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by da39a3ee 4y ago
You're not familiar with the rise of "cancel culture" in the UK, USA, and Canada, and its association with "progressive" left-wing politics? I would love to not be familiar with that! Where do you live?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Thanks! I do this but go in and remove the echo. For some reason I hadn’t thought to pipe to a shell interpreter.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
It's not appropriate to downvote this. It was simply a question. A good-faith, politely-made, relevant, question. Please answer it or otherwise contribute substantively if you wish to participate in the subthread. (Don't bother te
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
You don’t seem to be identifying the same trends; you just seem to be voicing your left wing sympathies.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Has Germany seen the same rise in young people adopting strongly entrenched positions on racial identity politics and not tolerating a diversity of opinion? E.g are undergraduates trying to ban speakers they disagree with? Can a person unde
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Thanks, that's perfect. I still have a running emacs instance for magit, and editing elisp at least, so I can still make use of your suggestion. (I made it so that C-g with prefix arg calls top-level; not sure if you'll think that
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I used Emacs for 20 years, contributed to popular open source emacs projects, and am the maintainer of a couple of emacs packages with small numbers of users. It's wonderful and extremely powerful having everything in lisp; don't
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I've been thinking about this. To be honest, you're not the first person to tell me that my usage of "freedom of speech" is incoherent. I think, when I say "freedom of speech", what I really mean is perhaps mor
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
OK, so you define someone who disagrees with identity politics as a "bigot"? I think that says all about you that we need to know.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Woke is a disparaging term used to refer to people espousing broadly left wing “progressive” ideologies, who are obsessed with issues affecting minorities and “inclusion”, yet fail to recognize that their intolerance and refusal to respect
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Could you elaborate? Today in western democracies we have literature addressing almost every imaginable condition and human activity. Certainly basic aspects of humanity such as sex which the victorians felt completely unable to contemplate
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
sex!
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
It's not complicated -- whatever they were like in private, their writings (in particular novels) clearly show that they were unable to publicly confront basic facts about human life. And that is not a good thing for a novel. In Britai
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
One source of crackpots is people who encountered "postmodernist" ideas telling them that science is sexist/racist/whatever, and who then make the jump to thinking that anyone can contribute scientific theories without
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Reposting the comment by daft_isnt_it which was flagged and is marked as dead ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30908306 ): Dear fellow HN users: please do not flag things simply because they are representing a stance th
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
It's not about genitals per se! Genitals are mentioned as a proxy for the concept of biological sex. I think you know that, but are pretending not to. So, by all means engage in debate with us about whether it's reasonable to use
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
When I said "freedom of speech" I'm not referring to legal rights. I'm referring to whether or not the nature of our society is such that holders of divergent views are not subject to shaming or ostracization by any subs
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> what is it about those words that make them the most important thing to you when it comes to freedom of speech? As ramblerman says, it's because it's a fundamental biological concept that's central to my existence as a m
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I don't agree with you. For me , no longer feeling free to state the simple biological definitions that I assign to the words "man" and "woman" is absolutely the first thing I think of when someone mentions freedom
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Despite the messiness of biology it is, has always been, and always will be a reasonable statement to say that "boys have a penis and girls have a vagina". That really shouldn't need saying. Of course, the meaning of the stat
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Do you mean "he literally couldn't care less"?
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
I don't get what Dorsey's saying there. Only geeky mostly male hobbyists used IRC and usenet.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Albini sounds really full of himself. I bet he was the sort of person who doesn't shut up. What Americans call a blowhard. In Utero seemed to lack the rhythm and energy and melodies of Nevermind and Bleach.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Wow the examples of UK prosecutions under Section 127 of the Communications Act are an embarrassment: https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/7/22912054/uk-grossly-offens... Most of them are just losers saying s
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
(a) You should you whatever makes you happy. If that's work then ok, but see (b) (b) If doing "work" is what makes you happy, then when you are doing work on your own time, I'd suggest trying to stretch yourself. Try to
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Thanks. I'd read that GC support might be on the way (and that that might make Go a bit more attractive for Wasm than it is currently). But I don't know anything about the other features you mention. Is it your understanding, or g
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Is there any way to compile a subset of Python itself to Wasm? (As opposed to compiling its interpreter to Wasm.) Same question for Javascript.
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Pandas is some probably very nice and clever Cython wrapped up in disastrous Python. As someone says below, doing anything requires constant reference to the docs, unless you did it yesterday. The semantics given originally to square bracke
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
> where you could just call "graph" and the computer would display a graph. Hang on! In what world can you just call "graph" in Python and it would display a graph? In matplotlib on MacOS at least you try that and you
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by da39a3ee 5y ago
Yes, what I was saying was that writing Python code in files is a better and more educational way to program than writing Python code in a Jupyter Notebook. It wasn't a criticism of Python.

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