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> Formatted text is less accessible.

Is this universally true? I'm not an accessibility expert but from working on a couple 508 projects it seems that formatting such as headings improves accessibility and makes navigation easier.

> If you find you are relying on it, then you should improve your writing skills

Some of the content I email includes screenshots of issues, photographs from studies, iconography, and data visualizations. Beyond ensuring that I include accompanying/alternate text I accept that these will not be accessible.

Other content includes hierarchical lists and snippets of tabular data. While these can be creatively emulated using plain text I find that people doing so typically resort to a jarring sort of ASCII-art approach that ends up being even less accessible than just using the proper semantic tags or markdown.

More broadly I find it disappointing that we ended up in this situation where technical constraints dictate what is good writing. Italics has been part of writing for hundreds of years and now it's relegated to "markup" because of decisions some computer engineers made sixty years ago. Can you imagine if the ASCII standard had stuck with the initial all-caps specification and relegated lowercase letters to be markup? Would we now be arguing that people who don't write in all caps "should improve [their] writing skills"?

Personally I prefer structured text to either plain or formatted text. Formats like markdown aren't perfect but they basically provide what I need so it's disappointing that email clients force us to choose between the extremes of plain text and HTML.
Just because energy needs keep increasing it's not a good reason to be okay they do.

While most house electronics keep pushing to consume less, computers go in the opposite direction.

This also adds tons of heat in my laptops or the air.

Working or gaming in a small room during hot days is painful.

Even consoles making noises of a turbo jet are nowadays considered normal. It's a disaster.
This exact model is used in my city train / rail system so it is possible in the U.S.

I assume it would be more challenging to use this model in our largest Metro areas.
Do remind me of all the plants we were eating during winter, and all the plant-only diets people have been following for millennia. If you're trying to use a fallacy to make your argument, at least make a convincing one.
That's not really virtuoso, that's just what you get a while (5-10 years, sometimes less) after starting your coding career.

My larger point is that they're not worth as much as the coder who can also project manage/lead/mentor/etc, because the latter coder can both be a "virtuoso" (or like 95% of one) and also make the people around them better, and that's substantially more valuable.

The thing folks who "just want to code" don't realize is that their "value above replacement" is never going to be high enough to justify the desired pay increase over time that most folks expect as they advance in their careers.

That said, it's probably more fine if you want to be 10+ years into your career and accept the pay comparable to those more junior coders. Some people do get this by negotiating fewer hours, for example.

And not for nothing, but leading/mentoring is highly achievable for any "virtuoso" coder; not wanting to help others and pitch in on design is a personal choice, as most "virtuoso" coders would probably be great at both if they put in the effort. It just means holding meetings more and coding less, which is outside of their comfort zone and therefore "scary" in some sense.

They could be doing so many other great things, I wish they would please try to get over their insecurities and fears! I will help, as that's my job because I did get over those things and transition into this role from a coding role.
Not a royal privilege though, the commoners enjoy the right to an undisturbed funeral too.
Forests have a nasty habit of catching fire though.
Why? Acid3 just requires basic CSS support and a someone ES5 conformant js-implementation.

Acid2 was specifically built to call IE out and to put browser builders on notice. It tests the most nuanced little quirks of some specific specs; and, because of some changes in the modern standard, doesn’t actually conform anymore.
/r/ShitAmericansSay/ material right here.
It's not being arrested for poor taste. They're being arrested for their actions, not their beliefs.

Is there some democracy somewhere which doesn't have a public nuisance/breaching the peace style law?
I guess it makes sense that it would be a common divider ratio (5000) but $1388 leapt out at me from disassembling the Ensoniq Mirage firmware.
If you have the means to support yourself, please take the sabbatical.

You may regret not taking it later in life.

I myself am a 40 year old man who dropped most of my professional obligations in January of this year. I am on a self described sabbatical as I attempt to reinvent myself as a software engineer.

I really don’t aim to be anyone’s employee; I’m simply trying to monetize a few ideas that I’ve had for a while.

If I am able to find a decent remote gig that would just be icing on the cake I guess.

Don’t ever be afraid to step away from work for a while as long as you have the finances to allow it.

Employers everywhere are hungry for talented individuals and a few months (or even longer) of no work on your resume shouldn’t bother anyone. If it does bother someone, you likely wouldn’t be content working for them in the first place.
They synergize together.

As an example, what's beyond code quality is writing library code where doing the right thing is easier, and is aligned with the system. If, for example, one uses a design pattern whose anti-pattern is misaligned with the overall system, then it is easy to do the right thing locally and the wrong thing systemically.

As another example, the "best practices" are actually sound engineering principles applied specifically and locally. In a different architecture, with a different constraint and use-case, how those principles applied may sometimes look different than what "best practice" says, but not so strange if you understand the engineering principle underlying the "best practice".

