protomyth (u/protomyth)

protomyth commented on Indigenous groups are using 3D technology to preserve ancient practices scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/Thevet

astrange · 3 years ago

I mean they don’t actually “really like” it, not they don’t “actually really” like it.

They are not such enormous fans of the term that you should be going around telling people to use it over other ones. And white people (who think “Indian” is a slur) do go around telling people this.

protomyth · 3 years ago

I question your information as that is so definitely not my life experience.

protomyth commented on Indigenous groups are using 3D technology to preserve ancient practices scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/Thevet

astrange · 3 years ago

They don’t actually really like being called Native American though. That’s kind of a white thing.

There’s a reason Indian tribes are still called Indian tribes in the US and it’s because they’re fine with it. You just treat it as short for indigenous and you’re good.

protomyth · 3 years ago

They don’t actually really like being called Native American though. That’s kind of a white thing.

Well, that's a big lie. I grew up on a reservation, an Indian Service Area, and still work on a reservation. Native American, Indian, American Indian are all used.

indigenous is the not a term originating with any tribe.

protomyth commented on In Praise of Plan 9 drewdevault.com/2022/11/1... · Posted by u/ddevault

Iwan-Zotow · 3 years ago

Hello, Powershell

protomyth · 3 years ago

They do so little with the concept and tooling its easy to forget how Powershell works.

protomyth commented on The world has reached 8B people but soon we'll hit a decline we'll never reverse abc.net.au/news/2022-11-1... · Posted by u/adrian_mrd

rayiner · 3 years ago

Define “women’s independence?” Fertility rates in the US cratered after 2008, but before that even states without many Hispanics like Idaho, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming had above replacement total fertility rates. I know folks on HN think those states might as well be third world countries, but they’re not exactly Gilead.

American women say they want closer to three kids than two kids: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/13/upshot/american-fertility... (average 2.7). Half of women with kids, and even 30% of women overall with a college degree, would prefer a homemaker role to working: https://news.gallup.com/poll/267737/record-high-women-prefer.... These women would probably have more kids if it was easier to have a single income household.

I suspect “logistics” has more to do with it than “independence.” Our education system and economy, in particular, causes people to spread out and move away from family. Raising kids without family around is much, much more difficult.

There is also the fact that the feminist revolution stalled in this weird place where women have freedom to pursue careers--but only if they can shoehorn themselves into existing roles designed for men. Want to grind through your 20s in Big Tech or Big Finance seeking promotions? Fine. Want to take time off to have kids at an age when it's the lowest risk and you have the most energy for it? Then you're off the career ladder forever! That's not some unavoidable consequence of "women's independence." Our retirement and pension systems are very much designed around the biological reality of men's bodies working strenuous industrial jobs. But our career ladders haven't changed one bit to accommodate the biological realities of motherhood.

protomyth · 3 years ago

Are you intentionally ignoring the large Native American population in some of those states?

[edit: at this point I just assume that folks on HN don't have any concept of the demographics of reservations and how many children are being born. If you mention lack of Hispanic population but don't mention the Native American population then you are skewing the point.]

protomyth commented on In Praise of Plan 9 drewdevault.com/2022/11/1... · Posted by u/ddevault

enqk · 3 years ago

The thing that I find hard to defend is that plan9 turns all internal service / api calls into text based / filed based protocols, with parsing involved. This feels so inefficient and adhoc, and requires more documentation

protomyth · 3 years ago

It does make one wonder what happens if everything is a type instead of a file. Do you get a command line that looks like Mathematica? I too think every program containing a parser is a waste.

protomyth commented on An unconfirmed tweet about Freeport LNG is upending gas markets bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/JumpCrisscross

themitigating · 3 years ago

It's currently 71f 22c at 19:00 where I live in NY.

Historical average for the day is 56f 13c and the high is 74f so only a few degrees off

protomyth · 3 years ago

We in ND just got our first winter storm and it was bad enough to cancel work. We are not exactly apt to cancel because of snow. I get the feeling this is not going to an easy year on the heating budget.

protomyth commented on Sublime Text 4 Build 4142 sublimetext.com/blog/arti... · Posted by u/joeyespo

twarge · 3 years ago

On macOS, how is sublime text better than Nova and perhaps Textmate?

protomyth · 3 years ago

Last I checked, Nova doesn't do keyboard macros and I do a lot of text munging and need them because I refuse to type the same sequence multiple times.

protomyth commented on Sublime Text 4 Build 4142 sublimetext.com/blog/arti... · Posted by u/joeyespo

jrochkind1 · 3 years ago

What do you like about it better than VS Code?

protomyth · 3 years ago

Built in keyboard macros that don't suck. Speed too.

protomyth commented on Why are clinical trials so expensive? Tales from the beast’s belly milkyeggs.com/?p=136... · Posted by u/wawayanda

funklute · 3 years ago

> Everyone knew

If that was truly the case, then - as the parent hinted - it was the trial design that was the problem, and not the practice of having control groups.

It is pretty common to stop trials early when it is obvious that the treatment works. Conversely, it is easy to think that "yea of course the new treatment works" despite the evidence not being there. The need for robust analysis must also be respected.

protomyth · 3 years ago

It was my understanding that every study has a control group getting the standard care. I didn't see a study without such a control group.