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Yeah, there are maybe a couple of reasonable ideas like using background and making comments stand out more, but that’s it. Especially weird is the idea about light theme not being used because of syntax highlight

Same as many long debunked concepts, sometimes even declared wrong by their own original author, it will continue to have followers and will never completely fade away. For this reason I don’t think that talking about it sometimes is a wrong thing

“Why” comments are of course included in “we don’t need that” category

I think my manager is strongly Clean Code inclined. More than once they removed comments, because they will become outdated anyway (so there’s no use explaining what is going on at all, right? Right‽)

There’s no definition in dictionary, but here’s what Wikipedia cites for what to call a yacht: https://www.boats.com/on-the-water/when-is-a-boat-also-a-yacht/

This is arbitrary, and just an illustration of how anyone would call what they want a yacht. 24 meters is nowhere required, and this discussion repeats again and again

I would advise going in the opposite direction, learning a purely functional language first to then being able to appreciate functional parts

That is beside the point of an opinionated list of the good and the bad, that will differ for others

I went from Debian to Mint

His skin colour is maybe mentioned, because being white rich male is peak privileged, although also being a governor somewhere or having a seat in government would be even better

Sorry for the off-topic, but what’s with those weird typos? Are you also trying to ‘poison’ AI that will be trained on the comments?

Yeah, I didn’t know Mint uses it and spent an hour trying to understand how to configure alsa and why my configuration looks correct but doesn’t do what I want (swap front channels)

If by promoted you mean required to do architect’s but not qualified, nor paid for that

Not that obvious, it seems

We’re on to a new era of brilliance, I’m sure

Besides, in Thunder it shows username in a drop-down on the comment screen

Wow, were you so outraged, you dropped all the ‘ð’ and ‘þ’?

I re-read your comment and now I think I got the meaning better. Distasteful surely must be protected but that wasn’t my point, my point was that hate-speech is often not distasteful is is harmful. It seems that it is not harmful enough, and if a hateful tweet doesn’t make people go on a witch-hunt it’s ok? That seems to be literal reading of the rules, but I find it lacking often.

Still, as others pointed out, whatever the rule is, it is used for oppressing the opposition

This link kinda contradicts the thing you said about principles in my opinion. But then again, I should educate myself more on the matter

I’m a bit torn on this, because it looks like doxxing someone or driving them to suicide on-line should also be considered free speech and protected.

Although maybe it’s more about the fact that you may be held accountable for what you say but can’t be banned from saying it? But then again all the protesters would be prosecuted the same way.

In the end, I think the problem with hate-speech law enforcement is in the ones who do the enforcement and not in the fact that these laws exist. As far as I know, pretty much every law can be stretched enough to oppress someone if you’re hellbent on doing that and have a broken law enforcement (which seems rather common nowadays)

So, the only free speech you care about is one that gives you freedom to be a biggot, a racist, or some other petty hater?

It’s a good thing there are no scammers that could try stealing IDs pretending to verify you 😌