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Mental Disorders and Accessibility(bengoldsworthy.net)
2 points by Rumperuu 3y ago|1 comments
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by Rumperuu 3y ago
A look at how mental disorders, and those who have them, are currently underserved in tech. accessibility discussions, and how these relate to the current proposals for the WCAG 3.0. I'd appreciate critical feedback or suggestions, as
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Ask HN: Options for self-hosted media cataloguing tools?
4 points by Rumperuu 4y ago|1 comments
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by Rumperuu 4y ago
I finally got around to replacing my personal hosted WordPress site with a VPS, allowing me to get started with self-hosting apps (which is something I'd been planning to do for years ). I currently have a Hugo blog, repo hosting with
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by Rumperuu 4y ago
All intellectual activity is based around the representation of ideas through imperfect media. My personally-preferred medium is writing and one's writing, as with all other skills, improves with repetition. Bouncing ideas around in on
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
Reminds me of this dialogue from Gödel, Escher Bach : https://people.whitman.edu/~herbrawt/classes/110/Hofstadter....
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
Also, if anyone really wants to find out Nelson's thoughts on that article, he recently (Aug 2020) released a feature-length video addressing it and its lasting impact. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASgjSxNdDqI
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
I still use WhatsApp on my BB Classic daily. The native app died years ago so it's an emulated Android version, and for a long time I was capped at whichever the last version that supported Android 4.3 was. Mid-2020 I started getting n
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
Very interesting—I certainly wouldn't have expected the antithesis of Mein Kampf and Revolt Against the Modern World to be Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good Cooking . Honourable mentions include the Bible (NIV)
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
In the UK, businesses can claim tax relief for R&D [0] - there may be something similar in the US. [0] https://www.gov.uk/guidance/corporation-tax-research-and-dev...
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
I was surprised to find reading a book called Intelligence in an Insecure World [0] that the general consensus amongst intelligence studies scholars is apparently that there's no empirical evidence for the effectiveness of intelligenc
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
Related: Report on Guantánamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees Through Analysis of Department of Defense Data (2006), p 14. https://scholarship.shu.edu/shlr/vol41/iss4/2/
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
When cases against all the other unlawful stuff reach them, presumably.
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
If your issue is that an online handle may sound strange or silly (e.g., ‘Count Dankula’), how would you handle someone whose legal name sounds strange or silly (e.g., ‘Moon Unit Zappa’ or ‘X AE A-XII’)? If your issue is that an online hand
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
I submitted a support ticket on Jun 20, and received a reply this morning: ‘Hello, Thank you for reaching out. Please be informed that we've already discontinued RSS Feed on Reuters.com. If you require the service, we suggest that you
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
Re: the ‘democratisation of surveillance’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
Regarding your fourth line about pairing officers with volunteers, this happens in (some/all?) UK constabularies, for example: https://www.lancashire.police.uk/ridealong On a related note, we also have volunteer Indepe
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by Rumperuu 6y ago
YouTube series Some More News briefly addressed this study in their episode "Perhaps Ben Shapiro Shouldn't Be Taken Seriously By Anyone About Anything".[0] Brookings also followed this up with a report entitled "Follow
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
I've always been interested in this paper, which suggests that the idea of flashbacks as a symptom of PTSD coincides may be culturally-influenced and coincide with developments in cinema.
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Tangentially related, I think this is now the only war article on Wikipedia featuring non-human combatants since the admins have reverted the Emu War one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Yes to the chocks, although it's worth noting that in a crush situation you should aim to remove the crushing object within 15 minutes. Any later than that and you risk killing the casualty through crush syndrome.[0] [0] https:/&
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
I was under the impression that .sucks domains cost about $10 for an individual but thousands for a corporation (as an anti-corporate endeavour). I can't find anything on this though, so perhaps I imagined it.
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Do you remember the title of the book?
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Personal computing and hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson reflects on his life's work and the ways computer history could have turned out very differently. From the video desc.: ‘What I want known about my ideals and work over the years. Ho
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“Here I Stand, at Age 80”(youtube.com)
1 points by Rumperuu 7y ago|1 comments
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Try following a news agency—I like Reuters. They gather news reports and then sell them on to newspapers/broadcasters/etc. who add their spin and choose which details to focus on or ignore, so it's a bit like buying your food
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Reminds me of the Czechoslovakian Velorex, which had three wheels, a motorcycle engine and a leather body[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velorex
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
The movement grows
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by Rumperuu 7y ago
Sounds almost like the Ben Franklin effect,[0] which I don't think I've ever heard of being used in a game outside of this example. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Franklin_effect

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