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by jareds 2y ago
I'm totally blind so don't use a mouse. Isn't this pretty obvious to detect? My understanding is that it'd be obvious if someone was moving a mouse around with an abnormally low level of clicks?
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by jareds 2y ago
Have AI automatically create described audio for old tv shows that apparently will never get a corporation to go back and add a described audio track even though there streaming.
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Ask HN: How to compare mini PC's for homelab usage?
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by jareds 2y ago
What open source options would you recommend for running Linux and Windows VM's on Windows? I've been unhappy with Virtualbox because the audio quality is abysmal which is an issue since I use screen reading software. I'm int
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by jareds 2y ago
I use https://wiki.dendron.so/
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by jareds 2y ago
I really like Groovy as a general purpose scripting language. I"m sure most people use Python for the kind of things I use Groovy for, but I had to use Groovy with Grails 15 years ago and Groovy has stuck as my scripting language of ch
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by jareds 2y ago
As a parent sending my children to the fields once in a while sounds great!
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by jareds 2y ago
I like the kids version of the Kindle Fire as a way for giving kids screen time. I don't think it's perfect but it offers a fairly large library of applications, games, and videos for a few bucks a month with out allowing internet
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by jareds 2y ago
The headline doesn't specify UK only. I wonder what the numbers are in other contries.
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by jareds 2y ago
I used Taskwarrior a lot before mobile smart phones were common. I want to use it again but the lack of a good smartphone app is a blocker. I know there were some that worked ok with Taskserver but now that the sync process has been complet
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by jareds 3y ago
I was working on profiling and crash analysis software. The software had existed since the late 70's or early 80's. It was written in assembler so that's what was used to update it. If it was written from scratch it's un
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by jareds 3y ago
That's a good point. This may have been useful when I was working on internal webapps to determine if the UI looked like I expected it to. That was in 2010 though when it was more common to use plain HTML instead of single page framewo
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by jareds 3y ago
I've done a lot of web API development in both legacy applications and micro services. It's pretty accessible since I don't need to rely n a UI and can use CURL.
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by jareds 3y ago
This may have been a better option in the early 90's when GUI screen readers were not as good. I did z/OS Assembly programming for several years using ISPF as a text editor and submitting jobs to compile my code. I"ll gladly
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by jareds 3y ago
Why do you think this? I'm totally blind and find Chat GPT to be useful for quick answers to questions instead of searching through SEO spam and low quality tutorials. I find Copilot to be sueful for better code completion and helping
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by jareds 3y ago
Microsoft has done a lot of good work with VSCode for blind developers. I'm totally blind and used Eclipse for many years. I started using VSCode when I was learning Go. I watched audio queue's be added and thought it was a thing
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by jareds 3y ago
I refer to my vision as "no useful vision" I can see enough light to sometimes tell if the lights are left on in a room or if the son is out. I can not see color, it's either bright, neutral, or dark.
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by jareds 3y ago
I wonder if this article was written by AI? The fact that one senator is for it and one senator is against it means nothing. This is about as impactful as me "considering" a 4 day work week with out talking to my employer that cur
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by jareds 3y ago
How do you think they trivialize it? I've found them to be good for writing short scripts or answering a specific question. I've never seen one that you point at your own code base and have it do things like write a new endpoint t
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by jareds 3y ago
How much COBOL runs on platforms other then the Mainframe? My limited COBOL experience was while working for a Mainframe software vender. I have not scene anything about people running COBOL in production on non Mainframe platforms, doesn&#
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by jareds 3y ago
My internships and first job out of college were all mainframe. Reading all this makes me very glad I had ISPF and USS. Reading all these stories make me wonder what war stories I'll be able to tell people in 40 or 50 years.
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by jareds 3y ago
When that sandy island is near wetlands which are protected land. When the first Starship launch threw dirt and concrete into that protected land. Maybe SpaceX should have given stronger consideration to the environmental factors of this si
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by jareds 3y ago
Several years ago I was getting multiple password reset attempts per day from my bank because I picked an easy username to remember 20 years ago. Luckily my bank allowed me to change my user name so I used my password manager to generate a
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by jareds 3y ago
What happens if you power off the resources when your not using them? Unless you need them running 24/7 you can probably save a lot if your willing to manually start and stop them.
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by jareds 3y ago
Take a look at the Oracle cloud free tear. YOU can create up to four arm based vm's with 6 gigs of ram and one cpu per vm. If you go this route try and do research on what regions have the most capacity. I picked Chicago and had a real
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by jareds 3y ago
Descriptions are read by a human narrator. Description only occurs when there is no dialog. According to my sited wife it's not that distracting, she got used to it after a month or two.
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by jareds 3y ago
Voiceover on iOS is really good. I'm totally blind and have been using it since 2010. One thing to consider is that when using a screen reader bigger may not be better. When I've used an iPad, I've had issues with spacial awa
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by jareds 3y ago
Have you looked into streaming devices so she can watch movies and tv with audio description? I'm totally blind and the availability of audio description on all major streaming services has made tv watching a lot better for me.
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by jareds 3y ago
I agree about seeing a rehabilitation counceler. While it's good that your concerned about her vision loss as someone who isn't blind or trained in teaching blind individuals independent living skills you don't know the quest
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by jareds 3y ago
If you live in the United States take a look at https://www.loc.gov/nls/ They offer a decent number of books and provide easy to use devices to play them. You should investigate the built in screen readers on iOS and A

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