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by bentley 3y ago
I stopped closing <td> and <tr> because I found the (completely valid, completely unambiguous) practice of dropping the closing tags dramatically reduced the visual noise and clutter, making it easier for me to read my own table
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by bentley 3y ago
If I didn’t intend the img or span to be in the paragraph, I would have closed the <p>. The act of leaving the <p> open is what demonstrates that my intent is for the img to remain inside.
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by bentley 3y ago
Luckily, I find that dropping implicit elements and closing tags does a lot to keep HTML competitive in that sense.
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by bentley 3y ago
I would rather spend my money on books from publishers who provide DRM‐free epubs, like Tor Books or No Starch Press.
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by bentley 3y ago
Do you always specify <tbody> in your tables?
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by bentley 3y ago
> Also remember that there are a few common elements, like <p> and <li>, that you usually don't need to close. <p> and <li> don’t ever need to be closed, do they? Closing would only be necessary if leaving
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by bentley 3y ago
Funny, that’s a complaint I have about Markdown. Anytime I use superscript or subscript, or try to nest markup within a list or table or something, I always get the formatting wrong. Whereas in HTML it’s always easy to nest things properly,
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by bentley 3y ago
Well, sitting and staring blankly has been socially unusual for decades at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBBQdFSvvTE That said: I don’t pull out my phone when waiting in line, I don’t usually have a book or newspap
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by bentley 3y ago
> Humans, including kids, are inherently social creatures, and are happiest when communing with their fellow creatures That may be generally true, but it doesn’t imply that time alone is always bad, nor that all time “being social” is go
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by bentley 3y ago
Is your conclusion, therefore, that every negative observation about a younger generation is false?
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by bentley 3y ago
…You do? If you actually want to put your phone away but avoid doing so because you’re worried about what people would think, let me encourage you to ignore them. In my experience, one doesn’t suffer serious (or even moderate) social proble
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by bentley 3y ago
> I have been told that Vonnegut wrote "Harrison Bergeron" as a kind of parody of right-wing thought about left-winger ideas of equality Though I’ve heard that sentiment before, it seems unlikely, and when I looked very hard fo
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by bentley 3y ago
The thinking was tested (in U.S. jurisdiction) in Sega v. Accolade . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_v._Accolade The court sensibly ruled that using technical means to force competitors to display your trademark ag
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by bentley 3y ago
Can you provide any specific recommendations?
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by bentley 3y ago
If the spelling is intended to be vernacular, the SE policy is not to change the spelling. I (a mere reader) have successfully reverted dialectal spellings in SE several times.
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by bentley 3y ago
I haven’t looked into your example, but certainly it can be true that lowercasing can be harmful. It goes without saying, I think, that the SE policy is only to lowercase words when doing so doesn’t harm. When I see erroneous changes in S
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by bentley 3y ago
Typos can be reported by email on SE too. Git is only required when you’re publishing a new book. My observation from watching the mailing list is that emailed typos are fixed quickly. (I always fix typos using pull requests, and those are
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by bentley 3y ago
As someone who regularly compares different scans of old books, I counter: for centuries it’s already been common practice for publishers to update spellings, recapitalize, and even make more drastic changes. You just never noticed because
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by bentley 3y ago
Typically the copyright of the recordings derives from the copyright of the performance, and only indirectly from that of the original classical piece. Most recordings are copyrighted, but that’s because recording technology only became hug
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by bentley 3y ago
In the US, Bridgeman v. Corel ruled that faithful copies of public domain works don’t gain copyright protection for being copies of an original. To be copyrighted requires some sort of creative spark, and that spark was entirely contained
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by bentley 3y ago
Nintendo did attempt that trick, although the case you’re thinking of is Sega v. Accolade , which as you said, ruled that forcing your competitor to display your trademark unwillingly doesn’t mean you can smack them down for trademark infr
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by bentley 3y ago
Previous copyright extensions were not constitutional amendments. Decreasing the length of new copyright terms could be done the same way, without any need for an amendment. Reducing the length of existing copyright terms might be conside
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by bentley 3y ago
It’s difficult because the most recent extensions were put in place to synchronize US copyright with the absurd durations pioneered by Europe and the Berne Convention. In effect, the US has allowed international treaties to supersede the Co
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by bentley 3y ago
How much influence does the Florida legislature have over federal copyright law, really?
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by bentley 3y ago
I doubt it played a very big role. Consider: the last general copyright extension in the US was the CTEA in 1998. Back then, the movie and music industries were among the biggest players in the copyright space. Since 1998, though, Silicon V
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by bentley 3y ago
This kind of thing has been attempted in the past. For example, after the Lego brick patents expired, Lego sued Mega Bloks (in Canada) claiming a trademark over the design of the brick. They lost the case, because the Supreme Court (of Cana
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by bentley 3y ago
I typically keep $2 bills as the smallest denomination in my wallet, with a couple of half‐dollar and dollar coins.
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by bentley 3y ago
> Will certainly be interested to see what price this launches at. $249. https://chaos.social/@jacqueline/111586778394138531
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by bentley 3y ago
It’s the comment Slashdot’s Rob Malda made in response to the original iPod.
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by bentley 3y ago
Or the Antifaschistischer Schutzwall —“Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart”—better known as the Berlin Wall.

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