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The Microsoft way is absolutely better than the Apple way. Platform holders, Apple in particular, reap enormous profits. They have at least some basic responsibility here. It's hard? Tough shit, software is hard. Start putting in the work for your 400k TC.

This is also why Apple will never be a long-term gaming platform for anything other than gacha pull and otherwise exploitative games. I can still play the original Dark Souls with DSFix on modern Windows (or Linux via Proton for that matter). The game is timeless and should never be lost to lazy platform holders.

Sounds like the world in which the platform keeps moving and breaking APIs is a pretty bad world!

By buying Blue you are expressing the opinion that buying Blue and putting the checkmark on your profile is worth your money. That is a reasonable thing to use to judge people, isn't it?

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Apple decided to just never even try and do fractional scaling.

I used to use and love Apple. Then I discovered the modern Linux desktop and never looked back.

KDE/KWin does.

Ultimately, Wayland is where all the energy is. It has shortcomings but is good enough and all future work (HDR for example) is going to be done on Wayland.

> Gender is a social fabrication that is at best derivative of sex

Yes, gender is derivative of psychological sex (or what is often called gender identity, though that is a confusing label because it's not quite like other kinds of identity).

It is certainly not a social fabrication though. People actually, physically, feel cool while under the shadow of a tree.

> and at worst an unmoored fantasy.

This statement is beyond the pale. You should probably retract it.

> Pronouns refer to sex.

This statement is pure, unadulterated gender ideology.

> Stop coercing my language and do what you want with your body.

Some amount of coercion is required to exist in a society—believing otherwise is right-libertarian nonsense. For example, in any reasonable workplace or school setting you are required to not harass, discriminate or retaliate against people. That is a kind of coercion. Part of that coercion is to use trans people's chosen names and pronouns. This is just. In a sane jurisdiction like California it is the law.

Outside of work or school you can do whatever you like.

> If we can't debate against nazism or slavery and win in the eyes of the audience, on democratic terms, I guess it is to late to be "intolerant of intolerance" and democracy has already failed.

Probably, yes. Democracy is bad at edge cases (Hitler was democratically elected) and undemocratic means must sometimes be used. Deplatforming is pretty mild as far as undemocratic means go.

Such is life.

Blah blah blah yes yes I know what the GC positions are. The fact remains that being treated as the gender I want to be treated as and updating my hormone profile and getting surgery to align with that has taken away all of my social anxiety and body image issues, and that this is a widely reported phenomenon that has been well-studied over decades. Now whether as a matter of public policy you think we should have cruelty inflicted upon us or not is a separate question, but if you want to be cruel at least be honest about it.

> There is no gender

This is just plainly false. Gender is the social projection of sex, just like a shadow is a projection of an object onto a plane. When you are making claims like "[e]ach of us is born to a sex that is immutable", you are defining and setting up a system of gender.

There is no escape from gender because we live in a society. You don't get to say "there is no shadow". You cannot simply define it away like that.

> But they should not falsely claim the category of a biological sex that is not theirs

There is no falsehood going on, just a different way to set boundaries. One that is better because it leads to greater justice.

> Each of us is born to a sex that is immutable.

This depends entirely on your definition of sex. You have chosen to define sex to mean gametes. I have a different, more expansive definition that also includes sex characteristics. My definition is better than yours because it leads to greater justice in the world.

> The belief that gender exists, or that we have a gender identity that somehow infused the wrong body, is a profoundly religious idea. And by the same token, ungrounded in fact.

What you call religion, I call the massive weight of decades of medical science: https://medicine.yale.edu/lgbtqi/research/gender-affirming-c...

If you do not believe in the legitimacy of transgender identities, it is you who are choosing bigoted religiosity over actual science.

It's only ad hominem if it isn't true. Anyone who deliberately deadnames a trans person is a mean asshole, and if you disagree you're a mean asshole enabler.

The only "gender ideology" that exists is fervent adherents of traditional religions forcing their backwards beliefs on the rest of society, and so-called "gender-critical" people organizing with them to deny trans people a public existence. That's ideology.

> You can phrase pretty much any side of a political question as being either tolerant or intolerant with a bit of work.

And we determine who is right and who isn't through the power of reason and evidence.

> Are you saying morality is a physical magnitude that can be studied and/or measured?

No.

> Because if we can't then I don't see how objective reality relates to morality.

Try seeing harder.

I used Eich because he was cited in the essay:

> Think of Brendan Eich as a member of a tiny religious minority surrounded by people who hate that minority. Suddenly firing him doesn’t seem very noble.

Holy basil is also known as tulsi, for those who are familiar with Indian traditions.

Blow is a smart guy who thinks he's far smarter and far more interesting than he really is. Smart people who don't seek out feedback, and especially those who haven't worked in a team environment, tend to be pretty bad at estimating the limit of their capabilities.

Does Blow have a mentor? Friends who call his BS out?

In Indian English it's another word for disadvantaged.

Indian English has, by number of speakers, more of a claim to be standard English than British English.

Who could have picked those terms? OBC is a term of art used in Indian politics [1]. The author didn't exactly choose that term.

And OBC is Indian English, which is one of the most common varieties of English spoken worldwide. I think it's really weird when people say "carpetbagger" in American politics, definitely more weird than OBC. And don't get me started on the racist origins of "grandfathered in" or "eenie meenie miney moe".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_Backward_Class

Elite capture is a real phenomenon and I think one that affirmative action programs worldwide struggle to handle. It's worth acknowledging even if we ultimately decide the benefits outweigh the costs.

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1867-elite-capture

What exactly is your point then? It's just another word for "disadvantaged", "underprivileged" or "oppressed".

Huh? He's a Rust project member and part of the Rust library API team: https://www.rust-lang.org/governance/teams/library. As such, the Rust Code of Conduct applies to him.

Beyond the reputational harm to the Rust community, he actively engaged in attention-seeking behavior, something that is against the Rust Code of Conduct. (He's far too intelligent to not know that it was attention-seeking behavior.)

Do we as humans owe anything at all to each other outside of a capitalistic transaction-based framework?

I think the burden of open source maintenance often goes too far in the other direction, especially when corporations demand free labor, but I think it's reasonable to expect maintainers of core libraries to not actively cause harm.

I'm just happy KDE is changing old behaviors that are counterintuitive in the modern age.

Now as for the macOS cmd-tab behavior...

The ease of use outweighs the security concerns for most reasonable people.

Clearly the state of the language post-async/await is good enough that tens of billions of dollars, probably more, are riding on it. There's still lots that needs to be done but the language is in pretty good shape today.

Why shouldn't people fall in love with Rust and post about it? I fell in love with Rust before NLL even.

Enums with associated values are a very basic data modeling primitive. Writing code without them is like doing arithmetic with only the multiplication sign, not the plus sign.

> before almost anyone became aware

This isn't a serious comment. It really does not matter whether "almost anyone" became aware, it matters whether the sorts of people who pay attention to this became aware. OS packagers became aware of this super quickly and were working quietly to get this fixed. My understanding is that some security teams at large companies quickly flagged this as well and likely reached out via private channels.

The public outrage happened weeks later but it's not as if no one was paying attention.

And this is why Apple will never be a serious gaming platform for non-exploitative/GaaS games. Personally I think it's good that I can run games that were last updated in the early 2010s on my computer.

I understand the distinctions quite well, thank you. I spent around half an hour reading about the context of what he has been accused of doing before commenting.