DaPorkchop_

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hi :)

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Sync was a fantastic Reddit client (I started using it back in 2016), then during the API debacle the dev turned it into a Lemmy app and frankly it was the best on the market by a wide margin. But then he just vanished, and various things have gradually stopped working as it's not keeping up with the latest Lemmy updates. When upvotes stopped working a few months ago, I bit the bullet and have now moved to Summit, which has the closest user experience to Sync of all the Lemmy apps I've found (although it doesn't have anywhere close to the same level of polish as Sync did).

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Yeah, same here (a bit over 3 months in my case). I don't really feel strongly either way about my new (very small) boobs, but still have yet to notice any kind of mental/emotional changes. I've seen a few people online say it took as long as like 9 months before they noticed anything mentally, so I guess some patience is in order.

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This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I find modern C++ with templates and constexpr to be quite fun, mainly from the perspective of trying to do as much at compile-time as possible. Most of the resulting code is nearly incomprehensible and never gets used for anything outside of a godbolt demo, but trying to do complex tasks within the limited and unintuitive world of compile-time evaluation is something I've never really been able to find in any other language.

i don't want to hear about rust, const generics are almost useless and you know it, specialization isn't really a thing and nothing like variadic templates exists yet

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Rust has a lot of cool ideas (I love the borrow checker), but in its current state I don't think it can replace C++ for the things I'd be interested in using it for. 99% of the time when I reach for a natively compiled language it's because I need to do some performance-critical loop I can't reasonably implement in the language my business logic is written in (normally Java), and I end up in a situation where most of Rust's advantages (and C++'s footguns) aren't really relevant (lifetimes don't matter if I'm just writing some SIMD code which reads/writes into externally allocated memory segments). So for my purposes, Rust is mostly just a worse version of C++ in that it's missing a bunch of features I want (my main gripes already listed above) and has a bunch of cool features that I don't care about.

If I were writing an entire program from scratch I'd probably opt for Rust over C++, at least for the bulk of the business logic, but I don't think Rust has quite achieved its ideal of "zero-cost abstraction" for many performance-critical use cases, and certainly not most of the ones I actually have.

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up with trans

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I had a classmate named Yannis back in the day. He had two brothers, named Jonas and Juan. Sometimes I wonder what his parents were smoking.

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is that applicable if there was originally no hyphen?

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My daily driver is a PowerEdge T620 with 48 Ivy Bridge cores (2x E5-2969 v2) and 384 GiB of DDR3-1333. It's a bit of a power hog yes, but it's still cheaper than upgrading to a more modern system with at least that much DDR4/5, and the only things where performance has been an obstacle has been a few more recent games (most recently Clair Obscur, which was bottlenecked by my GPU with the CPUs at pretty low utilization).

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Fair enough, it seems I overlooked the parenthesis in your original comment.

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me too girlie :3

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Nah, my dad will jump at any opportunity to talk about how bad and corrupt the Republican party is, but still votes for them every election because he agrees with pretty much everything they've ever advocated for except maybe Iraq. He's a Republican because he hates poor people and minorities and "communism", but not out of any sort of team loyalty.

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I beg to differ, a few months ago my site was getting absolutely hammered by GoogleBot with hundreds of requests per second, faster than my server could keep up with - to the point that the entire apache daemon kept locking up.

What should I do with spare DDR3?

A few years ago I mistakenly bought some used ECC DDR3, 256GB (8x32GB) of the stuff for $110. Given the current memory shortage, is it time to dust it off and let someone else put it to use somehow? Or is DDR3 just too old to be worth it? I already have 128GB of DDR4 in my server and don't really need more for myself, but I have ...

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If you had 24 of these I'd be interested in buying, 32GB ECC DDR3 DIMMs are hard to come by and I need more RAM

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AFAIK they still don't support reclocking on anything older than Turing, meaning the GPU is stuck at the lowest clock frequency and therefore runs very slowly.

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As a former Sync user of nearly 10 years, I've moved to Summit now. It's the closest to Sync of all the apps I tried.

