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It doesn't really matter, because their target audience does not care about that.


No true Scotsman.

It’s sad to see this childishness around what should be an important project.


The point being made is if the project and code were important to you, you wouldn’t be judging it based on the founder’s social media habits…just how it runs, and if it continues to do that year after year.

Spoiler, it’s great, and will continue on.


You can't categorically exclude a founder's personality as an indicator of a project's ability to thrive.

All the people basically defending this or saying it's not an issue only makes it worse.

It's a perfect example of the problem: a founder is a leader, and a leader's behavior spreads and can infect the team and community.


Simply name a project that’s failed due to this, or suggest a vector through which it could happen here for the first time.

Being okay with someone being unhinged while defending themselves over and over again hardly seems divisive.

Maybe you can frame your objection better?

Genuine question: are you familiar with the controversy of how Linus Torvalds used to frequently operate at the helm of the Linux kernel fiefdom?


Yes, because such move decreases the target audience accordingly.


And yet, you do the same.


I don't understand what you mean. Did I add rants to GrapheneOS docs?


"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"


Its a nice start, but there is a certain irritation in that the popup text is directly over the puck. I felt like I was losing more because I couldn't see the puck under the combo counter than anything in the game.


> Fortnite "Usage"

I like this choice of word, it seems fitting.


This is just advocating being lazy in communication. Which is entirely expected and in harmony with our time starved work environments.


So a company decided to send cold outbound to a targeted audience from a dataset they gathered from a public social network... so what?

> "Scandalous behaviour" really? In the same year as the Epstein files?

Wishing a companies total demise over such a trivial matter? Honestly?

All this prissiness about some unwanted emails...


Most startups fail. Some deserve it.


My favourite was a search result based ai digest suggesting that during storms large cargo ships could survive for days until eventually 'disappearing'; Perplexed (intended), I followed the citation, the source actually said that the storms themselves would persist for days until disappearing.


Seems like Ecclesiastes 5:12 playing out, once again: "Sweet is the sleep of the one serving, whether he eats little or much, but the plenty belonging to the rich one does not permit him to sleep."


In real life, rich people sleep better than poor people. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/sleep-deficits-minorit...


An 8sleep costs a couple grand. They totally sleep better than sleeping in a tent on the streets.


After almost a decade of upheaval and change in the world around us, it's almost of comfort to see that the use of weasel words on OoL science headlines remains a reliable and permanent fixture.


Reading this, it's exceptionally confusing as to how many family members you're talking about exactly; Your use of they, them, their is causing me to imagine some microbiome obsessed tribe has moved in and is holding conferences on it in your kitchen...


Haha. I try to use they/them/their instead of he/her/him etc as a way of keeping stories a little more anonymized but I suppose it could be confusing.

I am curious, do other people find this style of writing confusing? Genuinely curious.


It read fine to me.


No I found it readable though I can understand why they might be confused a little bit too but its nothing to worry about in my opinion.

Honestly regarding your anecdote and the gourmet syndrome the title itself, I don't really have nothing to add except I guess just note that human mind truly just works in remarkable ways.

But each day science uncovers more and more secrets about our brains. Maybe one day the gourmat syndrome or (your anecdote [if its a syndrome? or anything more observed or who knows, I am not sure as I don't have much medical knowledge being honest] might be explained in future too by future science advancements and scientists)

It's crazy how far we have come in medical science and (also not) [but I don't mean it in a bad way] at the same time.


Singular they/them is mostly only a problem to non-native speakers. It's a pretty uniquely English thing to blur the singular and plural, at least among languages that use pronouns much.


no I didn't even notice till the child comment


That was a little confusing to me as well. English is not my native language, so maybe I just didn't understand the nuance.


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