Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 17

Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 02:18:55 JST Adrian Cochrane

Inside the Apple-1's unusual MOS clock driver chip - Ken Shirriff: http://www.righto.com/2022/03/inside-apple-1s-unusual-mos-clock.html
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  Apple's first product was the Apple-1 computer, introduced in 1976. This early microcomputer used an unusual type of storage for its disp...
Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 02:11:39 JST Adrian Cochrane

Importance of adding accessibility design reviews to the design process - David Kennedy @ AdHoc: https://adhoc.team/2023/02/22/the-importance-of-adding-accessibility-design-reviews-to-the-design-process/
My ideal accessible components resource is holistic, well tested and easy to use - Hidde deVries: https://hidde.blog/ideal-a11y-guidance/
Real People, Real Stories 2023E1 - Dara Golding @ TPGi interviewing Brandom Col: https://www.tpgi.com/real-people-real-stories-episode-11-2023-brandon-cole/
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3. Real People, Real Stories Episode 1, 2023: Brandon Cole, streamer, blogger, voice actor, and podcaster - TPGi
  
  from Dara Golding
  
  Mark Miller speaks with Brandon Cole about his many talents including being streamer, blogger, voice actor, podcaster, and more.
Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 02:02:09 JST Adrian Cochrane

Getting started with TalkBack on Android - Cooper Hollmaier @ The A11y Project: https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/getting-started-talkback/
Automated Accessibility Part 3: Regression Tests - Mark Steadman @ Dev.To: https://dev.to/steady5063/automated-accessibility-part-3-regression-tests-53cc
How Do You Add Alternative Text and Metadata to glTF Objects? - Celso Yamashita @ Equal Entry: https://equalentry.com/accessibility-gltf-objects/
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3. How Do You Add Alternative Text and Metadata to glTF Objects?
  
  The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines require all non-text content to have a text alternative provided. Though this requirement has existed for over 20 years, there is no official way to add it …
Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 01:46:17 JST Adrian Cochrane

Inside the Apple-1's shift-register memory - Ken Shirriff: http://www.righto.com/2022/04/inside-apple-1s-shift-register-memory.html
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1. Inside the Apple-1's shift-register memory
  
  Apple's first product was the Apple-1 computer, introduced exactly 46 years ago, on April 11, 1976. This early microcomputer used an unus...
Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Mar-2023 01:39:48 JST Adrian Cochrane

We Don’t Need A Native .visually-hidden - Dennis "WebAxe": http://www.webaxe.org/we-dont-need-visually-hidden/
It'd be trivial for me to implement such a feature, but yes my focus is on fighting these other issues...
How to build accessible main navigation? - Tim Dujardin @ tech_hub: https://techhub.iodigital.com/articles/how-to-build-accessible-main-navigation
Note: Based on Alexa's auditory HIG, I'm auditorily-hiding <nav>. This may be a problem for *some* sites...
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  We Don’t Need A Native .visually-hidden
  
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2. How to build accessible main navigation? - iO tech_hub
  
  This article contains a guide to building an accessible main navigation of a website in 5 steps. The key takeaways of this guide are HTML semantics, WAI-ARIA, CSS, and JS for accessibility.
Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 05:23:07 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her)

Folks, I encourage you to not work for @OpenAI for free:
Don't do their testing
Don't do their PR
Don't provide them training data
https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/110029104362666915

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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 16:49:07 JST Adrian Cochrane

I'm now registered as co-maintainer of Haskell CSS Syntax on Hackage, since that package appeared to be unmaintained. And I've released CSS-Syntax 0.1.0.1, compatible with Text 2!
That'll help make it easier for others to contribute to the Argonaut Stack, avoids some dependency conflicts...
See if I can catch wereHamsters attention to see how they want to play this... Haven't had much luck previously, hence why I asked Hackage for these permissions...

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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 13:24:04 JST Adrian Cochrane

(breath)
I'm still not seeing text displaying, but I silenced that crash!
Fixed an issue in my logic for determining whether I have a run of inlines. I don't know if the issue will reoccur, but this did need fixing! Much like my other fixes!
Really getting down to the wire fore LibrePlanet demo, but hopefully I'll have it running tomorrow!

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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 12:58:57 JST Adrian Cochrane

I do seem to have an issue that I'm displaying <head> when I shouldn't... I've implemented `display: none` now, but still a problem!

