The earlier you learn multiple languages the easier it will be in the future to pick up new ones.
Python and Matlab have long shoved out the remnants of HyperCard, AppleScript and Commadore 64 programming that I learned long ago. But picking up Python took all of a few weeks on Code Academy learning the syntax.
And I learned a lot of lessons back then. Like a simple syntax error doesn't mean give up and stop. Way too many of my peers hit a small roadblock and throw their hands up.
The point instead is that lots of women face daily or weekly put-downs due to misogyny.
No, they face those because some people are dicks. When I cut my hair short I couldn't claim 'misogyny' when some unfiltered co-worker pointed out my window's peak, "Looks like balding runs in your family" or when a peer grabs an extra doughnut and someone goes 'Really need that extra one?'.
I'm not picketing the grocery store's misandry because some old ladies don't think I could be the one shopping with my son.
"Where's your mother at?". She's at work grandma.
"Baby sitting today?": No. I'm his father. It's parenting.
"Wow, cooking for your wife?" Yeah. Like I normally do. As we split household tasks depending on who is home and who is working.
"How can you let your wife go back to work so soon after birth?" She's the one that picked up shifts because she likes to work.
When individual A and individual B interact and there is a negative outcome, for the most part, the outcome is limited to something internal to A & B. From all of my experiences in the engineering industry and from reading this junk online it usually boils down to one of the individuals is an asshole and the other needs thicker skin.
Did it say anything about women being inferior to men and that they should stay in the kitchen?
My wife (MD) and I (Engineer) have been discussing the memo off and on since it came out.
And this is the straw(wo)man that they keep building.
Within a paragraph Sheryl Sandberg showed that she didn't even grok the memo:
They prefer working with people (and animals) rather than objects or abstract concepts.
One approach is to blame the culture, which Google and other prominent tech companies may be doing. Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, lays out this view: “Inequality in tech isn’t due to gender differences. It’s due to cultural stereotypes that persist. We all need to do more.” So managers should have everyone go through diversity training, especially the men. After all, women have grown to be roughly half of doctors and lawyers and other professions, so it should be possible to change culture stereotypes in tech as well.
Doctors and lawyers work with people?! You don't say. In the office yesterday I interacted, in person, with a cumulative total of 4 people. I have my work tasks. They have theirs. Yeah we might have a monthly group meeting/lunch. And occasionally there will be a bigger meeting but I'm not being paid to interact with people. I'm being paid to interact with hardware (objects) and abstracting them into software representations.
Has there been any evidence of them shutting down a drug market where the admin didn't make an amateur mistake? Using your old hotmail account to setup a site, trying to use you service to have someone killed, etc.
Now we can't mock the posts, debate the facts, or keep tabs on the threat.
Is your darkwebs broken? You can do it just as you could before. With less threat of them blowing back. Hell you could probably script up an ipsum generator to fill their forums with noise.
Additionally it's going to filter out their core base: Uneducated rural white Americans.
Tor is already slow enough. I haven't even tried it on dialup yet (which some of my surrounding townships & counties are still on). I also don't know how it handles the latency of WISP or satellite (which is the only solution for some wanting faster than dialup).
While I consider it trivially easy to get on. We're talking about people that type 'google' into bing.com because that's where the Internet button takes them.
Rebrand TorBrowser as MeinBrowser. Claim to remove all code submitted by 'inferiors'.
Claim to need bitcoin to keep running.
Add the tiniest of backdoors.
Let it gain momentum.
Release all personal details. I would not be shocked at all if there were a considerable amount of law enforcement and politicians in certain areas visiting these sites.
But we already have decentralized namespaces on networks like Tor, which offer more features than just name resolution.
I have no idea why they haven't migrated to Tor already. The Dark Markets work on there just fine. Getting started these days is *much* easier than it used to be. You just get an all in one bundled Tor Browser, double click and enter your destination.
Heil, the Stormfronters could even bundle up their own browser. Set their forums as the home page and hand it out via sneaker net at rallies. It takes 10 minutes to setup a tor site. Longer if you want to generate your own special domain name.
The 'shocking' thing about StormFront is how well spoken, researched and literate most of them are. They actually get their/there/they're correct more than your average site's users.
Also nutty woods preppers have some great cast iron recipes.
