rssmllr

  Location: Nashville, TN (US)
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  - Engineering Manager / #2 employee: Openpath Security (acq. Motorola). Premium cloud-based access control for businesses: Lead React Native engineer. Powered millions of door unlocks/day; built WebRTC video intercom + HLS playback; heavy profiling/perf work (battery, TTI, large lists).
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If the window width is a fractional value between 999px and 1000px then the CSS is broken and the list of sections is overlayed with the content as you scroll.

Fractional window widths happen when you use Chrome's "zoom" feature.

In my opinion it's because 'militia' in the current climate has connotations with right wing groups.

On the contrary, Brandon Caserta appears in several videos with an Anarchist flag behind him saying things like "Trump is not your friend": https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnN6ADbUve-hHgGp37oqODg.

Here's his mugshot for comparison: https://twitter.com/CNNNewsource/status/1314316594559025154

This twitter account is showing some of the more interesting clips: https://twitter.com/robbystarbuck

Some other problematic words in this repo:

Parent: to orphans and those who have been in the foster care system

Child: to those who cannot have offspring

Sibling: to only children

Dead: to those who’ve known someone who passed

Disabled: to anyone with a handicap

Fire: to burn victims

Smart: to those with low IQ

Small: to the vertically challenged

I’m very glad to not see the word Zombie because that is very triggering to French Haitians.

I’d also like to remind people that we need new words for male/female plugs because those terms are transphobic.

Playing an instrument by ear requires a well-trained ear. You should strive to gain perfect "relative pitch", because "absolute pitch" is not realistic for most people unless you acquire it at very young age.

The free app, Functional Ear Trainer (iOS and Android), has been an immense help for me and people I know. Use it for 10 minutes a day and sing along with the notes. Soon you should be able to recognize and sing certain intervals with 100% confidence, regardless of the key.

The most important intervals for songs in a major key are: Octave, Perfect 5th, Major 3rd, and Perfect 4th

It helps to learn songs that you can associate with each interval (going up and going down). Just google "songs for each interval" and find songs that work for you.

Training your ear is the first step. Then learn how to reliably find each of those intervals on your instrument.

I hear where you're coming from, and it could very well just be that the term appeared to help explain why Hillary lost the election. However, I believe the term can easily be used to silence independent news sources that are telling inconvenient truths. The motive for this could be that the proliferation of new media news sources (social media, blogs, youtube) is a threat to mainstream establishment news sources' bottom line, as well as their immense power in shaping public dialogue.

It is way too simplistic to decree certain sites fake or not, and I would have hoped than an article from MIT would acknowledge this instead of reinforcing this "fake news" meme.

If you've heard about yellow journalism as well as Project Mockingbird, then you can appreciate the fact that news is a tool to entertain and manufacture consent and occasionally inform. All of it lies on a spectrum between fake and not fake. Even The Onion which is intentionally satirical, typically has a nugget of truth in each of his stories, which is why it's good satire.

If you're not already convinced how ridiculous this term is, consider for a moment: How do you prove if a certain publication is "fake news" or not? If a "not fake news" mainstream news source publishes a single story which is later corrected or retracted, is the entire publication forever labeled "fake news" or is a certain amount of fake stories required for a publication as a whole to be considered fake?