In the hypothetical future scenario where the output is good enough I don't think there's much of a point in making a distinction between something that is optically manipulated via lens vs done so via software.
There's plenty of non-left news/media orgs. WSJ, Washington Examiner, New York Post, National Review, Daily Mail, Newsweek, Washington Times. I don't think most of those would be considered fringe media.
> So, to quote myself: "The question is: who decides it is a slur especially in our global world? Somehow, increasingly, it's the white Americans who end up being offended on everyone's behalf."
The black people on the receiving end of “coon” would be the decision makers in this case.
And besides that, during the googling process of figuring out if the name is taken the negative connotations of this one would come up.
Anyway I’m working on a new terminal string styling library that I’ve named Colored which should be of some interest to you.
> The black people on the receiving end of “coon” would be the decision makers in this case.
The black people in the United States, specifically. To put this into perspective: 1.2 billion people live in Africa alone, most of them non-white.
> Anyway I’m working on a new terminal string styling library that I’ve named Colored which should be of some interest to you.
And what exactly is the negaive connotation here for 1.1 billion English speakers (out of 8.7 billion people) who don't live in the US?
Once again. To put this into perspective since you both are being maximally culturally and racially insensitive to anything that is not US, here's a perspective of an English-speaking person from South Africa (I only quote parts of the messages):
I think you just need to tolerate different cultures better. A word that is
deemed racist in one culture isn't the same in another.
There are many other uses for coon.
Maine Coon is a type of cat.
Coon is type of cheese in Australia. Go on - tell all of Australia to stop
eating coon.
Next you'll be telling me to rethink the use of the work 'monkey' or 'gorrilla' for a library. Where does it end?
I grew up in apartheid South Africa. This was a system of government that
legitimised racist laws... I've been mocked and called racial slurs, served last in queues, talked down to. Bad words over there are 'kaffir' and 'coolie'. They're
highly offensive words and given the nature of violence in that country,
it's something you could be killed over. For me those words carry more
significance than 'coon' ever will.
...
When I moved to NZ it was quite clear that those same words that were
insulting in South Africa didn't carry over. Both countries speak English
but the cultures are different, although SA has more languages. I noticed
that there's there is a product called 'kaffir lime' grocery stores
everywhere. Imagine having 'n...ga lime' in American/Canadian grocery
stores. I got used to it after a while and it really doesn't bother me
anymore. Instead of shouting out about the use of the word 'kaffir' in
their product, I understood that different countries use words differently,
and expecting NZ to change for me to accommodate my sensitivities would
have been stupid.
--- end quote ---
Now. Are you also going to dismiss this as "some guy from South Africa ffs"?
If the US were a person, literally everyone would tell them to get its shit together and go see a psychologist. And not make the world assume that all issues must be viewed strictly through skewed American view.
> The black people in the United States, specifically
If Bubba goes on twitter and starts calling black people from Canada, Australia, Mozambique, or wherever "coon" they'll probably be offended by it once they figure out what it means.
> Now. Are you also going to dismiss this as "some guy from South Africa ffs"?
That wasn't me, so no i'm not. I'm not "being maximally culturally and racially insensitive to anything that is not US", I just answered your question with the simple and obvious truth. Honestly you're coming across as more of the "offended" type than the people asking for the name change in the first place.
And your quote isn't really helping you out. Comparing changing the name of a new software library to changing the name of a long standing physical product on shelves is dishonest when we could just do a simple apples to apples comparison.
If I consider a hypothetical situation where I named my project "Coolie" because I think it's a fun word and I used to like Coolio, then someone comes along and says hey that's pretty offensive to this subset of people on the other side of the globe for these reasons that will never affect you. I'd just change it. It would cost me nothing and probably net me some goodwill.
> they'll probably be offended by it once they figure out what it means.
If that person is from the States and/or uses the term specifically in the way it's used in the US.
And even then most might just shrug it away because the word doesn't bare any significant emotional or historical baggage. What's another idiot on the internet?
Meanwhile you keep forcing the US-centric view onto the world.
> I just answered your question with the simple and obvious truth.
Ah yes. The "obvious truth" apparently meaning "whatever is true for this specific US-centric view of US-specific issues and US_specific cultural baggage is the truth".
> Honestly you're coming across as more of the "offended" type than the people asking for the name change in the first place.
Yes. I'm offended by the US shoving its way of thinking down everyone's throats and expecting everyone to meekly comply because "it's the objective truth".
> And your quote isn't really helping you out. Comparing changing the name of a new software library to changing the name of a long standing physical product on shelves is dishonest
Of course what makes it dishonest is your monopoly on the truth, got it.
> If I consider a hypothetical situation where I named my project "Coolie"
You already said, I quote, "I’m working on a new terminal string styling library that I’ve named Colored which should be of some interest to you." which was probably supposed to evoke some kind of indignation from me.
I can only re-iterate: stop forcing your US cultural and societal issues onto the world.
> I'd just change it.
You? Maybe. As it actually turns out, Americans expect everyone else to conform to whatever they find offensive while never, or rarely, changing themselves. A great example: Pidora has been "actively seeking a new name" for the past 9 years, and counting https://wiki.cdot.senecacollege.ca/wiki/Pidora_Russian
> Meanwhile you keep forcing the US-centric view onto the world.
You keep saying this, but the world view presented i've presented is anything but. The coolie example is specifically addressing non-US racism right?
> Of course what makes it dishonest is your monopoly on the truth, got it.
No, what makes it dishonest is that a bad example was specifically chosen because it helped the point. Where a good example would have been detrimental to the point.
> which was probably supposed to evoke some kind of indignation from me
No, you've been indignant the whole time. The US existing and having people in it that have their own perspectives seems to be some kind of attack on your identity which is causing you to lose reason and froth at the mouth.
You keep talking about "shoving" and "forcing", but the only person forcing anything is you and your ad nauseam repetition of some "US centric" accusation. It's just as baseless and pointless the 10th time as the first. Everyone gets it, you can chill.
I don't think this is sound reasoning as the main issue with slavery is the abuse of the slaves. What GP is saying is that animals are more abused by nature than by people. If the same could be proven that homeless would be better as slaves (ie. thag they would not be whipped and worked to death) then that would in fact be better but since we can't make that guarantee and history has generally shown otherwise we do not allow it. There is also the fact that it would normalize slavery in general.
requestIdleCallback isn’t something that you need to protect yourself from. It just executes a function when there’s nothing else happening on your page essentially.
The point is to play nice. "I have this task the page needs to do, but I can wait a bit until more convenient". Not "browser is idle, let's mine some bitcoin" as you suggest.
This does not do what you think it does. You're tilting at windmills.
It's not about doing stuff in a tab that isn't in focus. "Idle" refers to the main thread idling in the page you're currently using, so it's about controlling the execution order and priority of JS tasks. E.g. on Google Maps you give priority to rendering the visible map tiles while deferring preloading the surrounding non-visible tiles until the main thread is unblocked (and thus idling).
The requestIdleCallback API isn’t specific to inactive tabs, and trying to use it to do background work in general is not a Good Idea: the first idle callback is typically going to fire (almost) immediately after painting’s complete, or some handful of milliseconds after.
It does look nice. I like the health tracking these modern watches do and silent notifications on the wrist was the original reason I went with smart watches. I'm just a little sad my older mechanical watches are only brought out on special occasions these days.
