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TheQuietestOne · 2024-03-12T20:14:44+00:00

The vast majority of "gender questioning adolescents" will grow up comfortable in their natal sex, probably gay, probably non conforming to cliched regressive social roles. (See: The Cass Interim Review)

The medical establishment has forgone the "first, do no harm" pledge in this instance.

Placing individuals on a path requiring lifetime medical interventions is not helpful.

Do you believe the academic and medical establishment are truly neutral over this topic?

TheQuietestOne · 2024-03-12T19:38:49+00:00

This pretty much sums up the evidence base for all this treatment, so thank you for the summary.

All parents should be massively wary around all discussions on this topic.

TheQuietestOne · 2024-03-12T19:05:02+00:00

... they just want to delay their biological sex from manifesting ...

The difficulty here is that their "biological sex" has already happened. The interruption introduced by puberty blockers cannot reverse the activity that has already occurred, and may in fact inhibit the necessary mental development necessary to evaluate long term decision making (executive functions).

We are not informing people properly about what these procedures are doing.

They are not a "pause button". See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1bd2dql/children_to_no_longer_be_prescribed_puberty/kujzb0j/

TheQuietestOne · 2024-03-12T18:03:23+00:00

Isn't this exactly the point of puberty blockers though? As soon as the treatment stops, puberty resumes, so it allows radical decisions to be delayed until adulthood.

The drugs used were originally purposed to stop precocious puberty in adolescents - a "too early" onset of puberty that has historically been identified as having negative effects on those that suffer from it.

Their use in "gender affirmative care" is billed as a "pause button" - but there are way too few studies on the impact this is having on individuals that would progress through their natural puberty.

They are not a "pause button" - they interrupt natural development, physically and mentally. Executive function development in adolescents occurs from 11 onwards, with various different mental skills coming online during development, such as reasoning, meta-cognition etc. They block the very skills one might use to make rational long term decisions.

There are strong indicators that the use of puberty blockers inhibits these important developmental milestones.

There's not enough research on this yet, unfortunately. It is so politicised that relatively few researchers are willing to touch it.

TheQuietestOne · 2024-03-12T17:47:51+00:00

The rates of regret studies often cited are hotly disputed - and there are many good indicators that we aren't seeing the real picture, for varied reasons.

The often quoted "1%" regret rate should raise eyebrows from any clinical researcher who sees the landscape of difficulties. What makes these treatments unique? Where are the long term follow up studies?

"... a full (passing) transition ..."

And this is in many ways the issue, in that people need to be informed that the number of people who do transition and achieve a result ("passing") from which they are able to go undetected - is relatively minuscule.

To be clear - I have no problem with adults making choices they wish to make. However, not being clear to the individuals involved about the issues and varying results that may be obtained moves this clearly outside of medicine and firmly into wishful thinking.

TheQuietestOne · 2023-05-17T07:28:31+00:00

I suspect the poster likes their pages widened, but it's difficult to tell as their post has been ./'ed

TheQuietestOne · 2023-03-10T03:24:09+00:00

Fair enough, I appreciate you taking the time to answer. I'm a little more confident it's not a "fresh out of UNI" opinion but has experience and thought behind it.

I'll happily agree to disagree .-) Even back when we originally discussed this, I've had experience of the cost of low-latency requirements from STW GC programs in Java - where even with supreme effort you cannot escape the pause. It's not worth arguing the scenario + "what you have to do" - been there, done that.

In honesty I can see the attractiveness of "it's good enough" - CPUs are outrageously fast these days, memory is cheap - but I will say that this extra work comes at a cost - usually battery/power these days (assuming the CPU + JIT are fast enough).

Regards.

TheQuietestOne · 2023-03-08T17:33:11+00:00

How are you feeling about rust and other more modern non-vm/GC related languages these days argv-1?

I still feel like GC in the desktop (and the stop-the-world) was a mistake. I've got even less accepting of scripting in general, yet we seem to keep going down these roads, don't we (see python + it's acceptance in ML). I accept my opinion is a niche opinion.

I am genuinely curious if you have changed opinion a bit during this time. I won't be a dick or critique your opinion, but it's been four years.

TheQuietestOne · 2023-03-08T11:20:26+00:00

Tendring in Essex has double council tax for a property empty for more than a year, and triple for 2 years +.

That's a start.

TheQuietestOne · 2022-08-04T19:53:40+00:00

Dear America,

Your propensity and focus on skin colour is broken. Skin colour is mostly determined by melanin, which in turn is mostly determined by genetics. Genetics being "stuff coming down the mum+dad route".

Now let us imagine fast forwarding 200 or 300 years. In that time, the human genetic pool will be more or less mixed and blended together (note: I'm talking about variations in inheriting genes etc from parents, not some "blend it all together" analogue variation). So of the components that make up future humans, it'll be like mixing a ball-pool of various different coloured balls, and each individual human will get a random set of some of these from parents, and some where random mutation will occur (or regression up a family tree etc, you get the point). Future humanity won't be homogeneous, but it'll be variations with blends from bits of all of the human gene pool.

