Cantrill jumps on every bandwagon. When he assisted in cancelling a Node developer (not a native English speaker) over pronouns he was following the Zeitgeist, now "Broadly speaking, LLM use is encouraged at Oxide."

He is a long way from Sun.

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crabmusket 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For those interested, here's a take from Bryan after that incident https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2013/11/30/the-power-of-a-prono...

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		The change: https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015/files > Sorry, not interested in trivial changes like that. - bnoordhuis As a not native English speaker, I think the change itself is okay (women will also occasionally use computers), but saying you're not interested in merging it is kinda cringe, for a lack of a better term - do you not realize that people will take issue with this and you're turning a trivial change into a messy discussion? Stop being a nerd and merge the damn changeset, it won't break anything either, read the room. Admittedly, I also view the people arguing in the thread to be similarly cringe, purely on the basis that if someone is uninterested/opposed to stuff like this, you are exceedingly unlikely to be able to make them care. Feels the same as how allowlist/denylist reads more cleanly, as well as main for a branch name uses a very common word as well - as long as updating your CI config isn't too much work. To show a bit of empathy the other way as well, maybe people get tired of too many changes like that (e.g. if most of the stuff you review is just people poking the docs by rewording stuff to be able to say that they contributed to project X). Or maybe people love to take principled stances and to argue idk > ...it’s not the use of the gendered pronoun that’s at issue (that’s just sloppy), but rather the insistence that pronouns should in fact be gendered. Yeah, odd thing to get so fixated on when the they/them version is more accurate in this circumstance. While I don't cause drama when I see gendered ones (again, most people here have English as a second language), I wouldn't argue with someone a bunch if they wanted to correct the docs or whatever.

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sunshowers 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I didn't know about that incident before starting at Oxide, but if I'd known about it, it absolutely would have attracted me. I've written a large amount of technical content and not once in over a decade have I needed to use he/him pronouns in it. Bryan was 100% correct.