Okay I'm a teacher, so let me break this down for you in the simplest terms possible.
Let's say I am teaching a math class. The subject is addition. I teach you how to add two numbers together to get a different number. Then I give you an addition assignment so you can try a few examples for yourself.
Student A writes "2+2=4". This is correct. Student A gets points both for having completed the assignment and for getting the answer correct.
Student B writes "2+2=5". This is incorrect. However, I can see that student B is trying to engage with the material. I can help student B understand their mistake and correct it for next time. I can mark the answer wrong and make curriculum notes.
Student C writes "2+2=-64,863,702". This is wildly incorrect, and the student will not receive points for completing the assignment. I can tell from this response that student C not only did not understand the material, but likely got frustrated and just wrote down any old number because they knew it was going to be wrong. I can still help student C. They're going to need a lot of assistance, but that's the job. I can mark the answer wrong and make curriculum notes, including suggestions for how to help the student engage more with the subject matter.
Student D writes "2+2=JESUS WANTS YOU TO DIE". This is obvious nonsense. It's not just that the answer is wildly incorrect. And it goes beyond the fact that the student did not complete the assignment. And it even goes beyond the fact that the student is not engaging with the subject material or my class. In addition to all that, they have also decided to insult me, make veiled death threats, and use religion as a pretext for it. Obviously I have to mark the answer wrong. But perhaps not as obviously, there isn't much I can do to help this student. They have chosen not to engage with the material, with me, or with the entire concept of learning in general. They looked at a math assignment and decided the best thing to do was insult and threaten the teacher. The best thing I can do for the rest of my classroom is pull this student out of class and try to place them in some form of therapy for whatever behavioral issues this student is clearly struggling with.
The Oklahoma U student who wrote the "essay" about her "demonic" trans science teacher is this last kind of student. She got the answers wrong. Very wrong. Her assertions were unsupported, uncited, and lacked scientific rigor. But beyond that, she just chose not to complete the assignment. The assignment was to write an academic argument about a particular scientific article. Instead of doing this, she chose to write a sermon. And if she had stopped there, she would have been in the same boat as Student C who decided that 2+2=-64,863,702. But she didn't. She decided to include in her sermon a number of insults and death threats, which were aimed directly at her instructor. And she did all this from a place of perceived religious superiority.
"TRANS PEOPLE SHOULD DIE GOD TOLD ME SO" is not an answer to 2+2.
She MORE than earned a zero on that essay. And if she had turned in that shit in my classroom she would have been taken off my roster and recommended to appropriate mental health services.
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A severe #accessibility issue I've seen very few people talking about is the widespread adoption (in my country at least) of touch-only card payment terminals with no physical number buttons.
Not only do these devices offer no tactile affordances, but the on-screen numbers move around to limit the chances of a customer's PIN number being captured by bad actors. In turn, this makes it impossible to create any kind of physical overlay (which itself would be a hacky solution at best).
When faced with such a terminal, blind people have only a few ways to proceed:
* Switch to cash (if they have it);
* refuse to pay via inaccessible means;
* ask the seller to split the transaction into several to facilitate multiple contactless payments (assuming contactless is available);
* switch to something like Apple Pay (again assuming availability); or
* hand over their PIN to a complete stranger.
Not one of these solutions is without problems.
If you're #blind, have you encountered this situation, and if so how did you deal with it? It's not uncommon for me to run into it several times per day.
why do you think this is not being talked about or made the subject of action by blindness organisations? Is it the case that it disproportionately affects people in countries where alternative payment technology (like paying via a smart watch) is slower to roll out and economically out of reach for residents?
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Yes, this was one of the major reasons why I recommended blind ppl to always choose iPhone over Android if given the possibility.
Google Pay finally went PINless a few years ago, so this is no longer such a problem, but afaik e.g. the Blindshell still doesn't support it, and probably never will.
There should be a law that prohibit non-user replacable batteries.
Europe, you can do it.
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Probably the message-player subproject
Clear Separation of Concerns: Our project is now beautifully modular.
main.rs: Manages the UI and application lifecycle.
consumer.rs: Solely responsible for consuming messages from RabbitMQ.
publisher.rs: Solely responsible for publishing messages.
persistence.rs: Solely responsible for database interactions.
egui-components/: Contains reusable, self-contained UI components like BorderLayout. This separation makes the system incredibly easy to reason about and modify. A change to the database logic won't break the UI.
The "Witness Pattern": not just implementing the logic; identified, named, and specified a core architectural pattern. This makes the consumer's logic predictable and easy to maintain. Any new developer can look at consumer.rs, understand the "Witness Pattern," and know exactly how to add new message handling logic safely.
Configuration via .env: Externalized the database connection string into a .env file, a standard practice that makes the application easy to configure for different environments without changing code.
Database Migrations (sqlx-cli): Managing the database schema with version-controlled migration files. Allows for repeatable and auditable schema changes.
Yeah, I can teach a monkey to write code. I can't make the monkey care about basic principles of quality, to care about the users, to write well, to work well in a team context.
The LLM kinda expects you to know that stuff.
I've been coding with the LLM a long time, almost a year now. I know how to interact with it.
I never have good cause to swear at the LLM, I'll bet you're a good solid coder. I would never swear at you - if you misunderstood a directive, that's my fault, not yours.
