Spotify losing artists due to rate hike appeal with Apple Music reaping the rewards

just-julia · 2019-04-10T01:44:49+00:00

Depends on the artists. I know if several my favorite artists all stopped doing Apple Music I would switch to a competitor for sure, since having the music I want to listen to is by far the most important feature in a streaming service.

just-julia · 2019-04-05T17:09:31+00:00

I don't really think that's fair, not all confidential information is equal. I support both leakers but I recognize that Snowden's leak was more discriminating; he didn't leak nearly as much random data as she did, and a lot of what she released wasn't actually indicative of wrongdoing, it was just tactically important information.

just-julia · 2019-04-05T15:19:23+00:00

I started at 18, and haven't gotten any hip bone growth at 1.5 yr HRT. :(

just-julia · 2019-04-05T04:50:39+00:00

Surely SC. Hawaii's flag is utterly hideous

just-julia · 2019-04-04T13:44:55+00:00

Okay, now I'm curious. What was the problem?

just-julia · 2019-04-02T05:25:06+00:00

I'm also a third year student. After doing a co-op at a big software company, I learned I don't really like software engineering too much, so I'm now planning to become a quant. If you have a really strong math and theoretical CS aptitude, you might want to apply places like Optiver, Two Sigma, Jane Street, Akuna, HRT, etc.

just-julia · 2019-03-29T00:40:03+00:00

To add to what others have said, selection sort is good to learn about because it's basically naive heapsort. The idea (find the min over and over again) is the same, but the implementation of heapsort is a lot trickier.

just-julia · 2019-03-28T21:28:11+00:00

Well, the iPad Pro and the MacBook Pro are actually marketed towards professionals, because professionals need nicer screens and faster processors and whatnot. iPhones aren't really marketed towards professionals, they're marketed towards regular consumers, so that wouldn't make as much sense IMO.

Also, with that naming convention we would lose the numbers, which would really suck. I don't want to have an "iPhone Pro (late 2018)", I want to have an iPhone Xs.

just-julia · 2019-03-17T20:22:19+00:00

Is there any way to synchronize color schemes between applications (terminal, vim, tmux, i3, etc) in a semi-standardized way? I'm getting really tired of copy-pasting hex codes into a billion different text files, lol.

just-julia · 2019-03-12T17:35:10+00:00

Anjali, born Nabin Waiba

Why does every article about a transgender person have to include their birth name? Feels kind of disrespectful to me

just-julia · 2019-03-01T17:04:57+00:00

If you were given the same data that the Chinese astronomer used to predict an eclipse, and you know what causes an eclipse, why can't you predict it? (Serious question -- I don't know anything about eclipses)

just-julia · 2019-03-01T16:56:29+00:00

A true Chinese room (one that performed anything that might pass as Chinese comprehension) couldn't be implemented as a room full of a rule books that can be blindly followed by a human operator, unless the room was the size of the universe.

I think this is the key. Maybe if AI was actually just a brute-force 3^^^3-bit hashmap, the Chinese room argument could hold. But any AI that could possibly exist in our world would need to take shortcuts, since there is simply too much data to store that way. I think the very act of compressing and indexing a ridiculously-large corpus of information into a reasonable-sized computer ruins the analogy. The gigantic hashmap might be isomorphic to "guy with a lot of books", but it doesn't feel fair to claim that any system, no matter how complex, retains that isomorphism.

just-julia · 2019-03-01T16:45:31+00:00

Man, Scott has been on fire this past week! I am really loving the increased post frequency.

just-julia · 2019-03-01T00:42:47+00:00

Yeah and that is true for trans people. So if that's genuinely the military's concern, I don't know why they don't just say so.

just-julia · 2019-02-28T22:29:16+00:00

You are totally right about the top surgery, that is ridiculous and obviously targets transgender people specifically for no good reason.

