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usbline··on On Being Disappeared
You clearly have no idea who Chris Hedges is, and it shows.
usbline··on On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
Why do you insist on calling social behavior "nature"? Terrible troll.
usbline··on On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
>status-seeking behavior

not nature

>current economic realities

not nature

>the changing marketplace of dating

again, not nature

usbline··on On incels, dead bedrooms and the hard problems of loneliness
No, this is a social problem and has nothing to do with nature.
usbline··on I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)
who are you quoting?
usbline··on I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)
Ah, good. These don't appear to be legally binding at all. That's good news honestly!
usbline··on I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)
It's not a very good analogy!
usbline··on I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)
Do you know where I can find these agreed upon standards for journalists?
usbline··on I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)
I wasn't aware that journalists prescribed medicine. Don't be disingenuous!
usbline··on I Used to Write for Sports Illustrated. Now I Deliver Packages for Amazon (2018)
Faux-objective journalism is such a soulless drag. Everyone has biases, attempting to hide them is just gutless.
usbline··on October CMS as you know it is dead
Paid doesn't mean proprietary.
usbline··on October CMS as you know it is dead
Anti-social rationale like that is the reason we're in the societal mess that we're in.
usbline··on October CMS as you know it is dead
Not every user monitors every single goings on with their software. There is also no mention of the software becoming proprietary on the October CMS website. Users shouldn't have to keep tabs on their free software for fear of it becoming proprietary due to a hostile takeover.
usbline··on October CMS as you know it is dead
This is completely user-hostile and bordering on malware now. Though by your insistence of saying "OSS" I have a feeling you and GP don't actually care about software users, only developers.
usbline··on October CMS as you know it is dead
What "system", besides a hostile takeover of a software project?
usbline··on Black Girls Code
I'm a little sad this comment was dead and I couldn't respond earlier...

ANYWAY:

>the vast majority are simply uninterested in such pursuits

I really think this is an "image" problem. I'd say the majority of people are uninterested in technology, so the numbers are already low. But it also has a huge connotation of the people who DO like it being white/asian nerds, or affluent people who can afford to go to college for computer science. People want to fit in, no one wants to be alone. And if you're just some black kid, you're going to feel really out of place. Even if no one is being racist to you, you're still going to FEEL alone (even if you're not). And that's not fun.

This isn't just a tech problem. Think about welders or metalworkers. I think about bearded, husky white guys. But I'm sure there's plenty of girls who think swords kick ass but don't want to feel like an outsider. It's understandable for people to feel this way.

It's like the complete opposite of the Utopian Hacker idea where just your contributions matter, nothing else. About how good or enthusiastic you are, not about WHO you are. I don't think any single group or initiative can get rid of stereotypes with careers or subcultures. I'm not even sure if it CAN be done.

usbline··on Black Girls Code
It feels like these programs were started by people who aren't teachers. Piano teachers don't have students who like Jazz start out by playing some whacked up complicated chord progressions, they start them out with something simple and build up to the hard stuff.

Something like Processing or some other easy and intensely audio/visual programming interface would be much better since it's made with that in mind and produces near instant feedback.

usbline··on Black Girls Code
I really hate these faux-grassroots programs. I've never seen these people host any events near me, and I live in a fairly large inner city area. If individual nerds can consistently have meetups every month there isn't any excuse especially with how much money they seem to be getting. The past events page is also...depressingly barren.

But they're getting that sweet sweet investor $$$ from Nike and AT&T!

usbline··on IBM COBOL for Linux on x86
Releases? It's not released yet.

>Planned availability date: April 16, 2021

usbline··on Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides
ADA also says these accommodations need to be readily achievable. Considering the income level of people working at rideshares, it's really not achievable and extremely unfair.
usbline··on Uber ordered to pay $1.1M to blind woman refused rides
This is someone's personal property we're talking about. Should they forced to shuttle around drunken and incontinent people too? Why should anyone be coerced with being kicked off of a platform and losing (their possibly only) source of income because they don't want piss, shit, and vomit in their car?
usbline··on Bash-LSP: A language server for Bash
>Care to elaborate why?

Not particularly, since it'll only fall on deaf ears considering HN's demographic.

usbline··on Bash-LSP: A language server for Bash
Node is not a runtime now? :)
usbline··on Bash-LSP: A language server for Bash
There's more languages native to unix-land than Bash, you know. Find me a linux distro that doesn't have GCC or Clang installed by default, or even Python for that matter.
usbline··on Bash-LSP: A language server for Bash
Development tools like this with an obscene amount of dependencies, not to mention multi-language dependencies, is extremely worrying and irresponsible for the future of software development. Especially since they're not even native to bash's environment! If you would have told me 5 years ago I'd need to install node and typescript in order to get auto completion for bash, I'd have called you crazy. Yet here we are.
usbline··on Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript
Rust isn't "thrown in", it's what Deno is built with.