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Not sure how meaningful it is to say that Firefox "embeds a web browser", considering that it IS a web browser :P

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every single time I've made hot chocolate this winter i've had this post pop into my head

Saw this ghacks article for speeding up YouTube on FF and seems to help. ( www.ghacks.net )

I have seen folks talk about a pain point for using FF (or forks) being related to YouTube being super slow. The about:config settings the article mentions did seem to lead to YouTube loading faster on both my FF and Zen-Browser installs. So maybe this might help for others that specifically don't like to use FF as their main ...

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AFAIK the webrender compositor is forcibly disabled on Linux regardless of that setting, which you can see in about:support. (Even then, it only works on Wayland)

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I was just about to say this! I've been doing 4mg Ev / 5 days for about a month, got my latest results back just hours ago and it would appear that my trough level is slightly above the recommended mean level of 1100 pmol/L. Definitely going to have to cut back a bit...

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I know this is old, but I remembered this comment today and figured I'd ask since you seem to have some idea what you're doing. How exactly do you prevent medication from leaking out after injection? I'm injecting (or trying to inject) 1ml estradiol valerate, and I've tried leaving the needle in for up to 30s, holding the skin pinched the entire time the needle is inserted, injecting faster or slower, but seemingly every combination I try results in multiple large drops leaking back out within a few seconds of removing the needle. Like, enough that it looks like nearly half of the fluid is coming back out. Is this something you've ever experienced?

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Thanks so much for the reply! I seem to have forgotten about the decimal point, I meant to write 0.1ml (the syringes I use have markings in 10ths of a milliliter, so I just fill it up to the "1" mark and forget what unit I'm working with...). I'm injecting Ev @ 40mg/mL using ½inch, 26 gauge subq insulin needles, and yes I'm doing DIY monotherapy. I've tried releasing the pinch both before and after depressing the plunger, to no avail.

I haven't tried injecting at a 90° angle, I'll give that a try for my next injection tomorrow and see how it goes! (assuming I can find enough fat on my body to do that... I am very underweight)

The Blåhaj DIY community is new to me, I will definitely try asking there if my experiment tomorrow fails. Thanks again!

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Let b denote the average number of boobs per person. It can be shown that 1 < b < 2^1^.

^1^ it is known

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How about "Worterfindungszeitmangel"?

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Enby (from NB, from non-binary) is kind of an umbrella term to refer to anyone who doesn't strictly identify with one of the binary genders (male/female). Agender would certainly fall in that category, as would other identities such as genderfluid, pangender, and many more. There are also plenty of people who don't want and/or care to have a more specific label, and just refer to themselves as non-binary, full stop.

To the best of my understanding, genderqueer is also an umbrella term which means pretty much the same thing as non-binary, but has a somewhat more "radical" nonconformist connotation. There is significant overlap between the two terms and whether someone identifies with one term or the other or both is pretty subjective. Is agender genderqueer? If you identify with both terms, then it is :)

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This reminds me of The Etherkiller

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It not being available to purchase directly from Steam means you have to get it from a 3rd party reseller, or order it to an address in an officially supported country and forward it from there yourself, both of which are generally more expensive than what steam is offering. The cheapest price I can find for a Steam Deck OLED in my country is a solid 20% more expensive than the price Steam lists on their website.

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I'm sure you can also stream to it over a conventional wifi connection as well, the point of the dongle is so that they can guarantee a direct connection with lower latency and on a dedicated radio frequency to avoid interference, which is especially for non-techies who don't know what they're doing and just expect stuff to work out-of-the-box. The headset is just running SteamOS and has a regular wifi antenna, so I see no reason why you couldn't stream to it using plain old Steam Link or whatever if you already know your connection can handle it.

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Apparently this is a well-established channel in China, and they've just recently started translating their backlog of videos to English for YouTube.

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The bill collides into the counter with such force that both immediately disintegrate into a cloud of hot plasma.

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OTOH, I was introduced to a trans girl at an event recently (although I didn't know it at the time, she passed too well), and we chatted a bit. I learned later through a mutual friend that she was disappointed I hadn't clocked her. Make of that what you will, I guess?

