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I have this method that populates a list with dummy tile data (it's a texture packing tool I'm working on, so there needs to be a list of possible tile locations based on the tile sheet and tile sizes) so that the user can iterate over the possible positions and then set up each position with data, but when I was adding comments, I got this lol
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Me: "There's no problematic language in programming, this is stupid."
Also me: "Ok, so for efficiency I'll slave all the workers to a master and get the master to kill them if they get disabled, then it can make a new child worker to replace them."
Also remember you can kill the disabled child worker's parents if they're on the blacklist.
Oh, we just got a request from someone who isn't white. Don't worry, I'll throttle them.
Typically you just ignore requests from anyone who isn't white(listed)
Yea, that's much better for security. Use whitelists over blacklists wherever possible.
All children have been aborted.
But then the orphan will become a zombie when it dies
Of course, you don't want any hanging relationships. Death must cascade through the family tree.
I once had a similar conversation on the bus with a colleague of mine. I remember there was a lady next to us that at some point stood up, gave us a weird look and went sitting at the far opposite side of the bus
I mean, there's nothing problematic in this in context.
Reminds me of GitHubs copilot crashing when you asked it how to kill a user on a Linux system.
last time i tried to post something like this (but half as bad lol) it got taken down by the auto mod. it was this same subreddit smh.
imagine being tone policed by your ide
Master branch? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
I guess people can no longer go beyond a bachelor's degree anymore. Or lead a dojo. Or create media to be distributed.
I get it when the context is master/slave, switch to primary/secondary. But the word "master" can also be used without any slaves attached, like mastering a skill, or a master from which all copies are made (hence remastering when you make an improved master). So yeah, for redundant services or IDE drives, not good, but for the master branch, it's ridiculous.
You do you but I like keeping my slave branches around for doing the real work. The master only gets the results of the work.
I can't even say that I am dummy thicc anymore smh.
Please tell me this is fake and Jetbrains IDEs don't do this.
Unfortunately it's real. I use Rider
WTF are you supposed to use? How is dummy ableist?
The suggestion is to replace it with “fake”. You can actually disable the suggestion. But it’s a little xtra to have it on by default
But if we use fake then how will that make phony people feel??
Great point
I'm sure politicians won't be reading OP's code.
Yes but why are we creating this environment of defensive naming conventions for (in this case) things nobody is offended by?
I’m offended (I’m a huge dummy)
Consider replacing the word “huge”?
I see a word thread and i am offended (i lack the ability to sew my clothes).
Aren't dummy variables common usage in Boolean conditions in statistics and econometrics?
absolutely, this linter rule was written by someone who doesn't know programming very well I think
There's also a big list of categories that it will spell check. Somewhere in there you can turn off the checks for words that might be considered offensive or stuff like that.
Excuse me. Please use "differently-able the suggestion" instead of d*sable.
why tf is it on by default...?
You can name your mocks with things like "retarData" to show the IDE who's in charge
New naming convention unlocked
sCuntThorpe problem
Dummy is related to the word dumb, in the literal sense of unable to talk. It's still used as an insult, so is associated with ridicule of disabilities.
Dummy meaning fake probably originated from dummies being mannequins, i.e. fake people that can't talk. I doubt it was ever to insult mute people.
Yeah, the problem is that there are so many words with the word "dumb" in it that has nothing to do with people... what about dumb-bells? Or, heavens forbid, dumbwaiters? Can you imagine meeting your friend in a public place and claim loudly that you have a dumbwaiter in your house? What kind of monster are you???
Aye. This tool is overzealous.
Dummy used to be an insult for people who could not speak. But hey it's only been used in the sense to mean "fake" since the mid 19TH CENTURY, 175(ish) years is clearly not enough time for the meaning of a word to change.
Don’t worry, you can disable it. The problem is that you need to ask chatGPT because it’s nested under so many menus and submenus in Settings that you need an archeologist to find it.
