I disagree. A keyboard enforces a clarity and precision of information that does not naturally arise from our internal thought processes. I'm sure many people here have thought they understood something until they tried to write it down in precise language. It's the same sort of reason we use a rigid symbolic language for mathematics and programming rather than natural language with all its inherent ambiguities.
Bitwig user here - it's developed by former Ableton developers and the sandboxing system they use for plug-ins makes it rock-solid. Even when a plug-in does crash (which is rare) - it doesn't take the entire DAW with it.
We were surprised, too. Their personality changed to be a lot more aggressive and they started compulsively lying, then stealing things from stores, and some strange draw toward self-harm and getting "corrective" surgeries. Previously, this person was typically pleasant, if not a little outspoken at times.
There is suspicion that they had a pre-existing mental health issue they were hiding, and the very fast changes that happened in their body triggered it to either manifest or get worse. We are left guessing because they refuse to see any doctors that won't just write prescriptions for meds or minor elective surgeries, now.
These days, more and more evidence is piling up about the gut-brain connection, but no conclusions are being drawn quite yet. Though, from my own experience, it is not difficult to convince me that one certainly impacts the other.
Given that the treatments are meant to address gender dysphoria which is unhappiness caused by a sense of misalignment with one's sexual characteristics I struggle to think of a better measure of success than long-term happiness.
It's a good measure of success, but if we applied the same standard consistently, then all kinds of treatments for all kinds of partially psychological conditions would have to be thrown out.
Also, it's taking a particular position to characterise gender dysphoria as merely a subjective feeling of unhappiness. I do not have any fixed position on what exactly gender dysphoria is, but I believe many trans people see it as far more than just that.
This is a common misconception about the review. It is true that none of the studies they looked at were double-blinded but they were still included if they were designed and conducted well enough. In a Q&A shortly after the review's release Cass demonstrates that she is well aware that exclusion based on this would be silly.
The amount of myths circulating about the review prompted the publishing of an FAQ page which deals with some of the more egregious examples (e.g. the claim that 98% of studies were rejected).
Is it worth upgrading from 10 to 11 yet? I downgraded back to 10 after I had to change default programs by individual file associations rather than having a 1-click option for default audio player etc.
I switched at the start of 2023 and it’s been fine. It doesn’t seem all that different. It probably took me a week to adjust my muscle memory after configuring things the way I like them. But then I don’t spend all that much time just dealing with Windows. I start Visual Studio, a browser, and a few other applications and that’s where I spend 99% of my time and Windows 10 vs 11 doesn’t really affect that.
But then I like to change things once in a while enjoy learning new things.
The FermatsLibrary page contains a pdf showing a photocopy of the original piece with some annotations at the side. The pdf is just a graphic and does not have highlightable text but the annotations are proper text.
Perhaps you have some minimal view enabled on your browser and are only seeing the annotations, the only "text" on the page.
Exactly! What's funny is that rather than simply failing hard it
silently kinda half-works, presenting me with a mashed-up, incoherent
mess that sort of reads like it might be a legit article, but written
by crazy person.
A good object lesson in an awful idea for web presentation in my
opinion, but amusing nonetheless.
Education is mentioned on the first page in the 6th paragraph.
Upon reading your other comment, it's possible that whatever you are viewing the page on is not rendering the pdf containing the actual text and you are only seeing the annotations.
Dijkstra has more thoughts on this
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...