Look, I'm not going to judge your GUI based on the fact that KDE has been a disaster for years or that you're based on a non-LTE Ubuntu distro that's going to be EOL before you finish getting your wireless driver working right or the fact that you think typing in your GUI to search for an application is a new innovation...
But if you include "beautiful" in your tagline, the very first screenshot you use to advertise yourself better actually be beautiful, and not this piece of junk. Did the person who made that UI even know what margins are?
Why would a closeted gay man bother to go to a dating website and put "hetero" in their profile?
So that they can search for gay men without exposing themselves publicly as being gay.
Let's flip this around, would a straight [...] woman put homosexual on their dating profile?
Yes. In fact, it's pretty commonly done so that they don't get constantly spammed by straight men but instead can choose who they contact.
If they are lying to the computer then they are lying to themselves.
No, they're just lying to people who look at their profile. They are using dating sites so they can find people they like, not so that other people can find them.
Not exactly on-topic, but that headline style is absolutely atrocious. Here, let me help: "Bug in Lowe's Site Sold Goods for Free; Couple Arrested for Exploiting It"
I think it's too verbose as well, but that's beside the point.
EditorDavid, you need to either go read over the Chicago Manual of Style or remove "Editor" from your name.
It's just that I still remember when "I disagree with what you say but I'll defend, to the death, your right to say it." was the ideal to which we aspired.
The difference here is that a private company that chooses not to let you use their platform is not denying you any rights.
Worldwide, whites are 12-14% of the population, and shrinking fast. (Projected to be around 8% in another couple generations.)
So what? Was anybody here talking about worldwide racial distributions at all?
So... whites are being asked to share America and Europe. Okay, how about whites ask Africa and Asia to share too??
Ok. If you're being discriminated against in a country in which you're the minority, that sounds reasonable.
What? That's colonization??!
No, it's not. That's immigration.
So why is it not colonization when whites are "asked to share" America and Europe??
Because your entire premise is wrong, and even if it wasn't wrong, sometimes things are decided on a case-by-case basis rather than sweeping generalizations.
Still, if you're a proud White Supremacist, how could you possibly have a problem with your family, your neighbors, your boss and coworkers knowing that you espouse those views? I mean, aren't you on the right side of history believing that America is white and working to get rid of all those brown skinned people who are perverting your precious bodily fluids? Why on earth would you have a problem with people identifying you?
Disclaimer: I am pretty far on the left ideologically, and I hate racist Nazis.
With that said, I think most of them have no problem with their friends, family, and even coworkers knowing who they are. The reason they hide their identities is because the authoritarian left loves to doxx people and then use any means necessary to ruin their lives. As soon as the incidents in Charlottesville happened, my social media feeds were covered with people posting zoomed-in individual pictures of protesters on the white nationalist side, and mobs of people were doing their best to identify them, post their personal information, and then contact and harass their friends, family, and workplace. You don't have to be ashamed of your opinions to not want hundreds of complete strangers to call your parents and scream at them or hack into their Facebook pages.
Whites are tired of being destroyed by the other races.
The majority of the population of the USA is still white. The vast majority of political positions are held by Christian, white males. The ones that don't are usually held by Christian black males. Everybody else is a tiny minority.
You are not being destroyed, and -- at least within the USA -- you never have been and aren't even in danger. You are being asked to share.
That's not to say that there is never any discrimination against or hatred for white males, but if your response to that is to support an ideology and symbolism that were literally dedicated to the genocide of an entire race, then fuck you. You can go die, the rest of the white males who are decent people can stay. They'll be just fine, and everybody else will be better off for it.
Are you really trying to imply that a private company that chooses not to allow people they don't like to use their servers is in any way like fascism? Really?
Then you get ignored and/or shunned; meanwhile, the people who are best at lying to, reading, and manipulating others bubble up to the top of society. And that's how government works.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not making that argument, I'm just paraphrasing Damore since you seemed to have completely missed the point.
The point is that even if he's wrong, that doesn't mean that the different is due to rampant sexism -- and he certainly spent a lot more effort on research and citing sources than anybody I've seen reply to him (most of which are just content to label him as a far-right misogynist).
And even if that is the problem, that also doesn't mean that the solution is to enforce sexism in the other direction to try to "correct" the ratio.
You bet they are! They're not just fine, women can be great engineers.
But that's actually not related to the issue at hand at all.
