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The obvious interpretation of "'Keeping your identity small' has certainly gone out of fashion." in this context seems to me to be "caring about pronouns is a big identity; people should have smaller identities than that".

That's not necessarily saying people shouldn't be trans. The charitable reading [aside below] is that it could be saying that if they're trans, they should still expect to be disrespected and we should be fine with that.

I think that there are respectful ways to make that point. What are the exact limits to how much respect we should be expected to extend to people who defy our preconceptions of society? The line exists somewhere. But that kind of conversation should be approached with care and clarity. To just hint at that point doesn't imply a nuanced view, but implies a general disrespect to a lot of the hard-won acceptance of LGBT people.

Aside: I don't think I'm wrong calling it a charitable reading. Charity doesn't mean I'm going to think endlessly until I find a non-offensive thing it could mean; I'm still going to weight my reading by how I expect most people to have read it. Ultimately I'm publicly arguing against what other people are reading, not the intention that exists privately in the writer's mind. Even if the author just happened to think now was a good time to remind people they should avoid Ruby vs Python holy wars, it's little use for me to read it as that and respond to that if no one else is reading it that way. If people really think the critics' reading (that the critics have explained) is so off-base, there's been plenty of time by now for them and others to elaborate on whatever the intended reading really was.
The one that comes to mind for me is the floppy disk icon for Save.
Blind programmer here. Just a glimpse of my life.
Blind people have to live in an environment where X% of web sites and programs are not accessible, where X varies somewhere from 20% (for web sites) to 50% (for desktop applications). That's just my approximation of the state of accessibility these days.
Now imagine that you live in the world where you don't know which printer or wi-fi router to buy, since maybe half of them you won't be able to use.
Imagine that you cannot order from some online stores. You cannot fly certain airlines. And apparently you cannot order some pizza online.
Worst of all you don't magically know whether a web site is accessible or not. You just go to web site and try it, spend some time to learn the layout - it typically takes blind peple longer to familiarize with new web sites, spend thirty minutes to fill out the details of your order and then when you try to click the submit button, you figure out that it wouldn't click for some reason. Being a developer you open HTML code just to realize that this is some weird kind of button that can only be clicked with the mouse, but not a screenreader. But hey, your screenreader can route the mouse cursor to this button and simulate a click. So you try a real mouse click and it still doesn't work for some reason, and I have no idea why. Finally, you give up.
I hope I managed to convey a typical sense of frustration with a web-site that is not that accessible. I do get arguments of other people that it might be hard for small businesses to make their web sites accessible. and I don't know where to draw a line, but I need to say that Domino's is a large enough company and even though I hate counting other companies' money, I must say they're big enough to be able to afford to make their web-site accessible.
True, though foreigners who can read the Latin script can at least recognize names on Portuguese signs, which helps with getting around (as long as you don't have to speak the name out loud). That's half the reason Greece provides Latin names on signs everywhere. With a sign that says "Χανιά | Chania", your average foreigner isn't going to pronounce it correctly either way (the "ch" is supposed to be like "loch", not like "chess"), but at least with a Latin version appended they're more likely to find where they're going.
No, your personal website does not count. Yes, it does if you sell t-shirts. No, a forum is insufficient, it needs to actually be a business. Yes, aria labels are compelled speech, but they're upheld[1]. There would be an exemption if the burden was "undue", but you're not going to meet that by claiming it's a few extra hours of work. If accessibility standards change, you are compelled to upgrade your site if you're under the ADA.

And yes, courts really do want to get into the issue of which businesses need to comply and which don't, regardless of whether they exist physically or as a website.

[1] https://www.ada.gov/briefs/uc_berkley_lof.pdf
Seems like they missed a demographic with their strategy. It shouldn’t be hard to add accessibility support to their site.
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Despite the somewhat misleading headline, the Supreme Court didn't really say anything new here. They declined to hear Domino's appeal of the Ninth Circuit's (unanimous and clearly correctly decided) reversal of the District Court's absurd dismissal.

Domino's tried to claim that their due process rights were being violated since there is no federally-mandated standard for accessibility. But the ADA is clear: businesses have a legal requirement to ensure that disabled customers have "full and equal enjoyment" of their goods and services. Domino's made the tenuous argument that the lack of a specific standard meant that they didn't receive fair notice.

Robles, the plaintiff, argued that the appropriate standard to apply was WCAG 2.0. Instead of offering a different possible standard (which would have been a defensible legal rationale), Domino's position was basically, "fuck off".

It's really not hard to make your websites accessible at a basic level. Follow the standards. Make sure your content and markup are reasonably semantic. Use standard form components for data entry. Where more complex, visual-first designs are employed, make sure there are text-based fallbacks.