I use some Jetbrains IDEs, I just have never seen this. Makes sense considering they do other weird things like spellchecking your code by default.
Eh, I like the spellchecking it does
WHAT, that seems so dumb...
Consider replacing the possibly ableist word "dumb"
Is there any way to turn this retarded shit off in Rider?
I use Rider as well and don't have any of this or settings related to it. Is it a new feature or something?
Change your language to English but some other locality? Might be a specific regional heuristic? I have a hard time believing that they include the same messages in Polish or Japanese.
time to move to neovim
This comes from the plugin Grazie, which comes bundled with any Jetbrains IDE, but Grazie itself use LanguageTool which is a 3rd party tool. Grazie is probably only doing integration and controlling which contexts proofreading should be applied.
I get similar warnings in nvim through a linter which refers to the RedHat Supplementary Style Guide. It's probably coming from there
Can you find a way to get VS Code to have this? I need this rule in my eslint. For reasons.
First they came for master, and I did not speak out, because I was not a master.
Then they came for blacklists, and I did not speak out, because I was not a blacklist.
Then they came for dummy, and there was no one left to speak for me
lol. Corporate mandate that all employees must install this extension.
I believe it's base jetbrains IDE
Facepalm
It's an option you can disable. There are other examples "master/slave replication", "whitelist", "blacklist" etc
I replaced whitelist with AryanList for extra security. By opposition, the blacklist has become SchindlerList
broooooo 💀💀💀
What’s the alternative to whitelist and blacklist?
Allow and deny?
Yes
Allow/block
Blacklist and whitelist don’t have racial origins from my research (google search). But honestly, I get it. It doesn’t sound right at all lol
Allow/block is also just more intuitive I guess, which is also nice
inclusion/exclusion
Allow/block
admittance/rejection
Allowlist denylist which honestly I prefer over white/blacklist
Seen this argument made for it. It only works until someone adds the check to a pre-commit hook or runs the linter in a CI/CD pipeline.
Yeah, I had to literally uncheck an "Abelist" box in the spell check opinions
Waiwaiwait, dummy has anything to do with disability? Wha
“Dumb” was an older, not entirely derogatory, term for someone who would now be commonly known as “mute”, unable to speak, or if it’s a secondary effect “non-verbal”
It’s got a weird history if you enjoy reading about the change of words over time.
“That deaf dumb blind kid sure played a mean pinball”
Damn, I feel like some words are so far removed from their original meanings they should just get a pass.
It's hilarious how the Perpetually Offended will take a word at its worst point, "you can't say dumb, it was ableist then" and "you can't read that book that says negro, it's bad now"
this feature is dumb fake
Why is every word capitalized?
While this strikes me as over-the-top, if we err, I prefer it this way: overly-compassionate.
I'm glad to see people are trying this hard.
Now remove it from the default settings please :)
For real, I will take overly concerned but caring over not giving a shit about other people any day
This is not a two-mode issue though
what does this have to do with compassion? It's just word policing to make busy bodies feel better about being useless.
Same if you called making society less degenerate in the 80s when some Karen decided to complain about seeing a boob in the sky
Some of us are fortunate enough to have lived a privileged life, where we fit in with the majority.
But if you're gay, and everyone around you says, "That's gay" when referring to something bad, it'd be hard to express yourself, to be who you are around them.
It can seem like "word policing" when you've never been the butt of a joke, but it really is important to make space for people to be who they are around you. To be happy.
Saying “that’s gay” isn’t offensive because it contains the word gay, it’s offensive because using the word gay as a negative trait implies that you think being gay is negative. It’s not dissimilar to if I started saying “that’s so u/SagansCandle” about things that I don’t like. It’s not the mere fact that I’m using your username in a sentence, it’s the implication that I somehow dislike you so much that your name is synonymous with dislike.
Explained well - I think we're in agreement on this.
I'm gay and I use "that's gay" all the time. Just as I use other slurs.
