Well, they called it a slur. That's good enough a reason.
That's why I don't like the idea of censoring slurs. Anything can be one.
If some chap at X, determining which word is considered a slur, says, "I watched a YouTube video with telling someone else not to call them 'cisgender'.", that's probably good enough to add it to the list, while most of them not actually matching the dictionary definition for "slur".
The point comes as to where to draw the line and the company gets to choose.
but does that mean they just can’t fall forwards?
To fall forwards, you would have to clip through the wall.
I honestly like the cognitive load. Just not when I am at the workplace, having to deal with said load, with the office banter in the background and (not so) occasionally, being interrupted for other stuff.
And my cognitive load is not even about the memory allocations, most of the time.
Off topic:
I think, if one is seriously learning programming from a young age, it is better to start with C, make a project, big enough to feel the difficulty and understand what the cognitive load is all about and get used to it, hence increasing their mental capability. Then learn the memory safe language of their choice.
I never made a big enough project in C, but you can get to feel the load in C++ too.
It's not just about bad/good C programmers. It's also about how much of the context, the given C programmer has read to make sure they know enough of what they are doing.
No matter how good one is at Programming, they need to make sure to read and remember what is happening in relevant parts of code, while making their one off contribution.
That's where the part of "leaving it to the computer" comes in. Hence, the usefulness of code checkers and even better if the compiler itself enforces the stuff. As long as the rules are good enough.
Let's just hope we are not jumping to another language 20 years down the line.
Even if you manage to keep all memory accesses in your memory, while writing the code, there's a good chance you'll forget something when reviewing another person's MR. That's probably the main problem creator.
Still, a language that you are familiar with, is better than a new language that you haven't finished reading the specifications of. And considering that adding new maintainers comes with a major effort of verifying trustworthiness, I get how it would be harder to switch.
Whether you consider it whining, depends upon the tone you read it in.
I just read that comment and didn't feel annoyed enough to even give a downvote and the mod's reply seemed far too annoying.
The username on the other hand...
And automatically numbered too! Nice.
~~Though for me, instead of a scrolldown effect, it reloads the page on clicking the link.~~ Trying a second time, it does the scrolldown properly. Weird
But that's just an implementation detail and as long as this is standard, I'll just start using it.
Thanks
I have been stopping myself from using those and instead restructure my sentence. But if people like it, guess I can start keeping it.
I do find it more useful, however, to have a kind of a reference to the thing written at the end instead [1], but markdown doesn't seem to have anything for that, and using the syntax for Markdown references, is only useful for hyperlinks, or if the reader is willing to read the hover text 2.
[1]: Like This. I would love it if the markdown viewer would link the above [1] to this line. Maybe with a scrolldown effect.
Then, also an emoji for showel+winter?
And one for showel+skull telling you are one of:
Looking at how current emojis tend to be hard to distinguish without increasing the font size (I see ~13 px on this page), I'd say the fediverse icon fits the criterion well enough.
Also,
I can see the icon in here well enough
Welcome to modern society. Everybody loves to pretend.
The people pretending to be offended by some random mistaken word uttered by another.
Those pretending to care about something that they are using "politically correct" words for.
Microsoft pretending to care about OSS, in the hopes of getting some highly performant devs.
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Yes, it's not a slur. But someone told another person to not call them a "cis woman" on camera and now it is whatever, you call it.