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tal, 1 year ago

I do not myself like /r/TwoXChromosomes, and I don't think that it was a great idea to make it a default sub on Reddit back when that happened -- IIRC the rationale was to try to improve Reddit's appeal to women. But it's...kind of a bitter, angry place, and I don't think that that makes for a very good default experience for new users.

However, I certainly think that people who want that environment should have access to it. I mean, people need to vent about stuff. So, hey, good to have it as an option for people.

tal, 1 year ago

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Donald_Knuth

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.

Donald Knuth's webpage states the line was used to end a memo entitled Notes on the van Emde Boas construction of priority deques: An instructive use of recursion (1977)

tal, 1 year ago

Suggestion: If you have work that can reasonably be farmed out, you might try writing up a list of what you need people for and asking for any volunteers and setting up something to let them handle some of the load.

I don't know whether that will work, but just doing reviews of pull requests on GitHub for a new project expanding rapidly may be a full-time effort for someone, much less all this other stuff.

tal, 1 year ago

it seems that "tankies" are very militant communists.

In the original sense of the word, it was specific to people who favored Soviet military intervention in Eastern Bloc countries. Today, I see it used on the UK political subreddits more-commonly used more broadly for people who are really anti-West and authoritarian far-left. Like, if someone takes the position that Stalin had the right idea and his vision of the Soviet Union was the right way for the world to go, they'd probably be called a tankie regardless of their specific views on the Soviet interventions in Eastern Europe.

It isn't used much here in the US, that I'm aware of.

tal, 1 year ago

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