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[–] [email protected] 2 points 38 minutes ago* (last edited 33 minutes ago)

There are a million and one ways to phrase everything in the English language, it's flexibility is one of its most notable features. There is literally no instruction or label that requires non gender neutral language to be in it unless you're talking explicitly about gender.

Go ahead and name a label or instruction that you think requires you to use the word he and doesn't have a gender neutral equivalent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Didn't they fly off the handle on someone for politely pointing out that the text shouldn't use the word "he" and assume that every user is male?

That's not political, thats flat out unprofessional. I would think it's a pretty junior mistake if any of my colleagues filed a non-gender neutral PR in the first place, and would flat out fire them if they ever reacted to a review that unprofessionally.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

It's not that great an analogy because the autobahn isn't still maintained by Nazis.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Lmao, barely have a conversation? Trump literally can't even remember what he did or said yesterday, and has literally no plan for actually improving the country in any way shape or form.

Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act which actually presents a vision for how to return manufacturing to America and restart it's economy, while addressing climate change. Trump has no plan to address literally any of that.

You need to wake up man. They are not even in the same ballpark.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

No, it's not a hard decision.

You're choosing between two old men, one of whom is an actual politician with a history of accomplishing things and running a country. The other is a mean old pervert who couldn't run a business without committing fraud. He literally tried to cheat and destroy the system when he lost the first time.

How the fuck do you think it's close?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

This is naiive accelerationist nonsense.

You do not fix systems by ignoring them and letting badgers tear them apart for years in your absence.

The vast majority of the time, actual change comes from people engaging with the system and slowly pushing it in the right direction.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Quite frankly, go outside and have someone slap you in the face and wake you the fuck up.

It's not remotely close. Biden still has an actual solid policy agenda, Trump is a senile and decrepit badger, shitting himself and scratching at everything he sees.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

For software to run on a computer, it needs to tell the computer what to do, "display this picture of a flower", "move my character to the left", "save this poem to a file".

And for a bunch of different software to all run on the same machine, they all need to use the same basic set of instructions, this is called the machine's Instruction Set.

Because the instruction set has to work for any software, these instructions don't look that readable to us, instead of "show this flower" they might be "move this bit of memory into the processor", but software builds up millions of those instructions to eventually display a flower.

Intel processors used a set of instructions that were called x86, and then when AMD made a rival processor, they made theirs use the same instruction set so that their processors would be compatible with all the software written for Intel processors (and when they needed to move from 32bit instructions to 64bit instructions, they made a new set called x64).

Meanwhile Apple computers for a long time used processors built by IBM that used IBMs PowerPC instruction set.

Now many companies are using the ARM instruction set, but ARM is still a private company you have to pay licensing fees to, so RISC-V is rising as a new, truly open source and free to use instruction set.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 weeks ago

You work a job that uses PowerShell and you refuse to learn or use it. You are creating problems for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago
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