I competed against these guys in the hackathon, it was absurd how much more polished everything was compared to the rest of us!
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It's been getting a bit more expensive due to Chinese students and also people moving north from England but it's still very affordable compared to most places.
Have any of you had any successes in getting your colleagues or organisation to really care about accessibility and not see it as an afterthought?
I find it really hard to get folk on board with a11y efforts, as most people see a11y tests as an annoyance above else.
When I raise it in meetings etc, I get quite a lot of positive responses but no concrete action.
My main means of trying to get this to change so far is to try and get in touch with a group of users with accessibility needs to show my Devs the impact of their work. Any other ideas would be strongly appreciated.
Sometimes it seems to actually work but the condition seems to adapt to any consistent mechanism to calm her down.
``` Given these X files, help me assess how best to implement feature Y. Ask any clarifying questions that may assist with writing a best practice solution. *File 1* *File 2* *File 3* ... ```
If the context length is a problem I'll use claude-100k.
Pretty much always results in good quality code.
I'll then typically open a new window context and get it to review according to best practices highlighting missing e.g. error handling or possible edge cases.
The biggest example from my own childhood was WWE (WWF at the time). The simplicity of the scripts etc seemed to be explicitly targeted towards kids who would then, predictably, try to copy the wrestling moves on their friends.
It's a million times more harmful than seeing the human body sans garments.
Obviously there are specific types of porn that I'd be mildly concerned by my child being exposed to, but generally speaking it's the violence and inherently problematic power structures within that are the fundamental issue, not the nudity.
That being said, regardless of anyone's political stance, you saying 'because you made bad decisions' is inflammatory, and clearly based on the assumption that the pregnancy was a result of fully consensual sex.
Don't be that guy.
It's led to friendships with many many people (and their managers) and a broader understanding of lots of things and is definitely the key to my own career progression.
It's most definitely not my code!
I think when I was in China I was basically in a perpetual state of food poisoning for several years.
I'd often come up with little stories to teach myself some of the more complex Chinese characters when I was learning quite intensively and found I never struggled to remember those words after doing so.
I had a feeling it must be at least partly due to their increased role in child rearing among most families.
This is partly just traditional Chinese culture but probably also comes in part due to the awful working hours most Chinese people tend to face. It's very common to just dump your kids on your parents out there.
It does cause some issues, as the grandparents tend to have more ... traditional parenting approaches (corporal punishment fairly common) but for the elderly themselves it's definitely something they really look forward to in their later years.
Similarly, the PSBs in some cities have used social media contacts as a means of working out which foreign English teachers to do impromptu drug testing on.
He was definitely right about the isolation it caused though!
Unfortunately we in Glasgow are still dealing with this nonsense in 2022.
Feels like a huge gap in their offerings.