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What in the hell are you talking about? A society that does reasonable things to difficulties that some people have through no fault of their own is a healthy one. It’s all a question of balance and one could argue that colleges have got that balance very wrong, but they’ve always been places with more intense politics than the rest of society. People leave university and get more life experience and hopefully mature a bit, thankfully. This is how it’s always been.

If you want to know where I, a mental cunt with ADHD strikes the balance, regarding this list, some of the words make sense as their current meaning is pejorative and derogatory e.g. “cripple”, however some are simply a statement of fact and thus ridiculous e.g. “addict”.

Personally I think I have thicker skin than most and whilst it would be great if everyone was at that stage we have to extend some level of compassion, not just out of altruism but also because how using certain language affects how we ourselves are portrayed and received when trying to achieve a goal with our words.
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Sometimes someone wants to push a mistake they made under the rug and in doing so they will throw your efforts under it as well. I'll solve your problem, but I'm doing it loud enough that your boss will be aware of the mistake as well. (unless you have gone to bat for me previously, generic manager with the 2.5% annual raise is going to be deaf with how loudly I solve his problem)
>I switched because it felt way to heavy for porting scripts and small applications to constrained devices like a Raspberry Pi.

Agreed. I like docker images for smallish portable scripts. At home I can develop on my Mac and port it to a Raspberry PI or another x86 Windows/Linux box.

Planning on running a docker swarm with a few Pi’s to see how it works.
Those things are nice, but individually they each only have an expected value of maybe a couple of extra years of living time. Contrast that to curing ageing that would put that number in the hundreds or thousands.
Australia doesn’t either. But there will be a green straight-ahead signal that allows a turn through a crossing, or a red arrow that extinguishes. In pedestrian heavy areas these usually happen when the pedestrian light changes from green (cross) to flashing red (complete crossing). Therefore cars can travel through the crossing while pedestrians are still crossing, but the pedestrians get a head start.
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> "Speak for yourself"

Whom do you think I am speaking for?

> "please don't confuse that for a good argument for the death of others with a different perspective."

"I want everything" is a youthful perspective that adults grow out of by gaining things and realising that drowning in endless things isn't happiness, it's a hoarding disorder. People with a PetaByte storage array of media aren't the happiest film watchers on the planet, people with a garage full of Lamborghinis aren't the best drivers or the happiest people, Billionaires aren't satisfied with 'enough' money. Indeed, the opposite as one anecdote in this thread commented - a child with nothing who gets an orange is happy; a child with 9 consoles who gets a 10th console and wants an 11th, isn't happy. Saying "I want 1000000 consoles" seems more cringeworthy than convincing. "I want a career" "I want ten careers!" "I want a pony" "I want a hundred lifetimes of pony ownership!". "I want to master an instrument" "I want to master infinity instruments!". Ok mr oneupper. But it makes no difference whether "you" lived all those lives you can't remember, or someone else did. No difference at all. In fact, you may as well assume that other people are you, and their lives are ones you lived and can no longer remember. Everything becomes much simpler and it makes just as much sense.

> "I don't think longevity advocates generally want to prevent suicide or force people to live forever if they don't want to."

I suspect they are against suicide; why would someone who promotes longevity so much also be pro-dying-early? I also suspect one of the reasons our societies are against suicide is because workers can't be allowed an easy escape from their suffering. The kind of people who are in favour of working infinity lifetimes of careers are probably in the upper/white collar classes if they see that as a good thing; to a huge amount of the world, retirement is the carrot dangled ahead of them and dozens of lifetimes of work would be a pretty bad thing.
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In Dutch I would say 'zeurkous' (literally translated 'whiny stocking') meaning something like 'grouch'
"quasi-principled interest".

That's not even near that. It's all been hypocritical through the through. "Free speech" is "me speech".

The man doesn't even know about Section 230 and referred to Twitter as a "publisher". He is completely clueless as to what it is that he bought for $44 billion. Most of us spend more due diligence buying a coffee grinder.
In Germany we had a lot of migrant workers from Turkey after the war. The lack of diversity in immigrant populations is still causing problems today. Because there were so many immigrants from the same place, a lot didn't learn German properly because they have enough of their own people to talk to. A parallel society formed. In the big cities you have 3rd and 4th generation children that still don't speak German properly, but probably also don't speak Turkish properly. Of course these youths don't feel at home here, don't get good jobs, and are overrepresented in crime statistics.

This causes problems even for skilled immigrants from Turkey today, since the stereotypes that manifested from this are applied to them as well.

