Replacing physical buttons and controls with touchscreens also means removing accessibility features. Physical buttons can be textured or have Braille and can be located by touch and don't need to be pressed with a bare finger. Touchscreens usually require precise taps and hand-eye coordination for the same task.

Many point-of-sale machines now are essentially just a smartphone with a card reader attached and the interface. The control layout can change at a moment's notice and there are no physical boundaries between buttons. With a keypad-style machine, the buttons are always in the same place and can be located by touch, especially since the middle button has a raised ridge on it.

Buttons can also be located by touch without activating them, which enables a "locate then press" style of interaction which is not possible on touchscreens, where even light touches will register as presses and the buttons must be located visually rather than by touch.

When elevator or door controls are replaced by touch screens, will existing accessibility features be preserved, or will some people no longer be able to use those controls?

Who is allowed to control the physical world, and who is making that decision?

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AO3 LETS YOU CODE???? AND IM ONLY JUST NOW LEARNING ABOUT THIS???????? HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK HOLY FUCK

fixing the bugs in my code by deploying the computer spider

where does one find the bug eating spider? on the web?

also, fun fact! whitetip reef sharks in particular are SO damn cuddly with each other that they'll actively seek out a buddy or ten when they get sleepy!

it's pretty much slumber party or nothing for these guys. you won't find a whitetip sleeping alone except in the most dire and tragic of shark circumstances.

(shhh! they are. SLEEBING)

nasa is using a 3D world graphic for the solar eclipse thingy today where germany is still devided in east and west adjfglkafdhgadfg. buddies, it's been almost 40 years.

So I showed this to a physicist and they were like "Oh! Yes! It's a figure from Fred Espenak's very old paper where he did a bunch of eclipse graphics! I've been looking at these my entire internet life, basically, for every solar eclipse! They called him Mr. Eclipse. He just passed away recently 🥺"

Anyway apparently Mr. Eclipse made 5000 years' worth of solar eclipse graphics, which you can find the simpler versions of here

So now instead of laughing at NASA for their outdated graphics I'm emotional about Mr. Eclipse and his hard work

I think this is just a US government thing. Back in the late 2000s/early 2010s I worked for NOAA doing weather stuff, and our archive-tracker program had the following country options:

No unified Germany, no pre-nazi Germany, just those options.

The weirdest part was that this software was originally an Access database, and Access first came out in 1992... well after Germany had already reunified!

One of my scribes started a tavern brawl that spiraled into a fortress riot. Now all of my adult workforce lost their ability to stand, many dead, many many dogs dead.

Oh hey look the children were mostly unharmed, maybe they can help dealing with this

....and they are all busy with kicking my livestock.

I guess my thriving fortress is coming to its end. Dying to a riot 🤷. I'm just going to wait it out and see if they survive it.

are there enough dwarves standing to man the hospital?

no because the standing ones are either busy punching each other (or the livestock) or they are children. And the ones in the hospital are not seriously injured. I lost track of where they were but I doubted that they were manning the hospital (even after I left only the orderlies labor on). No one else (without legs) was sent there afterwards.

I abandoned the fortress since it sort of became a waiting game to see half of the fortress die (hilariously in a fort stocked full of food and drink but no one has legs to eat them) or when the migrants arrive (after population shrink).

oh god they liquid glass'd vscode

okay the UI rework is not that bad

After months of not using it, I spontaneously decided that the previous automaton script was NOT MODULAR ENOUGH. So I started rebuilding it from scratch. Hopefully with the new and improved version I'll be able to add new automaton modes without having to alter the whole script each time.

This time I'm actually commenting the code as I plan to make the script available once it's more feature-complete.

First truly new feature is a second script that can randomly generate a (mostly) coherent color palate if I don't feel like punching it in manually: