startling

GHC is top notch, I wouldn't say any language without a mature compiler "has all the advantages of Haskell".

And he received extra points for it.

The full quote:

> In geek contexts, they are usually a way for heterosexual men to bond over their common attraction to women. This is othering for anyone who is not a heterosexual man, including, obviously, women, and contributes to their invisibility in the field.

There's nothing here suggesting that that shared sexuality can't be used as a bonding mechanism among other groups. Just that in "geek contexts" it's usually intended as a bonding mechanism between straight men, and that this is othering to people who aren't straight men.

> A lot of people could theoretically bond with one-another over a shared attraction to a given gender.

OK? That's not what's happening here.

These are the kinds of things, specifically, that gross me out about this story:

(from http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Sexualized_environment)

* In geek contexts, they are usually a way for heterosexual men to bond over their common attraction to women. This is othering for anyone who is not a heterosexual man, including, obviously, women, and contributes to their invisibility in the field. This sensation of exclusion is very visceral when in a small minority, as women can be in geek settings.

* There is a long tradition of sexual images, suggestions and approaches being used to shame, scare, harrass or brutalise women. This is common enough that most women will have had personal experience of it. Therefore many women are unable to sensibly assume good faith on the part of unknown men seeking to make a situation sexual and feel mentally uncomfortable at best and physically intimidated often.

* While in many areas this restriction is loosening, women are stigmatised as well as celebrated for being too sexual. This traps women into a double bind when responding to sexualized environments, because even by getting the joke they may reveal themselves as too sexual.

Keep in mind the commenter received extra points for this.

Gross.

"Governments" aren't anywhere near the complete scope of risk you bring on yourself by storing passwords badly.

Do you have a source, or is this a thought experiment?

> Or give the same groups a Lego set and the instruction booklet (especially the tediously piece-by-piece modern ones), and see which population completes the set more quickly and more accurately.

fwiw, Lego are overwhelmingly marketed to, and given to, boys. I'm not sure it's safe to draw a conclusion from this.

> just don't believe in encouraging anyone to do anything in particular, except what they enjoy.

Great. What about the women working in tech now who feel isolated and held back, and the women who leave tech because of it?

(i.e. the people this initiative is supposed to help)

It's actually pretty easy to mitm your own https with tools like mitmproxy: https://mitmproxy.org/

But in this case getting the application to use the proxy may have been tricky.

I've never used wireshark, but fwiw it's trivial to filter by destination with, for example, tcpdump.

Seriously. My education was nothing like the grandparent describes.

generally you move your whole body, at least a little bit, when you move your head, though.

Management wants you to wait and give them a chance to solve your problem before you e.g. cancel. This kind of thing tricks you into waiting longer than you otherwise would, it doesn't trick you into going away.

The question is whether it does, not whether if it's possible.

fog / rain / low visibility (potentially fooling the sensor into thinking there's an object in front of you), cars behind you?

Is it really fair to call this int/int aliasing?

Sounds like the more apt comparison would be having a mandatory barbecue class during work hours.

I see a lot more smug, moralizing meat-eaters in this thread than vegetarians. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

you missed the last chunk of that sentence: " that the user decides it is not worth the effort to investigate alternatives.". If I don't have a Lyft account and have only ever used Uber, I may not want to go through the hassle of downloading the app, registering, having Lyft text me, etc etc.

Sounds more like a good argument to avoid sugar of lead.

Security isn't about solving problems the right way, it's about reducing attack surface.

No, this is an ASIC. It's not general-purpose.

"Feature flags" tend to be for behavior that is being developed and tested. The -ansi flag is more like configuration. It's pretty valuable to continue to support C90.

I don't think this is a feature flag in the same way the rest of the discussion is using the phrase.

This is totally not what I'm asking, thanks.

Carelessness and open flames are in many ways unavoidable. Badly wired light switches are avoidable.

nice, thanks!

Is the syntax composable? Can I do

    const json = await (await fetch(https://api.github.com/orgs/facebook')).json();

or do I have to name it?

"It's not clever to hack [with social engineering] something that you can socially engineer"

vs

"It's not clever to hack something [i.e. with technical exploits] that you can socially engineer""