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While I agree that W3W is a nasty rent-seeking operation, I do think that in broad strokes the location-as-words concept could be useful.

> The problem is that if I need a phone app & GPS signal to figure out my W3W, why can't I just use the GPS coordinates directly?

Think about verbal/handwritten transmission and mental/handwritten storage. It's not easy to transcribe "41.022755, -73.913102" or remember it. "medium.axed.hobby" is much easier. Copy/paste doesn't always work well on phones, and doesn't work at all across devices.
I have seen absolute rubbish written in Python (which is supposed to be like pseudocode) and I have seen beautifally written Perl. It's 90% down to the individual writing the code. Perl just has a lot of syntactic sugar which can make it look like line noise to someone that doesn't understand it.
> Blizzard should not pick a side.

You cannot "not pick a side" in a situation like this.
Blizzard clearly picked Chinese money over human rights.

They behave rationally as a company, but I hope they will still lose on this. The fact this is a rule changes nothing - they created that rule.
Surely you see the irony in defending the Chinese government in a discussion about how the Chinese government routinely censors businesses and individuals. Does Ycombinator have any important Chinese business interests?

That isn't bullying and surely you can see how it would be alarming to see you jump to defense in this way, threatening to ban a user over that benign and relevant comment, including criticizing everyone who has supported that user.
I guess 99.9% are. However, it is pretty hard to order a pizza or buy your weekly load of groceries with a CLI tool :-)
If you want to interact with the rest of the world, you will likely need to use the web...
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Not picking a side is not allowing political discussion, no matter who you (or they) perceive to be right. Coincidentally, this is also the choice that makes most sense to a corporation which stands to lose a lot from picking a side. Players will likely respond to sensationalist reporting of this case, but forget about it soon after, while the Chinese government is not gonna go easy on Blizzard picking the other side.
Google have a good course on web accessibility which includes doing a little basic coding, looking at ARIA specs and such. I'll dig out the link when I'm back later.
If someone made a statement against Nazi Germany, would it also be appropriate to not pick a side?
Well done. Runs pretty nicely on my huge 5K screen (five year old imac). There is a little bit of flickering and other graphics glitches.

I love how it shows the individual carriages and train tracks when you zoom in.
Currently, the only way the definition of 'moon' can change is if it gets defined at all.
Which is exactly how sports leagues operate, be they FIFA, the Olympic Committee, the NFL, the NBA...

If you expect them to be the high water mark of social justice, you're going to be deeply disappointed.

(Meanwhile, various tech firms have been criticized for picking a side, or allegedly picking a side in social conflicts over the past few years... Damned if you do, damned if you don't, apparently.)
The racket goes like this - a lawyer firm, specialized in this type of "work", finds a token blind person and sends you a letter to the tune of "On date such and such, our client visited your site and it wasn't accessible. Based on such and such precedent, we're not required to give you advance notice and can to sue you for $100K. However, we're reasonable people and we're willing to settle out of court for $10K, as long as you promise to fix your site under the supervision of an accessibility expert pointed by us".

For small companies, even if you're in the right, the only thing that makes sense is to settle. Going to court is way too risky.
Literally what it says in the article.
They're whores. They'll do and say anything for money.
He didn't damage their reputation. Blizzard shot themselves in the foot.
It's easier to write without pronouns in passive voice. "The ball was kicked" vs. "he kicked the ball".

And no, I'd rather not call it even, not after you slip in with a, "you're wrong but I don't want to talk about it, bye!"
The comment repeatedly states that CLT is neither new nor unfamiliar, one main issue is that CLT requires many joints with individual properties (many points of failure with manufacturing errors specific to the people that worked there) whilst concrete behaves / accepts load as a singular structure.

Admittedly, this isn't an argument against CLT but instead against anything that doesn't behave as a single structure under load - but it does point out that CLT isn't a suitable replacement for all building materials everywhere. High rise buildings need the safety of reenforced concrete, with it's load handling and simplified calculations (due to lack of joints), and until something can perform in a similar manner it's not likely to be replaced.
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Blizzard is much more directly supported by money from its customers, it's very easy to boycott online games provider.
“State capitalism” is a term I’ve heard used which makes sense to me.
>The act didn't bring Blizzard into public dispute.

Like most things these days, that depends on which "public" you're talking about.
But nearly every large company in America engages in political discussion when they talk about diversity, feminism, and inclusion. I think that's a good thing, but it's clearly not the case that these companies shy away from making progressive statements.
I would note Chris, given your insistence on all this, that your own project Graal is still shipping on Java 8 despite that being many years old. You're now working on moving to Java 11, which is itself already obsolete.

