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r343l

@r343l@freeradical.zone

I live in Seattle WA (USA) with my family and work in tech. I'm also disabled (mostly deaf & blind on one side). I ride the bus, walk or bike most of the time and I care a lot about our transportation system working for everyone. I spend a lot of my not-work time on local advocacy, family stuff, pottery and our unitarian universalist church. Pronouns: They/Them

Note: I have multiple accounts and not posting all topics from one account. This one is my more general account.

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r343l, to random
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Health insurance being able to dictate how you get certain drugs using their pharmacy is one of the most fucked up things about our system in the US. It seems like nothing but a scheme for corruption.

diana, to random
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@yvonnezlam Made famous in the NewCrafts closing keynote … was a perfect moment set up by other talks here.

r343l,
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@yvonnezlam @diana omg I feel this so hard. at home ironically my partner does the majority of housework but on my dev teams I’m often the one pushing for “housework” to get done before it piles up into scary messes.

r343l,
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@yvonnezlam @diana I am the annoying team member that files issues for the “chores” so as to normalize them as actual work that needs to be done just like new features or whatever. Obviously doesn’t always work but makes me feel better. 😂

janl, to random
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Well, officially in the market for a Slack replacement now. Hit me. What are you personally happy with in a small business setting, strong macOS/iOS support, user friendly, including nontechnical folks?

r343l,
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@menelion @janl are there any alternatives that do well with screen readers / vision disabilities? slack is only in the last few years usable and they routinely break or make worse screen reader usage patterns.

jonny, to random
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Root post for where if you are not this account and you reply to it (untag me plz) your posts will show up in monsterdon feed but not your local TL

r343l,
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@jonny well if it’s like the lord of the rings they can just yank hard.

aardrian, to accessibility
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“Level-Setting Heading Levels”
https://adrianroselli.com/2024/05/level-setting-heading-levels.html

TL;DR: Avoid setting heading levels greater than six (6). This applies whether using aria-level or the proposed headingstart HTML attribute. Use HTML <h#> elements whenever possible.

r343l,
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@aardrian I had no idea that there was ever any ideas for more headings! After like 3 or 4 separate levels it really seems like it’s way too complicated a structure and not providing much value to comprehension … and that’s before I even think about accessibility!

r343l,
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@aardrian Yeah I almost amended that post with “well I guess there is probably very dense academic or regulatory content that maybe needs it???”

But even then I wonder why that content was structured that way to begin with (and thus needs html to support it). :)

scott, to cycling
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Incredible example of lying with graphs from Caltrans. The bike lane pilot on the Richmond–San Rafael Bridge reduced collisions, but they made it look like collisions increased.

Specifically, they divided collisions by vehicle miles traveled. But California's goal is to reduce vehicle miles traveled. So they took two good things achieved by the pilot, and made them cancel out to look like a bad thing. #BikeTooter

Screenshot of the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom's website listing things called for by a climate plan, including: Light-duty vehicle miles traveled (VMT) target of 25% per capita below 1990 levels by 2030

r343l,
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@Andres4NY @scott Those graphs are amazing. I had to look for like 30 seconds to even get wtf is going on. Changing denominators wheeeee.

skinnylatte, to food
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Starting a thread on the different types of tofu and how to cook them. (Some of these are vegan, some are not. In Chinese cooking, tofu is not a vegan protein):

  1. Egg tofu

This is one of my fave tofus. It isn't vegan. It's made with soy beans AND eggs. It has a eggy taste that egg lovers will love; but that goes way entirely when it's panfried lightly.

And this is the egg tofu dish I always order at restaurants (and now make at home) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uthY_SuR_7w&pp=ygUec3BpY2VzIG4gcGFucyBzaXpsaW5nIGVnZyB0b2Z1

a photo of egg tofu, sliced

r343l,
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@skinnylatte We get tofu from thanh son tofu and often when my partner brings it home (admittedly only a less than 10 minute bike ride) it’s often still so warm it is uncomfortably warm to the touch. Though they still do wrap in plastic mostly. It’s also sold in most of the local (asian) grocery stores but not as fresh.

Andres4NY, to acab
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Every time I see cops on bikes a little part of me dies inside. https://partyon.xyz/@nullagent/112362931747693050

r343l,
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@Andres4NY that time during the protests in seattle in 2020 after cops murdered george floyd and a cop here on a bike deliberately ran into someone walking on the sidewalk and it was claimed they attacked the cop.

r343l, to random
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The Danny Westneat of economics bloggers thinks he’s great despite the absurd autocratic tech fascist cosplay. https://newrepublic.com/article/180487/balaji-srinivasan-network-state-plutocrat

This article is just wild and yet another reminder that the top folks “in tech” are often not wise, thoughtful or caring.

r343l,
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I just realized this guy must have read Snow Crash and thought the distopian world the main character navigates would be a great future to bring to reality.

vaurora, to random
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A friend recommended a newsletter for executives in tech and today's issue had a link to a blog post advising tech leaders on how to get better at asking questions. It had this... illustration...