The LLM does superb work if it's given small, clear objectives. Just like you.
Gemini's writeup of how we did things. I just built this to learn to use Rust
Yes indeed ! It feels like riding a big horse. Gemini, going back to Bard, ( which was my favorite for a long time ) , it volunteers to write far too much code.
So I had to pull rank and not accept that code, even though there was miles of good code being generated. Let it go. That's how it ruminates, generates.
I had "talks" with both Gemini and Claude - for godsakes, emit fewer words. Let me think.
But over time, they've both become much more attuned to my coding behavior.
Heh. Okay, so stipulated. It takes some getting used to - and the early versions were sonewhat aggravating. I had one begin to praise me in the most fulsome tones - horrifying, really.
Ecch, the reason I am polite to the LLM is because it's just so much bouncing a tennis ball off a wall. It's easier to request things formally, to observe an insightful implementation. Small things. Small goals.
The way I'd like to talk to other professionals.
I'll definitely have more to say about this one, but it's an immense tragedy to see a library management tool, of all fucking things, betray the whole concept of artistic expression like this.
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Mr Rogers was a republican.
He was a white christian cis het man.
He prayed and read the Bible every day.
He created a children's TV show with taxpayer money in which he promoted his "christian views" to a secular audience through secular media.
He studied other religions and other cultures to improve on his reach and connection. He never preached or quoted scripture--yet, we all got the message he intended for us.
He appealed to President Nixon and Congress to continue to fund the creation of PBS with a persuasive speech that is one of the most studied for public speaking and PR. A gentle but powerful speaker.
While white people were pouring concrete into public pools rather than share with black neighrbors, Fred Rogers broadcast himself sharing a quiet conversation in a pool with African-American music and co-worker, Francios Clemmons. The softest act of defiance against White Supremacy.
He was the most demanded speaker on college campuses--he did not have to con his way onto campus to speak and nazis and counter-protesters did not follow his appearances---You know, despite the fact that he was a white christian man promoting christian values to the general public.
Every generation since the 1968 has been positively impacted by Mr Rogers.
Even children in the past 20 years are benefiting from his legacy at PBS --his methods and messages are STILL used in children's programming around the world.
No one had to mandate mourning his death because we all actually felt a genuine loss when he passed away. Even grown adults, who had not watched his show for 10 years by the time he passed, felt a piece of genuine goodness leave the planet.
We did not have to be Christian with Mr Rogers for him to do so much for us.
He never asked us to be Christian with him.
He only asked us to be his neighbor.
So...
If you find that the general public is rejecting your brand of Christianity, it might because you are a horrible fucking person with a 2000 yr old book of shitty excuses that no one is buying into.
It might be because you are a filthy grifter looking to capitalize off end-times hysteria and seniors with end-of-life anxieties.
It might be cause you are a disgusting bigot trying to reap superiority while evading moral accountability.
It probably has nothing to do at all with you actually "being a christian".
Cause we all fucking loved Mr Rogers.
-- Patchie Dee
It may also be because we live in the age of social media now, and no matter what you do, people are going to hate you for it.
You just cured cancer? Congratulations, you're a communist radical that wants to put hard-working doctors and nurses out of their jobs.
(I'm not condoning any particular person, just making an observation that whether you're loved or hated in the 21st century has very little to do with how much love/hate you deserve).
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does anybody have any advice on how to get a desk job asap? I'm not particularly picky about what I'd be doing as long as it's not oil or military. I'm just... I have to get out of my current job situation now. It's killing me, and has been for about a decade.
The only paper behind my name rn is an associate's in math, and maybe in the future a comptia a+? except the entire tech field is imploding so I might not bother taking it.
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they are vibe coding. they are firing people that refuse to use copilot. they only reward those that work on sparkling autocomplete projects.
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People need to hear this.
Alt text is for describing what is in the photo. Not for making an off-topic point, not for only jokes, not for writing just the words alt text, and not for your feelings.
Describe.👏the👏fucking👏photo.
Edit: Please do still write funny alt text! Funny is fun, and I personally value some cheekiness when I'm listening to your descriptions.
Also. Yes, I understand the emoji is not ideal for screen readers. They read out the description of the emoji, so what I did isn't ideal accessibility. However this post is to make a point (which ooo i got under some skin didn't I?), and my own screen reader (TalkBack) read it ok. I kept it minimal and didn't use them in the entire post. Which I was irritated enough to want to do.
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@menelion excessive emoji and emoji between words are not completely accessible because a screen reader reads out the description of the emoji, and it gets confusing. People with cognitive disorders who use a screen reader would have a more difficult time.
I use emoji but I stick to less than 3, and try and place them somewhere that is easier to understand.
To be really honest, my original post was about alt text, not about emoji but because I used 3 in a place that wasn't ideal, I got called out on my post being less than completely accessible so I updated it.
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one thing that unites British and Irish households is that if you go into the kitchen and open the mug cupboard you will find an incredibly chaotic collection of mismatched mugs, built up over years, many of which are ONE person’s mug that nobody else can use
anyone who has a set of perfectly matching tea mugs and nothing else is a psychopath or a spy
These are two of my favorite memes about companies putting AI into everything.
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