The enemy cap all but forces the arena style gameplay. Doom 2016 tried to hide it more, but it still felt very stifling.

Accessibility question: how do screen readers handle ascii art-style diagrams like this? It seems like they would be overwhelmed by the lines.

They don’t. You should aria-label it thus:

    role="img"
    aria-label="A styled box using monospace box-drawing characters. Its header is 'area complete', and there's a link to a forum post."

(Happy to be corrected/updated here, I am not an a11y expert. I am a very happy Monodraw customer though!)

Would this tell the screen reader to just ignore it? Then you'd lose all accessibility for its content.

I believe role=“img” tells it to behave like one, causing the descriptive text to be read out in its place.

Yeah, that seems bad. The whole point of the diagram was to explain something better than prose could, and now it is lost. I'm thinking the case were someone can make out the shapes/arrows/colors well, but not the text.

In my case, that's not why I'm using the diagram. It's simply a visual thing, to break up a page of text. Purely aesthetic.

The aria-label would be used to describe the content.

> Llm to text to diagram is the killer workflow these days.

It's useful, but I think only marginally. When using a diagrams-as-code tool, having an LLM write it for you gets you up and running faster, but long term you have more control (and no hallucinations) just writing the code yourself. It'll probably be fewer keystrokes in the end. Doubly so if your diagrams-as-code tool has decent autocomplete.

i think d2 looks sick , and i'm not op, but i do love just describing my system and telling the LLM to draw it. so having it "draw" d2 seems like a great new step?

when you want to make changes, you update your docs/design and repeat. think system design interview but you skip drawing it yourself at all and then sanity check your own work by interpreting the resulting graph etc

Well, yeah, obviously. Where you get the millions of dollars to buy those short names isn't so obvious, though.

Mixing this with a metaphor from earlier: giving a child a credit card is also a floor raiser.

Thanks for this feedback. I just tried with a trackpad, and was surprised to see pinch gestures were triggering "wheel" (i.e. mouse wheel) events. This wasn't intended behavior, and should now be fixed. I'll have a think on how native gestures like these could be handled better.

> I think the persistent advice to authors to "do social media" is, at best, part of a strategy that can be generously described as throwing everything at the proverbial wall in the hope that something, anything, will stick.

It also probably was pretty good advice until ~3 years ago.

There are quite a few tools that offer this model-based approach; you define your resources in a model, then use them in multiple perspectives to show different aspects like you describe. Some, like Ilograph[0] (my project), offer interactivity and zooming.

[0] https://www.ilograph.com

Nobody was stopping anyone from making compilers that introduced random different behavior every time you ran them. I think it's telling this didn't catch on.

I think there was actually a very big push to stop people from doing that - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducible_builds

There were definitely compilers that used things like data-structures with an unstable iteration order resulting in non-determinism, and people went stopping other people from doing that. This behavior would result in non-deterministic performance everywhere, and combined with race conditions or just undefined behavior other random non-deterministic behaviors too.

At least in part this was achieved with techniques that can be used to make LLMs to, like by seeding RNGs in hash tables deterministically. LLMs are in that sense no less deterministic than iterating over a hash table (they are just a bunch of matrix multiplications with a sampling procedure at the end, after all).

Or when you switch to an MVNO :)

Then it's one line, $10 / month.

For the privilege of using the hand-me-down data of carrier's network (i.e. getting deprioritized in any situation where the network is congested)

USMobile gets you Verizon’s network at the same priority as Verizon customers. $390/year for “unlimited” data (but really 100GB/mo at high speed).

Yep, that’s who we use. It is half the cost of VZW’s cheapest plan with more data and better QCI. The latter aspect turns out mattering a lot more than I thought.

Why is American cell phone service so expensive?

In comparison to what..? Vietnam? Canada?

Other G7 countries. Unlimited data is about $15 a month in the uk, 150G is even less