Yeah, like global warming. Doesn't the one side say that "correlation is just that, it never implies causation without a thorough understanding of the mechanisms".
Either you believe in scientific studies or you don't. Science isn't the Bible where you can pick and choose the studies to fit your narrative.
I mean why does pre-natal exposure to it cause this correlation later in life on this particular test?
Biological processes are pretty much magic. Most drugs are just guess and check. Even the people that develop them aren't sure exactly how they work sometimes.
How does pre-natal exposure to testosterone cause a big flap of skin to flip itself out and become the penis, the ovaries to drop and become testes? I'm just an engineer so 'magic' is a pretty good explanation.
Even if you want to nit pick each individual study there is clearly a trend that pre-natal exposure to testosterone has some affect on brain development.
It even manifests itself sexually: Lesbians have a lower digit ratio, on average, than heterosexual women[117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127][128] (clearly someone likes studying lesbians) & Sexual preference for more masculine men among women[117] and gay men[131] with high digit ratio; a preference for a masculine facial type means a more "feminized" mindset.
One of the personality traits I've noticed in the older women in engineering and women that have taken non-typical life choices (Women in my life that were involved in interracial marriages before the 80s) is a an ability to tell someone to go fuck themselves if they don't like something. Based on the studies that seems to be a personality trait linked with testosterone exposure.
Of course one could complain that there's no way in hell that a proper scientific study to examine those hypothesis will get funded/published because it's just such a taboo subject. However lacking such a study, it's not appropriate to lean into a convenient hypothesis supporting your personal world view.
There absolutely is. You just have to reword it. You need to look at 2D:4D (Index to Ring Finger Ratio). The ratio is a physical attribute that has been linked to testosterone exposure in the womb.
Three studies (N = 73,75,65) identified a consistent negative correlation between 2D:4D digit ratio and attainment (r 0.2). A fourth study (N = 119) found that 2D:4D digit ratio positively correlated with two indices of computer-related anxieties, as well as anxiety sensitivity (r = 0.32/0.51). These results suggest that males and females who have been exposed to higher levels of testosterone within the womb perform better upon academic assessments of Java-related programming ability within computer science education, and have lower levels of computer-related anxieties outside computer science education. Thus, the 2D:4D index of prenatal testosterone exposure correlated with the two factors that directly impact upon ICT engagement, which is increasingly essential to effectively participate within educational and occupational environments.
Specifically in the area of Cognition and personality low digit ratio has been linked to:
Assertiveness in females[9]
Psychoticism in females[81]
Aggression in males[17][82][83][84][85]
aggression in girls[86]
hyperactivity and poor social cognitive function in girls[87]
Masculinized handwriting in females[88]
Perceived 'dominance' and masculinity of man's face[89][90]
In an orchestral context, rank and musical ability in males[91]
Right hand low digit ratio predicts academic performance[92]
Mathematical ability[93]
Decreased mathematical ability[94]
Decreased empathy in response to adult testosterone levels[67]
higher propensity to attack without being provoked[95]
increased risk-taking behavior in men[96]
preference for normative behavior[97]
mean 2D:4D ratio among artists is lower than among controls[98]
higher numeracy (compared to literacy) in children[99]
higher criminal offending rates after puberty[100][101]
attenuated socio-affective skills[102]
And high digit ratio:
Personality traits correlated with digit ratio, higher being more feminized[103][104][105]
greater Openness personality factor[106]
Paranormal and superstitious beliefs among men with a higher digit ratio[107]
Higher exam scores among male students[34][108]
Higher neuroticism in both sexes with higher right hand digit ratio[109] and on left hand in females[81]
Higher left hand digit ratio in response to high adult testosterone levels predicts musical orchestra rank in females.[110]
Higher verbal fluency in both sexes.[52]
Higher visual recall in females.[111]
Higher literacy (compared to numeracy) in children[99]
None of those studies explicitly call out the results as based on gender, however the driving biological cause is testosterone exposure during development.
It has been suggested by some scientists that the ratio of two digits in particular, the 2nd (index finger) and 4th (ring finger), is affected by exposure to androgens, e.g., testosterone while in the uterus and that this 2D:4D ratio can be consider
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The earlier you learn multiple languages the easier it will be in the future to pick up new ones.
