I mean according to the article, technically they just tried to stop him over the $2.90 fare.
Then because of that he threatened to kill them and they realized he had a knife so they tasered him.
Then when that didn't work and he ran at them with the knife they opened fire.
Multiple people are still dead because they brought guns into a disagreement over $2.90, but the headline implies a lot more unreasonableness on the individual cops' parts as opposed to the overall policy.
They better change that taskbar before releasing to consumers.
They somehow managed to combine the "take up the full width no matter what's needed" mentality of Windows with the "show the user no useful information whatsoever" mentality of MacOS.
I'm honestly unsure if they intend the 'must-ignore' policy to mean to eat duplicate keys without erroring, or just to eat keys that are unexpected based on some contract or schema....
A summary:
An old proposal (2015, not sure why OP posted it now), that basically proposes to put some more standards and limitations around JSON formatting to make it more predictable. Most of it seems pretty reasonable:
It recommends:
Honestly, the only part of this I dislike is the order of keys not mattering. I get that in a bunch of languages they use dictionary objects that don't preserve order, but backend languages have a lot more headroom to adapt and create objects that can, vs making a JavaScript thread loop over an object an extra time to reorder it every time it receives data.
Dude, go drink a coffee, and then reflect on what a negative little bitch you're being.
The quality on Lemmy is somewhat worse than Reddit 10 years ago, entirely because the user base is a fraction of the size and is more equivalent to when Reddit was first growing 15-20 years ago. Even then it was only a success because they bootstrapped it using fake posts and comments.
Lemmy is doing great, what it needs to grow is a positive and welcoming community, and then for Reddit to do something stupid again to trigger an exodus.
"This isn't a meeting about the budget per se"
"This isn't exactly a meeting about the budget"
If you finish those sentences, it becomes clear why per se is used:
"This isn't a meeting about the budget per se, it's a meeting about how much of the budget is spent on bits of string"
"This isn't exactly a meeting about the budget, it's a meeting about how much of the budget is spent on bits of string"
In this situation, using per se provides a more natural sentence flow because it links the first part of the sentence with the second. It's also shorter and fewer syllables.
"Steve's quite erudite."
"Steve's quite intellectual."
I think intellectual might be a closer synonym, but intellectual often has more know-it-all connotations than erudite which seems to often refer to a more pure and cerebral quality.
"Tom and Jerry is a fun cartoon because of the juxtaposition of the relationship between cat and mouse."
"Tom and Jerry is a fun cartoon because of the side by side oppositeness of the relationship between cat and mouse that is displayed"
For those to say precisely the same thing it would have to be more like the above which doesn't really roll off the tongue.
"I don't understand, can you elucidate that?"
"I don't understand, can you explain?"
Elucidate just means to make something clear in general, explaining something usually inherently implies a linguistic, verbal, explanation, unless otherwise stated.
Honestly, these all seem like very reasonable words to me for the most part. I can understand not using them in some contexts, but for the most part, words exist for a reason, to describe something slightly differently, and it takes forever to talk and communicate if we only limit ourselves to the most basic unnuanced terms.
When people use industry specific jargon and acronyms with someone not in their industry.
It is a very simple rule of writing and communication. You never just use an acronym out of nowhere, you write it out in full the first time and explain the acronym, and then after that you can use it.
Artificial diamonds can be made with a High Temperature, High Pressure (HTHP) process, or a ...
Doctors, military folk, lawyers, and technical people of all variety are often awful at just throwing out an acronym or technical term that you literally have no way of knowing.
Usually though, I don't think it's a conscious effort to sound smart. Sometimes, it's just people who are used to talking only with their coworkers / inner circle and just aren't thinking about the fact that you don't have the same context, sometimes it's people who are feeling nervous / insecure and are subconsciously using fancy terms to sound like they fit in, and sometimes it's people using specific terminology to hide the fact that they don't actually understand the concepts well enough to break them down further.
For each of these, what would you use instead?
Suda suggested that one reason is publishers and developers focusing too much on Metacritic scores, and deciding to play it safe and stick to what is conventionally known to ‘work’ instead of taking risks with new ideas.
I think most people are missing that they're talking about them from a dev and publisher standpoint, not consumer / gamer.
And from that perspective it is problematic whenever things that are supposed to be used to assess something become targets to shoot for. Oscar bait, teachers teaching the test and not the subject, etc.
Setting that aside, exploring space is not the same thing as building a company town for the world's least mentally stable pregnancy fetishist oligarch in an unworldly cold desert where everyone is sure to die.
I would argue that the majority of sci-fi has predicted otherwise.
Fair enough, supposedly they were wearing body cams so hopefully some of what actually happened can be answered objectively, I'm just pointing out what the article said. If he didn't make a threat or have a knife, then tasering him is a wild escalation, it's just that if he did, then the police can't really just let him get on a train.
Again, assuming what the article says is true, which is a big assumption, it's not that crazy to taser a guy who just got onto a train with a knife and threatened to you. At that point you're looking at a potential mass stabbing incident if you do nothing.
Again, who knows, maybe the cops are blowing his behaviour wildly out of proportion, I'm just saying that, based on the article, it sounds like he wasn't just gunned down for jumping a turnstile.