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by wwweston 4y ago
Maybe from a theoretical point of view too — the internet is a generative network, yes?
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by wwweston 4y ago
Seems like a no-brainer for most people to get the covid vaccine too, and yet something like 1 in 5 haven’t done it, and maybe up to half aren’t fully vaccinated. There’s also the question of availability and it currently isn’t clear how av
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by wwweston 4y ago
> If the client knows nothing about the meaning of the responses, it cannot do anything with them but show them to a human for interpretation. This is the best counterpoint in this discussion and it deserves a lot of reflection. But that
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by wwweston 4y ago
> no sane client will go around and request random server-provided urls to discover what is available. "Random" isn't what's supposed to happen. You hit a top level endpoint, and then at that point other endpoints are
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by wwweston 4y ago
The descriptivist approach has a lot of merits when it comes to language -- to no small extent, words do mean what people think they mean; this is part of what it means for words to have any meaning at all, and when entire cultures let th
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by wwweston 4y ago
> Why is it wise to have a negative view of opportunities that present themselves? Recognizing that luck plays a role in the outcome of opportunity isn't a negative view, only an acknowledgment of what can't be controlled along
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by wwweston 4y ago
> The US was created by its citizens. Any country can do that. Every country is, in aggregate, created by some portion of its citizens, but I don't think that necessarily implies every country has an equally plausible path to the po
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by wwweston 4y ago
> Once your UI reaches a certain level of complexity, the benefits of various tools begin to outweigh the cost. What's that certain level of complexity? I have some heuristics I might use, but what I've noticed is that even di
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by wwweston 4y ago
The problem is more appraisers and banks that don’t know what to do with a lot of construction outside some norm, so they won’t know how to value and won’t know how to write loans. And under circumstances of any substantial demand for their
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by wwweston 4y ago
> It'd probably be better for everyone if personal vehicles were outright banned in all major cities Why go this far when it's pretty clear that a happy medium is possible? Seems to me it's clear that a place like NYC does
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by wwweston 4y ago
Sounds like construction! Seriously, though, I do think soundproofing is significantly underused and even undertaken in most residential construction. And at times have thought anyone for increasing density needs to start there.
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by wwweston 4y ago
Which browsing contexts still feature the affordance of scrollbar blocksize? I thought UX as a profession had chosen to totally commit to the sin of removing it.
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by wwweston 4y ago
This is one of the most important ways to think about accessibility, FWIW. Even if you've been lucky enough to have full baseline sensory & motor capabilities for most of your life, on a lifetime horizon chances are pretty good you
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by wwweston 4y ago
Do you remember the title or any other details of Conway’s presentation? I’d like to look for this.
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by wwweston 4y ago
This was certainly my bet in January and February 2020 -- "this is like H1N1, it won't be that bad" or "it'll be like SARS and be contained."
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by wwweston 4y ago
Can you explain more about how this works? Even if we're being totally cynical and seeing politics entirely in terms of who can distribute favors within their network (which I think is at best partly true), it seems to me contracts t
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by wwweston 4y ago
Is IA even a discipline anymore? I haven’t heard people speak in those terms for almost a decade, and it’s probably been longer since I heard it frequently. If it is still a discipline, what does one read to pick it up?
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by wwweston 4y ago
Thank you, I will now discount the economic fraction of my not-cheerfulness about dongles by about 70%. The axe grinding, however, was brought up by Mr Kuhn. This is simply one instance of it, and the economic fraction isn't even the b
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by wwweston 4y ago
This is one reason why I'm still down on Apple's decision to remove 1/8" audio jacks from iPhones: they took away a decades old "just works" standard that wasn't subject to interference or battery or laten
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by wwweston 4y ago
I have no particular disability at the moment and I’m struggling to think of anything that autofocus adds to my browsing experience and not struggling to think of times it’s annoyed me.
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by wwweston 4y ago
Mason was great, but it'd have needed to be accompanied with an easy-as-adding-a-different-document-extension scheme installed by default w/ mod_perl on commodity hosting in order to have saved Perl's popularity vs PHP. The b
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by wwweston 4y ago
Debate about which level of government certain classes of public health decisions should be made it is respectable. Although we've have had a chance to see some of the issues with mismatched state-level responses. Infectious agents don
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by wwweston 4y ago
Or maybe it’s more like saying ICEs will be a ghost one day? EVs were once the path not taken…
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by wwweston 4y ago
> The CDC wants a say in how people live their lives and thinks they know better than individuals about risk tolerance and decisions The CDC primarily exists to address collective risk with collective decisions in the face of public he
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by wwweston 4y ago
I'd believe any number of things might factor into less new construction (NIMBYism, tax incentives, some kinds of building requirements) but that California is especially behind in terms of density zoning? Nah. National rate of singl
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by wwweston 4y ago
"I didn't think the leopards would eat my face!" https://www.freep.com/story/opinion/columnists/nancy-kaffer/... https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/repu
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by wwweston 4y ago
I've watching some municipalities hit their geographic constraints in a few different states for a while now, and what I think I've noticed is that almost nobody gets higher density construction ahead of demand -- if there is anyw
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by wwweston 4y ago
Did I miss what the old California Dream was? Seems like the word doesn't even appear in the article. Most of California's problems are Popular Place Problems™. Seeing it become marginally less popular as a result seems more like
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by wwweston 5y ago
Some of us tried XHTML. A little bit of extra consistency in syntax and closed tags was rewarded with being able to use tooling built around XML expectations. I dug that. And then I found out there were some browsers that wouldn't hand
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by wwweston 5y ago
Brightness and volume are actually my two biggest touchbar annoyances… w/ older mbps I could simply feel my way to where I knew the keys were via muscle memory and adjust them with a few quick taps (or one long press) without looking o

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