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> The sex/gender distinction is an invention of the past 20 years

As a generalized concept (though descriptions of social systems with gender roles distinct from the commonly referenced sex binary are older still, though many of those written by members of societies which did not recognize such a distinctions, including Western European colonialists, were hampered by the absence of terminology to describe it simply) its significantly older than 20 years; with research projects and prominent works on gender identity, in the modern sense, being written as early as the 1950s and 1960s. While the bulk of the writing that early (and for some time after) on the subject pathologized identities that diverged from the social sex/gender correspondence stereotypes, it recognized that they existed, were largely a product of aspects of biology, and while they tended to held out that there was a social contribution to them which made them potentially malleable early on (and advised conversion therapy for that purpose), recognized that they were difficult to impossible to modify beyond early childhood, and in many cases recognized the value of gender confirming procedures beyond that point.
It's tough. When you watch a TV show and you see they show computer stuff completely inaccurately, it makes you think what else is not accurate?

That's why I don't watch any shows that have anything to do with "hacking", computers etc, because it feels cringe and makes me think if anything else is fake, then why should I bother ingesting it.
Oh, interesting. Is v3 just a new API or a new algorithm altogether?
Is it agreeable that Bandcamp's discovery system is equally as good as Spotify's? I've never tried it.
The owner must not have thought it through then, because most tourists will chug on straight through their field. Having a marked path is to their own benefit if they have the (mis?)fortune of living on the way to a landmark.

I remember a similar case on Malta, where I went up a hill to get a nice view from a cave, recommended to me as part of the tourist route. The whole access to the cave lies across private property and there's about 20 signs explicitly pointing where to go and what will happen if you go anywhere else. I got to the cave, enjoyed it, got out, never once stepped outside the designated route. I imagine the owner worked out that meticulous path a while ago to minimise tourist noise.
I had this happen with my iPhone while trying to fit it into a case for the bike: the case did press against the buttons because it was difficult to fit... I didn't know about this feature. I disabled it after that.

I think it is inappropriate to have such hidden features: while we tech people mostly understand the thing, I bet most people won't even get that it is a hidden feature and would think it is a bug. No one will remember to use it during a real emergency anyway.
I was that guy for some 5-6 years in earlier years of my career. It doesn't pay well. Job security is non-existent. You won't get visa sponsorships. Your only way out is to build your own startup/product.

It is too far out of the regular career spectrum, and you face even open criticism in interviews for this sometimes.

So, I stopped. I am an expert Frontend Engineer now. I get senior roles without even a proper interview. I pass all interviews like it is small talk. My job security is much better.

Downside? I cannot make a full-fledged side project anymore. I just realized this recently when I started building one and realized how much I had to re-learn again.
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You think I can claim a percentage from those folks? As royalties for the idea?
There was a time (2006?) when I was getting into linux.

I was a big microsofty, due to comfort mostly, and I was shamed into trying Linux.

Like most people I went Ubuntu first, but wifi drivers at the time were lacking, and nvidia of yore was certainly not better than nvidia of now.

Suffice it to say: I spent a lot of time in the terminal trying to fix things.

Nano was my tool of choice because: honestly the initial learning curve of linux and a modal text editor was far too much.

that said: when I was later shamed into using vi/vim instead of nano.. after my initial hesitation (and a few rounds on vimtutor) I was as confident as I was on nano... what's more, I was "unlocked" and started learning new and faster ways to move.

Being able to replay my last action with "." was nice, and lead me to learn even more native movements.

My watershed moment came when I had to delete a leading series of characters in a file of I think 500 lines.. Not enough to say it's impossible but a real chore.

Nano would not help me in such a situation: but vim did it with no complaints; all I needed to know was the incantation.

I feel like nano shipping as the default editor is a step-back. We have a less powerful tool because we want to attract newbies, but it's the same mistake microsoft makes; When I was into microsoft tooling I had no idea how handicapped I was, the learning curve always had a stop point: everything beyond it was impossible.

I will always be thankful I learned linux in a time where the hand-rails were starting to come up, but that we still used powerful and expressive tools instead of being jailed to the opaque and inflexible systems that have come to dominate for the sake of convenience.
> Citizenship should be automatic for those that have been around since (public) middle school (give or take).

The examples of educated and well integrated individuals are very sympathetic and most people would agree that US immigration policy is deeply flawed but any path the permanent residency will create powerful incentives. Are you saying any 12yo who comes and lives in the US for six years automatically gets citizenship?

Is that really what we want to incentivize? I'm concerned that trying to "patch" up immigration policy with one-off fixes will just created further problems in the future.

Maybe it would be better to create a true professional immigration process (like Canada?) that would accommodate these individuals and eliminate the mess that's H1B?
It seems to be less of a dangerous problem. The USB-C receptacle doesn’t have moving parts (the springs that retain the cable and the flexible pins that make electrical contact). While it does have the little protrusion that has the electrical contacts in the middle, it’s less subject to wearing out or being destroyed by sideways force.

