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by fao_ 2y ago
The assumption that most HN readers wouldn't even bother skimming the article is kind of amusing despite how correct it likely is.
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by fao_ 2y ago
> People who brush with toothpaste don't need this and people who don't are probably drinking too much soda I think every person in my social circles with any kind of illness or disability would be incredibly grateful for fluor
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by fao_ 2y ago
I think a competent 5yro could make a better pelican on a bicycle than that. Which to me feels like the hallmark of AI. I mean, hell, I have drawings from when I was eight of leaves and they are botanically-accurate enough to still be used
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by fao_ 2y ago
I mean, I can scroll through the hacker news history to 2016 when I started reading, and the comment quality and submission quality is much higher IMO. As I've said before, there's a reason why my entire social group of programmer
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> "allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack and the traffic from the device". That's not in the purview of a web server to do that, and quickly falls int
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> Biology has a more rigourous definition for sex to avoid exactly these confusions. You're right — here's a semi-old crash course on the whole topic from someone who is actually studied and practiced in the fields of biology
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> No, the actual detransition rates are completely unknown because gender researchers had crappy long-term follow-up with patients, eg. they stopped tracking individuals beyond only a few years, and simply dropped people from the data en
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by fao_ 2y ago
> many adolescents who start as trans desist and come out as gay Citation needed. The actual hard evidence with respect to regret rates with GICs are very clear that "desistance", using your word for it, is vanishingly low (le
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> All people fit into sex categories because all people have a definite sex I mean, no? Not really? There's a whole history of people who do not have a definite sex, and even then, there are lots of people who appear to have a def
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by fao_ 2y ago
I'm sorry but I think I'm going to believe the man who wrote the article, who is an editor of Nature and has a Physics PhD[1], over someone who has made it their life's work to argue against established scientists on a websit
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by fao_ 2y ago
I've made games in Love2D for Android and for PC, I also as part of my converting Balatro to android, patched it a few places. > Even with a multiplatform framework (Monogame), compilation and basic run isn't a given. This isn&
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> It took them many months to get it on Android. It's surprising given that back in June? 2024 I just extracted the .love zip from the executable, patched a file or two, and merged it into the love android apk and it Just Worked. Ju
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> Working in software breeds some truly wild perspectives on the world. My personal suspicion is that software is one of the easiest fields in the world to learn, and it has the sneaky benefit that you don't have to brush up against
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> nothing can be automated according to them, and they require actual human actors to drive the process forward from one step to the next. A machine cannot be held accountable, and therefore should not be in charge of making decisions.
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> The law is special because everyone has to obey it or face punishment. In medicine if you get things very wrong, you die, your patient dies, or everyone in the room dies. In programming if you get things wrong, you give someone radiati
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by fao_ 2y ago
Go pick up "The Molecular Biology of the Cell" and come back to me after a month of reading it, and then you will have learned perhaps 10% of the knowledge required to specialize in endocrinology. Some things are just complex! Pro
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by fao_ 2y ago
"(layperson looking at the Intel opcodes listing) The harder they make it to join their club, the more exclusive their service becomes. And thus they can command a higher salary" I know this might be difficult for those of us who
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by fao_ 2y ago
See this is where I and the FSF/OSI diverge, because > the right to use, copy, modify, merge, publish and distribute the Software [as long as you're not selling it or derivatives of the Software] seems to line up with exactly w
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by fao_ 2y ago
> This is commercial only. Free and small is my safeclib Is it me or does this feel a bit weird? It seems like you're using the comments section here to self-advertise for exposure. I read it like — "businesses can't use t
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by fao_ 2y ago
I hate to be snippy here but — if you had read further than that sentence, you would have seen a response to that.
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> view as denigration and slander of my countrymen The fact that you believe it to be incorrect also doesn't really make it incorrect, does it. Notably, I am also not saying that it is correct, but simply making a claim based on if
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by fao_ 2y ago
Mm, I did take a quick look but the majority seem to be studying within the cow cervix, which... it seems kind of iffy to then expand that to the wider body, and then jump species from cows to humans. Too many links of indirection to make a
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by fao_ 2y ago
> I think it's a bit reductionist to attribute election results to hormone imbalance. I very carefully did not attribute election results solely to that cause :) Russian funding and mass media covert ops are likely more to blame[1
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The last time I looked into this, at least one US pesticide* banned in the EU seemed to significantly disrupt oxytocin, notably the pesticide in question seems to be present on fruit, in the store, and can be absorbed through incidental con
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> What I am yet to find in any programming language is a reliable way to put my cursor somewhere in the code base, and know exactly all the possible errors which can happen, where they could come from, and whether I've handled them
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> You browse the web constantly, so you do it without thought. Not so with your taxes, despite their similar constance and ubiquity, because they are not constant and thus haven't had the same abstractions engineered into their very
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by fao_ 2y ago
There's very literally currently a whole wealth of papers proving that LLMs do not understand, cannot reason, and cannot perform basic kinds of reasoning that even a dog can perform. But, ok.
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by fao_ 2y ago
Blind people can use a cane for echolocation, but it's not necessarily reliable (especially in a busy city), and to be honest I'm hard-pressed thinking of any blind people I know that actually know how to do that.
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> Their business model may have a slight problem. Oil is subsidized to a much higher amount by the US government
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This is exactly why the biggest thing in gamedev, and all software dev to an extent, is getting your software in front of users as soon as possible. As a developer it isn't just that you know how it works, but you'll also have pla

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