Imagine how much less beautiful the world would be if this face weren’t allowed to succeed

Huh, I had no idea Dremel was genericized

Given the lack of shape, it could be just about anything - I wonder if it was one report, or hearsay with no details and they filled in something

Anyone know what Zipangri is? Could that be Baja California, or what?

Edit: Japan. Is apparently just off the coast of Mexico

Jesus could come back from the dead, but could death come back from Chuck Norris?

The city is not much better. We’re all splattered when the shit hits the fan.

I’m most fascinated by the route map: it explains why he never set for on the continent. He took the long way. I suppose there was no reason to expect a great circle route but that so engrained that I couldnt picture him getting to the Caribbean without going down the east coast

Especially if you consider Columbus’ voyages together with Eric the Red, a great circle route just seems automatic

Put that together with safe flying rules where you don’t want to go too far from land, depending on your plane, so naturally follow the coast, then cross the ocean where it’s narrower and there are places to land. Why wouldn’t an old sailing ship also want to stay near land?

Makes sense (except the Yuma part).

It’s hard to influence anyone to “destroy the structure”, they think they need it. However the “vast inequality” gets support from at least half the population

• Everyone wants better schools, even those misguided enough to micromanage schools in their own image.
• Everyone wants the workers they know to be treated fairly, even if they can’t apply that to the general Population and believe unions are wrong

Or isn’t the other half of that …… if you have a toxic personality and wish to change that, there may be no single fix but to pay more attention to many small habits contributing to that toxicity.

This whole conversation reminds me of the similar one many years ago, about crude jokes and pictures/calendars in the workplace. The dominant population said exactly the same things. However now we’re all more professional and work is much less toxic, not just for women, minorities, people with different preferences, but also less toxic for us white male heteros as well. We all won that one

Are we back to the fetish-based terminology?

I just need to be able to say “GET OFF MY LAWN, PUNK”

It’s already not the master copy if you have release branches or tags, but it is the “main” branch 🤪

That’s offensive too. Proper terminology is “con/noncon”

people looking for something in their sphere of knowledge to be offended about so they can feel like they are part of “a movement”

I always thought it was just people looking for something in their sphere of influence that they could do to make a difference, no matter how small.

The computing world is known for being hostile toward most out-groups, and I’ll welcome any effort to change that, no matter how small and how silly it seems. The real change needs to be in the people but perhaps being cognizant of such details will help remind us all to be more open and welcoming

So rename master-slave to husband-cattle? You’ll trigger more than vegans

It’s really a trivial change and if there’s any possibility it contributes to a hostile industry, why not? I’m not going to tell other how they feel, nor is there any real downside.

If it helps get me a more diverse candidate pool I can hire from, even better

Great! The best I’ve been able to do is document a best practice to default to deleting the source branch on merge. I actually just now finished writing a script to list all repos with various details including the setting about deleting source branches on merge. I’ll talk to a few teams about it, then see if I can get management approval to set it for all repos (you can click to override in the merge request so it seems harmless)

Same here - I’m more interested in a suitable alternative than to argue whether they are justified in their concerns.

I don’t think there’s a single right answer though. This terminology is used in many scenarios, each a little different and each with a potentially different answer

• Most git distributions now default to “main” and some variation of branch. It was a trivial change and seems as meaningful.
• Jenkins changed from master-slave, to controller-agent (or node). I’m still getting used to it but no big deal.
• Many DB or service distributed systems changed from master-slave(s) to primary-replica(s) and that also works