Lastly, I would say, "systems thinking" always includes people: the people writing the code, the people making sure the infrastructure is running, the people using the system as end-users, the people supporting the users, the people running the business, the people paying the business, the people depending on the technology. Incorporating that means dipping into a product perspectives where people talk about things like, ux, or "job to be done", or "lived experience" rather than "requirements analysis" or "observability".
You’d need to be heavily invested in corporate retribution to passively aggressively show up for an 8 hour day every weekday and spend most of your time making an effort to do the minimum. What a waste of a life. Your time here is terrifyingly finite, and worth more than all the money in the world.
This reminds me of the binary patching done in The Martian film.
Love Prisma. Been using this for a few side projects as well as on my company projects, and it worked out really well for us.
I think most mainstream sites will upgrade fairly quickly.

It’s great for them—no more password reset emails, etc.
The Android activity switcher has been able to OCR whatever is displayed on the screen since 2018. Nice to see iOS added something like it last year. It's come in handy loads of times.
In moments when I’m not speechless, I usually just say “and so does Mercury and Uranium“.
Blue type universities across the U.S. have changed curriculum to increase the number of classes required to graduate. These classes involve poorly taught concepts of DEI, and in my experience are responsible for the opposite reaction.

Students whom were open to DEI arriving for their first year slog through the curriculum to find that not only is the university hypocrites, but they spend the whole time telling you if you're white, you're privileged. If you're a man, you're privileged. They don't get into why that is, nor do they prove it. They state these opinions as if they're facts. it does not pass basic skepticism.

This makes sense when we understand that universities are political institutions. Their funding is political, their administration is political. This is turn affects the curriculum and whom is allowed into the organization.

By painting the institution blue, they ensure anyone whom is not the same shade of color cannot involve themselves in it. An echo chamber, with almost infinite tax dollars. You should see some of the grants that get accepted for "diversity" purposes, yet denied for essential equipment for effective education in core degrees.

To further expand, universities are hypocrits because they don't actually care about the students once they've paid. They do not accommodate international students, or students from low income backgrounds. Instead they increase basic living costs outside what loans will pay for. This makes it effectively impossible to persue a full time degree. I know if multiple students whom have $0 to their name and work 30+ hours a week. They often drop out and now have nothing.

They have the worst education you can get in most degrees outside of top 0.1% of universities. The course work is either bought from a company, or made up by academics whom have never stepped into private industry not done anything of note. The professors cannot teach it regardless.

They violate the rights of students daily. They don't have tenant rights, or workers rights, or unions, or any of the same protections elsewhere. Right in the contract students sign, they say they can remove anyone for any reason, and they do.

They also hold their own mock courts over claims of sexual harassment and assault. This would be illigal in a sane world, but again, politics. No representation, no jury. Didn't we fight a war over this problem once?

Defund federal student loans, forgive the existing ones. Let the private industry take over, that way we can hold it accountable.
The same sentiment can be applied to current psychedelics research.
Just downloaded the new iOS weather app and it has all the features I use from Dark Sky.

I even prefer the interface!

For what it's worth, I often enjoy when Apple absorbs apps. I thought they did a fantastic job with Shortcuts.
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/seattle-protester-hit-...

"As protesters took to the streets in Indiana on July 6 to decry an alleged hate crime at Lake Monroe, a red Toyota Corolla sped toward them, dragging two protesters along, on the hood and on the side of the car. Both suffered non-life-threatening injuries. A few days later, a 66-year-old white woman was arrested and charged in the incident."

It was a point of pride for many right wingers to threaten to crash their cars into non-violent protestors.
I tend to agree with you that prescriptive notions like this are a little misguided, but I like the spirit of what he's after here.
I get the impression that John Carmack has achieved this, and I bet it required him to forcefully take control of his schedule.

Which reminds me of this game: https://www.saynomo.re/
That reminds me to my favorite Soviet-era joke

An american reporter visits a communist country and asks a person on the street about freedom. He says "America is so free I can stand up on the subway and criticize and say anything about the president, no one would care about it. How is the situation here?" The person replies: "Well I can can stand up on the subway and criticize and say anything about the US president here too, no one would care about it!"
School just doesn’t do very much for learning so homeschool can’t have much of a negative effect. Unschooled children, those who receive no formal, systematic instruction whatever, are only one grade level behind their traditionally schooled peers.

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Odette-Gould/publicatio...
Didn’t know that: hard to believe they managed to pull off additive synthesis on an 8096. That’s impressive

I had a later Kawai K5000 which added short PCM samples for attack transients. That thing was crazy, foolishly gave it away more than a decade ago
I am a long-ago purchaser of Dark Sky. I find I never use it on my iPhone. Carrot Weather is always superior in both the forecast and Radar. Dark Sky's "it will rain in 5 minutes" was hit or miss.