On the other hand I do understand the individual issue here though. It is a bit unfair to never have a proper foothold in the country that asked you to be there. I think it would be better to limit the H1Bs more by the same country of origin metric, so that people aren't given hope only to crush it later on. And there should be a way to get a green card for those that are already here for 5+ years. It's inhumane to never allow them in properly after they spent so much time building a life in the US.
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Just FYI, it's per se, not per say. Cheers
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To me, it sounds like Musk is miffed that The Ronald McDonald hasn't returned yet to stir up activity, so he's trying to do it himself.

What a total doorknob that man is.
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I don't understand why people are against this so much. Black does a sanity check and compares the AST before and after to make sure there aren't any meaningful changes (unless you are running it with --fast). So there is almost no risk that it will break your code.

There is nothing more frustrating than coming back from a coffee break only to find out that you have to rerun your CI check because of a trivial formatting issue.
I'm a regular city cyclist. Most of the time, you won't need a helmet. But on the very low number of occasions you do need one, they will save your life. It's worth wearing one just for these occasions.

I've come off my bike unexpectedly twice. One at low speed, one at higher speed (~30mph). Both were due to diesel spills on a wet road surface which were not visible. In both cases the loss of traction on a corner or lane change meant an immediate slip and contact with the road surface, and due to the momentum carrying your body forward, that does mean your head smashing into the road just after your arm causing your body to rotate on impact. I walked away with a fractured finger and a grazed chin. Without the helmet I'd have either died or had a severe head injury.

I've unfortunately known several friends and acquaintances who either died immediately or who died after coming out of comas after having accidents while not wearing a helmet. It's these events which have caused me to always wear one, and they have saved my life on a few occasions. While cars have sometimes been involved, mostly these events occurred without the involvement of any other vehicle (other than people selfishly brimming their tanks while filling up, only to have it spill out on corners). People have even got brain damage falling sideways off their bikes while stationary. Wearing a helmet, for me, has been something I will always do after seeing the consequences of not wearing one.
You said that, as someone living in the UK, the term "scold" has never in your life been used, ever, as "imply[ing] a woman".

Well, the page I linked to describes the Scold's Bridal, and links to a modern day crime novel of the same name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scold%27s_Bridle

The use in the article referenced by OP you responded to, ie. "censurious left-wing scolds" was definitely using it in this sense.
Everyone hopes that another, better, entrepeneur will come and save them, when they only can save themselves.
Honestly this area is so frustrating technologically.

MacOS has easily the best Audio subsystem across MacOS & Windows.

In Linux we have JACK, which is as good as MacOS (if not better honestly).

But then Linux suffers from having very little commercial support and worse than that, a lot of problems with hardware video encoding.

Windows doesn't have any problems encoding video, but it has a terrible filesystem (which is forced on you) that causes problems for the insanely large files that you must work with on video production and in addition: the audio subsystem is the worst of all three platforms.

Linux could be a contender, if someone threw $100M USD at the problem, but getting adoption for a linux solution would be hard because the Apple stuff works "fine" and movie productions are more time constrained than cost constrained.
I never said anything about the list, I said your argument could be better.

I really wish people would address the content of a discussion instead of what they want to be discussing.

I don't know what laws you are talking about because do not define them, nor your locality.

Regardless, there is a 'for instance' in my reply, and you addressed that specific notion instead of the core.
I'd say that owning Twitter might give you more power than being POTUS. But also, being a multi-billionaire gives you more power than the "average" POTUS.
This list was bound to mix reasonable proposals with wild ones. So that when you point out the wild ones, you can be told "hey, but what about this very reasonable thing?".
I down vote anyone that whines about down voting. It’s worthless and makes the comment worthless and deserving of no respect. Zero tolerance.

You whined about down votes. Your comment is worthless and deserves no respect. That I’m telling you this is more than it deserves.

There, used my words
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> This is what's known in the sports world as "flopping" - feigning an injury to elicit a penalty on the other team.

Nitpick, there are two kinds of "flopping" in sports, which you can both observe e.g. in soccer.

One is to simulate a made-up foul as you say, basically trying to mislead the referee into giving an unjustified penalty. This is clearly illegal and constitutes a foul itself.

However, often players flop to highlight fouls that actually happened but were so subtle or hard to see that the referee missed them.

The results are still ridiculous - Ronaldo rolling in pain on the grass because the other player had briefly pulled his jersey - but the greater strategy here is valid: If small, subtle fouls went unpunished, they'd be an easy way to gain an unfair advantage for your team. So the game would very quickly turn into a contest of how to hide fouls best from the referee. By highlighting fouls to a ridiculous degree, players are counteracting this.
Mate, no one (with a brain) gives a s about Hunter Biden and his laptop.
Move fast and break things and all that jazz is fine and something I subscribe to myself to some extent. But preventing people from linking to other social networks or several of the other "initiatives" Twitter has taken these last few days do not appear to me to be new features being tested, but the whims of Elon, being carried out in realtime.