I find it way more offensive when someone tells me I cannot say something because they think it's bad. You don't get to decide what words others shouldn't use. If you don't like it, don't use it.
Just as I use other slurs.
Some people are fine throwing around slurs. You get to decide the person you want to be.
But I thought gay is not a slur.
The word itself is not, but "slur" just means something degrading or disparaging. So it's in how you use it.
Words have power and meaning. They perpetuate stereotypes and influence others.
It's called empathy but [insert Joker meme here]
All double-plus good, eh?
It is fine in the defaults, the problem with non-default settings is that people who would use them won't know they exist. It is very easy to turn off if you don't need it.
Uh oh, I hope you don’t have a branch named master
Damn, it feels go to know that VS code doesn't do that shit .... yet 👀
(Yes I do java in vs code)
- Eww, Java in VSC sounds like a nightmare
- You can disable the ableist check
the fact that you say "you can" mean it's on by default, which kinda weird, why not opt in?
Most features should be on by default so that users discover them.
Only the good ones tho
Please no. I’m really not keen on having telemetry and god knows what privacy breaking “features” turned on by default, and I’m not keen on starting work on a Monday morning and fighting for 4 hours with all of the new features everyone added instead of getting to work.
There are better ways
Serious question: What better ways?
No one reads documentation, newsletters, blogs, or tips-of-the-day (or anything), and no one goes through settings unless something (like the appearance of a feature they dislike) prompts them to.
Because all of them are surfaced at a time when the user is busy doing something else entirely.
CLI tools tend to manage this pretty well - show a one liner message about new updates, and a URL. The tool can be used as is for the foreseeable future, but you decide when to upgrade and if you want to read the updates it brings. Tools like CDK will also let you acknowledge breaking changes before moving on, or upcoming breaking changes, letting you adjust to them on your own time.
The principle of least surprise should still apply, as a base minimum.
Well on by default means it's probably the most effective because of the nature of this issue... if it's opt-in, then only people who are already self-aware of problematic naming conventions would see it. So, not as effective and widespread as highlighting those conventions in the people who aren't even aware to begin with.
Naming conventions in code are not affecting the world.
You're thinking about it backwards if that's the takeaway. It's not the the name conventions are affecting it so much as what they highlight as normative of greater things that do affect the world, and how steps can be taken to reflect on that.
But here's the cool thing... if they aren't affecting the world, then it wouldn't hurt to change them to more inclusive words anyway? Worst case, nothing is lost at all (if they aren't affecting anything as you say). Best case, the world becomes a better place. There's no downside, and it also gets people to reflect on themselves.
Nah I don't give a rat ass to it, just doing it because it's in my course. As soon as I'm passed I won't be going back to it.
is this ragebait?
If “dummy” is ableist, can I still have my buttons “disabled”?
Of course! That change is queued up for the HTML6 standard
Consider minding your own fucking business.
Inb4 you can't use 'fake' either because that's truthist
is that a thing?
Am I allowed to say that ableist is a horrible needlessly difficult intellectually elitist word?
the word you are looking for is `mock`
But mocking someone is also mean behaviour. Maybe placeholder? Stand-in? Mannequin?
Let's use a modern language
Data capDataFr
Is 'Mock' an ableist word?
Please post the name of the IDE/plugin so we don't install it lol
All Jetbrains IDEs have this enabled by default, you can of course turn it off.
I have the newest IntelliJ version and it doesn't do this. I've searched for "offensive" in the spellcheck rules and the only appearance is the word "toilet", which it wants replaced with "restroom" or so.
It also tells you that this check isn't provided by Jetbrains, it comes from https://languagetool.org/, but I haven't been able to replicate the "dummy" thing on their site either.
You’ll want to search for “Ableist” in settings, the mod tested in the C# sub and it’s apparently part of one of the pre-bundled plugins
That doesn't show anything for me, I guess not all of their IDEs have this yet
No idea, I don’t use them, just saw it on the C# sub. I think they mentioned Grazie Pro as the source
Ah, interesting, I only have Grazie Lite bundled
That warning is a dummy
but dummy data and fake data have like totally different connotations
The only dummy that'll read my code is me.
