You have greater assurance of what the software is doing behind the scenes.

Even if you can’t read code, others who can will; privacy groups (official and hobbyist) likely will.

You can know, even if just through others, sort of what’s going on with the software in a way you simply can’t with proprietary software.

100% this; cheese on its own is always a wonderful snack.

And we can create data structures and algorithms that fit a more functional style without relying on imperative assumptions of how data should be handled. Data structures like vlists could be applicable, for example.

Eh, I get it. The equal operator creates a reference but the plus operator isn’t destructive so it creates a new list and overwrites the variable b with a new list, when assigned.

Of course, this would all be avoided if creating copies was the norm; which is why I stick with functional languages.

isn’t at the expense of either of the characters

It always felt like Odo had the slight upperhand (or narrative sympathy?) in every scenario which was a tad annoying when a major theme of his character arch is his possible propensity for outright authoritarianism (a character arch I thought was brilliant to give him and, sadly, not explored nearly enough).

I still love both of them but that aspect of the dynamic will always bother me.

…new headcanon unlocked.

I wouldn’t say it’s bad acting? It seems right in line with an anxious people-pleaser who doesn’t know when to quit. I thought he was spot on.

Unc’s a term that’s been in use since at least the 90s (but maybe older; I’m not a historian nor was alive then); it can sometimes be used disparagingly though, generally, it’s usually a sort of familiar way to refer to someone that’s older. Kind of similar in the way “cuz” doesn’t literally refer to someone who’s your cousin but someone you’re familiar with, who’s like family in the same way a cousin might be (you didn’t grow up with them, didn’t see them all the time, but you’re familiar with them).

So it’s not hard to see how this new definition came about but it is, still, sort of just plucking the word and modifying it to a very different context (the disparaging form was definitely not the predominant form and there was a degree of fondness or respect for your elders in the term which this new usage completely eradicates through patronizing that I can’t help but notice is more community-destructing than community-building). While this is a phenomenon that is far from new, it’s felt particularly manufactured in the last decade and a half or so (probably due to the ease with which things can become viral in our current Hellscape-form of Internet); a lot of the “slang” that’s hit mainstream awareness has felt almost more like buzzwords than actual slang or even natural language in the way it’s been used. That’s not directly relevant to your question but just something I’ve been thinking about.

Also, thanks for asking, rather than downvoting; it’s (obviously) not everyone but there’s a non-negligible segment of Lemmy that just seems to have an emotional tantrum every time race comes up.

Notably, – yet again – it’s also cribbing/misusing black slang/terminology; disappointing…

People have private conversations in public but, if I join in, I’m the crazy one~

Like, – yes – those people will have to accept that people may overhear them while talking about their subject but this isn’t a new phenomenon. People have always done this.

This is just the dynamic of public spaces.