In general, the USB-C receptacle seems better designed for longevity.
Dont mind him. A lot of europeans dont relate with that arrogant attitude some in the nordics show towards our american brethren.
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It is. But in the giant sea of other uneconomic things the US does, this is only a tiny drop.
A Right of Way I walk frequently in Kent in the UK the farmer has literally put a sign up either end of the path through his crops and then not planted a ~6 foot wide diagonal path through the crops so you're walking with growing wheat on either side of you and a cleared path where you can be comfortable you're not destroying his livelihood... if more did this it would make it so much easier.
interesting that ycombinatior is part of the investment group
I spend two weeks swimming with F91-W in tropical waters a couple of years ago. Still works fine.
With plenty of dark patterns by rich coastal homeowners to obscure access. Think GDPR/ePrivacy directive cookie consent practices, but for beach access.
This is interesting, because I definitely encountered beaches, that were private, but it has been before 2018, until a transition period changed, so maybe that changed?
And otherwise I found spanish land (around Huelva) to be strictly divided by barbed wire fences with no clear way of knowing whether I entered private property or not, by following public (dirt) roads, when hiking.

Not so nice for wildlife as well.
That article’s entire premise falls apart based on a single line you skipped over: If your car can operate only on a few roads, then it's no better than one of those people-mover trains at airports.

Coverage area doesn’t somehow require intelligence and these systems operate on far more than a few roads. The same hardware and software could operate on every road in the US at which it would ‘suddenly be intelligent’ even though nothing changed.

Look people always say whatever AI systems can do isn’t intelligent as soon as they can do it. Chess used to be considered a bastion of human supremacy over machines, then go, now the last gasps of self driving.

In 20 years people will say self driving cars aren’t intelligent because they don’t work in North Korea, even as young slowly people stop learning how to drive the same way humanity largely forgot how to drive a horse and buggy.
You should read up about how much of toxic chemicals get released into the atmosphere during new year celebrations.
Good to learn this today.
not just after rain.
i've noticed it early in the morning because of dew, albeit milder.
34 here, got the same issue you have with the drive I had from my earlier years of an unprofitable project.

One thing I'm trying to do is keep up the consistency with searching for whatever fancies my interest, and let it come naturally as I dive down the rabbit hole on whatever topic I am interested in. Eventually I reach a point where I can see a path to setup something that requires substantial effort and commitment (usually a job or a project). So it's like an interest transforming into a mission and therefore leads to drive. Maybe that's the flow you need.
Outside of school, there's very little usage. A few percent at most.

You're right, about politics. There are good historical reasons to hate what [English] nobility did in the past, but it's a mistake to dispense with using a common tongue because of that. My nan was shot at by "the English".

Common Latin use across Europe seems to have had a positive effect on the development of science for 1800 years or so?
Same kind of thing works with counting the frequency of particular digits (n-digit analysis) in a given position for an integer or decimal. Especially for the higher order decimal digits there's a far-from-random distribution that you can use to infer whether there's been any tampering, given enough values to study.
> Much much sooner than 38 days. Most of the big cities have already peaked, as measured by Baidu searches. Half of Beijing was already infected last week.

Have they ID'd the strain? Because given China's aging population, and the higher mortality susceptibility, could this really be the the thing makes them justify their lockdown measures again if the deaths get high enough?
I know that the process outstations in a very large oil and gas pipeline uses a bunch of absolutely pristine MicroVAX 3100s in each building to drive the SCADA systems, which themselves are made up out of VMEBus or CAMAC crates with fairly simple 1980s electronics in them.

I feel confident that I could keep that old stuff running well into the future, long after a more modern system was no longer repairable. The main fault with the capture cards seems to be that the input multiplexers fail, and while they can still be repaired by the manufacturer the two types of chip they use are something I keep in stock by the hundreds for building audio circuits.
> I've also started experiencing monthly cycles where for about one week a month I feel more tired and weepy like I could cry very easily

This sounds like wishful thinking to me. In women, the periodic mood changes happen during the luteal phase of the menstrual cycle, and coincide with the rise in progesterone that is triggered by ovulation.

Males don't have ovaries, so do not ovulate, and thus cannot experience the menstrual process that causes such periodic symptoms.

I think you're seeing this pattern because you want to, not because it has any underlying periodic hormonal cause.
> If you care about things like income and career progression, do not let yourself become one of these people. They aren't valued, and it doesn't take a lot of staring at job postings or talking to hiring managers to figure out why.

I have the opposite experience. Being a generalist allowed me to "climb" fast at my current company as I am able to lead projects holistically and coordinate cross-functional teams.

