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  • Expansive new study points to distinct brain networks linked to sex and gender

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  • If we assume that it's useful as a diagnostic tool (very iffy if there), that's not a bad thing.

    There are people who regret transitioning and currently there's no way to reliably tell which trans kids are actually trans and which have been manipulated or are just in a phase, thus denying early intervention for many. If it could be reasonably reliably tested for, that's great.

    The insurance part is 100% an American issue. Civilized societies have socialized healthcare.

  • Storm Linux 2000, 1999

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  • Is there even someone left?

    I only tried it around 2008 or so and it was extremely slow paced back then while looking like the interface from a sci-fi movie.

  • Young Adulthood Is No Longer One of Life’s Happiest Times

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  • I already do vote and try to convince people around me, but here in Germany, the reality is that most people are old and stubborn (average German is 44, average voter even older) and the propaganda of the last decades worked.

    Some still believe in trickle down and neoliberalism, some started believing Russian propaganda and are convinced that only right extremists can rescue us.

    But that's exactly the situation I've described above. You see the ship steaming onto the rocks, but ⅓ of the crew thinks, that's fine since it worked so far, ⅓ denies the rocks even exist and the last ⅓ is convinced that rocks are actually an opportunity for growth.

  • Young Adulthood Is No Longer One of Life’s Happiest Times

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  • It's the lack of perspective. There's nothing to work or live towards.

    I'm in my early thirties and grew up in the last years of the "it's getting better" time, but nowadays it's all gone.

    The political system in all of the West is ossified and unable to solve any of the real problems. Society is dominated by a gerontocracy. The economy is fucked for almost all participants, except the very few at the very top.

    My generation will not have better lives than our parents. And there's absolutely no hope for it to become better . In fact, it's likely getting way way worse for most of us.

  • Type in Morse code by repeatedly slamming your laptop lid

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  • Stupid idea. Obviously 8 data laptops and one clock laptop would be the better solution. Parallel interfaces are inherently superior.

  • What would you like for everyone to know about the type of job you have?

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  • Every system will get gamed by bad actors.

    At least in my case, I can't come up with a system that doesn't suffer from these problems, but still keeps corruption in check.

    For example, I was in a bidding process for my own software. Our contract has a legal time limit, afterwards it has to be renewed using the same bidding process as the first time. It makes perfect sense for us not to rewrite our software - it's working just fine after all. But legally, we're bidding on rebuilding the entire thing, have to compete with laughably low offers from all over Europe, and when we won the contract we decide, almost by accident, to keep using the old software, but on a very tight budget.

    The pragmatic thing would have been, to just extend our contract, but that could mean endless contracts to extremely high prices for software that just happens to be embedded deep enough to be irreplaceable.

    No good solution, really.

  • Hmm, needs linux

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  • Not that old, unfortunately.

    Linux runs fine, but even when underclocked, it turns into a space heater by just using a browser.

  • When you finally get to watch Discovery and realize it isn't actually an enormous pile of mugato dung

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  • I'd argue that there are different categories of Trek-feel. TOS is different from TNG and DS9, and the "new Treks" are different from those TNG/DS9.

    The new Treks are all much more modern and contemporary. The production styles are completely different, the underlying topics are much closer to reality. It is a completely different category of show, that just happens to take place in the same universe.

    Whether that's a good thing or not, is up to debate. But arguing that "this is not my Trek anymore" is invalid, is just wrong.

  • What would you like for everyone to know about the type of job you have?

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  • Maybe because the original post seems awfully arrogant, if you don't know the context - and the post didn't provide any context.

    I've seen a ton of responses like yours. You're implying that everyone gets the context, if they don't, you assume everything is "hostile" if it's not the exact line of thought you happen to support.

    Accept that other people live different lives from yours and have different experiences and knowledge.

  • What would you like for everyone to know about the type of job you have?

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  • As a software engineer, this applies to my entire industry as well.

    I'm forced to write subpar software, sometimes with atrocious security simply because some idiot set an unrealistic budget.

    The worst part is, my current projects are all government funded. The German government implemented processes to prevent corruption, which force unhealthy competition and backhand corruption onto the bidders, which then churn out bad software, which causes gigantic costs down the line, because nothing works. Great job.

  • Hmm, needs linux

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  • I feel really bad about my old MacBook. It was my trusty companion for 10 years, but now it's kind of forgotten and useless.

    I tried to revive it a while ago, but it's too slow/hot to be useful for anything worthwhile and it's a real shame. It's still working fine, otherwise!

  • When you finally get to watch Discovery and realize it isn't actually an enormous pile of mugato dung

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  • Maybe it's simply that the format changes a lot.

    TNG is much different from TOS and some people don't like that style.

    I can honestly say that I find Discovery extremely frantic, boring and way too contemporary, but that's just my expectation towards Trek. Others have different tastes.

  • That is life now

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  • Yeah, but number go up!

  • U.S. military fails to reconnect Gaza pier, says mission will end soon

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  • Half an Apple a day keeps the IDF away!

  • The Insidious World of Fake Mobile Game Ads

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  • I still don't understand how all that infrastructure is supposed to be financed by just a handful of whales.

    All those developers, analysts, designers, etc. could surely make more money in a proper business.

  • world’s first anode-free sodium solid-state battery – a breakthrough in inexpensive, clean, fast-charging batteries

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  • You can go and buy sodium batteries already. They're not competitive with Lithium ion batteries in many mobile applications, but very much competitive for everything where price is more important than size or weight.

    Lithium has decades of research and industrial scaling behind it, it's hard to break into that. But especially sodium is on a pretty good path to replace it in large scale storage applications.

  • Thanks, Amy.

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  • Yes. Usually you have a brightness and sometimes also a proximity sensor. Proximity is usually used for phones so they can deactivate the screen if you hold the phone like an actual phone against your ear.

  • Thanks, Amy.

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  • The sensors are usually pretty close to the camera, so the chances of taping over it are relatively high.

  • Trying to understand JSON…

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  • Again, did you actually read the comments?

    Is SQL an API contract using JSON? I hardly think so.

    Java does not distinguish between null and non-existence within an API contract. Neither does Python. JS is the weird one here for having two different identifiers.

    Why are you so hellbent on proving something universal that doesn't apply for the case specified above? Seriously, you're the "well, ackshually" meme in person. You are unable or unwilling to distinguish between abstract and concrete. And that makes you pretty bad engineers.

  • homeassistant @lemmy.world
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    Parse multiple devices from a single mqtt topic?

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Lowest maintenance pihole ever?

  • Haupteingang @feddit.de
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    Wie funktioniert föderiertes !all?

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    Sortierung "heiß" ist ganz schön kalt