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by Latty 4y ago
So you are in favour of making IVF illegal, as it involves creating multiple fertilised eggs that get destroyed when one works out?
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by Latty 4y ago
This is clearly not very useful, or reasonable. People's biological sex is none of your business, so using it when talking about them is not viable. If you see someone who is presenting as a woman, calling them a man because you happen
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by Latty 4y ago
If there is an innate cruelty in our children that we allow to fester and allow them to apply in our society, rather than teaching them against it, then that is absolutely a product and failing of it. We are pretty advanced, we can do more
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by Latty 4y ago
Adopted parents/children often feel uncomfortable being reminded of the "truth" of their biological parenthood. While we should absolutely focus on being accepting and treating adoption as just as valid as biological parentho
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by Latty 4y ago
> also heavily imply that biological sex is mostly meaningless This is a puzzling statement to me. The whole concept of being trans requires that there is a distinction between gender identity and biological sex. If the latter didn'
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by Latty 4y ago
> The discussion here is about biological sex and its medical implications. People who change their gender, or exhibit traits of the opposite gender, aren’t relevant to this conversation. This seems obviously false. If the link is based
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by Latty 4y ago
Which demonstrates the important of distinguishing gender identity from biological sex (i.e: woman from female, man from male). When deciding what pronoun to use, biological sex clearly doesn't matter, when talking to a doctor, it may
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by Latty 4y ago
If it is anything like the UK, it's a simple cycle of: - Under-fund the public service because it "costs too much" (ignore the value it generates for the public). - Service performs poorly when underfunded, so you can manufac
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by Latty 4y ago
You see a lot of children playing Minecraft, or when older, Factorio on pacifist modes where they can focus on "the good bit" of building something. Historically war management was what was available, I remember enjoying building
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by Latty 4y ago
Sure, that makes sense.
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by Latty 4y ago
Not sure I follow, generated columns are updated on UPDATE, so that's just the same?
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by Latty 4y ago
Is there a benefit to using a trigger over a generated stored column?
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by Latty 4y ago
Except regular people want to be able to watch a video without screen tearing, or use their nice new monitor at a resolution that suits their needs without the UI being tiny/huge. It doesn't matter if the user experience is consis
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by Latty 4y ago
You write off the things other people care about as "pathetic" elsewhere ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31973526 ) in this thread, your point of view seems to boil down to "things I care about should be
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by Latty 4y ago
I should have specified "for UI", I suppose, but the quote I gave, and: > The idea of UI being a pure function of the model seems so obviously incorrect, and leads to such a plethora of problems, that it is a bit puzzling how
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by Latty 4y ago
Well, in reading it, those reasons didn't seem to follow on from those points to me. They don't really address working in a pure way from state, just specific things they don't like in a particular implementation. Specificall
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by Latty 4y ago
> We do not make the (unwarranted) assumption that this transformation can or should be expressed as a pure function. While that would be nice, there are many reasons why this is not a good idea, some pretty obvious. So obvious they are
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by Latty 4y ago
So it works fine for you, but not for others. For some, screen tearing and fractional scaling are important issues, just because you don't care doesn't make them "pathetic".
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by Latty 4y ago
So the answer to "who gets to be the one who decides this", remains "the one writing the code" and "the one choosing what to install", independent of each other. While it's true no one can stop you telling
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by Latty 4y ago
Lists like this tend to be a bit overwhelming without context, because a definition can often seem to focus on things that don't make sense if you don't understand the use case, even if you understand the words. Even if you'v
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by Latty 4y ago
X is 40 years old. Talking about Wayland breaking compatibility there like it's a JS toolkit being dropped after 6 months is a bit silly. Yeah, compatibility is nice, but not when it means you have security flaws innate to the system,
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by Latty 4y ago
I also have a VP1600 (in the UK), very much in the same position. Not a fan of delving into stuff that deals with power, hoping this isn't a general problem. I'd be interested in an update if you do take a look.
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by Latty 4y ago
At the end of the day people were doing {**a, **b} or dict(d1.items() | d2.items()) (which is subtly different in that set order is arbitrary so which "wins" in the duplicate key case is arbitrary) in the wild, so I think supporti
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by Latty 4y ago
Dictionary merge is a weird one to single out to me, it's an existing operator (|) and functions the same way as a set union over the keys (which uses that operator) in concept, it's a very natural thing that doesn't feel lik
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by Latty 4y ago
The .github/FUNDING.yml file in the repo determines who will be shown as people to sponsor, it's not related to the account or org that controls the repo.
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by Latty 4y ago
Intel have talked about future processes in terms of Angstroms (0.1µm), but for some time it's not been a real measure of size, just a marketing term. Intel has actually dropped the units and now calls their process nodes Intel 7, 4, 3
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by Latty 4y ago
As a reminder, the Japanese ministers who set up the bullet trains resigned in shame when the project overran, it was described in a similar way and generally derided, and is, of course, now a symbol of the nation and vital to the economy a
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by Latty 4y ago
There should be an exponential wealth tax past a certain point. It's absurd anyone thinks it is sane to let people amass infinite wealth, eventually it just obviously fundamentally breaks democracy.
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by Latty 4y ago
It's only remained unchanged if you haven't decided to downsize: I've been building all mini-ITX machines for a while now. My main PC is in a DanCase A4-SFX, which is a 7.2L case. Even my NAS is mini-ITX. That's all stan
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by Latty 4y ago
That ship has already sailed, the TS team have been clear about not wanting to add features that aren't purely type-level for a long time. The suggestion issue template has a checklist requiring you check off that "This could be i

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