I have no shortage of attractive offers, but more importantly I like to work this way. I can't imagine limiting myself to just one narrow area and ignore the big picture and so far it looks like I do not need to.

As for job descriptions: I would love to hire more of these people but it is difficult to put a job description through the system that would not be confusing. Thus, even I have written job descriptions for one specialisation that should be dominant, but in the fine print I make it clear that I am searching for someone with broader scope and will to basically "do what is needed".

PS: Thinking about it more... do you think industry legends like Jeff Dean or John Carmack fit more into the generalist archetype or are they narrow specialists?
> I don't really understand how false positives can be eliminated.

They can't, which basically means it's a poor feature and shouldn't have been implemented.
Well, considering how much effort it took to get sulfur, and sulfur oxides, filtered out from industrial emissions to eliminate acid rain... I think you should re-evaluate your approach. Unless the goal is just VC money and sending homeopathic doses of sulfur in un-tracked balloons into the air. In which case, good luck, I guess...
I'll pitch in my celluar plan for comparison (Taipei)

Currently I'm paying around US$16/mo for unlimited LTE data with a major celluar provider here, and have been doing so for the past 4-5 years.
(no, not unlimited with throttled cap, and with hotspot included)

And with recent 5G plans, unlimited plans (with 50GBs of unthrottled hotspot) can be had for effectively less than $30 a month, or even lower if you consider rebates for buying a phone on contract with them.

North American's celluar plans just seem so expensive.
You make a very good point with regards to powerful teams of Psychologists at big tech. They're near impossible to defeat. Even I as a software engineer knowing full well that I'm being manipulated by some ui dark patterns and algorithmic timelines and therefore sometimes struggle to snap out of the endless scrolling. If I as a full-grown adult have a hard time escaping, I don't think a 10 year old can do much to free themselves from the evil social media sites.
The US doesn't care: if your name seems to match a terrorist's, you are that terrorist.
Well using the iPhone as a camera on the Mac is pretty awesome. And it’s desk view feature to show what you draw. So there’s no need to take a webcam or camera for better quality with me when I travel for work. Just a mouse, keyboard and clamshelled MacBook hooked up to the hotel TV - still allowing me to make video calls.
>Hollywood has always been very bad at depicting tech! Till late 90s and also in the early 00s every computer in every movie had no GUI, no mouse, green phosphor displays and obviously beeped at every keypress.

dont forget the iconic ST-506 MFM hard disk seeking sound in the background
This thing is absurd. I work in ML research and I use my Macbook Air M1 to train LLMs from anywhere, but I would never let them touch my local machine. Even if they'd run (most of them wouldn't - even on a 3080 Ti), they would ruin my battery life. So I simply connect to a GPU server via VPN and ssh + vs code remote. Only students or beginner enthusiasts might think that training this stuff on the go would actually need a beefy laptop.
England poised to become fisrt country to eliminate Hepatitis C
Curious about free visas, as EU citizen in 2018 we had to go through full ESTA US visa approval process just to have a freakin' connecting flight in Miami to South America including paying for it, nothing free.

Its due to badly designed Miami airport compared to literally anywhere else in the world I've been, that you can't connect within 'safe' restricted zone after security checkin. No, you basically need to exit airport with all security involved (walk around checkins, go outside if you want) to get to your next flight, and walk throught all security again. At least luggage was transferred automatically, but most airports in undeveloped countries can manage that too.
Would you be in favor of giving people schizophrenia-inducing drugs, with the risk of having permanent mental effects, so people can understand mental health issues better?

These drugs you are taking are no joking matter and your fortuitous lived experience doesn't make your claim less preposterous
The article basically says that if you use solar and wind, with a battery stack it's going to be fine once you're over the capex part of the investment.

But it's wrapped up in the 10x price increase in non-self sourced power and European politics. For the right market, and product it's fine. That market disappeared when discretionary spending shrank in the heartland markets and they made a decision to minimise capex without hedging their power cost inputs. (Or came to the end of the hedge)

So it's a pivot to markets either with cheaper power or with other cost issues in fresh green leafy veg and micro herbs. Ones with less or expensive water, who are also making a pivot to green energy (hint: as they say.. Arabian peninsula) come to mind.

Vertical farms aren't the only industrial sector to come unstuck on assumptions about power input cost. Lots of German industry assumes cheap gas.
You skipped the part where Elon jumps in, one way or the other...
I'm submitting the link to the Twitter post because the Times has an unpredictable paywall.
no oscillation = no picture on the LCD, liquid crystal displays require AC signals, and those are derived from main clock
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The critics don't exactly provide a persuasive case - neither here, nor in the previous open letter on the topic at https://climateandcapitalism.com/2022/01/17/climate-scientis.... Indeed they argue their case so badly that they actually make me strongly support experiments in solar geoengineering where previously I would've been unsure.

