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Re:As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program on Saturday August 08, 2026 @07:15PM (#49226798)
PKG if you need to install files aside from your application bundle.
Re:Sagrada Família Lego set on Thursday June 04, 2026 @07:32PM (#48406097)
So no, they haven't completed it. They have completed some major construction milestones.

https://sagradafamilia.org/en/-/una-creu-que-arriba-al-cel-d...

Sounds like you need to attend the next NYC Mechanical Keyboard Meetup
Re:Start your meetings at 5 minutes past on Saturday January 10, 2026 @10:51AM (#46566692)
This ensures meetings will begin at 10 minutes past
and the name of the function we use to access them is var()! Not customProperty().
> a high dose (22 or 30 mg/70 kg) of psilocybin

What is this compared to a recreational dose? Are these patients getting high as part of their treatment?

Re:The Death of Partying in the USA on Thursday July 10, 2025 @09:51AM (#44521086)
The number of first-time home owners has plummeted though

https://www.nar.realtor/research-and-statistics/research-rep...

easier sell/setup
> moments used to be given over to silent reflection or conversation with whoever is around

Noticeable on pubic transit particularly

Re:Seeking an Answer: Why can't HTML alone do includes? on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:33AM (#43879739)
That's why I joked about flamebait, it's hypertext though, aren't anchors essentially a goToURL() click handler in some ways? Template partials seem like a basic part of this system.

> considered to be server-side

Good point! Wouldn't fetching a template partial happen the same way (like fetching an image?)

Re:Seeking an Answer: Why can't HTML alone do includes? on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:26AM (#43879684)
Well said this is many students' intro to PHP. Why not `<include src=header.html/>` though?

Some content is already loaded asynchronously such as images, content below the fold etc.

> HTML is really just a markup syntax, not a programming language

flamebait detected :) It's a declarative language, interpreted by each browser engine separately.

Re:Better typography with text-wrap pretty on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @08:30AM (#43631317)
`text-align: justify` solves a different problem, it justifies your text; both the left and right edges of each line are aligned with the margins.

> Should one use both together in the main text of your average blog

Optimize for legibility; the properties are compatible.

Re:Better typography with text-wrap pretty on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @08:21AM (#43631254)
Ironically the paragraph about orphans ("avoid leaving a single word by itself") puts "large" on a line by itself (at the largest viewport).

Applying `text-wrap:pretty` solves that!

Re:They Might Be Giants Flood EPK Promo (1990) [video] on Thursday March 27, 2025 @09:18AM (#43493310)
The live experience is something to be seen, it's not just the two Jons playing Birdhouse in Your Soul.

They have a very large band including a lot of wind instruments, and they really have fun with it. (Spoiler alert) they've taken to playing Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love in reverse, filming it live, then playing that recording in reverse for the audience (post-intermission).

Re:Polypane, The browser for ambitious web developers on Tuesday March 25, 2025 @12:00PM (#43472854)
* What are a few features you offer over Browserstack? (re: x-browser testing).

* Do you offer GenAI integrations? (Copilot, Claude, etc)

(Help me sell this to my manager)

The big difference:

> The GSM Association announced that the latest RCS standard includes E2EE

> While Apple’s proprietary iMessage system already supported E2EE, this wasn’t extended to RCS messaging because the previous RCS standard didn’t provide cross-platform support

Re:How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise on Friday March 07, 2025 @10:41AM (#43291043)
Yes

> cryptocurrencies have most of the characteristics of cash

Re:How Monero Fulfilled Satoshi's Promise on Friday March 07, 2025 @09:56AM (#43290673)
Satoshi claimed a lot. For the purpose of the title the Promise was peer-to-peer permissionless transactions, with a weakness:

> public ledger cryptocurrencies have most of the characteristics of cash except one thing: Untraceability

The author argues Monero fills a missing case:

> untraceable cryptocurrency while keeping all of cash’s characteristics

> I even worked in AA(A?) back ca. ~2000

Cool, can you say what titles? Just curious. (congrats! they clearly laid off the wrong person :)

Sure, maybe the teenage hacker was acting in good faith.

> Based off of this reporting it's not conclusive.

The (linked in article) Krebs article is pretty damning, including screenshots of why he was fired.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/teen-on-musks-doge-team-...

Yes unfortunately this is much more specific than "cyber researchers interacting with cybercriminals"

> Coristine was fired from a company after leaking internal firm secrets to a competitor

...and now has physical access to building facilities at CISA

It's more nuanced than "let DOGE in and review that"

> Gioeli [told the court], however, that Elez may have "occasionally" taken screen shots of payment system data or records to share with a second DOGE employee working with him at Treasury

Re:Ketamine for Depression: How It Works on Friday February 07, 2025 @01:10PM (#42975643)
Were they the director of the Yale Depression Research Center?
Re:No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard on Sunday January 26, 2025 @01:32PM (#42832521)
For discussion, what's wrong with the statement "if you hold a money market cash position [you hold] the same thing as Bitcoin [or a crypto ETF]"? Or, say, you hold one of Vanguard's Gold ETFs. (Good faith)
Re:Alcohol-free booze is becoming big business on Tuesday January 07, 2025 @08:43AM (#42622190)
N/A beer lists the calories on the can, as a bonus

I don't wanna guess how many calories are in the quadruple IPAs I've had

For discussion I'd argue

• this name works with Grid and Flexbox

• this convention matches justify-items and justify-self, which makes sense

to your point I still confuse it with align-content sometimes.

Re:Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce on Saturday January 04, 2025 @07:07AM (#42594242)
What about replacing other charts?

The equivalent in amateur aviation? "Instinct and years of experience replace..."

Re:Phase behavior of Cacio and Pepe sauce on Saturday January 04, 2025 @07:04AM (#42594233)
The Recipe section is mostly to show the problem is solved

> small temperature variations can completely compromise the recipe’s outcome

Re:<dialog>: The Dialog Element on Friday December 06, 2024 @04:22PM (#42344601)
Which seems to simply add <dialog> to the docs for the `cancel` event

https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/d2421d25d1676cc11b01cc...

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLDialogE...

(<dialog> has been around for a decade)

Re:CSS Gets a New Logo: and It Uses the Color `Rebeccapurple` on Sunday November 17, 2024 @07:27AM (#42163843)
That's been the unofficial "logo for CSS" for years: https://i0.wp.com/css-tricks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/...

It appears this option was discussed: https://github.com/CSS-Next/css-next/issues/105#issuecomment...

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