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(my name) @ GabrielMartin.dev
(edit: 12.12.2013 - It's a bumpy ride. Ecommerce site this time.)
(edit: 5.14.2014 - Third time isn't the charm. Looking for ways to gain some experience and insight.)
(edit: 8.07.2014 - I found the Startup Institute Boston, and the experience has been life changing. Here's to the future!)
(edit: 2.29.2019 - now I'm a JS dev doing UI/UX development, who would've thought?)
(edit: 3.29.2022 - Hybrid UX dev and design, pretty pretty cool stuff)
(edit: 12/15/23) How lucky I was to fail. Married with a gig as a UX architect.
(edit: 9.15.2026 - now I'm doing design and product work, with plenty of code mixed in, working on this https://swirltogether.com/ )
Today's rhetoric has the charming variety of "exactly the same" to "distinctly similar". Blood libel, for example being exactly the same as what Qanon believer espouse, and reactionary rhetoric about drag performers being distinctly similar to "degenerate art". A 1500 person poll had 50% of Republicans believing in a pedophile cult among democrat Elites[1]. 25% identify as believing in Qanon, which is literally blood libel [2].
So no, not using it in a positive sense, at all.
1: https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/20... 2: https://www.prri.org/research/the-persistence-of-qanon-in-th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Bolshevism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_libel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate_art
Surely there's a better pattern that doesn't add an immediate barrier to visitors before you get to introduce your value, and lets people navigate to the site immediately.
(No seriously. "The classifier considers the text to be unclear if it is AI-generated.")
It feels you'd prefer I stifle my reflection on the petition I found and the thoughts I had? Seems a bit like being cancelled for not limiting my perspective to the proposal and commenting on anything related I'd read upon googling the people in the article.
To me that petition brought up thoughts about how one might manage projects like this with respect to local population, and if/how efforts like this can aspire to maximize positive impacts for local populations, relating to economic mobility. It also brought up concerns about the worst parts of colonialism/neo-colonialism, namely the looting and suppression of local populations for the economic interests of foreign or state related interests. I wonder how the archeologist in question changed his methodologies (if at all) in response to the petition.
https://www.change.org/p/society-for-american-archaeology-re...
Are you asking how what I described is a composite? How I'd create a composite? If I were trying to define sex, I'd try to find the most relevant attributes to human sexual dimorphism, and if and when I encountered exceptions, to me that would imply a spectrum exists and sex is non-binary.
What am I measuring? I'd be trying to find the biological measures relating to sexual dimorphism, and how they consistently they correlated to the other biological measures I listed. I'd also be looking for exceptions, which do certainly exist.
How are you translating it into a continuous variable? I wouldn't be, I imagine that upon seeing that there are exceptions to the attributes I included in my composite, where people in one or more ways fall outside of the two typical morphological/gamete/chromosomal norms, that would be what implies a continuum/spectrum. I'm not translating it, I'd just be seeing nonbinary data, I didn't translate the data to fall outside of a binary pattern or force it into a continuum, it just exists that way. Correct me if you think I'm wrong.
Why are you calling this variable sex? As I said, in my best attempt to create a composite of all traits that could be contained within a definition of sex, that's what it'd be.
For you it's at worst an extremely rare, uncomfortable but minor inconvenience to you. But now you jump at this kinda shitty reactivity towards the topic, which must sorta stink for other HN readers who just try to live their lives, but happen have a nonbinary or trans gender identity. IMO you're just piling on in a needlessly irritable way.
Just an outsiders perspective. Happy holidays and I hope you have a nice rest of your day, fwiw.
Here's are a couple from poking around on the topic:
https://css-tricks.com/intrinsic-typography-is-the-future-of...
https://github.com/clagnut/webtypography