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junek··on The Woman Behind Borges
Yes, it is in fact creepy, weird, and objectifying.

Men's sense of entitlement to give "compliments" does not supercede women's right to not get creepy, weird, objectifying comments from creepy weird men.

junek··on Firefox desktop extensions coming soon for the upcoming Android release
> the vast majority of Fennec users are obviously men

Do you have any evidence to support that claim?

Also the existence of women is not an "ideological slant".

junek··on New emojis in 2023-2024
Which identities do you consider excessive?

I'm also confused as to how a lime or a shaking head is an identity.

junek··on In practice, cool URLs can become inaccessible even if they don't change
Only the tides are eternal.
junek··on Roko's Basilisk
This is just Pascals Wager for dorks
junek··on Sometimes, it is a compiler bug: inding and fixing a bug in a C++ toolchain
I once found a compiler bug in C#/.NET , this must have been ten years ago by now. I was a junior dev debugging some weird problem with a desktop app.

The code was something like:

    if (foo.bar < 5) {
        a()
    } else {
        b()
    }
But `b()` would never get called. I stepped through with a debugger, checking the relevant values,and the `else` branch would never execute.

I remember inspecting the IR and seeing that yes, in fact, the `else` branch was simply missing. It would come back if I made a trivial change like deleting a blank line before the conditional block, which lead me to believe the compiler must be getting into a weird state somehow.

I showed my work to the senior engineers and they confirmed that yes this was a compiler bug. We submitted a bug report to MS but never heard back from them. I wonder if it ever got fixed?

junek··on Monkeypox goes global: why scientists are on alert
I thought this kind of primitive thinking was left behind by now.
junek··on My House
I don't see any mention of a bathroom. Did you have to install one?
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