Imagine if tomorrow nobody could download GraalVM anymore because OpenJDK 8 stopped working for some reason (yes I know it's bundled, this is just a metaphor). It could easily be said you had years to upgrade, so why so sluggish? Well, of course, there were actual features you wanted to ship during this time too, not just doing upgrade work, especially given that Java 9 and 10 maybe didn't deliver many compelling upgrades.
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> Then make your window less wide. It's not the writer's problem.

Exactly. Not all we want and need to tell other people can be reduced to tweets. whoever has the windows maximised on a desktop has another option, and the paragraph was never a 140 character slogan.
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They worked their way up, but I miss the layout of old Pages, it was brilliant as long as you accepted it to be not-Word (which many people did not)
> he has somehow polluted google images with his name such that google images shows myriad different faces to his name

I don't think he had to do anything, I have a rather unique name, yet Google also shows a bunch of faces. I think it's the algorithm detecting that you're search for a person, and therefore shows you faces. If there aren't enough photos of you, it'll show other results.
Not wanting to take ANY sides in this discussion, but:

> Does Ycombinator have any important Chinese business interests?
Yes, https://blog.ycombinator.com/category/china/

That does not constitute as proof of moderator's bias, though.
Do you have any evidence that the free HK statement itself harmed Blizzard's business?
I also see it as a sign of how terrible leader Stallman was.

Don't get me wrong, I'm on his side defending Minsky and all that stuff, but recent controversies aside: Stallman is a one man army.

He was a terrible organizer, more like a prophet preaching ideas, than a leader building institution. And after Stallman resigned, it became clear that there are no people to take his place. As if FSF were Stallman's little club and not an institution or organization.
Isn't this basically the same with all big corporations these days? If you say unpopular things on your YouTube channel, you will be demonitized.as a way of punishment. In short, either you please big brother, or you will suffer.
If you view it that way, then remember there's no free lunch; generating any kind of energy is then an exercise of picking the least bad.

A slightly less charitable answer: at these orders of magnitude and potential consequences, it's replacing a bad thing with a "bad thing" in the same way replacing sickness with a vaccine is.
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Similarly, let's not forget the MtG deck Umbrella Revolution: https://www.coolstuffinc.com/a/adriennereynolds-101714-whats...
Canada only accounts for 0.5% of the world population and about 1% of internet users (total Canadian population / total internet users) -- and I think it's telling that you didn't mention a bigger country, like the US which accounts for under 5% and under 10% respectively.

Your point doesn't refute the GP: if we're spending a lot of expense to support fractional or even single-digit percentages of the population, it doesn't necessarily make sense.
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Good.

Part of my work is to make the service I work on accessible so I follow this topic.

I find it absolutely disgusting that Domino would rather drag their case to the supreme court than make their site accessible.

Anecdotally, while making an app or website accessible is not particularly easy, I have found that there are some good benefits.

At least on mobile, it pushes you to avoid relying on hacky solutions and to make clear layouts instead. This also makes your code more maintainable.
I think there's a big difference between making a statement that American Democrats would like and making a statement that you don't like a genocidal authoritarian regime doing genocidal authoritarian regime things.
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They also have an older episode with Muhammad in it from before it was considered controversial to have such a thing (It's been censored since then)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Best_Friends
I've been thinking of getting a Nextcloud instance at Hetzner maybe. It's fairly easy, and managed.
That would be a bad way to operate law. Every new technology would have tomget its own law. It makes more sense to pass a law that applies to the entire calls of public accommodations and allow regulations and precedent deal with it.

The SCOTUS isn’t making a new law. What they are saying is that the law as written covers websites as well. The law says you can’t discriminate against a person with a disability and the courts job is to work out what constitutes discrimination.
Seems like it's showing only the JR railway trains which is one of the biggest company operates in Japan.
> This is no different than outlawing racial discrimination.

Yes, it is. Racial discrimination requires a special effort not to serve specific part of the population. Accessibility regulations ask you for investing time and money, that you may not be able to afford, in order to serve a minority of the population, that might not even be interested in your product.
It should be noted that before invading Poland, Nazi Germany and Hitler were not unpopular in the US, and even then public support only faded slowly, so that probably would've been a hotter take.

Hindsight is always easier.
Probably, but that's not saying much. Anything a player does could in theory damage their reputation (e.g. something ridiculous like saying you like AMD over Nvidia can damage Blizzard's reputation with Nvidia fans). I think the fact that they're choosing to exercise their ToS right in this case does speak to their values rather than it being them just "enforcing rules".
We have ~4.77 billion people on the internet. Assuming all of Canada was blind, that's 0.77% of total users. Under most circumstances, < 1% is a small minority.

