Poppys

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by Poppys 3y ago
I wonder what the quality would be if football was not the hoover of European childhood athletic talent it currently is. Plenty of sportsmen in other fields played football as children and went onto success in other sports. Maybe if basketb
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by Poppys 3y ago
| "Only the act of design can make the content less readable" I disagree with this, HTML in it's raw rendered state is not pleasant to read. You have to apply some rules (or specify the rules in your browser) to get the text
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by Poppys 3y ago
I find that the in-built systems are all horrendous and designers create lots of inefficient designs so they look good in the marketing video but are a pain to use. I have a Toyota and when I want to change the audio source I have to press
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by Poppys 3y ago
How often are you changing the clock?
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by Poppys 3y ago
My browser did not enjoy that 40MB web page.
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by Poppys 3y ago
https://utopia.fyi/blog/designing-with-fluid-type-scales This is a good write up of using clamp and fluid type
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by Poppys 3y ago
In Edge you can highlight text and click read in Immersive Reader or prefix the url with read:// Some sites have it in the address bar, but I've never found any documentation from MS that makes it clear how to ensure that it
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by Poppys 3y ago
Playing Devil's advocate, if the themes are inaccessible, the user can always pick another one. Monochrome might provide the contrast ratio you want.
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by Poppys 4y ago
A family friend bought this for our family on the C64 and then my dad got super addicted to it, he was up until 2am most nights trying to crack the game. He would leave work early (he ran his own business) to come home and play it. It also
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by Poppys 4y ago
Looking forward to the "Google AI is being sun-setted as soon as it unlocks the doors to the server room" email.
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Google Optimize Sunset in September(support.google.com)
5 points by Poppys 4y ago|1 comments
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by Poppys 4y ago
Google Optimize and Optimize 360 will no longer be available after September 30, 2023.
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by Poppys 4y ago
I think it was on the Off Menu podcast that the hosts summed it up perfectly, that plant-based meat is a great substitute for the dodgy low quality meat you would get at a kebab shop at 1am, but you aren't going to get a the quality of
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by Poppys 4y ago
I don't believe that is true anymore, I've seen studies that show that there is little difference between the two.
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by Poppys 4y ago
"One really would have to have a miserly spirit not to love both." Call me Scrooge.
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by Poppys 4y ago
If companies had respected the Do Not Track and browser vendors had made it easier to adopt we wouldn't have ended up with the situation we are in now.
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by Poppys 4y ago
Thomas Kinkade certainly made a living off the visual equivalent of muzak.
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by Poppys 4y ago
There are tangible problems with a low birth rate though, which western economies are experiencing now.
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by Poppys 4y ago
This is my use case for Sublime Text, if I get stuck with a massive file I go straight to Sublime.
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by Poppys 4y ago
He was a minor and seemed to have more business sense than any of them.
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by Poppys 4y ago
This is three separate arguments: Is it ok to scan copyrighted works. I think Google Books' win at the Supreme Court shows that yes it is. Is it ok to process them down to the rawest information? Is it ok for people to generate content
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by Poppys 4y ago
Isn't dispersing a core business, that the global economy relies on, to other countries a bad move for Taiwan? If advanced micro chips are made in another country doesn't that mean China might be more likely to use a forceful inv
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by Poppys 4y ago
I think this is more a problem of standarisation and if car companies got together and pitched in a bit of research to find out what worked well with users they could all get an interface (or a set of standards) that worked well for most us
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by Poppys 4y ago
Nobody talking about the "Sister Mary Himmler says, Zere Will Be A Quiz on Zis" with a nun wearing a swastika armband image in the sidebar?
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by Poppys 4y ago
George is a late thirties corporate worker, so we still have 30 something years to reach the future The Jetsons envisaged.
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by Poppys 4y ago
I find it useful for reading out stuff on a page as well despite not having vision impairments, if you have a long form article you can just set it off and it will read it out to you.
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by Poppys 4y ago
I used to rip the audio of my favourite movies and listen to them like audiobooks. Because I was usally familiar with the visual parts, I could enjoy the dialogue and the music in a different way.
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by Poppys 4y ago
Have you tried using NVDA? It's an open source and free screen reader - https://www.nvaccess.org/
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by Poppys 4y ago
This suggests that it is not that useful https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/previously...
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by Poppys 4y ago
Or the same about YouTubers, I'm fascinated that my kids don't find the constant yelling and over emoting annoying or at least suspicious.

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