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by stillkicking 8y ago
Because a code of conduct is just a foot in the door. It provides a pretense for people to seize power and start policing others in the community. That would be only one objection, but as always happens, the rules are not actually what is w
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by stillkicking 8y ago
"[flagged]" Yet another thread that demonstrates the social justice movement's harmful influence is flagged into invisibility. Time to cite Fredrik DeBoer I guess: >“Social justice” is an awkward term for an immensely impo
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by stillkicking 9y ago
Why care? That seems pretty obvious: because ethnicity is already used to justify policies of affirmative action, used as a measure of prosperity and equality. The common reasoning is that until the conditional probabilities by demographic
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by stillkicking 9y ago
The fact that these features are so undiscoverable proves the point, I think. The split view management in particular is clunky as hell even when you do know how to use it, as you can't edit the view once it's been created... only
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by stillkicking 9y ago
I would love to be able to follow people for those things. But I can't. Because the same people's whose works and thoughts I like keep sharing news clickbait, socialite posers and hollow moralizing.
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by stillkicking 9y ago
What's amazing was that when they introduced this change, a lot of dedicated Twitter addicts hated those long tweets with a passion, as if someone had cut their favorite cocaine with chalk. Now they can barely remember what it was like
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by stillkicking 9y ago
In my experience it is a uniquely Anglo-Saxon phenomenon. Doesn't happen over here at all. The news tries to maintain a modicum of seriousness, even if the last few years it has also gone down the internet outrage and tumblr politics r
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by stillkicking 9y ago
No I'm not, I'm literally describing the NCES own numbers. Here: https://imgur.com/a/MQUx0 The point of discussion is whether there has been a drastic reduction in female participation in CS since the early 8
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by stillkicking 9y ago
There was no sharp drop-off in the 80s. What happened is that interest from men soared while the proportion of women choosing to study it remained relatively constant in comparison, only dropping by a little in terms of the actual percentag
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by stillkicking 9y ago
Because WebGL is an evolutionary dead end, for a variety of reasons. The initial idea was to track OpenGL ES, but that isn't really true anymore. Because of Windows, WebGL has to stick to a subset that can be easily translated to Direc
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by stillkicking 9y ago
Now imagine how much more they'd make if they actually published quality material instead of culture war clickbait and freshman opinion pieces. 'Member when The Guardian was one of the outlets boldly reporting the Snowden and Mann
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by stillkicking 9y ago
The current MacBook Pro should've been a separate product line, like the MacBook Air was. Those who are happy with the sacrifices it makes could switch over, but they wouldn't have to leave everyone else out in the cold.
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by stillkicking 9y ago
Chad linking to Geek Feminism Wiki to explain the "Gittip Crisis" is a testament to how effective the disinformation was, as that page repeats the lies used to whip up the crowd against him in the first place, including misreprese
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Commencement 101 – Advice for new graduates(status451.com)
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by stillkicking 9y ago
There's still a huge tell in contemporary CGI, which is pretty obvious when compared side by side to older, practical effects: smoke and light scattering. Given the amount of destructive action we typically get on screen, the picture s
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by stillkicking 9y ago
That "anti-COC" article is as anti-COC as James Damore's memo was anti-diversity. What it does is highlight how speech codes can be used by the socially hyperfluent to bully and dominate the less fluent, by placing an unreaso
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by stillkicking 9y ago
I'd rather a political litmus test not be part of getting access to basic information society services. "I think despicable people have a right to talk, but I'd rather they be forced to string together two tin cans than be ab
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by stillkicking 9y ago
It's quite simple. Eminem is white and male, that means he's a hateful misogynist and homophobe. Azealia Banks is black and female, that means she's empowered by rapping about cunts, bitches and catching a nigga's warm g
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by stillkicking 9y ago
If people were willing to apply such meticulous criticism and high standards to the Women in Tech movement in the first place, there wouldn't be an issue. While the sober opening and acknowledgement is a refreshing start in a sea of sh
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by stillkicking 9y ago
Worse, with social justice this usually takes the form of a motte and bailey argument. The statement that "we don't mean all white men" and "we mean a system of systemic biases/practices" is usually a defense i
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by stillkicking 9y ago
Over the last decade, and especially in the last 5 years, the world view amongst equality activism has shifted very strongly towards intersectional identity politics and its associated groupwise oppressor/victim dynamic as the root of
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by stillkicking 9y ago
The idea that false rape accusations are extremely rare and hence don't matter is a) not supported by evidence and b) unjust even if it were true. If you are concerned about this topic, perhaps you should aim your complaints at the peo
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by stillkicking 9y ago
The capacity for self-delusion is indeed great, but in my experience, the only people deluding themselves in a situation like that is management thinking they are successfully saving face. Which is really what it's about. Employees kno
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by stillkicking 9y ago
Cool work, but note that a 1024 point FFT isn't really sufficient to visualize music. At 44.1kHz, the lowest frequency you can resolve is 43Hz. Anything below that will be folded into your DC component. Your bass response is mostly goi
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by stillkicking 9y ago
The promise of SQL is the ability to do arbitrary complex queries, but the key to making SQL fast is to tailor your indices and queries for the current use. These two are in opposition, so that most of what people do with SQL is do the same
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by stillkicking 9y ago
No it's terrible, and the fact that you don't notice is exactly the problem. See also: monads. If you understand the basic process of what's going on (preparing food) and what it's meant to do (produce a delicious treat)
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by stillkicking 9y ago
Introduction to Cake Making A cake is a baked good containing one or more edible substances, created by a baker. Cakes are made in a kitchen, using appliances, implements and utensils. An appliance is a powered mechanical device used to aug
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by stillkicking 9y ago
I don't understand why anyone thinks step 1 in conveying any concept is definitions. This is not how brains work. Definitions are how you formalize your understanding once you've developed it. If this is meant to be an introductio
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by stillkicking 10y ago
Propriety is a poor excuse to let others control the conversation. From what I've seen, Dries and the Drupal Association have not invited good faith dialogue, quite the opposite. He's edited his statements silently and has subtly
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by stillkicking 10y ago
Diversity and inclusion have a cost of having to deal with ongoing disagreement and friction that comes from coexistence. Diversity(tm) and Inclusion(tm) have a cost of inviting Diversity Experts to tell you why you cannot do any of this on

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