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"Unlike the GPL, the MIT license is more permissive. It allows users to do almost anything they want with the code, including modify, distribute, and use it for commercial purposes, as long as they include the original copyright and license notices. "
Feb 29, 2024
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How dare people attempt to be more empathetic towards others.
It's certainly about a feeling, and I think superiority has more to do with it than 'empathy'. This much is clear with the aggression, bullying and moral grandstanding that's usually behind the language police. I empathise with myself first, and will use what ever word feels right in the situation. I'd rather speak my mind than please everyone. That's sanity for me and for many others.
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It's certainly about a feeling, and I think superiority has more to do with it than 'empathy'. This much is clear with the aggression, bullying and moral grandstanding that's usually behind the language police. I empathise with myself first, and will use what ever word feels right in the situation. I'd rather speak my mind than please everyone. That's sanity for me and for many others.
"I only care about myself and do what I want." Thats just being shitty, for you and many others.
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We do not know if what was described as a "sanity test" actually meets your definition of a sanity test, or was used for some other purpose like a smoke test. A quick look using Google Scholar finds people using "sanity test" for smoke testing, like "Typical behavior is to allocate any special resource requirements it needs, map the device into virtual address space, initialize the device and perform a brief “sanity…
>as well this example which distinguishes between shallow-and-wide smoke tests with deep-and-narrow sanity tests. I think this even is contradictory for what a lot of people think a "sanity test" means. A "test" may check that something is correct, where a sanity test would be a lower fidelity test that simply checks that something is not obviously wrong.
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> Many software developers like me have faced challenges to our mental health. It's a stressful industry at times, probably almost everyone has had crap times at one point or another. And then there's Covid, which affected everyone. Doesn't mean every mention of the word "sanity" needs to be expunged from our language though. :( :( :( That way lies er... madness. (!) ;)
Or maybe you, having faced those challenges, next time your fingers hover over the keys to type "sanity" simply pick another, perhaps more descriptive word.
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"I only care about myself and do what I want." Thats just being shitty, for you and many others.
Holy false dilemma, Batman! If that's your reading from what I said, you really can't be helped.
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Holy false dilemma, Batman! If that's your reading from what I said, you really can't be helped.
Your exact words are "I empathise with myself first, and will use what ever word feels right in the situation."
> I empathise with myself first and will use what ever word feels right in the situation
And you're doing the same right now. Isn't your use of the word 'selfish' in the thread 'hurtful', and therefore not empathetic to me? By chiding me aren't you empathising with yourself more, and wishing that I would defer to your feelings instead of my own?
The difference between you and I is I don't claim that a virtue is supreme and then immediately enact its opposite, which is really what makes this drive for 'inclusive language' and 'empathy' so repugnant to me.
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Your exact words are "I empathise with myself first, and will use what ever word feels right in the situation."
Empathising with others and yourself isn't mutually exclusive. What's hard to grasp with that? > I empathise with myself first and will use what ever word feels right in the situation And you're doing the same right now. Isn't your use of the word 'selfish' in the thread 'hurtful', and therefore not empathetic to me? By chiding me aren't you empathising with yourself more, and wishing that I would defer to your feeli…
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Empathising with others and yourself isn't mutually exclusive. What's hard to grasp with that? > I empathise with myself first and will use what ever word feels right in the situation And you're doing the same right now. Isn't your use of the word 'selfish' in the thread 'hurtful', and therefore not empathetic to me? By chiding me aren't you empathising with yourself more, and wishing that I would defer to your feeli…
Empathy and calling out people's self-declared self-centered behavior are, as you say, not mutually exclusive.
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I remember editing command.com too, with debug.exe, to change some of the standard messages, or even command names, as you did. Another cool DOS thing was that you could type Alt+255 (last 8-bit character code) as part of a filename. That appeared like a space character, so made it effectively "hidden" to those who did not know about the trick, because they could not type its name to list or edit it.
I used to do this on Windows XP to make my desktop look cleaner, all the files were ALT+255 repeated N times, or, more accurately, repeated a random number of times.