There is a very active discord community around the sensor watch. Come join us; https://discord.gg/Rdd9ewREaJ. I'm currently working on adding step counting support to the sensor watch pro. (Also I'd appreciate the help in getting a low power and low computation cost step counter working, which is a bit hard when your battery budget is a CR2016.)
I customized the pulsometer by adding the calibration feature so I could use it as an asthmometer at work. This watch has saved lives and I mean that literally. I also helped maintain the first movement before the migration to the second movement firmware, merged in quite a lot of features.
Joey is one of the nicest maintainers I've ever worked with. The discord community is very nice as well. Haven't been very active nowadays due to life matters but I still monitor the discord and try to answer questions.
Engineer who specializes in digital accessibility here.
I wanted to clear up a few misconceptions on this point:
"""There is no easy way to jump long distances in the interface: TAB key navigation obligates you to go through all elements between your starting point and the target point;"""
1. TAB key navigation obligates you to go through all elements
Tab actually should behave as the key to enter and exit widgets. Yes some widgets are a single item, like buttons and links, but for more complex widgets you should be using the Arrow keys to navigate.
(Tip: Shift + Tab to move focus backwards on a page.)
Also pay attention to what happened when you move focus to the second tab and then move away from the Widget and then come back to it. You refocus to the previously active element, not the first on. This is called a "Roving Tabindex" a very common pattern.
This solves the problem of:
A. Having to press TAB a lot to move through a page
B. Making it clear when you enter and exit a widget
These specs/keyboard design patterns have existed for a long time, but most folks only focus on the WCAG which only talks about keyboard focus so folks think everything needs to be "tabable".
2. Tab is the only way to navigate with the keyboard
Nope. Most folks who use screen readers actually navigate by headings and page landmarks. Unfortunately that navigation isn't on by default but there does exist some extensions that can turn those on for everyone:
>In human relationships we can't optimize without becoming greedy selfish unethical crooks. And in commerce we prefer relations to transactions, ready to support the local butcher because we feel we are part of a community and we are not alone --we are paid back with a smile and someone who says hello in the street. Indeed the central flaw in optimization is thinking that "everything else" ceases to exist and makes people think the individual, not the collective, is the true unit --when such thinking blows up the system. We humans are punished when we try to optimize, as if we suddenly ceased to be humans.
> In human relationships we can't optimize without becoming greedy selfish unethical crooks.
I disagree. I optimize for myself AND the people around me. That is because I don't feel good when I have everything and others have nothing.
> we are optimized enough for survival already
Survival up to reproduction age, and maybe a bit more for raising grandkids. Past that, everything is our own making - we haven't ever lived so long, and the current epidemic of heart disease and cancer is as a result of never-before-seen ages and chemical substances - like the Standard American Diet.
> I disagree. I optimize for myself AND the people around me. That is because I don't feel good when I have everything and others have nothing.
How much do you optimize for the people around you? Do you spread things between yourself and others equally, or optimize that everyone still get some, but you still get most?
I don't mean that as a challenge or attack. It's a genuine question.
That is not always true in my experience. Several generations on my and my wife's families put up with backbreaking hard work and privations in order to build a better future for later generations. Simultaneously other branches of our families spent what they had and enjoyed better lives at the time instead. It was a huge investment that really paid off in my generation, my family's debt to them is incalculable and largely unpayable.
I wonder how true the preference for relationship over transaction is. I buy fish from my local fishmonger because it’s qualitatively substantially better tasting. If that stopped being true, my relationship with him would end immediately and “supermarket fish it is now, because that’s about 50% the cost”. He can basically only stay in business by competing on quality because he can’t possibly compete on price and there aren’t enough people who would pay his rent out of a sense of charity for the local fish butcher.
If your fishmonger is good they've correctly identified you as a quality-driven customer. And for you quality means freshness trumps cut, which trumps knowledge, which trumps variety, which trumps packaging and so on.
Another customer was identified as driven by service, banter, tradition, speed, familiarity etc.
I thought the data in sport stuff was interesting, but the rest of your arguments were fairly superficial and got lost in the weeds.
I guess my main gripe was that a lot of your thesis can be explained by trend. Women looking like Kardashian is simply no different than looking like Sophia Lauren in a bygone era. AirBnB's being sameish? Go back to the 70s and notice the uniformity of interior design with plywood, rockwalls, bright orange vinyl, etc. Brand mascots being smoother and slicker - again - just reifying the values of our era in the same way the original mascots reflected the masculine values of their day.
As for your broader argument about refinement (itself a clumsy descriptor for all this) - is this really anything new? Hasn't optimisation been the fundamental constant since humans started doing stuff?
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Not as strange an idea as you would think. In fact the ARM instruction set has a instruction for "Floating-point Javascript Convert to Signed fixed-point, rounding toward Zero" FJCVTZS.[0] Considering the ubiquity of JS I expect more "JS/Wasm instructions" to be added in the future. (A Wasm co-processor appearing in 5 years is a bet I'm willing to make.)
This quote is so good from the interview with Rachel Lo, co-founder of Struck:
“I’ve always been a very science-focused person (I studied Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science), and used to be more opposed Eastern philosophies and traditions (which is a whole thing to unpack as an Asian kid growing up in a white community), but I started seeing the benefits to having a more readily available language to express empathy/emotions in the form of astrology.”
It very briefly describes why you shouldn’t be so dismissive of astrology. Even if it’s not a hard science, that doesn’t mean that it’s useless in other people’s lives. It helps them communicate real emotional needs and wants.
