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If Canada wasn't having it's own immigration and post-secondary issues, this would be great. But no, we already shot ourselves in the foot with that...


In this case, I believe the capitalization is a hold-over from raylib's c library, Odin doesn't appear to put any preference?

In Go it has a specific meaning: starting an identifier with a capital causes it to be exported for use in other packages. Identifiers with a starting lowercase char are package private.

Apologies if this is explaining what you already know...


Similarly moved from Arc to Zen; hopefully this will allow for multiple windows/views into the same set of tabs? or at least a future possibility.


This. Exactly. Alberta and Saskatchewan did not exist as independent colonies. Treaties were with the federal government. This is a non-starter and will never happen as WEXIT separatists dream it could.


Canada's population grew by over 3 million since the last election. So yes, the parties will get more votes. That combined with the utter collapse of the NDP and Green party votes, meant more vote share goes to the Liberals and Conservatives.

The left wing has been rotting out from under the NDP's guidance for years. They are no longer a grass roots party and are primarily controlled through their central offices (both federally and provincially). Provincially the NDPs have been moving towards the center to govern for years as well, just look at the Alberta and BC NDPs and their policies/actions.


Right? I'd love to see an article like this about Indian food.


Absolutely, and this is the story. Not what they seem to have wrote about...


Yeah, this is really concerning. The handwaving around "keeping the ui up to date" by hosting it on ui.duckdb.org instead of embedding it doesn't taste great to me.

At least it's hosted on duckdb.org and not mother duck, but I really would expect to see that source somewhere. Disappointing unless I've missed it.

Breadcrumbs in the extension src: https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-ui/blob/963e0e4d4c6f84b2536...


Yes. So confirmation from Jeff Raymakers, a software engineer at MotherDuck, the UI is not open source.

> Jeff Raymakers — Today at 9:25 AM

> The language in the blog post is misleading, and we're going to correct it.

> The UI extension is open source, but the UI itself is not.


I was so excited. I knew it was too good to be true.

Something like this will basically destroy legacy platforms like tableau, sas etc


Yes, he went to Harvard; the laptop was plugged in at MIT using his Harvard Fellow credentials to access JSTOR.


I... am not sure if this is a joke or not. Grindr is not a community or posting tool. It's a hookup app.


That used to be true but Grindr has pivoted and now advertises itself as a 2SLGBTQIA+ community app


"Grindr advertises itself as community app" is about as meaningful as "Fast Food advertises itself as healthy" :)

(Also, for those who were confused by 2S - "Two-spirit". That one's new to me in terms of adding it to the acronym list)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-spirit

... talk about colonization to lump in an indigenous concept with a bunch of western concepts. (If anybody else tried this it would be "cultural appropriation")


"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Oh good God.

It's not "cultural appropriation" to say "these folks also belong". What'd you prefer, "no, only Westerners here"?

"Cultural appropriation" is a fancy way to say "I only want to learn from people just like me".


Perhaps I and my fox want to "belong" in general (to the community of life on earth) but they don't want to take on other people's baggage (belong to a community that excludes participation in other communities)


> "Cultural appropriation" is a fancy way to say "I only want to learn from people just like me".

Cultural appropriation is learning about things only from people like you, not from the people outside your culture who created it and who may have jarring perspectives and expressions of them.

For example - just something I recently saw - lots of 1950s-60s rock musicians like Elvis and the Rolling Stones appropriated music from black musicians and cashed in on it with legions of white teens. The teens never heard the original musicians or music; they got sanitized, safe, and familiar forms of it - they never encountered much of the original culture or heard from the original people. Apparently some RS performances were note-for-note, vocal-riff-for-vocal-riff copies. (To be fair, the RS apparently often toured with some of the original musicians as opening acts.)


exactly! to the point that that music is now synonmous with Elvis and the original culture is lost.

I dont even think 'Cultural Appropriation' describes like, what we ought to do about that in any specific terms. maybe nothing. it more just identifies a problem


"To be fair, the RS apparently often toured with some of the original musicians as opening acts"

What more would you like? These notes have been played this way before, therefor no other group will ever play them again?

Yes, the exploitation of other (especially minority) cultures is an issue. And that's very much not how "cultural appropriation" is used any more - it's very specifically used as "this belongs to that other group, nobody else can have it". And thus precludes any learning.

It is, in its common use, asking for fully siloed cultures. I don't think humanity benefits from those siloes.


For people who are really interested: A big part of the problem is that the black blues musicians were excluded - they were kept out of the mainstream, which created opportunity for people like the RS to cash in on the black artists' music.

For example, imagine if today people of East and South Asian descent were excluded from SV. Then white developers stole their ideas and code, changed a few things and put their own name on it, and cashed in.

Art has many more cultural consequences than for-profit software, of course.


Maybe that's how its used now, but it was never the intent, and plenty of people still mean it in the original sense


> it's very specifically used as "this belongs to that other group, nobody else can have it". And thus precludes any learning.

Nonsense. Whoever told you that was projecting.

Nothing precludes respectful collaboration and learning, eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHgdrzgtBik and numerous other examples.

Worthy of note here is the Rolling Stones learnt about US "black music" from UK record stores, many run by former post WWII US servicemen who preferred the UK to the US South and Jamacian and Trinidadian musicians from the former British slave colonies.

They attended "black" clubs and jammed with black musicians .. they had an experience uncommon in US.


Cultural Appropriation is super often misused (as it was in this case), but does describe a real thing.

Just like how people complain that 'crypto' now only means cryptocurrency, or people complain that the new star wars movies 'killed their childhood' etc, having something that you have a strong connection to have its meaning distorted sucks.

Imagine if seeing a holy cross, the first thing you thought of wasn't the religious meaning but that it was the logo for some company.

One of many terms that got taken way out of context and abused by lots of people, some with good intentions and some not


>Imagine if seeing a holy cross, the first thing you thought of wasn't the religious meaning but that it was the logo for some company.

It is; they're just tax exempt and have their own country.


Is this a joke (I'm asking in seriousness)? Don't matter how they "advertise themselves", it's a hookup app. There aren't even any features (like forums or public postings) that would be necessary to call themselves a "community app".


In a sense it is almost an anti-community tool, I've heard it being partly to blame for the decline in business at some bars.


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