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Re:Michigan DOT Snowplow Names on Monday January 10, 2022 @08:38PM (#29885991)
Apparently these names were submitted in a contest, it appears Plowy McPlowface was one of them, but sadly didn't make the final cut

https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/local/mdot-names-al...

Re:Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:01PM (#29827166)
It is disabled by default

> Norton Crypto is an opt-in feature only and is not enabled without user permission

Re:Poll: What does “Full Stack” mean? on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @03:09PM (#29814256)
> If Saskia could be guarded by men in bearskin hats riding horses, why, she could as well have a webmaster.

Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

Related article from John Gruber in 2010:

https://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks

Re:Is It Time for the JavaScript Temporal API? on Thursday December 30, 2021 @10:33AM (#29737512)
> it was copied from Java's JDK1.0 (1995) java.util.Date, which also had this quirk
I remember when new games would get released, Galoob would put fliers with the GG codes on them for you to take home with the game!

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/game_ge...

> For individuals who have had COVID-19 previously, the risk of reinfection with Omicron is significantly higher, relative to prior variants.

https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room

It's no longer maintained, Five Server replaced it

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yandeu.f...

Re:Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed on Wednesday September 15, 2021 @11:06AM (#28540070)
A ligature is a character composed of two or more graphemes, it is not a letter
Re:Helvetica Now Variable on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:07PM (#28212964)
Yes, the good ones require a lot of hard work by designers and producers.

Where else can you find a sans-serif battle-tested over a century that's variable, for free?

Re:Do we need a Scrum Master forever? on Friday July 30, 2021 @01:23PM (#28010209)
Hot take, but if you're doing Scrum you sure do. A good Scrum master can make meetings much more productive.
Re:Square Banking on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:30AM (#27894960)
From TFA:

> For instance, it is easy for a user to land at an awkward scroll position which leaves an item partially on-screen when panning.

> To this end, this module introduces scroll snap positions which enforce the scroll positions that a scroll container’s scrollport may end at after a scrolling operation has completed.

Which is exactly what this page is doing.

> primarily a touch interaction

It's exclusively a scroll interaction, whether the pointer event is the result of mouse or touch input.

> the DOM page is still scrolling natively

I'm not sure what you're trying to say by "DOM page." JS is reacting to the scroll position of the viewport. The user experience is the same.

Interesting aside. Back on topic: the homes were not granted to Zuckerberg; and his residents are not serfs. So they are not "perfectly comparable," they are barely comparable.

(not to mention serfs could not be bought alone, they could be sold with the land. Maybe you are thinking of slaves?)

> like a king granting lands to lords

He purchased the homes in a free market, they were not granted to him; the residents are not serfs.

So I guess it's like feudalism in that...there's a landlord?

Serfs were not paid for their homes, and in many cases were not allowed to stay in their homes. How does this resemble feudalism?
Re:Microsoft Coffee on Friday April 02, 2021 @02:25PM (#26674256)
I actually had a cup holder for a drive bay that was intended as one, it even had a cigarette lighter!

https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-39083765508394/thermaltake-x-ra...

I never understood this cliché. Half a sentence is invalidated by a conjunction? We can't have two contrasting clauses in a single sentence?
> If you want heading anchor links, go for something like[...]

...something like `a > h1`. Anchors wrapping block headings feels...wrong, but it's valid HTML5.

Most browsers will set the inner `h1` as display: block so the click/tap target for the `a` becomes larger. (`h1 > a` with `display: block` would have the same result though).

Also make sure that content isn't being duplicated for the user, `a` and `h1` are waypoints for users. `aria-` attributes can help you here.

LOTS of competition with "why did we ever stop using nested element selectors?!" projects like these. Baseline is you have to be better than Normalize, and this isn't.

Was anything but personal preference the reason for changing the link color, the body font to specific typefaces, the font-size to a little smaller than normal, etc?

Links are much worse, no focus, no text-decoration, confusing colors. You have to nail this stuff.

Re:Mvp.css – build your landing page with only semantic HTML on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:53AM (#25170311)
> there is nothing bad about divs when it comes to accessability [sic]

There certainly is. Prefer h1 over div, button over div, etc whenever appropriate.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/tips/developing/#use-mark-up-to-conve...

Re:Mvp.css – build your landing page with only semantic HTML on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:31AM (#25170202)
The light grey text under "MVP.css works with the following HTML elements:" surely fails (WCAG2).

`section` has an `h2`, but no `h1` for some reason. Other failures like this.

Other than that what's wrong?

Well, Play Music is already gone at least

https://play.google.com/store/apps/theme/promotion_gpm_shutd...

> The Music store on Google Play is no longer available.

> To continue listening to your Play Music library, transfer your library to YouTube Music

You can still Play Books though?

It was specifically "sedentary screen time" defined as the total "hours per week, adding together the participants’ answers to the questions:

1. "In a typical DAY, how many hours do you spend watching TV?" and

2. "In a typical DAY, how many hours do you spend using a computer? (not including time using a computer at work)"

Re:The IDE Divide (2004) on Friday November 13, 2020 @01:13PM (#25085459)
> HTML and CSS are all you need, with some vanilla JS

For a modern web application?! Absolutely not, the things the OP mentioned (webpack, 1000 node packages etc) are essential.

Even on the IDE side, I have...100 extensions installed?

Re:Most-mentioned links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:03PM (#25077561)
I thought we'd see #91 (1053/"Ten Thousand") but it's lame having a 4-digit XKCD in the top 100
Re:Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server on Thursday November 12, 2020 @08:54AM (#25069817)
Yes. On every version.
I've owned every one since the G1 as well and the the 4a is their best value since my $300 Nexus 4
> when Florida took a harder stance against Doctors prescribing Oxycontin making it more difficult for people to acquire and abuse, there was an exodus of people to states that had more relaxed laws

Is there a source for this? Florida was a MAJOR supplier of Oxycontin for other states near and far until the crackdown in 2011. Prescription monitoring reduced pill smuggling to other states.

Addicts didn't move to other states, they moved to another drug--heroin. Heroin is covered by the new Oregon legislation.

https://heroin.palmbeachpost.com/florida-cuts-off-oxycodone-...

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