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.)
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:
Webflow engineer here. (On the accessibility team.)
We are on a mission to dramatically make it easier to build for the web and are hiring across a bunch of roles: https://boards.greenhouse.io/webflow.
Feel free to reach out with questions about the roles. Contact me at (my first name) at webflow.com.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
“Because it’s the law” is not a moral argument, it’s an excuse. All manner of immoral deeds can be justified by legal means. In the words of MLK: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.”. You could argue that the law is just, but falling back to “It’s the law” is intellectual laziness.
Not doing something because "you'll be dead before it happens" is pure selfishness. My personal observations from those close to me who don't want to act on climate change seem that their reasons have changed within the last 5 years. They no longer claim that it isn't real or happening, they now dismiss it on grounds of losing the personal liberty provided to them by our over consumption lifestyle. (If you live in the West, then you are likely over consuming.)
So I actually don't think the "doom and gloom" is causing people not to act, if anything the younger generation are acting on that message. (Fridays for Future, etc.) Instead what is delaying action, in my mind, is that the West's middle class is disappearing and now with climate change demanding a further reduction of consumption it is casuing people to try to hold on tighter to their already disappearing lifestyle.
Because the IPCC didn't account for runaway positive feedback loops. So while the rise is slow, it is projected to increase exponentially as more of the Arctic melts: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Sea_Leve... which is from a 2017 NOAA study[1].
It's also worth noting that while 3.3mm a year seems low. That is the average, the sea level is not rising evenly across the world. To make this example a bit more real and close to home as HN is mostly US-centric. The current sea level rise is about ~8in/21cm[2], and Miami Beach is already flooding every year. This is because Miami Beach is experiencing almost a 1in of sea-level rise each year according to Hal Wanless, a coastal geologist at the University of Miami[3]. So using NOAA's own maps which show Miami Beach mostly underwater at 3ft we will hit that scenario in about 30 years at current rates[4], but once again sea level rise is not increasing linearly.
That has quite a bit due to the fact that lobbying works and has an amazing ROI. It only cost about $1 million to divide voters enough to fail to pass a carbon tax in Washington State: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/rival-par.... (I understand it wasn’t just lobbying, but I think it played a major role.)
I hate to be cynical but the ROI of lobbying against climate change is super cheap. How can we switch this equation?
In other industries their past experience is also believed, rather then tested by random facts. I’ve had an interviewer ask me how to change Swift method names when exposing them to Objective C and then take that as an indicator of my whole iOS skill set.
While it does seem like a cycle or that "history bends towards justice", let us remember that history will not bend on it's own. We are the agents of history. It will not passively "cycle back" or "bend itself", we must make actions towards reformatory justice.
"But as I learned in the shadow of an empty steel plant more than two decades ago, while you can’t necessarily bend history to your will, you can do your part to see that, in the words of Dr. King, it “bends toward justice.” So I hope that you will stand up and do what you can to serve your community, shape our history and enrich both your own life and the lives of others across this country." - President Barack Obama - http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1886571...
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.)