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Re:Full-Bleed Layout Using CSS Grid on Tuesday October 06, 2020 @07:41AM (#24696685)
Why is it so bad for accessibility? I don't know much about web design.
Re:Mars Needs Leap Days Too on Tuesday March 03, 2020 @04:37AM (#22473086)
And a hectosecond (which I assume is what a hectasec is) is just one minute and forty seconds... I hope he would be able to stay awake a little longer than that.
But they are guided though, how else would the different warheads be able to have different targets when they are all launched in the same missile.
Re:PinePhone Review on Thursday December 19, 2019 @05:45AM (#21833706)
Just buying a rejsekort (travel card - you put some money on it at some machine with your credit card and it pays automatically when you check out at the end of your trip. It also has a significant discount vs buying individual tickets) solve all the problems for buses, trains, metro, etc. You can also put your commuter card on it if you want, or you can receive a commuter card by text message which would even work with a dumb phone.

But it certainly helps a lot to have a smartphone, mainly for the government messages and the nem id app.

Re:Why is everyone a bank? on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @05:25AM (#21571835)
I'm from France and I'm using an online bank. Almost none of these apply to me - yes the pin code and the card come by mail but I can transfer arbitrary amounts online, I have a free gold card, there are basically no fees at all: the account is free, the card is free, transfers are free, I don't think this account cost me anything at all. I had to open the account with a significant amount to get the gold card but you can open it with a much lower amount or by receiving your salary there, and the only difference is that you get a regular card instead.

The only downside is that you don't have a physical branch you can go into but you can do basically anything online without ever interacting with anyone, or at worst you can always call them. Those are real banks btw, not pseudo-bank fintech companies.

Re:How Can a Star Be Older Than the Universe? on Thursday October 17, 2019 @05:47AM (#21280323)
Wouldn't there be a delay between the time you flicked your wrist and the time the spot actually aligns, due to the limited speed of light?
I miss UHT and homogenized milk since I moved to Denmark :( I loved being able to buy a six pack of milk bottles back in France and keep it in a closet for weeks, now I can barely drink a carton of milk before it goes bad.
Re:The Octopus: An Alien Among Us on Friday September 27, 2019 @04:24AM (#21089658)
Giant squids are several times the weight of an adult human and also get that big over only a handful of years.
Re:What it's like to eject out of a military jet on Monday September 02, 2019 @05:00AM (#20857743)
Looks like there is a lot of chances they made a mistake then, and so an autopilot landing might actually work.
Re:Arabic Mathematics: Forgotten Brilliance? (1999) on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:11AM (#20633327)
>the individuals that I named were Persian speakers, who lived in a region that is called the Greater Iran today, and wrote most of their work in Persian

And yet they are called Arab mathematicians.

Re:'My son spent £3,160 in one game' on Tuesday July 16, 2019 @08:47AM (#20449506)
In this case it's a roaming surcharge not the kid spending money in the store.
So the problem isn't that it takes space then.
Re:How to Design Software Good on Friday November 09, 2018 @06:14AM (#18413679)
At my workplace the official password policy requires /exactly/ 8 character passwords...
Are you sure? I have memories of making a spell that targetted myself and gave me 1pt of fire damage that I could spam to train my evocation skill (or whatever it was called).
Therefore, Socrates is a cat. But I see your point ;)