On May 17 and 18 the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Truth Project asked 36,139 Arab Americans and “allied voters,” “Who are you voting for in November?” 2,196 people responded....
At an industry presentation about dangerous “forever chemicals,” lawyers predicted a wave of lawsuits that could dwarf asbestos litigation, audio from the event revealed....
“Inspired” by the Square-Enix putting their foot in their mouth thread, I thought it’d be interesting to make a little thread about indie games. People always talk about wanting to try different, cheaper titles, but with how hard it is to get good gaming news and the state of advertisement/marketing, word of mouth tends to...
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Y'a quelqu'un.e qui a carafé du vin, chez moi, quand j'étais pas là, j'ai jamais carafé du vin et j'ai pas cet objet. C'est forcément Ado1, y'avait que lui 😳😳😳
J'vais attendre son retour en me servant un verre 😁
I heard many folks at PyCon — including a few very prominent ones who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty! — claiming that “black text on a white background” is uniformly and obviously the superior accessibility choice for conference presentations, for various reasons. This is, at the very least, debatable, and I think it would not be too spicy of a take to say it is straightforwardly incorrect. Some evidence follows: 🧵
"The "They'd have more time to practice the talk"" argument?
That's indeed a hot take, because the best time to practice and fix a talk is the time in public transport (trains, planes) and the evening before in the hotel, when normal work distractions are fewer.
Requiring you to pre-submit the slides will lead to talks with a worse flow, more errors and unhappy speakers.