I used to have a great deal of respect for the man and that has not completely vanished. I think that he has created real results that he deserves credit for. But his actions these last few weeks do not look like those of a strategic, forward thinking leader but rather like impulsive reactions to a self-inflicted chaos.
Twitter is a medium but it doesn't control any narrative. He needs the writers to create it.

It is wild exaggeration to compare it with being President
Not bleeding across "all that much" might well be true, though I disagree since it's kinda the whole strength of the human brain applying learning from one area to another, that's why we're more intelligent than animals and have been more adaptable to new problems. You're also thinking about this in terms of conscious decision making when in our day to day lives we rarely sit down with an open mind and properly think about things.

But even if it is not all that much, it's still there. A million people having a 1% shift in their views due to language adds up. That's why we're seeing groups of individuals who aren't racist/sexist somehow reach answers that statistically do appear to be.

The specifics of which uses are neutral or not is the next debate. Step 1 is acknowledging that language is something that feeds into the "nurture" side of how we think, especially since language is such a large part of our learning during early brain development. With that in mind, it's something that should be debated and selection of words should be considered.
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I imagine whoever came up with this list had no such issues as a child.

If they did, they would know the list is more harmful than good.

Evidence? The content I am replying to.
The report is by Slaughter & May, one of the more delightful company names in the City of London.

My understanding was that they’re a law firm, perhaps they’ve also branched into IT consultancy?
This guy's shtick has always been "I am a shithead", it's funny to see people disappointed that they found out he's a shithead.
While I’d also describe them as hit pieces or at least biased they are more than conjecture. Considerable sums of money being pulled out of Binance and the lack of legitimate audit are real concerns that should and are spooking investors.
The act of always complaining or otherwise being difficult is often called being cantankerous, though there isn't a direct noun for that.

There are a few words that might fit what you are looking for, of which I think the best is “curmudgeon”, and for lexical flexibility you can act curmudgeonly or be curmudgeonous. I'm not sure that curmudgeonous is a “real” word, spellcheckers refuse it and I rarely if ever see it elsewhere, but I like it as it essentially means the same as cantankerous but with less of a sharp edge - the difference between just naturally being difficult (curmudgeonous) and actively trying to be difficult (cantankerous).

Both are often associated with older people more than younger, though in the fast moving world of tech you don't have to be very old to appear to have ancient views!
> The US is <<full>> of defensive behavior, if you look at it as an outsider.

Yeah. Like people getting sued for swimming pools because parents can't be bothered to teach their kids how to swim or to not go on private property unauthorized, or people being forced to file lawsuits against close relatives because they have no other way of recouping healthcare expenses... so many of the horror stories we Europeans read from across the pond leave us with a plain "WTF, are these guys nuts?" feeling.
The timing is poor as well, he made the plea for the one time purchase users to convert to subscriptions then seriously defocused on the service, leaving the people who did convert feeling sour about it.
According to a comment in the Chromium issue, it can be configured/stripped down quite a bit:

> While it's true that a kitchen-sink version of libzstd does weigh in at 1.5MB, the build is easily configurable and much of that can be shed. If Chromium is just going to ship the decoder, a full build of the decoder is 212kB (162kB stripped, 71kB gzipped). A size-optimized version of that is 99kB (62kB stripped, 26kB gzipped). As of recently, we had someone from the busybox project working to strip that down even more, so we very well may be able to improve further on those numbers.

While still larger than 4K, it does seem possible to make much smaller builds.
It’s great for what it does. You might be surprised at how your bank and accountant get stuff done.
And here

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1786712

This is sort of a ridiculous bug, tbh. What rationale could this be "currently by design"?
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>, I had no idea they had a program called "secret scanning" and that it's actually beneficial.

Fyi... this feature was also previously mentioned in the news for public repos:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/github-brings-free-secret-...

>So I obviously assumed they're letting China scan my private repos.

To clarify, it's Microsoft/Github doing the scanning of private repos on behalf of the partners. They're just forwarding the tokens that match the partners' regexp.
I use pip-tools to build a requirements.txt file from a requirements.in file. It does basically the same as poetry, but more manually. For me that's good because one of the application has a lot of requirements, and it needs to be deployed on systems with different Python versions, and the requirements need to be packaged along with the application because the servers have very limited internet access. So as long as Poetry doesn't add good support for multiple python versions and/or easy packaging of all dependencies, it isn't worth it for me to do the migration.
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Since we can now concede that no notable technical difficulties have occurred (despite predictions) and the World Cup was the most popular heretofore (despite predictions) nobody can reasonably claim that twitter policies about staffing, content, or otherwise have as of yet materially hampered anything other than the moods of the doomsayers.