I get that some level of accessibility is reasonable, but if you're expecting the same level of UI investment there for <1% of the population, I'd call that insane. Here, he can still call in and order the pizza.
That's like, totally your opinion. Blizzard has a huge base in China that is largely invisible to us. As a large (gaming) company you want to stay as neutral as possible, or at least that's what I imagine what large PR firms would consult Blizzard to do.
Seems like a misguided rant. The whole beginning of "but what about applications?" makes no sense.

The complaints about what is essentially p-hacking might apply to CERN (but probably not), but doesnt work with LIGO where many events were detected by their model-free pipeline.
What you re describing sounds like taking photos on the street. I hope thats never regulated
During nazi Germany, the corporation indeed did not pick a side (ala, IBM's equipment was used to do data processing for the holocaust).

But, it's too far to say that they (IBM) was pro-holocaust.
second that! great article.
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It even has a login form. Phishing?
So the story goes. Care to relate some examples that show how it is worse than any other language?

I’ve seen mind-curdlingly horrible Perl of several varieties (novice, mad genius, and the biggest ugliest balls of mud you’ve ever seen), yet nothing has yet touched even the hem of the horrors I presented over-architected Java ravioli with acute patternitis.
I'm honestly not sure which meaning the poster intended. Either way, that sort of vagueness should probably be against the rules regardless of what they meant, to prevent ambiguous situations like these.
What about legacy applications which are no longer actively developed? I still use Aperture quite happily, and there's no obvious alternative (aside from Lightroom which has a subscription model).

I don't see why Apple couldn't provide an optional compatibility solution, even if it were something I had to download separately.
Cool stuff. I wish it indicates which direction it's moving.
That's the really story though - companies bending over backwards to stay in one market, while cutting off another market so easily.
That certainly got me some of the way, now I'm wondering how signatures work.
You've asserted several things but haven't made an argument as to why those assertions are justified. At the end of your first paragraph, you've jumped from making assertions to making violent threats.
Yes, it is. I've heard many examples of youtube channels with mildly conservative political opinions getting ranked far lower than the youtube algorithm should rank them. Since youtube isn't transparent with its creators we have to speculate for ourselves. A lot of evidence points towards censorship.
All they are doing is saying things which a certain audience wants to hear. Nobody really cares about inclusion or diversity. They just claim to do so, because in this day and age, they will benefit from doing so.
I’m reading the Atavist piece and noticed that he was extremely racist towards Asians and yet two of his ex-wives were Asian. I wonder how he reconciled that.

I feel really bad for his kids. When I studying in Asia, I met a few mixed-race kids that had racist expat parents and they often had major identity issues. For those that didn’t stay in the expat bubble, they would shun their “Western side” and try to completely blend in with the locals.
Why not? I think the IBM execs were pro-holocaust because they were willing to make money off of the holocaust.
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At this point, Blizz must be hoping that the bad publicity is better than their current no publicity. Hearthstone is the #14 title on Twitch as I type this out and prominent players have noted how much less viewership the tournaments consistently get.

Also Tencent owns a portion of Activision Blizzard. That would be my guess for who is pulling the strings behind this specific incident.
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The fact they went so hard on this (and will no longer work with the two casters who tried to hide / not be associated) is part of what's particularly so insulting, and egregious.

They are implicitly making an example of this, thereby sending a political message.
Impress is still far from PowerPoint or keynote.
The idea of counting syllables for languages other than English reminded me of a fun personal experience.

When I was in high-school, I was in a camp with some American Peace Corps students in my country. They were learning Romanian since they had been spending some time here and were curious. At one point, one of them asked 'how do you say "hug"?' to which we replied 'îmbrățișare' (uhm-bruh-tzee-shuh-reh, approximately). They were taken aback, and after a pause, jokingly quipped 'don't you have a shorter word? Like... Hug?'.
That player has forced blizzard to appear as though they endorsed the protesters.

Being protesters for freedom, they ironically did not respect another (unrelated) entity's freedom to choose.
Awesome. I really appreciate you taking the time to research that for me. Some great material for me to read through. Thank you
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Is it a "big corporations" thing? Try saying e.g. that maybe Minsky was innocent, see how that works.

OTOH who knows anymore, maybe big corporations do have something to do with it.... it's certainly convenient. If you have money it's rather easy to summon a mob to do your bidding and silence inconvenient people, so they must love this new trend. Also if you have money and power, it's easy to get discretionary, arbitrarily-enforced rules to not apply to you. All these new trends are so much more convenient than the old "due process" thing....
It's the present for Venezuela and Iran. If you want a similar fate for the USA, keep allowing Chinese influence to grow. But do not be surprised if other Americans don't find much comfort in your preachings that they deserve it.

