Can I just say what a genuinely fascinating perspective you have there
That pronouns are somehow an exercise of power that must be submitted to, and not just a common courtesy because we're not all sensitive snowflakes
And that this is in any way remotely comparable to being tortured and killed for religious beliefs
I wonder how you feel about the nearly 1.7% of people born intersex that you meet and definitely work with, that have been newborns treated by your own GP... occupying possibly the "wrong" pronoun according to whatever this week's definition of Definitely Binary means
I'm sure people getting tortured and killed for religious beliefs will definitely relate to this discussion
>whatever this week's definition of Definitely Binary means
Humans are definitely sexually binary, much like how they are definitely bipedal. Genetic abnormalities prove the rule: humans only produce two types of gametes, sperm (male) and egg cells (female). There are no other types of gametes.
> not just a common courtesy because we're not all sensitive snowflakes
It's not courtesy if it's non consensual, same way that wealth redistribution isn't charity. Statistically and rhetorically speaking, the pronouns enforcers' beneficiaries are the sensitive snowflakes who can't do with a few people not indulging in their delusions.
You completely misunderstand the point. The vastly different level of threat itself is of no importance to the comparison, since the goal isn't to enact said threat, it's to force people to publicly betray their convictions, to mentally castrate them. It's nothing more than Orwell's "2 + 2 = 5", if you prefer this analogy.
Maybe it's a special snowflake thing to want to live with your head held high, standing for what you think is true, what do I know...
> I wonder how you feel about the nearly 1.7% of people born intersex that you meet and definitely work with
There's nothing to feel, these people are neither male or female and would indeed deserve a specific pronoun, but pragmatism would make it as logical as making all cars fit for one-armed people.
Also, your 1.7% is a bit biased, reading its source from Wikipedia's article.
> It's not courtesy if it's non consensual, same way that wealth redistribution isn't charity
I truly don't understand what you are talking about. When I was in primary school, and perhaps in no small part due to some prosopagnosia, I was unable to determine the gender of my peers reliably. This occasionally resulted in violence as I misgendered peers.
Do you live in a part of the world where you can use whatever pronouns you want on people?
If no, what exactly are we disagreeing about?
> standing for
Can you explain what, exactly, it is that you're standing for?
> There's nothing to feel, these people are neither male or female and would indeed deserve a specific pronoun, but pragmatism would make it as logical as making all cars fit for one-armed people
That's why they generally choose one or the other? Occasionally, someone will prefer a "non-standard" pronoun but I have never faced someone that didn't accept "they" (which, by the way, was my coping strategy in my childhood - when in doubt, use "they"! This was in pre-internet era of regional Queensland, Australia, where we barely had dictionaries, let alone knew what a pronoun even was)
You've obviously put a lot of energy and thought into this issue but I'm not exactly sure what the issue /is/
Good, so you agree that explicitly refusing to call someone what they want to be called is against common courtesy, since you are using a word to refer to a person that they have not consented to be called.
> but pragmatism would make it as logical as making all cars fit for one-armed people
If you could make all cars perfectly suitable for one-armed people for very low effort and without deteriorating the experience for two-armed people, you'd be an asshole not to do it. Just like a person tends to be an asshole if they refuse to call a person what they want to be called.
I generally go by my middle name. I have done so since before it was even my decision to do so, my parents made that decision for me and I have chosen to remain doing so. I have had multiple jobs where middle management and even co-workers would steadfastly refuse to use my middle name, instead trying to call for me by my first name that I have never listened for in my entire life. This continued even after speaking to them about it after them complaining that I didn't hear them call for me because they used the wrong name. That is the same level of assholery.
I don't disagree that Python's place in the ecosystem ("generalist" - i.e. load-bearing distro fossilization in everything from old binary linux distros, container layers, SIEM/SOAR products, serverless runtimes...) leads to much packaging complexity that R just doesn't have
However, Python (1991) is only 2 yrs older than R (1993)
Technologists certainly tend to seek solutions, and find blame in technology or the application of it. Getting technology right is necessary, but not sufficient.
In the end, the world is much bigger than the tech we build & consume.
... Does this statement come from having actually used things like Hadoop on Sun Grid Engine or any of Sun's other products? Or... what? What knowledge are you drawing on?
Edit: I mean, this is the company that gave us the 8 Fallacies of distributed computing, as they were 20yrs ago
I wish folks would use the taint mode they might already have. At some point taint checking bugs stopped being release blockers in core ruby & perl, but having worked through moving a couple of large codebases to surviving strict taint checking in prod, it's one of the most memorable systematic things we have to avoid (I think most?) of the bugs in the class that this is trying to solve.
Obviously, we want solutions that will remediate existing code unmodified, and I guess enabling taint mode isn't in that category.
I wonder what bugs taint checking wouldn't catch, that this would.
If the waveguide boils at a certain rate at certain power levels, then it should be possible to estimate how much force this would produce. If that force is on the same order, then it's likely the reason for what we're seeing.
FWIW Firefox manages to use W^X in their JIT (the experimental patch back in 2011 had a very interesting idea: one process w writing out to memory mapped RW, another process with the same mapped executable): http://jandemooij.nl/blog/2015/12/29/wx-jit-code-enabled-in-...
I think we "outsider" engineers forget (or miss the point on) why amateur radio enjoys the spectrum privileges it does: education, technical investigations, research... things that further the art and community. There's a large contingent of hams just listening.
Encrypted meaningless noise on the air would be a "selfish" waste of spectrum incompatible with the neighbourly spirit espoused by most amateur radio organizations and hams themselves, not to mention damaging to the self-policing they're supposed to do.
I alsl expect it wouldn't be "allowed" to persist as a hobby in its current form in many parts of the world if you added the threat of casual encrypted communications, beyond the reach of CALEA-type intercept capabilities into the mix.
That pronouns are somehow an exercise of power that must be submitted to, and not just a common courtesy because we're not all sensitive snowflakes
And that this is in any way remotely comparable to being tortured and killed for religious beliefs
I wonder how you feel about the nearly 1.7% of people born intersex that you meet and definitely work with, that have been newborns treated by your own GP... occupying possibly the "wrong" pronoun according to whatever this week's definition of Definitely Binary means
I'm sure people getting tortured and killed for religious beliefs will definitely relate to this discussion