Aforementioned doomsayers, here, and in the press like the posted opinion piece, are really the only ones making substantial claims. And when those prognostications don't manifest they seem to seethe and double down. Curios behavior.
> such as moving everyone over in one go.

It's the core banking system of a big bank. Handling consistent state between the old and new systems while progressively migrating customers would probably have been extremely complex. They also get to have a maintenance window (few people will complain if they get warned their bank and all transactions won't work for 2 hours in the middle of the night on Monday). A "big bang" migration makes more sense, if everything is properly prepared and tested, which it wasn't.
> But that doesn’t work with the brain the electricity [...] are you.

Source? How do you know it's not just the neurons?
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Why do people worry about China so much? There is barely any cooperation between Chinese intelligence and the rest of the world.

If I was forced to pick one government to share my secrets with, it would be the Chinese, because there's nothing they can do about it. My own government and its allies is infinitely more dangerous to me than such a foreign one.
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Here's one of many such egregious examples:

> committed suicide
> died by suicide
> Ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with mental health conditions.

I had a friend commit suicide, and one of my mum's colleagues - also an acquiantance of mine, who I'd chat with in the pub semi-regularly - also committed suicide many years ago. I've suffered with depression for much of my life since my teenage years (undiagnosed until I was well into my twenties), and I have a close family member who's spent maybe a quarter of their life over the last 20 years institutionalised, with much of the rest of the time in close contact with mental health authorities. I've had many friends and colleagues over the years who've suffered with mental health issues.

But apparently "committed suicide" is "ableist language that trivializes the experiences of people living with mental health conditions."

No.

It isn't.

It is a brutal term that aptly captures the daily visceral struggle of both those with mental health issues who are battling suicidal thoughts, and those who are left behind after a friend or relative does commit suicide. It very well captures the trauma and impact of such an event. It also avoids the final indignity of stripping the unwell person of their agency, and therefore their humanity. It is 100% certified appropriate (were such a certification to exist).

The only thing harmful about this list is that it exists and that somebody, or some group, got paid actual money (presumably as part of their day job) to compile it. In 200 years time, if somebody authors a book called, "The hideous and shameful annals of bullshit jobs in the early 21st Century" I have no doubt at all that this will rank very highly.

Let's call this list what it is: thought policing. Whoever is behind it sits somewhere on the same spectrum as the real world Morality Police of Iran, or the fictional Thought Police (and the Ministry of Truth, who control language - and in particular are replacing it with Newspeak) in George Orwell's 1984.

The word toxic has become heavily overused, but this list is an absolute examplar of it: it is a product of deeply warped and corrupted thinking. Some terms on the list (which I don't think need repeating here - racial slurs, and the like) are considered pretty universally offensive but that does not justify the presence of the rest.

Overall what we have is a pretty transparent and unsophisticated attempt to control people by those too stupid to understand the negative impacts of their actions on wider society.

I would have hoped for a lot better from an institution such as Stanford with a rich history of valuable contributions (including to hacker culture).
I didn’t know that. Thank you for clarifying.
As long as your guy wins, right?
> is it someone/something that simulates that person perfectly to the outside world

what difference does it make?
I have the same feeling that these are not very uncommon. My guess is, as I'm also from Sweden, is that the period of time the sun is in the right position for this is much longer at these latitudes.

I'm certain Iv'e seen clouds like these many times, at least 5 times if not more.
Thanks! The configuration options don't matter too much, I was really unhappy with the options isort gives.
Just wondering if the migration disaster at this scale can be avoided using modern cluster and orchestration technology like Kubernetes?
Uh? They already knew that which is why they tried to hide their tombs..
I agree with measuring.

That is at least a good outcome of all of this. That it becomes more and more visible for normal users, that news have just become entertainment. And with having news in aggregated/dense form for everyone, one can see also the mechanism, how things get distributed and re-used in channels.

For me a big eye opener was something, that happened a long time ago, when i was working for a company, that became news itself, and i was doing the exact work, that accidentally became news. What i was reading then was just made up fluff and had no overlap with my own experienced reality.

And i think many have the same experience, that when they read articles, that one has expertise of, that it is mostly wrong and sloppy, while, when we read articles about other topics, i just tolerate it and hope and pray, that it is correctly reported. :-)