From ec00a69ef1f7d21f784264b75d6fcca97fa7fb78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Yu Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 12:00:14 +0800 Subject: Use ``TeX-style quotes'' instead of “unicode quotes” MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit --- note/ask.html | 2 +- note/comms.html | 4 ++-- note/emacs.html | 2 +- note/on-racist-jokes.html | 6 +++--- note/pronouns.html | 2 +- note/really.html | 8 ++++---- note/social-media.html | 4 ++-- note/suicide-jokes.html | 2 +- note/wechat.html | 2 +- 9 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'note') diff --git a/note/ask.html b/note/ask.html index 654fb1a..f2a2fda 100644 --- a/note/ask.html +++ b/note/ask.html @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@

Don't ask to ask, just ask!

Please don't send random emails and IRC messages saying “Are you there? I have a thing to ask you about...”. Just ask the question. If I'm online I might answer right away, if I'm not I'll answer you when I have time. An “Are you there?” or “Can I ask a question?” question is just a waste of time and effort.

Please don't send random emails and IRC messages saying ``Are you there? I have a thing to ask you about...''. Just ask the question. If I'm online I might answer right away, if I'm not I'll answer you when I have time. An ``Are you there?'' or ``Can I ask a question?'' question is just a waste of time and effort.

Andrew Yu's Website

diff --git a/note/comms.html b/note/comms.html index 46913f4..eee9d05 100644 --- a/note/comms.html +++ b/note/comms.html @@ -14,10 +14,10 @@

Write a descriptive subject for emails. Do not send emails with an empty subject or no subject header. The subject should be give the receiver a brief idea of what the email is about.
Send complete information. When telling me something or requesting something, please provide complete background information, knowledge required, and other relevant context. This prevents back-and-forth communication along the lines of “and now I need to know ... but you didn't tell me that so can you please give that to me”. Providing context defragments conversations which increases efficiency.
Send complete information. When telling me something or requesting something, please provide complete background information, knowledge required, and other relevant context. This prevents back-and-forth communication along the lines of ``and now I need to know ... but you didn't tell me that so can you please give that to me''. Providing context defragments conversations which increases efficiency.
When using instant messaging such as IRC, do not split one sentence into multiple messages. Fragmentation reduces readability.
Do not use excessive emojis.
Be direct. As the sender, do not use polite expressions like “you did quite well in that presentation” when in reality, the sender believes that the presentation is not “quite well”. Direct critique and suggestions are very welcome here. Politeness is acceptable if it does not interfere with honest conveying of information.
Be direct. As the sender, do not use polite expressions like ``you did quite well in that presentation'' when in reality, the sender believes that the presentation is not ``quite well''. Direct critique and suggestions are very welcome here. Politeness is acceptable if it does not interfere with honest conveying of information.
Don't ask to ask.
Use plain text email. Both hard-wrapped and non-hard-wrapped emails are acceptable. If you do hard-wrap, please wrap at 72 characters for English. Chinese, if hard-wrapped, should be at 36 characters. Non hard-wrapped emails should specify format=flowed as per RFC3676.
Interweave the original message with the response when replying to an email and remove irrelevant parts (i.e. greetings, closings, signatures, etc.) of the quoted original email.

A Few Problems with Emacs

- Emacs is supposedly a text editor but is more of a integrated computing environment. At its core is an Emacs Lisp interpreter and a text and buffer-oriented set of conventions that Emacs Lisp code follows. The “default”/“standard” build of Emacs contains a World Wide Web browser, newsreader, electronic mail client, Internet Relay Chat client, a few games, and overall a ton of stuff that I do not use, need or want in my environment. Therefore I use a minimal-ish custom build (i.e. simply leaving stuff out during ./configure, which makes me feel a bit better. + Emacs is supposedly a text editor but is more of a integrated computing environment. At its core is an Emacs Lisp interpreter and a text and buffer-oriented set of conventions that Emacs Lisp code follows. The ``default''/``standard'' build of Emacs contains a World Wide Web browser, newsreader, electronic mail client, Internet Relay Chat client, a few games, and overall a ton of stuff that I do not use, need or want in my environment. Therefore I use a minimal-ish custom build (i.e. simply leaving stuff out during ./configure, which makes me feel a bit better.

One problem that I've recently noticed with Emacs is the tendency to use a set amount of spaces, expecting a monospace font, to align items across a buffer. For example, when :tags are used with org-agenda, the agenda page aligns the tags to the right of the page with spaces precalculated from the window size. But when we have double-width unicode characters, for example Chinese characters in the mix, or if we are using a variable-width Latin font, the alignment is completely screwed up. Resizing the window also doesn't update the wrapping and alignment of items inside. Emacs's text buffer-centric design makes it really hard to do otherwise. diff --git a/note/on-racist-jokes.html b/note/on-racist-jokes.html index fa3175c..b4d2546 100644 --- a/note/on-racist-jokes.html +++ b/note/on-racist-jokes.html @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@

On Racist Jokes

The use of the terms “black” and “black slave” as insults is:

The use of the terms ``black'' and ``black slave'' as insults is:

profoundly disrespectful towards the millions of black people that have been abused, discriminated against, and treated unfairly, in the past and the present
ill-considerate towards people who are experiencing racism

- A common argument to make here is that “consider how you would be discriminated against when you become the minority, you wouldn't appreciate such jokes on your social group”. Although we head in the same general direction, I do not agree with this frame of mind. Discriminatory jokes are wrong, independent of the possibility of the discriminator being held to the same activities in the future. + A common argument to make here is that ``consider how you would be discriminated against when you become the minority, you wouldn't appreciate such jokes on your social group''. Although we head in the same general direction, I do not agree with this frame of mind. Discriminatory jokes are wrong, independent of the possibility of the discriminator being held to the same activities in the future.

