Asking questions is obviously fine. "Just asking questions" is a specific bad-faith rhetorical tactic: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
> In my book, it's wrong to pay if original authors don't get that payment. Wait, are you under the impression that the authors don't get paid?
> the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time. Which is still a good outcome, because you don't want to overwhelm the healthcare system to the point that it can't handle anything…
> Mutable strings by default was a huge mistake in Ruby This was changed in 3.0. String literals are now frozen/immutable by default.
> I'm genuinely curious to know why you feel the need to point it out. I haven't seen it in this thread either, but it's been a very common [false] talking point in the conspiracy/anti-vax circles.
> Activesupport is hugely widespread, yeah. It's a bit unfortunate since it provides so much Even this is becoming less and less necessary as more of the commonly-used syntactic sugar gets pulled into Ruby core.
> or example asking whether a variable is present? (truthy, so empty str and empty [] should return false) Actually this is kind of the whole point of #present? - it's not just a truthiness check. The only falsey values…
Yeah, and marc also skipped over the part where the creator actually gets paid.
> Besides adult content, what else is considered "high risk"? Off the top of my head: gambling, medication, gift cards...stuff that's legal but more-likely-than-average to chargeback or default.
> it's obviously popular stuff on the platform and it just doesn't seem like very positive content for me. This is true of everything. If I look at the front page of YouTube in a private browser window, it's all…
So...don't post? Every platform has (read: is primarily) lurkers.
I think the idea here is that people who are designers first are much less likely to make these beginner mistakes - but someone who's primarily a dev and putting together a simple web page or whatever might not realize…
Exactly. Hence > It would be more honest
> Research from the CDC has found that the mRNA vaccines ... reduce the risk of infection by 91 percent in people who are fully vaccinated. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/getting-a-pfizer-or-m... > A new CDC…
Nothing is perfect, but being vaccinated strongly reduces your chances of a) getting infected in the first place; and then b) thus passing it on to someone else.
Happily.
> As someone who is CIS I often wonder where this misconception originated: why do people think that "cis" is an acronym? What do they think it stands for? It's just a prefix; the antonym of "trans."
And that's fair enough, except he doesn't present his work as merely "first ring of truth" - he presents it as a deeper ring, or at least certainly does not indicate that it's merely an introduction. So laypeople read…
> It's strange to me that people should think we need a religious motive to prefer sobriety I would not at all be surprised to see a strong correlation of people who are religious and people who never drink. Even "one…
The last three things on this list are available in the "Latest" feed, rather than "Home."
> Being polite is better than not being polite. And if it is those aforementioned bad actors who get to define and gatekeep what it means to be "polite"?
> I followed my senator and found that no matter the post, the replies "Never read the comments" is common advice for a reason, and it has nothing to do specifically with Twitter.
This is true of every show, though. You just happen to know what those specific shower bars look like.
> hopefully you can shop around i.e., if you're lucky enough to have more than one alternative (if any).
> I don't talk with 99.9% of the people I've ever worked with and don't much miss them. Maybe you don't miss them because you never talked to them.
Asking questions is obviously fine. "Just asking questions" is a specific bad-faith rhetorical tactic: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions
> In my book, it's wrong to pay if original authors don't get that payment. Wait, are you under the impression that the authors don't get paid?
> the real outcome is simply delaying those deaths, spreading them out more over time. Which is still a good outcome, because you don't want to overwhelm the healthcare system to the point that it can't handle anything…
> Mutable strings by default was a huge mistake in Ruby This was changed in 3.0. String literals are now frozen/immutable by default.
> I'm genuinely curious to know why you feel the need to point it out. I haven't seen it in this thread either, but it's been a very common [false] talking point in the conspiracy/anti-vax circles.
> Activesupport is hugely widespread, yeah. It's a bit unfortunate since it provides so much Even this is becoming less and less necessary as more of the commonly-used syntactic sugar gets pulled into Ruby core.
> or example asking whether a variable is present? (truthy, so empty str and empty [] should return false) Actually this is kind of the whole point of #present? - it's not just a truthiness check. The only falsey values…
Yeah, and marc also skipped over the part where the creator actually gets paid.
> Besides adult content, what else is considered "high risk"? Off the top of my head: gambling, medication, gift cards...stuff that's legal but more-likely-than-average to chargeback or default.
> it's obviously popular stuff on the platform and it just doesn't seem like very positive content for me. This is true of everything. If I look at the front page of YouTube in a private browser window, it's all…
So...don't post? Every platform has (read: is primarily) lurkers.
I think the idea here is that people who are designers first are much less likely to make these beginner mistakes - but someone who's primarily a dev and putting together a simple web page or whatever might not realize…
Exactly. Hence > It would be more honest
> Research from the CDC has found that the mRNA vaccines ... reduce the risk of infection by 91 percent in people who are fully vaccinated. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/getting-a-pfizer-or-m... > A new CDC…
Nothing is perfect, but being vaccinated strongly reduces your chances of a) getting infected in the first place; and then b) thus passing it on to someone else.
Happily.
> As someone who is CIS I often wonder where this misconception originated: why do people think that "cis" is an acronym? What do they think it stands for? It's just a prefix; the antonym of "trans."
And that's fair enough, except he doesn't present his work as merely "first ring of truth" - he presents it as a deeper ring, or at least certainly does not indicate that it's merely an introduction. So laypeople read…
> It's strange to me that people should think we need a religious motive to prefer sobriety I would not at all be surprised to see a strong correlation of people who are religious and people who never drink. Even "one…
The last three things on this list are available in the "Latest" feed, rather than "Home."
> Being polite is better than not being polite. And if it is those aforementioned bad actors who get to define and gatekeep what it means to be "polite"?
> I followed my senator and found that no matter the post, the replies "Never read the comments" is common advice for a reason, and it has nothing to do specifically with Twitter.
This is true of every show, though. You just happen to know what those specific shower bars look like.
> hopefully you can shop around i.e., if you're lucky enough to have more than one alternative (if any).
> I don't talk with 99.9% of the people I've ever worked with and don't much miss them. Maybe you don't miss them because you never talked to them.