kupiakos

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by kupiakos 1y ago
It's being used correctly: something that is conspicuously old-fashioned for its environment is an anachronism. A toolchain that only supports native builds fits.
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by kupiakos 3y ago
> most mass shootings have occurred at locations that specifically disallow firearms, making them "soft targets" where the cowardly attacke Most places with large crowds disallow firearms, and most mass shootings occur at place
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by kupiakos 4y ago
This is wrong. Steam lets you choose a Proton (Wine) version per-game.
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by kupiakos 4y ago
Fixed prefixes also make a codebase significantly more grep-able. Want to find the definition of the function named `foobar`? Search `fn foobar` and that will always match, no regex required.
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by kupiakos 5y ago
"comparable" was interpreted to mean "similar risk profiles", which is not true. We don't have a recent smallpox outbreak to compare to for mortality with modern medical treatment. It's possible smallpox is onl
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by kupiakos 5y ago
Comparing modern death rates to the 1919 flu, and to historical smallpox infection, is not useful. Medical technology has come a long way in a century and so average mortality rates have dropped for all diseases. 2019 and 2020 had particula
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by kupiakos 5y ago
Everything in modern society is scientist-caused if you go deep enough.
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by kupiakos 5y ago
COVID is not comparable to the flu. It's 3-20x as deadly depending on a variety of factors. Smallpox would still be significantly more deadly than COVID individually, but I'd bet people would take lockdowns much more seriously f
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by kupiakos 5y ago
It largely depends on the definition of "class" you're using. You'll raise some eyebrows calling structs that can't support implementation inheritance "classes". You can also have implement different assoc
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by kupiakos 6y ago
I imagine that would likely fall under a new trademark or fraud law rather than copyright.
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by kupiakos 7y ago
In the present participle, it's "shutting down", not "shutdowning". Or, "she shuts down the computer", not "she shutdowns the computer". "shutdown" is a verb as much as "alot"
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by kupiakos 7y ago
I'm unsure what you mean - they said that there should be a space there and Merriam-Webster seems to support that. They put "shut down" and "shutdown" in the same page, and state that the verb version is "shut
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by kupiakos 7y ago
The claim that requiring pronouns be based on assigned sex not being transphobic is akin to claiming Prop 8 wasn't homophobic. Judging that a e.g. a trans man cannot possibly be a man and use he/him pronouns is transphobic by defi
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by kupiakos 7y ago
I'd absolutely love a way to display pronouns next to a username when configured. It's not required to follow the rules though. It's actually pretty simple: use they/them unless you find out otherwise. You're not re
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by kupiakos 7y ago
As a trans person, it feels impolite (well, insulting) to refer to people as the _wrong_ gender. I don't see it as impolite to avoid gendered language in the case of not knowing one's gender, and only impolite in the case of knowi
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by kupiakos 7y ago
On the positive side, I did manage to convince my technical writing professor to allow they/them in my paper after showing recent style guide changes allowing it in formal writing. This was in 2016, though.
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by kupiakos 7y ago
I disagree. This is an actual in-your-face challenge that trans people face - incorrect pronoun usage, both offline and online. Using the wrong pronoun for someone is akin to using the wrong name. It's ok if it happens accidentally, bu
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by kupiakos 7y ago
I won't visit China for the same reason I won't visit Russia or the deep US South. I'm visibly LGBT, and I would fear for my safety.
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by kupiakos 7y ago
I understand the opt-in rather than opt-out, but does disabling Ads Personalization [1] not do what you're asking? [1]: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated?hl=en
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by kupiakos 7y ago
This reminds me of The Stormlight Archive, in which reading, writing, and engineering are considered exclusively feminine.
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by kupiakos 7y ago
I'm a trans lesbian as well. I've had discussions about it at work. When coming out, I asked my coworkers to use she/her pronouns. I might mention my partner, or I mention to my manager that I'm going to need to leave wo
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by kupiakos 7y ago
lesbian: woman who is attracted to women transgender: one whose gender identity does not match the sex they were assigned at birth A transgender lesbian, therefore, is a transgender woman ("male-to-female") who is attracted to wom
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by kupiakos 7y ago
It's enigmatic, yes, but it seems to be the more common term amongst some atypical groups (neurodiverse and queer/trans people are who I have the most interaction with). There are some people who find unusual to be more pejorative
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by kupiakos 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/1357/ applies here. I don't think it should be illegal to host sites like 8chan. However, I would be uncomfortable working for and/or paying for company X that knowingly supports/protect
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by kupiakos 7y ago
And if the policy is created by people who have no idea what the needs actually are and get it wrong? It's all well and good to say "just follow HR and the law", but it's frankly pretty naive. What happens when your very
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by kupiakos 7y ago
"Politics-free" inherently means "maintain the status quo". This does well to serve the majority, but tends to go poorly for people who are harmed by that status quo, such as historically underrepresented groups. If I&#x
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by kupiakos 7y ago
There was protest involving the AI ethics council, but it was due to the inclusion of a homophobic and transphobic person on the board, not of the council itself.
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by kupiakos 7y ago
Interesting, AC uses a massive amount of electricity during the summer in Illinois, a place which doesn't spare on cold winters.
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by kupiakos 7y ago
It's also awful for trans people, who often go by a different name or have an alternate account until the frustrating legal name change process goes through.
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by kupiakos 7y ago
Granted, I don't know the math and this is intuition from Kerbal Space Program, but I'm not sure that's right. Wouldn't two objects colliding at 0° and 90° orbits result in a higher apoapsis and the same periapsis? Would

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