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conductr··on Frustrated Ranchers Want People to Quit 'Rescuing' Their Working Guardian Dogs
No need to guess…

> In Faith's case, Wissner said, the neighbor apparently didn't realize the fence line and property line weren't the same

conductr··on Life with Down Syndrome
It’s where I entered. The parent of that is more in tuned with my opinion of addressing it in a positive manner. You introduced the idea of concealing it/never mentioning it on that comment, there’s nothing new you’re saying here and based on other posts you’re just argumentative with everything so I’m done here.
conductr··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
The MakerMade CNC machine is pretty interesting concept
conductr··on Life with Down Syndrome
> Gabe clearly already knows that he is different; there's absolutely no point in telling him this, other than to hurt him.

That’s from top of thread, and what I’m disagreeing with. My stance is he should be told so he can understand, process, ask questions, be supported, in a safe positive environment.

Never discussing it is the same as ignoring it and he will notice or be told by someone. It might just be some innocent 3 year old on a playground, but he will be told. But you’re letting him deal with that in the moment unprepared if you don’t proactively address it as a parent. All kinds of bad could come from that.

conductr··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
lol. I had much younger siblings too and have memories of pulling out the dust pan and broom if I had to clean after them. Luckily wasn’t my daily job, yikes!
conductr··on Postman silently auto-installs AI plugins and attempts to share all API data
It’s as dead as rock and roll
conductr··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
My thoughts while watching the video

Robot picks up clothes -> this is stupid

Robot picks up kids toys -> this is brilliant

In reality though, I think the cables will never work in a household situation. It's a interesting concept and I'm sure it was fun to build :) Makes me wonder what commercial application this would work for, I'm sure there's something out there that would benefit from this over waiting on humanoid tech

conductr··on Is PHP Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It
There has to be some code in the view but I tend to just like to do pass it in a 'print ready' format so there's nothing really going on in the view except the presentation part. An if statement is often an indicator I'm doing too much in the view. Not always ofc, sometimes it makes sense to see if the count is 1 or >1 so you can plural a word, stuff like that is OK in the view. These are just my personal heuristics of course
conductr··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
In texas I feel like more than half the Juniors I've met are latin
conductr··on Life with Down Syndrome
That was a singular event in the article. The article goes on to say how he sees and feels his difference everywhere. He notices in most places, everyone else is the same and he is different. I did not make the interpretation that he only notices this because once someone told him he was different. I interpret that he would have noticed this whether someone said it or not. This is why I personally would address it versus pretend it doesn't exist. From a young age, I would have presumed there is no scenario where he could live a life ignorant of his difference.

To be clear, I'm saying it can't be ignored as a parent. Gabe can ignore it, but that usually requires some proper preparation and understanding of how to deal with the emotions it may generate when someone says it. Hence the parenting part.

conductr··on Life with Down Syndrome
I didn't read it that way. The subject seems to feel overwhelming grief/dispare for being different and notices it everywhere he goes. What good is there in ignoring it? I'd address it. Own it. It seems that the subject generally has had a supportive family/community and has not had much adversity other than just feeling stuck in his life.
conductr··on Life with Down Syndrome
I look at it through my parenting lens. You can’t just ignore it. You have to prepare them for a harsh world where they will constantly hear it, feel it, and possibly worse. I’d feel my role would be to fully acknowledge it, overly embrace it, almost to a theatrical level. This would be privately in the home and while they’re young but the idea is to make them understand their difference has lots of benefits/positives to it. It’s kind of a super power. So they have a positive self image and relationship with their difference before they have to deal with the external stuff. Then, of course, they’ll still get upset when a name caller or bully confronts them but you can lean on the foundation of this is just who you are and who you are is awesome. It still hurts ofc but that’s inevitable in this world, how you respond is controllable. Someone simply vocalizing a fact shouldn’t ruin their day if they’ve been properly “coached” to have the fortitude.
conductr··on Life with Down Syndrome
“We’re different, we’re the same” is a sesame street illustrated book that would clear things up quickly. Helped us explain the concept to our then 3 year old. Reinforcing the idea of celebrating the differences, we all have them, and not judging anyone else for theirs.
conductr··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Or 3 James was confusing so they probably had a James, a Jim, a JT. No attempt to obscure just trying to yell at a specific person when the trash needs to be taken out.

I know a lot of people that just go by their middle names in this scenario. Even my brother was named like this and the intent from the beginning was he’d go by his middle name.

I think maximum pompousness goes to those that make sure you know they’re a third or fourth. If I meet you at a cocktail party and will never meet you again, don’t introduce yourself as William H Gates the Third, just say Bill.

conductr··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
There is a small trend of using very old names like this, not necessarily biblical but just old sounding. We know an elementary aged girl named Lydia and I always think the last person I knew by that name was my great-great grandmother.
conductr··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Possibly. I’ve just heard it more with girls and wouldn’t expect it’s evenly common on relative basis but certainly could be wrong
conductr··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
I hadn’t thought about that but makes me wonder if it will become more common since not taking your husbands name has become more common. I wouldn’t think so, but I’m pushing 50 and can’t think of ever meeting a female named after her mom so if it shows up at all in the data that would be interesting.

