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> Judging some factors surrounding the content is quickly done, and generally a good approximation for the quality of the content itself. How obnoxious is the website, how tasteful is the design? Is the copyright year in the footer up-to-date (terrible signal if the year is wrong)?

> A crass analogy, but I'll not take health advice from someone with brown stains on their pants either.

These are literally ad hominems.

> a website is not a person.

That is not relevant. The conclusion of the review on the website is being dismissed because of some other qualities of the website that have no bearing on the quality of the review being performed.

Which numbers are those? Their sales numbers or their numbers of vehicle recalls due to defective engine manufacturing?

Not necessarily if you take immigration into account.

So true. Pick your boogeyman (Muslims/Immigrants/Antifa/Trans/"Marxists"), pump the attack propaganda through all available media channels and hope no one mentions the billionaires.

It's been awhile since 9/11 and we've got pretty short memories, so we'll probably cycle back to Muslims soon.

Define "fair price"

5090s are certainly expensive compared to most other GPUs, but not expensive enough to be unobtanium for nearly any professional who could utilize one as part of their job

Yeah, on larger monitors it's more common to run at the monitor's native resolution without scaling but even so macOS will not turn on HiDPI mode - you'd still need to do this explicitly via another app (I didn't even know it was possible to turn on HiDPI mode at native scaling until reading this article)

In macOS display settings, what scaling mode are you using? This bug appears to only affect 4K monitors that are configured to use the maximum amount of screen space (which makes text look uncomfortably tiny unless you have a very large monitor). Most people run at the default setting which gives you the real estate of a 1080p screen at 2x scale, hence the "not normal" part of this configuration.

Actually, I don't even think it's possible to run HiDPI mode at the native resolution scale from within the macOS settings app, you'd need something like `Better Display` to turn it on explicitly.

I'd cancel either way, I'd just be less mad if they announced it ahead of time.

This seems very likely to be a mistake or bug.

Spotify rolling this out without an announcement intentionally would be an incredible blunder. I'd cancel my membership immediately and I don't think I'd be alone in that decision.

> That’s a red line he will only cross out of stupidity.

So you're saying it's highly likely then?

Do you have a source for that?

> I didn't get that read at all. I read it as their journey of understanding how the world works and how they've reached their opinions on personal autonomy.

They are using very general language and they aren’t disagreeing with my characterization, so I think I’m describing their position accurately.

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I think the blog post is confusing in this regard. For example, it explicitly states:

> We no longer had to deploy 140+ services for a change to one of the shared libraries.

Taken in isolation, that is a strong indicator that they were indeed running a distributed monolith.

However, the blog post earlier on said that different microservices were using different versions of the library. If that was actually true, then they would never have to deploy all 140+ of their services in response to a single change in their shared library.

> Suggesting that personal fulfillment should not be controlled by a corporation is not elitist — it is philosophy.

So now if I choose to play a video game, that means my personal fulfillment is being controlled by a corporation? You seem to be conflating one's agency to choose versus a corporation having utter control over one's choices. Again, I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but you mentioned being addicted to video games and I think that is affecting your objectivity. As someone who plays video games only a few hours a week, your claim sounds ridiculous.

> I typed out my ideas as they came to me, so I may have missed the mark. The core idea I want to portray is that you can choose not to play the game of for profit corporations. You can walk away.

Sure, no argument there - but that's not what you said originally.

Choosing to play a video game made by a corporation doesn't mean the corporation is controlling one's fulfillment, nor does it mean one is not getting fulfillment or satifsfaction from it (your words).

I disagree with your premise that your non-preferred form of entertainment is equivalent to eating junk food.

I’m sorry that you were addicted to playing video games (truly) but I think your past experience is preventing you from thinking rationally about this.

People can find fulfillment from many different things, including the ones that you personally don’t find fulfilling. One's fulfillment is also irrelevant with respect to whether the product they are consuming was designed by a corporation to extract maximum profits (though I sympathize with your anti-corporate stance, despite the fact I find this point of yours to be irrational).

