multiple times.

Pronouns aren’t any different - if you had a masculine looking female coworker at work - say she was into bodybuilding - and you keeping calling her “he” as a “joke”… persisting when you were asked not to, by your boss, by hr perhaps even. What kind of person are you being here?

You can not believe in gender identity, I don’t care. But be respectful to your colleagues at work. Is that so much to ask for? To literally not be as asshole? Is that what you’re defending - your right to be a flaming asshole to your coworkers without any consequence??
Thanks, I've never even looked at emacs to be honest. I'll give it a try.
“Heresy” is not when you purposefully say things which make some other group a less human.
We as a society kinda decided that is wrong. But there some people who do not think that is wrong and they call it “heresy”.
You condemn “both sides” but the fact of the matter is that large groups of human being suck. It’s impossible to maintain any kind of nuance or individual compassion at scale. So, yeah not just both sides, all sides.

If you think there’s some large group of people that all wear white hats and aren’t being shitty or ruining anyone’s life, you are being willfully blind.

Furthermore, when you engage in this whataboutism garbage (“what’s always interesting to me”, yeah I’m sure it’s fascinating) when someone tries to point out something your “team” is doing wrong, you are part of the problem.

Yes, Trumpists suck—-that means everyone else should get a free pass? By that token shouldn’t Trumpists get a free pass because Putin is out there committing atrocities?
The missing component not mentioned in PGs essay is the acceleration and amplification of cancel culture via the Internet.

Even a decade ago, tribes were geographically local. Today, your tribe is literally global. It knows no borders. Thus social media amplifies the effect of cancel culture and "same think".
Your supposition that it does not make for a hostile work environment is a privilege you should examine.
The teachers can’t address why someone in the class has two dads without risk of being sued. Heck the wording is vague enough you might not discuss marriage.

The ambiguity in the law is there as a feature to hush normal conversations that might otherwise happen.
> Before I get into it, I want to recognize how privileged this whole story is, and that myself 15y ago would laugh at how much this reeks of 1st world problems.

I think it’s stupid that in the current environment you must apologize for your perceived location in some sort of privilege hierarchy in order to lament a (perhaps) universal experience for humans: where am I going? Why? What does it mean?

Not your fault (and not an answer, other than to say “yes, I too have wondered where I am going, what I should work on, what I should do with my life”), just the way of things I suppose.
This essay would have been more useful had it included a treatment of actual Catholic heresy accusations and trials. I could give my own account of how I understand it, but I would have liked to have heard PGs characterization.

Instead we're stuck with an modernist take ungrounded in history.
This is pure bigotry. Allowing children to know that gay people exist is not grooming. It isn't even close to grooming. Knowing that two men or two women can be married isn't grooming.