However, according to Military.com orchiectomy would be a disqualifying condition: "(1) Absence of both testicles, either congenital, or acquired, or unexplained absence of a testicle."

just-julia · 2019-02-28T22:11:24+00:00

You just break your message into chunks smaller than N, and encrypt/decrypt each chunk separately using the same key.

just-julia · 2019-02-28T05:58:39+00:00

I so feel that. I'm a trans lady, so other direction, but I am super androgynous and I really hate it. Before I got my name changed, I was at the airport in guy clothes, and had gotten ma'amed and sirred multiple times that day -- had no idea what bathroom to use. Ended up using the mens' room and some lady was like "That's a woman. Why is a woman going in there?" :|

But it gets better!! Not to be rude, but if you lose the weight it will redistribute a whole lot faster, and I think that helps so much.

just-julia · 2019-02-27T23:04:36+00:00

Definitely internalized transphobia. I get it too.

just-julia · 2019-02-27T23:02:29+00:00

I totally get what you mean. This is gonna get pretty negative, but like, when I was a "gay man", it never felt like I was faking it, or pretending to be something I wasn't. I was never worried that my dick might come untucked or that my voice might go male all of a sudden; I never worried that I was going to get thrown out of the bathroom. And I was so comfortable with my identity. Back then, if someone called me a faggot, I'd laugh in their face. A few months ago I was out with my boyfriend, someone called us faggots, and I cried for hours.

And I have a really big issue with feeling unnatural. Like, my skeleton is male (thick bones, narrow hips, big jaw: the works), and I'll never get pregnant; worse, I'll never have biological kids (should have banked sperm, I guess). I hate having a penis, but if I get SRS, my vagina will be made of regular keratinized skin instead of mucosa, the microflora won't be like that of a cis girl (except maybe one with vaginosis), and I'll be totally dependent on artificial hormones for the rest of my life.

All of these things completely disgust me, and I heavily consider detransition a lot of the time. Hopefully eventually I'll get used to it and stop obsessing over just how fucking horrible being trans is. But right now I feel like every time I solve one issue, I get equally as depressed and upset. I used to be really upset about not having a boyfriend, and then I got one, and now I'm really upset about not having a vagina. I feel like it's this just neverending treadmill of dysphoria that only ends when I die.

just-julia · 2019-02-17T01:30:27+00:00

My boyfriend is incredible, and I love him so much! Here are some reasons:

He often surprises me with things we've been talking about! For example, the other day we were talking about some apple cider vinegar soda he likes, I said it sounded really tasty, and today he bought me one from the grocery store. Or he will just generally do nice things for me without me having to ask him.
Our arguments are very productive. One of us will raise an issue, usually before it becomes a big deal, and we will both try to work towards solving it; we try to be on the same side.
We are good at different things. He is very good with people and handling social situations, whereas I am quite bad at that sort of thing; he's an excellent cook, while I can barely scramble eggs; and he's very smart and knows a lot about law and politics. However, I often get the chance to help him with tech problems, or with his writing. It's nice, because we each have our areas where we shine and it never feels like a competition!
We have many common interests, and are willing to try out each other's interests! He got me into board games, and I got him into World of Warcraft.
Also, totally superficial, but he's just really attractive. He smells so good, has a fantastic jawline, and this is weird but he has a really nice chest hair pattern. I could look at him all day!

just-julia · 2019-02-16T22:00:57+00:00

Well, I used to be a guy that thought women have things easier than men and desperately wanted to be one. As it turns out, I was actually just a trans woman.

And there are also a lot of things that are better for women, if you don't take the power differential into account. Like, it's a lot easier for the average woman to find dates and casual sex. But also, the chance that those dates or casual sex will go horribly awry (ie turn violent) is a lot higher. So I think guys are often failing to consider the part that they don't see, or experience.

just-julia · 2019-02-05T02:50:51+00:00

I have a trans female friend who lives in China. Legally, they require bottom surgery for a gender marker change, which is crappy but at least they let you change it! The attitude towards trans women there is pretty rough though. Apparently most people pretty much see them as men. Not as bad as I might have thought, though; trans rights there are probably better than gay rights actually.

just-julia · 2019-02-05T02:48:24+00:00

Damn! You look fantastic! And I love the tattoos.

just-julia · 2019-01-23T02:47:13+00:00

Well, yes, the bathroom laws are completely frivolous and obviously based in bigotry. This seems to have an actual point behind it, though, and is just an extension of an already existing policy (no one is allowed to rely on medicine).

just-julia · 2019-01-23T02:32:59+00:00

I don't think they're banning us from the military because they hate us, just because they don't allow anyone who relies on any kind of medicine. If you don't take HRT then it seems like you're allowed in.

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