I live in the mountains, so perhaps, Dark Sky works well in a less difficult environment.

That said, if it disappears tomorrow, I won't miss it.
It's all just forces.
> if you look at which countries have sanctioned Russia during the recent war, it's almost entirely this group

I don't know how you define western europe, but the sanctioning countries includes basically all of europe besides Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovivina, Macedonia and Belarus (of course).
beat me to posting that. I do agree its a great visualization.
Is stealing someone else's wallet also in poor taste? Yes.

If that thief gets arrested, is it just because it is poor taste? No.

Same thing with hurling obscenities at a funeral.
> I have yet to see a child that is not curious, you need some war-level trauma to stop children curiosity.

I hope you're right and I'm wrong, but that doesn't reflect my experience at all. Some children are indeed curious, but I wouldn't say anywhere near most. Saying that only serious trauma stops curiosity comes off as overly optimistic, but what do I know.

After all, would you make the same statement about adults? Are nearly all or most adults curious except for when there's trauma? My guess is that you would struggle to make a similar statement about adults in general. If adults aren't that curious, but children are, then why is that?
Fat includes transfat. This back-and-forth does an excellent job of underlining GPs point about those being complex subjects that require study and nuanced explanation.
In the United States, with certain limits [1], one can picket funerals and be massively disrespectful.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westboro_Baptist_Church#Laws_l...
Seriously, reading semiconductor news these days feels like watching dragon ball z. I won't even be surprised if someone announced a cpu that runs at over 9000MHz.
The primary positive effect of cannabis in the general population is probably that it tends to interfere with alcohol consumption, due to excessive sedation. This probably explains the lack of negative population-level effects of cannabis legalization. The most concerning effect of cannabis is its tendency to increase heart rate.

Quite a bit of research is available on the effects of cannabis use — the problem is that people don't read it.
You can pay people to do this. A lot of what people read about is fake.
> But there's no reason you'd ever do the inverse, pushing protobuf schemas around with no intent to handle the wire format.

You could be writing a linter, a formatter, an implementation of the Language Server Protocol, a compiler that's not protoc, a way to apply semantic patches to large numbers of Protobuf schemas, or any number of other useful tools. There's clearly at least some demand for tools like this - partial implementations of most of these exist, often with some corporate backing.

Unless you're implementing a Protobuf runtime (google.golang.org/protobuf in Go, upb for Python, etc.), your experience seems unusual to me - most developers I've encountered read and write the wire format using one of the existing runtimes.

That said, it does sound like a lot of fun - especially if it's in lisp!
I wonder if it has impact on sperm integrity and therefore men who are reproducing should abstain for some time prior to inseminating.
> What I won't get is arrested.

You must have missed the summer of love that we had two years ago, when crowds of protesters were regularly beaten and gassed, and often arrested (Charges would, of course, get dropped, because it's not actually illegal to protest.)

But you are correct, it's possible to protest the British monarchy as much as you want in the US, with next to consequences. :)
Maybe what this says is that you're not paying attention, maybe it says you belong to a group who US police are less likely to target for arrest. Or maybe you'd just end up dead in a ditch instead of arrested, which doesn't seem better than getting arrested.

Bad taste isn't grounds for arrest in the UK either. In the unlikely event any of these people end up actually in court, they'll be charged with something else, in most cases it seems like public order offences. The same sort of charge you'd get if the cops arrest you drunk outside a bar yelling abuse at people and they decide you won't just sober up and go home with a caution.

Here's what the ACLU were able to have released from the White House (in the Bush era) about what the Secret Service do to prepare before a presidential visit:

"As a last resort, security should remove the demonstrators from the event site"

It doesn't say they get arrested, but of course if you're not free to go about your business, then does it really matter whether you were "arrested" or not ?
That's inspiring. Did you have to put up a portfolio of personal projects before switching to that?

Other comments in this thread mention that dilemma as well. I'm in the same position trying to get Golang jobs, coming as a junior dev then running an IT service business.
Feudal and socialist systems had access to cheap energy, and they weren't nearly as successful at raising people out of poverty. In the case of classic centrally planned socialist states, they were likely worse for the environment during development than comparable capitalist states (cf USA vs USSR).
Good. I think the companies history with their tech is reason enough!
I received a final software update from Kawai and had to open it to install the EPROMs, which is how I saw it. It was a very cool synth - very high quality feeling.
You can do that in the UK too, just not during a funeral procession.

