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Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:57PM (#37228425)
While not exactly what you asked for and instead a single article containing a collection of advice, albeit concretely illustrated in an arguably useful fashion, I can attest at least that I've found this one useful:

https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/7-practical-tips-for-cheat...

Re:Godly – Astronomically good web design inspiration on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @04:44PM (#37228269)
Ol' Gen-Xer here - Oh, we do remember Flash only sites... I remember having to build one or maybe two of them even, of course after trying ultimately in vain to explain to the client just how bad an idea it was. Though this was still in the times before the security issues, before the Adobe years.

\<thousand-yard-stare \/\>

Re:Mach 3.5 Over Libya in an SR-71 Blackbird on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:12PM (#35381560)
You gotta tell me, what did it feel like? :)

It kinda looks, to my eyes at least, like it has a matte finish in photos, so my thinking would be that it would have perhaps an almost shark skin roughness or something? Though you'd imagine surely not given the bit of extra drag when factored over the whole airframe...maybe?

But then again, at those speeds I wonder if there would be a difference or if boundary layer effects take over or something of that nature.

Disclaimer: am obviously not an aerospace engineer :)

Re:I found a bug in SQLite on Sunday December 11, 2022 @04:20PM (#33947648)
Actually, with one of the problems being faced in that space at present, especially for applications involving factual answers, being "hallucinations" ( ie. essentially as I understand it the level of "creativity" in responses) such "creativity" may well be quite suited to finding those various unusual edge cases.
You do if you jump both high enough and fast enough sideways such that when you come back down you miss the Earth.
Could be worse. Could be a one line Perl script.
Re:The Higher States of Bromine on Sunday December 15, 2019 @06:08PM (#21799619)
No software-only interlocks on anything that requires a safety interlock
Re:German traffic light stays red for 28 years (2015) on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @05:33AM (#13874900)
Hey, that's a good idea - exception catching for traffic lights