Minecraft is removing code obfuscation in Java Edition ( www.minecraft.net )

Minecraft: Java Edition has been obfuscated since its release. This obfuscation meant that people couldn’t see our source code. Instead, everything was scrambled – and those who wanted to mod Java Edition had to try and piece together what every class and function in the code did. ...

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This doesn't really change too much for the modding scene, it just allows the deobfuscation step to be skipped when setting up a dev environment. Mojang has already been providing official deobfuscation mappings for years, and before that we had community-made ones which were already pretty great.

There are already plenty of mods which drastically overhaul how major parts of the game work to get better performance, and there are some projects like Gregtech: New Horizons and CleanroomMC which have pretty much completely torn apart and rebuilt the game on older versions from before official deobfuscation mappings were even available.

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My point is that literally nobody has been looking at obfuscated code for at least 5 years by now. All the toolchains automatically handle de- and reobfuscation transparently to the point that nobody has to think about it anymore unless maybe you are one of the like 3 people who is actually maintaining the classloading stage of a modloader, or if you are manually writing a bytecode transformer (which almost nobody has needed to do for years either, ever since tools like Mixin entered the scene).

For 99.9% of the modding community, and this includes most optimization mods, the only thing that is going to change is everyone deletes a line or two from their build.gradle and continues about their day.

As far as reporting things to Mojang: again, nothing changes here either, everyone who has ever set up a mod dev environment already has a copy of the deobfuscated source code on their computer, which is the only thing they are looking at when inspecting the minecraft source code or making changes to it. There have been reports on the issue tracker with actual suggested code changes basically since the issue tracker became a thing.

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most likely the entire conversation is staged, and they just inserted some random interjections to add "humor". or they're drunk. or maybe both?

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This just made me do a quick search and now I have learned that the Godbolt compiler explorer isn't just some cool name, but actually the last name of the guy who made it (Matt Godbolt)

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The number of times I've spent hours trying to figure out some obscure issue only to stumble upon a multiple-years-old stackoverflow post of myself asking the same question isn't that high, but definitely higher than I'd like to admit.

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I did estrogen monotherapy for about 2 months earlier this year. Quite frankly, the only changes I noticed was an immediate and significant increase in nipple sensitivity+size, and a reduction of nighttime erections. Other than that I didn't notice any of the early changes which I had been lead to expect within the first few weeks: no emotional differences, no reduction in skin oiliness, no changes in body temperature, etc.

For what it's worth, I was taking 1.4ml/week of 40% estradiol enanthate without any antiandrogens, am in my early 20s and have a very low body mass.

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Re-reading your original question, it should have been pretty obvious in retrospect that I am not really in the target audience. welp, my bad :P

I didn't get any blood work done unfortunately, since my doctor's office refuses to do it without a specific request from my GP (and the whole reason I wanted to do a trial run DIY was because I can't realistically do this kind of stuff the legit way at the moment), so I just went with a dose a bit higher than the dosages I'd seen recommended online for "most" people and figured it was unlikely that that wouldn't be enough. Since I saw nipple changes almost immediately I assumed that it was doing the trick, but the expected other effects just never came and I stopped when my nipples had become large enough that I was about to start needing a bra to stop them visibly poking through my shirt.

I didn't really consider that the longer half-life was super relevant to the "startup delay", most resources I found online seemed to show it nearly reaching the steady state level after only one or two doses. If that was actually the problem that's a pretty big derp on my part, but I'm already planning to give it another shot once I'm not living at home.

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I want to give you a belated "thank you" for writing this up! I had kinda been feeling like I'd reached a dead end with my whole gender exploration adventure, but you have not only inspired me to do a second (longer) trial run using EV instead of EEn (which I have just started), but I'm also gonna go to a local meetup for trans/enby/questioning people later this week. Something about your comment here really helped me get out of the rut I was in. Thanks for all your support!!! ❤️

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So, who are these bi goth girls, and where do I find one?

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This didn't age well.