20+ years of this handle online without problems, and I found out trying to sign up for Stern Pinball Insider that "bint" is a dirty word: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bint
Yes, and your definition is by far the exception, not the rule. Maybe don't claim a definitive meaning when you're wrong to begin with.
One is much more likely to set off censors. Why do you feel the need to ask ridiculous questions? The word you use had already been said, censoring it would be meaningless -- whereas you ascertained the word I meant easily ;)
"You yourself imply there are different degrees to how acceptable the two terms are."
I never claimed either were acceptable or unacceptable.
Interesting how you completely gloss over your needless language policing, especially when you - by your own admission -- haven't even used the terms in question (and presumably lack the nuance necessary to weigh in, despite jumping in anyway) shrug
What the ever-loving fuck? I don't endorse ANY misogyny you utter melon, which was why I called you out on your "Really isn't, it's about the same as calling a woman a cow." nonsense.
The only one "endorsing" misogyny here is you. Stop projecting, pillock.
> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.
> Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag, please don't also comment that you did.
FYI, barking orders at people and swearing at them because you're personally offended by something said in humor, is much more stupid, and is arguably more unwelcome here than GP's comment.
Filters like that are so trivial to bypass on a higher level too. Look at how many gamer or forum tags are “Lovecraft’s Cat”. And good luck catching those cases on a non-manual basis.
I once happened across a Github where all the repos were subtle little bits of anti-Semitic cant relating to the Holocaust. More than subverting them, they also often function as dog-whistles for fellow travelers.
(For those not getting the specific one used above, Lovecraft had a black cat and a common name for black cats at the time combined a now nigh-unprintable racial slur for black people with the word 'man'.)
Related, here's a pretty impressive attempt to detect bad words, to allow a talking banana on a Twitch live stream, without being banned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ5ppf0po3k
You're getting downvoted but I also don't understand the relevance here. Parent seems to imply this is a mistake by npm relying on partial censorship but aren't they literally banning this exact word?
Just learned "keygen" is the term the script-kiddies use to describe the act of generating fake activation keys. Never let it be said HN is not educational. But I feel the same way I felt when I noticed idiots using "crypto" to refer to cryptocurrency instead of cryptography.
Greetings! I am here to derail the thread with a remark about "organic chemistry" versus "organic foods".
Sometimes being there first doesn't mean you get to use the simplification forever. Cryptography is an older thing than cryptocurrency, but both are unwieldy to pronounce and have been simplified to "crypto". Since cryptography is math and cryptocurrencies (in the "popular" sphere) is a get rich quick scheme, the abbreviation that works for both generally became applied to the latter.
I am sure organic chemists are a little weirded out when people tell them "oh yeah I love those new strawberries we got". This is that.
"Crypto" has been around for much longer than 5 years. I remember someone using it in reference to a Motorola DES chip in the late 70s. And the IACR Crypto conference has been going on since the early 80s.
Why is it a misuse to use "crypto" to refer to a currency whose design relies on secrets, but it's fine to use "crypto" to refer to keeping communications private using some secret information?
I do crypto the airport (opening the barriers with my passport, where the computer in my passport signs a challenge encrypted with its pubkey) and do crypto with my phone (making a call, which is encrypted with Ericsson SNOW), and do crypto at the corner shop (using my card, same as the passport).
If airports, phones, and corner shops claimed they 'work in crypto' it would be similarly misleading.
Even Toly refers to himself as a distributed systems engineer, because building a blockchain involves more DS work than crypto work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem