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by tdeck 2mo ago
Almost nobody is testing their website with a screen reader so they don't think of it as part of the user experience. In fact, I think most developers are only vaguely aware of what web accessibility actually is for and how it affects
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I have heard that it began to try to keep certain ethnic groups out of university and continued because sports bring in scholarship and (for D1 schools) sponsor money.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
For some folks I know who don't carry a cellphone, sometimes 'last minute" is any time after they leave home in the morning because they won't have their phone with them all day.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I think it was infamous mainly because the ad itself was kind of cheesy and cringe.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
What happens when you're meeting up with someone? With the folks I know who don't have a phone, this is always a real pain point because they don't have a way to communicate or receive changes of plans, "I'm going t
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by tdeck 2mo ago
> I am employed and live in a major city. ... . I know multiple other people, also employed, living both rurally and in cities, who do not carry cellphones. This doesn't mean much. I know multiple people who fit this description, li
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by tdeck 2mo ago
This puts me in mind of the infamous GMail Man commercial that Microsoft put out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oR4jTvxPruw
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by tdeck 2mo ago
It's hard for me to take this perspective seriously when you describe a cellphone as "entirely optional". Our society is structured around the assumption that you'll have not just a cellphone, but a smartphone. Without a
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Isn't Intellectual Ventures basically a patent troll? Everything they have they sit on.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Personally I'm not worked up over it either, but I find the argument that this puts Wikipedia at risk persuasive. If it some point WMF racks up debts they can't pay and puts itself up for sale, these days probably Elon Musk or Lar
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by tdeck 2mo ago
If you're going to get involved in a torment nexus project, at least do yourself a favor and research the different comp packages being offered and choose the best one. And of course, a healthy skepticism of "the man" is esse
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by tdeck 2mo ago
> That is still democratic, the people could change those systems if they really put their mind to it, because the power does technically flow from the people if they really put their foot down. This statement applies to absolute monarch
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by tdeck 2mo ago
> The main function of a protest is not to effect change, but to help people who support a cause meet each other. This is certainly the case with many protests in many contexts, but there are ways to protest that make the powerful worrie
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by tdeck 2mo ago
> How many Americans are on friendly terms with their Rep or Senator? I would imagine if you limited this to folks with $100MM+ net worth, the percentage wouldn't be so low.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I think that deep down many people often believe that they could have a say in policy if only they tried hard enough, so their lack of influence is a kind of personal failing. In reality these systems are designed to absorb your effort and
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by tdeck 2mo ago
When asking if it's "working", you need to ask "for whom?".
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Because typing is a small percentage of the time spent writing software.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
> there's no reason to reuse it like production code. This strikes me as a self-fulfilling prophecy. There are probably many people who would like to use the code published with PhD level research, but they don't because the c
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I did this too. Almost always I'd rename variables, change formatting, add or remove comments, etc.. Unfortunately this feels less easy to do with modern tools. For example, Claude Code expects to edit your actual source files, and the
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I think many people did argue against these things when they were new. Compilers, for instance, were seen as a waste of the computer's resources and produced less than optimal code.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
This is my exact process nowadays when debugging some weird Linux wifi driver issue or something that came up after upgrade. But that's because I don't have any real familiarity with the systems involved and I don't expect th
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Thank you! It's funny how I have never thought of most of these. The only similar word I could think of was "biweekly".
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Seems like a missed opportunity to use a license more aligned with the project's naming convention. https://www.wtfpl.net/
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by tdeck 2mo ago
In about 2013 I was an intern at Microsoft and my mentor showed me that if you were running something that streamed a lot to the terminal, it would run faster if you covered it with another window (but didn't minimize it, for some reas
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by tdeck 2mo ago
Here is British comedian David Mitchell complaining about the same kind of vagueness in British corporate culture. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=67QsrpNH96Q
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by tdeck 2mo ago
English uses a lot of prepositional phrase idioms. Now that I'm learning Japanese, I find there are relatively few like that (although not zero, compare "と相談" to discuss with and に相談" to consult). But it instead uses man
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by tdeck 2mo ago
I have to say this sounds like an extremely believable form of shoddy PII stewardship.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
The US government does meat inspections, that seems like a much broader scope than auditing the security of a couple hundred thousand utilities every few years. At the very least they could send them a set of best practices and require them
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by tdeck 2mo ago
It's very dense, but if you enjoy going down a rabbit hole about this stuff I recommend The Story of Telecommunications by George Oslin. It's the size of a history textbook.
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by tdeck 2mo ago
> you feel changing a thermostat by 1F is perfect but 1C is too much: that’s true for you, not universally. I've noticed that here in Japan all the AC units seem to be adjusted by half a degree Celsius at a time, so I do think 1C is

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