You admitted your view was subjective, yet you are prescribing it as a general view that applies to everyone which is both elitist and dissonant.

> As I have gotten older I see now that this entertainment is junk food that replaces real satisfaction and accomplishment in life

A bit too condescending if you ask me. People are free to choose to spend time on things they find entertaining and that has no bearing on whether you find it "junk food" or whether the company producing the entertainment is trying to squeeze every penny they can out of it.

You did say that. You performed a stealth edit and modified your comment, but fortunately I quoted what you originally said in my previous comment:

> But yeah... CoC applies to him too. So you've got a good point

Since you’ve just proven yourself to not be arguing in good faith, this will be my last response to you.

> But I care about people trying to be morality police and discouraging someone blogging on their own website from writing rudely and writing politically incorrectly

This appears to be a strawman. You already admitted he violated the CoC - so he is in the wrong here.

I'm not sure what else there is to disagree with - that's been my assertion from the beginning.

If he wants to write childish stuff on his own website that is not covered by the CoC, that's his choice. I'm also free to express my opinion on that, but I never implied that he shouldn't be able to write whatever he wanted on his own personal blog.

> Yes, he did. It is funny.

Yeah, it’s hilarious! Calling someone a monkey is such a clever and thought provoking insult!

> I don't know why we need to talk endlessly about it

If you are confused by this, why are you continuing to respond?

> When I said I decline to share my lines and boundaries here, I meant just that. I didn't mean that I need a lecture on CoC from you. I know what CoCs are and why they exist.

I really don’t think you know why CoC’s exist, because you are chastising people when they point out a legitimate violation (e.g. being the "morality police").

> But yeah... CoC applies to him too. So you've got a good point

Thanks for finally admitting this, I guess? Not sure why you needed to add all the extra argumentation about it, but at least you got there eventually.

> If this is such an important topic for you, please do report the violation to them

No thank you. I’m not actually offended by what he said, I just find it weird when people rush to his defense on this.

My first thought when reading the article is that the author would never attempt to call the person a monkey or loser to their face "in real life".

One of the unfortunate side effects of the internet is that it really brings out the asshole in a lot of people.

> All I am saying is it is their project, their blog. They can be however much rude they want to be on their website. It's their website, their lines and their boundaries.

That's funny, because if that is true he violated his own code of conduct: https://ziglang.org/code-of-conduct/#safe-constructive-only

> I do but I decline to share it here

The point is that everyone has different lines for what they consider to be "acceptable" or not. That is exactly the reason why codes of conduct exist - it's an attempt to find a common denomiator so that it can help foster a community where people can feel included without feeling like they are being attacked or insulted.

not being an asshole != political correctness

Surely you have your own line on what is or is not acceptable discourse. What is it?

> To me all those mean the same thing, except the latter is more flavorful and makes my eyes less likely to glaze over.

And to many others, the difference is that one is informative, the other is likely to turn them off of the author and project forever.

I noticed that you never answered my question. If this is acceptable to you, where do you draw the line? If you can answer that question, maybe you'll be able to see the flaw in your argument.

I'm sure getting called a monkey will stop them from ever making a mistake again.

> I agree that the writing in the blog post is more colorful than precise, but sanitizing every bit of expression dulls the internet. Humans invented language for a reason.

Where do you draw the line, then? Is a racist screed acceptable to you as long as the following paragraph references technical issues correctly?

The language in the blog post is insulting. Imagine how you would feel if you were the person who wrote this code, and now you are being called a monkey in front of thousands of people on the internet. Certainly you've made mistakes in your code before...or are you saying you've always written flawless code without errors?

These codes of conduct always seemed a bit superfluous to me, but after reading comments like these I can totally see why they are necessary.

The majority of passengers didn't even care enough to vote.

Most web application servers work this way. It also works really well in practice using modern CD tools - update your configuration and perform a gradual rollout of all your application servers to reflect the updated configuration.

They are different things, so it makes sense to have two different terms to describe two different (but related) ideas. Your example interview question doesn't make much sense to me, though.