mediumdeviation

> log trains can only carry logs, passenger trains can only carry passengers

Not technically true since you can mix carriages, but like in Factorio having mixed trains is probably a bad idea.

This comment is the following Douglas Adams quote, but unironically

> Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

Also if you believed the Chinese were hunter-gatherers 1000 years ago then you might want to read up on Song dynasty (960–1279AD) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_dynasty

You absolutely do not want to scale the page to the same physical size on different screens because you also need to take into account distance between screen and your eyes. Text on phones can be smaller physically than text on a desktop monitor because you hold your phone closer. As an even more extreme example, think of browsing the web on a TV screen while sitting on the couch and how small the text would be if it is physically the same as it is on your phone.

> Of course, I had to get all that info from thedonald.win because almost no-one else is talking about this.

Except on the news media [1], or the largest politics community on one of the largest social networks on the Internet [2].

[1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/twitter-bans-michael-...

[2]: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/ktcafe/twitter_ba...

Compiz cube can already do this with your entire desktop circa 2006. I remember being quite delighted with it when I first installed Ubuntu but it was never very practical. I still miss wobbly windows though

They said the same thing about DoubleClick and YouTube. The amount of trust you should give to Google's words is zero.

For context - this was used for Stack Overflow’s 2010 April Fools https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/37328/my-god-its-fu....

The algorithm for generating a unicorn from a hash is quite interesting. It looks like the site is down, but thankfully the internet archive has a mirror https://web.archive.org/web/20100428132341/http://unicornify...

Mostly useful for print stylesheets. On screens it seems to be defined as a constant 96px[1], which means it has no correspondence to physical inches.

[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/css-length-explained/

That seems unlikely given that in the week of April 6 to 12, Covid 19 has risen to the 2nd leading cause of death in the United States[1].

[1]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/04/16/coronaviru...

The locking down of the API is done to prevent competition, while being publicly framed as a privacy enhancing scheme.

> The Switcharoo Plan turned out to be an idea whereby Facebook executives would deprecate various APIs that its developer partners depended on for fear that those developers would one day compete with Facebook directly, while publicly announcing that the changes were intended to promote privacy.

https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/11/8/20953623/facebo...

Nothing Facebook says publicly should be trusted.

Isn't this the same company that phishes its users by asking them for their banking login and 2FA information directly in third party apps? I'm not sure if this is the sort of regulatory barrier breaking worth celebrating.

Ah yes, same as my new Pixel. Apparently to be able to give me temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit, Google would like to know every app activity and usage as well as everywhere I have been. This sort of privacy bundling really should not be allowed.

Yup, you can definitely see a web developer bias here - those are all popular webfonts because Google offer them free on their CDN, and it is easy to drop them into any website by just pasting in the CSS, but they are probably much less familiar to those outside frontend web development. They're also not necessarily the best fonts to use for the same reason.

I think you're thinking of a different threat model from these users. If you're concerned about breaches by malicious actors, then yes this defense makes sense.

However, if you're worried about data mined from tracking your personal behavior, which is what the users here are worried about, then it makes sense to spread your data out. Traditional stores are not going to send each other your transaction history to build a profile of interest and personality, and each store won't have a complete enough history or even the expertise to mine it.

It's a recreation of the game that Slack pivoted from. They also released most assets from the game into the public domain https://www.glitchthegame.com/

Only aiding and abetting one genocide this year would be a 50% improvement over last year!

No, if you actually read the label you'll notice it's basically a religious tract preaching a weird quasi-spirituality nonsense. I do like that in those days you have to actually create a useful product so people would listen to you, instead of now where you just need a Twitter account

> Emanuel wasn’t a businessman (or a doctor, for that matter). He was an activist who, in the wake of his parents’ deaths in the Holocaust, began using his soap’s label as a, well, soapbox for proselytizing his “All-One!” thoughts and ideas. His philosophy, which he eventually named the “Moral ABC,” comprised a grab bag of religion, spirituality, environmentalism, and self-help, and its peculiarity was matched only by its ambition: peace and harmony on “Spaceship Earth.”

For what it's worth, Create React App is bundled with eslint-plugin-jsx-a11y which will give you the same warning

Just leave it blank and force the user to explicitly enter something? I don't see how defaulting to the current date is ever useful for date of birth from a user interface design perspective.

> I don't get why defining routes with components is a good thing

It makes the routes reactive. This is not necessary for smaller projects, but where it is needed this can be really helpful. The responsive route example shows this off well https://reacttraining.com/react-router/core/guides/philosoph...

Coase Theorem doesn’t say _how_ you should divide up property rights - that’s a normative statement that’s outside the scope of economics - but rather that as long as _any_ property rights are assigned, regardless of which way the assignment goes, the outcome will be economically efficient.

Also it assumes transaction costs are negligible, ie in the example in the article, the negotiations between the railway and the farmer can be done cheaply and quickly. This is somewhat like assuming a frictionless plane in physics.

Ironically the first time I’ve seen this point made is in an Onion video - 6-Year-Old Explains How Messed Up It Is That Her Entire Life Has Been Put On Facebook https://www.theonion.com/6-year-old-explains-how-messed-up-i...

Also the site claims to about “web fundamentals”, but the content pushed out are all articles about cutting edge, experimental features in Chrome. There’s nothing wrong with documenting new features in your browser, but calling it fundamental is fundamentally misleading.

HTML documents don't generally have the concept of lines since text reflow based on the way user agent (browser) is rendering the document. That's why the RFC only talks about text/plain MIME type - browsers render those with all line breaks intact. You can maybe use a CSS selectors, but that adds a tremendous amount of complexity and is not easy for non-web developers to read anymore.

Actually Android One devices are also guaranteed (inasmuch as the tiny text at the bottom of the Android One website [1] says) three years of security updates

> Monthly security updates to be supported for at least 3 years after initial phone release.

(scroll down to the bottom of the page and look for the double asterisks footnote. I don't know why they want to hide what is IMO the best reason to get an Android One device)

[1]: https://www.android.com/one/

This [1] happened in 2016. Google can change its privacy policy, but your data is still on their servers. The problem is not just a matter of what Google says about privacy, but a matter of trust, and Google has broken that many times already.

[1]: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-has-quietly-droppe...

Facebook has already been fined by the European commission in 2017 to the tune of 110M Euros over this. It is a drop in the bucket compared to the billions Facebook paid for WhatsApp though - so small one suspect Facebook might have already factored it into the cost of the acquisition.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/may/18/facebook-fi...

Another consequence of this is that JS Date objects don't understand the concept of timezones, and only allows you to output dates in either the client timezone or UTC. This makes it extremely hard to, for example, display the arrival time of a flight in the destination timezone.

Intl.DateTimeFormat[1] is a godsend for this.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

I remember desktop Chrome ‘implementing’ date input a few years ago by using the number input’s spinner. If you press up the date goes to 0000-01-01. It was worse than useless because you can’t even polyfill in a JS datepicker since the usual feature detection would detect Chrome as having support for date input.

No, it usually takes a while. Last year's closed on 28 Jan, and results and data were released on 13 March and 30 May respectively.