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I've seen some people attempt to make a voice gender recognizer through machine learning, but nothing that has actually worked well. I'm not an ML expert, but I expect they're over…

More or less everything changes. For trans men who are on HRT the voice's lowest pitch will get lower, as it would for someone AMAB going through puberty (since a second puberty is…

I'm trans. The ability to switch mid-sentence is mostly just something I discovered I can do and is fun. But the ability to pass as my real gender is something that helps me feel s…

I'm referring to speaking, not singing. After a _lot_ of work, I can speak passably as a woman or man and switch freely between the two. Depending on context I generally choose jus…

Vocal lessons are both a lot of fun and a lot of work. I haven't been using any voiceprint systems but I know most humans are unable to tell that my trained voice is the same physi…

As a trans woman who started transitioning at 43... I agree 100%. This article mostly discusses waist size, for which I'm in the lower quartile. But after 40 years of testosterone …

Feature request: a "share" button, à la base-26 Wordle.

A few years back I discovered that the third-party licensing files we had used in the '90s would roll over in 2016. The format used four ASCII digits for the number of days in an o…

I have my Ergodox EZ configured so that each layer has a different backlight color, helping me notice if I've inadvertently switched layers. I agree on the pinky column not being s…

DEC WARS is full of great computer jokes. It's a 1983 Usenet posting by Alan Hastings and Steve Tarr: https://www.bsd.org/decwars.html > It is a period of system war. User programs…

Reminds me of CS 314, the musical http://captainchang.com/cs314-musical.html > Think in hex, think in hex > Look around you, who needs dec? > You can do anything in base sixteen or…

I particularly enjoyed _Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity_ by David Foster Wallace. It gave me a new appreciation of not only the last two centuries of math, but a…

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NPR's "The Indicator" podcast has had a couple of good (and short) episodes about inverted yield curves. I think this is the first of them: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/…

I should have mentioned that I run lamson in maildir mode rather than listen on port 25. I have postfix configured to dump incoming email into a maildir, and my lamson process watc…

The primary uses for procmail tend to be running a fixed set of rules to save mail to various directories or route it as input to scripts. My use case needs to save it to a databas…

I use salmon's predecessor (lamson) to process emails for an email-driven helpdesk system. Emails come in through lamson, are processed based on headers, and either attached to the…

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It's a different kind of minimalism, but I've found Philip Glass' Akhnaten ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAiv-LU82t4 ) and Piano Etudes ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pe7Le…

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