Really?? I always appreciated candidates that would ask that at the end - being willing to step aside from the pretense of professionalism to ask a real question and listen to my answer is a signal to me that this is someone who is willing to be real with me, not pretentious or perfunctory.
I do get what you’re saying, but I disagree, there is a good answer; and as is often the case, it’s an honest one.
That’s some new term for an effort to create more inclusive institutions, nearly unavoidably at the expense of the traditionally privileged - inevitably it’s taken too far, it crosses a line, even if the cross and the line itself must be manufactured by the resident reactionaries - and it becomes yet another rallying, cry for conservatives, another neat little entry in the portfolio of pogroms against progress.
> I don't think any modern system even tries to do those seamless transitions from one music piece to another.
You will be pleased to hear that plenty of games since then have continued to use that same technique, and there are in fact entire realms of game dev systems dedicated to enable that experience!
The common shortcuts do work in 99% of situations. The primary exception is terminals.
The problem is mainly that Linux has two clipboards running simultaneously, with slightly different behaviors.
In reality, the clipboard works fine. There are some gotchas, but for everyday use it's perfectly fine. The opinion expressed by parent comment is, uh, unconventional. I've never heard this take before. Most people consider Linux clipboards an annoyance that we should fix someday, it's not a showstopper by any means (for average users)
I like them being separate. The main one feels more intentional than the selection buffer, which I mostly use for grabbing text I want right now. I'd be annoyed if my main clipboard got overwritten every time I selected text.
I just tend to completely forget the select-clipboard even exists - right until a HN submission reminds me, or I drop some garbage in the middle of the text I'm writing.
Text-wise the only thing I can think of where clipboards don't Just Work is indeed terminals, but I hardly consider that an issue in practice. Either it's a trivial session and I'll happily right-click to paste, or I'm in tmux and using lead key prefixes for shortcuts already.
Cross-app rich media copy/paste does have a habit of being a bit buggy from time to time, though...
In practice, it's not really an issue. In some applications (most notably terminal emulators, where ctrl+c is already used to terminate a process) you have to use an alternative combination (e.g. ctrl+shift+c).
MacOS neatly avoids this issue with the command key, but I'm not sure what happens in Windows.
Reverse isms are just a more specific type of an ism - instead of being wielded by a privilege group against the historically marginalized, it’s the reverse.
I do agree that it’s unkind to treat those two isms differently, or to condone one while tolerating the other - but pretending that there’s not such thing as the ‘reverse’ case seems silly, when it’s so easy to define and easy to IRL.
Yeah, I understand the intent, but it’s still a bullshit play for identity politics. I so completely hate identity politics. Objectively speaking, the reverse of racism is no racism.
> One obvious example where it falls laughably short is in interpersonal relationships. Trying to logic your way out of an emotional conflict just does not work
This is awfully glib for something that rings so wrong for me - logic not useful in emotional conflict?? Emotional conflict itself stems from emotion! How could taking a step back and trying to look at things logically not be productive?
In my experience, one of the only things that can safely navigate conflict, whether emotional or otherwise, is logic - your challenge is to actually be disciplined enough to apply it in stressful situations - and/or to be willing to leave the matter unsettled until you’ve had time to cool down and can afford the luxury of looking at things more practically.
I suspect we’re using the same words to mean different things because I can’t imagine not being able to logic your way out of emotional conflict, I can’t imagine any other route being viable apart from logic - I think the root cause of emotional conflict is getting overwhelmed by feelings and neglecting to think.
I’d be curious to hear what his wife’s daily blogs would look like - especially as he’s talking about ‘dad-mode, protector, provider’ - what roles did she feel compelled to occupy? If he felt like he had to step up to shield her from stress, what did she feel in turn for his sake?
(Honestly it’d be interesting to hear from the kids too)
Yeah this was an uncomfortable read. That guy write as if he is the only one in his family able to plan and act and as if his wife and kids are some kind of useless piece of shit.
His wife probably knows better than him what is really valuable to keep in case of emergency: food in cans instead of 2 additional power hungry fridge and freezer. Whike I am not into child labour, non toddler kids won't lose their childhood if they have to provide manpower, help and learn about responsibilities during a specific event once in a while. On the contrary these can be good teaching moments.
I do get what you’re saying, but I disagree, there is a good answer; and as is often the case, it’s an honest one.
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