frivoal

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by frivoal 6mo ago
I think Pen vs mouse isn't the issue. To me, the question is: did you do it all yourself, to the last line (including choosing the thickness, the color… of it all), or did something do it on your behalf, based on higher level instruc
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by frivoal 3y ago
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824...
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by frivoal 4y ago
I don't think virus is a 4th declension noun, and I've seen it described in multiple sources as a 2nd declension (meaning slime, poison, infection, mucus, or something thereabout). It is unusual in being a -us noun despite being n
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by frivoal 4y ago
This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021208 (not your fault, OP cross-posted between twitter and mastodon)
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by frivoal 4y ago
All the above is correct. Additionally, it is important to understand that W3C isn't wholly hosted at MIT. MIT is one of 4 co-hosts (the others being Keio University in Japan, Beihang university in China, and ERCIM in France), though M
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by frivoal 4y ago
The reason why this cannot be done is documented in the csswg's informal FAQ: https://wiki.csswg.org/faq#versioning-css-fixing-design-mist...
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by frivoal 4y ago
All the history of the css colors, and lots of humor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmStJQzclHc
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by frivoal 4y ago
That country could have an interestingly named neighbor: if Ireland and Scotland band together, they could be the United Republic of Ireland and Northern Great Britain.
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by frivoal 4y ago
For the font size, it's kind of the same, kind of not. The numerical value of the font sized used is typically the same, but Chinese characters fill the allocated space more thoroughly. i 泳
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by frivoal 4y ago
If you like this, there's a whole family of such documents: Chinese: https://www.w3.org/TR/clreq/ Ethiopic: https://www.w3.org/TR/elreq/ Arabic: https://www.w3.org/T
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by frivoal 4y ago
Same here. Desktop mail client just had its first successful connection in a little while.
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by frivoal 4y ago
> The web was designed to publish documents, it was never intended to build applications. I find that repeated a lot, but to me, it's somewhere between an overstatement and a misconception. Sure, the early web wasn't anywhere n
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by frivoal 4y ago
Or, more commonly, Nihon. Nippon is more emphatic, which is occasionally taken to make it sound more nationalistic.
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by frivoal 4y ago
The notion that non profit boards are self appointed and answerable to nobody doesn't seem universal. In the model I am familiar with (the French one), non profits typically have broad and open membership, and that membership elects th
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by frivoal 4y ago
Depending on what you consider core: also SVG, WebRTC, ServiceWorkers, Aria, Web Payments, WOFF, Web Audio…
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by frivoal 5y ago
Can a new phone platform be successful if it launches without whatsapp / wechat / line / instagram / [add a dozen social networks there]? A phone that doesn't let you speak to your friends, family, and coworkers is
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by frivoal 5y ago
Pretty sure bufferin is aspirin, not paracetamol.
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by frivoal 5y ago
I'd speculate differently. Americans commute by car, audiobooks are convenient to read while driving. Japanese commute by train, which is much more suitable to looking at a book (paper or electronic). Also, Manga is massively popular,
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by frivoal 6y ago
Here's a greatly entertaining talk about the whacky history of the bizarre naming of colors in CSS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmStJQzclHc
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by frivoal 6y ago
The naming is far from great, but there is a method to the madness. Here's a talk I did a while back on how various line breaking things fit together: https://cssday.nl/2019/speakers#florian
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by frivoal 6y ago
I suspect the opposite situation is what you run into: it is possible to write programs that are valid and out to be accepted by the type system, but get rejected because you blew the stack of the type checker. Had the type checker been all
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by frivoal 6y ago
That's still weird though. By that logic, they should ban all web browsers, and mail clients… Content they find unacceptable is definitely accessible through those. Banning all applications that enable access to non-moderated decentral
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by frivoal 6y ago
This would encourage the people who have the most options to leave, and those with the least to stay. This isn't necessarily the same, but is likely to be very similar to encouraging your best employees to leave, the worst ones to stay
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by frivoal 6y ago
No, because the group that decides on raising the salary is not a shareholder meeting or something like that, but the same people who get that salary. See Mozilla's bylaws: https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/doc
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by frivoal 7y ago
Some countries do have a huge mask supply: in Japan for instance, wearing a mask if you have a cold / in the cold season / in the pollen allergy season / … is very normal, and almost everybody has a box or two of masks laying
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by frivoal 7y ago
> when you can guarantee that your JS will never apply certain styles to certain elements It goes further than that: using contain means that even if you tried applying these styles that would break optimizations, the browsers will not o
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by frivoal 7y ago
> That seems to imply that `overflow: hidden` could still be used with `contain: size` to "access" clipped content. Ah, you're right. This changed at some point in the history of this property, and I was remembering the ol
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by frivoal 7y ago
`contain: none` is a thing: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-contain-1/#valdef-contain-none
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by frivoal 7y ago
> `contain: layout` means that its internal layout is not affected by anything outside. The other way around: * normally, a float can poke out of its parent div, and affect stuff around * an absolutely positioned element can poke out of
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by frivoal 7y ago
Browsers can do that, scrolling is cheap (unless you highjack it with JS, but that's another story). However, if change the layout / content of some element in the page, making it bigger, or smaller, or positioned differently, etc

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