The sequel with Neil deGrasse Tyson is also really good.

It’s not social media that did it. It’s monopolistic, unregulated, greedy, giant tech corporations that made the internet shitty.

That is, in theory. In practice, it can make a big difference. Source: Worked professionally with large services built in Python and Rust.

This depends on the settings of the other instance. Some instances copy images, others don’t.

What do you think the overlap is in two groups of outliers?

Well, seeing as people with abnormal sex genes may have an advantage in competitive women’s sports, you would actually expect to see a significant amount of that “outlier” group in the group of top athletes, as there is a selection happening. You’re right that if you chose independently at random from people who are top athletes and people who have abnormal sex genes, the overlap would be incredibly small. But sports is not a random selection at all. At the top of sports, even the smallest advantage means the difference between winning and losing, so even small variations (like those caused by abnormal sex genes) may give significant advantages (perhaps even “unfair” advantages).

Sure, but do you think that’s the test they’re doing?

I mean they state right there what kind of test they are doing (but perhaps you didn’t read it or missed that part?):

all athletes over the age of 18 that want to participate in a World Boxing owned or sanctioned competition will need to undergo a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) genetic test to determine their sex at birth and their eligibility to compete.

The PCR test is a laboratory technique used to detect specific genetic material, in this case the SRY gene, that reveals the presence of the Y chromosome, which is an indicator of biological sex. The test can be a be conducted by nasal/mouth swab, saliva or blood.

So they are testing for the presence of the Y chromosome. Not sure if that covers any of the questions you asked there but presumably no. But again, we must draw the line somewhere and “presence of the Y chromosome” doesn’t seem to be an unreasonable way to determine that line - at the very least it sounds like a very unambiguous way to draw the line. But I am not an expert so I won’t speak with any confidence about this.

That’s a nice infographic, but must we not draw a vertical line somewhere on that spectrum to say what is allowed in women’s sport? It seems unreasonable to allow everything on the spectrum as women’s sports would be dominated by people from the male end of the spectrum.

Depends on what communities and instances you frequent I would say. You can find nicely moderated places if you care to look for them.

How is this bullying not moderated? That just seems weird. I’ve always felt Mastodon kinda fails at moderation in this aspect. He should go to Lemmy instead.

This story is already strange and OPs post history contradicts it. Seems fake.

I think it is because Windows has many subsystems, it’s just that you don’t hear about most of them aside from WSL.

So it is referring to the particular Windows Subsystem (of which there are many) that can run or emulate Linux.

No code has been written as of yet, but I am learning to program, from the bottom up, backend to frontend.

I mean… This isn’t inspiring great confidence. Fediverse platforms are by no means simple and neither are all the features you mention. I think you have good ideas, but as a professional software engineer with a masters in computer science who is also working on a fediverse platform… It’s not easy and learning everything from the bottom might be a big bite.

There is nothing pointless about following your passions - in fact I’d say that is the only point of life. It’s the opposite of pointless.

Maybe you need to reframe it as not failure, but progress. See how you get better and closer, not how you didn’t reach the goal. It’s about the journey.

I don’t think it’s immature - I wish more people had that kind of motivation.

But you say you’re entering your 30s. I’d just like to remind you how long time you actually still have. I studied computer science myself and I had multiple friends at the university in their 40s. People do switch up their careers if they want it enough. It is possible.

I love programming and will continue my computer hobbies for life. I will never make a profession out of it

Why do you say that? Is it by choice or do you not see how you could make it a career?

I’m slowly coping with the fact that all my work will ultimately influence very nearly nothing at all…

What kind of impact were you hoping for? I mean lots of jobs have little “influence” - I would actually say almost all jobs. But that doesn’t mean we are not all part of collective progress.

A pi with multiple terabytes of storage?

You are forgetting another option: Develop new projects that interoperate with Lemmy via ActivityPub. Then use and support those projects instead.

I mean if you truly intend to stay in a country for many years, shouldn’t you learn the language? Also just for your own sake.

Denmark seems to fit fairly well and there are some English-only jobs in Copenhagen. I have a lot of colleagues that don’t speak Danish.

Denmark is close I would like to say.