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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Siri can’t understand “set a timer” more often than 3 in 4 tries for me, and any sentence with more than four words will have one error in it no matter what. I envy you the accuracy your voice assistants offer you, but for me, voice control
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Nope, I wouldn’t agree, sorry. You’re attempting to redefine the gender characteristic “man” in terms of physical sex characteristics “male”, which isn’t valid; this invalidity is proven by the existence of both intersex men and intersex wo
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Apple doesn’t treat point releases that way. They have, for decades, been making breaking changes in late cycle point releases in macOS.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Generally, no; if one represents as binary gender “woman” with subgroup “trans”, it is implied and understood that they are not a member of binary gender “man”. That they are a member of subgroup “trans” is not relevant to resolving their b
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
The simple presence of a penis attached to a woman in a women’s changing room does not imply in any way that a person is behaving inappropriately, any more than it does when attached to a man in a men’s changing room, or an androgynous pers
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Operations engineers are engineers, just as much as other engineers. But when you’re discussing the subgroup (opseng) in specific and whether it’s a member of the overall group (engineers), it’s logical and appropriate in conversational Eng
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
If convicted of conspiring to obstruction or some such phrasing, they might be ineligible for office.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
If that space defined “trans women” as only those who have completed both facial feminization surgery (with AI evaluation of their face bones) and required that they have completed vaginoplasty or vulvoplasty so that their genitals are sexe
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
We’ll see. The imperfection of their solution is certainly the surface story, but I suspect it’s meant to be a haven for TERF hate speech (not just a haven for all women) and won’t survive.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
This app has several dog-whistles for TERF hate groups, that are designed to fall just below the threshold of deniability until considered as a whole by someone familiar with TERF hate speech markers: - Dedication to the color "pink&qu
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
It’s news that their definition of the gender “women” excludes women whose facial bone structures are unacceptable to the app. It’s news that their definition of the gender “women” excludes women whose skin color is unacceptable to the app.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
> It never hurts to be [gorgeous] I disagree. For example, if you're made up gorgeous and this leads a security checkpoint guard to notice you, and then they're checking you out and realize that your shoes are unusually fashion
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
I appreciate that this is mathematically interesting, but from a practical standpoint, they should focus on “the emissions from gas stoves combined with an absence of fresh air inflow and poor exhaust outflow” if they want to see actual cha
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Looks are critical to account for in engineering a physical con. Not that one necessarily needs to be gorgeous, but one needs to be fit to the scene, in a way that minimizes the chances of someone undesirably thinking twice about your actio
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
You can, of course, deviate from my recommendations as you see fit. As you note, you’ll have a higher incidence of breakages (due to inverted-Postel), and that means a higher incidence of debugging/support issues as a result. As long a
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Note that placing the period inside the quotation marks creates uncertainty about whether the quoted sentence terminated with a period or not. I understand that classic formal English demands it, but I enjoy the irony that adhering to ‘gram
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Machines will occasionally add trailing slashes, and they will rarely remove them. Users will occasionally add trailing slashes, and will occasionally remove trailing slashes. So as long as $PATH and $PATH/ map to the same outcome, and
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
User flags can do that. There’s also a flamewar response algorithm that reacts poorly to, for example, ideological wars between differing groups. You could email the mods using the page footer’s contact link and let them know that you’re se
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Too bad they didn’t turn in those buzzing AirPods for the buzzing noise recall.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
“No one thinks anyone else deserves payment for creating good work, unless they’re the one who could be getting paid, in which case it’s a travesty that they’re not” is an ethical standpoint that’s widespread in Silicon Valley. For example,
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Quoting the last paragraph of the guidelines, which has a bunch of supporting hyperlinks: > Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. I dislike that they
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Not exactly an answer, but they risk losing the right to drive (not just in Germany - EUCARIS exists) and being forced to sell the vehicle Or Else, alongside whatever fines are permitted. For example: https://www.autoevolution.co
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
The top HN search result for Stripe is, by a considerable margin, the post from two months ago, about Stripe ghosting candidates and retracting offer letters: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29387264 On the first page
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
> He’s said that on this thread Permalinks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30067683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30067919
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
> Millions of views sounds like a stretch. Your suspicion is supported elsethread by this estimate of 100K or less: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30067872
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Post IDs also support that observation, per elsethread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30068454
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
What fraction of those who starred a project on GitHub become committers to and/or donate more than once to it? I've always assumed that this is a vanishingly small amount, on the order of one in ten thousand or so, but I could be
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Individual items purchased are PII. Timestamped records of presence at any given store might be. Store addresses, however, are not.
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
Try in Chrome with all extensions disabled?
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by floatingatoll 5y ago
No, unless women are not a minority in that job bucket at your employer. Remediation for insufficient diversity is acceptable. Gratuitous hiring of “do nothing” / “under spec” employees is not, but that’s not in play in your case. I am

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