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by rsch 8mo ago
Yes. - Parked cars on the street. - Drive somewhat fast. - Avoid killing people. Pick two.
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by rsch 8mo ago
A human driver travelling at the same speed would have hit that child at exactly 17 mph, before their brain even registered that child was there. If that driver would also have been driving a large SUV that child would have been pushed on t
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by rsch 8mo ago
I can’t be the only one who has ever read https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html
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by rsch 8mo ago
At least it is not as bad as on Windows 11. There the resize area is inside or outside the visible frame depending on which side and which corner of the window.
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by rsch 9mo ago
Oh for the time when chairs were still for sitting and PDFs were still for printing. Restaurant websites mentioned — the majority of restaurant web sites I’ve encountered were much more annoying and difficult to read than a PDF, even on a s
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by rsch 11mo ago
That planned obsolescence thing on light bulbs isn't the entire story. Light bulbs will last longer if driven less hard, due to the lower temperature. But that lower temperature also means much lower efficiency because the blackbody sp
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by rsch 1y ago
Auckland has an almost finished through running project in its city centre, which will greatly improve its railway network. It currently has only one terminus in the city, but trains from one side (the west) have to do an awkward dog leg ar
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by rsch 1y ago
PHP was blamed for a good reason: for a long time it did not by default support prepared SQL statements. You could install the mysqli extension to gain such support but that was almost never available on shared web hosts.
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by rsch 1y ago
Today in “typesetting before we had typewriters”: … At least we have dedicated O/0, and l/1 keys now. But we still see a lot of "straight" quotes instead of “those smart quotes Microsoft Word likes to generate”. And dash
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by rsch 2y ago
Yeah one wart about Windows is that you always have to lookup these weird registry hacks after getting a fresh install. Disabling this automatic reboot was one of them. Otherwise that would make your computer completely useless for things l
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by rsch 2y ago
That looks rad. One bit of feedback: don't move the camera if someone clicks one of the circles, that is super disorienting. There is also a bug that if a drag to move the camera happens to end on a circle, the popup opens.
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by rsch 2y ago
One of those project is the OG — GIMP.
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by rsch 2y ago
It is quite confusing because there are strong points in favour of either POV. Point: you can ride a bicycle without hands. That would be completely impossible without gyroscopic effect. Or you can push a bicycle forward without a rider. Co
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by rsch 2y ago
Oh yes it may very well over half your kid’s weight. These things are ABSURDLY heavy. This makes starting hard (an already hard problem when learning), it makes falling off worse because there is so much weight pulling down, and then they g
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by rsch 2y ago
That is a common fallacy, I suspect it comes from having enough budget to not having to think about being able to afford something decent. It is like photographers with $5,000 worth of equipment in their camera bags telling you that equipme
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by rsch 2y ago
It is a legitimate thing now, if you can type more than a word per minute you'll notice that many apps are not able to keep up. The most common offenders seem to be Electron apps. IDEs sometimes struggle as well.
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by rsch 2y ago
For bonus points, some menu web sites also do that on their desktop web sites. I have seen many of them that show like 10 items on a 27″ 1440p desktop monitor.
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by rsch 3y ago
Haha yes I remember that. Pros and cons of using DIVs and CSS: + hipster cred - DIV soup - CSS back then was wildly, W I L D L Y unsuitable for what people where trying to do (I think it boils down to it being designed to format documents,
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by rsch 3y ago
There are good reasons why the next generation just looks up videos. The idea of a web search engine is disappearing into the mist of time. Text search engines worked well 10 years ago, but they are now completely overwhelmed by content far
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by rsch 4y ago
If you underexpose too severely, the JPEG compression will eat up all the detail in the shadows.
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by rsch 4y ago
There are obvious downsides to many of these CSS hacks. Pay close attention to the usage notes. An example not on the page are menus powered by the CSS :hover pseudo-class. It seems smart, until you realise the diagonal problem exists, and
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by rsch 4y ago
Steamboat Willie is from 1928, almost a hundred years ago. And it is still under copyright. So you can make that “the lifetime of their grandparents” too.
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by rsch 4y ago
Ah I remember the experience of just dropping files on a server from a long time ago. I had one web host where magic_quotes_gpc was enabled. Good luck figuring out what the hell is going on with all these extra quotes in your variables. And
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by rsch 4y ago
I started reading it, saw the first photo and went oh my gaaaaaaaaad wear gloves. And not just for the goop inside the thing, people had this thing in their mouth. The next paragraph confirms the author came to this conclusion too.
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by rsch 4y ago
Yes there was this one day where you open Facebook and literally every other post is Sponsored. And this Reels thing with some random videos from whatever. But yeah anyway, do you still know people who actually post on Facebook?
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by rsch 4y ago
Windows 95 didn’t use the HLT instruction because it didn’t work reliably on many PCs back in the day. It would sometimes freeze instead of just halt. There was a post on the oldnewthing blog about this but I can’t immediately find it.
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by rsch 4y ago
A big issue is how “parenting” has changed in recent decades. Even a couple of generations ago it was much more of a group effort. Now it is just the parents versus everyone else either not caring or kicking down on them (for example, some
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by rsch 5y ago
If only. GIF is still the only format that supports animated frames, and is supported in most applications that support images. I sometimes create some animated WEBP to post somewhere, but the outcome is always the same, I have to go back a
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by rsch 5y ago
I think this is a consequence for our generally nonsensical arrangements for raising children. The 2 parents (or maybe 1 single parent) are supposed to do it mostly by themselves in what is called a nuclear family. That is a quite recent de