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antrison Words known better by males than females, and vice versa

>Sex is determined at conception

That's only a part of it. Embryonic development plays a part too.

>and parents today often know what it is before birth.

They don't know for sure. Not even the doctors can determine it 100%. The estimation is done by looking for a penis with ultrasound. Sometimes the estimation isn't correct and the opposite gender is assigned after.

antrison Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero

That's a great documentary in general. Recommended for everyone :)

antrison Reimagining Chess with AlphaZero

What's wrong with ko rules? I think it's a simple rule and ko fights are an interesting part of go.

antrison The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender”

Like I said, I'm not here to argue or debate. Genuinely curious people can find ample information on Wikipedia.

antrison The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender”

Sorry I thought you were genuinely curious, and not just baiting for a debate. I'm not interested.

It's not that complicated a concept. Even kids can understand it quite well and there's plenty of information available when you decide that you want to actually learn instead of trying to debate your way into confirming your own opinions.

antrison The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender”

I think of gender as a subjective feeling of identity. It correlates with sex most of the time: most men feel like they are men, and most women feel like they are women. That feeling is a cis identity. But for some people their subjective feeling of identity is just as obviously trans as for most people their cis identity is obvious. If you are cis, then you know what gender identity feels like. For trans people, it's just a different identity from their assigned gender at birth.

antrison The disappearance of Japan’s “third gender”

> I think there’s a train of thought in western (and particularly Americanized society) to see everything as some form of gender grouping when it’s not.

What? Seeing everything as gender grouping? You can't be serious... where the hell are these people who think a pint of milk is a gender and are they really somehow powerful?

Sounds you've heard a few hot takes on the internet and then concluded that the whole field of gender discourse is that. When you look at our institutions, politicians, companies, even trans acceptance is something that is a struggle. And that's just a small step, never mind accepting gender fluidity.

Painting the struggles of people who do not fit into the western hegemonic gender binary thinking with such broad strokes does nothing good. The issue is much more complex and real than just "people are making up genders".

antrison There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code

I have no experience with SonarQube. I guess it's like a linter that's slightly higher level? In that case I'd guess the appeal is that it's reducing the cost of often repeated analysis that is usually done manually, not that the tool itself would make your code great to read.

If that's what it is then I think such tools are "a good servant but a bad master". It does not replace manual analysis, but can be used well to reduce costs of removing common code smells. It still requires a human to work as a judge.

antrison There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code

There definitely are codebases that are easy to follow.

But it requires a team that is committed to aggressively refactoring even the smallest of code smells, usually before even committing it. It also requires a team that is dedicated to its professionalism and not bend into a manager's will of refactoring being a time waste.

But when your team is committed to code quality, holy hell is it satisfying, easy and fast to work with. It really is like night and day. If you have not experienced the difference - I'm sorry to say - then you've just not worked with a high-quality team.

antrison There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code

Coding is a highly subjective and creative endeavor. "Clean code" is akin to "well written" for writers. Sure, you can analyze and even be able to define some good practices, but because we are always creating something new that has never done before, and the field is infinitely complex, no rules can be set in stone and applied across everything.

In my opinion there's nothing wrong with calling code clean, we don't have to analyze every line of code we write. There's just too many things to consider and viewpoints to take, we'd be trapped in analysis paralysis forever, as you can continue it to no end. There's never a point where the analysis will be "done". You just have to be able to recognize when the analysis reaches a point of diminishing returns, and when moving on is the better option. Sometimes just calling it "clean" is enough.

antrison Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile

Well, war has changed. Russia annexed part of Ukraine without ever declaring war. It's not as black and white today. War is a spectrum, especially at the borders of superpowers. Whether you want to call it an act of war or an escalation or whatever, I don't care. If you want to play definition semantics, I'm not interested as it completely misses the point I was making.

antrison Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile

I didn't talk about casus belli, you're just making stuff up.

Sure, things happen all the time without a war breaking out. But it's not like you can "just kill" or "just attack" without repercussions. That's ridiculous thought. It's similar to saying "what's the reason to have a security guard in the shop, when you can just take a pistol and kill him". Security isn't about having an impenetrable defense; such a thing isn't possible. Anything can be destroyed in the end.

There's always a repercussion for attacking the military, be it diplomatic, economic or a military retaliation.

antrison Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile

Do you understand the context?

These dolphins are protecting an area claimed by the military. Killing the dolphin would be an act of war. Even doing the same to non-live military equipment would be.

Obviously during wartime the dolphins would be vulnerable. But during peace time you'd think twice before attacking a military dolphin. You don't "just kill" them if you're not in war.

antrison Request your personal information

> Just because it is free and your right, please consider if you wanna to be a resource hog..