If you are a professional software developer, doing this is not just your legal responsibility, it's your moral responsibility.
This is such a good plan. So many developers don't care about a11y. This just adds a cost to actually start caring and planning your code around it.
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Comedy Central is owned by Viacom, which also owns Paramount Pictures. China is a huge market for Paramount's films. Paramount has previously explored a 49% sale to China's Wanda Group, and they currently have extensive financial backing from the Shanghai Film Group Corp.[2]

If they wanted to, it's well within the purview of the CCP to apply pressure to Paramount's ability to finance its films or distribute those films in China (a huge source of international box office receipts), until such time as Paramount reigns in Trey and Matt.

Note that I wouldn't support such a move, and they strike me as the type of creators who would happily walk away from their cash cow rather than self-censor. I just mean this is one possible endgame.

[1] https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/viacom-explores-sale-majori...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/articles/paramount-pictures-gets-a-1-bil...
The issue is being forced at gunpoint to build services into your business.
Doctors don't watch it.

Twenty-something college-educated salesmen do. He smokes pot, isn't on welfare, but will also work most of his life.

The intersection of class and education is too broad a topic to discuss in a couple comments, but hopefully that gives you an idea.
The electricity still has to be generated somewhere. That somewhere is usually quite far away (nuclear, hydroelectric, wind, coal/oil/natural gas powered facility). The generated energy now needs to be transmitted (via transmission lines across the country side) and distributed (via substations)[0].

GP's main remark was how are these major metropolitan areas generating the electricity they are distributing? Is generation near the city, or is PG&E shying away from turning off power for thousands of business and millions of users for political reasons.

[0] A great video about electricity generation, transmission, and distribution (and subsequent in-depth videos of each step) can be found here: https://youtu.be/v1BMWczn7JM
Stretching what, exactly?

They said their car drives itself every day. "Drives itself" means that the car does all of the work of driving without requiring human intervention or involvement. And that technology, of course, does not exist in any car at the moment.

What else could "drives itself" possibly mean?
Thanks. (To the other commenters: give them a break, not everyone is a native English speaker. I don't think that comment was machine generated)
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On the other hand, there's probably two goals here. Making it work well, and avoiding a lawsuit. I imagine the latter involves a lot more work.
Thank you for this snippet. The ADA is somewhat reasonable for having included the "undue burden" clause, however, it is probably an undue burden for a small online website to prove that supporting disabled users would be an undue burden.

At the end of the day, this is just more red tape that will probably hurt small sites or deter them from being made.
>other policies they have are anti-consumer - like breaking functionality that applications you bought are depending on in newer versions of the OS

This is such a HN comment. On what planet is it Apple's responsibility to maintain their operating system in such a way that third-party apps from developers who don't give a shit about maintaining compatibility can continue running until the heat death of the universe? It's like being angry that Microsoft didn't stick with 8.3 character filenames forever.
There’s a javascript library called aXE that’s pretty good at catching the major things. There’s also a browser plugin to check a site by hand.
> I also wonder whether religious groups who don't accept blood would potentially accept this.

Religion is a disease on its own.

If it actively hinders your survival and well-being, what else would you classify it as? It belongs with depression, schizophrenia and all the other psychological disorders.

This is from someone from a religious country.
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To make the counterpoint: if it's not forced, apparently no amount of time is enough to convince people to change the code.

Forcing it is a net-good perhaps?
> its actually good at scanning

Careful now. Scanner manufacturers would have you believe that's nearly impossible unless you remember to make the appropriate sacrifices under a full moon on a marble altar.
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Simple answer? Economies perform better when money changes hands more frequently. Disincentivizing that is generally a bad idea. Additionally, taxes like that disproportionately affect the poor, who often have to spend their income as soon as they get it, and barely affects the rich, who have lots of money sitting around not being spent.
If everyone is convinced there's going to be a recession then there isn't going to be a recession.
Maintaining, cleaning, lighting, environmental controls. Plus the cost to dig up existing items and move them.

We would save in road salt. Might be a good idea to start building stores/housing below and would serve as protection against climate change.
Formation costs aren’t that high these days unless you need a lawyer for special circumstances:
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Depending on your podcast player, what would be "next track" in a music app is "skip N seconds." I double tap my headphones and skip the ad.

