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by rikroots 3y ago
On a tangent. My partner worked for several years as a healthcare assistant at the (possibly?) original Charterhouse[1] in London. One of the infirmary residents he looked after was Dr Bill[2] - a truly remarkable and fascinating person who
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I much prefer video meetings. Being face-blind, logging onto a meeting has the added benefit of seeing people's names under their little images - no more trying to guess who's saying what! [1] [1] Except for those people who go to
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It looks like you have to sign up to see it. The people behind it seem genuine about what they're trying to do and how they go about doing it[1] , but given its India/Asia focus I don't think I'm the target audience they
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My poor attempt ... The poet is a deceiver One who pretends so completely The pain he affects in stanzas Is torment he know entirely
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Sadly, finding a good cat sitter is a real-life thing. We are owned by a diabetic cat who also has severe abandonment issues and has been know to attack sitters without warning. We haven't been able to have a holiday since before Covid
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If you're looking for alternative canvas libraries, you can find a comparison test of some of them here[1]. Links to the libraries can be found in the GitHub linked to from that page. [1] - https://benchmarks.slaylines.io&#
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Sadly GitHub stars do have meaning to people who make decisions about which code library to add to their current project. And to people who review libraries that tackle a specific sort of problem, whose articles then get read by people who
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> I stopped reading self-published books because the quality was so, so low. I hate to say this but the assertion on quality is, from my experience, 98-99% true. And yet at the same time 1-2% false. Finding the quality among the chaff is
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From the article: "This breakthrough, which earned a Nobel Prize, prompted scientists to question if cellular aging could be reversed without pushing cells to become too young and potentially cancerous."
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But marsh mallow plants are real! I grew up with them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Althaea_officinalis
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I could see a thin red tube (or maybe two half-tubes) which marked a sort of diameter line across the cardboard disc. For separating blood to get a concentration of plasmodium cells for quicker identification/diagnosis it should be eno
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I've put my trust in the British Library Web Archive bl.uk/collection-guides/uk-web-archive
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I was researching how to get a WASMified version of harfbuzz into my frontend 2d canvas library (because: text implementation in the 2D Canvas API is genuinely dire) when I discovered this issue had already been addressed back in 2019, when
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Started in the Civil Service in 1989 as the lowliest of the low. My first experience of a spreadsheet was some software called 20/20 (by Access Technology?) which not only allowed me to play with numbers in various ways but also gave m
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> The work that you do will be great work if you have a reason for doing it other than "I want to do something great." I've always had an issue with the word "great". Who defines greatness? How will I know that I
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CSS Houdini is (I think) still A Thing, but I believe the browser devs have (rightly!) decided to concentrate on fixing more important issues first. I believe the CSS Painting API[1] is the most advanced of the set? It has shipped in Chrome
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Show HN: Experiment: Toggle interactive 2D canvas using Fullscreen API(scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk)
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For anything to do with fantasy maps, I can recommend the Cartographers' Guild https://www.cartographersguild.com/
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My three examples of "CSS bloat" - by which I mean "interesting but do we really need them?" are: + CSS Colors[1] - very nice to have, but do we need all of them? Given the chance, I mostly stick to oklab() and oklch() n
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What Happens When a Single Art Project Becomes a Decades-Long Obsession? (2018)(nytimes.com)
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This submission was inspired by a current HN submission (One man's 8bit quest to finish his teenage Commodore64 RPG[1]), but this NYT article delves more deeply into the near-singular creative obsession that can take over a person&#x27
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My raw creativity has stayed (subjective measurement warning) relatively stable over the past 4 decades. My fear of failure and ridicule has plummeted over the same timescale. Which means that I'm much more likely to act on, and delive
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I hope not. I've just entered my poetry site for their consideration.
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Figma is excellent at many things, but they struggle with accessibility. It's been a year since they wrote a blog post about their accessibility efforts so I don't know how far they've managed to solve the issues they identif
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I've never used the product, but I did see this snippet in the article, which gives me a flicker of hope that the product does address some accessibility concerns: > One particularly nice aspect of this system is that key presses fo
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Surprised to see alt.arts.poetry.comments on this list. Yes it remains active, but the regular posters there[1] are for the most part the remnants who triggered the Great Poet Flight to various online (moderated) forum venues 20 years ago.
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My favourite website that was designed "mobile first" is the English Cities Fund site[1]. Why? Because the site is supposed to be the primary site for a Government-supported fund distributing millions of £££ to English towns and c
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Scrawl-canvas 2D canvas library – proposed roadmap(github.com)
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Because some of these new Web APIs look scary, particularly if/when they start to include HTML <canvas> elements ...
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Personal anecdote: I've "retired" twice in the last 20 years - both times deliberately (though for very different reasons) and neither time with savings anywhere near $£€1m First time, I walked away from a very successful car

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