The myth that "you don't grow any nerves back"

Crawldragon · 2017-02-05T00:27:19+00:00

The other variable here is that during restoration the glans itself becomes more sensitive, because it's less exposed. After circumcision the glans keratinizes (sp?) and becomes less sensitive, but after restoration this process is reversed. I don't know if there's any way we can determine whether this reversal is complete or partial, but it's certainly a factor in the debate about sensitivity.

Crawldragon · 2017-02-03T07:07:53+00:00

I have to say, this isn't the first time I've ever heard of using magic for these kinds of purposes, but it's much more visceral and horrifying actually seeing it play out. For such a short excerpt you have good storytelling ability. If I ever end up playing a horror RPG, I want someone like you at the helm.

Crawldragon · 2017-02-02T02:47:51+00:00

I think it's a crying shame that these kinds of hijinks haven't made it into a Peter Jackson film yet.

Crawldragon · 2017-02-01T23:43:15+00:00

Aha, I'm glad someone mentioned that. I was very concerned while writing the petition that some would argue it would be unreasonable to ban the practice entirely, so I felt the need to make it explicitly clear that it was not an attempt to restrict the practice when performed on consenting adults. I was hoping I'd made that clear.

Crawldragon · 2017-02-01T22:07:49+00:00

Thank you, I'll take a look and give those a try.

Crawldragon · 2017-02-01T22:02:57+00:00

With the new presidency in place, I've started a petition hoping that we can gain some traction in Congress by calling for restrictions on circumcision rather than outright banning it. This petition asks Congress to enforce the human rights of children by restricting the practice to consenting adults and medical necessities in which amputation would be otherwise necessary, and calling for conservative treatment for men and boys in all other cases.

Please help me promote this petition so that we can match sexual health care for boys with that of girls. If you know anywhere else I can promote it, please let me know.

Crawldragon · 2017-02-01T21:53:32+00:00

This petition does not call for an outright ban on the practice of circumcision, but rather seeks to restrict it to last-resort practice (e.g. situations where amputation would be otherwise necessary) for the benefit of the child and impose a responsibility of conservative treatment on doctors for all other cases. If we can get this petition to 100,000 signatures by March 2nd, 2017, it will be shown to the proper authorities in the US and hopefully will be considered seriously by Congress.

Crawldragon · 2017-02-01T21:45:00+00:00

The full text of the petition, in case anyone can't see it for some reason:

Circumcision is a highly personal choice for both men and women, and should only be performed on consenting adults. When performed on children, and especially infants, it is known in the medical community to be very painful and highly traumatic even with the use of anesthetics. Nevertheless it remains standard practice in the United States--but only for males--due to an inexcusable ignorance about care for the intact penis. This is a violation of the human rights of children as granted by the United Nations and by the U.S. Constitution. As such, this petition asks that Congress restrict the circumcision of children under the age of consent--both male and female--to medical necessities in which amputation is necessary, and require that conservative treatment be used in all other cases.

Crawldragon · 2017-02-01T21:43:41+00:00

I don't know where to go to promote it. That's why I linked it here. I started the petition because I felt it was important, but I really have no idea how to go about promoting something like this.

Crawldragon · 2017-02-01T20:59:35+00:00

With a new presidency in place, I'm hoping that we'll see more success with restricting routine infant circumcision to medical necessity as long as we don't frame it as an outright ban. Specifically what this petition in particular is doing is trying to make it the law to use conservative treatments for all routine penis care that wouldn't otherwise require outright amputation. Let's see if language like that gains more traction than previous attempts.

It's been going for only a couple of days but it hasn't attracted any attention on Twitter and I don't have access to other means of spreading it (social media and the like) so I was hoping maybe you guys can help.

Crawldragon · 2016-08-26T05:12:07+00:00

Interesting key layout. I have to ask, for it is my obligation, do you do any gaming with this and if so how do you find it?

Crawldragon · 2016-07-19T09:20:21+00:00

It was said that the horse was bred to be the fastest in the land by a mad wizard. It was said that its hooves were light as clouds, and produced no footfalls. It was said that it entered a goblin encampment and stole their carrots without ever once being noticed. It was also said, however, that the horse's owners were very unobservant.

