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Cake day: June 13th, 2023

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  • And in some cases even earlier. IIRC there was a study a few years back about how there’s a very visible tendency of the average age of puberty has dropped significantly in the past 100 years - specifically, measured in average age of first menstruation, which was as high as 16-17 in the mid-1800s, dropped to around 14.5-15 by 1920, and further dropped to around 12 by the 1980s, and latest data, based on the UK NHS reports from 2010, now put the average at 10.5.

    Now, I won’t get into conspiracy theory regions as to WHY it’s happening (to my knowledge none of the theories, let them be based on reality or conspiracies, have been actually confirmed to a level where the scientific community is comfortable pointing fingers), but it is happening.

    And a very interesting aspect of this is the legal framework. The age of majority - which is often tied to the age of consent, as well as the age of full bodily autonomy (sans edge cases where the person doesn’t have the mental capacity to make autonomous decisions) - has stayed relatively static at 18 for the past ~200 years, while the closest related biological event, puberty et al, in ~160 years has dropped over 1/3, or nearly 6 years… Basically, 160 years ago you entered puberty, and a year or two later you were considered an adult, able to make life altering decisions. Today, you go through puberty, and might still need to wait 5-6 years to be an adult…

    Now don’t get me wrong, put the pitchforks down, I’m not one of those weirdos who wants to lower the age of consent. I’m just pointing out that biology has changed over the course of some 8 generations or even less, and our legal code regarding a lot of things affected by puberty has stayed rigid.

    And that just doesn’t sit well with me. 160 years ago, we considered kids a year or two after hitting puberty to be grownups, even though they would’ve learned maybe 1/10 by that time that today we get taught in the first 4-6 years of school. Yet today, with much more learning about every single topic, including human sexuality et al, we don’t consider these human beings capable of explaining to a specialist that they’re feeling body dysphoria, that they feel more comfortable in a gender role different than the one assigned with their birth sex? It’s not even making a unilateral decision, it’s not “mum I wanna be a girl”, it’s them explaining to a medical professional how they’re not feeling comfortable in their own bodies!

    This just further reinforces my belief that the current approach to politics - which dictates regulations like trans people accessing appropriate care at the right ages - simply doesn’t work. We keep electing old farts whom are simply detached from reality, having them debate topics they don’t understand, ignore their constituents.


  • Is that a Jetson SOM?

    Edit: yes, it indeed is either an Orin or Xavier NX SoM, sold for fairly affordable prices on many Chinese platforms (e.g. AliExpress).

    It’s an AI compute module, delivering pretty okay performance (30-70 TOPS if Xavier, up to 275TOPS if Orin) at low power, usually used for edge AI, and visual tasks (they’re a pretty solid choice if you want automatic object and person recognition on 6-8 FullHD camera feeds).



  • It actually makes sense. You wouldn’t expose the most secret military base to the internet directly. The SGC systems must have been airgapped, especially in the early years.

    How do you research then? You put in a request, a secure, internet connected terminal is used to grab that data, copied to hard storage, scanned for malicious code, then transferred to the SGC computers.

    Pre-Web2.0 this wasn’t an issue as sites simply returned static data. There were even projects that offered to crawl an entire website and save every page, every linked path, for offline browsing.








  • I regularly see Facebook posts with literal calls for murder, that, after lengthy “reviews”, are found to be “not against the community standards”. Things like “we should really kill all the towelheads, they have no place in America”…

    Meanwhile, a few weeks back I had to fight a 30 day suspension for a comment that said “[insert name here] no, Hitler was wrong, his rhetoric was hateful, and the very first targets of the Nazi party were the socialists and workers unions. Look up the Night of Long Knives.”, because apparently stating historical facts, not calls to violence, IS against the community standards.


  • A docker container’s IP usage heavily (entirely) depends on how the container’s networking is defined by the host machine. And in an overwhelming amount of cases, that host networking will be a “here’s a device-local subnet your containers can join to”, so no, a Docker container won’t by default “get it’s own IP address” (colloquially, “its own IP address” would refer to a device getting a LAN-local address assigned to it from the local gateway/DHCP server), at least not one other devices on the network can access.

    Also claiming that “nothing else will use port 80” is a gross over-simplification.

    The move to port 80/443 on HAOS makes sense as it simplifies setup for total beginners.


  • You know wrong.

    Even in the early days (97-01), they’ve used venture funding (approx $80mil) for the DVD mailing business.

    And the reason they didn’t really go the VC funding way later is because they had an IPO in 2002, which meant instead of relying on VC funds, they took on massive amounts of debt to allow the takeoff of streaming.