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kolanos
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Unrelated to your comment, I would love to know more about your dev setup. I am a fellow blind developer and have found XCode to be a mixed bag accessibility wise.
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> If you oppose lockdowns you still need to express your views lawfully just like anyone else. Until expressing your views becomes unlawful?
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In 1999 there was a professional golfer named Payne Stewart who died on a Learjet flight along with five others after it depressurized mid-flight. The plane continued flying on auto pilot and the FAA scrambled three separate fighter jet in
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> It’s also one reason why only the passengers in United 93 fought back; the idea of a plane as a missile wasn’t widely understood or considered until the planes hit the twin towers. Fighter jets were not even under consideration to be m
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> It was exactly the same with jQuery - there were a legion of people (older than me!) who could only "code" with jQuery. They'd never seen window.getElementById(). No, they'd seen window.getElementById() but quickly
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5y ago
> They're called "new" developers. They don't have the same skillset of "experienced" developers. Luckily, "new" developers become "experienced" over time. In my experience, the "exp
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5y ago
> More than 260 hospitals and health systems furloughed workers in the last year, and many others implemented layoffs. [0]: https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/20-hospitals-l...
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> That's not an option. Hospitals in many were already understaffed before the pandemic. And the pandemic has caused such a severe worker shortage that traveling RNs are getting paid upwards of $200/hr in remote parts of the US
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Any U.S. resident can file an ADA complaint with the DOJ. You don't need to be disabled, you just need to be aware of an ADA violation. You can also file on someone else's behalf. [0] [0]: https://www.ada.gov/filin
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5y ago
There are a lot of buttons without labels, please consider adding alt/title/aria attributes at the minimum. The simulation page is a sea of unlabeled buttons.
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5y ago
> I wish Fargate was easier to use and had a scale to 0 feature. Fargate can be scaled to zero. Also, have you tried the CLI? [0] [0]: https://github.com/aws/copilot-cli
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5y ago
This service exists, it's called AWS Fargate [0]. [0]: https://read.iopipe.com/how-far-out-is-aws-fargate-a2409d2f9...
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5y ago
Pretty sure only if a party privy to insider knowledge makes a trade based upon it.
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kolanos
5y ago
It's a shame Slipgate Complex isn't still around. That was the original file sharing site for Quake.
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5y ago
Or the Medieval Warm Period? [0] Or the Little Ice Age? [1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
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5y ago
> The pandemic-driven jump in dog adoptions was linked to a spike in dogs brought in to the US with falsified or fraudulent rabies certificates. During 2020, the CDC found more than 450 dogs arriving in the US with fake certificates - a
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5y ago
From a purely layman's perspective, why couldn't you get a head to toe photo of a subject, then have the subject enter in their height, then use that measurement to get the relative measurements of other body parts? You'd nee
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5y ago
Here's a list of suspected perpetrators of crimes identified via genealogy databases. [0] This case is not in this list (yet). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_suspected_perpetrators...
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6y ago
The FBI, according to reports, received this laptop at the same time Trump was being impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate the matter. It appears the FBI sat on this evidence for 9 months. > Meanwhile, additional documents obtained
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6y ago
> ...garbage story... > I want to be clear that I'm not claiming to know the truth as it relates to this story... Make up your mind.
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6y ago
So many comments saying "Serverless just added complexity", then you read what they did and it's, "so I tried to move our entire infrastructure to Serverless and..." Umm, yeah? And did we mention there's still
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6y ago
In 1842, Hong Kong was considered by both the Chinese and British to be uninhabited, there were only a few thousand inhabitants when the island was seceded. [0] I know symbolically this is of great importance to the Chinese, but at the time
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You're quoting an attempt in 1761 to resolve this economic dispute with King George by legal means. The American colonies, on their own, were in no position to counter the mercantile system. They would need the support of another Empir
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One of the provisions of the Treaty of Nanking is that the British Empire agreed to not interfere with Chinese trade with other foreign powers. They also withdrew from mainland China in exchange for the island of Hong Kong. Hong Kong was no
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They were subjected to 170 years of mercantilism prior to the American Revolution. Any American ship that dared trade with any power other than the British Empire was deemed a "pirate" and was fired upon by cannon.
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The American colonies were subject to mercantilism for 170 years before the American Revolution started. To suggest that the American colonies weren't subject to foreign gunships forcing trade policies upon them is simply a ridiculous
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Americans don't need to try to understand the effects of mercantilism. They were subject to the same draconian economic policies by the British Empire. This is largely what prompted the American Revolution. [0] [0]: https://
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At one time, USPS was used to mail children. [0] [0]: https://www.history.com/news/mailing-children-post-office
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> I honestly can't believe it's being dismantled in this manner for purely short-term partisan goals by an ostensibly "pro-business" political party. Well, it's not? This has been a long time coming. [1] [1]: ht
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> As a citizen of former colony [...] because people in my country were treated no better till our independence. Same could be said about the United States. But unless you specify which country you're referring, I'll leave it t
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