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by languageserver 4y ago
What I am saying is that taking a stance of assuming people identifying as male is an opinion - which is quickly become a minority stance for good reasons. Misgendering is a huge trigger for a lot of people, and considered a "micro agr
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by languageserver 4y ago
In the USA, one of the world's most populous spanish-speaking countries, Spanish communication is often conducted using -x ending, even by the president.
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by languageserver 4y ago
This is exactly why people are aiming to change this forced behavior. Language reflects society and the only reason why male terms are considered "general" by some parts of the population is because men for centuries repressed the
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by languageserver 4y ago
> That code is indeed wrong, but the error consists in using "long" instead of "unsigned long". Is this not what I was referring to? I would like to learn more, I think we have the same reasoning, but I am bad at exp
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by languageserver 4y ago
The size of a long is not defined, and is platform dependent. It may be the size of int. Likewise if (s < 0) s += 2147483647; Overflow/underflow is UB in this case, and who says it is 32 bit in the first place?
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by languageserver 4y ago
> Maybe the kindest thing is not to play along with your language game. My comment was in response to someone indicating that certain European languages forced you to know the gender of the person you were speaking to. So, the "l
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by languageserver 4y ago
It reads like a marketing blog post. Written as if this was one of those "I dissambled a printer driver to discover a race condition that could cause privilege escalation and I made a CVE that saved millions of PCs around the world&quo
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by languageserver 4y ago
it is one of the unfortunate things about C, a language I love and defend dearly, is that on one hand it makes few assumptions about the system and is "bare metal" enough to shoot yourself, but at the same time it makes no assumpt
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by languageserver 4y ago
int rand_r (unsigned int *seed) { long k; long s = (long)(*seed); if (s == 0) s = 0x12345987; k = s / 127773; s = 16807 * (s - k * 127773) - 2836 * k; if (s < 0)
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by languageserver 4y ago
well, luckily most languages are modernizing to accommodate marginalized people! Historical patterns are no excuse to deliberately misgender or genderify language. E.g. for Spanish a lot of people use an X or @ instead of -o -a, same in Ger