Here's the issue: somebody observed that engineering is a male-dominated field. They decided that was a problem. Next they decided the reason for that divide is because of rampant sexism, and next they decided that the solution to the problem was to enforce quotas that discriminate against male applicants in order to try to push the ratio closer to 50%.
That's what James Damore is objecting to. His memo is basically saying that there are reasons for the imbalanced ratio -- reasons that aren't "women aren't good at engineering" or "I hate women" -- and that even if that is a problem, implementing sexist hiring policies is not the right solution.
His opposition is trying very hard to make you believe that he's just a misogynist who wants women to be oppressed, because doing that is easier than trying to refute any of the sources he cited.
Discrediting your opposition is much easier than refuting them, especially if they actually have a valid point. The vast majority of people aren't going to read that memo; if you can just convince them that the author is a far-right misogynist who hates diversity, then there are many, many people who will jump on the bandwagon against him without doing any research. This is basically the same thing that happened with GamerGate, if you recall that.
"diversity" means "you'll agree with me or I'll silence you."
You misunderstand; "diversity" means diversity of skin color & gender, not of opinion. Everybody has to have the same opinion in order for everybody to be happy.
The first four bugs there wouldn't have been prevented by rewriting in Rust.
There have been about 150 vulnerabilities disclosed in 2017 alone so far. How many of them wouldn't have even been possible in a language that prevented you from doing inherently unsafe operations? What's the threshold for when it finally becomes worth doing so?
That is the biggest downside or Rust: people think they will be secure by using it, leading to turning off their security brain.
[citation needed]. I'm not convinced that's true at all. One could also easily say that putting locks on your house's doors and windows will cause the residents to "turn off their security brain" and lead to them being less secure overall, but that's absurd on its face. Nobody in their right mind would advocate for writing security-critical software in Intel assembly because having no safeguards at all would clearly cause you to write more secure code.
That's alittle bit of an exaggeration, but not much of one for your typical Japanese salaryman. Sometimes they get Sunday off, but if they get it "off" they usually have other obligations on that day. (source)
Install Firefox for Android, install your favorite user agent switching add-on.
I mean come on, if somebody touches your monitor at work, don't you want to strangle them? Aren't we fans of the old IBM clackedy clack keyboards to the point we're paying premium for mechanical keyboards? And yet we think touching our screens to input text, with no tactile feedback, is somehow okay?
There have been numerous cell phones in the past with built-in keyboards, and they quickly fell out of favor because they more than double the bulk of the phone, are prone to breaking, and are pretty uncomfortable to use due to the size. If you have to do sysadmin work on your phone you're already in a bad situation, but maybe get a bluetooth keyboard?
I have developed many such applications using VBA.
I am so, so sorry. I hope your job hunt to find a place that doesn't force you to use VBA is successful.
But more seriously, can you mention any specific things that you're trying to do that you haven't found an equivalent for? "Business logic" is pretty vague. Most of the time, people who say that are just talking about adding up cells in spreadsheets.
I remember a time where saving functions did not exist at all. It was still fun to play video games.
And in most of those games, the progression came from playing the same difficult levels over and over until you could beat it; most of those classic games without save functionality can be beaten in under an hour or two if you know what you're doing.
That's not quite the same as a modern game that has 100 hours of progression and gradual access to new content.
The letter wasn't threatening at all, actually. It was mostly the NHTSA asking questions about their design and testing in order to ensure it was safe on the roads. Hotz decided to fold rather than even try to answer the questions.
In all seriousness, what company do you work at where it is at all reasonable for somebody to tip over a 700 pound crate that is clearly marked with "fragile" and "this side up" on every surface just because they are in a "tremendous hurry"? I will make sure to not use them.
Let me make sure I have this straight. You think it's "karma" that, in exchange for engaging in bad practices in an open source project (that anybody else could have come along and fixed if they cared so much), he's lost thousands of dollars of potentially irreplaceable hardware. Yeah, that sure sounds fair to me...
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Look, I'm not going to judge your GUI based on the fact that KDE has been a disaster for years or that you're based on a non-LTE Ubuntu distro that's going to be EOL before you finish getting your wireless driver working right or the fact that you think typing in your GUI to search for an application is a new innovation...
But if you include "beautiful" in your tagline, the very first screenshot you use to advertise yourself better actually be beautiful, and not this piece of junk. Did the person who made that UI even know what margins are?
