Some dudes would rather clean up documentation for AI agents than make documentation easier to read for everyone, such as people
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Someone objected to ‘dudes’, apparently it’s sexist so I’ll just leave this here.
In California, everything and everyone is a dude
EDIT: i don't think there can be sexism towards men in tech. that's a bit like all of the reverse racism people.
@skinnylatte they're seems to be this widespread belief in the us that there is a single correct way to say/do things.
As it turns out, things that are offensive in one place are not in others.
A lot of things that are perfectly normal in the us will mark you as really rude in Sweden. Likewise, there are things I do in Singapore that's perfectly normal that would get me ostracised in the us
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Some dudes would rather clean up documentation for AI agents than make documentation easier to read for everyone, such as people
@skinnylatte I'm encountering this at $DAYJOB. Not so much with documentation, but with tooling improvements. I've been pushing for improvements to some of our internal tooling for over a decade to make developers' lives easier, and not gotten much traction.
Now that those same changes might benefit LLM based tools, there are all the resources in the world to work on them. And I no longer have any interest in being involved.
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@spacehobo @skinnylatte except this really isn't true outside the US and it's just another case of American exceptionalism to use the excuse of "actually over here it's neutral" instead of apologizing
@aesthr @spacehobo @skinnylatte i’m usually first to call out american exceptionalism but this doesn’t feel like one? every anglo culture has their own “the weird term they call everybody” that everyone else just accepts as a quirk e.g., australians and “mate” (which fwiw used to be masculine in that cultural context too). regional differences in language is ok.
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@aesthr @skinnylatte @spacehobo Asking people "How many dudes have you slept with, then?" often highlights whether they consider it gender neutral or not.
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Someone objected to ‘dudes’, apparently it’s sexist so I’ll just leave this here.
In California, everything and everyone is a dude
EDIT: i don't think there can be sexism towards men in tech. that's a bit like all of the reverse racism people.
@skinnylatte as a non-Californian, I can attest to universal dude as a thing that existed in English during the 80s beyond the geographic borders of California.
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Someone objected to ‘dudes’, apparently it’s sexist so I’ll just leave this here.
In California, everything and everyone is a dude
EDIT: i don't think there can be sexism towards men in tech. that's a bit like all of the reverse racism people.
@skinnylatte
I’m a dude
He’s a dude
She’s a dude
We’re all dudes -
@aesthr @spacehobo @skinnylatte i’m usually first to call out american exceptionalism but this doesn’t feel like one? every anglo culture has their own “the weird term they call everybody” that everyone else just accepts as a quirk e.g., australians and “mate” (which fwiw used to be masculine in that cultural context too). regional differences in language is ok.
@atsuzaki @aesthr @spacehobo @skinnylatte it's normal in Cornwall (UK) to call somebody "my lover", also "dude" because we have a surf scene - dude is specific to surf, not american coasts
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@skinnylatte
I’m a dude
He’s a dude
She’s a dude
We’re all dudes@jaykass @skinnylatte Can't believe no one has posted this yet
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Someone objected to ‘dudes’, apparently it’s sexist so I’ll just leave this here.
In California, everything and everyone is a dude
EDIT: i don't think there can be sexism towards men in tech. that's a bit like all of the reverse racism people.
@skinnylatte As a native Californian I can attest. "Dude" is kind of our way of saying "Y'all." If we're being especially affectionate, we'll call you "little dude." Even if you are big. I don't make the rules.
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Someone objected to ‘dudes’, apparently it’s sexist so I’ll just leave this here.
In California, everything and everyone is a dude
EDIT: i don't think there can be sexism towards men in tech. that's a bit like all of the reverse racism people.
@skinnylatte I spent just enough time in California that I referred to my pants as dude...also the coffee I spilled on them as dude. The event itself was dude. All things are one under the path of dude.
