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New comment by mffnbs in "Disney blocks John Oliver’s new episode critical of India’s PM Modi"

mffnbs — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 20:35:56 +0000

Free speech cannot exist with free speech and so a line is drawn. That line is that a person can say whatever they want but they cannot force people to listen. Forcing people to listen to free speech violates free speech. You don't deserve a platform for free speech.

New comment by mffnbs in "Google is finally killing off Chrome apps, which nobody really used"

mffnbs — Thu, 16 Jan 2020 18:25:01 +0000

Postman has become so bloated in the past two years to a degree where I don’t enjoy using it anymore. Anyone know of an alternative that keeps it simple?

New comment by mffnbs in "Mozilla lays off 70"

mffnbs — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 21:50:26 +0000

In my experience, that’s the exact sort of errors that a QA team our position tests for.

New comment by mffnbs in "Video Gaming Will Take Over"

mffnbs — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 01:54:53 +0000

How's it different from a generation that grew up with books?

New comment by mffnbs in "Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force"

mffnbs — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 22:34:17 +0000

There was a time when women weren't allowed to play professional soccer. It can't not have a sexist history.

New comment by mffnbs in "Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force"

mffnbs — Fri, 10 Jan 2020 19:55:51 +0000

> Female soccer players make less money because less people watch and there is less money

I think this is a great example! The US women's soccer team is better than the men's but they make a fraction of the money. It's not their fault that sports have a sexist history that influences viewership, ad revenue, and ultimately their salaries.

New comment by mffnbs in "Apple News No Longer Supports RSS"

mffnbs — Fri, 27 Dec 2019 19:04:21 +0000

How well does the page render on a legacy version of IE running on a Mac?

New comment by mffnbs in "JetBrains: $270M revenue, 405K paying users, $0 raised"

mffnbs — Sun, 15 Dec 2019 17:08:10 +0000

I use both and have contributed to the IntelliJ extension. I haven’t noticed any functional difference between the two extensions and they both fit all my use cases.

New comment by mffnbs in "Facebook, Google Drop Out of Top ‘Best Places to Work’ List"

mffnbs — Wed, 11 Dec 2019 22:31:42 +0000

How dare you assume that this is something we can change! These men are discussing numbers and figures and you’re out here with ideas that defy statistics!

New comment by mffnbs in "Apple’s Ad-Targeting Crackdown Shakes Up Ad Market"

mffnbs — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 23:20:32 +0000

I was enjoying the irony of reading the article on safari only to have it cut off so they can ask me for my personal information to track me.

New comment by mffnbs in "Apple admits iPhone 11 Pro still collects location data even when told not to"

mffnbs — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 17:17:59 +0000

Alternatively, if you do tell the offending internal app to stop via the system toggle, it stops.

New comment by mffnbs in "We ran the numbers, and there really is a pipeline problem in engineering hiring"

mffnbs — Wed, 04 Dec 2019 01:52:49 +0000

It’s ridiculous you were down voted for this. These people don’t want to change their behavior or admit there’s bias. They would rather remain ignorant and pretend that it’s a problem caused by someone else rather than reflect on what might not be working.

New comment by mffnbs in "0.30000000000000004"

mffnbs — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 22:54:26 +0000

When faced with criticism about your lack of inclusivity, what's to gain by doubling down in order to intentionally exclude people? The argument you are presenting always feels disingenuous because you imply that there is something lost in the efforts to be more inclusive.

The idea that you care about the growth of people you are actively excluding doesn't make a whole lot of sense. In this example we're talking about word choice. The over-sensitivity from my point of view is in the person who takes offense that someone criticized their language and refuses to adapt out of some feigned interest for the disadvantaged party. The parent succinctly critiqued the word choice of the author and offered an alternative that doesn't detract from the message in the slightest.

The lowest common denominator is the person who throws their arms up when offered valid criticism.

New comment by mffnbs in "Half-Life: Alyx"

mffnbs — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 04:46:45 +0000

It seems like you're admitting to critiquing something you've no experience or understanding of in an effort to diminish the experiences of those of us who claim to experience the world differently. It's entirely possible and even probable that your VR experience simply comes nowhere close to mimicking gender dysphoria.

New comment by mffnbs in "Tesla Cybertruck"

mffnbs — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 04:36:09 +0000

Elon walked off stage to kill the guy who designed the glass.

New comment by mffnbs in "Half-Life: Alyx"

mffnbs — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 22:55:16 +0000

It was mainly a joke, but yeah I thought about the implications of what I was saying. I think, at least for me, the lack of permanence creates a more lighthearted situation that is easier to joke about. It's disorienting seeing yourself as an entirely different gender but it's more distressing not being able to control it or society's perception of it.

Honestly, I never thought about using VR for this purpose before. I'm slightly excited to give it a try and see how my brain enjoys/dislikes the effect.

New comment by mffnbs in "Half-Life: Alyx"

mffnbs — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 20:39:36 +0000

As a trans person, I welcome this cis introduction to gender dysphoria.

New comment by mffnbs in "Apple’s iPhone Software Shakeup After Buggy iOS 13 Debut"

mffnbs — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:40:57 +0000

I’m a newer Mac user and was impressed with the multi monitor support and how, as you say, apps are “pinned” to specific areas and the os remembers when you plug in the other monitors. I’ve not noticed an issue with this yet, though, and I’ve been on Mojave and Catalina for my whole Mac career.

New comment by mffnbs in "Office noise bothers some people more than others"

mffnbs — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:25:33 +0000

It would teach you coping skills, one of which is leaving the room and another is physical sensation like holding a fork extremely hard.

Breathing helps too, but I find it difficult to remember.

New comment by mffnbs in "Office noise bothers some people more than others"

mffnbs — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 00:16:57 +0000

Yep, I become outwardly violent when I hear specific sounds. I have to physically leave the area to regain composure.