This is confusing. Maybe OP has a point that we should just be forthright about whats going on so people can make informed decisions.

My initial reaction is that you shouldn’t be sticking your neck out for people you only know in a professional sense.

My second reaction is that as a community if you receive reports of sexual assault and do not act on them in some way you are sending a message that your community is not a safe space for people who have been sexually assaulted.

And I’m still hung up on how you are able to ostracize the accused and not the accuser? Is the accusation coming from outside the community?

The latter is fairly rare to happen to accusers, but it’s expected for the accused.

That’s not true. Kids have been disowned by their families for reporting SA. Ostracization is a real possibility for victims and it’s a very large part of causes rapes to go unreported. Nobody wants to be friends with the person who makes false allegations.

Not to mention you’re leaving out all the people who will see someone actually convicted and decide not to ostracize the guilty person because “akchually he’s a good guy”.

The reality is that it is insanely hard to fence-sit on “I don’t believe the accusation but I don’t think the accuser is lying either”.

or if we do take action (the minimum action you seem to be advocating for is ostracism) against the accused

Either way someone’s getting ostracized. People who don’t ostracize the accused are going to ostracize the accuser.

considering they later conclude that progressive speech is allowed you must be right. I was thrown off because in real life the “majority-conforming” opinion is “I do not care what is in your pants”.

Edit: it’s also not reflective of my time in hacker spaces at all but OP has since confirmed it’s not actually about hacking spaces but just tech in general

Edit: I misunderstood, my comment doesn’t add anything of value but you can still read it if you choose.

1. it can increase execution speed because the alternative is usually hosting a file separately and making a separate http request to get that file. Bundling allows you to deliver one bigger file instead of multiple small files, saving on network requests.

2. tree-shaking, minifcation, g-zipping - to get the best performance you want all of your code and only your code. also gzip(filepart1 + filepart2) < gzip(filepart1) + gzip(filepart2) + …

But I think the biggest factor is

3. In JS it’s very common that you don’t have control over where your code is built or executed. With bundling you can usually specify a build target so you can write your code in modern JS with the guarantee that the output will be usable on older systems.

Most of the time if your code doesn’t work because of an old environment the end user will just update their environment but with most JS being written for the web it was beneficial if not required that you put in the effort to make your code run on older environments because your target user base might not have the permissions or technical abilities to upgrade the “environment” (aka browser).

You’re unlikely to find an instance for general purpose video hosting as it’s too resource intensive to host for free. With no clear way to offset the costs the current M.O. is to upload videos to a 3rd party host that monetizes their services (usually through ads) and link to that 3rd party from your post.

Both are heavy targets of spamming and take considerable effort to maintain

github pages -> https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/about-github-pages-and-jekyll

If you know an artist who works 40 hours a week at a minimum wage job and then paints for 40 hours a week in their free time then you know an artist that works 80 hours a week

i mean, how else do you build new skills or gain familiarity without stuff you don’t use at work?

Woodshedding. I can not learn as fast if I’m weighed down by the idea that every piece of code I check-in needs to be production ready.

In other words, the developers are saying: “We will treat you this way regardless of how you treat us.”

I dk I don’t think you can fake a persecution complex like that.

He also said that he considered only retaining the bullet points that would be relevant to the project, but ultimately decided that would be[ing] disrespectful to the original text and its author. Seems [other religions] is fine to me.