Erik Haugen @ech@qoto.org

@freemo I'd say it's mostly anti-woke. It isn't trying to be anti-racist; the entire point it is making takes it as a given that racism is awful, it doesn't feel the need to make that argument.

@dneto @danluu I wonder if the author of the OP quote would include this as an example or a counterexample of the point. (Search for the phrase "improve the production processes of the silicon ingots and wafers" in your article...)

If the quote isn't true, it seems like the easiest way to debunk it is to provide some compelling counterexamples. In fact, that would feel like such an obvious way, that instead focusing on earlier exponential tech improvements makes me suspicious. So: I'm assuming the quote is mostly true.

@Sioctan @freemo "r/atheism" is this like the New Athiesm thing: 4 horsemen, and the obsessive arguing on Talk Origins and Internet Infidels and the like? If so: wasn't that more before 2010, rather than the 2010s?

@Sioctan @freemo At least we got Bach.

@tobinbaker @danluu That's too bad, it's to a first order approximation the only index of privilege, IMO.

@cdemwell @danluu I'm pretty sure he means the cause of transit workers trying to get a better contract/etc. (Either specifically Vancouver or transit workers generally.)

@danluu I noticed this during the early days of covid, too; various "progressive" commenters would respond to bans on e.g. gardeners by saying "just stay home and take care of yourself" as if not getting any income for months was gonna be a peaceful restorative time for someone.

@danluu Also isn't it pretty cold and rainy there?

@WPalant Avoid German software companies. Got it; thanks for the PSA.

@freemo is that a different cops-kick-guy-out-of-ambulance story?

@freemo https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2024/01/17/cops-kick-dying-man-out-of-ambulance/ "Eventually they take him to the hospital. He died a couple of weeks later."

@freemo He died weeks later in the hospital?

@freeschool @freemo $ man ls

@JuliusGoat Maybe. If that's what Rufo is trying to do, then it seems worth noting he doesn't seem to have accomplished much.

@ncweaver @robpike Use some kind of linter that checks for this.

I mean, this is sort of the equivalent of thinking "this will never fail" and forgetting to use a try/catch in c++; it's not like exceptions necessarily magically eliminate this bug, right? I guess like Java's system sort of forces it, but the linter is the rough equivalent of this.

I'm using exception-free c++ (weird, I know) and https://abseil.io/docs/cpp/guides/status, which IIUC is like Go's error handling, more or less. My environment won't let me compile code if I forget to look at the returned status object. Seems to work pretty well.

@StillIRise1963 Oxman took responsibility for her mistakes and didn't threaten to sue BI. So that's a difference I guess.

@pilgrim @StillIRise1963 Don't be ridiculous, pilgrim. I didn't like Gay's or Magill's answers to Stefanik, but I don't think we have any reason to think this is true about either of them.

I appreciate Oxman owning her errors, I wish Gay had done that more in her op-ed rather than playing the victim. But you're being absurd.

@StillIRise1963

Very different... is it though?

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/12/21/gay-plagiarism-dissertation-corrections/

https://nypost.com/2024/01/02/news/claudine-gay-set-to-keep-800k-salary-despite-resigning/ "Gay ... will return to a position on the Cambridge, Mass., school’s faculty."

@ncweaver @robpike there's a question about exceptions in the Q&A; he basically laughs off the idea of exceptions.

@orionkidder @ct_bergstrom Right; racism made her plagiarize.