epochwolf

That's an odd thing to look for on my profile page.

This article has no relevance to gender-neutral language and no one other than yourself is discussing this. It would be better to address this issue in a relevant thread instead of hijacking a random one.

If you could tell me what you're looking for instead of what you're not looking for, I'd be happy to provide it.

Or perhaps waterlion should have just not made the joke. It does not relate to the article in any fashion I can find relevant nor does it add anything to the existing discussion.

How is this heteronormative? I didn't see any reference to gender in the entire article.

Also, you're really stretching the "discrimination to the mentally ill" thing to the point of silliness.

Because there's plenty of people that don't listen past the first word.

My dad does this. I don't get it.

And of course, there's someone posting about the US Postal Service in the comments.

Okay, I used the wrong word. My point remains unchanged. Animals, in their various are not capable of enough intelligence or self-reasoning to be considered thinking beings requiring equal protection with people. It is not morally wrong for a human to hunt animals, farm animals, use animals for labor, or keep animals as pets.

This does not make it right for a human to deliberately cause harm to an animal for pleasure or entertainment. I also would consider trophy hunting to be immoral if one leaves the body to rot.

Animals are not sentient. Higher animals have some form of emotion and a great capacity to suffer but as far as we can tell today, they do not have self-aware and self-reasoning intelligence.

The very act of torture requires a level of emotional depravity that merely killing does not.

I go by epochwolf online and I very much care about the reputation I have under this name. Somewhat by accident there is an entire group of people that only know me as "epoch" in real life. My reputation among those people is just as important as my reputation among people that know me professionally under my real name.

I do try to keep my professional and personal relationships separate which part of the reason I have a pseudonym. In a bit of irony my company uses github and I use my epochwolf account at work. The seperation is less important than it used to be but I will always be epochwolf online.

This is totally unsurprising. Most word problems in textbooks are poorly written and have little to no basis in reality. My experience as a grade school student is that most teachers get annoyed when you question the logic of the questions being asked. Critical thinking is not rewarded in those situations.

So that given, which student is going to stick their neck out in that situation? It's better to risk a wrong answer than to risk annoying the teacher. The students may not think in those terms. They just know they need to provide the correct answer in the correct format. Understanding why is not important or rewarded. Only the result matters.

> What do you think is going to happen to them when they turn 18?

This is why we have jails.

When writing scripts don't use the shortened flags, use the long version.

For example, the deploy script from a simple php app I wrote:

    rsync --recursive --links --verbose --rsh=ssh --exclude-from ./exclude_from_deploy.txt --delete ./ kazan:/srv/simple-paste/

It has a different meaning than because of though. Two examples:

Bacon milkshake because bacon.

Bacon milkshake because of bacon.

The second one doesn't carry the flippant implication of the unquestionable awesomeness of bacon. You don't get to argue the point with the first one. The second one might be up to debate. There's far more to communication that just facts. There's emotional content that gets captured as well.

That's one use of it. Roughly equivalent to the "Aliens" guy meme.

The other meaning is "I don't need to explain why, because it should be obvious". Example: Bacon milkshake, because bacon.

Standing up in the aisle is more comfortable than sitting my fat butt in a tiny seat. :)

Easily, he's in line of sight to tons of radio towers.

That's always a risk with servers. They can die and everything can do with them. But they had backups so they didn't lose everything.

The issue wasn't that the error happened. The issue was Toyota did not do proper due diligence to prevent errors.

Some of those torrents are OCR scanned copies.

Typing n autocompletes to news.ycombinator.com on my devices.. yes, I'm here way too much.

I would argue that those overdoing it aren't doing so on accident. Everyone in management at the company I worked for went to these conferences specifically to get drunk with customers.

I've been to a couple of insurance conferences. This is not unique at all. There was at least one sexual assault that I know about. There are probably far more that weren't reported.

> what would you call atomic bombs?

Weapons of Mass Destruction. Which also includes chemical and biological weapons.

Allow them to be sold but disallow advertising and discounting. This is already done with tobacco.

Time Machine does not back up the operating system.

Um... I have 1Password on my iphone and my ipad.

Nope. The last version I wrote is buried in a rails app at a company I no longer work for.

It's a three or four line before filter in the application controller. I reimplement it every time since it's relatively simple.

I don't have it on any public code since it's also the last thing I implement before launching.