- The argument to “take this easy as these are just jokes” is ridiculous. The mere act of descriptive terms for a specific social group being used as a “joke” undermines the seriousness of the social issue. Find something else to joke about. Not something like racism and other forms of discrimination. + The argument to ``take this easy as these are just jokes'' is ridiculous. The mere act of descriptive terms for a specific social group being used as a ``joke'' undermines the seriousness of the social issue. Find something else to joke about. Not something like racism and other forms of discrimination.

diff --git a/note/pronouns.html b/note/pronouns.html index c10108b..79a7ada 100644 --- a/note/pronouns.html +++ b/note/pronouns.html @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ In English, please use Singular they pronouns to refer to me.

- 在使用中文时，请使用“他”作为我的代词。 + 在使用中文时，请使用``他''作为我的代词。

“Really” is a confusing word

``Really'' is a confusing word

“Really” is a confusing word

``Really'' is a confusing word

- Often times when the word “really” is used in as an adverb in an assertion or proposition, it may be useful to replace it with “in some sense”, and seek to ask or clarify “in what sense”. It shall be recognized that questions that arise may be legitimately hard to answer, but it may be still beneficial to consider them. + Often times when the word ``really'' is used in as an adverb in an assertion or proposition, it may be useful to replace it with ``in some sense'', and seek to ask or clarify ``in what sense''. It shall be recognized that questions that arise may be legitimately hard to answer, but it may be still beneficial to consider them.

The same applies for “actually” and similar words when used this way, though in my experience, people tend to use “really” this way. I do so too, and I'm trying to get rid of this habit.

The same applies for ``actually'' and similar words when used this way, though in my experience, people tend to use ``really'' this way. I do so too, and I'm trying to get rid of this habit.

Andrew Yu's Website

diff --git a/note/social-media.html b/note/social-media.html index 23096c0..4d75ecf 100644 --- a/note/social-media.html +++ b/note/social-media.html @@ -8,10 +8,10 @@

Social Media

Referring to things like Facebook, Twitter, and similar: I do not use social media. I do not find social media to be meaningful.

Social media as I understand it is based on “microblogging”, i.e. short posts about a person's life, thoughts, etc. Sharing random fun facts about life is fine, but it's really suboptimal for thoughts, especially political ones. Social media is usually designed in a quick “consumption”-oriented style, often leading to flamewars instead of in-depth discussions because of its “quick” and “short” nature. Modern social media recommends new posts and people to people based on what they “like” and “boost” further creating an information cocoon, “shielding” them from new ideas, rather than allowing for natural human distribution of good articles.

Social media as I understand it is based on ``microblogging'', i.e. short posts about a person's life, thoughts, etc. Sharing random fun facts about life is fine, but it's really suboptimal for thoughts, especially political ones. Social media is usually designed in a quick ``consumption''-oriented style, often leading to flamewars instead of in-depth discussions because of its ``quick'' and ``short'' nature. Modern social media recommends new posts and people to people based on what they ``like'' and ``boost'' further creating an information cocoon, ``shielding'' them from new ideas, rather than allowing for natural human distribution of good articles.

Instead, I read and write articles and share those that impress me naturally.

Most popular social media services such as facebook are also nonfree and have extra problems.

Sharing some fun facts about life is okay. I do that too. Just don't use microblogging for should-be-extensive topics and don't use these “posts feed” things.

Sharing some fun facts about life is okay. I do that too. Just don't use microblogging for should-be-extensive topics and don't use these ``posts feed'' things.

The Fediverse can be pretty toxic by Drew Devault, founder (I remember?) of SourceHut

diff --git a/note/suicide-jokes.html b/note/suicide-jokes.html index cc8ca07..a543848 100644 --- a/note/suicide-jokes.html +++ b/note/suicide-jokes.html @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@

On Jokes about Suicide

- People really need to stop joking about suicide. Stop clowning around with statements like “I’m gonna kill myself” “I will commit suicide” or “I want to jump off a building”. It is not cool to tell others you want to end your own life for something of little importance that may have inconvenienced or bothered you. It is extremely disrespectful to the hundreds of thousands of people who loose their lives because of suicide and is inconsiderate to people who are really suffering from mental health issues. Joking about suicide is not okay, grow up and find other ways to deal with and express your stress or frustrations. + People really need to stop joking about suicide. Stop clowning around with statements like ``I’m gonna kill myself'' ``I will commit suicide'' or ``I want to jump off a building''. It is not cool to tell others you want to end your own life for something of little importance that may have inconvenienced or bothered you. It is extremely disrespectful to the hundreds of thousands of people who loose their lives because of suicide and is inconsiderate to people who are really suffering from mental health issues. Joking about suicide is not okay, grow up and find other ways to deal with and express your stress or frustrations.

This short paragraph was written by Tyler Zhang, a student at YKPS.

diff --git a/note/wechat.html b/note/wechat.html index 2cf8cb5..4727eb8 100644 --- a/note/wechat.html +++ b/note/wechat.html @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ WeChat's servers are nonfree; the service is centralized.

- Tencent suspends WeChat accounts for sending “politically sensitive chats”. + Tencent suspends WeChat accounts for sending ``politically sensitive chats''.

Information collected by WeChat is given to the police of the PRC without court warrants. -- cgit 1.4.1-2-gfad0