Fascist leaders are good at manipulating stupid people. That does not mean smart fascists do not exist. Intelligence and morality are largely independent qualities, and some fascists are smart assholes, not morons tricked into it.

Doesn’t apply in this specific case, but still: Assuming all fascists are stupid is dangerous; makes it easier for the smart ones to work against you.

some context and/or link would help for everyone who just learned about this project and knows nothing about the devs

Why not both?

Simple workaround: Stamp “not chlorinated” on the non-US stuff.

Much more useful to not actually do anything so they can keep bringing it up whenever a distraction is needed.

#FFFFFF represents the color white.

The whole thing was clearly intended as a joke.

That joke was a bit edgy, misguided and/or tactless.

The reaction still seems a bit extreme to me.

Same advice applies for that as for all other things related to relationships and/or sex:

1. Put yourself into situations where things can happen. (Can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket.)

2. Don’t expect anything to actually happen at any given moment. (If you are only there for one thing other people will notice it and that is not attractive at all.)

3. Be patient and enjoy whatever else is going on meanwhile.

There is no such thing as unbiased news. The best you can hope for is a diverse selection of news sources where the biases mostly cancel out in most situations.

They are not “pro-life”, they are “pro-forced-birth”.

Even if there was anything real about the claim that vaccinations increased autism rates, using that as a justification to stop vaccinations would still be a crazy stance. Autism is not a deadly disease, but many of the things we vaccinate against are.

probably he’s still grieving for his loved one who died as a direct result of their medical care claim getting denied

Another scenario that seems likely to me is that he’s only got a few weeks or maybe months left to live himself due to a denied claim.

He wants to say “They didn’t help us” later much more than he wants help now.

Can we establish “dismusking” as a new word that means “extremely disgusting”?

RustyRooster: C is the root of all modern languages

FORTRAN: Am I a joke to you?

A typical project manager will get a range, take the lower bound and communicate it as the only relevant number to every other stakeholder. When that inevitably does not work out, all the blame will be passed on to you unfiltered.

Depending on where you work it may or may not be worth giving someone new the benefit of the doubt, but in general it is safer to only ever talk about the upper bound and add some padding.

But is it USB-IF’s fault manufacturers tried […]

Yes, it absolutely is USB-IF’s fault that they are not even trying to enforce some semblance of consistency and sanity among adopters. They do have the power to say “no soup certification for you” to manufacturers not following the rules, but they don’t use it anywhere near aggressively enough. And that includes not making rules that are strict enough in the first place.

They are not bad at this. You are bad at understanding it.

I work with this stuff, and I do understand it. Some of my colleagues are actively participating in USB-IF workgroups, although not the ones responsible for naming end user facing things. They come to me for advice when those other workgroups changed some names retroactively again and we need to make sure we are still backwards compatible with things that rely on those names and that we are not confusing our customers more than necessary.

That is why I am very confident in claiming those naming schemes are bad.

“don’t even bother learning it” is my advice for normal end users, and I do stand by it.

But the names are not hard if you bother to learn them.

Never said it is hard.

It is more complex than it needs to be.

It is internally inconsistent.

Names get changed retroactively with new spec releases.

None of that is hard to learn, just not worth the effort.

Sorry, didn’t want this to look like an attack or disagreement. Just wanted to highlight that point, because arbitrary maximum sizes for passwords are a pet peeve of mine.

At least the character limit had a technical reason behind it: having a set size for fields means your database can be more efficient.

If that is the actual technical reason behind it, that is a huge red flag. When you hash a password, the hash is a fixed size. The size of the original password does not matter, because it should not be stored anyway.