Article about accessibility - code snippets added as images. And what about alt text? It just broadly summarizes what is displayed in image. I think there might be a tiny little problem here.
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Readit Newssuperpie commented on Automated accessibility testing at Slack slack.engineering/automat... · Posted by u/teivah
A manual transmission does have one upside. It creates engagement around the experience of driving, which I believe is something many vehicles lack. I sound like [old man yells at cloud], but people just do not seem to be paying attention to what they're doing in their giant metal death machines these days.
There are the fun aspects obviously. I know that when I want to pass another car, go around a corner at speed, and navigate snowy roads I'll be in exactly the right gear without the computer having to guess what I want. But those are secondary to the demand of attention created by it.
superpie commented on Battery Eliminator Store – Never Buy or Replace a Battery Again batteryeliminatorstore.co... · Posted by u/gurjeet
Genius, why use rechargeable batteries when I can tether my portable device to a plug pack!
It seems this is more likely for devices that are stationary but limited to battery power. Off the top of my head, I could imagine replacing the battery in my electronic front door lock with a tidy hardwire to avoid the need for occasional replacement.
Maybe I've just been out of the scene too long, but can't let mention of Linux gaming luminaries go without Ryan C. Gordon of Loki Games/icculus.org. For many years, if there was a big project coming to Linux, Ryan Gordon was likely to be the wizard behind it.
His homepage: http://icculus.org/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_C._Gordon
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/icculus
It's fantastic that he provided a place to host code for game modders / developers as well, I definitely spent years of my life playing http://svn.icculus.org/tremulous/
While I'm for blocking malicious ads, I'm not huge on the idea of one of the biggest advertising companies deciding what ads get blocked in the world's most popular browser.
superpie commented on Show HN: A platform to encourage friendly competition within your office breadsticks.org/... · Posted by u/jetset15
This seems horrendously expensive at $36 per user per year to incentivize basic community tasks. Maybe it just doesn't fit into my world, where we do things like put dishes in the dishwasher as we use them and put them away when they're clean.
As if Jony Ive's focus on "smaller/slimmer" isn't largely to blame for several of the big misses.
Unreliable butterfly keyboards. Unservicable/unrepairable hardware. Magic Mice with recharging ports on the bottom (rending them useless while recharging). Useful ports being subtracted in order to satisfy the "slimmer/lighter" fetish now requiring a dongle for interconnects, a general disinterest in MacOS compared to Apple's focus on iPhone/iOS/tablet. A phone that loses signal if you hold it "wrong." etc.
All cases where Apple chose purity of design over real-world performance.
Jony, welcome to the club you helped build.
Almost everything they design seems to require a case as well, which contradicts the spirit of the wonderful looking products they sell. Camera bumps that scrape against tables on all of the iDevices, and laptop feet so shallow that the bottom of my MacBook is scuffed up in the center from normal use have cosmetically destroyed my uncased devices.
superpie commented on Facebook is redesigning its core app theverge.com/2019/4/30/18... · Posted by u/pgodzin
I quit FB more than a year ago but stared going in my profile again because I had to create a page for my app and I am shocked how slow and cluttered fb desktop site has become. its alarmingly bad, like terrible and yet I read on the news that their advertising revenue has increased. did people start using fb more? who clicks on these ads? who buys stuff on fb.
Facebook sort-of-recently introduced measures to defeat ad blockers, which I think has greatly increased the number of clicks.
A while back I'd explored trying to own my data, especially with email, and found that the efforts involved in hosting your own email server were tantamount to a full-time job.
The amount of fighting you have to do to stay on everyone's whitelists is absurd.
superpie commented on Show HN: Weight Lifting Algorithm Based on 5M Workouts getfitnessai.com/... · Posted by u/jakemor
Not a fan of the predatory "Sign up for a 7 day free trial, and if you forget to cancel we'll bill you $60 for the year membership" system. It's also a week trial, but the AI takes 8 workouts to learn -- not great for a comprehensive demo at all.