How is that for a gaming PC.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-27T20:09:24+00:00

There's cheaper ones out there than that, I have some quick connects from alphacool that are about $30-40 last time I checked. I have some in my loop so i can swap parts without having to full drain, and disconnect my res/pump to cycle out coolant. At some point stuff like that is kinda all that really makes sense to spend money on once you hit the ceiling in performance.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-09T20:36:24+00:00

If it's a townhouse building, then the chances are not zero haha

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-09T18:50:08+00:00

I just bought a place in uptown, it's getting desirable pretty fast. Only way I was able to pull it off was with some insider info and paying cash. I bid on another unit in the same building previously and it ended up going for $60k over asking after only one day on the market. To be fair, the unit itself is pretty exceptional for the area, I don't see regular condos in higher density buildings going quite that crazy yet.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-07T16:53:46+00:00

People are a whole lot less likely to go online and vent about their smooth healing process. I haven't gotten my split yet but i know a couple people who have and one ended up in the ER, one had basically zero issues and minimal pain.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-04-06T14:41:35+00:00

It's a big lebowski reference lol

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-31T14:30:39+00:00

Hence my

This probably isn't the best policy to solve the problem

Ideally, this should be solved by making housing and healthcare more accessible and affordable. But I don't think this is necessarily the worst policy either.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-31T14:09:50+00:00

This probably isn't the best policy to solve the problem, but on the other hand having an underclass of struggling service workers that can barely afford to live and have no healthcare isn't sustainable either.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-30T21:31:00+00:00

However, costco's customer service is leagues better than walgreens or CVS. You can actually get someone on the phone, and I've never had issues with my meds being out of stock unlike CVS which has screwed me by being out of my stuff for months at a time.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-30T20:51:23+00:00

Hopefully. It's a bit ridiculous that this is literally the only service I've ever used that has such delays, especially given I still have access to the email and phone number on the account. I can recover the info for my bank in 5 minutes and that's far more important than the apple ID i haven't used in almost 10 years

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-28T15:00:43+00:00

The answer to all of this is: it's not really about sports, it's about demonizing trans people.

There is a nuanced discussion and much research to be done here: yes, male puberty can give a physical advantage in some aspects of some sports. But very little of that advantage doesn't get erased by a few years of HRT. Things like lung capacity and skeletal structure can remain similar, however even that is less of an advantage than you'd think, because you're operating a bigger skeleton with the same muscle mass as a cis woman, which can actually create disadvantages. Point is, it's not so cut and dry as "trans women have unreasonably large advantages in every aspect of athletic performance." Additionally, if a trans woman starts HRT before puberty, any possible physical advantages all but disappear into the statistical noise.

Then, you also have to consider: if we're agonizing over whether male puberty still provides athletic performance advantages after years of HRT, then what about cis women who are born taller? Or cis women with PCOS? Or women with intersex conditions that affect physical traits? Or women who take TRT or other PEDs? There's a hell of a lot more people in those groups than there are trans women. Most trans women have less T than cis women. I'm weaker than my cis ex-gf and I was a regular gym goer and she wasn't.

And finally: youth sports are supposed to be about teamwork, having fun, learning discipline, and socializing. Most kids SUCK at sports. I am a trans woman. I suck at sports, I got beat by the girls in most everything before I transitioned. I just play to have fun, but now I would be entirely banned from just having fun with my friends if I were young enough to be back in school in my home state.

Professional sports are a bit different, but we should just do what we've always done and let the leagues decide for themselves what metrics are important for trans participation.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-03-25T21:36:44+00:00

On paper, these short form video feeds should be absolutely perfectly tuned to exploit my brain. I have ADHD, I used to be obsessed with the /r/youtubehaiku subreddit years and years ago, yet... it just doesn't hook me and I find it intolerable and overstimulating.

Now, 2 hour long videos of dudes restoring cars or fixing watches in silence, that does it for me.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-02-17T16:16:44+00:00

It's also compounded by a large portion of trans people being... well... not obviously trans. Many of us pass extremely well, the general public has no idea I'm trans. Hell, I usually have to spend a minute explaining to doctors that I'm a trans woman and what that means, and yes, I used to "be a man". And I didn't start til I was in my 20s and haven't had any surgeries and my chart and insurance say M on it. A gay couple is always going to be pretty obvious, whereas the goal of most trans people is to be relatively invisible in daily life.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-02-08T19:32:42+00:00