Oh poor Amazon and Bezos... They must be struggling on the resources. Please think twice about exercising your legal right, as it might affect the profit margins of a monopolistic megacorp.

antrison The Windows 11 taskbar is an annoying step backward

Sure, for power users and people who have used the same UI for over a decade, the changes do not seem to make any sense. But that's why there's options to re-enable legacy UI, as seen in TFA.

I suggest you give a laptop to a normal person who doesn't spend time on the computer and see how they use it. Give them a task that doesn't involve using the browser. I'm pretty sure you'll be surprised how easily they get lost in the UIs. These "minimalist" UIs actually do have a use for people who struggle with basic usage of their OS outside the browser.

antrison Encyclopedia of broken UserAgent string detections

In general yes. In some specialty cases user agent detection is fine, e.g. if the application has critical and specific requirements on what software/hardware stack it should be ran on and has been tested for. Just because a feature has been detected to exist in the browser doesn't mean it works correctly, after all. But even in these cases, detecting a non-supported browser should throw a warning, not prevent you from accessing a site.

antrison Toxic culture is driving the great resignation

Companies will never, ever be loyal to their employees.

Don't fall for that "being loyal to your company" mindset. You won't get rewarded.

antrison BitTorrent v2 (2020)

They? Who, where? Which law?

antrison DaedalOS: Desktop Environment in the Browser

Could open the browser and run DaedalOS on it, but the browser inside that DaedalOS wouldn't run another DaedalOS anymore.

Hee hee.

antrison Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter

> What makes you "love censorship" is making insinuations about anyone who "crys about censorship".

Ok. So still delusional. Have a good day.

antrison Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter

If pointing out that having an audience is a central need for people who use social media, makes me "love censorship", then you are delusional.

antrison Fiatjaf/nostr – a censorship-resistant alternative to Twitter

The people who cry about censorship on big platforms are people who want to access the audience. They aren't crying for the censorship itself (they usually love when people with opposing views get banned), they are just using that word to complain about them losing an audience. Setting up a personal website doesn't meet that goal, and probably a thing like this doesn't either. Most of the nazis etc. are quite miserable in their "censorship-free" platforms, because they can't reach normal people there.

antrison Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study

Yes, that's how symptoms generally work. Symptoms are signs that may or may not point toward a diagnosis. A diagnosis such as depression is something separate that is determined from the collection of symptoms on an individual by a doctor.

antrison Tetr.io

> Seems like I may be in the wrong here. I've been watching some of the NES Tetris videos recently and they don't even go this fast so I thought it wasn't possible. I guess that's that's the different between a "sprint" and a "marathon" though?

That's because the NES Tetris has considerably different mechanics. NES Tetris simply wasn't built for fast play. The DAS, piece locking, RNG rules etc. are very unforgiving, so the players are doing most of the work fighting against them instead of finding piece placements as fast as possible.

antrison Experimental depression treatment is nearly 80% effective in controlled study

Yes. Depending on the severity of the depression, a depressed person might have problems with even basic things as brushing teeth and showering regularly and being able to do household chores.

antrison Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere

For practical purposes, yes. The leaks showed how NSA has built a multi-layered data harvesting-archiving-searching machine that works not only through compromised hardware (including cameras), but also big company infrastructures, phone/email/SMS/internet browsing records and content, fiber optic cable tapping, hacking, installing bugs, spying and more.

If the camera itself is not bugged, it likely is harvested at another step at some point and nothing's more clear that if NSA wants to see what a camera sees, they are able to tap it if needed. Sure, untapped cameras exist, but it doesn't really make a practical difference. The NSA will still have your information if it wants, and likely already has most of it.

antrison Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere

Snowden leaks

antrison Face recognition is being banned, but it’s still everywhere

As if they aren't already.

antrison Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes (2013)

> They continue the policy largely as a symbolic gesture now, but it's an important one that serves as a reminder of how their country grew to be wealthy.

The baby box definitely has practical value for families. Even though Finland is a rich country overall, poor Finnish people exist and the price level for necessities is high. For poor families, this box is a lifesaver. And even for those who could afford everything in the box, it's still a great way to make sure that the baby gets all the basics they need without having to rely on parents remembering and spending time shopping. Ask any Finnish parent, pretty much all of them would disagree that it's just a symbolic thing.

antrison Sarco suicide capsule ‘passes legal review’ in Switzerland

This suicide capsule concept is clearly targeted for people who have made a well thought out decision on their life. Heat-of-the-moment suicides, won't happen with rare specialty devices but common tools/environments/drugs/poisons that are found all over.

It would be a weird assumption to think that a person who carefully plans their suicide in advance, and orders a specialty device for it, hasn't considered options other than suicide. Most likely such a person has tried everything else already.