Why would a closeted gay man bother to go to a dating website and put "hetero" in their profile?
So that they can search for gay men without exposing themselves publicly as being gay.
Let's flip this around, would a straight [...] woman put homosexual on their dating profile?
Yes. In fact, it's pretty commonly done so that they don't get constantly spammed by straight men but instead can choose who they contact.
If they are lying to the computer then they are lying to themselves.
No, they're just lying to people who look at their profile. They are using dating sites so they can find people they like, not so that other people can find them.
what the attraction is of watching one man hit another ?
Do you enjoy watching any competitive sports? Why is that?
People wail when terrorists drive lorries into crowds but then cheer when someone smashes his fist into another man's face.
One of those things is consensual, the other is not.
Not exactly on-topic, but that headline style is absolutely atrocious. Here, let me help: "Bug in Lowe's Site Sold Goods for Free; Couple Arrested for Exploiting It"
I think it's too verbose as well, but that's beside the point.
EditorDavid, you need to either go read over the Chicago Manual of Style or remove "Editor" from your name.
It's just that I still remember when "I disagree with what you say but I'll defend, to the death, your right to say it." was the ideal to which we aspired.
The difference here is that a private company that chooses not to let you use their platform is not denying you any rights.
Worldwide, whites are 12-14% of the population, and shrinking fast. (Projected to be around 8% in another couple generations.)
So what? Was anybody here talking about worldwide racial distributions at all?
So... whites are being asked to share America and Europe. Okay, how about whites ask Africa and Asia to share too??
Ok. If you're being discriminated against in a country in which you're the minority, that sounds reasonable.
What? That's colonization??!
No, it's not. That's immigration.
So why is it not colonization when whites are "asked to share" America and Europe??
Because your entire premise is wrong, and even if it wasn't wrong, sometimes things are decided on a case-by-case basis rather than sweeping generalizations.
Still, if you're a proud White Supremacist, how could you possibly have a problem with your family, your neighbors, your boss and coworkers knowing that you espouse those views? I mean, aren't you on the right side of history believing that America is white and working to get rid of all those brown skinned people who are perverting your precious bodily fluids? Why on earth would you have a problem with people identifying you?
Disclaimer: I am pretty far on the left ideologically, and I hate racist Nazis.
With that said, I think most of them have no problem with their friends, family, and even coworkers knowing who they are. The reason they hide their identities is because the authoritarian left loves to doxx people and then use any means necessary to ruin their lives. As soon as the incidents in Charlottesville happened, my social media feeds were covered with people posting zoomed-in individual pictures of protesters on the white nationalist side, and mobs of people were doing their best to identify them, post their personal information, and then contact and harass their friends, family, and workplace. You don't have to be ashamed of your opinions to not want hundreds of complete strangers to call your parents and scream at them or hack into their Facebook pages.
Whites are tired of being destroyed by the other races.
The majority of the population of the USA is still white. The vast majority of political positions are held by Christian, white males. The ones that don't are usually held by Christian black males. Everybody else is a tiny minority.
You are not being destroyed, and -- at least within the USA -- you never have been and aren't even in danger. You are being asked to share.
That's not to say that there is never any discrimination against or hatred for white males, but if your response to that is to support an ideology and symbolism that were literally dedicated to the genocide of an entire race, then fuck you. You can go die, the rest of the white males who are decent people can stay. They'll be just fine, and everybody else will be better off for it.
Are you really trying to imply that a private company that chooses not to allow people they don't like to use their servers is in any way like fascism? Really?
I can point to several incidents of such things happening.
Please do. Do you know of any studies that have determined how often that happens?
Then you get ignored and/or shunned; meanwhile, the people who are best at lying to, reading, and manipulating others bubble up to the top of society. And that's how government works.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not making that argument, I'm just paraphrasing Damore since you seemed to have completely missed the point.
The point is that even if he's wrong, that doesn't mean that the different is due to rampant sexism -- and he certainly spent a lot more effort on research and citing sources than anybody I've seen reply to him (most of which are just content to label him as a far-right misogynist).
And even if that is the problem, that also doesn't mean that the solution is to enforce sexism in the other direction to try to "correct" the ratio.
You bet they are! They're not just fine, women can be great engineers.
But that's actually not related to the issue at hand at all.