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niconiconi (niconiconi@mk.absturztau.be)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 12:25:14 JST niconiconi

Imagine living long enough to see someone saying that Gentoo has a better wiki than Arch. :woozy_baa:

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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 11:10:44 JST Adrian Cochrane
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Found my bug! I didn't complete a refactor in CatTrap allowing me to capture runs of inlines to render! Switching from a recursive routine to a co-recursive routine.
Now I've got a crash...

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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 10:04:29 JST Adrian Cochrane

Still struggling to locate where the text data is getting dropped...
It's coming through in the input. But not in the output. Traced it through to the styling input.
Fixed a couple issues though with determining which elements should be rendered as inline text... That would be part of it, but seemingly not all of it!

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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 08:22:23 JST Adrian Cochrane

Started debugging some issues #Haphaestus now that I've hooked all the pieces together... I'm not seeing any text though, & apparently (according to some printf debugging) it's not in the layout tree...

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Mara (mara@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 08:12:13 JST Mara

"programming is serious and not a game [..] stop with the outfits and princess programmer stuff"
I think we should all start writing software and giving talks while wearing princess dresses. 👸👗👩💻
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1. AITA for being honest with my daughter regarding her coding ability. I (36M) am a web developer for many years now and have a lot of experience. About a year ago my daughter (9F) suddenly decided she wanted to learn coding. She asked me to teach her. I declined and explained that it is complex and I don't have the time and would burn out from doing that after work as it is tough but that she was free to learn on her own. We have a white list of sites she can access on her laptop so we were not afraid of her searching the web. She did teach herself some C++ which is not a language | have used in years and is a bit outdated and not the simplest to pick up. It's been a year and she calls herself "princess programmer" and it is a little cringy and she likes to wear a nice dress or skirt while working on some simple games she makes. Recently she overheard one of my work meetings and learned what code reviews are and asked me to do one on her newest game while claiming that "princess programmer" wrote it very well and expects it to be very good. I noticed many issues like bad variable naming conventions, code duplication, using if condition,return instead of just returning the condition.
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2. I told her the quality sucked compared to anything that could be production code and that it would be easier to rewrite than fix it. I told her if she wanted to learn more she could rewrite it with my advice and that programming is serious and not a game and she should stop with the outfits and princess programmer stuff and maybe try an easier language than C++. She cried and threw a tantrum and is upset at me and says I was too mean. And my wife is now also upset at me and says | should have lied and said her work was good and told her how to make it better. My wife did do coding in college but she doesn't do much of it in her job these days. AITA here? EDIT: Ok fine, I get it I am TA. I'll apologize and make it up to her and focus more on the parts I was impressed about. Her game was decently complex and everything did worked and the program did not crash and she seemed to have understood pointers well, I can focus on that and tell her she can be princess programmer.
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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 08:12:12 JST Adrian Cochrane
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- Mara
@Mara How terribly unsupportive of her parent!
Sounds like exactly the sort of thing which discourages women from programming... Combined with the stereotype that it's a masculine career...

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Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 07:45:42 JST Adrian Cochrane
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- Pixel :puppycat_pixel:
@pixouls Magnus Archives e123 s4 "Web Development"
https://rustyquill.com/show/the-magnus-archives/
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  The Magnus Archives is a weekly horror fiction anthology podcast examining what lurks in the archives of the Magnus Institute, an organisation dedicated to researching the esoteric and the weird. J…
Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 06:42:53 JST Adrian Cochrane
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- Bean!_
@faho You know my owl? Owls are a theme for my contracting business, & I relate to the inquisitiveness of this one...
Like you're suggesting, I don't feel any real connection.

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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 04:57:35 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her)
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Also LOL-worthy, against the backdrop of utter lack of transparency was "We believe that accurately predicting future capabilities is important for safety. Going forward we plan to refine these methods and register performance predictions across various capabilities before large model training begins, and we hope this becomes a common goal in the field."
Trying to position themselves as champions of the science here & failing.
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 04:57:39 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her)

Okay, taking a few moments to reat (some of) the #gpt4 paper. It's laughable the extent to which the authors are writing from deep down inside their xrisk/longtermist/"AI safety" rabbit hole.
Things they aren't telling us:
1) What data it's trained on
2) What the carbon footprint was
3) Architecture
4) Training method
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Emily M. Bender (she/her) (emilymbender@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 04:57:38 JST Emily M. Bender (she/her)
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But they do make sure to spend a page and half talking about how they vewwy carefuwwy tested to make sure that it doesn't have "emergent properties" that would let is "create and act on long-term plans" (sec 2.9).
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