8fGTBjZxBcHq

6 ms·

1.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
The cruelty I'm talking about is not individual posters hurting each other. It's how we talk about people who are not here, who can't be here. How we judge the poor and dispossessed, uneducated, addicted and marginalized. Peo
2.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yes exactly! This is a much better description than I was able to come up with.
3.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I don't think there's much to be learned from SA in this context. It existed during a different time of the internet, when cultural capital and honestly just raw power were allocated differently. It existed into the "modern&q
4.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
No not really. If you put them in a list of features and compare them it seems pretty close, they have most of the same stuff. But if you actually learn and use both the android one is much worse.
5.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I didn't catch if she said she was completely blind or not. She may be able to make out some shape or color distinctions and is using that as a navigational aid. I have a friend who is blind but keeps their phone on max brightness for
6.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
People are sometimes kind of down on that approach in software, considering it sloppy. Especially in comparison to other engineering disciplines it just looks kinda bad sure. But really I'm pretty sure if for example civil engineers co
7.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
No dude they are not the same. PUA stuff came out of a deeply misogynist internet subculture with close ties and many overlaps with far right activists, "red pill" violence, and ethnonationalism. Plus it's just inherently man
8.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Well the first two at least. I'm describing my beliefs. They are also shared by a lot of people; y'all wouldn't have to yell about free speech so much if this view was unpopular. I admit that I also enjoy riling up first amen
9.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Correct!
10.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
No the second embeds two important differences from the first: that this is new (it's as old as writing at least) and that it's bad (a value judgement you can fall on either side of).
11.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
This apparent contradiction is just a moderately clever way of using an ambiguity in the word. If "deplatforming" is taken to mean "depriving people of an easy means to find and communicate to an audience" it can be an e
12.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Why not? Can you explain what "the issue itself" is in a way completely divorced from the people who have devoted themselves to _making_ it the issue? Even if you can I don't see the value honestly.
13.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
No, you're embedding a bunch of viewpoints in this comment as facts when there is absolutely room for disagreement. For example I think "rural people's best hope of finally not being an afterthought" is massive governmen
14.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
> The only reason it hasn't is that the telecom companies have bought out the government. I don't think this is true really. There's been a really big shift in the last 50-ish years and at least in the US there seems to be
15.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
No it doesn't you can fully engage with the complexity and ALSO blame him for it. I do for example.
16.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
We expect "better" from democracies largely because they have more sophisticated and effective ways to defang troubling journalists. You don't really need to murder or imprison them when you can just make it so no one trusts
17.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I mean spread awareness but that's pretty much every job. I've done a lot of kinds of work in my life but this is pretty much the easiest. At least we're paid well and respected. All the other kinds of work were just as hard
18.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
It's a risk, that doesn't mean taking it is foolish. And I don't think many people would advocate _always_ being maximally vulnerable in all contexts come on. Use your judgement but mine is that most people around me are too
19.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yeah learning things is so fun, and also so is just having a bunch of weird skills you're competent or at least knowledgeable at. I won't post my list of accumulated learnings because it's about as good a personal identifier
20.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yeah that's what they're saying I think. Programming outside works helps your programming inside work sure. But for many (most?), programming ability isn't the limiting factor on how effective you are as a _developer_ at work
21.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
There's definitely a bit of a pattern to this in music as with nearly everything. Players within the established tradition "take it seriously" which is on one hand respect for tradition and on the other impedes full integrati
22.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Or just look at what contemporary jazz is like this decade. Absolutely whole-hearted embrace of pop and hip hop production techniques, sampling, DAW-dependent live performances, thicc 808s etc. Live music performance techniques have even to
23.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yeah you're right. I guess a style guide or a usage guide would be a prescriptivist dictionary? I'd always heard "prescriptivist dictionary" is a thing that exists but now that I'm thinking about it I'm kind of
24.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
There actually is an argument in there I just trusted people to be able to see it through the joke. Should have known better.
25.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I don't think you understand. The mere fact that it COULD potentially be used by anyone is a defense against all complaints. Because democracy. Like a magic charm you see. No I have never read any theory or heard the phrase "mater
26.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Honestly it's grim but the social power of the group that uses it. If you speak a prestige dialect your patterns are "rules" and if you don't your patterns are "errors." But in both cases it has nothing to do w
27.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I'm curious to see how this goes for you because in my experience this site is HARDCORE prescriptivist almost like it's a religion it's a bit scary sometimes.
28.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
I mean true but this is like pointing out that no one plays baseball with a golf club. One is ubiquitous because it's useful and the other isn't. Prescriptive dictionaries do exist but they're mostly used by specialists to un
29.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
A good bit of my work is in php codebases from that era and uh... yeah kinda. Generally at that time (and for a few years after) you still see a huge influence from C programming constraints in php. Lot of extremely terse abbreviated variab
30.
by 8fGTBjZxBcHq 5y ago
Yeah my "niche" right now is consulting for companies that are high revenue but built out their platforms during lean times where they were focused on growth over stability, reliability, or security. "Legacy code" I gues

More ›