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siblingpastry

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Technical consultant at TPGi, JavaScript accessibility specialist, writer, musician, neurodivergent (ADHD), vegetarian, socialist.

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aardrian, to random
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Do another run-through of my slides for tomorrow or watch this commercial-laden broadcast re-run of “Galaxy Quest” on TV?

Yeah, I chose “Galaxy Quest”.

siblingpastry,
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@aardrian You can just call the former choice “over rehearsing” and then you’re making the right choice either way 😁

siblingpastry, to random
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Ha ha, Bode is the same voice actor as Kotallo. I thought I recognized him :-)

I wish there were more save points though. Why is there no gameplay option to have more of them?

And anyway ... fucking save points?? What is this, 1998? I thought we left that shit in the dust along with 8MB memory cards.

siblingpastry,
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After the third time of repeating the same long section, with all the enemies respawned and all the collectibles needing to be found again, I rage quit and deleted the game.

It’s just not fun, and there’s no technical reason why it needs to be this way, only the hubris of flawed mechanics.

ppk, to random
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Is it possible, with at-property or something, to read an HTML attribute as a number and assign it to flex-grow?

I can read the attribute value just fine, but I suspect it is passed to flex-grow as not-a-number-but-something-else.

Not sure if this can be solved; I didn't find any <number> type for at-property. I tried <length> but it didn't work.

/cc @leaverou

siblingpastry,
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@ppk @leaverou There is specification in CSS 5 to support this (https://w3c.github.io/csswg-drafts/css-values-5/#attr-types) however you can see from mozdev how nothing supports it yet (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/attr#browser_compatibility)

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@leaverou @ppk Wow. Do you know what's holding it up, is it technically difficult to implement, or there just isn't much enthusiasm to do so?

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@leaverou @ppk That’s a real shame. The ability to use attributes for declarative configuration of JS and CSS library functionality would be so incredibly useful.

joelanman, to random
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Well this is fascist
https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/status/1653745710724968448?s=20

siblingpastry,
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@joelanman And pure hypocrisy. There are 1,800 planned events across London to celebrate the coronation, and all of them will cause significant disruption. Shouldn't they all be banned then?

sarajw, to webdev
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I have come to understand some people still do not know color-scheme, and that it's a nice way to make dark mode scrollbars without doing the things @eric will tell you is a bad idea :)

So here you go!

https://sarajoy.dev/blog/color-scheme/

siblingpastry,
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@sarajw @eric Don’t the scroll bars honour the system dark mode setting?

If a user has chosen dark mode for the page but light mode for the system, and the scroll bar matches the system - then you're applying the page setting to a system component, which is wrong.

siblingpastry,
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@sarajw @eric But the scroll bar is not part of the page, it's part of the system.

siblingpastry,
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@sarajw @eric No there isn’t- what you’re suggesting is wrong - no argument.

siblingpastry, (edited )
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@sarajw @eric Yea I know that, that is precisely the point I made at the start, and precisely why authors shouldn’t do this. The scroll bar is not part of the page, it’s part of the system, so if a user chooses a different mode for the page than they choose for the system, the scroll bar must match the system mode.

dgar, to random
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Doctor: Do you smoke or drink alcohol?

Me: I drink it.

siblingpastry,
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@dgar @TazPoltorak I used to know someone who tried IV injecting it. And. Well. Don't do that.

siblingpastry, to random
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Note/reminder that JAWS has a public bug-tracker for issues relating to web standards implementation. Stuff like incorrect ARIA support, unexpected behavior with HTML, CSS or SVG, can be logged here by anyone.

The bug-tracker can be found here: https://github.com/FreedomScientific/VFO-standards-support/issues

And there's a post on the TPGi blog that talks more about it: https://www.tpgi.com/jaws-wide-open/

eniko, to random
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Still can't believe people on Steam would whine about Kitsune Zero being FIVE. DOLLARS. because it's a reskin that "only" adds TWENTY FOUR new levels, new enemies, and a story with voice acting

Like, mfer wtf do you think a DLC is exactly?

siblingpastry,
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@eniko This is the same experience I had with contracting as a web developer: the lowest-value clients are the ones who most complain about the price.

siblingpastry, to random
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I've been playing with ChatGPT, asking it for a technical solution to a difficult problem, and each solution is slightly wrong. When I tell it why that solution is wrong, its correction is right.

So bit by bit it gets to the right solution. But it only gets there because I already know the answer and I'm training it to give that answer.

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@scenario @dgar Lol at least ChatGPT admits when it’s wrong, humans are often more like “yeah but no but”

siblingpastry,
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@BlahBlah Yeah I've given up trying to have those kind of conversations with it, all it does is regurgitate stuff it's read and didn't understand.

Mind you, I did have an awesome chat with it exploring sociology and cultural evolution in the Star Trek universe. That was great.

siblingpastry, (edited )
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@scenario @dgar There's something that creeps me about it, the whole concept of making machines seem human. Are they just trying to pass the Turing test?

And it's not even how it's so hard to remember they're not human, that they have no intent, no awareness, no concept of truth.

It's that, I can't shake the feeling that if we learn to treat machines like humans, we'll end up treating humans like machines.

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@dgar @scenario I wonder if it could end up manifesting the machine equivalent of cognitive bias, as in, not the bias acquired from its training data, but bias it came up with on its own.

I'm at the limit of what I understand about this stuff. I'm just gonna wait and see how it pans out. But I can't pretend I'm not quite worried. Science-fiction has an eery habit of happening, most by self-fulfilled prophecy. It's the people who shape it to their agenda that worry me, not the technology.

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@BlahBlah It's actually really fun, as long as you remember that it's just the middle button on your phone -- advanced predictive text, and nothing more. At least for now.

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@dgar @scenario There was even a joke about that in Brooklyn 9-9: “Evidence? That’s a photograph, you can’t trust that” 🤣

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    siblingpastry,
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    @ElementalEcho I’m not sure I know what you’re referring to specifically. What would manipulators like you to think?

    siblingpastry,
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    @ElementalEcho I agree that the concept of a lie is based on purposeful deceit. Saying what you believe to be true is not a lie, even if it’s actually false but you didn’t know that.

    But what if you say that something is true, knowing that you don’t actually know either way - it might be true or it might be false and you have no idea, yet you say that it’s true. Isn’t that a lie?

    siblingpastry,
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    @ElementalEcho That is a very insightful way of looking at it. And it also hinges on concepts of belief and evidence.

    Is a belief sincere when it’s not based on evidence? What if the person doesn’t actually understand what constitutes evidence? Maybe it’s not really fair to call that a lie if the belief is sincere, even if the belief is based on irrational or biased reasoning.

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