Nate Cox

It’s a sad time to be alive when people genuinely believe that being openly hostile and combative is the same thing as constructive criticism.

Banning seems totally reasonable to me. Nobody is obligated to put up with that shit.

I really blame Musecore for this, and all of the social engineering that big tech has been doing for years to make profiting off of selling user submitted content seem acceptable.

I miss the golden age of the late 90’s when tabs were easy to get and free.

I don’t even need to watch the video. My last insurance claim was for a stolen motorcycle that was recovered but non-operable.

It sat for months at a garage with the insurance company dragging its feet and absolutely no work being done.

Then they finally gave me an estimate for repairing cosmetic damage but not actually fixing the engine.

Then when I was finally done with their shit and just wanted my bike back to salvage at a junkyard and get like a few bucks at least, they tried to charge me hundreds of dollars for the time it was held at the garage they mandated I hold it at.

Fuck auto insurance.

I’m a nix user and I’m disappointed by how apt this comparison is.

The religious ceremony has no legal bearing at all, which is why in order to get married legally you have to go to the local government and get a marriage certificate. You can have the city ordain your marriage right in the civic center, no religion required.

I wish I could upvote you twice; once for the picture and once for choosing to use “customization”.

Maruchan Ramen Chicken, Pack of 24, for $7.36 on Amazon. That’s literally $0.30/pack (or $0.10/oz). https://a.co/d/gr4Ft9F

Just throwing out there that ramen is indeed dirt cheap still.

I don’t agree. I work for a very large company with an ungodly number of repos and a huge CI build pipeline; today they have all been converted to “main”. It wasn’t that hard.

This is indeed the silliest debate.

I used the term master for years, never really thought about it. I think I assumed it was referring to a master key (from which other keys are copied), rather than anything to do with ownership of people.

Then some people felt offended by it because they interpreted it differently than I did.

So… I changed the word I used. Like, it was the easiest thing in the world to do. “Main” is fine too, rolls right off the tongue, and if it happens to make a group of people feel less discriminated against than that’s all the motivating I need.

I also changed my repos as I updated them. It was like two commands and maybe a couple of lines in a CI config file. Trivial, even for dozens of them.

Today I wonder what the big deal is. If it really is “just a word”, well… so is main. Both words. If the one we’re using isn’t actually important then why resist changing it?

Seems to me like active resistance is kind of an indicator that maybe it really was about the word all along.

I am disheartened but not surprised by the “obvious ethnicity based insult is not racist” comments here.

I feel like we would be less forgiving of this happening in other mediums.

Imagine this: car manufacturers are required by law to prevent their vehicles from driving to locations where crime might happen.

Man those kids were spot on. Eerily accurate.