It doesn't work in the basic Apple podcasts app, but that app stinks and Pocket Casts is now free to use.
Finally my obscure experience may be relevant! I'm an American who lived in Geneva (French-speaking side of Switzerland) for a while. One night I was watching a talk show on France 2 (TV channel): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tout_le_monde_en_parle_(French...
After the Iraq invasion they had an American diplomat on, not sure which one. He spoke French fluently, but with a no-fucks-given American accent. But the thing is, I was able to understand him so well! After that, I tried speaking French (in private) without regard to accent, and found I also could do it much more fluently than before!
Source on the 98% figure? That strikes me as very, very wrong.
Gimlet is interesting because it was a successful startup - start, get some investment, big exit for the investors and presumably founders. I suspect its shows are expensive because (for a time, still?) it's a core of former NPR people and NPR does a lot of production.

Other podcast networks like 5by5 have mostly withered to one or two successful shows, though that example is due to a shift of focus from podcasting to providing tools for aspiring podcasters (Fireside). Kind of like running the general store in a gold rush town.
"Undue burden" is the test used. Essentially, how much work is it to create an accessible website?

Websites are navigable by screen readers and tons of other accessibility software by default. Hacker News is completely usable in JAWS. It's the things Domino's layered on top that broke it, so it's Domino's's job to fix it.

Having domino's create a new web browser for physical accessibility devices would be an undue burden. Having domino's fix their aria tags and tab order is not.
Out of curiosity, I just searched Amazon for "school uniforms" and there's a lot of stuff there. (Makes sense, since there are millions of kids in private and parochial schools - it's a big market.)

Even if you manage to find a retail category that Amazon is not currently involved in, you might wake up tomorrow to find that they've suddenly become your competitor.
Sure. But Windows users often installed it on Windows 7. And on Windows XP, as I recall.

Also, other anti-malware apps typically upload novel binaries. And their test machines likely run them, with network access, for the same reasons that Microsoft does.

So this exfiltration channel may well have existed for decades. Whether it's been used or not is an open question, though.

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> anyone complaining the change is too soon or too sudden

Notably, that's not my complaint or my point. This isn't about the timing (which is why the distinction was important).

No matter how much time someone has to prepare for a change, there's a cost to making it. And if the benefits of the change don't outweigh those costs for the developer (and the user), then a complaint sure makes sense from those perspectives.

This does intersect the issue of timing, because in a resource-constrained situation, you inevitably have to defer some efforts until they're absolutely necessary (and simply rule out doing others). But timing is not the fundamental issue, cost-benefit tradeoffs are.

> [development] should include a transition to 64-bit.

Why? What's the benefit to ending 32 bit application support?
"Sighted people only" discounts is really not a good look though.

If they argue that the website doesn't need to be accessible because blind people can call, that's what all their online only coupons are.
It's not profitable. It will never be profitable. The entire point of antidiscrimination legislation like the ADA is to make things that "profit" will not cause to happen, happen, because the alternative is to exclude people based on traits they cannot change.
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> In the name of all that is holy, why would anyone rip off that show? It is literally the worst thing I have ever seen on television

While I have never seen the show, 10-20 million people apparently watch it [0] so apparently a lot of people do like it and your tone comes off as condescending.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory#U.S._stand...
This isn't an issue, its a feature. You live in a society so you plan around to serve that society. If you're not serving a large portion of your population then you're going to be forced to.

This is no different than outlawing racial discrimination.
It's like the Internet Explorer debate all over again: is the problem that my website doesn't support your screen reader, or is the problem that your screen reader doesn't support my website?
Counterpoint: 4chan is full of racists and worse, and is one of the most vibrant (for lack of a better word) communities on the internet.

I think Voat's failure to become notable is not due to the prejudice of its userbase, but rather 1) it was trying to fill a niche that didn't really exist - it was trying to be "edgy reddit" when plenty of existing communities offered the same thing, and 2) lack of network effect - there was no reason to go there because no one is going there. This type of site needs to reach a "critical mass" of traffic in each reddit/subverse/board to be viable.
> or makes them even slower.

Only in misleading microbenchmarks. In the real world, the memory bandwidth saved by using 32-bit pointers in some programs that can be guaranteed to not need more than 4GB of memory (or ASLR or other features enabled by x86-64) is completely outweighed by the costs of keeping both 64-bit and 32-bit libraries on disk and in memory and in cache. That's why even on Linux the x32 ABI was never able to gain traction even among Gentoo users, and why retaining traditional 32-bit support is viewed as only a compatibility measure for closed-source code that literally can't be updated.
And at the end of the day developers worldwide like all humans choose to keep a job, maintain their livelihood and avoid getting fired.

