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by panic 1y ago
The problem with adult-only transition is that it dooms trans people (at least, those who go on HRT) to go through two puberties, which has visible physical effects that then have to be undone or worked around (breast growth, facial hair, d
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by panic 1y ago
One possible resolution is that these interests are male-dominated not because of an inherent gender-based preference, but because women (or, more precisely, people who are perceived to be women) are excluded from them. Trans women who are
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Phkmalloc(phk.freebsd.dk)
2 points by panic 1y ago|0 comments
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Caltrain official lived in secret apartment built illegally inside train station(sfstandard.com)
62 points by panic 1y ago|45 comments
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A collaborative effort to name every color in the RGB/web space(colornames.org)
4 points by panic 1y ago|0 comments
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by panic 1y ago
I wrote something similar a while ago for doing lon/lat -> congressional district reverse geocoding. Instead of simplifying the polygons, it splits the U.S. into tiles using a k-d tree and fetches the proper tile as a static file t
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by panic 1y ago
Cool to see Linux catching up to dtrace :)
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Untrusted chatbot AI between you & the internet is a disaster waiting to happen(macwright.com)
106 points by panic 1y ago|54 comments
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Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen(cybercultural.com)
420 points by panic 1y ago|185 comments
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ProPublica Joins Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program(propublica.org)
4 points by panic 1y ago|0 comments
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by panic 1y ago
Swift wasn't designed to solve any of the problems Apple engineers had writing customer-facing software. It was a shiny new language which could be marketed to third parties as something modern and familiar, unlike Objective-C with it
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Border agents plan to photograph everyone leaving the US by car(theverge.com)
19 points by panic 1y ago|2 comments
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by panic 1y ago
I’m grateful that “compress the link display” still works, at least! Thanks to whoever internally is keeping it alive.
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by panic 1y ago
Another cool thing you could do is fuzz test a version of the code that actually does take both branches (in separate runs with fresh memory etc.) and aborts if they give different results.
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by panic 1y ago
If you don’t mind explaining, I’m curious how you test something like this before it goes live. It seems like it would be hard to simulate all the things that could happen at scale.
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by panic 1y ago
TextMate language grammars, the de facto standard for syntax highlighting, are defined in terms of regular expressions that must be matched using Oniguruma's engine for compatibility—TextMate itself used Oniguruma, and its quirks have
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Squiggle orbs: 3D printed reconfigurable Truchet tilings of spherical polyhedra(mzucker.github.io)
1 points by panic 1y ago|0 comments
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Hyperwood – Open-Source Furniture(hyperwood.org)
175 points by panic 1y ago|12 comments
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A security bug caused by Dark Mode (2024)(shkspr.mobi)
3 points by panic 1y ago|0 comments
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by panic 1y ago
By stopping at "advocating" rather than doing the dirty political work to actually implement things like good health care. We are told what we want is impossible due to some rule or another only to watch the GOP ignore or work ar
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by panic 1y ago
I'm guessing you would use JS to fetch() the stream resource separately.
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by panic 1y ago
I hope whatever post-Trump Democratic Party that forms in the next few years will take the idea of abolishing ICE seriously. The institution has been rotten since it was founded.
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DOGE's AI Push at the Department of Veterans Affairs(wired.com)
6 points by panic 1y ago|0 comments
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by panic 1y ago
Thanks, I've updated it to include role='link'. I do agree that it's probably a losing battle, but I thought I'd write up this idea anyway in case it was useful to anyone as a mitigation.
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Show HN: POST links: hiding pages from crawlers without JavaScript(ianhenderson.org)
2 points by panic 1y ago|2 comments
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by panic 1y ago
This is a PWA-only feature; why would they spend the time to implement this if they didn’t care about PWAs?
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How crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects(diff.wikimedia.org)
7 points by panic 1y ago|1 comments
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All clothing is handmade (2022)(ruthtillman.com)
162 points by panic 1y ago|175 comments
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by panic 1y ago
Can civilization work without social compulsion? I think our fear that it can’t, or our belief that the only way to compel people is the threat of punishment, is what keeps these dynamics alive.
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Microsoft sent me an email telling me to throw my computer in the trash(mastodon.social)
20 points by panic 1y ago|4 comments

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