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by extra88 5y ago
What benefit do you get from starting another Firefox instance with a different profile compared to simply using a different container in the same instance?
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by extra88 5y ago
You’re still clinging to the absurd assumption that everyone wants to work in STEM and the only reason one wouldn’t work in STEM is because they couldn’t “hack it.” Not everyone who works in STEM is even competent at it, for most roles it i
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by extra88 5y ago
> folks that couldn't hack STEM Your first point was good but spoiled by this ad hominem attack. Being interested in STEM fields doesn't make one any smarter, or otherwise superior, to anyone else.
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by extra88 5y ago
I expect the site owner took the photos themselves. I assuming copyright would even apply to the appearance of most cassette tapes, why would the copyright holders sue, what would they expect to gain? The web site itself could likely use a
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by extra88 5y ago
If they were littering like that in the early 80s, their community was very much lagging behind the American culture overall. Or maybe it was just the people they were around literally being trashy. It wasn't, and isn't today, an
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by extra88 5y ago
Yes, I refill bottled water bottles with tap water. I usually replace them once a year. Previously, I would buy whatever brand I found that was the right size for how I store them but last time I ended up spending more on Evian and the bott
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by extra88 5y ago
You're running not-even-beta software so it not working is the most likely explanation. The .avif files do load in Chrome. I found them to be noticeably blurrier than the .jpg so I think they overdid it on the compress. It makes the si
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by extra88 5y ago
.avif files should only be requested if your browser thinks it supports .avif, otherwise .jpgs are requested, thanks to the <picture> element being used. I got the .jpg versions in Firefox (91). CanIUse [0] says the format is supporte
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by extra88 5y ago
Lynn, the site creator, would have a very strong ‘fair use’ defense if a copyright case was brought.
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by extra88 5y ago
Look at the site logo, the name is a reference to matryoshka dolls.
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by extra88 5y ago
They’re confusing their SJes.
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by extra88 5y ago
The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi is an excellent novel set in a future in which "carbon fuel sources have become depleted, and manually wound springs are used as energy storage devices [0]." There are also genetically-enginee
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by extra88 5y ago
The part you quoted includes “flooding events!”
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by extra88 5y ago
HN’s front page has an RSS feed, that’s how I get to it for titles that catch my interest. 98% of the time I go to the comments first, more often than not I never go to the actual article (this one, for example).
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by extra88 5y ago
Craigslist has RSS feeds.
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by extra88 5y ago
It used to have it, they turned it off. I self-host my feed reader and a little Twitter-to-RSS gateway for a few accounts.
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by extra88 5y ago
A P.O. Box address should be fine.
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by extra88 5y ago
I was thinking more of iPad use. It sounds like the product lets them create a "bank" of reusable text. Certainly you'd want a proper keyboard for adding a lot of content to it but once that was done, part of its benefit is t
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by extra88 5y ago
> Adding hover-over alt text on a radio button form "Alt text" is text that isn't seen but serves the same purpose as what is seen for people with visual impairments (and web indexers). What you're describing sounds
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by extra88 5y ago
> But a traitor ? Some evidence would be appreciated. Search for "general flynn traitor," you'll find plenty of opinions about that with substantive reasons. Some will be about what he was doing before the Trump administra
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by extra88 5y ago
iOS's bult-in QR code detector, and others I've seen, only show the domain name of the code. To opt out due to tracking parameters, you have to be shown the full URL. To attempt removing the offending parameters, you need the opti
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by extra88 5y ago
> You know you can scroll to the left and right really easily if you hold down shift? You can scroll left and right easily, not everyone can. Avoiding the need to scroll in two directions makes content more usable to everyone but there
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by extra88 5y ago
Prince changed his stage name because of a dispute with his label. He changed it back after he signed with a new label.
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by extra88 5y ago
The Google Maps app will let you explicitly download quite large areas for use offline.
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by extra88 5y ago
It’s in the store. It touts working offline, do you have save map data for an area first or can you use it the same way as other map apps? I’ve used Google Maps’ offline saving feature when traveling internationally and where cell service i
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by extra88 5y ago
What is a good iOS app for turn-by-turn directions (driving, biking, walking, public transit) that uses OpenStreetMap data?
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by extra88 5y ago
You may have already guessed the answer is "no" due to the lack of replies. The issue is the CSS doesn't know what part of the page is within the viewport. Another issue is a table of contents should be in the page before the
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by extra88 5y ago
Should've used <input type="range"> instead of reinventing that particular wheel. They may not have liked the need to use multiple vendor-specific pseudo-elements to style them.
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by extra88 5y ago
Focus can also be set automatically on page load by adding the HTML ‘autofocus’ attribute to the input field.
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by extra88 5y ago
Yes, they web author made the mistake of defining the <article> background-color: #EEEEEE within a min-width 960px media query. If the background image fails to load in wider window, there's still a readable contrast between text

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