I'd heard the cigarette version before. Blows my American mind.

I had to look up the recipe to figure out the slur you were alluding to...yikes. I don't blame you for not repeating the name here.

I've usually heard "right of way" used in terms of sense 3 of the dictionary. I've never heard it used to refer to the ability to make a road -- that just makes me think you have a skilled construction crew on speed dial.

I had the opposite experience. Once I started working full time after college, I felt like I had SO MUCH FREE TIME!

I did have a part-time job during college, though. That might have skewed things for me.

Are you interested in setec astronomy?

I wanted to like the game, but one game where the other players adopted the 'backstabbing' style ruined it for me.

I was sad when AOL started sending demo CDs instead of the floppy disks :(

Ugh, that title.

I don't think I've ever heard someone refer to it as "ness". I think I'd be confused -- what does the Loch Ness Monster have to do with gaming? -- until they clarified.

We all have caturday!

Perfection.

From the thumbnail, I thought there was a bench there. Something about the planter, I think.

Yeah, that's fair, especially in software work.

I see what you're getting at -- hinting at a sense of serenity?

The phrase still annoys me for some reason.

😆

Fair point, but something about the tautology of the phrase has always grated on me :\

You just reminded me of this

Those who champion "brutal honesty" are more interested in the brutality than the honest

I use this, and I struggle a little to disengage when the person I ask interprets it as "help me figure out how to solve this" when they don't actually have the "short answer".

life isn't fair

It's not as pithy, but I think "Just because you didn't get your way, doesn't mean it's unfair" would be a better sentiment for adults to tell children.

Or "I don't fucking care what happened, I just don't want to hear you whine about it". Hardly an acceptable way to talk to children, but I think it's what adults in my life meant when I was a child.

"it is what it is"

If it weren't what it is, well, it wouldn't be anything at all, would it?

Thanks :D

I came here to ask the same thing!

Interesting metaphor. I've never really gotten that idea -- I've never seen the connection demonstrated between the "big stuff" and seemingly innocuous things like 'main' vs. 'master'.

Also, a lot of this feels misplaced. IMO, the root problem is one of attitude where the minorities are viewed as less-human, not deserving of equal treatment or equal rights. Change will happen as those attitudes shift. I haven't seen a connection demonstrated between those attitudes and...well, pretty much any terminology issue that's come up in recent memory.

Yeah, I can't really explain it. Seems kinda silly, doesn't it?

just another way of staying ignorant and insensitive to those events.

I don't really see how that follows. Would you mind elaborating?

I'm a dev, and I'm the opposite. At my work, we use main over master. I thought it was a little silly when we first switched, but now I'm used to it. It's an arbitrary label anyway -- could easily use trunk/branch from SVN or release/develop or any number of other labels to keep track of code.

Hell, we got a new dev on the team a month or two ago, and he tends to name things 'feat/do-the-thing' instead of 'feature/make-it-go'.

It's not as big a deal as people online make it out to be.

Bypass the whole debate, adopt SVN's 'trunk/branch' terms.

Great response, thanks for writing this. I live in the US, and your Coon -> Cheer cheese reminds me of Land O'Lakes butter -- there was a brouhaha over a decision to remove a Native American woman from the packaging. Same result, it's still in the butter section of the market.

My point is that small token changes cost virtually nothing

Well-put. I've been in the position of complaining about this type of change before, and this is a perfect counterpoint to that mindset. I've often said "What do we want? Police to face accountability when they commit crimes! What do we actually get? We're going to use the term 'main' instead of 'master' for programming things!"

What we so often forget in that moment of "What, I have to re-learn some terminology? Ugh, friction!" is exactly your point about small courtesies. Something doesn't have to be a Big Damn Deal to be worthwhile.

A long time ago, in a job not so far away, I worked on a computer project where we were using Apache Jackrabbit.

I quickly learned that I needed to search for Apache Jackrabbit and not just Jackrabbit -- vibrators weren't relevant to the project.

What do we want?

For police who commit crimes to have accountability!

What do we get?

We're going to yell at people who use the 'outdated' 'master/slave' terminology!

Did you reply to the wrong comment?

So you're saying copyright infringement is on par with speeding or parking past the meter's end? Eh, fair enough.

If you do something illegal, you should be arrested.

Copyright infringement lawsuits are a far cry from bomb threats or the like.

Eh, sometimes "No, thank you" is also appropriate.

I could never bear to watch any of his speeches. Too cringe painful.

Damn, I would have simply blocked the troll long before this! You have the patience of a saint.

Huh, I haven't really heard people call her "Nancy". Last time I recall her coming up amongst Republicans, it was "Pelosi" with a reference to the attack on her husband.

I was having this conversation the other day. Pelosi came up as a counterexample.

Now I'm not sure where the line is between subtle disrespect and simply using the more distinctive part of a candidate's name.

As others have said, congrats on the new build :)

I assembled a desktop* for myself in 2021 after a long run on an ol' Dino Laptop. I had similar feelings - a LOT had changed. I was able to avoid RGB for all the internal components, but it did take some looking.

RGB lights on memory, etc. look nice if you have a window in your case and keep it on your desktop - doubling as artwork. I've seen some very pretty-looking builds out there!

*Deskbottom would be more like it. I keep the case on the floor under my desk.

Like nails on a 'chaulkboard', that.