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  • A few days ago my sister (and her colleagues) turned a kid’s penis into a vagina. She’s a pediatric urologist, and apparently, quite a lot of girls (as in “with XX chromosomes”) are born with penises in various development stages.

    She has XX chromosomes, but due to hormonal problems during the pregnancy, she was born with a full penis and scrotum, but no testes, and in her body was a full uterus and ovaries, but no vagina.

    She says that nowadays, it’s much more common to not do this kind of operation, and let the kid decide once grown up. But in this case, because it was so developed, they operated it. Of course, it’s not something the surgeons decide. The parents have a counselor help them decide what to do.

    To me this sounds backwards. Especially because it was so developed I would have left it as is. But I guess it’s not an easy choice for the parents. I keep thinking that one day she may become trans and learn they used to have a penis.

    Anyway, this post made me think of that.









  • edinbruh@feddit.itto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Would You Eat This Rule?
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    14 days ago

    I don’t see the issue. Did they not read the ingredients before ordering? The base looks like avocado, and the topping ham and some kind of cream cheese. Sounds like a good combination. The dough looks pretty good too, and they arranged the toppings instead of throwing them over randomly.

    Sure, there is no tomato or mozzarella so you could say it’s more of a focaccia than a pizza if you want to be pedantic, but you ordered that yourself… it’s like ordering pineapple pizza and then complaining they put pineapple on your pizza…

    Edit: some comments say the base looks like pistacchio cream. I think it doesn’t look like that at all, but it does look like there’s some nuts sprinkled over.






  • edinbruh@feddit.itto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•autism rule
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    20 days ago

    All online tests are basically

    Test: from 1 to 5, how much X do you feel?

    You: 4/5

    Test results: You are 75% X

    You: so true

    You can always tell immediately which question confirms your preconceptions, so you can never answer genuinely. It’s all confirmation bias.

    This is all amplified by the fact that if you are taking the test, you already think that you are the thing in the test (in this case, autistic).

    P.S. this includes mbti tests. Don’t let their sciency looks deceive you. It’s all confirmation bias, all fake.



  • I think a “constraint propagation” based solver should work well. So you can try using minizinc and play with the solvers it gives you. Using gecode and heuristics it can get very fast (try using relax_and_reconstruct, together with restart_luby and indomain_random, to obtain a simple LNS. Or you can use Google’s OR tools solver, that is based on ILP and is very fast, and can run multithreaded.

    You can also go fully ILP, and model your problem in ampl, and try some free (e.g. glpk) or commercial (e.g. gurobi) ILP solver.

    I doubt it helps, but there’s always SMT solvers (e.g. cvc5), which I don’t think can be faster but is surely easier to model than a pure SAT. And there’s also ASP solvers like clingo (clasp+gringo), that are purely logic based and implement common-sense-reasoning.