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by munmaek 7y ago
"words" doesn't mean anything. Making a death threat isn't just "words". [0] https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1/t...
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by munmaek 7y ago
Don't change your opinion based on one random comment.
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In meatspace this issue is quite different, and I have no issue with using what someone wants. What about using they for everyone, preferred pronouns or not? It seems more logical to not make distinctions at all, and just use one term, they
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by munmaek 7y ago
What if you use they for just about everyone? The other question I have is am I expected to look up every single person's preferred pronouns that I reply to? This situation doesn't make any sense at all to me personally.
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by munmaek 7y ago
My opinion: never look at TOEFL or any test for how to actually speak a language. They're always out of date. English doesn't really have an entity that dictates "rules". The guidelines vary between dialects, so I can on
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by munmaek 7y ago
Even if someone's pronouns are known, what is the issue with using a gender neutral term? The ire with he/she is misgendering someone, so why is going with a neutral term for everyone a bad thing? I am not trying to be inflammat
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by munmaek 7y ago
It only became more acceptable a few decades ago, and relatively recently surged in popularity. "They" was first used like this hundreds of years ago, so it's not a new concept. Many EFL curriculums in foreign countries are o
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by munmaek 7y ago
The point is that it's not an unknown, made up word that came from nowhere. It has been used in the English language for hundreds of years. It's not confusing to use because one can infer from context.
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by munmaek 7y ago
Contextual languages like Korean and Japanese omit pronouns/the subject entirely, unless it's ambiguous. It's common to use their name instead of "you", etc. It's not like English where the subject cannot be om
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by munmaek 7y ago
Valuable aviation intel to use for their young, but growing, airline industry.
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by munmaek 7y ago
I have been using Zola for about a year and a half now and I love it. However I just use Caddy in a docker container to host it, as Caddy's git plugin can listen for github webhooks. All I have to do is push to git and it rebuilds. I h
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by munmaek 7y ago
> doesn't respect user freedom and doesn't let anyone to easily run something similar, rendering the whole free software point moot and turning it into mere exploitation. You are discussing licensed projects made later down the
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by munmaek 7y ago
Everyone likes benefiting from Open Source until someone runs with their work and makes a profit. My take from all of this is that people have no idea what they're doing when they license their work as Open Source. The go-to process cu
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by munmaek 7y ago
In other words, you don't actually believe in free software. I recommend you read the definition of Free software [0]. > The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0). I think people slap on MIT/Apache
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by munmaek 7y ago
I can vouch for hetzner as I've been using it without complaint for ~2 years, after moving from scaleway. They're great.
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by munmaek 7y ago
All you need is one plugin, uMatrix, to solve it. Prevent medium from loading cookies and javascript, and you're good. You do need to enable the github gist javascript though to see gists.
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by munmaek 7y ago
> as much as I focus on something else. Yes, so people ending up focusing on things like cellphones and email.
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by munmaek 7y ago
That's not what they're talking about at all. They're talking about learning how to learn a language. Learning a second language gives you meta insight into language learning, which makes it far easier to move onto a third la
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by munmaek 7y ago
> I can't. I've tried suppressing the urge to create, but I just can't do it. Ideas, challenges, problems, unmet potential, are everywhere, and I can't unsee them. This is exactly how I am, too. I maintain a list of i
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by munmaek 7y ago
> Why is there no comments? Is this common? It's frighteningly common, and more likely if only 1 developer is working on something. CS students comment far too much, but I would expect a monstrous chain like this to have at least -s
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by munmaek 7y ago
It's obvious youtube is for mainstream media now, with content creators being a leftover wart, minuscule on youtube's radar. Content creators deal with an opaque algorithm that demonetizes videos based on how the wind is blowing,
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by munmaek 7y ago
Not only is it manipulated, it's flagrantly obvious. PewDiePie for example trends in many countries except the US [e.g. 45 times in Canada, 42 times in Germany vs 1 time in the US], and it's not just him either but many "co
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by munmaek 7y ago
The alternative is consuming less and moving away from such a consumer-heavy culture. Not merely eliminating the current big players.
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by munmaek 7y ago
Reddit's search has always been terrible. site:reddit.com or site:reddit.com/r/nichesubreddit <query> is how I actually find things. Lately I actually have begun to cache important things locally, but I wouldn't as
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by munmaek 7y ago
> There's next to zero value in looking up old posts. I don't know why this hasn't been done. I genuinely cannot tell if this is satire. A lot of subreddits are bastions of information for sometimes very niche topics. I fr
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by munmaek 7y ago
And yet you're referring to flappy bird by name. Exactly how many flappy birds are there? Most people who make games aren't trying to make connect3-like games, but rather something more fun/interesting. There isn't much
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by munmaek 7y ago
Having slack doesn't necessarily mean having to be reachable 24/7. Chatrooms fill the use case of day-to-day chat and other more short-lived information. As for distractions, that comes down to bad work culture. Hacker News &
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by munmaek 7y ago
I don't want your formatted html, nor does my client render it. You can attach screenshots or link to them. > There's no good reason to There's no good reason for using anything other than plaintext in email. You can use s
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by munmaek 7y ago
I absolutely hate them. I hate not being able to read a text and respond to it on my own time. It doesn't do anything for face-to-face characteristics whatsoever but it does put pressure on me to respond. If it's that urgent, call
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by munmaek 7y ago
{} blocks are used but for one line methods/closures. Since programming has nothing to do with typing speed, there isn't much difference between `end` and `}` other than `end` making more sense in ruby's english-like syntax.

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