SippinLean

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by SippinLean 5y ago
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...
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by SippinLean 5y ago
It is disabled by default > Norton Crypto is an opt-in feature only and is not enabled without user permission
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by SippinLean 5y ago
> If Saskia could be guarded by men in bearskin hats riding horses, why, she could as well have a webmaster . Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock
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by SippinLean 5y ago
Related article from John Gruber in 2010: https://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks
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by SippinLean 5y ago
> it was copied from Java's JDK1.0 (1995) java.util.Date, which also had this quirk
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by SippinLean 5y ago
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...
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by SippinLean 5y ago
He was indicted in 2018 and released on bail https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-inc-vp-c...
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by SippinLean 5y ago
> 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
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by SippinLean 5y ago
It's no longer maintained, Five Server replaced it https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yandeu.f...
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by SippinLean 5y ago
A ligature is a character composed of two or more graphemes, it is not a letter
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by SippinLean 5y ago
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?
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by SippinLean 5y ago
Hot take, but if you're doing Scrum you sure do. A good Scrum master can make meetings much more productive.
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by SippinLean 5y ago
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 position
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by SippinLean 5y ago
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, th
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by SippinLean 5y ago
> 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?
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by SippinLean 5y ago
Serfs were not paid for their homes, and in many cases were not allowed to stay in their homes. How does this resemble feudalism?
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by SippinLean 5y ago
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...
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by SippinLean 6y ago
I never understood this cliché. Half a sentence is invalidated by a conjunction? We can't have two contrasting clauses in a single sentence?
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by SippinLean 6y ago
> 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&
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by SippinLean 6y ago
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 chang
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by SippinLean 6y ago
> 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-
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by SippinLean 6y ago
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?
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by SippinLean 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20201120230553/https://www.edn.c...
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by SippinLean 6y ago
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 Mu
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by SippinLean 6y ago
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. &q
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by SippinLean 6y ago
> 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?
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by SippinLean 6y ago
I thought we'd see #91 (1053/"Ten Thousand") but it's lame having a 4-digit XKCD in the top 100
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by SippinLean 6y ago
Yes. On every version.
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by SippinLean 6y ago
I've owned every one since the G1 as well and the the 4a is their best value since my $300 Nexus 4
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by SippinLean 6y ago
> 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 wa

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