Monthly Archives: May 2018

Sexism Against Men And Other Word Overloading

Posted on May 27, 2018 by acorwin

There’s a great tumblr post that does the rounds occasionally. It’s a powerful and pithy explanation of how authority figures exploit words with multiple but related meanings to sound reasonable while saying unreasonable things. Sometimes people use “respect” to mean … Continue reading →

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Corwin’s Tenth Law

Posted on May 26, 2018 by acorwin

Any sufficiently complicated distributed system program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Raft. With apologies to Philip Greenspun.

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Against Flowers

Posted on May 10, 2018 by acorwin

One of my deepest, oldest, most cherished and firmly-held feminist beliefs is that flowers are fucking bullshit. Flowers are a tool of the patriarchy, to render men bumbling, useless fools and women placid receivers of meaningless tokens. Consider the transaction … Continue reading →

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