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“When I look back and think about those times, I'm amazed but how much I owe to people who I never met” So much has changed: I read a post on a forum the othe
by niemandhier 2y ago
“When I look back and think about those times, I'm amazed but how much I owe to people who I never met”
So much has changed:
I read a post on a forum the other day, some kid asking questions about PyTorch.
Rather than getting help, the poor soul was berated for not using “they/them”…
We moved away from building our communities on shared interests, towards building them based on shared sentiment, which has to be proven by behavior.
Unfortunately joining such a community is much more difficult.
- Aachen 2y agoI had plenty of experiences with similarly useless debates as a teenager on the internet twenty years ago. Think of providing code examples with indentation that the reader didn't like. At least being more inclusive is a more worthwhile goal than finding the perfect indentation, but yeah, neither answers the question at hand Could it be that you now recognise the uselessness of such a response whereas, when you were younger, you didn't know any better and took it as-is? Because I think that's almost certainly the case for me, rather than that it is an exclusive feature of modern times that some people berate others on minor-to-irrelevant points