“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful

Because “considered harmful” essays are, by their nature, so incendiary, they are counter-productive both in terms of encouraging open and intelligent debate, and in gathering support for the view they promote.

At any rate, they don’t have to break type safety anymore with PEP 612

If anyone’s wondering why:

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I’m guessing you’re also @[email protected]. You should really not create a new account every time you post. It’s one thing to move to a new identity every few months or something for privacy reasons, but for every post is a bit much.

To paraphrase the guidelines from another site:

Throwaway accounts are ok for sensitive information, but please don’t create accounts routinely. Lemmy is a community—users should have an identity that others can relate to.

IMO creating a new account every time you post something is bad form and pollutes the fediverse

For good faith questions, I’ve got a few that I’ve been meaning to post to [email protected], we appreciate good discussion. The community’s been a little quiet but I’m going to put some work into it. I do specify “good faith” just because it doesn’t need to become another “here’s my ‘unpopular’ opinion that is actually popular and i want validated” or “here’s why I hate <minority>”. If you’re going to post bad-faith questions, or want to skirt the lines of what’s appropriate, that will make my life harder as admin and that’s considered a bannable offense 🙂

There’s also [email protected] for US-specific questions. We generally avoid politically-charged topics because there’s better places for those, but questions that aren’t just “Why does Trump suck?” might be a good fit.

Here’s a sample of a few recent popular [email protected] posts if they pique anyone’s interest:

• Do you rent or own where you live? Is it what you want to be doing?
• Is it a thing in the US to eat other spreads than peanut butter such as (crunchy) chocolate spread on bread?
• Should HOAs be banned?

It’s a meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jesse-what-the-fuck-are-you-talking-about

It’d be interesting to see if switching to pypy made any difference. It won’t beat the eventual exponential growth, but I’ve seen it be as fast as Rust code I’ve written for code like this.

I hope they name the fork “Orgasmic Maps”

Yep, it runs on Lemmy also and federates just as you’d expect

Full URL for clicky goodness: https://discuss.online/

We welcome new users! We’ve got a signup process to keep out spam, but it’s really basic. You just have to answer 3 questions and not have it be obviously AI slop. We’re generally pretty quick about approving new users, and if we’re not for some reason you can ping me, @[email protected] or @[email protected].

We’ve got a welcome thread to point you in the right direction if you’re new to the discuss.online and/or the Fediverse: https://discuss.online/post/16318079. If chat is your thing, we’ve also got a chatroom at https://matrix.to/#/#online.discuss:discuss.online

Lastly I’ll plug the [email protected] community that I help mod as well. I just posted the weekly How was your week in the US? thread and asked how many geese everyone thinks they could take on.

IMO posts like this are great. It’s way better to post stuff you want to see than complain about what’s getting posted. It’s also how we get good memes and we could use a few more beyond beans and Nicole.

It was a fan theory that was actually confirmed IIRC, but the Seanchan drawl is equivalent to a Texan accent.

Close enough, you’re cool. Here’s the actual list though (wiki link):

• Freedom 0: The freedom to use the program for any purpose.
• Freedom 1: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it to make it do what you wish.
• Freedom 2: The freedom to redistribute and make copies so you can help your neighbor.
• Freedom 3: The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements (and modified versions in general) to the public, so that the whole community benefits.

It depends on where you sleep. Basement vs upstairs can make a huge difference at the same thermostat setting. I keep mine set to be between 19°C and 25°C and don’t have trouble sleeping.

Speaking of which, anyone else use Home Assistant / Z-Wave?

My only question is “What are the four essential freedoms of free software?”. If they can list them I know they’re alright

Money doesn’t buy happiness, but lack of money is a roadblock to happiness

Nothing better:

Nathaniel Merriweather Presents… Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By

well…

We’ve got a PBF community here on Lemmy:

[email protected]

I’ve been posting new strips as they’re posted, and old strips daily at [email protected]