Python and Matlab have long shoved out the remnants of HyperCard, AppleScript and Commadore 64 programming that I learned long ago. But picking up Python took all of a few weeks on Code Academy learning the syntax.
And I learned a lot of lessons back then. Like a simple syntax error doesn't mean give up and stop. Way too many of my peers hit a small roadblock and throw their hands up.
I learned to program on HyperCard by making animations in 4th grade. There was zero math involved in my end.
I did learn to recognize patterns that became helpful later on. But you can most certainly introduce programming long before any formal math.
The one I just did was nothing but .xml and .png files.
Change the extension to .zip.
Unzip.
How much more open do you want?
The point instead is that lots of women face daily or weekly put-downs due to misogyny.
No, they face those because some people are dicks. When I cut my hair short I couldn't claim 'misogyny' when some unfiltered co-worker pointed out my window's peak, "Looks like balding runs in your family" or when a peer grabs an extra doughnut and someone goes 'Really need that extra one?'.
I'm not picketing the grocery store's misandry because some old ladies don't think I could be the one shopping with my son.
"Where's your mother at?". She's at work grandma.
"Baby sitting today?": No. I'm his father. It's parenting.
"Wow, cooking for your wife?" Yeah. Like I normally do. As we split household tasks depending on who is home and who is working.
"How can you let your wife go back to work so soon after birth?" She's the one that picked up shifts because she likes to work.
When individual A and individual B interact and there is a negative outcome, for the most part, the outcome is limited to something internal to A & B. From all of my experiences in the engineering industry and from reading this junk online it usually boils down to one of the individuals is an asshole and the other needs thicker skin.
Did it say anything about women being inferior to men and that they should stay in the kitchen?
My wife (MD) and I (Engineer) have been discussing the memo off and on since it came out.
And this is the straw(wo)man that they keep building.
Within a paragraph Sheryl Sandberg showed that she didn't even grok the memo:
They prefer working with people (and animals) rather than objects or abstract concepts.
One approach is to blame the culture, which Google and other prominent tech companies may be doing. Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, lays out this view: “Inequality in tech isn’t due to gender differences. It’s due to cultural stereotypes that persist. We all need to do more.” So managers should have everyone go through diversity training, especially the men. After all, women have grown to be roughly half of doctors and lawyers and other professions, so it should be possible to change culture stereotypes in tech as well.
Doctors and lawyers work with people?! You don't say. In the office yesterday I interacted, in person, with a cumulative total of 4 people. I have my work tasks. They have theirs. Yeah we might have a monthly group meeting/lunch. And occasionally there will be a bigger meeting but I'm not being paid to interact with people. I'm being paid to interact with hardware (objects) and abstracting them into software representations.
Has there been any evidence of them shutting down a drug market where the admin didn't make an amateur mistake? Using your old hotmail account to setup a site, trying to use you service to have someone killed, etc.
Now we can't mock the posts, debate the facts, or keep tabs on the threat.
Is your darkwebs broken? You can do it just as you could before. With less threat of them blowing back. Hell you could probably script up an ipsum generator to fill their forums with noise.
Additionally it's going to filter out their core base: Uneducated rural white Americans.
After suggesting this very thing yesterday: I was thinking though how to be subversive about this.
Freedom of speech implies that you're allowed a voice. In the Internet era, that means web hosts.
You can have an onion site up and running in under an hour starting from scratch.
When have the initial versions of a product not been hard to produce, expensive and limited?
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"
It takes a few brain cells and an apt-get install to get an IRC server up and running.
Or just use one of the dozens already out there.
But we already have decentralized namespaces on networks like Tor, which offer more features than just name resolution.
I have no idea why they haven't migrated to Tor already. The Dark Markets work on there just fine. Getting started these days is *much* easier than it used to be. You just get an all in one bundled Tor Browser, double click and enter your destination.
Heil, the Stormfronters could even bundle up their own browser. Set their forums as the home page and hand it out via sneaker net at rallies. It takes 10 minutes to setup a tor site. Longer if you want to generate your own special domain name.
Can we *please* get another Fucked Company setup and running.
There has got to be some gold in the internal e-mails going around some of these startups.
Why should they have to? their code works just fine and is free of bugs.
How good does Firefox 1.0 render HTML5?
