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Just minor nitpick. Phoronix is one guy
by beebeepka 5y ago
Just minor nitpick. Phoronix is one guy
- acer4666 5y agoWithout knowledge of preferred pronouns, "they" seems appropriate.
- UbrtrbNchDneRle 5y agoviraptor 1 : 0 the west.
- fgeiger 5y agoAs I read it, the point was not about the wrong pronoun but about the fact that the suite is developed by one person and not a large team and that the burden of benchmarking Linux performance should maybe not rest on one person alone.
- rat9988 5y agoYou missed his point. There was no wrong pronoun, this is what he is claiming.
- leadingthenet 5y ago...and people like to pretend this kind of nonsense hasn't penetrated into every social space.
- IntelMiner 5y agoA single data point does not an argument make
- jraph 5y agoIt unfortunately still hasn't penetrated into the most old school ones, apparently. Whatever you are talking about anyway.
- 5e92cb50239222b 5y agoIf by "old school" you mean "everywhere outside of Silicon Valley", then maybe. Coming from a pretty conservative society, I read these sorts of discussions with mild amusement. I may have formed a mistaken impression of the US society, but it seems to me that it tends to bounce from one extreme of political or social views to another.
- jraph 5y agoI would not know, I live in Europe ;-) Extrema do exist here though.
- stewartmcgown 5y agothey can be singular
- bradleyjg 5y agoIs “They is tall.” a grammatically valid sentence?
- franciscop 5y agoOnly if "They" is their given name and not a pronoun. If used as a pronoun, you can say "they are tall" in singular: https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar/singular-they#:~:text=Here%20are%20some%20tips%20to,%E2%80%9Ca%20person%20are%E2%80%9D https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/grammar/si...).
- bradleyjg 5y agoSeems like a violation of the strict aliasing rule.
- andrepd 5y agoHow so?
- CyberShadow 5y agoBecause you use a "multiple" of pointers to refer to a single entity. (It's a C joke.)
- mdp2021 5y agoThat page you link to uses very ideological content - not philological as one could expect. Not all will agree with those guidelines, they are far from universally acceptable.
- andrepd 5y ago
- eptcyka 5y agoThe test suite is open source, I'm sure Michael would appreciate some help :)
- viraptor 5y agoCorrect, but I like British grammar, where companies are plural :-)
- MayeulC 5y agoBut Michael tends to use "we" in his writings.