If someone punches you, should you not put up your guard, because you, too, have punched others?
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I think to an American organization, it's far more relevant to resist fascism, bigotry, and violation of the rights of <Pick any of the following groups, that currently feel under attack: Women, religious and ethnic minorities, trans persons, native persons> in America, then to worry about how China administers Hong Kong.

But, ah, that former would be 'political', and 'picking a side', and 'controversial', because you see, ~half the country thinks (rightly or wrongly) that those things aren't a serious problem.

I leave considering what ~half of mainland China thinks (rightly or wrongly) about Hong Kong, and what we should do about widely held, but unjust political opinions as an exercise to the reader.
>As a user, you can just disable automatic sample submission.

I don't think disabling it really helps. It sounds like the goal is to prevent malware on your machine from ever leaking data on your machine to some external server. But even if you disable automatic sample submission, the malware on your machine could still submit a program on its own to Microsoft that leaks your data.
What did Disney do with star wars to pander to asian audiences?
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Pro-making money is not pro-holocaust.
I remember reading a worldbuilding stack exchange question about what would be left of mankind in millions of years, were we to disappear today.

The unanimous response was "not much". Mostly anomalously concentrated resources. So... if they are right, even though we have no reason to believe there was a developed civilization before us, it's not that crazy to merely entertain the possibility.
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This is a very nice use of WebGL. Very cool
> But, it's too far to say that they (IBM) was pro-holocaust.

Only because it's inconvenient.

Hitler wrote what he wants to do with Jews in Main Kampf. There were lots of exiles from Germany before WW2.

Supporting such a regime with hardware makes you morally at fault exactly like building a crematorium in Auschwitz. In fact - many people building stuff for Germans had no choice - help or die. IBM had choice and decided to help for money.
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It doesn't cost large companies any money to make feel-good progressive political statements on social media.

However when it conflicts with their pocketbook, they stay quiet or internally oppose them (example: Zuckerberg trashing Warren for antitrust and privacy issues).
Our tiles were essentially USGS topo maps, generated by GIS on the backend. This pre-dates even IE's first vector stuff, so the only way to deliver things like this was images (with transparent .gif overlays for things like our trails and markers).

The only two options available were pre-computing and storing, or generating on the fly. Drives were nowhere near big enough to store enough precomputed tiles to be useful. Machines weren't cheap enough to buy the sort of computing power (on our budget) to generate on the fly, since a handful of users could peg a machine.

We might have been able to write our own fast, stripped down, GIS renderer to get costs down a bit. Instead, we took the 90s option of burning through our VC as quickly as possible and hitting the ground hard.

It was a fun time.
Regulations are not laws of nature, they are bendable and enforce the will of some humans on other humans. I think u are confusing the two
A lot of people in this thread and others have recommended devs to try out screen readers to get familiar with developing for them, and I added to my mental checklist "look up screen readers and try to find a good one to try out eventually", which really I'm not sure I'd ever get around to, and even if I did, I'd probably get distracted from choice paralysis because I wasn't sure which screen reader is worth trying.

Immediately after reading your post, I pressed a key combo and started playing with it. I would not have guessed that getting started was literally just a key combo away. Thanks.
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Because currently there is no accepted definition of "fixed" (accessible) site and if they caved, people could come after them for various technicalities forever.
> it really is just setting tab indexes in correct order, as well as making sure items have alt and title tags

Sounds like it could be part of SEO effort. If it can be checked programmatically then search engines should add accessibilty to their ranking algorithms. It worked for mobile.
Just research how London is today. Most people don't use cars at all.
it's using h265 and only Skylake and above have hardware h265 decoding, that's why
Old games like Civilization 6? Civ 5 is old, I give you that.
Given that he was born in Taiwan, I wonder what he thinks about the territorial integrity of the PRC with respect to Taiwan. While the hk protesters demands do not (to my knowledge) generally include seccesion from china, Taiwan is much further along in that respect, de facto. In this case, it would me hypocritical for him not to promote immediate, at least partial integration (eg, abolish the roc military and have the PRC responsible for Taiwans defense). Can anyone come up with any statements from him on this topic?
It’s definitely true in Holland. The only resolution you’re allowed to shard by is yearly, so 2019-1, 2019-2,.. , 2020-1. Or just all out increment forever.

I assume it makes it harder to hide invoices during an audit.
I often use w3m.
That's something credit card chargebacks can be used for, at least in the US.
So what extra actions would IBM have to have taken to be pro-holocaust?