It might help them communicate real emotions, but it is also used to skirt responsibilities of ones actions and be dismissive of others based on a trait they have no control over.
And I’m not defending people who do that. But this also kind of proves the point of the article that we are quick to stereotype folks who do astrology, when it’s likely a very diverse thinking group. I know a few friends into it and for them it’s a bit real and a bit tongue in check. Ask your friends who are into astrology, I bet not all use it as a tool to dismiss actions or predestine things.
> But this also kind of proves the point of the article that we are quick to stereotype folks who do astrology, when it’s likely a very diverse thinking group.
I don't think most people stereotype people who do astrology.
Some seem to think they display a dramatic lack of intelligence however but I personally am fine with them being a diverse group of idiots.
Making excuses for one's own bad behaviours has nothing to do with the context, it has to do purely with the individual's integrity and holding oneself accountable or lack thereof.
From my point of view is that it provides people and escape from decision paralysis. They’re not going to generally do something they’re opposed to because the stars say so, but they’ll use some arbitrary bullshit criteria to chose between multiple equally good options. It’s no different from flipping a coin, but coin flipping is a fine way to make a decision sometimes.
How does astrology help express emotional needs and wants? Is it something that only works for some people, whose emotions happen to match those predicted by astrology?
A way I could see it work is that you get a series of (randomly generated) statements about who you are. You then go through them, and either say "yes that's me" or "no that doesn't fit". This exercise helps you reflect on your identity.
Then you might communicate to someone else "I'm pretty <trait x> for a <sign a>". Then they know that you have <trait x> and <trait y> (because it is associated with your sign and you didn't reject it).
I'm sorry but that is likely never going to happen. iOS is a custom version of OS X, which is a fork of FreeBSD. That C is likely never going to be completely replaced.
I love Swift, it's a great language, but we shouldn't rewrite our stacks every time a better language comes out. This is where the engineering trade-offs come in. Maybe over time, but over a long period of time.
I think you are correct in saying that iOS will never get rewritten.
But I think that you are incorrect in saying that it shouldn’t get re-written.
Memory-safety is a compelling reason to re-write something. It’s not just a flavor of the month thing, there are real and large security benefits to rewriting your shit in a memory safe language.
Honestly for any large projects (ie scale of iOS) it is amusing to see people think that they can forego a memory safe language and still be “secure.” Subscribe to the iOS discloses vulnerability mailing list and take a look at how many of those vulnerabilities are because of the lack of memory safety. Hint: it’s often the vast majority of them.
This author is asserting 5 years of lockdown but gives no reasons why specifically 5 years. They talk about the possibility of no vaccine working and herd immunity not working if the immune window is too small, etc. But how does that equate to 5 years of lockdown? Why 5 years and not just say indefinitely then? Am I missing something?
Also I don't think the global economy can afford 5 year lockdown, it will cause starvation among with other cause of death, which might end up 'killing' more than covid-19
I don't get the "starvation" point. As far as I know, nowhere in the world does "lockdown" mean "farmers aren't allowed to tend to their fields and animals". I live in Austria, which has been in "lockdown" for almost six weeks now. The shops are full of fresh food: Both food production and distribution are working exactly as before. There are non-staple foods where production is endangered -- asparagus and strawberries, I think -- because they depend on obscenely cheap foreign labor, which will now be flown in and given special exemptions. But even without that, we wouldn't starve without asparagus and strawberries.
Could you explain what kind of lockdown model you are thinking of that would prohibit production or distribution of food?
Worse thing is, starvation will be the lesser concern if it were to happen. People won't let themselves die of starvation, they will kill for food. Food scarcity will be nothing compared to the ensuing violence.
No idea why it would be 5 years. But a lockdown would not result in starvation. Why would it? We "only" lock down social life (bad enough with all kinds of negative impacts on people, society and economy), but the food supply won't brake down. Why would it? All necessary things will be kept open.
Worldwide, that's not to be taken for granted. Here in Russia, the police is sometimes stopping agricultural workers from planting their crops because of the lockdowns. (Source in Russian: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/4311038)
I think the point was not that food distribution would fail, but that the more disadvantaged slice of the population would not have money to buy food anymore.
It’s a finger in the air estimate, based on “a vaccine is 12-18 months away”, expanded to “2 years for widespread deployment”, padded a bit for contingency.
As an intentionally pessimistic estimate, to counteract all the over-optimistic estimates, I think it makes sense.
Would you prefer it as “5 years until a return to normality”?
But the argument "These estimates are way to optimistic; don't pay attention. Here's my equally ridiculous pessimistic estimate. Pay attention!" carries no weight. It's that annoying person who always stakes out the contrarian position just because.
So the headline and thesis have been successful in getting us discussing the situation, but the content is weak with no evidence from a source with zero credibility.
I see what you mean, but I’m not sure how it could be improved.
For me personally, just saying “prepare for a much longer lockdown” wouldn’t be better; without a concrete number it makes much less of an impact.
With a concrete number in there, even if it’s very clearly just a guesstimate with huge error bars, it makes you think about what the effects might be in the real world, which I think is helpful (in fact it’s the very point of the whole post).
Here is what I found through searching. [0] Another author did also warn against the assumption that increased THC smoking -> increased psychosis chance. [1] It needs to be studied more, but so far we have found some possible links.
There is a very active discord community around the sensor watch. Come join us; https://discord.gg/Rdd9ewREaJ. I'm currently working on adding step counting support to the sensor watch pro. (Also I'd appreciate the help in getting a low power and low computation cost step counter working, which is a bit hard when your battery budget is a CR2016.)