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  • Aside from the game community, where developers tend to be a bit more public, you might have some issue simply from the fact most developers are kind of reserved with posting who they actually are.

    I wouldn’t be surprised if tonnes of software you use has trans folk in the dev pipeline maintaining it, but you’d never know cuz their github pfp is just a picture of an anime waifu with a link to their contact info and thats about it.

    Considering how many lgbtq+ folks tend to post on dev focused discord channels (the main c# channel literally has a perma rainbow on it), and on their discord profile they will be more open about who they are, it stands to reason tonnes of projects probably have lgbtq+ folks involved.

    Like I’m pretty sure if I open the chat history of any of my mainstream dev discords right now and flip through the m9st recent 20 posters in the main chats, I’d find someone openly trans in their profile within 30 secs lol

    I’ve never seen any sort of aggregate repo of “Here’s projects you can support!” Anywhere though.

    On one hand, that sounds like a cool idea in a perfect world.

    On the other, a part of me worries about how much certain people could abuse that and weaponize it though :c

    Like I could, unfortunately, 100% see a threat actor leverage it as “Here’s a whole target list of projects/maintainers to try and harass/doxx, script kiddies!”

    Which sucks.



  • If any vote ever fails in our government, it triggers an instant re-election. It’s called the Vote of Non Confidence

    It’s probably one of the most key parts of why our government is a little bit more resistant to clown-showing, because even a small crack in the parliament triggers a new election.

    So bills can only be tabled if the gov is 100% confident it will have the votes.

    Which means the conservatives could table a bill if they knew the NDP + Bloc would side with them on it, as then they have the votes to pass it.

    But since it’s the NDP, a very progressive party, it means they actually hold that fine balance of mediating power between liberals and conservatives.

    It’s pretty solid actually, and makes it so everyone the entire term could pass a reasonable bill.

    Pretty sure this last term the conservatives and liberals did agree on some stuff and some bills passed with both approving it, iirc.

    I think forcing them to occasionally work together like that helps temper the fascism lol.








  • They do, that’s called a Recurrant model.

    And Recurrance is critical for a model to have “memory” of past inputs.

    It was one of the key advancements awhile back in data processing for predictive systems, IE speech recognition.

    Recurrence is pretty standard now in most neural networks, linear networks are your most basic ones that are mostly just used to demonstrate the basic 101 concepts of ML, they don’t have a tonne of practical IRL uses aside from some forms of very basic image processing and stuff like that. Filter functions and etc.



  • While these are 14 year old models, it’d be really cool if companies at least got in the habit of designation at least one device as being LTS

    That way consumers can choose if they want latest and greatest (but with a limited lifespan) or an LTS model that will last forever (but maybe has less fancy features and is much simpler, but functional)

    If Google put out a Nest LTS that was lower MSRP, had very little features, and was very minimalist, but had a 30 year LTS gaurentee, I’d buy it.