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I get the sentiment, but I could use the same arguments against HRT, which isn’t exactly what you want.

Bodily autonomy is fine, as long as it’s not harming anyone (including oneself). If this tool is accurate (again, big if), it could actually increase bodily autonomy, since you could distinguish between real cases and those who really have other problems. That takes the burden of proof away from trans people.

Think about how long it takes today from the first visit at a doctor’s office until actual treatment or legal processes can start. Using diagnostics like this, this could be shrunken down to one MRI.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

None. The project was ultimately cancelled for unrelated reasons.

I had lengthy discussions about that because two companies conventions collided.

We talked literally hours about the benefits of build numbers, branch specific identifiers and so on.

I find it really weird that something as simple as the basic functionality of nextcloud seemingly can’t be implemented in a stable and lightweight manner.

Nextcloud always seems one update away from self destruction and it prepares for that by hoarding all the resources it can get. It never feels fast or responsive. I just want a way to share files between my machines.

There are other solutions, I know, but they’re all terrible in their own way.

I disagree with the implication and outrage about it.

It seems like ragebait, just like “gen Z doesn’t want to work” crap.

But I regularly throw a few handfuls of assorted pills and drive around the continent for a full weekend.

I literally can’t use that car!!!

Of course it is. It’s a job that doesn’t really exists, but gets advertised.

That’s not how this works, though.

These “jobs” are just a way to acquire talent. A larger company can almost always need a few more “good workers”. So if a really good candidate comes along, they’ll snatch that person, if the candidate is just okayish, they tell them someone else got the job.

Or, people simply don’t care anymore.

COVID became just another flu for most people, it’s been a big deal three or four years ago, today hardly anyone cares.

The “real” flu is also dangerous and the vaccine is available and has hardly any side effects, yet somehow barely anyone takes it.

Using the Rabbit R1 instead of generic ML was too obvious.

Hitler was inspired by the US exterminating it’s Native population and by the US reservation system.

Don’t act like being American gives you some unique perspective. Wow, that looks stupid, right?

There’s a clear difference between living in society and ruling that society.

Sure, but you’re implying that not being part of the ruling class absolves you from any guilt or responsibility. And that is literally what all Germans said after the war. What was I supposed to do?

And you’re living in a democracy.