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by spacekitcat 6y ago
shrugs , I mean fair play to anyone taking a principled stand on the matter, I'm just not that person.
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
Linux doesn't run the software I need it to run, so it's not fit for my purposes and Windows is someone's idea of a sick joke. I also value aesthetics and UX in a computer, Linux and Windows are actually offensive to me in th
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
They clearly weren’t sacked for their opinions, but for creating a hostile work environment. The free speech argument is a cop out frankly, and a lazy one at that.
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
The Maya Forstater case isn't as you presented it. Why did you misrepresent it? Was it an innocent mistake or was it deliberate? She got sacked for a sustained campaign of harassment. If you don't believe me (and it would therefor
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
I’m trans and you are twisting quite a few of those, but you don’t exist from this point on as far as I’m concerned. I won’t debate my my right to be with anyone, least of all you.
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
In my country, "Political Correctness" is a dog whistle used by Daily Mail readers. It doesn't mean anything. I don't shape my thinking by what some talking head thinks. Why do you think I asked for a concrete example? I
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
Dealing with your own subconscious biases is a continuous activity. I grew up in a society with deep structural problems around equality and those sorts of problems seep into every aspect of life. I think it would be arrogant of me to claim
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
Do you think there are negative sub conscious biases around race? Do you think racism has the same consequences for all races, for example, someone who is a member of a minority group vs someone who is not for a particular region?
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
No, OP really didn’t.
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
Can you provide a concrete example of this “political correctness” you are opposed to?
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
Is it really unreasonable to be scared of catching a virus that may leave you with severe long term health conditions? (assuming you survive it to begin with). I think a better question is why shouldn’t people be afraid of catching Covid-19
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
I don't share your experiences. I'm a developer on Windows and OSX, so I have MacBook Pro and a ThinkPad. I want to run the ThinkPad over with a car and then drop it in the sea.
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
Developers always have to estimate the cost/benefit of how they're spending their time and overly strict coverage targets get in the way of that. Test coverage targets make very little sense for a statically typed language like C#
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by spacekitcat 6y ago
I'm a big fan of unit tests and from my perspective, this article misunderstand what unit tests are for. Unit tests verify that the central assumptions you've made about some module's behaviour hold water. Unit tests aren&#x2