Why should, as you put it, people with "sensitive needs" drag themselves down to the gutter of this level of communication? Why can't the others drag themselves up a few levels, it would probably attract a load more talented people to the pool.
We disagree about which direction is "up" and which is "down". IMO catering to the neediness of the special snowflakes who insist on anything which might appear be critical be couched in the most indirect terms possible along with ego-stroking to soften the blow is "down".
It's not a binary between "coddling" (by which I assume you mean making sure no one's feelings ever get hurt) and "being a relentless fucking asshole." It's possible to strike a balance.
There are points where the people you are coddling will still think you're a fucking asshole, if that's what you mean. The happy medium where you are neither coddling people nor having them consider you a fucking asshole... that doesn't exist.
So I'm waiting for someone at a major corporation that does substantial open source development to file a hostile work environment suit against their company if they are required to do kernel submissions. That would *quickly* result in a change in attitude if a major contributor decided that it was potentially litigiously expensive to contribute.
By what mechanism? None of these corporations controls Linus; Linus cannot be (successfully) sued for contributing to a hostile work environment somewhere else. If some corporation doesn't want to contribute, they won't get what they want in the kernel; Linux and Linus will weather it just fine.
I agree, this. Linus should think of this: what if, for a year or so, his parents and grandparents talked to him the way he sometimes does to people on the LKML. No filter, no subtlety, no tact, brutally direct communication.
And by "civil" you mean a work environment where if you say anything even vaguely critical you get jumped on for "tone", an argument you can win only if your social standing and/or position within a corporate hierarchy is sufficiently higher than the person you are criticizing. Geeks, typically being low ranked both socially and within corporate hierarchies, tend to lose all the time in such an environment; it's no wonder they refuse to create it on their own. What Sharp misses is that in this particular environment, those she criticizes have far more social standing and position than she does, so she cannot win this way.
Yes, that's fine, and then all but the assholes will leave and you'll end up with a really toxic environment. That's not something to be proud of and more importantly, I think it's a long-term recipe for failure.
Nope, that's when the assholes finally get some work done because they can say what they mean rather than spending all their time trying to walk the nonexistent line between "hurt feelings" and "not getting your point across"
Got it in one. Sharp is trying to impose her own preferred communication style on an existing community, to make all of them cater to her desires in every communication. And yet she claims she's the one being bullied.
If you're eventually going to be working with me (that is, if I'm going to be "knowledge transferring" to your next-to-worthless ass so I can get one last bonus before they lay me off), learn English. Because I'm not going to be learning anything else.
Just having copper in the system won't kill legionella; it can live in copper-piped water systems just fine. Active copper-silver ionization will, but that requires active maintenance, as does every other effective method for treating legionella (UV, ozone, Cu-Ag ionization, chlorine).
Apple juice and orange juice naturally have a sugar concentration similar to (but higher than) what you find in soda. So does cranberry juice. Even carrot juice and grapefruit juice have a sugar concentration similar to what you find in soda.
A computer system detects the delivery of large quantities of bomb-making materials to an address in the suburbs. You arrest the parents, and they seem completely baffled. You get a warrant and search their computers, only to find that their 13-year-old son has been in communication with Al Qaeda. You know that somewhere in the city, there is probably a bomb, and the only lead is a kid. The kid is uncooperative, and you realize that if you do not get the kid to spill his guts, thousands of people will die.
Oh, sorry about that, I guess I shouldn't have popped the kid in the mouth several sentences ago. It'll be hard to understand him when the torturers break him. They'll just have to leave one of his fingers so he can point to a place on the map or something.
Yeah, it's a universal truth; the only way to advance is to become a "leader of men". Nothing else is necessary, and nothing else is sufficient. Remember this when your leaders attempt to motivate you; they do not respect you or your abilities, and they will not deliver on any promises of advancement, but rather they will throw you scraps and expect you to be grateful for them.
CO2 is fungible. If I burn one tree's worth of coal, I've changed the amount in the active carbon cycle by exactly the same amount as if I burned the tree instead. The only way this isn't true is if the tree was going to burn anyway.
1. Rule of law. As opposed to rule by edict or dictates (by dictators). 1.a. Going back to the 1960's; Law and Order was a conservative rallying cry. Currently some 'conservatives' are operating along the lines that one's personal values may trump (not Donald, no pun intended) actual laws. [But see the Tao Te Ching!]
Law and order is not rule of law. The concept of "law and order" is that order and respect for society's institutions is paramount, more important than other things such as freedom or justice. Law and order means you do what an authority figure says, even if you feel it's wrong, because that injustice is less important than the chaos which would result if respect for authority was lost.
There's a wide range of mid-priced dishwashers that all have exactly the same wash system, the only differences being sound insulation, tub and face material, and rack configuration. They work fine at cleaning the dishes.
I especially liked the subtlety of such episodes as "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", on the surface a story about two aliens who differ only in which side of their face is black and which is white, but which is actually an allegory about racism and tribal hatred.
When they have only a small amount of stuff, they still do step 3 and simply pretend its a lot. And nobody is ever unhappy at the end, the format calls for a happy ending so a happy ending on every episode.
After you've watched 3 episodes, you get the format and stop watching BECAUSE EVERY EPISODE WILL BE THE SAME.
That's why I used to like some of those house-flipping shows. Sometimes they'd make big money, sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes at the end they'd end up losing money. There was one where the flipper couple ended up divorced and the guy ended up bankrupt and living in an tiny RV that belonged to one of his relatives. Still, there's only a limited number of variations of the formula, and they played them all out.
