dennis_moore

For someone who doesn't use KDE on my main distro it's great. It's a giveaway that I probably shouldn't apt-get that program. (Not that I have anything against KDE software, just the idea of installing it on non-KDE environments)

All great until you come across someone with a permanent poker face. During my last interview, the interviewer was frowning the whole time.

I agree. I heard good arguments in support of a lab leak origin but almost none from the other side. In fact, the latter just seemed to agree with most of the things the former was saying.

It seems like a tremendously difficult task to declare that a particular individual is an endling. Do you know how a zoologist would infer such a thing?

I would image that satisfaction I'd get from having people actually use my code would greatly outweigh the inconvenience of being pestered about new features.

And so what if success in memory competitions is correlated with IQ? Grades among students are highly correlated to IQ, but that doesn't mean that good study habits and hard work won't improve your grade. Though I don't have a peer-reviewed source to back that up, sorry.

All animals are sentient but some are more sentient than others, I guess.

Black on pickle green isn't at all that readable. And neither is light pickle green on dark pickle green.

> So, next time you are annoyed that you have to fix a script or you accidentally type master when you needed to type main, please just take a deep breath, change the name, and remember to reflect upon whether you have are subconscious habits or biases that work against diversity in tech.

Could you please give me specific examples of what biases I, a software developer, may have? I like to think that I have always treated people with respect, judging them only by the character of their work and interactions with me, as opposed to stereotypes based on characteristics outside of their control. Perhaps I am wrong, but reflecting did not help maybe because I have had found no luck finding a thorough, rational source to educate myself on these issues that doesn't just echo meaningless politically or emotionally loaded statements. I am thus genuinely interested to hear from someone like you who is directly affected by these issues.

>I fundamentally disagree however that internet access (limited or otherwise) is fundamentally necessary for child development, or academic success or education in general.

I don't think that's true for many parts of the world, where the level of education attainable through standard means would hardly meet your standard of what is deemed reasonable. For such places, the internet is the only way for children to make steps towards that standard, albeit not easily.

To me that sounds as ridiculous as saying: "Given the high rates of obesity due to overconsumption of food, is the scarcity of food in developing countries such a bad thing?"

I'm not saying it isn't, but these organisms evolved over millions of years to adapt to these environments, whereas the extreme conditions caused by human activity are happening on a much shorter time scale, probably too short for organisms to be able to adapt.

My phone may be able to handle running a thousand messaging apps at once, but my brain can handle at most one or two before it melts from the sheer ridiculousness of having to deal with the different user interfaces, privacy policies, compatibility issues, etc. of a zillion companies just for something so bizarrely simple as sending a message to a friend.

Github is a hosting service built around git. Likewise, gmail is a service built around e-mail protocols. It's fine for services like these to exist because you have a choice of whether you want to use them or not to facilitate the use of the underlying protocol (you are free to set up your own e-mail server if you want, and doing so does not prevent you from communicating with users who choose to use gmail).

I think rather the big issue is, for instance, the use of Facebook Messenger for IM. If everyone I know uses it, I have no choice but to use it too because there is no underlying protocol behind it.