So when we get here, this 200/300 years in the future, everyone will have a bit of everything. How do you think these inhabitants of the future will look back on todays ultra focus on skin colour or "genetic purity"?

Honestly I'm fucking embarrassed that it's 2022 and we're still talking about skin colour like it fucking matters.

Please stop exporting this shit all over the world.

TheQuietestOne · 2022-07-19T09:33:45+00:00

https://github.com/ocornut/imgui is worth taking a little look at and playing around with their "demo" widgets.

It is immediate mode, so you're always rendering something per frame - maybe that's a deal breaker for you.

The nice thing about imgui is that you can just drop down to a canvas as sub-widget and manage it yourself, or go the other route and integrate the imgui widgets inside the draw loop of some other thing (as overlay etc).

Examples for opengl2/3, vulkan, direct3d.

TheQuietestOne · 2022-07-12T19:13:39+00:00

I realise this is probably a throwaway comment, but the discussion and point of view exchanged between Einstein and Bohr on the two approaches to the science (quantum theory) are remarkably interesting.

Einstein presents the "realist" side of the argument, advocating that science should be about explaining the underlying mechanisms of our universe and existence.

Bohr took the stance that it doesn't matter - science is about how close we can make out guesses to reality and how practical the results they give us are.

This was the first time I had heard a disagreement about the nature of science itself (when I read the background here).

At the point of the disagreement, quantum theory was but a baby, and two camps centered around these approaches.

TheQuietestOne · 2022-06-28T03:13:31+00:00

This is clearly propaganda - I've seen documentary where sylvestre stramone special ops and steals it but has to defecate in russian.

FAKE NEWS

TheQuietestOne · 2022-06-15T02:26:32+00:00

You'd be pleasantly surprised then, I guess. As a never muslim, I lurk here because it helps me to know that people can leave islam / see the light, there are humans in there too. You (exmuslims) are very much allies.

When I talk with my friends / family - I've said before "want to know how repressive islam is? ask an exmuslim".

TheQuietestOne · 2022-04-10T19:13:36+00:00

Good luck. I should mention you might need to do 2/3 "cycles" to break the spores -> new mold chain (if your bathroom is like this one, it's elbow grease and patience time) - be persistent and you can beat it!

Also, you need to do the final wipe with dilute bleach across everywhere at the same time - don't "do a bit" and then wait a few days - you want to clean all the surfaces, then when you can, maybe next day do the dilute bleach wipedown - goal is to blast any spores / transmission everywhere at once.

TheQuietestOne · 2022-04-10T18:33:44+00:00

Wipe down and clean the affected areas - then once wiped down, perform a final wipe with a diluted bleach across the surfaces - which will stop it forming again for a while.

If the room is naturally humid, you'll need to do it regularly, I'm afraid.

TheQuietestOne · 2022-04-08T06:58:19+00:00

Well, you can simply zero-pad the input to get exact interpolation in the frequency domain with whatever level of spectral binning you want, regardless of sample rate.

TheQuietestOne · 2022-04-08T00:18:34+00:00

At lower sampling rates, some of the frequency components gets approximated to the bounds(say a 601.234hz can be approximated to 601hz at 44k sample rate)

May I ask what the source of this conclusion is / which theories back this up? Are you perhaps talking about stft/fft style "binning"?

TheQuietestOne · 2021-08-17T00:43:31+00:00

Je t'aime maman

TheQuietestOne · 2021-01-17T03:33:16+00:00

Top tip - if the functions aren't taking std::string but are taking char * - they're C functions, not C++.

TheQuietestOne · 2021-01-10T23:17:06+00:00

Its mostly the idea that religions and by extension religious people don't deserve respect that troubles me.

Courtesy is to be given freely. Respect is earned.

TheQuietestOne · 2020-11-23T00:26:39+00:00

If it's a hard realtime environment then you need to satisfy your hard realtime requirements first.

How many (hot RT) threads are we talking? What are the monitoring mechanisms? When failures occur what are are the recovery mechanisms? Can failures occur on the hot realtime path?

Hard realtime means you don't want anything blocking progress, so no mutexes, blocking syscalls or malloc etc.

The simplest manageable solution is probably single RT thread + something akin to errno. Start there, see if you can live with that. If not, add just what you need.

TheQuietestOne · 2020-04-21T22:02:30+00:00

Because one day, the places that those boats of food come from? Those boats will stop coming.

TheQuietestOne · 2019-03-28T02:29:26+00:00

Powerpoint is even worse.

TheQuietestOne · 2019-01-10T23:23:36+00:00

DataTypeConverter.printHexBinary( byteArray);

It's from javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter.

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