You must not know about the Wachowski/Straczynski "Sense8". Unless by big-budget you mean SFX-laden? But it's beautifully shot on location around the world.
It's also fucking terrible and more soap-opera than SF.
I think that story was about either the Atlantic in general, or Florida in particular. A hurricane hasn't made landfall in Florida in something like a decade now, which was pretty similar to the entire east coast. When Sandy hit it was not classified as a hurricane. I heard a climatologist on NPR mentioning how hurricanes don't care about what happened the previous year.
No major (Cat 3+) hurricane has made landfall on the US mainland since 2005 (Wilma). This is also a record, though not one the warmists like to talk about. After 2005, the doomsayers were predicting tons of (east coast) major hurricanes being the new normal.
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We disagree about which direction is "up" and which is "down". IMO catering to the neediness of the special snowflakes who insist on anything which might appear be critical be couched in the most indirect terms possible along with ego-stroking to soften the blow is "down".
You know who has the biggest ego of all? The one who thinks he has all the answers and is smarter than all those guys with "unbounded ego".
There are points where the people you are coddling will still think you're a fucking asshole, if that's what you mean. The happy medium where you are neither coddling people nor having them consider you a fucking asshole... that doesn't exist.
By what mechanism? None of these corporations controls Linus; Linus cannot be (successfully) sued for contributing to a hostile work environment somewhere else. If some corporation doesn't want to contribute, they won't get what they want in the kernel; Linux and Linus will weather it just fine.
How do you know they didn't?
And by "civil" you mean a work environment where if you say anything even vaguely critical you get jumped on for "tone", an argument you can win only if your social standing and/or position within a corporate hierarchy is sufficiently higher than the person you are criticizing. Geeks, typically being low ranked both socially and within corporate hierarchies, tend to lose all the time in such an environment; it's no wonder they refuse to create it on their own. What Sharp misses is that in this particular environment, those she criticizes have far more social standing and position than she does, so she cannot win this way.
Nope, that's when the assholes finally get some work done because they can say what they mean rather than spending all their time trying to walk the nonexistent line between "hurt feelings" and "not getting your point across"
Got it in one. Sharp is trying to impose her own preferred communication style on an existing community, to make all of them cater to her desires in every communication. And yet she claims she's the one being bullied.
If you're eventually going to be working with me (that is, if I'm going to be "knowledge transferring" to your next-to-worthless ass so I can get one last bonus before they lay me off), learn English. Because I'm not going to be learning anything else.
Potable water systems, made of copper, which have never had anything but potable water go through them STILL get biofilms on them.
Just having copper in the system won't kill legionella; it can live in copper-piped water systems just fine. Active copper-silver ionization will, but that requires active maintenance, as does every other effective method for treating legionella (UV, ozone, Cu-Ag ionization, chlorine).
Apple juice and orange juice naturally have a sugar concentration similar to (but higher than) what you find in soda. So does cranberry juice. Even carrot juice and grapefruit juice have a sugar concentration similar to what you find in soda.
Oh, sorry about that, I guess I shouldn't have popped the kid in the mouth several sentences ago. It'll be hard to understand him when the torturers break him. They'll just have to leave one of his fingers so he can point to a place on the map or something.
I bet you'd be right there screaming about the USs support for dictators and supporters of terrorists if we didn't oppose Assad.
Yeah, it's a universal truth; the only way to advance is to become a "leader of men". Nothing else is necessary, and nothing else is sufficient. Remember this when your leaders attempt to motivate you; they do not respect you or your abilities, and they will not deliver on any promises of advancement, but rather they will throw you scraps and expect you to be grateful for them.
Though the Prostitute Management Program certification might actually hold slightly more prestige.
Yeah, sounds like you're describing that bastard engineer Robert Moses.
Oh, wait, Moses's degrees were in political science.
Facts are stubborn things.
CO2 is fungible. If I burn one tree's worth of coal, I've changed the amount in the active carbon cycle by exactly the same amount as if I burned the tree instead. The only way this isn't true is if the tree was going to burn anyway.
Law and order is not rule of law. The concept of "law and order" is that order and respect for society's institutions is paramount, more important than other things such as freedom or justice. Law and order means you do what an authority figure says, even if you feel it's wrong, because that injustice is less important than the chaos which would result if respect for authority was lost.
There's a wide range of mid-priced dishwashers that all have exactly the same wash system, the only differences being sound insulation, tub and face material, and rack configuration. They work fine at cleaning the dishes.
I especially liked the subtlety of such episodes as "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", on the surface a story about two aliens who differ only in which side of their face is black and which is white, but which is actually an allegory about racism and tribal hatred.
That's why I used to like some of those house-flipping shows. Sometimes they'd make big money, sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes at the end they'd end up losing money. There was one where the flipper couple ended up divorced and the guy ended up bankrupt and living in an tiny RV that belonged to one of his relatives. Still, there's only a limited number of variations of the formula, and they played them all out.
It's also fucking terrible and more soap-opera than SF.
I'm sure the study is worked out using a model with no more unknowns than say, the Drake Equation.
No major (Cat 3+) hurricane has made landfall on the US mainland since 2005 (Wilma). This is also a record, though not one the warmists like to talk about. After 2005, the doomsayers were predicting tons of (east coast) major hurricanes being the new normal.