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• Post #1712329

  Monopoly, but you start with nothing. One billionaire player has 95% of the board. They also control what cards get handed out. Plus they know what you’re doing. The billionaire player has convinced the rest of the players to fight each other and takes 50% of their moves each round whilst they pay only 1% of their moves each round. Unfortunately the only house left costs you a lifetime of playing monopoly to buy. How do you win?

• Post #834787

  Finished Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men By Caroline Criado Pérez Really well written and researched. Got me thinking Apple women design leads and amazing market share growth in laptops. Women in leadership at Microsoft has been a refreshing change I must say. Thought back on a startup I did as part of a startup factory diverse experiment; fastest launch and validation. Amazing CEO. Performance data off the charts… all except Investor interest lower. Data not enough.

• Post #834786

  So, there’s these mushroom memory articles and videos popping up. Basically quoting a pop sci article covering a US based paper on using mushrooms for memresistors. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0328965 All coverage I saw was talking about how they could be used for ram or so. Not processing. Memresistors can do processing too! 2ndly, coverage represents this is a new discovery. But anyone who takes part in the asian science world knows this has been a topi...

• Post #834785

  First time tet/chinese new year and carnival aligned in over 50 years. Big time celebrations. Perhaps up to 2.5 billion people combined celebrating.

• Post #834784

  Unabashed Redox OS fan. Living vicariously through the monthly updates. https://www.redox-os.org/news/this-month-260228/ #redox #rust

• Post #834783

  Basically I read anything and everything I find on fungal computing these days. So keep that in mind with my enthusiasm for this... damn interesting! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264726000493 "sensing, processing, memory, and repair" "These signals respond to mechanical disturbance, chemical exposure, nutrient availability, temperature, and injury, indicating that mycelium functions as a continuous, analogue sensing medium" &q...

• Post #834782

  https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/papers/claude-cycles.pdf The Knuth paper is worth reading. It shows the social interactions of people working on a problem together. It’s fun. Glad yoga saved some weeks of toil. Maybe we’ll get that next volume after all? lol Humans using agents to work through problems from different angles together is where it shines. Try 30 different approaches, measure, prove. Ideas sparking not hindered by the toil. The creativity and social co-working together...

• Post #834781

  Found a couple of nice tools for #a11y web issues. Guidepup, has a virtual screen reader for writing SR tests in CI. Works with voiceover/nvda too. A storybook based “axe” testing library, which renders all your story states and checks them with axe. No extra work needed (assuming you’ve already generated many states). Playwright to do exploratory testing running through checklists automatically. Anyway, so far they are catching things other techniques didn’t. A lot of it automagically.

• Post #834780

  Funny, “hand made” parser made with a bunch of examples slowly building up the parser and unit tests one by one. With debug info built into the generation tool, to capture any failing input. Then based on those making a bunch more synthetic examples. Now the parser is up to about 100KB of code with 1000+ generated unit tests and 20 real (once) failing input examples and 45 synthetic examples. Every time I see there’s a failure whilst using it, I just plop the example in and the parser updates.

• Post #834779

  Every time I fix issues for screen readers, it ALWAYS ends up making the component better for everyone else. Often it's missing states, clunky form controls, and bugs. For example in this latest one: - an auto complete was messed up searching on wrong values - missing states for logged in / checking logged in - wrong busy states when loading other things - keyboard works much better It's improved for developers/maintainers too because there's now tests and story states....

• Post #834778

  In case anyone was wondering safari on iOS has a limit of 500 tabs.