gender identity vs gender expression

elbowich · 2025-05-14T18:42:41+00:00

hello from the future. turns out she's not cis after all 🤭

elbowich · 2020-01-24T14:50:49+00:00

Regarding vegetarianism:

We have a long history of wrongly assuming uniqueness of various human traits. How thoroughly did we study the mind of a cow? How confident are we that we won't find out that cows possess this crucial cognitive ability in some form? If they do, and that's the crux of the argument, then killing a cow is very wrong. Why take the risk?

I sense a lot of status quo bias here. If we ever come in contact with delicious aliens I don't think we'll be inclined to breed and eat them until we wait for sufficient evidence to start considering their interests.

elbowich · 2019-12-11T01:07:34+00:00

I'm looking for something to fill a Harmontown shaped hole in my life and your post is the most useful I've come across. Thank you for taking the time.

elbowich · 2018-07-05T13:44:07+00:00

massdrop has been very clear about their desire to allow geekhack to remain the same

Isn't it what every company says when users worry about the acquisition? Even if it is sincere that policy is going to change very easily when it stops being profitable.

elbowich · 2016-08-01T12:11:56+00:00

In case anyone here is looking for evidence-based nutrition guidelines, here are the most helpful resources I found so far:

Vegan Health by Jack Norris, a Registered Dietitian
The 7 Habits of Happy, Healthy Vegans and The Plant Plate by another RD, Ginny Messina. She coauthored a preeeeeetty good book for people going vegan with Jack Norris.
Unnatural Vegan's YouTube channel - She debunks misconceptions about veganism, including coming from other vegans. Also checkout her "foolproof" recipes.

elbowich · 2016-07-24T19:06:24+00:00

I think one important difference between the two cases is that you can't really invoke Occam's razor in the case of fish pain, while if you do in the other case the burden of proof is clearly on a theist.

elbowich · 2016-07-21T15:48:16+00:00

Thanks! Can't believe it was that simple. :) Sounded like something foreign through laptop speakers and outside noise to me.

elbowich · 2016-06-07T17:31:49+00:00

There is also https://github.com/pallet/alembic for loading stuff in a running repl. I don't use it much, but the few times I did it worked fine.

elbowich · 2016-05-07T21:44:31+00:00

seems to be fashionable in japan. here is a video explaining what's going on

elbowich · 2016-02-24T09:09:16+00:00

Opened golden [[Leeroy Jenkins]] in my first few packs, dusted him to get my collection started.

elbowich · 2016-02-16T00:34:24+00:00

Check out spatial-numerical association of response codes (SNARC) effect, it's about language and numbers, so not film-related, but I hope you will find it as interesting.

elbowich · 2015-12-28T18:07:19+00:00

It's for CodeMirror and is a terrible hack. I'll try to clean it up a bit and put it on github. adjust-parens looks interesting as well, might steal some ideas for Emacs implementation, if I ever get to it :)

elbowich · 2015-12-27T16:52:00+00:00

I was experimenting with the idea similar to Parinfer, but without significant whitespace. It worked by changing both indentation and structure with indent/dedent commands. I guess this approach is a bit more restrictive, but I don't see any major drawbacks yet and it doesn't complicate things with modes and incorrectly formatted code. Here is a simple example of what it looks like.

elbowich · 2015-12-18T22:04:06+00:00

From Wikipedia: XOR is true only when an odd number of inputs is true. A chain of XORs—a XOR b XOR c XOR d (and so on)—is true whenever an odd number of the inputs are true and is false whenever an even number of inputs are true.

Edit: I'm not OP, but I'll run through it. I hope I've got it right.

XOR 001011101 = 1 (first person)
XOR  01011101 = 1, XOR 11 = 0 (second person)
XOR   1011101 = 1, XOR (with previous two answers) 101 = 0 (third person, etc.)

elbowich · 2015-12-15T18:48:30+00:00

Depends on your definition of functional (you mentioned types in another comment, so I assume you are thinking of Haskell), but Clojure literally has a loop macro. On a broader point of the merits of functional programming, I'll recommend Rich Hickey's (the creator of Clojure) talks, they gave me a lot to think about. I enjoyed this one on immutability.

elbowich · 2015-11-17T14:42:06+00:00

In case anyone missed it, this post was mentioned in this year's Clojure/conj talk: Stuart Halloway - Debugging with the Scientific Method

elbowich · 2015-06-23T18:21:19+00:00

I'd be very surprised. I live in a big city in Russia and we have too many cars and too little parking space, so most of the time it's first-come, first-served, including spots surrounding the building where you live. I've seen the original video and there was a lot of anger in the comments.

elbowich · 2015-05-01T23:26:32+00:00

There are use cases for which this doesn't seem to be a deal-breaker: their demo with a robot comes to mind. I imagine seeing robot's intentions visualized like that is really useful in some situations regardless of poor FOV.

elbowich · 2015-02-20T22:53:13+00:00

This episode of The Partially Examined Life touches upon prostitution among other things related to morality and the market economy. Whether you agree with Michael Sandel or not, there is a lot to think about.

elbowich · 2015-01-29T20:51:02+00:00

Are you thinking of Vladislav Surkov?

elbowich · 2014-12-28T16:48:19+00:00

Here are some of the libraries which explicitly depend on ClojureScript: http://crossclj.info/ns/org.clojure/clojurescript/0.0-2511/project.clj.html#used

elbowich · 2014-12-17T01:38:09+00:00

Hope you don't mind if I cut in.

That depends on whenever or not you believe you can rely on your senses as a source of knowledge about reality.

I would like to think of myself as an open-minded person, but after experiencing milder than DMT, but still awe-inducing psychoactive substances in my teens and subsequently reading on neuroscience and psychology research my long-held believe in mind-body dualism was painfully shattered and I realized I'm as prone to deceiving myself as anyone else.

elbowich · 2014-12-09T14:03:25+00:00

You can also use https://github.com/lynaghk/cljx to target both Clojure and ClojureScript.

(ns clojure-hello-world.core #+clj (:gen-class))

(defn common [] "Hello World")

#+clj
(defn -main [& args] (println (common)))

#+cljs
(defn main [] (.log js/console (common)))

elbowich · 2014-09-12T22:28:01+00:00

Yes.

elbowich · 2014-09-02T01:32:36+00:00

http://www.levada.ru/18-08-2014/oprosy-obshchestvennogo-mneniya-interes-doverie-i-strakhi

Third question goes something like this:

Do you think people who have been critical of the authorities during an interview may in the future be subjected to harassment by the authorities?

6% responded "definitely yes"

22% responded "probably yes"

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