The 'shocking' thing about StormFront is how well spoken, researched and literate most of them are. They actually get their/there/they're correct more than your average site's users.
Also nutty woods preppers have some great cast iron recipes.
Who said anything about being smarter or dumber? The discussion is about desire.
Prenatal exposure to testosterone has been linked to these cognition and personality traits.
Are they all wrong as well?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Coding, however, is a meritocracy.
I started integrating external, standardized code checks with Jenkins. I don't think your code sucks. The linter does. Fix it.
It also means people get immediate feedback about how much their code sucks and when merges come along it's a lot less headache.
And none of our linters have fields for gender, sex or race.
http://www.businessinsider.com...
I'm sure they didn't think of adding a feature that could see a turn signal and let a vehicle in.
Pack it up boys, some Slashdotter just destroyed Tesla's business plan.
Warning to those who would use Treadripper where life or saftey is involved: DON'T.
You're not going to be using an Intel in those situations either. You're going to be using an embedded CPU that meets ISO26262/IEC61508
Yeah, like global warming. Doesn't the one side say that "correlation is just that, it never implies causation without a thorough understanding of the mechanisms".
Either you believe in scientific studies or you don't. Science isn't the Bible where you can pick and choose the studies to fit your narrative.
I mean why does pre-natal exposure to it cause this correlation later in life on this particular test?
Biological processes are pretty much magic. Most drugs are just guess and check. Even the people that develop them aren't sure exactly how they work sometimes.
How does pre-natal exposure to testosterone cause a big flap of skin to flip itself out and become the penis, the ovaries to drop and become testes? I'm just an engineer so 'magic' is a pretty good explanation.
Even if you want to nit pick each individual study there is clearly a trend that pre-natal exposure to testosterone has some affect on brain development.
It even manifests itself sexually: Lesbians have a lower digit ratio, on average, than heterosexual women[117][118][119][120][121][122][123][124][125][126][127][128] (clearly someone likes studying lesbians) & Sexual preference for more masculine men among women[117] and gay men[131] with high digit ratio; a preference for a masculine facial type means a more "feminized" mindset.
One of the personality traits I've noticed in the older women in engineering and women that have taken non-typical life choices (Women in my life that were involved in interracial marriages before the 80s) is a an ability to tell someone to go fuck themselves if they don't like something. Based on the studies that seems to be a personality trait linked with testosterone exposure.
Of course one could complain that there's no way in hell that a proper scientific study to examine those hypothesis will get funded/published because it's just such a taboo subject. However lacking such a study, it's not appropriate to lean into a convenient hypothesis supporting your personal world view.
There absolutely is. You just have to reword it. You need to look at 2D:4D (Index to Ring Finger Ratio). The ratio is a physical attribute that has been linked to testosterone exposure in the womb.
Take this study: http://opus.bath.ac.uk/21479/
Three studies (N = 73,75,65) identified a consistent negative correlation between 2D:4D digit ratio and attainment (r 0.2). A fourth study (N = 119) found that 2D:4D digit ratio positively correlated with two indices of computer-related anxieties, as well as anxiety sensitivity (r = 0.32/0.51). These results suggest that males and females who have been exposed to higher levels of testosterone within the womb perform better upon academic assessments of Java-related programming ability within computer science education, and have lower levels of computer-related anxieties outside computer science education. Thus, the 2D:4D index of prenatal testosterone exposure correlated with the two factors that directly impact upon ICT engagement, which is increasingly essential to effectively participate within educational and occupational environments.
Wiki has a whole host of other studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Specifically in the area of Cognition and personality low digit ratio has been linked to:
And high digit ratio:
None of those studies explicitly call out the results as based on gender, however the driving biological cause is testosterone exposure during development.
It has been suggested by some scientists that the ratio of two digits in particular, the 2nd (index finger) and 4th (ring finger), is affected by exposure to androgens, e.g., testosterone while in the uterus and that this 2D:4D ratio can be consider
These annoying password rules are what prevent me from just using a hash as my password.
echo -n $SALT+$USERNAME+$URL | sha256sum makes some great long passwords.
Good brute force defense. Easy to remember and could be generated by hand if necessary.
Plus when a site gets hacked or stores passwords plain text my password is useless elsewhere.