Posts made by dhromed
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
for him, being called "a nerd" is the same as her being called "a cunt".
I think he's an idiot.
I wear my nerd badge with pride.
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RE: Poll: Cornify - what else would make sense?
Someone call for a huge pipe cleaner?
*unzips*
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RE: Closed Poll: Do you have Discourse Syndrome
You do know what will happen once you do it, don't you?
Oh dear lord almighty
Let's do it
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RE: Closed Poll: Do you have Discourse Syndrome
Only 20 posts? I know that I'm most likely less than a minute from finishing the thread. But if I'm in the middle of a 200+ post thread, I don't know if I'm near the beginning or end while I'm skimming through it, not until I completely remove my vision from what I was focused on.
Ok, granted.
As an interesting support point for you: I've used stylish to make the baneling bar a fat dark blue instead of hardly visible light green.
The Where Am I? problem is a real one.
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RE: Spoiler tags too blurry
I momentarily had the inclination to have a non-hearty chuckle in my head.
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RE: Solar Roadways?
I can see that causing problems.
What problems?I'd suggest something like a month if you want to have it take effect.
I don't understand. Settings don't take effect? Posts made before the setting change can still be edited a year from now?so many questions
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RE: (invalid title)
I am noticing "title min entropy" is set to 0 here.
I did that because it restricted my freedom to make a thread called "AAAAAAAAA" (as in a shout of frustration, not a keyboard mash).
1 could be a better number, but I had no clue how "entropy" is measured, so at the time 0 seemed like a safe bet.
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RE: Closed Poll: Do you have Discourse Syndrome
I have not yet experienced a reason to think that infiniscroll is worse for longer threads. It's length-agnostic, near as I can tell. Maybe my usage is too simple?
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
Cool. Free choice is the thing.
I was suggesting how a rule like "pink is for girls" is unfair to boys who may like some awesome pink stuff but his parents or his friends may dissuade him because "that's for girls". And vice versa. Expand idea as needed etc.
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RE: Poll: How do you use the forum software?
Scrollwheel a bunch of posts into the bottom half of the screen and read them, then scroll more.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
wants to have it changed worldwide overnight
I never even slightly hinted at that. I've even noted the opposite:Glacial pace isn't great, but it's how it is, and not saying anything is a pace of zero.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
No, it's because they come here and just start spewing accusations with no backing.
Yeah that's what I mean.
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RE: There's a meta question if ever I saw one
Are you guys serious with your reaction to Jeff?
I think they just like to feel offended by everything Jeff says because they personally never liked him from the start and therefore everthing he says is filterd through shit-coloured glasses.
I don't wear those glasses myself, so eh.
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RE: Closed Poll: Do you have Discourse Syndrome
Oh, I can do it. It just takes more effort than I think should be necessary in this day and age.
Do you dance while posting? Prepare a three-course meal?I mean, I click Reply, and type something and hit Reply. That's basically what I do everywhere.
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RE: Closed Poll: Do you have Discourse Syndrome
Complete annihilation is the only option.
KILL ALL MEN
wait wrong thread
wait
I am a man
oh well
FOR THE LIGHT!! and cute pastel colours
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RE: Closed Poll: Do you have Discourse Syndrome
The likes thread has 1200 posts... wtf are people doing in there?
Chatting.
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RE: Closed Poll: Do you have Discourse Syndrome
but getting a lot of stuff basic stuff done is a bit of a chore
Such as posting?You're doing fine, I think.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
Another success story!
have insulted
-> successYes I can see how that matches your opinions.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
You could have just asked, you know.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
You could have just asked, you know.
That would be weird, akin to "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?"It's not like it's a simple question like "what pronoun do you prefer?"
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
We're not even asking for different things here - the end goal is a more equal society.
Glad to hear it!The difference is that the one I hope for doesn't plan to achieve that by stamping out 'undesirable' attitudes.
"Stamping out" i.e. openly criticizing attitudes that oppose a more equal society seems in line with the desire for a more equal society.
From what I can tell, the actual stamping out is more done by those who feel attacked by the open criticism of their ways: NO YOU MUST NOT SAY WE ARE BAD WE ARE NOT BAD SHUT UP STOP TALKING.
You're coming at this from a self-perceived position of moral superiority.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
Aside: I must have missed the rape threats in this thread or some other one.
It's not about this thread.In actual fact you don't know one way or the other.
@GOG said:Please point me to it, so I can tell off those responsible.
Well at least now I know a little more.without stopping to apply that same introspection to yourself
I am doing it, actually. And I've been chewed out on multiple occasions for saying a stupid thing. Not on this board (well, obviously), but in other places. And it was always because I said something supposedly funny and innocent, and failed to recognize the life and position of someone else.The fact that I'm hammering on it like that could be ex-smoker syndrome, though. You know. Ex-smokers are the worst anti-smokers.
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RE: Cannot drag selected text
users who select text as they read
If I expressed myself carefully, I, uh, "have trouble envisioning this use case".
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
Preface
This post is a pretty big multiquote. I have no energy left for spell- or concept-checking. Take it for what you will.complaining about not being treated like a man in some respects, while at the same time declining to be treated like a man in all other respects. Which is it?
Both.
There are many situations and many treatments. There is no need for an exclusive choice, there is no "Which is it?". "Being treated like a man" refers, among other things, to being listened to as a respected person, and it refers to not receiving death or rape threats from voicing an opinion. Now I'm sure you personally don't send rape threats to women you don't like, but you also don't shout at the guy who does do that, as far as I know. Start doing that.
no matter how TDWTF might change, that change will do little to bring more women on board unless/until there is a larger pool of women in IT from which to attract participants.
