itsabug

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by itsabug 4y ago
I... Think this ruling is good, even if you disagree with the Commons clause? I'm not sure I'm thrilled with limiting the speech of developers by saying they cannot ever place any restrictions whatsoever on how their code is used.
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by itsabug 4y ago
In fact, modifying and updating licenses falls under what I'd consider free speech. The answer to bad license edits is not to shut them down, it's just to write better ones and convince others to use them. I may not agree with bad
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by itsabug 5y ago
Right? We already do this with names. "Please don't call me Bill, I prefer William". Ok, I'll call that person William. It'd be an asshole move to deliberately call them Bill. Using someone's correct pronouns i
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by itsabug 5y ago
Buggy bot, looks like a college student trying to help but not fully testing.
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by itsabug 5y ago
One, you can't keep politics out of code. Code, like sports, like games, like movies, etc. is inherently political. Who has access to software? Who doesn't? Who is in the training set? Who isn't? Who gets the education necess
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by itsabug 5y ago
Right? "College student tries to help out, program has bugs, HN loses their goddamn minds" lol Edit: the replies to this comment are emblematic of HN losing their goddamn minds. Hey, y'all, sometimes humans are humans. Someti
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by itsabug 5y ago
Looks like a student, trying to improve things and making some mistakes that are very much to be expected for a student project. Kudos for the effort, and I think they probably learned a good lesson in test data generation.
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by itsabug 5y ago
Trans and non binary folks are probably whole integer percent of populations, and are over represented in tech. It's trivially easy to use "they" rather than he or she. Or "the person" or whatever the actual noun is
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by itsabug 5y ago
One "debate me" is pretty cringe, but two, I don't think you'd find anyone who thinks those are serious suggestions. It's either a bug or someone trolling. I push hard for gender neutral language, but not whatever t
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by itsabug 5y ago
How so? These are obviously just bugs? Or obviously trolling?