I've only been doing government-related web dev for a decade, but what about WCAG 2? Are accessibility guidelines not a design standard? They seem to cover issues like contrast, at least.
It’s good they exist, but accessibility is only one aspect of design. The HIG tell you how far a button should be from the edge of the screen. They tell you what specific colors to use for certain items.
Also I’ll just point out that a standard is only meaningful if it’s widely used. We could debate how widely used WCAG 2 is, but it’s not anywhere near other platform standards.
> If you can't tell if something is sentient or not after an extensive interaction with it, then for all intents and purposes it's sentient.
I'm pretty sure my cat is sentient, but I don't take that to imply that it can consent to sex, since its spoken vocabulary appears to be limited to "meow".
Cats don’t consent to sex even within their own species. It is rape every time.
Male cats develop barbs on their penii after about 5-6 months. Female cats don’t ovulate before copulation. It is painful every time and the female cat can’t escape the male cat who detects her estrus. When a female cat is in heat, she can ovulate as many times as a male copulates with her which is why a single litter can be fathered by more than one tomcat.
Why cats evolved this way in nature, we don’t know..but rape is not uncommon at all in the animal kingdom. Nature is brutal.
Websites, RSS feeds, and email. Anybody who can't figure out how to run their own website can just do without. Social networking was a mistake. Human relationships and identity are not things that can be reduced to third normal form and stored in a database.
I feel the same, and TBH this site really isn't much better. It's a groupthink incubator just like Twitter and Facebook, and though I've only been here less than 12 hours I regret signing up.
If you’ve been here 12 hours you probably haven’t gotten the chance to participate much in an actual tech discussion. This weekend has been all political in nature.
During the week when more people are working, more tech focused news/projects tend to be shared and discussed.
Give it another week and then decide if it’s all groupthink.
I've browsed here before but only just registered to participate in discussions on this topic. I've seen far more nuanced discussions and sincere consideration of both sides on HN than most other platforms.
I still find it alarming that so many people perceive these actions as sincere attempts at harm-reduction. Regardless, it is a pleasant to see both sides being represented in the discussion.
I have been here for a few years, there are definitely some areas of groupthink. HN knows it's tech, but it's politics aren't generally as well thought through.
A large portion of tech audiences fall into major Dunning-Kreuger traps. Because they understand something to an expert level they feel they can apply that to other ares ignoring the experts already in that field and their current findings. Combine that with a certain segment being pre-disposed to ESR style feelings and it all eventually turns into ./, a cesspool of trolls and people too high on their own supply to even recognize they've gone off the rails.
> A large portion of tech audiences fall into major Dunning-Kreuger[sic] traps. Because they understand something to an expert level
Which is in itself the Dunning-Kruger effect. A tiny minority of people actually have expert level understanding and knowledge. The vast majority of people who think they have expert level understanding just fail to recognise how large their field actually is.
You can be considered a subject-matter expert for recruitment and employment purposes, and it still never be close to the truth. For most practical business purposes it will be true, but it still wont be the reality.
I didn't recognise that distinction until after I had 12 years experience in my field, and met someone who absolutely blew my mind with their level of knowledge and understanding (and declared themselves to be a subject-matter noob).
You really think there’s no one here who has studied law, politics, philosophy or history? Not everyone here is a big tech engineer. Not everything is black and white.
Couple this also with the Gell-Mann amnesia affect and it makes it that much more difficult to filter information as every source will need to be deeply investigated unto it's root.
The only option seems to be copious and wide reading of data yourself, and then applying that to your own life, while ensuring you provide a veneer that passes muster to those physically around you, unwilling to do the same, and at odds with your personal conclusion.
Easier said than done, when a large portion of your time is spent taking care of mundane work/family matters.
This breakage in trust of the 'common good' by 'experts' in their field - leaders, law enforcement, health, merchants, ensures that the path of least resistance is the "blind belief" in local leadership and their chosen 'expert' supporters.
You cannot judge a community after just half a day of participation, much less in times of turmoil.
From all the networks I participated in, HN is by far most quality-oriented and while the balance of political opinion is different from US average, there is neither mob rule nor cancel culture rampant.
Like any community, it grows and changes. You should give it a chance. Political discussions are not the norm, and if you’re interested in tech, this place can expose and involve you in really thought provoking discussions on myriad topics.
And that’s from someone who got fed up, left for a few years, then returned.
Edit: just don’t tell any jokes. Take that to Reddit :D
I've been here for a bit, just reading but I registered just to suggest you give the site a chance. Personally I feel political topics are often quite slanted towards one side of the argument, however one of the first posts on p1 is exactly why I do read them; a guy convinced of something beginning to doubt those beliefs and then going in discussion with people. I've found quite a lot of thoughtful discussion here and in general I'd say HN is a good broad source of interesting topics. Give it a chance.
I got into better shape during lockdown by buying secondhand kettlebells and working with them with my laptop mic muted during conference calls where I'm expected to listen without saying anything.
Right, and people can't figure out how to do this by reading? Medium alone seems to have at least a dozen articles on how to build your own website, though I haven't bothered to read them and thus can't say whether they just suggesting using Wix, Weebly, or Squarespace (none of which actually count).
And what, exactly, is a "trained Marxist"? Can they quote chapter and verse of Capital and The Communist Manifesto from memory?
Having spent a few years on the Fediverse, I've found that "the left" in the US consists mainly of book clubs and struggle sessions.
The book clubs just read and debate theory ad nauseum. They're a joke, and if you gave most of them an AR-15 they'd shoot themselves in the foot.
The struggle sessions look for people slightly less poorly off than themselves to bully. If they can't find a right-winger, they'll happily go after somebody who's only 99.999% on board with their program. Failing that, they'll pick one of their own at random, accuse them of insufficient ideological purity, and bully them. They're a joke, too, only not quite as funny as the book clubbers.
Why should the nmap developers change their license for IBM's convenience, since Fedora is a Red Hat product and Red Hat is now part of IBM? One might suggest that IBM needs nmap more than nmap needs IBM.
> Political parties should have to earn your vote every election rather than relying on a "force of habit".
That would be nice, but I've practiced "sucks less" voting since I was old enough to cast a ballot. I vote for the party that sucks less. I don't care for the Democrats, but I don't loathe them quite as much as I do the Republicans.
I'd rather not vote at all; I'm not convinced it does anything but rubber-stamp the continued existence of a government that neither represents the people nor serves the general welfare particularly well, but I continue to vote despite my doubts because I could be wrong about its futility.
I think you're right in saying that voting isn't really all that effective --- it isn't (except in 2000), but I don't we should be looking at this from an individual scale, because we're really just tiny little cells in this process.
I tend to look at things from an individual scale because I don't have the tools to do otherwise. Methodological individualism is my hammer, and so everything looks like a nail.
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/
Is it really that hard to run your website through WAVE and fix the issues it identifies?
https://wave.webaim.org/
You don't even need the WAVE website; they provide add-ons for Firefox and Chrome.