Reasonable.based on my experience of women in IT, I don't think this community would change if more women started showing up
There aren't very many so far, so more data needed before we make such claims.having stuff is better than not having stuff (duh).
That's not duh. That's materialism. Taken as a fundamental principle, anyone who puts away things (having less) is less successful. And that's bunk.I personally prefer not to have as much as possible, since it creates terrible Stuff Management overhead (stuff can be physical, intellectual or financial).
How is it proof of such inefficiency?
The inefficiency idea is that there are incompetent men working in fields, while (potentially) competent women not working in those fields, due to women being perceived as second-class citizens. If we could swap those, then efficiency would rise.The difficulty of course, is selecting those competent women, because if it were easy, then the incompetent men would vanish also.
the wrong people are already in the industry and aren't going anywhere anytime soon.
as you agree.
I believe it's just not an industry that necessarily appeals to women in the first place, just as nursing doesn't necessarily to men.
All of that is culture. It's taught. Pink dolls are for girls. Cars are for boys. Bullshit is for humans.they might install a forum software that gives your community the ability to moderate itself.
Where is that software?
-> audience laughter
-> much veal is hadSo, what am I supposed to say when making comment about something you've said to someone else?
Forms of "they" are commonly accepted.
There. Your problem has been solved.I get that you're bent all out of shape by this community, but frankly, beating us over the head with your perceptions of our inadequacies isn't going to miraculously change our opinions.
'course not, but you gotta start somewhere.You see, what you call 'blatantly misogynistic' may not be. It is to you but that doesn't necessarily make it so,
And vice versa. Something you perceive as an innojcent jab or a valid criticism may in fact be hurtful and dismissive, but you don't notice because you've grown up in the environment where that is normal. all you have to do is say "hm, maybe the things I say aren't right" instead of being defensive, and after that you can always arrive at the conclusion that you're perfectly fine.It's easy to dismiss Buddy right now, because you have no relationthip with them at all. There is no mutual respect deeper than what humans should normally grant eachother, ans so they arguably don't have any authority over what you can and can't think or say or do.
But maybe you have a bunch of female friends you can talk to.
It's no less real than misogyny,
It's not even close to being as prevalent as misogyny.except most of the time men don't tend to cry out or cry foul about it in the way women do.
Yeah, those whiny womenz. Always whining. Us STRONG EMOTIONALLY STABLE MEN don't complain.Fuck that shit.
Just as male rape is a thing. Just because it's not reported or discussed
Why is that?
It's the shame in the face of other men of having been overpowered to such a terrible degree.Not condemning does not equal condoning.
Not condemning means allowing. It's not about explicitly approving, it's about something that will happen unless it's opposed. We call that tacit support. It's why @wft feels entirely comfortable spewing his anti-woman bullshit. Speak up against maggots like him.'They' is an interesting one because it's just as dehumanising as blindly using 'he' or 'she' by the arguments given above.
Not really. Use they. In case of transgender or anthing like that: you ask.Your position is that if something is objectionable, I should report it and that failing to do so somehow legitimises it... no it doesn't.
Yes it does. Welcome to the world.I am not legitimising it by failing to report your posts.
That exactly what you're doing. And you're explicitly legitimizing it by saying "you are perfectly entitled to think the way you do."
So. Uh. Welcome to the world, again.Simply put, the only thing I could have done was to be impersonal, nonspecific and genderless, which is also wrong.
No, you twat. They is fine.It's thought policing and coercion,
"I would like you to use "she" to refer to me"
"THOUGHT POLICE!!!!!!"Don't overreact.
Are they a barrier to reading?
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RE: Progress bar doesn't show correct number of bottom-most post
When should we show 6 of 6?
Another answer:When post N is 100% visible OR, when post N > screen height, when post N is at 50% height of the screen
The 50% is debatable.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
I may have glazed over a few of the finer points.
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
But what I didn't get is why is it a problem?
...you don't get why hostility is a problem?And in the same mindset, why nobody protests the lack of men in nursing or pre-school teacher professions?
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
No one complains there are not enough women soldiers on the battle fronts.
False.
And most women get seriously scared away when they get an insight to a
real perspective of how much brainpower they need to burn to design the
damn thing and to make it work. Not for them. Too concerned about
"having a life". I personally have no problems with no women in my team. No hormonal moodiness, no embarrassingly biological tensions
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RE: Bing Vision ❤ Michael Zimmerman
"Just burn to create water"
I'm mostly concerned by the flying gas, though.
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RE: Bing Vision ❤ Michael Zimmerman
"fresh" hydrogen and not the freeze-dried variety where you later have to add water to get hydrogen again.
But
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RE: The Puzzle Tread. Interview questions asked at Tech companies in India.
I'm not seeing---
ohhhwait
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RE: АLL F-!!1 TOPIC TITLE
That's all cool.
But I think the lack of women on TDWTForums is representative of the lack of women in programming, not of TDWTF's women-disrespecting tendencies.
There's some bullshit rationalizations like "women just naturally don't like that stuff" and "I'm going to redefine feminism to something I don't like so that I can disagree with it, demonize it, and not have to think about what I say and do", but I do not think for one minute that TDWTF actively belittles or looks down on women.
So I think your case is that in general I guess it's true, but it's presented (or maybe in this situation people just have a habit of feeling personally attacked) as a direct complaint against TDWTF, and well then obviously you're going to get some defensive blowback.
I don't think that troll-with-a-top-hat style is a good way to start a discussion.
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RE: Happy Birthday, @error!
I might find the shittiest, cheapest game on steam and gift that to him.
Maybe a freetoplay game.
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RE: Poll: Next Mention Bomb Victim
I vote for @dhromed because I'm an attention whore.