Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by zamadatix on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:24PM
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I always knew GitHub was a place full of sin I just couldn't figure out where these feelings were coming from.
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Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by Pigalowda on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:27PM
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I'm committed to my partner. She's evil, I knew it.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by csande17 on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:49PM
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I say we should form a commission to investigate this further.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by Pigalowda on Sunday December 18, 2022 @04:25PM
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The commission might find that I’m mostly at fault so I might have to walk back my original claim.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by claytongulick on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:56PM
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My wife's commitment is concomitant to mine.
I hope.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by the_cramer on Monday December 19, 2022 @04:10AM
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Jokes on you, but they changed the default branch to be named "main" instead of "master" for reasons of appropriation.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by ghostpepper on Monday December 19, 2022 @08:15PM
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I wonder if they take points away in an interview if you have a master's degree.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by soundnote on Monday December 19, 2022 @11:26PM
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It's still one of the most stupendous pieces of harmful slacktivism that I've seen. So, so much pointless work fixing thing that didn't need to break, and all for the stupidest reasons possible.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by amluto on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:09AM
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“master” never made much sense to begin with. I’m still a bit disappointed that the default wasn’t set to “default”. I argued for either that or having no default at all.
Seriously, ignore political correctness for a bit. The “master” branch is generally not in charge of anything. It’s not like a master recording of which everything else is a copy. It has no special rights and isn’t even necessary more important.
It made a limited sort of sense in Linux where torvalds/linux.git’s master branch is the branch that everyone else’s development eventually follows, but my git clone of that is not any sort of master despite being called “master”.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by soundnote on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @12:34AM
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That's fair. There still wasn't a problem, just a silly legacy name.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by lstodd on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @06:21AM
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Stop trying to rationalize this insanity. It's a power grab, no more, no less.
Re:Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
by henrikschroder on Monday December 19, 2022 @08:32PM
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Crazy, it's almost as if the same word can have different meanings and connotations depending on context!