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by sago 6y ago
I am a profoundly disabled person, unable to do very many things physically. I guess they've shown that my intelligence will never be general.
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by sago 7y ago
Universities should not be responsible for both education and assessment. All of this disappears in a moment if those two are separate. But universities would resist that kicking and screaming to high heaven. Because it would not only under
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by sago 7y ago
I think that's also a worrying possibility. It might be true. Whether or not you think 'left-leaning' is the correct ideology, I would expect more left-leaning people to reject the 'either-or'. But to think that the
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by sago 7y ago
Sadly I think the effect might be the opposite. The massive financial hardship seems poised for a backlash where a group promoting 'economy above all else' will gain the support of millions who feel their financial future has been
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by sago 7y ago
I am worried there is a fine line between 'realism' and a backlash against care for the elderly and chronically ill. When people realise that their earnings have been slashed, they have been burdened with years of increased taxes,
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by sago 7y ago
So all animals are in different species to members of their same sex? I'm joking a little of course. But only to make the point that the definition of species taught in high school is very difficult to pin down. You identified one way.
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by sago 7y ago
It is very tempting to be drawn into these kind of articles. But they are always worth a little caution. Counting successful predictions post hoc is dangerous. If there had been no pandemic this year, but California had suffered from an ove
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by sago 7y ago
I don't disagree with the article. But I have a long-standing problem with this post-modern representation of 'objectivity' as binary. Yes, the tiniest bit of subjectivity makes something nonobjective. Okay, there is absolute
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by sago 7y ago
There is a fun poem about that: https://imgur.com/a/isGWqU4 It is maybe dated a bit now. I think it refers to boomers (in the 90s/00s?) rather than modern riders. But still awkwardly accurate.
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by sago 7y ago
The eternal September was 1993. I remember that change well and the earlier flavour I remember nostalgically. And it was tied to the rise of the web. There's a good argument to say the web killed the internet. But all things change. Ev
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by sago 7y ago
I don't disagree. But death numbers I think gloss over the antinuclear point. Nuclear problems have been catastrophic black swans. A nuclear plant is mostly great. Unless it's not. In a way nobody expected, (that is probably obvio
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by sago 7y ago
Give the (Monty) Python headline on today's HN, let me add that it's worth learning to sing https://youtu.be/buqtdpuZxvk I find. The exact numbers are not quite exact, although they are usually in the right ballpa
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by sago 7y ago
Not to disagree (this is the second Little Alchemy after all) just to add a more original original: Christian Steinruecken's DOS game "Alchemy" from 1997. Which also inspired a mobile "Alchemy" from 2010 and the inc
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by sago 7y ago
Thank you. Make sense with a bit more of my thought!
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by sago 7y ago
> There are other reference frames in which this event occurred ... 5 million years ago. For me, that was a surprising bit in your comment. I don't understand how it can be true (5 million years in the future, sure, but the past?).
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by sago 7y ago
Interesting. I've not thought about this before, but it seems at first glance a rather inconsistent set. Resolved by removing both: O and 0; I and 1 and L (l); S and 5. Resolved by removing the letter: Z and 2; A and 4. Not resolved: B
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by sago 7y ago
> Accessible toilets are never less than 50% of all toilets in the building. Of hundreds of buildings I've been to, I have never seen a single place where that is even close to being true. Including hospitals. Do you mean accessible
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by sago 7y ago
If there are so many accessible bathrooms that there is no way a disabled person could possibly wait, the concern is moot. Of course. A super common situation /s
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by sago 7y ago
You should not use it at all. If the ratio of disabled facilities to able-bodied facilities is n:1, then your wait time for an able-bodied facility is 1/n, but the disabled person will have to wait for 1 unit of time. Add to that that
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by sago 7y ago
I'm not aware of any markings or certifications. And ending the list that way, I wanted to suggest a whole hinterland of considerations, rather than elevate table choice particularly. But with those caveats, there are three issues with
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by sago 7y ago
My criticism was not intended to be overly negative, by the way. Thank you so much for writing this.
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by sago 7y ago
An excellent blog post. I found the experience of being a wheelchair user a little amusing. It is very unusual for companies or organisations to deny being accessible. In much of the world accessibility is a legal requirement, but it is ver
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by sago 7y ago
A probably paranoid note of caution: it isn't confirmed that this is correct. RC3 was released July 24, this version was posted July 29, but currently (12h15 GMT on July 30) it hasn't been announced, either on the website or socia
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by sago 7y ago
My favourite blurb along those lines, from a forum, "I am a lawyer. But I'm not your lawyer. And, like contraceptives: someone else's lawyer won't protect you."
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by sago 7y ago
How can these be licensed in any way, when the artwork is of trademarked logos? Genuine question. Aren't you entirely relying on the fact that the owners of the copyright of the logos benefits from your use and are unlikely to chase? I
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by sago 7y ago
If your motivation is commercial rather than leisure, I suspect the answer lies in what you already know from tech. It's about marketing. It's about finding a niche. It's about building an audience. It's about luck. It&#
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by sago 7y ago
Creative writing has an oversupply and underdemand problem. Most novels are self published. Most don't even sell three figures. For short fiction, there are hundreds of literary magazines, and more appearing every day, but only a minor
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by sago 7y ago
> developers were able to build incredible open worlds with hours of dialog and tons of possibilities worth 100s of hours of gameplay on a single pay model This is not a defence of the current state of the industry, but let's not ge
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by sago 7y ago
Can you say more what you mean by 'doesn't suffice'? There are certainly some forms of typographic initial I know it can't do. But if it worked consistently, it would be sufficient to achieve the effect that the article
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by sago 7y ago
I don't think it needs a new style. [Edit: I'm wrong, see reply below]. There is a CSS pseudo-element ::first-letter, which you can format and align as you wish. In the article they try to use this, but run afoul of the fact that

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