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davmar commented on Estrogen: A Trip Report smoothbrains.net/posts/20... · Posted by u/sebg

Perhaps this is an insensitive question/comment, but do trans women feel like they have the wrong body or the wrong wholesale gender? In my experience with trans women I know, they still seem to relate primarily to men (they still gravitate towards male dominated interests) whereas many gay men I know seem to relate primarily with women, and gravitate towards women interests.

So this reconciliation is hard, and the topic too sensitive for me to dare asking people I know in real life.

davmar · 9 months ago

don't forget that socialization plays a role. boys are guided to certain activities in their youth, girls to others.

davmar commented on Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim sgoel.dev/posts/trying-ou... · Posted by u/siddhant

davmar · a year ago

>I love (Neo)Vim. Like I wrote earlier, it's been my primary editor for the past 15 years. What I don't love is all the configuration that goes into it before I can use it to start writing code.

this resonates with me. i've spent so much time configuring neovim in the terminal (kitty) and i've never had everything work 100% of the time. simple things just like seeing an entire typescript error are challenging to get working. those errors just continue on one line outside of the screen.

with LLM's the tradeoff tipped in the favor of cursor with the neovim extension.

> 2. It just works

so i switched to cursor last week from neovim in the terminal and this is how i feel. but, i'm not going to invest more time to check out Zed now that i just got cursor set up the way i like it.

but it's great to see all the progress in IDE's lately.

davmar commented on Show HN: LLMpeg github.com/jjcm/llmpeg... · Posted by u/jjcm

davmar · a year ago

i think this type of interaction is the future in lots of areas. i can imagine we replace API's completely with a single endpoint where you hit it up with a description of what you want back. like, hit up 'news.ycombinator.com/api' with "give me all the highest rated submissions over the past week about LLMs". a server side LLM translates that to SQL, executes the query, returns the results.

this approach is broadly applicable to lots of domains just like FFMpeg. very very cool to see things moving in this direction.

davmar commented on New Architecture is here reactnative.dev/blog/2024... · Posted by u/stigi

ramesh31 · a year ago

Is there any sane way of using RN without locking into the Expo ecosystem? Last I checked it was a nightmare dealing with native dependencies otherwise.

davmar · a year ago

how long ago was the last time you checked?

expo has solved the native dependencies issue, and it's a fantastic way to build an app.

this is one of the few hills i'm willing to die on. expo is great for the RN community.

also you can download my RN expo app here: www.shopcats.app.

davmar commented on Details on Xiaomi EV engadget.com/xiaomi-says-... · Posted by u/EA

RecycledEle · 2 years ago

A few decades back, EVs were little econoboxes.

Has anyone considered making an inexpensive, reliable, simple EV for commuters?

davmar · 2 years ago

Volvo EX30 is looking interesting https://www.volvocars.com/us/cars/ex30-electric/

davmar commented on Microsoft open-sources ThreadX theregister.com/2023/11/2... · Posted by u/lproven

davmar · 2 years ago

"Every once in a while, a new open source initiative comes along which is truly an industry changing event" - the article

"Every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything" - steve jobs announcing the iPhone in 2007

davmar commented on A look into the finances of SpaceX wsj.com/tech/behind-the-c... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

lordnacho · 3 years ago

The problem with that argument is you have to have some sort of evidence that the market more or less does this correctly most of the time.

We're depending on the feedback mechanism here working correctly. If it doesn't, we are rewarding unproductive behaviours.

davmar · 3 years ago

evidence: amazon.com

davmar commented on Apple Car: Bad Idea After All mondaynote.com/apple-car-... · Posted by u/spking

boxed · 3 years ago

Besides them inventing the modern smart phone and revolutionizing an industry?

What did the romans ever do for US? :P

davmar · 3 years ago

brought peace?

davmar commented on Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/JPLeRouzic

jhugo · 4 years ago

The average person in most of those countries drinks tap water, either boiled or filtered to varying levels of efficiency.

In addition, fish are often caught in surface water, livestock may drink it, etc.

davmar · 4 years ago

dude, you're right, my mistake. i was thinking of how i travel through those places.

davmar commented on Review of 17α-ethynylestradiol in water across 32 countries: Estrogenic effects pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3... · Posted by u/JPLeRouzic

marricks · 4 years ago

I'm concerned this is making numbers here because of fear mongers so I want to run the numbers a bit to

> The top 10 countries ranked in the order of high to low average EE2 concentration in surface water, were Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Laos, Brazil, Argentina, Kuwait, Thailand, Indonesia and Portugal, with the respective mean concentrations of 27.7, 22.1, 21.5, 21.1, 13.6, 9.6, 9.5, 8.8, 7.6 and 6.6 ng/L

Going by Wikipedia, lets see what a does is... "Doses of more than 50 µg EE are considered high-dose, doses of 30 and 35 µg EE are considered low-dose, and doses of 10 to 25 µg EE are considered very low dose"[1] More specifically for transfem use of 2mg orally is considered a low dose[2]

Let's consider that the average person drinks 4 liters of water a day. In Vietnam that's 0.11µg a day, or 1/100th of a normal dose for an estradiol treatment for birth control and 1/20th rate of a "low dose" for MTF transfem usage in the most polluted country.

Do I think this pollutant is fine and not a concern? No. It has other side effects and it's probably not great to have all the compounds we give to livestock running off into our drinking water.

I bring this up because of the right wing fear of the "feminization of men." Vietnam you could get 1/20th a low dose of EE2 a day and whatever you're getting elsewhere less. Where the right wing ideology on this is strongest (US perhaps?) people would be getting a lower dose than even listed in the abstract, so 1/80th or less a day.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethinylestradiol

[2] https://transfemscience.org/articles/e2-equivalent-doses/

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EDIT: a different comment actually posted a chart showing the level of exposure in the US, which is LESS than 1ng. So less than 1/200th of a low dose. Calm down folks, or at least find something different to be afraid of.

davmar · 4 years ago

> The top 10 countries ... were Vietnam, Cambodia, China, Laos, Brazil, Argentina, Kuwait, Thailand, Indonesia and Portugal...

in many of those countries people drink bottled or purified (not surface) water.