They do a terrible job of arguing against this tech on the basis of risk. They suggest that it could be counterproductive, but the ONLY mechanism they even suggest for how this could be the case is that geoengineering could reduce the incentive to tackle climate change in other ways, such as by reducing CO2 emissions. But if geoengineering works and has no problematic side effects, then... so what? This is pure status quo bias; the argument would be just as valid (or rather, just as absurd) if we flipped it and said that all attempts to reduce carbon emissions are dangerous and immoral because they reduce the incentive for solar geoengineering. This mindset - where attempting to develop any new safeguard against a danger is presumed to be unethical on the basis that it could reduce the incentive to use other safeguards - is not how we think about any other kind of risk and I see no reason at all why climate change risks should be a special case.

And it gets even more aggravating when they argue against doing even small-scale experiments with this tech on the basis that "The current state of science is not good enough". Again, unless you are articulating some kind of plausible downside to the experiment, this is a fully general argument against all science. It makes no sense to argue against research into a technology on the basis that we don't yet know whether the technology will work - that's what the research is for!

I have only a layman's understanding of climate science, and my first instinct is to be scared of attempts at global-scale climate engineering going catastrophically wrong and destroying the world, but if all the world's climate scientists can't articulate anything that I would understand as a risk and instead seem to be terrified by the prospect that the tech will solve climate change so effectively and harmlessly that it makes their ideologically preferred set of social changes unnecessary, then that sounds fantastically reassuring and I wish everyone working on this tech the best of luck.
this would lead to democrats always winning since on US spectrum most of EU is outright hardcore communism
I got stuck with jed https://www.jedsoft.org/jed/ as my terminal editor after getting too used to the emacs shortcuts but when emacs -nw became too heavy.

Does anyone else use this? (To be fair I am transitioning to vim now that my emacs muscle memory is waning, and the rate of jed bugfixes likewise).
Ironic. Thread about being fed up at work. Advice
given: make it new! Reply to that “yeah did that and they punished me”

Goes full circle to … work sucks!
That's part (the first half-to-2/3?) of 1984. Winston Smith is in the outer party because he didn't do well enough on his A levels to do the oxbridge classics route for the inner party, so he becomes bitter and paranoid. full stop.
No, one is a form of natural experiment (changing the hormone profile of a single person who can compare the causal effects).

The other is an assumption that someone's observed characteristics are caused by one particular hormone level, with no evidence to support that.

You could attribute her height and preference for fatty fish to her T levels too, if you strained hard enough.
And the other 30% may be off, or not, and the workforce will be at reduced capacity either way. I’ve no idea what kind of speculation could claim any amount of certainty on whether a particular group of people - in a pandemic of all things - will catch a disease, how they will fare, and how long it will take for them to recover so I’m at a loss as to what your point is. We’re in the realm of horoscopes now.
I have at least 2 USB C devices (a little Android-based retro game thing, and headband/headphones I use for background noise while sleeping) that do not charge off the USB C charger I use for everything else (which, is 60 watts since I want to to charge everything).

Drives me crazy. Whole point of USB C is to avoid shit like that. I'd rather shit devices still come with micro USB so at least I know they need an old charger.
I'm quite fond of stories about people using editors besides the Big Two or the Newfangled Brigade. Keep 'em coming, you usually learn something about regular use and what others deem necessary – or can live without.

Nano is interesting in that context, because for many it's the "default" editor, which is a bit weird if you came in to Linux/Unix earlier. I bet a lot of people feel the same when it comes to anything besides ed, though ;)
> nVidia with its cuda still king in this segment

I suspect this will gradually change, perhaps especially now a lot of effort has been made to bring tooling such as PyTorch over to Apple silicon.

> on CPU instead of GPU

But Apple isn't doing it on CPU.

You are thinking in terms of x86 discrete components.

Apple Silicon is a fully integrated architecture including unified memory. That's what makes it so efficient.
Please, do the world, and yourself, a favor and do the benefit : harm analysis before you scale up...
Never had a conflict so far, using on mobile and multiple OS, so I guess it just works
I host the vault on the cloud

Regarding 2), no I don't know but good question. Using the same master password is annoying as you don't type the same on mobile
On that note, what's the squarest country in the world?
I agree with this, although I suspect most of what Taylor reports is true and not "placebo", as it matches other reporting from people who are chemically transitioning.

The "monthly cycle" thing is not usually reported.

Not that I'm saying that isn't truly your experience :)
So, a PR stunt then?
Foreign vaccines would help. If they were prepared to abandon zero-Covid then admitting that Sinovac isn't very effective shouldn't be a bridge too far.
On the other hand, having system wide keyboard shortcuts will almost certainly impose unwanted constraints on how an app can behave.
Maybe that's because other countries are even worse and the US has a very good marketing?