Funny enough, I think it’s common for the female middle name to be a mom/grandma/aunt name.

conductr··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
Well it’s likely the adoption by the Latinx. I think that demo grows as you move west. In Texas it’s become more common in that demo and the redneck whites. The monied still have it but more commonly go towards super preppy names like Tripp, Shep, Archer, Preston. A common theme I see if you dig deeper is they name one of the boys the mom’s maiden surname. But in general, surnames as first names is very common in this demo. I mostly exist in this demo of WASPs and my wife has I think 4+ cousins named in the mom maiden name format, I didn’t realize it was a bigger thing until we had kids and learned a lot of our friends had also done this (I thought maybe just unique to my wife’s family, but bigger trend). My family wasn’t monied so I wasn’t really exposed to it until adulthood.

Sorry to bring up race but it’s the US and the SES is too highly correlated to ignore these in a data conversation and we all do things slightly differently roughly by race/background, there’s no monoculture in the US

conductr··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
I’d agree the trend is waning if that’s what you’re getting at but I think it is baked into the history of this dataset and is also still significantly more common for boys than girls

Also, IV is really quite rare for boys too. Junior still super common.

conductr··on US boy names that became girl names and vice versa
I have no data but feel that boys tend to get the family names and biblical names (in US anyways). It's rare to hear of a girl named Elizabeth III or Mary Junior but quite common for those concepts in boys. So I think the boy names are heavily weighted on probably the most popular ~25 or so names. Since girl names are more free to follow whatever is fashionable at the time, trends move faster.

My son is named after his grandfather, and it's an overly common name in English (American and British). Definitely a top 3 most common for last several centuries

conductr··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Can, but as a new product it is going to limit their adoption rate by some pretty significant amount.
conductr··on Casio Watches of the 1980s
One of my core memories as a 80s kid was the absurd G Shock tan line I had when I was around 8. I put that thing on and never took it off for probably a year or more. Also it stunk like the inside of a cast but it was like a challenge I put on myself to never take it off. Eventually the wrist band broke and I could never find a replacement (or my mom refused to look?). I carried it around in my pocket for a year or so after as well. Loved that watch lol.
conductr··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
A thing that doesn’t apply to information security
conductr··on Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
I think it’s naive to assume the ad revenue would have came at the same pace naturally. At least not without completely pushing users away and ruining the product (nobody likes ads but YouTube ads aren’t the worst). Google having an ad business was a strategic asset for YouTube as a business
conductr··on Reviewers rarely talk about reliability. Owners bring it up twice as often
Me too. I don’t know how that’s even possible though without bias and whatnot finding a way. Sometimes you find out at the same rate as the manufacturer. Hell, I typed this on my third iPhone 18 in last ~month, after never having a single iPhone hardware issue in almost 2 decades, Not even a dead battery, this version has been awful. First one had weak antenna, second USB port didn’t work, third TBD. The associates I’ve worked with say they’ve never seen a version rollout with so many issues.
conductr··on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
This is pretty normal for manufacturer to retail. Retail is commonly 100% markup from their cost.
conductr··on Is PHP Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It
Ahh. Yeah. Well that sparks a memory of why I quickly went another direction after looking at it back then when I was learning web dev lol. Tbf a lot of people were, probably still are, using PHP and JavaScript way back then too. It just made sense for me to do some MVC style separation long before I found out there was an acronym for it.
conductr··on Is PHP Running on Your ColdFusion Server? How to Check, and Remove It
> it has a fully script-based syntax now

What does this mean? This being a revelation for a web tech solution strikes me as strange. I saw a tiny bit of CF like 25 years ago and perhaps mistakenly thought it did this back then.

conductr··on Brown student maps the hidden global labor powering AI
Same. I wish they would get the perspective of those that are doing this “awful” work. They might be completely happy doing a desk job for a decent local wage. Instead they explain the work as horrible and place pity on those forced to do the job. We don’t have enough perspective to know if those people feel like they’re being taken advantage of.

On a similar note; I worked for a pathologist when I was in college. I saw and handled all types of body parts. I helped in the morgue. When I talked to people about it they felt bad for me. I loved it and made twice as much money as anyone else I knew working in college. It was a great deal. You quickly become desensitized to the parts people think are awful. Most people in healthcare that see crazy stuff can attest to this.

conductr··on Dolly Parton's Imagination Library
Probably. I don't have any special knowledge of how it's handled. But, one thing that I know is frequently taking place in similar industries, and I imagine would be taking place here, is they slap a different binding on the books. So they get a set of retail ready, SKU/UPC/MSRP included prints, and they get the ones for the program out of the same print run. Of course, the books are often not new releases so "initial" may not be true - but they get to batch them and maximize volume at the time of print. There's other programs like this out there, my son get's a box of books shipped to him monthly from some subscription his grandparents signed up for, they're almost certainly negotiating pricing based on volume and the printer and publisher are likely using it to their advantage as well (trying to print as much at once as possible).
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