_6qu6
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5 years ago
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on: Rediscovering the beauty of text on the internet
You're too quick to make assumptions about people who speak with you. English grammar, for example, does not have any facilities to create gender-neutral pronouns for every single noun (only for some). It's just a fact whether we like it or not. German, for instance, is more flexible in this regard. But languages evolve over centuries, and changes to grammar cannot be organically introduced to suit a new thinking on social life (however reasonable it is).
_6qu6
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5 years ago
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on: Rediscovering the beauty of text on the internet
What's even more unfortunate is that my views generally align with theirs - liberal and democratic. Yet those groups often very quickly put down any serious discussion, even if there is a minor and delicate criticism of their assertions. We should be more calm, especially in matters where we generally agree.
_6qu6
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5 years ago
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on: Rediscovering the beauty of text on the internet
This is a somewhat aggressive distortion of my words. I was merely referring to the fact that forcing the use of incorrect English will not help in the current situation of gender imbalance. And a reference to the "unconscious bias in our field" in the parent comment needs concrete citations and evidence to be of value to the discussion.
How I truly wish there were more women in the field! But very few choose that profession, unfortunately. That is sad... I am not ready, however, to speculate about the reasons, since I don't have enough information.
That is the reason for the reference to oppressive regimes - only there do people cripple the language to keep everything neutral and soulless, and only there do people make unverified assertions about non-existent enemies and conspirators.
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: Great fiction books that have had a positive impact on your life?
Anything by Tolstoy.
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Message to the Young: “Learn to Be Alone” (2015)
He definitely meant a different type of healthy solitude, rather than the one on which newspapers and studies report when they assert loneliness and isolation among young people is at an all-time high.
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Fortran.io – a Fortran Web Framework
I wouldn't care if this weren't a .io site. But now I am intrigued by how cool this looks.
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Unofficial Apple Archive
Very interesting! Also a great reminder that AI is just a program that solves a problem in a certain way that may not need the most talked-about techniques, like deep learning.
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Unofficial Apple Archive
I wasn't even talking about the hardware, that's a separate story. Apple's old hardware also looks and feels wonderful.
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Unofficial Apple Archive
Apple's design of 10-15 years ago looks excellent even today. Truly - good design does not lose its attractiveness as styles and standards change. Most icons, fonts, panels, colors of most of their old software and promotional materials look very pleasant, even in low resolution.
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Why I Quit Using Google
What's reasonable is if you want to avoid using Google services (for whatever reason), then you do not need to be fanatical about it. Move off gradually, one service at a time, and keep using some Google services, if you really must - why not?
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Chime – A Go Editor for macOS
This one seems to be a native app for macOS, not an Electron app. So, hopefully this allows to achieve higher performance with much lighter resource utilization.
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Chime – A Go Editor for macOS
Sounds exciting! The greater the variety of editor/IDE options for Go, the better!
parsd
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6 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What Technologies to Learn in 2020?
Learn everything about vanilla JavaScript really well. Just vanilla.
parsd
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6 years ago
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on: Software Disenchantment (2018)
To be honest, I have never seen any phone or computer that could boot in about 2 seconds. 6-7 seconds is the absolute minimum I've ever seen, regardless of hardware or OS.
parsd
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6 years ago
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on: Windows 10 Desktop: Physically building and photographing the logos (2015)
The image looks lo-res and full of noise regardless of screen resolution and color settings of any monitor I've seen. Why it required such complex engineering is a mystery... Not even talking about the quality of it as a graphic design/art work - just the technical aspect.
telegrammae
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6 years ago
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on: Firefox 71
Firefox is wonderful! Still hoping for much-needed general UI improvements, though. The tabs look bulky and have animation performance issues. The bookmarks manager is outdated and inconsistent with other tools in its look. Same with the downloads manager. All these things aren't a big deal, but Safari and Chrome seem to have a more pleasant overall graphic design.
