Nate Cox @ natecox @programming.dev

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It kills me that this take is so hard to find online.

Did I think calling the main branch “master” was offensive before this controversy? No, I’d never even considered it.

Does switching to calling it “main” impact me, like… at all? Also no. It’s like the lowest effort change to make.

If I can make my industry more welcoming to a more diverse group of people, that is a solid victory and way more important than the name of my primary git branch.

I don’t think it’s really gaming-to-politics. I think it’s more like gaming-to-very-loud-bigot. The fact that bigotry is so tightly coupled into right wing politics is just coincidental.

So is plastic, apparently, but nobody is insisting that if I would only eat it prepared differently that I would love it.

So are you just trying to be an ass here, or are you genuinely just so invested that you can’t see you’re arguing in bad faith?

I carry around a 3x5 split keyboard with Colemak-dh mapped via firmware. Because I, too, am absolutely useless at a qwerty keyboard now.

Rust introduces novel features and makes notable changes from its ancestors.

Arch was just blue Gentoo.

Chocolate, cherry, pistachio is where it’s at.

Also, “dot” with a hard T is like super common in programming naming. It’s a pretty reasonable mistake to make.

I also use them. They’re a tool for emphasis, like ! and 😡.

… as a TV show, right? Right?

I don’t think there is a good answer here. I didn’t really want my kids to have phones either but all you’re doing by denying them the primary social tool of their generation is ostracizing them from their peers.

Being a parent sometimes feels like a series of un-winnable choices.

Wat? It’s called a colloquialism. It’s a way to describe something I know you know without needing to spell it out.

You’re basically asserting that anything described using an analogy must inherit all the traits of anything else that analogy is used for, which is just silly. It’s a classic composition/division fallacy.

Yeah, my state just enacted a “bell-to-bell” ban on cell phones in schools for my kids. I absolutely support a ban on phones in class (so long as the school is providing necessary tech to educate with) but banning between class just ignores that phones are an important part of how kids socialize and ripping it away cold-turkey can’t be healthy.

Edit: also, I gave my kids phones primarily so they could contact me in an emergency, and I am very much not ok with the state telling me they can’t have the phone in their backpack.

I agree that it’s not much of an argument.

I loathe and despise using percentages like this.

500% sounds super scary, but is meaningless without providing the baseline. If there was only one instance before and now there’s 5 it isn’t a significant increase but 500% sure sounds scary.

This is a very republican method of argument.

Edit: now tell them to go “do your own research”

Touché

First time seeing it for me. Maybe we don’t need to be the post police.

Sophistry. I didn’t accuse “anyone that acts a way I don’t like”, I offered one explanation as to why some people might be assholes to women online.

I don’t like that you’re like weirdly defensive about this, you don’t see me making any accusations.

Who’s body shaming? Low self esteem does indeed cause people to lash out at others, and men frequently value their self worth on their dick size.