Ah, I see you’re a degenerate of culture as well.

It’s a master the same way that an original recording (the final version before mass reproduction) is called a master; mixing and processing the raw media clips into such a recording is called mastering. It’s a convention that has existed long before computers were a thing.

It’s a master the same way that an original recording (the final version before mass reproduction) is called a master; mixing and processing the raw media clips into such a recording is called mastering. It’s a convention that has existed long before computers were a thing.

Honestly it’s not even about convenience. As far as breaking conventions go, this one has none-to-minimal impact – existing master branches won’t suddenly become invalid. But it’s yet another instance of a subset of a subset of a subset of users getting to enforce their sensibilities for superficial reasons, and ultimately with zero effect regarding the cause they claim to represent; cultural and linguistic differences be damned.

I’d love to be more specific, but I don’t want the comments to turn into a warzone.

And don’t pretend like master doesn’t mean what it means.

It’s a retroactive bastardization of the word based on one particular culture’s one particular interpretation of it (master being, apparently, a slaveowner) that ignores both the much earlier meanings of master artisan or master craftsman (as opposed to journeyman and apprentice) and masterpiece (through which an artisan is recognised as a master), and the modern meaning of a master copy (like a master record in disc printing).

This isn’t like replacing the “master and slave” terminology with regard to connected devices. That one was warranted because it was often inaccurate and confusing. But forcing the adoption of main instead of master feels like someone got offended on someone else’s behalf because a word looked superficially like that other bad word, and apparently we can’t have an understanding that goes deeper than what letters it’s made up of.

Amerika ist wunderbar. This is an --initial-branch=master household.

Slaanesh’s sixth circle of seduction: indolency.

I’ve made that exact comparison before. TLS uses encryption; ransomware also uses encryption; by their logic, serving web content through HTTPS with no way to bypass it is a form of malware. The same goes for injecting their donation banner using an iframe.

But don’t you know that Anubis is MALWARE?

…according to some of the clowns at the FSF, which is definitely one of the opinions to have. https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots

No, that’s “incompetent”. “Invincible” means not having the means to pay for legal representation.

Technically it fits inside the highest class-A subnet… but I’ve seen so many people (especially teachers) who think that class-A and /8 subnets are equivalent that I firmly believe that the idea of classful networking should be removed from technical literature altogether.

“When a gift horse is munching on one’s carrot, one must be very careful not to look it in the mouth.” - Albert Confucius, 1969-04-20

My immediate thought is a cron job that tests the user account’s last login time and fires a script if it is exceeded.

Pretty sure most squirrels are also terrible drivers.

You can use basically any HTTP server to achieve that, like Apache or Nginx. If the directory (specified by the path in the URL) doesn’t contain a file that matches the default file in the config (index.html and such), the server will list the directory contents instead.

What do you suggest they should’ve done instead in that situation? Assault him and get arrested? Report him to the police or airport security and miss the flight while getting the bureaucratic run-around?

God doesn’t play dice with the universe because the universe got fed up with his 24-sided d20s.

Normalizing a 2D vector is not part of the scripture, apparently.

(edit) I fucked up with my math. Normalizing either kind of Jesus would result in a being that is ~0.707 part divine and human. But if we assume that Jesus is both fully divine and fully human, that would make his magnitude sqrt(2), which means that Christian beliefs are based on something that is completely irrational, which I’ve found to be true.

Lempo isn’t a fertility god, though. His areas are erotic love, sex, and sexual prowess. He is also known by the feminine name Lemmätär or Lemmetär (-tar and -tär being feminizing suffixes). It’s not surprising that Christian revisionists turned him into one of the chief demons.

Only a Genius could come up with a scheme that offloads the cost of their own laziness to the customer. Exactly the kind of innovation that Steve Jobs stood for.

“I’ll pray for you” but it’s a prayer to Lempo, god of fucking from Finnish mythology.