Never trust a system that seems to be working

Post by brimwats » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 2:33 PM UTC

tbodt wrote: post #221

TaylorAlexander wrote: post #218

As I and others have previously pointed out [1] foone uses they/them pronouns and feels particularly frustrated when their posts get featured on HN, because users here seem unable to honor this simple preference of theirs. It looks like they deleted their tweet out of frustration with todays latest round of misgendering. I hope people on HN will learn to respect all members of our community. Yes that involves not ass…

I did a quick search on the comments page for "he"+"him" and found nothing referring to foone, and was about to congratulate HN for getting it right, and then thought to scroll to the bottom of the page and found a dozen dead/autocollapsed comments, most including the wrong pronouns. At least they're where they belong.

Post by Gordonjcp » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 3:44 PM UTC

ddingus wrote: post #265

Gordonjcp wrote: post #243

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Pretty much every car made since the 1980s has had dual-circuit brakes with usually one front and one rear wheel cylinder on each circuit. Volvo being Volvo took it further with their 2-series cars in the 1970s and 1980s, where the front discs had four-pot calipers configured as two sets of two-pot calipers. Each braking circuit had one half of each front caliper and one rear caliper, so in the event of one half of t…

There is one subtle difference between automatic transmissions and manual ones and that is the manual one will allow a shift into a lower gear even when engine damage is likely. An automatic one will not, and will hold the current gear until car speed falls within shifting range. Ask me how I know :)

Post by throwawayallday » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 4:14 PM UTC

zelse wrote: post #258

city17 wrote: post #143

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Thanks, that's interesting. I can see why it's easier for him to tweet in that case. But still doesn't change the fact that an article is easier to consume for the reader.

Foone is a them, not a him. And yeah, you're right, it's definitely easier for the reader, but the author isn't required to make it easy for their audience -- if it was, Judith Butler wouldn't Judith...Butle and James Joyce wouldn't James Joyce. Foone writes tweets, 149k people have chosen to read their tweets. Personally, while I agree a blog'd be nice, I'm just glad foone makes their knowledge available.

Post by tbodt » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 4:27 PM UTC

brimwats wrote: post #361

tbodt wrote: post #221

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I did a quick search on the comments page for "he"+"him" and found nothing referring to foone, and was about to congratulate HN for getting it right, and then thought to scroll to the bottom of the page and found a dozen dead/autocollapsed comments, most including the wrong pronouns. At least they're where they belong.

the hateful comments about them having mental illnesses and so on are also terrible (i.e. noduerme in this thread)

Post by ddingus » Tue, Oct 18, 2022, 5:48 PM UTC

Gordonjcp wrote: post #363

ddingus wrote: post #265

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There is one subtle difference between automatic transmissions and manual ones and that is the manual one will allow a shift into a lower gear even when engine damage is likely. An automatic one will not, and will hold the current gear until car speed falls within shifting range. Ask me how I know :)

Depends on the gearbox. Really modern ones won't, anything more than about ten years old will downshift if you select a lower gear.