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Props to you for committing to your austerity, but we're not all monks in cells.

protomyth 6y ago
Austerity? Monks in cells? Really, none of that makes any sense? Hell, switching your Amazon account to one of those smile accounts will do more good than signalling.
- _never_k 6y ago
  >Austerity? Monks in cells? You're complaining about indulgence! You're saying that this change won't help people as much as something else. This is a fair criticism. Changing some technical term is probably not a optimally utilitarian use of resources. However, while you may be trying to live an optimally utilitarian life, the rest of us aren't. I can only speak for myself of course, but evaluating all my life's actions on only that axis is too strict for me. But, like I said, if you want to do that: props.
  - protomyth 6y ago
    No, I'm saying that it won't help people at all. Its an indulgence to make the person doing feel like they are doing something. It will not materially improve lives. It would be fine if it just made them feel good, but it substitutes for efforts that would help. Its a personal indulgence taking energy from a system when more is needed. It also is a distraction from actual issues. Nothing is often better than something. > However, while you may be trying to live an optimally utilitarian life, the rest of us aren't. I can only speak for myself of course, but evaluating all my life's actions on only that axis is too strict for me. Yeah, this is wordplay that has nothing to do with me.
    - _never_k 6y ago
      You keep complaining about indulging! What's wrong with indulging in something every once in while?
      - protomyth 6y ago
        If your indulging hurts others, then it is something worth complaining about.
        _never_k 6y ago
        I don't exactly understand how you're hurt by this, but fair enough. Utilitarianism is a philosophical framework. It's not for me, but based on your comments you might be into it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
        protomyth 6y ago
        I am not.
        floatingatoll 6y ago
        I see no supporting argument for “replacing master with main at GitHub hurts others”; is it somewhere in this thread and I wasn’t able to see it unassisted? If not, we would benefit from you typing it up.
        protomyth 6y ago
        go to the top of this thread chain
        floatingatoll 6y ago
        I reviewed your initial post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500764 and I was unable to parse out of your objections why you think that this change hurts others. Could you summarize?
        username90 6y ago
        Inconsistent naming standards hurts everyone. Now some repositories will have master branches while others will have them named something else, it makes things harder to work with. If every developer spends just a minute wondering where the main branch is before realizing the new naming standards, that is still a lifetimes worth of time lost due to this change.

Austerity? Monks in cells? Really, none of that makes any sense? Hell, switching your Amazon account to one of those smile accounts will do more good than signalling.

_never_k 6y ago
>Austerity? Monks in cells? You're complaining about indulgence! You're saying that this change won't help people as much as something else. This is a fair criticism. Changing some technical term is probably not a optimally utilitarian use of resources. However, while you may be trying to live an optimally utilitarian life, the rest of us aren't. I can only speak for myself of course, but evaluating all my life's actions on only that axis is too strict for me. But, like I said, if you want to do that: props.
- protomyth 6y ago
  No, I'm saying that it won't help people at all. Its an indulgence to make the person doing feel like they are doing something. It will not materially improve lives. It would be fine if it just made them feel good, but it substitutes for efforts that would help. Its a personal indulgence taking energy from a system when more is needed. It also is a distraction from actual issues. Nothing is often better than something. > However, while you may be trying to live an optimally utilitarian life, the rest of us aren't. I can only speak for myself of course, but evaluating all my life's actions on only that axis is too strict for me. Yeah, this is wordplay that has nothing to do with me.
  - _never_k 6y ago
    You keep complaining about indulging! What's wrong with indulging in something every once in while?
    - protomyth 6y ago
      If your indulging hurts others, then it is something worth complaining about.
      - _never_k 6y ago
        I don't exactly understand how you're hurt by this, but fair enough. Utilitarianism is a philosophical framework. It's not for me, but based on your comments you might be into it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utilitarianism
        protomyth 6y ago
        I am not.
      - floatingatoll 6y ago
        I see no supporting argument for “replacing master with main at GitHub hurts others”; is it somewhere in this thread and I wasn’t able to see it unassisted? If not, we would benefit from you typing it up.
        protomyth 6y ago
        go to the top of this thread chain
        floatingatoll 6y ago
        I reviewed your initial post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500764 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23500764 and I was unable to parse out of your objections why you think that this change hurts others. Could you summarize?
        username90 6y ago
        Inconsistent naming standards hurts everyone. Now some repositories will have master branches while others will have them named something else, it makes things harder to work with. If every developer spends just a minute wondering where the main branch is before realizing the new naming standards, that is still a lifetimes worth of time lost due to this change.