I’ve seen at a very large company a workflow that involved manually updating an excel workbook and (I think) saving it on confluence, so a python script could download it and parse it later. It wasn’t even doing formulas. It was just like less than a hundred lines of text in a half dozen sheets.

Not defending them at all here but there’s no compelling reason for most users to change when discord works and it works well

I understand this but it’s also a little “There’s no compelling reason for us frogs to get out of this water. It’s warm and comfortable”. It’s inevitably going to boil.

But you’re right that there aren’t great alternatives (that I know of). I think matrix is out there, but I don’t know anyone who uses it.

As someone who works in software, I’ve been using macs at work for more than a decade. One job had Linux machines. One place had windows for developers and it was a shit show.

Apple isn’t amazing but at least the terminal is sensible.

Would not expect Texas to go to bat for this. Maybe they’d be okay if they were doing it to hurt women or something

and explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience,

Idiot.

Also, discord sucks and it’s a shame people use it when it’s just going to enshittify like any other private for profit entity.

Uh… Okay. You asked how someone could possibly argue that it isn’t racist, and I provided a path for that.

I didn’t say nor mean to imply that the more colloquial definitions are wrong. I was saying that if you are considering racism to be about oppression along racial lines, then a white guy being given mold sauce isn’t it. The “if” there is doing a lot of work.

The more commonly used sense of the word “racism” checks out here.

If you define racism as prejudice based on perceived race, then sure. If you take a more academic definition, such as this one from Wikipedia

Racism can also be said to describe a condition in society in which a dominant racial group benefits from the oppression of others, whether that group wants such benefits or not.

Then this scenario not so much.

I think there’s a scene in a TV show recently where the modern day Nazi says something like “They like what I say. They just don’t like the word Nazi”

Many people have a, let’s say, shallow understanding of history. They believe Nazis are bad but just like axiomatically. They don’t have a good definition of why, and so they don’t really see it when their in-group behaves the same.

Drivers get so mad about having to wait an extra 5-10 seconds for a pedestrian. Seconds. I’m like just calm down dude.

(from the US, but it’s probably universal)

Are .gov sources still legitimate? Are we sure this wasn’t written by rfk’s brain worm?

For work, a Mac and vscode. I don’t love vscode but it’s what everyone uses.

Well, some of them develop on windows with like notepad++ and it’s kind of a nightmare. There’s no ci/cd, linting, or testing, so whenever I check out someone else’s branch it’s full of red squiggles.

My personal is pop!_os Linux where I’m also using vscode because I’m too cheap to pay for pycharm.

That makes sense.

I personally think unequal enforcement of traffic laws is fundamentally unjust, anyway. If it’s really only safe to drive 25mph, enforce that equally. Don’t let it be a vector for harassing minorities.

You’re not listening to me and I don’t think you’re worth listening to. Go away. Goodbye.

I like and respect teachers, but I’m a software developer and I’m telling you that adding extra parenthesis often adds clarity and makes the whole process smoother. You exist in a whole other context that has norms and assumptions that do not apply to what I’m talking about.

You being technically correct is irrelevant.

Adults who have forgotten the rules who I work with and read/write code where it’s important. In the real world.

This is like some pure maths vs real life engineering cliché.

You’re either being deliberately obtuse or you’re painfully naive.

That’s because it’s already clear as is, as per the rules of Maths.

More people evaluate 2+3x4 incorrectly than 2+(3x4). So, no, your answer does not hold up to my observed reality. You can throw as many “well technically” and “well actually” as you want, but that’s not going to fix the bug or make a pr.

Out-groups to bind, in-groups to protect. That’s it. Often on a purely emotional level. Having the out-group be just out and about living life feels wrong to that kind of person. There has to be hierarchy, they feel.

Part of that falls under the “don’t show up when invited” umbrella, but mostly that sucks. I’m sorry you feel like your efforts and friendship efforts weren’t appreciated.

I’ve definitely had a couple friends (“friends”) that were lopsided. I remember posting about one way back in the 2000s on some web forum, and a guy with a otter(?) avatar told me “This guy, that flakes on your plans and only shows up when it works for him? He doesn’t respect you. Don’t put up with that”. Good advice from a small furry animal, I think.

Some people just aren’t worth it. Maybe they were in the past. Maybe they will be again. But I find it’s important to have boundaries for oneself. It can be hard to balance.

A lot of our behaviors and coping mechanisms come from our parents. So if they’re lonely and have no friends, you should examine why that is, and try to change it in yourself.

One of my friends realized after therapy they had a lot of behaviors from their dad. Stuff they hated when their dad did (lashing out when uncomfortable, mostly). Once they saw it, they were able to work on it. Before that, it had been a real source of friction with friendships.

Hah, a different ex that I’m still friends with responded with “you rank us??”

No, there’s not a full ranking. I’m still good friends with 2, there’s a lot of ones I have no hard feelings about, and then there’s this one stinker.