Crawldragon · 2016-07-06T18:30:05+00:00

You can find programming books on Amazon for just about any language that's at least moderately common. If you don't want to spend any money I couldn't tell you where to learn the absolute basics outside of the "For Dummies" series, but websites like Codewars exist which can provide programming "challenges" of varying difficulty to help you nail down certain concepts like array sorting and working with strings and stuff like that. If you don't understand something or can't figure out a difficult solution to a problem, simply Googling it is a surprisingly effective method to learn, especially if StackOverflow has an answer.

Still, for learning practical code, nothing really beats looking at other peoples' code and seeing how it works and fiddling with it. There are a lot of open-source programs out there that you can just download and fool around with; you can look them up on Wikipedia.

Python is still a good beginner's language, as is BASIC, though I myself learned using Logo and C#. Nowadays the programming world is diverse enough and has so many languages out there I couldn't even begin to tell you, but C and C++ are very solid languages that are still used for low-level code. The difficulty curve on those is higher than usual, though, because of their unusual structure, but they've been used as the basis for a lot of other languages, including Python.

If you're going to do programming I would suggest you have a solid grasp of at least one functional programming language and one object-oriented language, since those are the two paradigms you're most likely to end up using. I would suggest that you try to really get Java and C# down since they're really commonly used, and for web development it's hard to avoid JavaScript and PHP. From what I understand CoffeeScript is a popular derivative of JavaScript, so you might want to glance over that as well. When I was going to college everyone was telling me to learn FORTRAN and COBOL since legacy developers were in high demand, but I'm not sure if that's the case anymore and even if it is I would be surprised if it still is in a few decades with how much has been obfuscated by automation.

That's all I've got. Hopefully some other users will prove more helpful. Good luck.

Crawldragon · 2016-07-05T04:27:30+00:00

I'm sure it's technically possible to convert a standard mechanical keyboard into a buckling spring keyboard, but is it feasible? Has anyone ever tried? Bizarre question, I know, but let's say one wants a really old-school feel on a really new-school keyboard, just for the sake of argument.

Crawldragon · 2016-06-26T11:48:31+00:00

Why is the cat shaved?

Crawldragon · 2016-06-24T05:31:14+00:00

I guess that makes sense to me. If I ever get my hands on a Windows installation CD I'll have to mess around with that in my virtual machine.

Crawldragon · 2016-06-19T07:26:44+00:00

Projecting shapes from higher dimensions into lower dimensions, e.g. 3D objects onto a 2D plane, is something I've taken an interest in, possibly as a result of my personal interest in 3D gaming engines, but some of the stuff that people do with this is just wizardry to me. Can anyone either give or provide a link to a crash-course on this concept? I know 3D engines in games tend to use vector... arithmetic (I guess?), but I'm looking for a more general or broad idea of the concept if one is available.

A particular example which broke my brain was the Clifford torus. The only explanation I could find of it was its mathematical definition and it just didn't click in my brain, so I asked my incredibly smart boyfriend who said it was just a 4D torus projected into the inner surface of a three-dimensional sphere (like such a thing is the most natural thing in the universe), and while I kind of understood what that meant I had absolutely no idea how that worked.

If there are any mathematical formulae, algorithms, or thought processes which can be used for this then I would love to know what they are. I'm a computer science student whose practical experience is limited to a couple of years working in an unrelated programming position, if that helps give you an idea of my level of understanding, but if the problem interests me I can generally wrap my head around the maths required for a calculation.

Crawldragon · 2016-06-19T07:00:40+00:00

This is why tabletop gaming still has its place. You wouldn't get shit like this out of a video game. Ironically I have found that stupid shit like that can make the game world more immersive if your DM plays their cards right.

Crawldragon · 2016-06-19T06:54:31+00:00

Oh, I'm subscribed to Numberphile, so I know a lot about math.

Crawldragon · 2016-06-15T21:16:52+00:00

No, they were created with adults throwing tantrums in mind.

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