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tekromancr··on For a legally blind player, Far Cry 6’s accessibility options are empowering
Hire disabled people to use your app, listen to what they say, integrate their feedback, iterate. That's really what it comes down to. There are AXE tools for testing obvious accessibility issues in websites; but that isn't a perfect replacement for hiring testers
tekromancr··on What caused all the supply chain bottlenecks?
The one I have I run a hot and cold line into it for warm water; then I just sit for a minute or two to air dry. I don't live in a particularly hot or dry region, either.
tekromancr··on Plant-based meat deceleration signals niche future
IMO, May Wah has absolutely nailed the texture and taste of chicken, particularly if you season it.
tekromancr··on [dead]
But HN doesn't have any facebook trackers
tekromancr··on Pausing “Instagram Kids” and building parental supervision tools
What you describe is antithetical to capitalism as it is currently implemented
tekromancr··on Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion law takes effect
A comment like this implies a belief that people on mass are going through the costly, physically and emotionally painful process of getting an abortion as a form of contraception which... just isn't happening
tekromancr··on Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion law takes effect
So, a few issues with this argument.

No one is arguing that fertilized embryos are not life, in the same sense that my cuticle clippings, hair clippings or ejaculate are life. The argument whether they are human _lives_.

Second, even if one was to believe, intellectually, that a fertilized embryo was a human life; I would STILL expect that person to choose to save the actual, breathing, thinking entity. The one that is capable of surviving independently for more that 8 seconds when not biologically linked to another organism. This is something that every human being understands on a deep, instinctual level. The type of person who would make the alternate choice is a sociopath trying to prove a point.

Finally, it would be a mistake presuppose that I fail to understand the opinion of the antiabortionist. I grew up in bible country. I was raised on this shit. I was indoctrinated into these beliefs, and it wasn't until I started examining them under a critical lens that I cast them aside.

tekromancr··on Prison Company Patents VR to Give Inmates Brief Taste of Freedom
This is evil, and everyone working on these sorts of things are irredeemable.
tekromancr··on Ask HN: Have you found it difficult to get quality technical content on YouTube?
I have found quite a few good creators on youtube.

Devops: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdngmbVKX1Tgre699-XLlUA Infosec: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiveOverflow

IDK, I think this might be better listed as an "awesome-x" list

tekromancr··on Show HN: Chat with your contacts on different platforms without an app
+1 to this!

I did something similar and you can deploy the whole deal on a cheep VM somewhere using https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy/t...

It probably took me about 2 hours total to work through the documentation and get everything configured just the way I wanted it, then you just run a couple ansible commands and boop, you have a matrix homeserver + web ui + jitsi meet + bridges to whatever you want.

It's pretty great! It's my goto chat app now.

tekromancr··on Salesforce offers to help staff leave Texas as abortion law takes effect
As much as anti-abortionists will jump up and down screaming "it's murder!"; I don't think they genuinely believe that.

If you had a choice between saving the life of an actual, breathing, crying child vs a tray, filled with dishes, all together accounting for HUNDREDS of fertilized embryos the choice is obvious.

The anti-abortionist would have you believe otherwise, of course, but I think deep down in their souls they know it's true.

tekromancr··on Phony diagnoses hide high rates of drugging at nursing homes
Its wild that THAT is where the line is wrt giving drugs to children, particularly in the context of giving kids incredibly powerful, schedule-class stimulants
tekromancr··on Honk: An ActivityPub server with minimal setup and support costs
Whatnow?
tekromancr··on How Docker broke in half
And that is a sound solution if you have limitless VC bux to burn while you implement your over-engineered solution, but most shops have to be a little bit scrappier.

Not to mention that you end up scaling to a size where k8s is a sound solution, that "costly" migration is going to be a rounding error on your balance sheet

tekromancr··on LAPD officers told to collect social media data on every civilian they stop
I mean... we do have a stasi equivalent now...
tekromancr··on Pedalboard: Spotify’s Audio Effects Library for Python
> maybe not a large fraction of music creators are coders

I think you would be surprised to know how large that middle spot in the venn diagram is

tekromancr··on Tripwire CEO 'Steps Down' After Supporting Texas Anti-Abortion Law
The law reinvents stasi with extra steps. I think even people against abortion can see the lack of wisdom incentivizing p2p spying.
tekromancr··on Follow boring advice
I don't know that to be true. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14692598/

the only study I can find that points to excercise lowering resting metabolic rate is one from 1989 that had nine subjects.

tekromancr··on Follow boring advice
CICO is just physics; but you need to work BOTH sides of that equation. If you ONLY try to shift the balance to deficit by limiting intake, of COURSE your body is going to react to the new starvation environment. That's why you should moderately reduce intake while ALSO moderately increasing output (i.e. do physical activity)
tekromancr··on Mosh's tolerance for high packet loss helps a guy escape from an elevator
Wild that so many of us have that memorized.
tekromancr··on Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
Keep going! How did there come to be schools that were predominantly black? Why is school funding tied to property taxes? Why isn't there a level of mobility that would allow students to go to a more well funded school? Who made these policies and why?
tekromancr··on Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
Indian Muslims, a group that experiences increasing marginalization within that large diverse country; would probably not
tekromancr··on Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
Race plays an incredibly powerful role in society. Every aspect of your lived experience is shaped by it, in fact.

From what resources you are likely to have available to you in childhood; how you are treated by the justice system; what jobs are available to you; your ability to get a mortgage despite having good credit.

tekromancr··on Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
Nothing is stopping you from consuming content that centers Black people. There has been an absolute renesance in the last few years of stories that focus on black lives in ways that haven't really been told in pop culture before, especially in TV.

And the best part is these shows are good! They are really fucking good!

Nothing is stopping you from consuming that content and incorporating into that homogeneous base upon which you build your interactions.

tekromancr··on Launch HN: BlackOakTV (YC S21) – Netflix for black people
I think you may be horrified to learn that American schools are still segregated

https://www.epi.org/publication/schools-are-still-segregated...

tekromancr··on NYC to mandate proof of vaccination for many indoor settings
That's a bit dramatic, no? The proposal is wear masks and get a needle in your sholder, we aren't putting people in concentration camps here.

I see it as on par with indoor smoking bans and seatbelts. You are giving up a relatively small degree of freedom in order to stop a highly contagious, highly mutable virus; and yes, to protect people who aren't you.

tekromancr··on The Push for a “PBS for the Internet”
It's almost like Alex Jones/qanon/alt-right/whatever are the logical conclusions of the conservative ideology.
tekromancr··on Facebook has sold 4M Quest 2 headsets in the US, recall docs reveal
It's not incredible now, but it's a lot better than it once was. I watched a few movies on an airplane recently and I noticed some fuzziness at first, but stopped noticing it after a while.

This was on quest 1

tekromancr··on Father builds exoskeleton to help wheelchair-bound son walk
This is what's known as doing the bare minimum to keep the guillotines put away
tekromancr··on My Steam Game Revenue Stats
Tenth game, according to the post
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