santraginean

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by santraginean 6y ago
I agree with the sentiment that mistakes get made, which is exactly why puberty blockers are an ideal treatment option at that age: to give kids time to figure themselves out and make an informed decision when they're old enough. Puber
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by santraginean 6y ago
So this is an MDM-specific issue, then? The headline here on HN seems to imply it's an OS-wide issue that would affect all Big Sur users.
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by santraginean 6y ago
If that person is underage, yup. But also, are there social media apps where you have to opt in to notifications? At least with native apps, I've only ever seen opt-out behavior, which doesn't really work with that analogy.
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by santraginean 6y ago
With recipes, I suspect it depends on how the recipe is written. Usually they're quite prose-heavy, and require a lot of linguistic parsing before you start to get the meaning out of them. It's interesting to think about, and make
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by santraginean 6y ago
I think that's definitely true for a lot of people. But there also seems to be a more active sort of intense denialism, fueled by a need to score political points at all costs, that leads even people who _have_ been directly impacted b
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by santraginean 6y ago
But even without DRM, if you go with the default settings and don't download your music locally, you lose access to it if they decide to remove it from their catalog. Same goes for movies/TV shows; I've had both disappear fro
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by santraginean 6y ago
> The real purpose of ads is to convince people to buy things that they otherwise might not have In particular, things they otherwise might not have and don't need enough to look for actively on their own.
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by santraginean 6y ago
No doctor should be writing that email in the first place; it would be an example of such a flagrantly negligent treatment of PHI that cryptographic signatures and reputability are kind of irrelevant.
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by santraginean 6y ago
Why it's suggested and why it's better are separate questions. It's suggested because the author has a vested interest in 1Password. As for why it's better than the browser's password manager... for an individual, i
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by santraginean 6y ago
Absolutely, yeah, you’re supposed to! People don’t, though, hence the (still small) fire risk.
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by santraginean 6y ago
Worth noting that the mix is also typically not the final stage of production, or at least of the signal flow. At minimum, there’s almost always some sort of dynamic processing, such as a multiband compressor and/or limiter, applied to
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by santraginean 6y ago
> the tax form should be upheld as the gold standard Should, yeah. > Was this issue due to paper tax forms doing a calculation one way, but the IRS's implementation doing it another way? No, it was straight up wrong, and could on
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by santraginean 6y ago
What I read back when the bans were lifted around here was that cell phone use correlated with people opening the car door and rummaging around, which created a static electricity buildup, and that that was the real fire risk.
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by santraginean 6y ago
People are downvoting without explaining, so I'll take a shot. First, yes, we calculate our own income tax, but the IRS also calculates it separately, and if the two disagree, they selectively decide whether to come knocking. (For exam
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by santraginean 6y ago
Same. And it's much more descriptive than "a flock of owls" (the author's preference), given that owls don't flock.
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by santraginean 6y ago
I’m an American who was in high school in the late ‘90s, and I can’t recall ever having seen such a map before this discussion (though obviously they exist). Perhaps it was changed somewhere in that time span? Or a regional difference? Edit
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by santraginean 6y ago
They’re not dual identifiers; one is an argument label and the other is the parameter name. Maybe it’s because I come from an ObjC background, but this is one of my favorite aspects of the syntax; IMO it makes code way easier to read withou
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by santraginean 6y ago
JS works that way with plain for loops, but not for-in or for-of. The following fails on the last line, for example: for (const i in [1,2,3,4]) { alert(i); } alert("i is now " + i); // ReferenceError (Not
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by santraginean 6y ago
In every language I’ve used with a for-in construct (or equivalent), the iterated variable is scoped to the loop. That seems to be implied by the syntax, too; it’s equivalent to “for all i in [1,9] where i mod 2 = 0”. If you saw that in
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by santraginean 6y ago
TFA mentions in-app purchases as a differentiating factor, and personally I suspect that's what's really driving this. Streaming a video doesn't expose a way to make purchases that circumvents Apple's getting a cut, but
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by santraginean 6y ago
How would it be a disservice, exactly? "We help families have children" covers that case. (Well, it covers the surrogacy case -- this company's services presumably wouldn't be needed by someone looking to adopt.)
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by santraginean 6y ago
I'll add to the chorus of other AMAB trans folks here and say thank you for being so receptive to this suggestion (and thank you to odomojuli for bringing it up so eloquently). My partner and I knew we were done having kids before I st
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by santraginean 6y ago
Speaking for myself, I definitely had some instances of the former. But I was relieved to learn years later than "Cow Tools" was an instance of the latter.
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by santraginean 6y ago
Surely you could fetch the favicon asynchronously and update the address bar or tabs or wherever you display it only after the other assets are loaded? It’s not like the DOM has elements that depend on it. This is a really, really weird hil