The US has laws against protesting at the funerals of Armed Service members. If you really want to rage against something, why not the thing from your own society, instead of the thing from some other society?
Upsetting about the app, but the new iOS weather app has the functionality essentially.

The real gut wrencher is the darksky website going down. It’s how I check weather most of the time a no other browser weather site comes close to it in simplicity and features.
Photographer Sues Miley Cyrus for Copyright Infringement
Or Architects
The lowest contract you can get in italy is 40 cents.

Also, consuming more energy is bad and this rush to apologize lack of innovation in gpu and cpus weve seen in the last decade is ridiculous.

Where does it end? I'm okay with a 5000cc truck because airplanes and cruise ships are much worse?
You are definitely right that computer players are missing some kind of narative-based reasoning for their own moves and for their oppoents' moves. In go it doesn't feel that extreme though. We're taught not to hold too hard to our plans anyway, and most good moves from the opponent will have more than one intention. So you can't get that far relying just on reading what their goal is.

How computers think isn't exactly how we do, for go, but it's close enough to rhyme pretty heavily imo.
Do you really think you should have the right to disrupt the funeral of someone you don’t like?
>While the honeybee flies and forages, it is fueled by the nectar in its honey stomach. When Ambrose field-stripped bees in his study, the bees arriving at the blue honey hives never had blue in their stomachs, but the bees leaving the hive did.

>“That tells you something is happening to the nectar after it reaches the hive to change the color,” Ambrose says.

Sounds like it's a different issue. They are saying they can't determine exactly what the source is
BMI was not created to be a marker for health, it was created by a mathematician to calculate government food allocations. It blows my mind that we still use it.
I agreed with all of that except for fat. You need fat. You don’t need any of the others.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MWyV0kIp5n4 I'm reminded of this poe build that can crash the server with too many spell effects
No, that's fair. I have an additional basic charge too. Congrats on the cheap power.
Thanks for the thought-provoking reply, raising several issues I hadn't considered. It does seem like an inordinately high percentage of third grade teachers are able to learn the equivalent of python microservices on k8s on linux in a single summer as I rarely hear of a teacher being unable to make the leap between 3rd and 4th grade instruction (or vice versa) while developers who are unable to rapidly switch ecosystems is quite common. It is work to be sure, but success seems fairly assured.
Congratulations, you have acscended to MBA level 3 and have (re-)invented stack ranking. A good way to make sure all your employees are miserable, and spend all their time in-fighting, jostling and sabotaging.
In order to get towards that goal, Charles III should up the ante and use his reserve powers to dissolve parliament. Would make for a good show to see what the reaction would be.
When someone mentions addiction people think heroin addiction, but yeah people can become psychologically dependent on cannabis too. I know I did, many years ago.
There's another term recently coined, too, "quiet firing." (I disagree as it's not particularly quiet.) This is when management singles out someone with loads of work, gaslighting, and generally constructively dismisses them but says they're not under the guise of the Performance Improvement Plan - and variations thereof.
I think it's fair to make certain events, like funerals, off-limits to protest.

Freedom of speech does not mean you are free to say anything you want wherever you want. I can't just walk into the Oval Office and start hurling obscenities at the President, and attempting to do so is likely to get me shot by the Secret Service.
Conversely, it makes summer much worse.
My biggest suggestion to anyone looking down this path is, in addition to your normal SWE responsibilities, really understand production engineering concepts (testing, reliability, alerting, monitoring, running an on call rotation, capacity planning, etc). At a smaller company being the one SWE who can do these things in addition to their normal job roles is probably the fastest skill set to develop to unlock staff promo. It's less important to be the quickest arcane bug solver and more important to be the person who can see all of the problems with a system and work independently fixing them.
I was about to quote the same church. Personally I think the UK law got it right on this one.
Blood sugar spikes do strange things to our hunger response.

If your blood sugar is too high the body may produce an emergency response to keep blood sugar down and it may overshoot which makes you hungry much sooner.
One problem is "map matching". That is, given your lat/lng (or, more realistically, a time-series of lat/lngs) and a map, figure out which road you're on.

The thing is that most consumer devices with GPS (like phones and even standalone GPS navigators) have a lot of internal "magic" to hide the raw noise in location fixes from the GPS signal.

For example, certain Garmin devices (intended to be used off road) will snap your location to an Interstate if you are going more than 55 mph and heading roughly in the direction of the road (which is evident when you run into traffic and your location keeps switching between the frontage road and expressway--the error distribution of the noise doesn't have mean=0!).
True, though I'm not so sure I would even assume that wealth facilitates curiosity. Perhaps it doesn't get in the way as the trauma of ghetto life, but there's plenty of well off children who grow up totally uninspired to do anything but walk the beaten path before them, let alone actually learn about things with no clear financial benefit (modern college notwithstanding).