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by pvorb 6y ago
HTML, as demonstrated by the article, is accessible by default.
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by pvorb 6y ago
And with smartphones, they're no longer installed on every system. I really wish that Chrome and probably other browsers would install a set of fonts from Google Fonts. I don't see a reason why this shouldn't be possible. Tha
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by pvorb 6y ago
The whole topic of this thread is reading web pages on a PSP. There's a whole universe of devices that perfectly render good old server-side HTML with CSS styling, but can't display a PDF for reasons. Or if they can, it will be an
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by pvorb 6y ago
That might be true, but these ones are not . I can't efficiently read them on my smartphone and have to scroll around a lot. They also show two pages on one, probably to be better printable for some marketing material, but I would nev
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by pvorb 6y ago
I fully agree with all of your points. I just wanted to point out the irony that the manual and other documentation for this "inclusive design" toolkit come as PDFs – the worst choice you can make if you strive for accessibility.
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by pvorb 6y ago
Yeah, I was already thinking about something like that. The intention behind my question was to use what I'm really good at.
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Ask HN: How to help aid agencies as a software engineer
2 points by pvorb 6y ago|2 comments
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by pvorb 6y ago
The thing is, in this case, Amazon's business is not about extending ElasticSearch with proprietary features. It's about hosting the OSS product. Had ElasticSearch been under a copyleft license, the only difference would be that E
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by pvorb 6y ago
I also get shades of brown. If you take the mean of any image with many similarly distributed colors, it will be brown. Mean is clearly not the best function for this. It should maybe calculate the dominant color instead.
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by pvorb 6y ago
You introduced "will never" to this argument here. Neither me nor parent comments said that being visible today or in the past has anything to do with being visible in the future. I would argue that science is about a core of what
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by pvorb 6y ago
Isn't this like saying that aliens do not exist, because we never received any signal from them? Of course you can see it like that, but does it really change the probability of their existence? I think there's a difference betwee
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by pvorb 6y ago
This depends on your definition of visible. If you think of visible as some form of light reaching a man-made object, then GPs statement is still true.
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by pvorb 6y ago
But as Perl-compatible regular expressions are available in many other languages, this is not really a reason for learning Perl itself, right? Or am I missing some deeper insight into regexes, because I don't know Perl?
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by pvorb 6y ago
I experienced the Thunderbird bug mentioned in the article first-hand and freaked out for a moment. "Where does that damn turtle come from?" And had to search quite a bit until I recognized that it was part of the subject. Unfortu
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by pvorb 6y ago
In the EU, a company can choose from a pool of many governments and picks the one that suits it the best and then gets access to every other country. And there are not that many other countries, which have a government which fit yoir defini
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by pvorb 6y ago
But isn't that how the typical chat works? Where's the difference? At least that's similar to how the channels in my company are organized. The only difference might be that there's faster feedback in a chat and this lea
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by pvorb 6y ago
Nice! Didn't know about such a rule. Maybe in legitimate cases, it'd already help if Wikipedia underlined links, so you can see if it's one or multiple links.
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by pvorb 6y ago
Yes, I believe that Wikipedia and its authors never put much thought into SEO. They just think about how to best structure the information and make heavy use of links, which also happens to be a good strategy for SEO. The Google search rank
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by pvorb 6y ago
This is true. And still it is (nonsensical) Latin. It's chosen because Latin looks quite similar to English text. They use the same alphabet and word length tends to be similar.
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by pvorb 6y ago
What speaks against having such a tool? I'm thinking of news sites that want to give their readers the impression of the original tweet without embedding the remote content. This would've avoided the current situation where many a
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by pvorb 6y ago
Pikaso is a tool for taking screenshots of tweets and this was probably done as a showcase of the tool.
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by pvorb 6y ago
I only wish that the site had permalinks (not to Twitter, but to the archived links themselves).
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by pvorb 6y ago
I really wish this would've been the first time that tweets by Donald Trump led to deaths.
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by pvorb 6y ago
While I can understand Twitter's move, I think a permanent suspension of the account will do a disservice in the long run, at least the way it is implemented right now. Each and every tweet by him now simply shows "This tweet is u
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The exhaust emissions scandal (“Dieselgate”) (2015)(media.ccc.de)
1 points by pvorb 6y ago|0 comments
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by pvorb 6y ago
So this is arguing against GP's point since a washing machine should last for several years and is not fast-moving, right?
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by pvorb 6y ago
Most video call software will show your own webcam stream flipped horizontally to make it feel like a mirror, but others will see it correctly.
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by pvorb 6y ago
My 23mo has learned social protocol to get what he wants and when to violate it to get it even more quickly when I have no other options than to comply. But I'm not sure that any given Zoom meeting is important enough to mess up my son
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by pvorb 6y ago
But often there's too few bathrooms for too many children, so they can't go in those five minutes when they're supposed to. That was my experience at least.
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by pvorb 6y ago
A few months ago I heard of a school in Berlin that removed toilet paper from the bathrooms and forced kids to go to the janitor to get their three sheets of toilet paper per day. And as icing on the cake the janitor didn't acknowledge

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