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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • IT guy here, I disagree, typing fast isn’t really useful enough to dedicate focus to.

    I have never formally learned typing fast, I developed my own version of touch typing as I gamed and typed as I grew up.

    I am a decently quick typist when typing normally, but my speed absolutely plummet when I do typing speed tests, I find it increadibly annoying to retype stuff from the screen.

    Typing speed in and of itself is fairly meaningless, once you have gone beyond the hunt-and-peck stage.






  • From a purely technical and legal point of view, the concept of a passport and other legally identifying documents should be able to factually identify the person that they are issued to.

    This means that they should use accurate and current information that is clearly defined from a standard.

    If I were a law enforcement officer in a resonable country, gender at birth is completely irrelevant, the current gender is highly relevant.

    This however depends on what standard if used to define a gender in the paperwork, are they talking physical, so trans people would need surgery to have the paperwork changed, or are we talking about another standard?

    In any way, this is like using the height of a baby at birth to identify the person at 26.

    The medical knowledge exists, gender is no longer permanent, thus data about it can no longer be recorded as an immutable string, as that will introduce problems.



  • Hehe, I was thinking about that as I wrote it…

    Here in Sweden, we normally make fun of Norwegians with stupid jokes, and we have one about a Norwegian guy traveling to the UK with his car.

    He is driving down the motorway in the UK, listening to the radio when he hears this:

    “This is an emergency alert, there is a car driving against the flow of traffic on the A1 just south of Newcastle…”

    The Norwegian blurts out (in Norwegian):

    “One? There are thousands”