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by Defletter 5mo ago
It's morbidly interesting to watch public discourse on what is and isn't considered a solely-parental responsibility. For example, we seem to have more or less accepted that comprehensive sex education should be taught in school (
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by Defletter 5mo ago
I just think it's incredibly funny how you assert you're being intellectually honest and then in the same breath do something incredibly intellectually dishonest. But whatever floats your boat, I guess.
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by Defletter 5mo ago
@grok could you please find the part where I said that free speech is the cause of all the evils in the world?
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by Defletter 5mo ago
If all you have to offer is mere ideological preference, then I think this conversation has reached its limit of what it'll be able to achieve.
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by Defletter 5mo ago
Okay, so let me make the question plain: what would American-style freedom of speech fix for the UK that isn't also a problem in the US despite having said freedom of speech.
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by Defletter 5mo ago
The reason why it would be worse is not because American-style free speech is good actually, but because you fundamentally lack the tools to hold your politicians accountable. Not only do US federal districts contain ~10x more people than U
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by Defletter 5mo ago
This is where the propaganda surrounding American-style free speech clashes with reality. Many people assume it protects all speech unless it's incitement to imminent lawless action, "fighting words", etc. But that is simply
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by Defletter 5mo ago
Have you not noticed what it's done to their country?
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by Defletter 5mo ago
Ditto, but also the so-called "Free Speech Bill" advocated by the publisher which explicitly attempts to import America-style free speech into the country as law. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be something Parliament is ente
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by Defletter 5mo ago
While I sympathise with the sentiments here, it's just not true, or at least is a gross exaggeration. While IANAL, nor have I read every jurisdiction's laws, I'm fairly certain we have yet to see someone prosecuted for sharin
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by Defletter 5mo ago
I'm pretty convinced the only reason people care is because it's been memeified, and to be fair, the running gag of someone chugging a bottle of water before giving a lacklustre response to an easy question is pretty funny. But th
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by Defletter 5mo ago
Different person here, it's probably because they defensively reject anything that forces anyone to do anything, or would increase prices outside of market forces. Every argument that's used against this kind of legislation was al
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by Defletter 5mo ago
> stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own. What an odd definition, where did you get it from? Bigotry is being unreasonably intolerant. Your definition would cast intolerance
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by Defletter 5mo ago
If you say so. You seem desperate to cast me as a bigot to explain away my objections. Since we're assuming things about each other's character now, I'm just going to assume you follow this religion and feel attacked by my ob
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by Defletter 5mo ago
When I wrote my example, I was more thinking of database and table names, the schema itself, rather than cell content. There are already various limitations on such things, usually in the form of reserved prefixes. It doesn't seem out
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by Defletter 5mo ago
I think you have vastly mistaken what I'm saying. You seem to have leapt from me merely switching away using SQLite in my own projects, to me attempting to purge SQLite from every machine and piece of software I own or something? How o
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by Defletter 5mo ago
I'd rather just not use the thing than maintain a fork just to monitor for the influence of its official religion in its code.
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by Defletter 5mo ago
Hardly. It may be annoying for commercial users to require a checkboxy code of conduct from the software they choose to use, but taking that opportunity to shove religion down people's throats is very strange behaviour. It also makes m
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by Defletter 5mo ago
Uhhh, wasn't April 1st like a month and a half ago? EDIT: Nevermind. Seems like this nonsense has been on their website since at least October 2018 ( https://web.archive.org/web/20181024184950/https:/&#x2F
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by Defletter 5mo ago
Exactly
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by Defletter 6mo ago
Uhh, to be fair, if the goal was only to recreate git from 2005, it probably wouldn't cost $17M. I'd hazard a guess that they're recreating modern git and the emergent stuff like issues, PRs, projects, etc. I've also h
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by Defletter 6mo ago
It's comments like this that remind me of the conciseness-at-all-costs dogma: that people genuinely treat indentation as some kind of eldritch horror; that they would genuinely prefer "impl X" becoming "impl Y for X&quot
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by Defletter 6mo ago
These don't seem like insurmountable challenges though. Unnamed impl blocks could work entirely within requirements. There could also be a lint to warn about any fields that are below trait definitions. struct Example { n
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by Defletter 6mo ago
Something that I don't understand about Rust, or these rustylangs, is the insistence of separating structs and methods. Don't get me wrong, I like named-impl blocks, but why are they the only option? Why can't I put an unname
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by Defletter 6mo ago
It's one of those stark reminders that there's no such thing as up or down in space, and something that disabuses me of the notion that I can truly comprehend "the enemy gate is down".
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by Defletter 6mo ago
Contracts are a good idea, but I find the implementation of them to be clunky. I'd much rather contracts be part of the type system than as function signatures. Using the example in your earlier link, instead of defining day's 1..
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by Defletter 6mo ago
"People" doesn't include me then. I had no idea that D had this feature for quite some time, despite using it fairly often in Zig, because when considering what the equivalent would be to search for, my brain somehow didn&#
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by Defletter 6mo ago
But then why did you add your contract system to D? You implemented your contract system in the "early 90's", and D was released in 2001, so that's near a decade of "nobody wanted it". So then why add them as a
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by Defletter 6mo ago
It should copy Zig's '= undefined;' instead of D's '= void;' The latter is very confusing: why have a keyword that means nothing, but also anything? This is a pretty common flaw within D, see also: static.
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by Defletter 7mo ago
Yup, I keep mine enabled at all times. Anytime I've tried selectively disabling them, I get burnt with increasingly intrusive ads. I might be convinced to enable some kind of "ethical ads" filter that only permits ads are k

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