What I find appauling is I need to be disabled to demand a website that doesn't require font.js and 600 trackers to run, that doesn't intercept my scroll wheel or make me use a Google product for captcha.

hyper text mark up language is dead. Long live the world wide web.
If you are on a desktop, you can dedicate a graphics card to windows and run it with PCIe pass through into a VM. Best of both worlds.
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Yeah, that's exactly what I thought: Way to stab a fellow in the back.

"Thank you for all you've done, but you're kind of a creep, so please go do something else with your life. KTHXBYE."
Not sure what the future holds but if we could just remove this gravity effect they could float.

What if they were more like balloons?

I think in the far future we will be able to transport and it will be the cleanest method of travel.
It's not an undue burden. Either don't break screen readers with javascript bullshit, or un-break them by having a sane tab order and present aria tags and image descriptions. Try it with keyboard navigation, listen to what it sounds like, and if it's functional, you pass. It's not that hard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccxVYborUcU was the video I was referencing. It was far more positive than I remember.

https://ftp.fdot.gov/file/d/FTP/FDOT%20LTS/CO/research/Compl... is the research I remember that was more critical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_public_transport is also good.

Less desirable means people that other riders are less likely to want to ride with. From the paper above:

> In the Austin, Texas fare-free demonstration, both anecdotal and official data suggest that problem riders increased substantially and drove away other riders. Joy-riding youth and inebriated adults, as well as vagrants, increased. In addition, in both the Mercer Metro and the Austin, Texas experiences, problem riders actually drove away many of the regular bus commuters. In none of the experiments did the increase in transit ridership include automobile commuters enticed by the fare-free service (Connor, 1979; Kounes, 1993; People for Modern Transit Technical Committee, 2001).
This article and the other one a month or two ago about Sikh truckers in the LA Times have both been fantastic reads.
Photopea is a free online clone of photoshop. Doesn't have every feature but has a large majority of them.
What about burying something on the moon, with monoliths and radio sources marking its location?
Depends on what type of work you're doing. I dont think modern app development would be easy given the amount of dependencies that need to be downloaded. But if you're working on something without that, and have a really good reference manual, than sure maybe. Of course no guarantees things get done is the same amount of time.

I did some kernel work a while back on a machine with no internet access. While I did use the internet on a laptop, it was mainly to read docs get help, so assuming I had all the docs offline, had the source already, and was smart enough with all the background knowledge (I seriously doubt lol), I suppose I could have done it offline.
I don't think that this is about crash reports.

Windows Defender, like many anti-malware apps, checks hashes of binaries. Anything that's new gets uploaded for testing.
It's curious then that they're suing Domino's.

Domino's has a phone number, and every capability the company offers over the web it offers over the phone. In fact, since this business in particular was built on telephone-based ordering, the the phone option is actually the first-class experience, with the web offering only a fraction of the options otherwise available.

So at least in this case, ordering pizza over the phone instead of web is precisely as suitable a substitute as speaking to a waiter instead of reading your Chinese menu in braille.

The plaintiff will argue that regardless of the fact that no business services are actually unavailable, it is the website itself that is being denied. And falling back to a compatible communication medium is inherently unsuitable regardless of whether the fallback is sufficiently functional.

And if that's the case, then it's functionally equivalent to say that failing to provide accessible menus in a restaurant, and falling back to having the menu spoken aloud, is a denial of rights.

I'm not going to say whether it's right or wrong, but it is certainly different than how the law had been interpreted in the past.
> Python (3.x, as 2.x is mostly deprecated) can do and there are plenty of libraries around. Not just for data science, but about everything under the Sun.

Unfortunately there's no great way of managing all of those dependencies for build and deployment.
It's an interesting idea but it's actually harder, due to the low resolution of physical feedback currently available through VR devices. VR remains mostly visual, with input devices either approximate and 3d-spatial, or having physical input devices (in which case VR doesn't help)
Thank you for your insight. One thing that I've wondered for a while is, what do you do about captchas? The whole point of them is to prevent access to the webpage unless a person sees the graphic. Can you sue Google under ada?
I think they have audio?
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A despicable ruling that will only make it harder for start-ups to unseat established players.
I've eaten at a Domino's with only one or two tables and no bathroom. I don't recall what state, possibly Arizona.

But I've done a fair amount of traveling and Domino's seems to position themselves as basically a carryout window. You can call and you can order in person, but most locations seem to do the vast majority of their business via the online ordering system.

They print off labels, slap them on the appropriate boxes and begin making the food. Some locations do a brisk business while only having one or two employees on site, plus one or more delivery drivers.

The employees sometimes clearly find it to be a hardship to take orders by phone or in person. It interrupts their workflow and they are frequently very busy just trying to fill orders coming in off the website.