I’m shocked to hear that I am apparently living under totalitarianism, and would love to see some concrete examples of this dramatic shift in Labour party policy, rather than vague gesturing.
the continued decline of transgender rights and support of the same in civil society. the UK has always been jokingly referred to as TERF Island, but more recently, after the made-to-order Cass review that goes against all known research in the field and was authored by a biased party (even consulting with the architect of the florida ban on transitioning), organizations that'd usually staunchly support transgender rights like Stonewall and Pink News are pulling back. newspapers have turned up the anti-trans rhetoric to 11 as well, and especially in England no mainstream party is refusing to participate in the moral panic. it has ceased to be a culture war, and is now much more of a cultural consensus. the common punching bag.
that looks pretty dire for civil society to me. i didn't call it totalitarian, but it sure looks like a precursor to it.
Cass and her team did an excellent job assessing the available evidence and current clinical practice. Anyone who has read the Review with an open mind, and considers the wellbeing of children first and foremost, can see that.
There's a great deal of ideologically-driven pushback to her team's work, mostly from people without expertise in the field. But that can be safely ignored due to not being based upon evidence nor reason.
That's why the British Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Endocrine Society and the Canadian Pediatric Society all were in total agree-- wait they weren't.
And the Cass Review cites a lot of studies in alignment with the study quality in a minority population -- oh wait, it disregards over 100 studies outright, putting a bar where it can't possibly be met, and then ignored that requirement for the body of studies that agree with her preexisting ideas.
Because it's so easy to defend the Cass review, you used your established HN account and not a sockpu-- wait you didn't.
And Cass totally didn't consult with Patrick Hunter. Almost like she wanted advice on how to replicate the ban in Florida. Not at all.
If you want the cherry on top, before the review, Cass supposedly recommended clinicians read the culture-war work "Irreversible Damage" - a book that compares doctors providing gender affirming care with nazi human experimentation (godwin's law in full force here), completely eliminating the notion that she was a neutral party when the review started.
Anyway, thanks for stopping by. I appreciate you addressing the actual problems with the work instead of a blind reaffirmation that it is scientific and everyone else is paid off by big pharma or something (or what's the implication here?)
A telling response. I can see which bubble of social media complainers you've been listening to on this, based of which of their talking points you've picked up.
Yep, keep it vague. Keep attacking me and my supposedly biased media diet instead of the actual points listed. Totally makes you look reasonable and logical and enlightened.
So, did you sign up for HN just for this? Do you have a Google Alert for "Cass review"? Can one follow (block) you on X?
Oh, yeah, the UK has big problems. Brexit more or less broke it (I’m half convinced that the Tory trans obsession was borne out of a need for distraction after Brexit was no longer looking so good for them…)
It's a worrying direction if the forth estate is this defunct and populism is at an all time high. How the UK treats trans people (not sure if they're the most vulnerable, but they're vulnerable and easy targets) is just one very poignant example of the shift.
That isn’t the premise of the article, that is the “common wisdom” the author corrects as the article goes on. The author goes on to list video games as an example of where UDP makes sense, as well as live video.
It's true that HE is a backbone but there is an enormous difference between having bits of your traffic transiting a firehose and sending your entire session thru someone's endpoint.
The latter is much more comprehensive and identifiable.
This isn't to throw shade at HE; I don't recall any complaints about their integrity. It's just to say HE's tunnel is in a practical position to monitor, should they choose or be compelled.
Is it though? I can run Windows programs from 20 years ago on my Windows machine just fine.
Issues with Linux binary distribution meanwhile are ubiquitous, with glibc probably being the single biggest offender. What's worse is that you can't even really statically link it without herculean effort. I've spent an inordinate amount of my life trying to wrangle third-party binaries on Linux libraries and it's just a sorry state of affairs.
Try taking a binary package from a vendor from even just 5 years ago and there's a non-zero chance it won't run on your modern distro.
You are talking about backward compatibility, the parent thread is about forward compatibility. You won't have much luck running a modern executable on XP unless the vendor went out of their way to make that happen.
> What's worse is that you can't even really statically link it without herculean effort.
The program we are discussing happens to be written in Go so it's trivial to build a statically linked executable.
With Go on Linux libc is only needed when the libc DNS resolver is used (instead of Go's built-in one) or if C libraries are used. superfile doesn't need either of these so it's very simple to build it as a pure Go executable which will be statically linked and contain no C code at all.
It's an interesting comparison. I agree that five years is well within the expected period of viability of an operating system. Some points to consider:
- any given release of a Linux distro will probably work on hardware released five years earlier -- one factor that reduces the cost of upgrading the OS (there are many more obvious factors)
- Microsoft is highly motivated to get customers to upgrade to the new Windows at the time. The legacy support is well-known as a "bone" (or: "a factor that reduces the cost of upgrading the OS")
- binary backwards/forwards compatibility is less of an issue in an environment that doesn't treat source code as a secret
- why run old versions of software? In other words: xterm is older than Windows and also as new as Windows
Also, I've always found it amusing that I have much less trouble running old windows software on a Linux (wine) than on new versions of windows.
Wow, all comments removed as spam or hidden by default, update posted saying "We are targeting to land support for IPv6 towards the beginning of next year." Well, Q1 2024 has come and gone. Where's IPv6 support or the communication about what is happening? Good reason to never use Vercel if you ask me.
>I apologize for the slow response. We are targeting to land support for IPv6 towards the beginning of next year. We will communicate updates on this issue. Thanks for the patience.
So cringey. Why not just post a new post that said "sorry the deadline slipped, no new date available at the moment"? I will strongly recommend _against_ this company solely based on this communication. If this sort of gaslighting is how they handle their public comms, imagine how their support must be run.
Was this its raw response to the same query as in the OP? It seems odd it would provide a response using variables named with underscores, rather than using spaces, or more traditional algebraic notation (x/y/z).
ChatGPT (paid version at least) writes a quick python script in cases like these, and then executes it to get the result. For transparency, the script is shown in the output as well. Probably to avoid embarrassments like the ones we saw above.
Having done a couple of their courses without paying:
You are expected to complete the project in steps they define (so for their Redis project, step 1 is to bind to a port, step 2 is to respond to a PING command, etc). If you choose not to pay, you can only complete one step per day, even if you submit code which would pass future steps.
This can be quite frustrating, since each step is often very simple, and IMO discourages producing a well-architected solution which anticipates future requirements, as you're left waiting 24 hours to press the submit button for code you've already written.
Still: It's free, and the restricted progress forced me to not use it for procrastination purposes, so there's that.
It's better for me this way, having things broken down to piecemeal level like this allow me to avoid overthinking and know when to just produce a solution and accept it.
Being a current user of Migadu: I’m not sure what they’ve written there is actually correct. When I’ve gone over the outgoing message limit, I’ve received no warning, no 25% margin, and the messages were just dropped, not deferred. I just received an email telling me I had exceeded my account limits.
