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  1. Comment on What's something you have always wanted to know about being LGBT (but were maybe afraid to ask)? in ~lgbt

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    That makes perfect sense. The fact that there's no gender neutral honorific further drives home that it's not actually necessary. Thank you, it seems so obvious in hindsight but I just couldn't...

    That makes perfect sense. The fact that there's no gender neutral honorific further drives home that it's not actually necessary. Thank you, it seems so obvious in hindsight but I just couldn't see my way to it on my own.

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  2. Comment on What's something you have always wanted to know about being LGBT (but were maybe afraid to ask)? in ~lgbt

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    Hey. I don't think there's one correct answer for this but it's a conversation I want to start. What are some genderless ways of respectfully addressing people? When I worked in the service...

    Hey. I don't think there's one correct answer for this but it's a conversation I want to start. What are some genderless ways of respectfully addressing people? When I worked in the service industry I would use "Sir" and "Ma'am" all the time. They are fading away and feeling older and stuffier but there's still situations like "Sir/Ma'am, excuse me, you dropped this." I want my first (and possibly only) interactions with people to be inclusive so when taking that sort of deferential tone, what are some better strategies for formally addressing those who you may not know by name?

    6 votes

  3. Comment on Whats the most important alias or function in your bashrc file? in ~comp

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    I make extensive use of aliases, and after all my aliases are defined I have this: # NO ALIASES BELOW ME PLEASE. UNLESS THEY ARE SUPER DUPER SECRET! # cut and tr for formatting # sed to push...

    I make extensive use of aliases, and after all my aliases are defined I have this:

    # NO ALIASES BELOW ME PLEASE. UNLESS THEY ARE SUPER DUPER SECRET!
# cut and tr for formatting
# sed to push command continuations indented on to new lines
# ack for simple colors
function aliases() {
alias | cut -d' ' -f2- | tr "='" "\t" | sort | sed -e $'s/&&/&\\\n\\\t\\\t  /g' | sed -e $'s/;/;\\\n\\\t\\\t  /g' | ack -i "^[\S]*" --color-match=cyan --passthru
}
aliases

    Which spits all my aliases out for me when I start a new login shell or call the aliases function. Especially useful when I have just added a new alias and haven't committed it to memory yet.

    Example (restart docker-machine and bring up an arbitrary container tree from a compose file in my localdev directory, then return to whatever directory I was just in):

    dkr		pushd . &&
		   cd ~/dev/localdev &&
		   docker-machine stop;
		   docker-machine start &&
		   eval $(docker-machine env) &&
                    docker-compose up $1 -d
		   popd

    The alias gets syntax highlighted to cyan and multiple commands (ending in ; or && stack although it's a very naive implementation.

    The function is not pretty and it doesn't scale well to very large aliases but I like it all the same.

    This is on macos so there may be some adjustments needed for Linux, I am not sure.

    3 votes

  4. Comment on You just lost the game in ~misc

  5. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~games

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    One of the things to me that makes this game so fantastic is the varied voice acting and all the in-depth writing and world-building. It's something that Beyond Earth fell incredibly short on for...

    One of the things to me that makes this game so fantastic is the varied voice acting and all the in-depth writing and world-building. It's something that Beyond Earth fell incredibly short on for me. Then they released Alien Crossfire and effectively doubled all of that content. There's a Civ4 mod that tries to recreate the game but somehow the original is the one I keep going back to.

    Thanks for linking the community patches, I had no idea. Time to go back in. After all, the drones need me. They look up to me.

    1 vote

  6. Comment on Favorite Anime Soundtrack in ~anime

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    Samurai Champloo has a pretty great soundtrack. Somebody already mentioned Boogiepop Phantom but I'll second that as being very good.

    Samurai Champloo has a pretty great soundtrack. Somebody already mentioned Boogiepop Phantom but I'll second that as being very good.

    3 votes