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AVIF support Firefox issue [1]; Chromium issue [2]. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1443863 [2] https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=960620
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It's a bit of both. Early versions of Firefox shipped with a prominent stylesheet chooser in the status bar, that allowed alternate stylesheets on the page to be selected. Of course, hardly any website offered alternate stylesheets. So
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This essay, and really, most of the content on A List Apart, have been instrumental in championing accessibility, progressive enhancement, and separation of content from visual flourish, so that the web didn't become a pixel-pushing me
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The oft-linked Eran Hammer blog post isn't too relevant here, even if its critiques of OAuth2 are valid from the perspective of OAuth1. Really, they're fundamentally different protocols with different goals, and after all that dri
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Two months after Feb 2008 article, in April 2008, Facebook released [1] Facebook Chat, and gradually captured the 'chat with people you know in real life' usecase. In April 2008, we're three months before the launch of the iO
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Southern Nevada actually gets most of its electricity from power plants within the state: mainly from natural gas power plants owned by NV Energy adjacent to Vegas. Here's a recent Power Content Label for Southern Nevada [1]. Not much
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I live on the east coast, but I have friends in Vegas, so when I visit, I avoid the Strip and touristy areas unless I want to specifically go out. As a kid, I remember our family visiting Vegas multiple times as tourists; going back as an a
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A richly detailed article that delves into the French TGV speed record, the extra modifications they applied to what was already a high-speed system, and the lesser-known physical phenomena that set a performance envelope for this mode of t
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Middle- to upper-middle-class suburbs will still exist, they'll just be a municipality a few miles over, where all the houses and roads are 25 years newer, and the long tail of opex costs hasn't quite hit as bad yet. It will, even
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The ZIP Code 97003 took effect on 2014-07-01, when the ZIP Code 97006 was split [2]. ZIP Codes are not geographical entities and don't correspond to geographical extent; rather, they are a hybrid between a discrete number of finite del
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Lots [1][2]. These have seen most deployment in closed networks (e.g. subways, or remote mining railways [3]), but experiments on "normal" interconnected networks are ongoing. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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The crater and the resulting aquifer disruption is a contributing factor to why several nearby cities import their water from far away. Another is that the cities of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and Newport News acquired water rights to nearby cree
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More on this: szolga = servant + l = verb-forming suffix [1] + tat = causative suffix [2] + ás = gerund-forming suffix, makes a verbal noun from a verb [3] + ai = marker for plural possession [4] + ért = causal-final suffix, denotes the rea
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When I was learning Hungarian grammar in Hungarian grades 1-8, the 'noun case' terminology was not widespread, although more and more academic sources began lifting it from works discussing Indo-European languages. Instead, what&#
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Was an eastern bypass for long-distance traffic studied?
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Compare and contrast with the Swiss cheese model [1]. There's not enough cross-domain awareness and discussion of such quips that approximate useful and widely-applicable mental models. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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Cassettes were also the first and last audio storage medium where mainstream consumers could purchase an affordable, ready-made appliance for home listening that could also act as an audio editing system, recording the result onto another c
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As noted in the article, hydrogen is currently unfortunate, because the most economical way to produce it is through steam reforming of natgas. Germany already has supply issues with natural gas, not just the pressure to reduce greenhouse g
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For Shibboleth, the XML configs are unwieldy, but both the IdP and SP are solid and eminently configurable, which is helpful when interfacing with someone else's broken software or odd requirements. In running our Shib IdP, I've h
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As a SAML IdP operator, you're not wrong -- the typical SAML IdP operator is an insitution or a BigCo's internal SSO, while the typical OIDC/OAuth provider is a tech company that runs a data silo -- but consider that SAML IdP
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Top users of California's allocation of Colorado River water are [1]: ~61% Imperial Irrigation District; ~20% Metropolitan Water District of Southern California; ~8% Palo Verde Irrigation District; ~8% Coachella Valley Water District;
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Because most of the US does not have this problem. The Colorado River basin does, but it's worth noting that California's allocation is very high relative to the portion of the drainage basin within the state, and most of the stat
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Arizona produces approximately 1/4 to 1/5 of the leafy greens grown in the US, by weight, depending on the exact commodity [1]. Meanwhile, California produces roughly 3/4 of such products grown in the US. The two states parti
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It's fair to suppose that in the far-off future, midrise high-density housing (the five-over-ones and texas donuts) built cheaply years ago would become some of the least desirable housing around. Unlike with detached housing, rehabili
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This article in German [1] and this source in Hungarian [2] demonstrate the concept with very clear charts you can likely understand without having to read the labels. The distance-time graphs show that different trains move at different sp
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Although I'm familiar with this concept since the implementation of ITF (integrated clock-face timetables) in Central Europe, I found the second half of this article (as of this revision [1]) hard to read. After finishing it, I felt li
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Yes, but the trial-and-error model of Netflix original content production is exactly the same as it is for series produced chiefly to be shown on major US TV channels. The difference is, more of this content used to be licensed to Netflix,
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Coins, cash, and disability-accessible faregates solve most dimensions of this problem -- portability, scalability, no vendor lock, security, privacy, and equal access -- but even that isn't universally deployed. If you want to support
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Good reporting. A few more points: 1. In the famous California power mix charts, 'Other' includes power bought from different utilities where the exact generating method is abstracted away. You can mentally think of the 'Othe
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OpenID Connect, aka. 'OIDC', is widely deployed. It's a compatible extension on top of OAuth 2.0, the latter of which was often used to provide third-party apps some delegated access to users' data at some data silo. Thi

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