Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo...
by curlftpfs on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:21AM
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Is "alt text" a colloquialism understood by laymen? I typically use the term "text alternatives" when speaking with clients. It's a specific attribute, it might be supplanted by `aria-label`, etc
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo...
by O__________O on Thursday August 04, 2022 @07:59AM
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Meta: Super confusing how the way the links are formatted makes them look like strikethrough-text; this link explains the term if you’re not familiar with it:
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo...
by ldjb on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:31AM
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Interesting. I know a lot of websites are designed with a font size of 16pt in mind, and you'll tend to encounter issues if you set the size to anything else. I find that rather a shame.
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo...
by pbhjpbhj on Thursday August 04, 2022 @08:43AM
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No, why do you think it is? You can do science in an educational setting, and education often relies on results from psychology or biology, but it's not a science.
Some would argue that educationalists often experiment on children, but that's not the goal (and of course that's a minor aspect of education).
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo...
by dwringer on Thursday August 04, 2022 @09:59AM
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Ironically, Sir Isaac Newton (whom I'd consider a scientist) actually earned a Bachelor of Arts. I would say the degree doesn't matter, the practice of science is what makes a scientist.
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo...
by dragonwriter on Thursday August 04, 2022 @11:52AM
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> Ironically, Sir Isaac Newton (whom I'd consider a scientist) actually earned a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of Science didn't exist until the mid 19th century. Historically, the four faculties of arts, law, divinity, and theology each had bachelors and terminal (eventually standardized as doctor for all except arts, and master for arts) degrees. The explosion of other degrees (and masters as an intermediate degree, rather than a terminal one, in many fields) is a relatively recent phenomenon.
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo...
by reaperducer on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:34AM
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Oh come on, most attorneys have Juris Doctor degrees, we don't call them Dr. Lawyer.
There are lots of people we call "doctor." The ones with Ph.D's. And some of them are lawyers, and are addressed as "doctor."
Also interesting: There was an HN comment a few weeks ago that pointed to a helpful link which demonstrated that the idea of "doctor" didn't start with medical doctors and spread to other disciplines, it was the other way around.
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo...
by curlftpfs on Thursday August 04, 2022 @12:06PM
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> There are lots of people we call "doctor." The ones with Ph.D's
No, the ones with doctorates. A JD's technically a doctorate, a graduate degree, but it would be silly to expect people call you "doctor" because you have one.
Re:Interview with the scientist who’s writing the Webb photo...
by bombcar on Thursday August 04, 2022 @10:03AM
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Which is indicative of how the word has changed; scientist now means more "knowledge worker" than it does "person doing careful experiments to discover new things".
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/conformance#text...
The name most likely comes from the "alt" attribute for "img" tags in HTML, if I were to guess.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikethrough
Some would argue that educationalists often experiment on children, but that's not the goal (and of course that's a minor aspect of education).
Bachelor of Science didn't exist until the mid 19th century. Historically, the four faculties of arts, law, divinity, and theology each had bachelors and terminal (eventually standardized as doctor for all except arts, and master for arts) degrees. The explosion of other degrees (and masters as an intermediate degree, rather than a terminal one, in many fields) is a relatively recent phenomenon.
I know an illustrator with a B.S. in design.
There are lots of people we call "doctor." The ones with Ph.D's. And some of them are lawyers, and are addressed as "doctor."
Also interesting: There was an HN comment a few weeks ago that pointed to a helpful link which demonstrated that the idea of "doctor" didn't start with medical doctors and spread to other disciplines, it was the other way around.
I know I was surprised.
No, the ones with doctorates. A JD's technically a doctorate, a graduate degree, but it would be silly to expect people call you "doctor" because you have one.