So car manufacturers can't use crash test dummies? Should they be called crash test mannequins?
As a dummy, I am outraged!
Please tell me this is fake?
Whole lotta pearl clutching in this thread.
I want to know what does this so I can maximize racism, sexism and ableism in my code.
Has anyone asked the mute community if they are offended by this usage?
Luckily I don’t install linters
You may not. The project you work on might use them in a CI/CD pipeline though.
Yeah, only when it’s out of my hands.
The majority of the time I own the ecosystem and I choose to not install linters
So we agree
If I used your editor, it would call the police on me.
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Yo DO NOT show the sjw's my fucking comments.
They'll crucify me for crimes I didn't commit.
Which I guess is the way it goes, right?
“Sjw”? Did you by any chance just wake up from a 13 year long coma?
Oh?
We not allowed to say that anymore?
Ironic?
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic but that’s not what I meant, i meant it’s an old ass term from like 2013 lol
It’s not that you’re not allowed to use it it’s just weird like saying ROFL or fopdoodle
It's just a hipster bigot, he wants you to know he hates being a nice person before it was cool.
I understood that but it's no less relevant.
No, the point is exactly that it's irrelevant because it's straight from 2015. If you wanna spew conservative bullshit then say woke instead, more up to date (not that the insecurity vulnerabilities have been patched in that one either)
Who said conservative? Tf?
Woke is a completely different thing.
SJW, now that's a word that takes me back lol. 13 year old me was watching "SJW epic own compilation #143"
while this seems over the top, here is a list of more professional phrases
- mock data
- fixtures
- examples
- placeholder content
Since your comment implies that the data can be modified for these, I'd go with mock data.
Mocks are not dummies though, they include functionality, it’s a concept baked into every testing library and tool out there. Similarly, a fixture is not a dummy, it’s data actually used for testing in a test env, ensuring consistency, and examples are things you put in documentation and can be changed freely.
Placeholder can be a good term, albeit a weaker replacement. Dummy data is just there to get compilers to shut up about interfaces, but has no bearing on the test whatsoever.
All good suggesting replacements, “main” was a good alternative to “master”, as is “allowlist” for “whitelist”, but professional also means it needs to adhere to the profession
Consider fake.
But think about how that will make phoney people feel?
I think ableists can go fuck themselves.
dummy is NOT ableist.
- "Placeholder"
- How *dare* someone try to help other people and in the process inconvenience you ... with an underline. /s
cancel culture coming for comments
Shit, my comments are fucked up…
Half of my comments were inside thoughts that leaked through my fingertips.
... But.... All of your thoughts are inside thoughts...
They already came for our branch names
Don't forget black/white lists. They're now allow/ban lists.
Suspiciously soon after there were all those protests about Github's ICE contract.
I use master as my master branch cause it was transparent as fuck.
Master isn’t transparent at all lol I remember like 2 decades ago when I was going through my CS degree and even at the time professors were like “yeah it’s always been called master but it doesn’t make much sense.” I had a professor that always used “trunk” as whatever the “base” branch was, because you’d “branch off from the trunk”. Also had some that thought “main” or “primary” or even “stable” was better. “Master” only stuck around because it was the norm, not because it’s transparent or made sense.
I was saying it was extremely transparent they were only making a deal of it because they'd only been in the news for working with ICE and wanted to look like good guys
The dude that wrote git is Swedish, not really known for their slavery practices. “Master” is used quite often in the context of a “master copy”, which is still used in the music industry).
“Trunk” is not a bad name either, and neither is “main” (a change I was behind), but your teacher’s lack of knowledge doesn’t mean anything here.
// all child processes are over 18 yo and legally allowed to work in the availability region
child processes grow into adult processes
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