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by howinteresting 3y ago
The Microsoft way is absolutely better than the Apple way. Platform holders, Apple in particular, reap enormous profits. They have at least some basic responsibility here. It's hard? Tough shit, software is hard. Start putting in the w
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Sounds like the world in which the platform keeps moving and breaking APIs is a pretty bad world!
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by howinteresting 3y ago
By buying Blue you are expressing the opinion that buying Blue and putting the checkmark on your profile is worth your money. That is a reasonable thing to use to judge people, isn't it?
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by howinteresting 3y ago
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Apple decided to just never even try and do fractional scaling. I used to use and love Apple. Then I discovered the modern Linux desktop and never looked back.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
KDE/KWin does. Ultimately, Wayland is where all the energy is. It has shortcomings but is good enough and all future work (HDR for example) is going to be done on Wayland.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
> Gender is a social fabrication that is at best derivative of sex Yes, gender is derivative of psychological sex (or what is often called gender identity, though that is a confusing label because it's not quite like other kinds of
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by howinteresting 3y ago
> If we can't debate against nazism or slavery and win in the eyes of the audience, on democratic terms, I guess it is to late to be "intolerant of intolerance" and democracy has already failed. Probably, yes. Democracy is
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Blah blah blah yes yes I know what the GC positions are. The fact remains that being treated as the gender I want to be treated as and updating my hormone profile and getting surgery to align with that has taken away all of my social anxiet
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by howinteresting 3y ago
It's only ad hominem if it isn't true. Anyone who deliberately deadnames a trans person is a mean asshole, and if you disagree you're a mean asshole enabler.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
The only "gender ideology" that exists is fervent adherents of traditional religions forcing their backwards beliefs on the rest of society, and so-called "gender-critical" people organizing with them to deny trans peopl
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by howinteresting 3y ago
> You can phrase pretty much any side of a political question as being either tolerant or intolerant with a bit of work. And we determine who is right and who isn't through the power of reason and evidence.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
> Are you saying morality is a physical magnitude that can be studied and/or measured? No. > Because if we can't then I don't see how objective reality relates to morality. Try seeing harder.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
I used Eich because he was cited in the essay: > Think of Brendan Eich as a member of a tiny religious minority surrounded by people who hate that minority. Suddenly firing him doesn’t seem very noble.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Holy basil is also known as tulsi, for those who are familiar with Indian traditions.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Blow is a smart guy who thinks he's far smarter and far more interesting than he really is. Smart people who don't seek out feedback, and especially those who haven't worked in a team environment, tend to be pretty bad at est
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by howinteresting 3y ago
In Indian English it's another word for disadvantaged. Indian English has, by number of speakers, more of a claim to be standard English than British English.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Who could have picked those terms? OBC is a term of art used in Indian politics [1]. The author didn't exactly choose that term. And OBC is Indian English, which is one of the most common varieties of English spoken worldwide. I think
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Elite capture is a real phenomenon and I think one that affirmative action programs worldwide struggle to handle. It's worth acknowledging even if we ultimately decide the benefits outweigh the costs. https://www.haymarketbo
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by howinteresting 3y ago
What exactly is your point then? It's just another word for "disadvantaged", "underprivileged" or "oppressed".
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Huh? He's a Rust project member and part of the Rust library API team: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/library . As such, the Rust Code of Conduct applies to him.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Beyond the reputational harm to the Rust community, he actively engaged in attention-seeking behavior, something that is against the Rust Code of Conduct. (He's far too intelligent to not know that it was attention-seeking behavior.)
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Do we as humans owe anything at all to each other outside of a capitalistic transaction-based framework? I think the burden of open source maintenance often goes too far in the other direction, especially when corporations demand free labor
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by howinteresting 3y ago
I'm just happy KDE is changing old behaviors that are counterintuitive in the modern age. Now as for the macOS cmd-tab behavior...
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by howinteresting 3y ago
The ease of use outweighs the security concerns for most reasonable people.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Clearly the state of the language post-async/await is good enough that tens of billions of dollars, probably more, are riding on it. There's still lots that needs to be done but the language is in pretty good shape today. Why shou
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by howinteresting 3y ago
Enums with associated values are a very basic data modeling primitive. Writing code without them is like doing arithmetic with only the multiplication sign, not the plus sign.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
> before almost anyone became aware This isn't a serious comment. It really does not matter whether "almost anyone" became aware, it matters whether the sorts of people who pay attention to this became aware. OS packagers
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by howinteresting 3y ago
And this is why Apple will never be a serious gaming platform for non-exploitative/GaaS games. Personally I think it's good that I can run games that were last updated in the early 2010s on my computer.
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by howinteresting 3y ago
I understand the distinctions quite well, thank you. I spent around half an hour reading about the context of what he has been accused of doing before commenting.

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