I am confident the author had no idea how much this graphic torpedoed my trust in them. I am realizing that often people who use AI art don't understand how art works

r343l,
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@dave_andersen @vaurora @grimalkina Obviously I am “pattern matchiing”. 😂

r343l, to washington
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Heck yeah high school and college students in and the area! Walkouts and protests occurring at high schools and colleges to call for an end to Israeli violence in Gaza! https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/student-walkout-updates-as-wa-students-protest-israel-hamas-war/

r343l, to random
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I am reading The Spice Must Flow by Ryan Britt which is a kind of loving fan history of the Dune books and media. In it, I learn Herbert got $2,295 for the serialized first part of the first book published in Analog. That’s like $22k today and wow.

So many fun details about the two attempts to make the book into a film before Lynch’s — and before Star Wars. I only knew about Jodorowsky’s which sounds like it would have gone poorly even if visually amazing.

r343l,
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I am highlighting so many sections in this book about the Dune media. I’ve always vaguely wondered who the dedication to one of the De Laurentiis was about — it turns out it’s Dino’s so, also a producer, and a massive fan of Dune who died a bit before they got Lynch involved in the early 1980s. Also Ridley Scott (!) also almost directed. Just it’s like a million little coincidences and surprising influences this author is finding meaning in … which is very Dune-like.

r343l,
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I love the Lynch Dune so much but all these quotes from actors and other folks who worked on it makes me love it even more. If you love Dune or even the complexities of turning books into movieS, this book is so good.

r343l,
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@ucblockhead @wiredog if you can believe it, this book I’m reading makes me love the Lynch version more. Did you know there were two — two! — real attempts to make a movie out of the first Dune book before Lynch?! I knew of only one of them. Also so many screenplay attempts. The choices made for Lynch’s Dune exist for reasons. :)

That the Villeneuve one is as good as it is can probably be partly given to all the previous attempts (multiple quotes in the book back this up).

r343l,
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@ucblockhead @wiredog Multiple of the participants in the current Dune are big fans of both the book and either or both of Lynch’s film or the scifi miniseries. There is an absurd amount of respect for Lynch’s Dune in the industry given it’s popular reputation. :)

kissane, to random
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ugh UGGGHH The Ordinal Society is so good, it’s SO GOOD

couple of days left to preorder: https://theordinalsociety.com

r343l,
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@kissane I have been trying not to buy books because library and I have too many books (many having gone unread). But instead putting on my calendar to recheck and put a hold from my local library. Because woah what a topic.

baldur, to random
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So, it may feel like I’m harping on a bit about JSR—the tech industry’s latest attempt to ‘fix’ the JavaScript ecosystem—but it kind of bugs me how little discussion there is about it

Like, it’s literally a proposal by a VC-funded startup to coopt existing infrastructure and the only comments I’m seeing online are “ooh, they put a lot of work into making it fast.”

There’s no discussion of what it’s for, whether it tells us anything about npm or how that can be improved.

r343l,
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@baldur it is maddening. like we’ve been here before. why would vc-backed or big tech controlled anything fix the system???

also i’m kind of tired of solutions to complexity problems being to add more complexity instead of working to make what people are already using better.

r343l, to random
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For the first time in a while went okay and I (a) was able to go physically and emotionally and (b) am not leaving horribly disappointed at what I did. Also I threw some weird (hopefully gaiwan lid) things off the hump which was my first time trying to throw anything off the hump (they look like little floppy plates because I can’t cut level).

https://flic.kr/p/2pJUrQm

grimalkina, to random
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Realizing how many software engineering conversations pull probability estimates out of thin air is gonna radicalize me, a person who assumes that every probability estimate is OF COURSE based on empirical data and real statistics

r343l,
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@grimalkina @jenniferplusplus fwiw my CS program (over 20 years ago) didn’t require so much calc and did have a discrete math course that also covered some (very basic) number theory and other courses covered some basic stats. But it was by no means holistic. I was a dual math/CS person and probably my biggest regret is dropping the general math department stats course. I’ve had to learn bits and pieces because it turns out stats are hella useful. 😂

r343l, to random
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I have mostly converted a large monorepo of typescript packages that build up a handful of servers from targeting CommonJS (CJS) to ESM. My brain is now (more) broken.

I begin to believe that a future malicious AI has been time traveling to influence the development of Javascript to waste as much human effort and physical resources as possible.

r343l,
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I'm sure I'll find some subtle tsconfig thing I missed or is wrong for the particular case (I already found some cases where we have to use CJS for reasons that I mistakenly made ESM too aggressively) but ugh. I thought this task would be a couple hours at most (there's tooling to automate changes like import paths) but it's been many more than that.

r343l,
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As per usual when I’m snarled in some nonsense and worked too late, sleeping aka a break helps. My CS course barely covered “debugging” but they certainly didn’t cover “sleep on it” as one of the most effective techniques.

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