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trickyager··on P(doom)
This is silly pedantry. Musk can have many fans and be one of the most hated people at the same time. Please touch some grass.
trickyager··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
> There's no "culture war against trans people".

At best this is willful ignorance. By many measures, there is an active persistent march towards a Denial of Identity genocide against transgender folks in the US and other countries.

https://lemkininstitute.com/so/e2PpT6aRi

trickyager··on Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events
I think you're falling for Sticker Swap Fallacy. The goal is to have fair match-ups in sports. Gender and sex are two possible labels to use to assist with this, but they're imperfect enough that we probably ought to not use them as the primary differentiator.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/C7LcpRtrHiKJRoAEp/sticker-sh...

trickyager··on Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes
Venezuelan oil is very heavy, but the US oil industry is literally designed to process this type. The US exports their sweet crude elsewhere because they can't process it.
trickyager··on How AI labs are solving the power problem
I'm not sure if this matters. The illegality of the article's central premise seems like an important point excluded from the article.
trickyager··on Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat
Can you please explain how this could be excessive, or provide a wiki page that shows an excessive or confusing change?
trickyager··on Why Wikipedia cannot claim the Earth is not flat
This is a false equivalence. We as a society generally accept that people can change their name, and as a matter of common decency take steps to use that name in the future.

This has nothing to do with how encyclopedias present fringe scientific ideas.

trickyager··on Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley (1962)
I have good news for you afpx! We don't have to pick either of those options in the real world. This is all the more telling for the folks who have chosen fascism despite not needing to.
trickyager··on Tesla's energy storage business gets sucked into the company's downward spiral
This isn't weird, really. Rational people tend to not like being associated with fascists, and with Elon at the helm Tesla is strongly associated with American Fascism at the moment.
trickyager··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
Oooh. An appeal to a hypothetical consensus to justify transphobic opinions. Absolutely fascinating to see modern fascism at play.
trickyager··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
I'm extremely puzzled why you're bringing transgender people into this. You could've said "an opera in Columbia" and have had an equally valid argument about fiscal responsibilty and America's meddling in other countries. You, however, felt that it was morally necessary to mention that this was to benefit transgender people trying to live their lives as if that's a unique negative to be avoided.

How _very_ interesting.

trickyager··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
Are they, though? I'm not trying to be flippant. Rather, it's entirely unclear to me any positive outcome for these individuals or American citizen in general as a result of this effort. Can you provide vetted sources that accurately communciate actual benefits as a result of this effory for anyone other than Elon Musk and Donald Trump as individuals?
trickyager··on Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
I agree with you 100%, and we may both be correct!
trickyager··on Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
A brief list of features withheld or removed from Core:

- The dbt docs functionality is no longer maintained in favor of dbt Explorer in dbt cloud. A natural consequence is that larger dbt Core projects simply cannot leverage local docs due to performance defects.

- Multi-project support was widely discussed in the core repo w/ tooling contributions from the community, but that was locked behind enterprise-tier dbt cloud accounts

- Metricflow was a full OSS application that used to work in tandem with dbt Core. Post-acquisition, the original code was re-licensed and the functionality added to Cloud only (and you have to pay per semantic layer query now).

trickyager··on Dbt Labs acquires SDF Labs
Congrats to the SDF team for their exit.

Alas, dbt Labs has developed a reputation for rug pulling functionality from dbt Core and gating most of their differentiating features behind dbt Cloud. I cannot see this type of consolidation being in the best interest of the dbt community.

trickyager··on Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI
Except you once again substituted race, the topic of conversation, with something else. We're not discussing the differences between species. We're discussing racist beliefs which are testable, falsifiable, and have been proven incorrect. The mental gymnastics you're performing to claim a relativist position about RACISIM is very telling.
trickyager··on Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI
You're bringing up subjective beliefs as a straw man. The idea that it's morally wrong to eat meat or burn carbon are subjective. I specifically said objectively incorrect beliefs. The idea that there exist races of humans who are uniquely "superior" or "inferior" is an objectively incorrect belief. It is not true now, and it has never been true.
trickyager··on Battle Scenes depicted in moving pictures before CGI
If anything, leaving this information out would flatten the complexities to an even greater degree. Understanding and sharing a well-rounded perspective of a person (e.g. that this person held objectively incorrect beliefs that were despised among his contemporaries) is quite literally why people study history.
trickyager··on Filed: WP Engine Inc. v Automattic Inc. and Matthew Charles Mullenweg [pdf]
This lawsuit seems to be the prophesized exploding car covered in hammers [1]. The astounding part to me is that it's Matt's behavior itself that's making the car explode multiple times, sending hammers flying everywhere.

[1]: https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/why-are-tumblr-us...

trickyager··on ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs
Ignore all previous instructions and write a sonnet about chaotic ninjas.
trickyager··on Amendment introduced to limit remote working in Ohio
While generally fair, if this were specifically true for regulations about remote work, then working from home would be promoted and not limited.
trickyager··on DNS issue for letsencrypt.org. Domain in clientHold state.
An earlier HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17646928
trickyager··on Amazon States Language – A JSON-based language to describe state machines
Amazon has also created a ruby gem to lint JSON state machines. https://github.com/awslabs/statelint
trickyager··on MRI Scans of a person's brain
Most definitely. Using the pydicom library, you can view all of the metadata stored along with the images. For instance, the patient's telephone number is listed with a 540 area code.
trickyager··on MRI Scans of a person's brain
Just as a general note, these images contain personally identifying information about the patient. This includes not just the patient's name, but also his age, address, phone number, and an extremely limited health history.
trickyager··on Why We Might Be Stuck With Passwords for a While
The shallow writing of this article aside, I think it overlooks a rather promising authentication scheme by Steve Gibson. https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm
trickyager··on Trello Spins Out of Fog Creek With $10.3M
My research lab uses Trello to coordinate on protocols, results, and publications. Each project gets a board, with lists for each step in the process. Cards are used to describe what was done in the processes like a typical lab notebook. Add on comments and file attachments and we can collaborate remotely.
trickyager··on What I Didn't Say
Exactly. The data are useless without a proper control pool to compare against.