Here's the issue: somebody observed that engineering is a male-dominated field. They decided that was a problem. Next they decided the reason for that divide is because of rampant sexism, and next they decided that the solution to the problem was to enforce quotas that discriminate against male applicants in order to try to push the ratio closer to 50%.
That's what James Damore is objecting to. His memo is basically saying that there are reasons for the imbalanced ratio -- reasons that aren't "women aren't good at engineering" or "I hate women" -- and that even if that is a problem, implementing sexist hiring policies is not the right solution.
His opposition is trying very hard to make you believe that he's just a misogynist who wants women to be oppressed, because doing that is easier than trying to refute any of the sources he cited.
But why lie about the contents of the memo?
Discrediting your opposition is much easier than refuting them, especially if they actually have a valid point. The vast majority of people aren't going to read that memo; if you can just convince them that the author is a far-right misogynist who hates diversity, then there are many, many people who will jump on the bandwagon against him without doing any research. This is basically the same thing that happened with GamerGate, if you recall that.
"diversity" means "you'll agree with me or I'll silence you."
You misunderstand; "diversity" means diversity of skin color & gender, not of opinion. Everybody has to have the same opinion in order for everybody to be happy.
The first four bugs there wouldn't have been prevented by rewriting in Rust.
There have been about 150 vulnerabilities disclosed in 2017 alone so far. How many of them wouldn't have even been possible in a language that prevented you from doing inherently unsafe operations? What's the threshold for when it finally becomes worth doing so?
That is the biggest downside or Rust: people think they will be secure by using it, leading to turning off their security brain.
[citation needed]. I'm not convinced that's true at all. One could also easily say that putting locks on your house's doors and windows will cause the residents to "turn off their security brain" and lead to them being less secure overall, but that's absurd on its face. Nobody in their right mind would advocate for writing security-critical software in Intel assembly because having no safeguards at all would clearly cause you to write more secure code.
The linux kernel is in its 3rd decade, as most gnu/bsd tools and all of that is written in plain C. They are good and safe.
Really? Are you sure?
That's alittle bit of an exaggeration, but not much of one for your typical Japanese salaryman. Sometimes they get Sunday off, but if they get it "off" they usually have other obligations on that day. (source)
LET ME FUCKING CHANGE THE FUCKING USER AGENT
Install Firefox for Android, install your favorite user agent switching add-on.
I mean come on, if somebody touches your monitor at work, don't you want to strangle them? Aren't we fans of the old IBM clackedy clack keyboards to the point we're paying premium for mechanical keyboards? And yet we think touching our screens to input text, with no tactile feedback, is somehow okay?
There have been numerous cell phones in the past with built-in keyboards, and they quickly fell out of favor because they more than double the bulk of the phone, are prone to breaking, and are pretty uncomfortable to use due to the size. If you have to do sysadmin work on your phone you're already in a bad situation, but maybe get a bluetooth keyboard?
I have developed many such applications using VBA.
I am so, so sorry. I hope your job hunt to find a place that doesn't force you to use VBA is successful.
But more seriously, can you mention any specific things that you're trying to do that you haven't found an equivalent for? "Business logic" is pretty vague. Most of the time, people who say that are just talking about adding up cells in spreadsheets.
I remember a time where saving functions did not exist at all. It was still fun to play video games.
And in most of those games, the progression came from playing the same difficult levels over and over until you could beat it; most of those classic games without save functionality can be beaten in under an hour or two if you know what you're doing.
That's not quite the same as a modern game that has 100 hours of progression and gradual access to new content.
The letter wasn't threatening at all, actually. It was mostly the NHTSA asking questions about their design and testing in order to ensure it was safe on the roads. Hotz decided to fold rather than even try to answer the questions.
I work in the logistics industry
In all seriousness, what company do you work at where it is at all reasonable for somebody to tip over a 700 pound crate that is clearly marked with "fragile" and "this side up" on every surface just because they are in a "tremendous hurry"? I will make sure to not use them.
I'd gladly pay $5000 to get rid of some OSS figures if I knew I'd get away with it.
Hypothetical situations aside, did the maintainers of ZSNES refuse to accept any patches to "fix" the sound system?
Let me make sure I have this straight. You think it's "karma" that, in exchange for engaging in bad practices in an open source project (that anybody else could have come along and fixed if they cared so much), he's lost thousands of dollars of potentially irreplaceable hardware. Yeah, that sure sounds fair to me...