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Apparently unpopular opinion: throw/catch mechanisms should be used for actual errors and not, for instance, as control flow in parsing.

Because it's a pain in the ass when I set a breakpoint on errors and I get a break every time the parser is figuring out if this is a number, string, array, or object.

Copperfield's has a whole section for Jensen Huang updates...

Advocate: 'Transition regret' is extremely rare, according to study

Researchers evaluated self-reported surveys submitted by the cohort between 2023 and 2025, which concluded that “overall decisional regret was very low.” In fact, 96.8% of participants reported that receiving hormone therapy was the right decision, while only 2.7% reported any regret over the decision, and even fewer (1.9%) reported feeling harmed by their decision.

JAMA Pediatrics: Satisfaction, Regret, and Harm After Hormone Therapy in Youth From a Multidisciplinary Gender Clinic

Findings In this cohort study of 372 participants who received care at a single multidisciplinary clinic, satisfaction with HT was high and regret and harm were rare. Decisional regret was slightly higher among youths not currently receiving HT and those identifying on the nonbinary spectrum, but it remained low in absolute terms.

Isolate, Inebriate, Intimidate, Repeat: High Rates of Sexual Force Against Women Are Reported When Young Men Given Anonymous Surveys Lucia F. O’Sullivan, Scott T. Ronis

Most survey women who were targets of sexual aggression or else survey men who consent to being identified. Using anonymous surveys of 2,689 U.S. and Canadian men (18–34  years), we aimed to assess rates of self-reported sexual aggression, reports of strategy effectiveness at forcing known reluctant women into sex, and men’s views of the circumstances, motivations, and positive and negative outcomes. Men reported occasions where they tried to get a woman to engage in sex that they knew she did not want and to which she had not consented. The women were individuals with whom the men shared no prior romantic or sexual history. Overall, 95.1% reported having recently used at least one of the strategies to get a woman to have sex who they knew did not want sex and had not consented.

[Emphasis mine]

Via Qasim Rashid: Russell Brand, Rape, And “Not All Men” by way of Irene Zhang.

Lyra's Epic Blog: How I accidentally became a millionaire. Fun and games with a combination of issues in Google's bug reporting system, AI generated community notes on Twitter, and AI overviews.

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