chimeracoder

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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> I take dutasteride (even stronger form of finasteride) and have been personally fortunate to not have any side effects in ~8 years. Dutasteride is not a stronger version of finasteride. It's a more effective DHT blocker, but it wo
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Many trans men who go on testosterone report reductions in suicidality. If the theory is that gender dysphoria related to hormonal incongruence causes depression, then the data from trans women taking the medication supports the theory
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> You might expect trans women to react differently to lower T levels than cis men for various reasons Sure but that's besides the point. I was responding to - and refuting - the claom: > Reports from trans people, way back in th
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Yeah - it's a selective testosterone blocker, kind of, and tries to target the part that causes male pattern baldness without lowering overall T Levels. > I assume it still blocks enough hormones to cause mood shifts or other e
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Reports from trans people, way back in the 1940s, show clear links between sex hormones and depression: a priori, one would assume such a relationship. We have a lot of data about trans women taking finasteride as part of HRT and depr
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Bigger the city, more expensive housing becomes. That's not universally true; it depends on what housing policies exist. > That is the real reason for low fertility rates in big cities. People who want children have to be eithe
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Find me anti-car advocates with 3 or more children. I easily could, but I have no interest in chasing ever-moving goalposts.
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Nope. It's universal. The denser the city, the more child-hostile it is. > Just imagine getting into Tokyo subway with a stroller for 2 kids. There's a reason why Tokyo fertility rate is below 1. This is a glaring example
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> There's a reason that "ban the cars" posters never mention a partner or children in their bios. To the extent that "ban cars" even exists as a real political archetype rather than a meme, this is just patently
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> This is not child healthcare. That is already free in every US state. This is free babysitting. It's not quite free in every state, although it's closer to that than many people here probably realize. At least until 2025 (u
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> It baffles me (as European) that any politician, or informed voter, would stand up for non free child healthcare. Let alone the moral aspect of denying a child healthcare because she happen to be born into a low income family, it can’t
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> That also means that, unfortunately, it will take years to repair the damage. If you're old enough to be reading this comment today, it's unlikely that the full damage will be repaired in your lifetime.
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Encrypted backups can't be deduplicated unless the encryption is flawed This isn't an encryption problem; each device can only have one instance of Signal installed, and the latest backup (assuming it has terminated successfu
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> On the contrary Well, no, that doesn't contradict what I said at all. That link isn't about treating the recipient of your messages as an adversarial actor. The recipient can still choose to enable it, if they want to provide
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> I do that and then sync that folder with another computer using SyncThing. AFAIK SyncThing only monitors for changes between files with matching names, and Signal stores each backup with a separate (timestamped) filename. Are you stori
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> I'm confused, I've restored Signal from encrypted backups before. I did it like 4 months ago. What's this feature? Those backups are stored locally, are platform-specific (Android-only), and there is no feasible way to a
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> It would be really useful to have more client-side control over media storage. That way, I could better manage storage growth without wiping entire threads. > For example, being able to see all media across chats, sort by file size,
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
I know plenty of people who have inadvertently lost their entire messaging history because their phone broke or was lots and they couldn't transfer messages directly from the old phone to the new one. Signal allows you to export backup
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> They’re calling it "opt-in," but it doesn't look like that's actually true? You can’t know whether someone you’re talking to -- who may not understand the implications -- has enabled it. In group chats, it looks lik
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Considering that sunscreen in general is pretty garbage at blocking UVA, it isn't nearly as effective as traditional methods like a hat and a shirt. While the US has no regulations around UVA protection, that's not true world
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> They don't always say that We're talking about chemical sunscreens here, and they should say it because they do require it.
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> More importantly, it is cheap enough to be always used as a baseline verification > It's like unit testing vs full user acceptance testing. You can and should do both, but the latter isn't for every PR. You say all this as
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> In my imagination, the lab would have some a testing process that spreads a precisely-controlled volume over a standard surface area, textured to be similar to skin, then measures UV transmission percentage vs wavelength with a diffrac
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> Has Go become the new PHP? Every now and then I see an article complaining about Go's shortcomings. These sorts of articles have been commonplace even before Go released 1.0 in 2013. In fact, most (if not all) of these complaints
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> With passwords, no account was even lost in the scenario for a recovery flow to start Given how common mandatory SMS 2FA is for banks, if thieves stole your unlocked phone, they have stolen your account too.
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> The without recourse is the part that matters... Yes, and I'm saying that part isn't accurate either for the story you're portraying with passkeys or for the status quo. That's not how account recovery flows work.
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> More like abuelita gets robbed at gunpoint and made to unlock and clear out her bank account, then has no recourse at home because her device was taken. You are describing the current status quo, without passkeys. This is already possi
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> We're kinda proving my point. > Clearly this has been a grave mistake Are we? Has it? I don't see anyone's life and career being ruined. If you're saying that the "grave mistake" is that you've mad
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> They may not be in the zeitgeist anymore but they would still love to ruin your life & career for not doing a land acknowledgement before you step into every public space. Complaining about land acknowledgements as an example of th
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by chimeracoder 1y ago
> I've never lived in NYC - are median studio apts in West Village really $6k? Website looks awesome but I'm hoping that the data isn't true The West Village is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the country. In ar

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