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freewheel

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    ‘R-tarded’ is a slur, and I’m sick of otherwise “liberal” people going along with the right’s move to renormalize it

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  • Why would I? I have the intellect and vocabulary to be specific when I choose to be insulting. For example, and only an example, I read you as a weekend intellectual, the sort of person who absolutely must be the smartest person in the room. Your lack of grammar and consistent punctuation gives me the impression you're Generation Y or Generation Z, part way through what will ultimately be an unfruitful and potentially very short career in tech; and you can't absorb why you're not moving up. The real reason, of course, is that you're bikeshedding everyone's language instead of learning the craft.

    How many slurs did you count?

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  • If you're going to correct someone, at least understand the phrase first.

    politically correct adjective us /pəˌlɪt̬.ə.kəl.i kəˈrekt/ uk /pəˌlɪt.ɪ.kəl.i kəˈrekt/ (abbreviation PC)

    Someone who is politically correct believes that language and actions that could be offensive to others, especially those relating to sex, gender, and race, should be avoided.

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/politically-correct

    And I will point out again that I'm talking about using traditionally technical terms in a technical context. With that understood, feel free to continue demonization.

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  • Oh look, somebody else is trying to cast me as a monster because I refuse to be politically correct in a technical context. You should probably also demonize me for the fact that I live my life in a wheelchair and will occasionally refer to myself as 'gimpy'.

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  • Exactly so.

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  • Sure, but if you equate me with someone who kicks a dog just because I talk about master or slave database nodes, or the need to retard message rates - I'm also going to treat you accordingly.

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  • I try not to use any slurs at all, but working in a technical field, I do occasionally use terms that have been picked up as slurs.

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  • Do people not remember the voice people would use? Do people not remember the motions people would do?

    Is that the fault of the word or the person?

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  • I'm very sorry for your experience, but without knowing you and your history, I can't possibly know all of that. So I'm left with two choices - sharply limit my vocabulary in the hopes of avoiding making some random person feel bad; or acknowledge that each adult is best qualified to carry and deal with their own traumas.

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  • No, but then that word has very few uses beyond slurs. The word 'retard', however, has many uses in technical fields - for example in setting internal combustion engine timings, or throttle settings in aviation. As always, context matters.

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  • When you stop being offended by letters on a page and direct that hate towards the individuals that use the word as a slur or out of context on purpose, you'll be a lot happier.

  • Linux Users

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  • Added to my mental toolbox, thanks!

  • Linux Users

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  • Substring completion on ZSH. Type in a small part of the command you want to find and then press up.

  • Megathread: Charlie Kirk Shot at Utah Valley University Event

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  • The whole comment reads as astroturf. I would treat it as such.

  • Would deffo help

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  • Right, because everything was magically perfect before Trump. We're going to completely ignore McConnell's platform of obstructionism or the 40 some attempts at repealing the ACA, or really any Republican platform since the 1950s.

  • Truth

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  • As another engineer, I won't touch another Mac until it allows me to upgrade memory and disk without buying a whole other unit.

  • NPM package ‘is’ with 2.8M weekly downloads infected devs with malware

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  • Little late to the party here, and I'm not primarily a js dev, but... yes. It looks like it's one of those syntactic sugar kind of packages that devs love to use. The bonus here is you can probably use a find-grep kind of process to check package-lock.json for references to the package. (there might be an npm command, but like I say - not a js dev.)

    For example:

     
        
$ grep \"is\"\: package-lock.json
        "is": "^3.3.0",

  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC

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  • I absolutely agree, but here's the problem in this context:

    • OP isn't non-commercial. By their own words, they'd been doing desktop support for MacOS - plastic-wrapped and glittery, but still a *nix. Five years in, one's search-fu and tolerance for reading docs should be well developed.
    • Their question was answered by the page they found. OP's argument is they didn't like the tone used to reply to THAT post's OP and concluded from that tone that their expertise wouldn't be valued "in the way they would like". There's room to develop some grit here.
    • Arch isn't intended for inexperienced users, and that is made clear in the docs. "It is targeted at the proficient GNU/Linux user, or anyone with a do-it-yourself attitude who is willing to read the documentation, and solve their own problems." (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_Linux#User_centrality) Getting this upset over a single package readjustment, no matter how badly it was communicated, tells me OP doesn't have a ton of experience with bare metal linux. There's just no way to sugarcoat that.

    Arch gatekeeps on occasion, yes, but this isn't that. This is the simple rules of that particular distro. OP is free to find something that better fits their needs; and it appears they have.

  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC

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  • It is most certainly not. (He says, as he comes fuming out of yet another meeting about a ticket that could have been solved at Tier 2 if support would learn how to read a log)

  • Realizing Arch isn't for me after updating broke VLC

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  • I'm amazed at the idea that in any technical community, an urging to gain more skill in your chosen environment could somehow be seen as negative.