dpatterbee

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by dpatterbee 5y ago
For a language that has taken extreme measures to exclude generics, Go seems to have an awful lot of accepted design proposals for generics.
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by dpatterbee 5y ago
Buying the majority of TSMC's 5nm process output helped. It's a combination of good engineering, the most advanced process, and intel shitting themselves I would say.
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by dpatterbee 5y ago
I think standing in front of the light is somewhat missing the purpose of it being connected to the network.
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
It blows my mind that you think that people wishing to be referred to in a certain way that has absolutely 0 negative effects on you or anyone else is somehow a bad thing which you need to argue against so much.
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
And they can be considered an asshole and asked to not continue their role as a leading representative of a diverse community of people.
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
It does introduce ambiguity in certain sentences, but pronouns already do that and we don't have much issue using them. The solution is to just not use the pronoun if it's ambiguous, pronouns are just a convenience.
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
Do you call people by their names? Seems like you're already forced to call people what they want you to. I believe there's a difference between asking people to refer to you by some identifier and whatever nonsense you're eq
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
That sounds like an unrealistic claim. Do you think that once RMS is dead it's only a matter of time until the end of free software?
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
The problem is that gender is a complicated social issue and not every transgender person wants to be thrown into an "other" category with their pronouns. Given how simple it is to use someone's preferred pronouns once they&#
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
If somebody creates a product which I don't view as being worth the asking price I have no obligation to purchase it, regardless of whether I share a profession with the producer.
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
This is an interesting take I haven't heard much before. Could you expand on what the alternatives are?
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
I'm fairly confident that Epic Games don't have any issues paying a few thousand dollars for any ISO standard they wish to have access to.
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
Was setting up a new iPhone yesterday and got burned by a zombie spinner that I believed was indicating progress was being made on the iOS 14.4 update. Left it alone for 2 hours expecting it to be done only to find it as I had left it. Rest
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
Only close channels when trying to tell the receiver that you're not sending more data. Otherwise let the garbage collector deal with it. Channels seem easy until they don't until they do again in my experience. Don't underst
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
I get what you're saying, but you seem to just be criticising element, not matrix. All of these are temporary problems which can be overcome with more time to hone the user experience. I would love to see another company come along and
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by dpatterbee 6y ago
I don't think that's entirely a dealbreaker. If all you want is a completely private homeserver then you can set one up and disable federation and if you want to not stand out then you can use the matrix.org homeserver and set up