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As a dyslexic the mechanism for OpenDyslexic always seemed a little off for me. How does a differently shaped font help adjust for a difference in cognition?

However in this case it would seem like focusing on ensuring that the letters can be distingushed with poor vision has a more direct mechanism? - though it may be that other fonts are better

If you want to target the sme's I might suggest just separating out your value, set a few simple tiers and make it easy to plug a cloud backend in (only needs one provider at first). This way your value and cost is direct and obvious and you're not left managing a fleet of vm's. This probably increases the total cost a little as there's less sharing, but a lot of medium org's can manage that internally and it's much easier to convince a manager to spend $xx/$xxx a month rather than $xxxx or more

Not sure if this would be the most cost effective solution but maybe some pc water cooling parts, with clear tubing it would also allow them to see it flowing through the system. With quick release systems they might (age dependent) be able to re-arrange the system to experiment with different systems and flows.

Difficulty would be keeping it safe with regards to electric.

Firstly I think this idea of rockstar programmers is truly damaging. Yes there are differences in peoples coding abilities but the vast majority of your ability to develop good software, that solves peoples problems is in how you and the team works together, not your ability to write a technically proficient algorithm. It's important to find a team you can work well with and that works well with you.

Secondly 70-90hrs a week is not a healthy work schedule, you're going to be constantly working while exhausted. Even the most productive people I've seen are tired at the end of a 45-60 hour week. If possible give yourself time to rest.

ps. Piecing together code from multiple sources is what 99.9% of programming is. Calling libraries is piecing together code just as copying and pasting from stackoverflow is. You need to understand that code to be able to piece it together effectively as you clearly do.

Transgender inclusion in sport has brought to the front that sports are inherently unfair. Wherever you draw the lines there is someone thats going to be just the other side of that line.

Trans people have been allowed compete in sports for the last 18 years, however this is the first trans athlete to make it to the olympics, this seems to suggest that trans people competing in sports has not pushed IFAB people out of sports to any significant degree, especially not at the highest levels of competition.

Work is political - saying that people should get on with work without discussing "political topics" prevents them from discussing and solving the issues within their own work.

Yes there is a need to make sure work that directly brings money into the organisation gets done but part of that work is making sure everyone everyone works equally.

"There's no way the ring is getting to Mordor if Gimli is pushing for elf reparations." This suggests we can't deal with more than one thing at once. We can deal with the big bad of our generation (I would argue climate change), while also improving the material condition of disadvantaged people across society.

I am a white cis male. Normalising the statement of preferred pronouns is very important for people who's gender identity differs from their assigned sex at birth. I state my pronouns on both my social media and work emails.

Your statement of being "LGBT / neutral" seems strange to me, being neutral on whether other human beings should have the same rights I enjoy does not seem to be something I can be neutral on. I accept that myself and others with privilege must help create a more equal society for everyone, even in the relatively small changes such as stating our pronouns.