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Transmisogyny 

The thing that a lot of cis people don't get about cis men playing trans women in media, is that it's not just offensive because they're stealing the role from a trans woman or that they are destroying "real representation", the worse part about it and the most transmisogynistic part about it is that by having a cis man play a trans woman, they are literally saying that trans women are just men impersonating women, aka men in dresses. A cis woman playing a trans woman would still be stealing the role from a trans woman, but it would be infinite times less offensive and less transmisogynistic then a cis man playing one, because it would still be a woman playing a woman. Also I'd love to see more trans women playing cis women.

re: stream announcement 

I think that went well. Technically I completed a speedrun. And no one else has yet bothered to do that category so technically world record.

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stream announcement 

twitch.tv/madewokherd Still playing Ultimate NES Remix. Hoping with fewer ILs in the spaced repetition system it'll be more interesting without being total chaos.

I just learned a cool git thing.

You can use git switch [revision] -C [branchname] to move a branch to a specific revision and check it out in a single operation. This works even if you currently have that branch checked out.

Unlike git reset, which can do something similar, this operation is safe. If you have uncommitted changes, it'll fail instead of clobbering them.

So at this point I'd always recommend using git restore and git switch instead of git checkout and git reset

everyone wants elder gods to worship, but nobody's willing to hire junior gods and train them.

spirituality 

Had the thought that maybe I should have compassion for inanimate objects too and not just living things and uh I guess I'm an animist now.

I should probably turn a fan on. doesn't, in order to test this hypothesis

The evidence fails to support the claim that homework is academically beneficial for students in any meaningful sense, as I showed in this chapter from my book The Homework Myth: www.alfiekohn.org/homework-improve-learning/.

Many HW defenders quickly pivot to claiming that it promotes self-discipline, responsibility, time management & study skills, etc. Yet over the last 20 years I've been unable to find a single study that supports this folk wisdom about HW's supposed nonacademic advantages.

Finally found the "stop nagging me to offer AI" button in Visual Studio

@b0rk If you think you may have messed up (and your history is linear) because you keep getting "bad" commits: do git bisect log and retest the most recent "good" commit. And the reverse if you keep getting "good" commits.

I also like to do this as a final check after the bisect completes.

If you did mess up, you can use the output from git bisect log to restart your bisect without having to redo any tests.

Probably also applies when using --first-parent but I'm not familiar with it.

Xalia (project I've been working on for about 2 years) is now out there in stable Proton. github.com/ValveSoftware/Proto

This is an external program that adds gamepad controls to desktop apps (Linux, Windows, and Wine with some modifications in Proton). Currently only used for a few launchers, but hoping to expand this and have it usable in regular desktop environments.

stream announcement 

twitch.tv/madewokherd Still doing foot controls and flashcards. Playing Ultimate NES Remix and trying not to get overwhelmed with ILs.

@jyn I'm pretty sure I've had this happen many times and it confuses me every time.

git restore is pretty intuitive compared to git checkout and git reset - I have no idea how I'd fix it with those, probably just do whatever git status tells me until it's fixed.

@b0rk The git clean command won't clean submodules. If I want to clean a project with submodules, I generally run something like this:

git clean -fxd; git submodule foreach --recursive git clean -fxd

@b0rk If you interrupt the process of cloning a submodule, you can end up with files missing, even if you try to update submodules again! HEAD will point to the correct commit but the staging area and working tree will not. git restore -SW . in the submodule should correct this

@octopus If you believe the world is a simulation then it just makes sense.

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