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dgsii

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dgsii··on IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
Have you tried recording UI events in Automator and saving it as an Application? Then you could execute the .app via script. I haven't done this but in theory it should work.
dgsii··on Neovim 0.12.0
You _can_ just use a mouse, but I would not recommend it for someone who wants to learn to become a power user.

I feel like the habit I’ve benefited the most from on my neovim journey has been reaching for :h before doing any web search. Good completion in the command-line helps a lot there.

dgsii··on [dead]
I’d rather read the prompt.
dgsii··on Harold and George Destroy the World
> Likewise, the fact that people differ in their intellectual capabilities from birth

Yes, of course people differ in intellectual capabilities at birth. That is not the argument. The argument is how much that actually impacts IQ test score results.

Your point suggests that “science” supports the idea of IQ being predetermined at birth.

dgsii··on Harold and George Destroy the World
I don’t mean to suggest that an IQ test doesn’t have any value, only that they don’t account for many subtleties across (sub)cultural boundaries and are too heavily considered in determining one’s intellect, and often worth, by society.

You’re using Motte-and-Bailey tactics to conflate IQ test results with vaccines denialism, on the basis that they are both “for the greater good”, which conveniently paints my point in a certain political light. How exactly does selectivity on the basis of IQ test results “enhance health outcomes for groups as a whole”? Maybe you could back up this argument with some historical context.

> “Similarly, people don’t like the idea that some individuals are just born smarter than other individuals.”

What data do you have to support this claim? And how much of this inherent intellect factors into IQ test results?

dgsii··on Harold and George Destroy the World
Sure, but what has that got to do with “IQ is also highly heritable?” which, in this context, suggests intelligence is something innate and biological, rather than recognizing an IQ test as a gauge skewed by culture and socioeconomic status.
dgsii··on Harold and George Destroy the World
Ah, yes, the IQ test; the universal, unbiased gauge of intellect across all cultures.
dgsii··on Hard Rust requirements from May onward
I don’t think it’s a fair argument to criticize a spec because it’s derived from an implementation. If anything it shows how the spec can be practically applied.