wredcoll

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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Is this some kind of weird trolling attempt or genuine ignorance?
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
The other day I was trying to tell someone to use prettier, the specific program, and they thought I meant the generic concept of code formatters
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by wredcoll 10mo ago
Valve already provides a store inside someone else's platform.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Naming your library "data-testing-library" would be useful... until there's a second one at which point the specific name effectively becomes meaningless.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Knowing mysql is a database and not a socket wrench is mildly useful but it's more important that I know whether or not it supports enums.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I promise you, names are not self documenting. Not in any meaningful way. This is one of those classic examples where things you've already learned are "obvious and intuitive" and new things are "opaque and indistinct&qu
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> You think your post is not one trying to rouse hate against specific people? It's taken me a while to understand what I find so abhorrent about this frequent rhetorical device and I finally realized it's just plain ol' f
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Minecraft.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
There is, I think, a reasonable distinction between the semi-annual "tournament with prize money" situation that existed in america with quake and friends, and the constant, episodic nature of the broodwar scene in korea. Players
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> I can make a difference as a mortal man" Thinking of popular fantasy sci-fi, this seems like the exact opposite of what actually happens! With the notable exception of lotr (and how many early readers really focused on frodo'
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
It's weird that you associate those qualities with the minorities currently being discriminiated against.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
It's literally a metaphor about the benefits of tolerance.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Good point dude, a few super online people writing forum posts about changing the default name of the main git branch is exactly equivalent to launching gestapo style terror raids on the population at large while ignoring the consitution an
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I too celebrate my own ignorance and trumpet my lack of curiosity. At last I have found my home!
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> >When you throw slurs and denigrate people's pronouns, your ignorance and hatred does a disservice to history and drives away the next generation of talent. > I disagree that this happens. At best it discourages a subset of
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> Critically, the internet was not so polarized back then. Conservatives and socialists and liberal democrats (were they a thing?) could all talk amongst one another and generally get along Really? 4chan has been around preaching death a
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
My god, and we thought those english teachers were idiots when they insisted we should learn things like reading comprehension and metaphors.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Except there are people right on this forum who will happily talk about how dogs deserve fewer/no rights. Do you think that this makes the "dogs" feel welcome and do you think that these words have no effect? Like, it's
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
So it's not a strength it's a necessity? I'm not sure these words mean what you think they do...
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Good point, if there was one thing america was founded on, it was the idea that our leaders should be above criticism.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I would have been more impressed if it didn't involve modifying my code to use it.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
This is a hollywood level pop-science view. Real people are vastly more complicated and do in fact feel things, even if it's not a "normal" way.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
I don't know you and you aren't my current employer anyways but a good first step to requiring me to go back to the office would be actually giving me an office!!
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Sure, but that's not the same thing. For example, whether or not you have to redeclare your entire database schema in a custom ORM language in a different repo.
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> Having a commonly understood term for a thing that exists isn't offensive; it's just how language works. I repeat my claim that you're trying to wish this thing into existence by using words. Words and language matter be
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
ORMs are generally a bad idea, so.. hopefully not?
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
How about a list of existing database tables/columns so you don't need to repeat it each time?
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
Look, "cancel culture" is almost as vague a term as "communism" and tends to be used in the same way: as a thought terminating pejorative description for anything someone doesn't like. If we want to have an actual c
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
People who use the term "cancel culture" are trying to silence their critics. If this isn't what you intend, you may wish to reexamine the words you use and how you use them. Because you keep bringing up wikipedia, lets act
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by wredcoll 11mo ago
> The insinuation that I "want it to be true" is silly. Why would I want cancel culture to exist People want cancel culture to be real in the same way they want jews to be spreading the black plague. It lets you take reactionar

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