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alphabettsy

4,823 karma · joined October 28, 2016

Remote SWE in Midwest US
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alphabettsy··on K8s with 1M nodes
Yep. K3s can use SQLite or Postgres.
alphabettsy··on Testosterone Administration Induces a Red Shift in Democrats
I’m asking you to provide evidence for your claim.

Personally, I don’t see Democrats talking about masculinity that seems to be an obsession of the right.

I think it’s a meaningful because some of the people talking about masculinity and how the Democrats or the liberals want to take that away or get rid of it have often been the worst examples of it in my opinion. I also think it’s worth noting the leaders of political parties and how they themselves represent the values they claim to be fighting for.

alphabettsy··on Testosterone Administration Induces a Red Shift in Democrats
> current left-wing philosophy that provides any sort of meaningful place or role for masculinity as it is commonly understood

I think this strongly depends on your reality and perception.

How is masculinity commonly understood and what examples do you have of the left and democrats not making space?

On the other side, how can you not see examples of toxic masculinity demonstrated from prominent Republicans including the president?

alphabettsy··on New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
Poor stormwater management has caused very expensive issues all over the country especially and including small towns from both flooding and pollution. I agree something needs to be done, but aimless deregulation is not it.
alphabettsy··on RFK Jr. Must Go
> Meanwhile, a ProPublica review of federal data found that more than $40 million in grants awarded by the National Institutes of Health for dozens of autism-related research projects were canceled under Kennedy’s watch. Some had been awarded to universities the administration is now targeting, while others ran afoul of Trump’s “anti-woke” priorities by mentioning gender and other verboten terms. Among them was a grant to Harvard University to use data on nearly half a million Israeli children to evaluate whether men’s exposure to air pollution affects the risk of having a child with autism. (A small number of grants have been recently reinstated.) A survey of researchers conducted by the Autism Science Foundation, which tallied cuts to training grants and the anticipated cuts to future grants over the next few years, estimated that the total loss of funding could be tens of millions more.

https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-autism-environment...

So they cut funding then put it back for possibly fewer studies, but with new press release?

alphabettsy··on RFK Jr. Must Go
Status quo is preferable to regression and destruction in my view.

Building things takes time, destruction does not. The protest vote was in favor of destruction.

I don’t think Biden was status quo so much as he led a deliberate and traditional administration.

alphabettsy··on RFK Jr. Must Go
Talking about doing more research while being part of an administration that’s defunding it makes me extremely skeptical that there will be more research.

https://www.propublica.org/article/rfk-jr-autism-environment...

alphabettsy··on RFK Jr. Must Go
I think that’s true and I’m not going to make excuses for the mistakes of the medical community, but I don’t think we should excuse the influence of what is now the wellness community, of which RFK Jr. is a part.
alphabettsy··on RFK Jr. Must Go
You’re correct, but what we’re not doing is more science to answer the questions and fill in the gaps. We’re using anecdotes and conjecture, sometimes conspiracy, in place of science.
alphabettsy··on New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules
I think your argument is exceptionally silly as is the comparison to Biden not holding press conferences.

The press had been access prior and the difference now is that they will lose access unless they agree to report what they’re told.

alphabettsy··on Remembering Steve Jobs
> People hate liquid glass, at least the majority.

Based on what?

alphabettsy··on Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar stable coin
For some reason, I thought this was an off-season April fools joke.
alphabettsy··on Largest Mass Resignation in US History as 100k Federal Workers Quit
You can always count on him to go to bat for RW nonsense.
alphabettsy··on Snapdragon X2 Elite ARM Laptop CPU
Yet the apps top the App Store charts. Considering that these are not upgradable I think the specs are relevant. Just as I thought Apple shipping systems with 8 GB minimums was not good future proofing.
alphabettsy··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
Thank you for providing this report that had a conclusion before the investigation even started.

Fortunately, the Trump administration has given us an example of what a threat and coercion actually looks like. They declared exactly the action they would take if they did not get their preferred outcome and it’s clearly politically motivated.

That’s quite a bit different than we’re concerned about this misinformation and would like you to do something about it.

I think a reasonable and nuanced debate can be had on whether or not that was appropriate, but there is a difference.

alphabettsy··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
Personally, not going to take Sinclair‘s press release at face value.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/06/trump-fcc-sinclair...

https://upriseri.com/sinclair-nexstar-duopoly-right-wing-con...

alphabettsy··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
I think you should look up the definition of coercion.
alphabettsy··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
He’s just bringing different lies with new sponsors.
alphabettsy··on YouTube says it'll bring back creators banned for Covid and election content
Is there a meaningful difference between pressuring and taking or threatening regulatory action? I think so.
alphabettsy··on iFixit iPhone Air teardown
You don’t have to get the battery through Apple.

The spare parts are readily available through their parts portal.

And it cost less than $100 to get the battery replaced on any iPhone as far as I’m aware at an Apple Store without a warranty.

alphabettsy··on AI negotiator successfully haggles down the price of a car thousands of dollars
It seems like they’re saying this only works for people paying cash.
alphabettsy··on Why Dishwashers Are Quietly Disappearing from American Homes
The article presents no evidence at all that they’re disappearing.
alphabettsy··on Job growth has slowed sharply; the question is why
Interest rates have been high for a while now. Why would we see dramatic change now when we didn’t before?
alphabettsy··on AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more
Saying the Democrats are uniquely focused on racial and LGBT issues is completely detached from reality.
alphabettsy··on Every part on a bicycle is safety critical
I don’t think automotive anc is typically that sophisticated. It plays certain fixed frequencies based on speed, load, etc. You can still hear mechanical issues especially higher frequencies which aren’t masked at all and a misfire typically causes a noticeable roughness, but that would be detected by the computer is most instances.
alphabettsy··on Travelers to the U.S. must pay a new $250 'visa integrity fee' – what to know
If she was driving with a blood alcohol content over the legal limit, then she was by definition, driving drunk.

I don’t necessarily agree with the way that Canada handles people with past drunk driving convictions in the US, but that’s not the same thing as a blanket fee.

alphabettsy··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
A night in the hospital is easily $12k almost anywhere in the U.S.

People with chronic health conditions spend an inordinate amount of time at the doctor and in hospitals. That could save a significant amount of money if that’s reduced or eliminated. Not to mention the time savings.

I could be wrong, but all things being equal doesn’t it make sense to spend $12k/year on medication than $12/year on doctor and specialist visits in addition to medication?

alphabettsy··on Preliminary report into Air India crash released
that doesn’t tell us they were fresh. Only that they hadn’t flown. They could’ve slept 0 hours before or any number of things.
alphabettsy··on Stop Killing Games
What reason is there to believe an EV couldn’t last 40 or more years? There’s nothing inherent in the technology that makes that certain.
alphabettsy··on The Bleach Community Is Ready for RFK Jr. To Make Their Dreams Come True
Couldn’t flagged simply mean they requested for comment about the group thus bringing it to their attention?
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