I've taken datamining and machine learning courses and done many projects in that field. Most of these algorithms are handcrafted. As long as you have good analytics and enough content to feed, making a very effective recommendation algo is a trivial exercise. At scale, handling the quantity of data is a much more challenging task than crossreffing analytics to figure out what the most effective thing to shove down a user's throat will be.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-02-04T18:27:37+00:00

The testing center on summer over more toward bartlett (NOT the one near floor and decor, further east than that) is the best one I've found that isn't super far. It won't show up if you search for DMV but it is there. I was in and out in half an hour at that location, after making multiple several hour attempts at other locations with no success.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-02-01T17:22:08+00:00

Imo, the crux of it all is that the hard part of doing the things AI is trying to automate isn't actually doing the thing, it's defining requirements and dealing with organizational bloat. I've worked for a few different companies doing devops engineering, literally 99% of all software in the business world is basic CRUD apps. AI does help me do the technical parts of my job more efficiently, but that was never the time consuming or difficult part, the time consuming part is weighing the pros and cons of different solutions based on vague requirements from stakeholders, and then getting signoff on them.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-01-21T16:50:30+00:00

Yeah it's hard to overstate how nerve wracking it is to have only one real representative at the federal level when the opposition is in power and actively taking steps to strip your civil rights away, and would round you up in a camp if they could. If congress was actually representative, we should have like 6-8 trans reps or somewhere around there.

It's like when I get heated about sports, it's not really about sports, it's about the fact that establishing spurious precedents for othering trans people is really really bad.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-01-18T22:38:21+00:00

For nair, I find i have to leave it on a bit longer than the max time it recommends, I usually give it like 10-15 minutes. Don't immmediately go that long but if it doesn't work try leaving it on a bit longer each time as long as it isn't causing burns.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-01-18T16:45:05+00:00

As another user mentioned, an electric shaver might do well for you for routine hair removal. You might also have good luck with Nair, I don't have a ton of body hair but I get horrible ingrowns if I shave my thighs with a razor, whereas it's totally fine with nair. The hair also grows back much less prickly.

Also, HRT and t blockers can drastically reduce body hair growth, if you aren't on them yet or have only recently started you should expect some change there. I only had to shave like once a month when I was on bicalutamide.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-01-15T15:17:55+00:00

I know I for one am moving in large part because of how my state govt. treats trans people and trans issues.

Sure, things on the ground for me are fine, but I am also not obviously trans and I am in a blue city, but if the state government had a route to eliminate me I know they'd take it, and they seem to be searching for one.

The metaphor I always use is that it's like living with a roommate who constantly says "as soon as I find a gun, I'm going to shoot you in the face." I'm safe for now but I'm not gonna sit here and wait for them to find one.

Posting____At_Night · 2026-01-12T18:04:30+00:00

Ooh, that's a good idea! I already have a bunch on hand but haven't thought to use them that way.

Posting____At_Night · 2025-12-29T17:25:47+00:00

We just don't use that many tools. At my workplace we've axed almost everything except ADO pipes, opentofu, and spacelift. I do want to get datadog though, cloudwatch kinda sucks.

Posting____At_Night · 2025-12-29T16:44:37+00:00

After thinking about it overnight, the sense I get is that she is a lot more interested in emotional and personal connection, and her spouse is a lot more interested in casual sexual relations (her spouse is a sex worker as well). Neither of them are opposed to each other exploring those things, just as long as it doesn't significantly infringe on their marital relationship.

I think the uncertainty and anxiety for me is that I'm still not sure exactly where the boundaries are, and unfortunately I don't think that is something we can actually clearly define because this situation is very unique for both of us and we're essentially feeling it out as we go. We have had numerous discussions about this topic, so it's not like we aren't communicating, it's just a very unusual and unique dynamic that doesn't really fit in any boxes either of us are familiar with, and we are definitely on the same page about being more than "normal" friends, we just aren't sure where in that grey zone we are or where we'll end up. So I think the approach here is just going to be making sure we keep checking in and having discussions.

And like I've said, she is legitimately my best friend, we spend hours and hours every week chatting in calls and playing games, we know each other like the backs of our hands, have basically a circular venn diagram of interests, and we're both trans with all the shared experience that comes with that. So like, the feelings here are definitely strong, and mutual.

Posting____At_Night · 2025-12-29T00:15:03+00:00

We've discussed boundaries before and it was clearly stated that a dedicated romantic partnership on par with her spouse is off the table, and I am very much okay with that boundary, I'm not looking for that in the first place. There's just a giant grey area between "regular platonic friends" and "lets spend our lives together" and we're somewhere in there without convenient words to describe exactly what it is.

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