Chris Wait

Director of Engineering at @whsoftware. Living in Brighton. Builds accessible things, makes music, climbs stuff.

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If people wrote as many articles about Basic Income as they did about AI stealing jobs, we'd be better prepared. #AlphaGo #AI #DeepLearning

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@sentientist @Phrost Isn’t it kind of obviously a “necessary but not sufficient” sort of thing?

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@xlr8harder @ProfessorSkely Have you read Crystal Society? Growth is reminding me of it, and it might be good for fleshing out different personalities

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@Aella_Girl You could write the sequences equivalent for social norms? Survey people on how intuitive it all feels, get annoying comments about bias and sample size, profit

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@CawleyKathrynL @bbchealth 100% increase is doubled, 200% tripled, 278% is almost quadrupled

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@mondaydotcom

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@MxOolong It’s surprisingly tricky! I made a thing to try to help people work out the *goal* of their alt text (though it’s pretty focused on web development) https://t.co/ialxxVa9xP

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@TheRingleyGroup This is extraordinarily bad https://t.co/Wek5jr2am7

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@elevateapp Just a heads up: Blind/visually impaired people won’t be able to “read” the first sentence here via VoiceOver, because you’ve used that font thing for it.

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@PTInflam_WW This is the weirdest use of promoted tweets I have ever seen. If you want to convince me PTI is a weird hoax, this is a great approach.

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@Aella_Girl I can’t visualise things, but reading this I still get a 3d sense of where everything is

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@GavinRayDev @buildsghost The first group of people are complaining about inconsistent feel. The second group literally can’t use some websites. Do these really seem comparable in terms of impact?

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@GavinRayDev @buildsghost Yeah, but it’s still reasonable for people to criticise flutter adopters for choosing inaccessible cake. What are you building that uniform styling is more important than access?

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Petition to change JWST to Betty White Space Telescope

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Yo @easyJet exactly how many languages do you think I can speak?

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@sahus22 @frontendTony @johnmejia__ @Barnacules @LizHamburger @RyanLKara @JessicaCregg @rothecoder Totally!

In the context of a professional environment (in a male dominated industry) everyone using "guys" all the time might make some people feel like they don't belong.

Maybe the context you're talking about isn't super relevant to that discussion.

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@frontendTony @johnmejia__ @Barnacules @LizHamburger @RyanLKara @JessicaCregg @rothecoder “Would you sleep with 2 guys?”

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The meme economy got real

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I’m conflicted. Yes Breaking Bad was a good show, but it’s also kind of the reason there are so many bad remixes of Darondo’s Didn’t I today.

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@Aella_Girl Does the button count disappearing someone as a concrete harm?

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- lots of people start jogging, none of their shoes fit properly

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Predictions about trends for this year, a living thread:
- yoga instructors move their classes online
- musicians start making money through streaming

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- Sunday Skype with family and friends is the new TV Pickup (https://t.co/eD0E2rCSJ4)