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by bazoom42 3y ago
CSS have supported ‘display:table’ for 25 years, which is exactly “tables for layout”.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Yeah there was a period of time when IE didnt support display:table and ARIA hints wasnt as developed. So if you wanted to create accessible web sites with nice layout you had to resort to weird hacks, often using floats. Floats was never i
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by bazoom42 3y ago
You could use ‘display:table’ in CSS if you wanted a tabular layout without using the table-tags. This has been part of CSS for 25 years. Grid is newer and more powerful.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
CSS never recommended float/clear as an alternative to table-based layout. CSS had ‘display:table’ for when you needed a tabular layout without the semantic baggage of the table-tag.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Is accessibility for the visually impaired a cult? How could Google even work if content could not be seperated from its visual presention?
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by bazoom42 3y ago
There is always a lot of confusion about this because “tables” can mean different things - it is both a set of structual elements in HTML and a layout model in CSS. CSS is “the right way” to control styling and layout, but that does not mea
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> start off by sticking it in a function and see if compiler optimizations take care of the issue. You could also just use a goto and avoid the accidental complexity. I still dont understand why a complicated workaround is better than a
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It is a weird myth that CSS somehow discourages tables. CSS have supported styling html tables and ‘display:table’ (allowing a table-like layout without html-tables) for 25 years. Float and clear was grandfathered into CSS since they were a
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> put a copy of the second half of the loop before the `do` But why is that better than just using a goto? Goto’s are usually discouraged because they make code hard to follow, but if avoiding the goto makes the code even more convoluted
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by bazoom42 3y ago
You mean they wrote web pages with all the text in ALL CAPS? I highly doubt this was ever common.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It is just objectively incorrect that using uppercase saves space.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
This was long before HTML though. HTML was always at least ASCII.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
What? Upppercase and lowercase occupy the same amount of bits. ASCII uses 7 bits for all characters (although in practice 8 bits).
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Automated tests are great, the problem described is over-reliance on mocking. Mocking should only be used for dependencies which have non-deterministic behavior or where it is otherwise impractical to use the real implementation.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Not the smallest unit, just an internal unit or component smaller than the whole of the system. The important thing is not the size of the code affected by the test, the important thing is that a test should verify a single requirement is
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It is easy to create bad tests. I have seen an over-reliance on mocking giving high code coverage but still quite useless tests.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It was commonly believed the species had been created fully formed, like in Genesis. Slective breeding was known, but it was not obvious that entirely new species could be created that way. There is a big step from breeding a bigger dog to
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Here is a crazy idea: So csv itself is abiguous, but as a convention we could encode the options in the file name. E.g data.uchq.csv means utf8, comma-separated, with header, quoted.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
What is the relevance?
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Apparently the band was named after the song by the Smiths, which in turn was named after the essay by Virginia Woolf.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
It is not a question of popularity, it is a question of negotiating power. Actors have a strong union and the “name” actors are important enough for the success of movies that the studios are willing to accept these conditions.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Of course you can use third-party resources like fonts or JS libraries. What you can’t do is trick the client to download something from a third-party source which then spy on the customer.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Note that putting a “we use cookies” banner on your website will not absolve you from GDPR fines anyway. You still need to adher to the law about informend consent, storing safely etc. If you are worried about GDPR, by far the safest is to
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by bazoom42 3y ago
You don’t need to inform people you are using cookies. It is not about cookies.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
> may have cost him re-election Perhaps, but I suspect “read my lips, no more taxes” and Ross Perot taking a large chunk of republican voters might have more to do with it. Perot got almost 20% of the vote which is huge amount for a thir
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by bazoom42 3y ago
I dont think people into astrology would call themselves atheists. They would probabably identify as “spiritual”. “Atheist religion” is more like NPL, scientology, UFO cults, The Singularity, simulation universe etc.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Pedantic comment perhaps, but “protagonist” does not mean “good guy” or “admirable”. It just means main character in a story.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
This is basically how all Icelandic surnames work. They are patronyms or matronyms. Björk Guðmundsdóttir literally means “Björk, daughter of Guðmundur”, because that was the name of her father.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
If you click on the “X hours ago” header, you get the text in black.
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by bazoom42 3y ago
Learn you a Haskell gets to Hello World at page 128.

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