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Comment · 5 years ago
It's not really about you. It's about preventing other, more vulnerable people from getting sick. Living in a society means giving up some of your freedoms in exchange for security, and getting vaccinated as a way to help other people should be part of that exchange.
Comment · 5 years ago
Or, once companies start paying for interviews, they start outsourcing all of their work to interviewees, never hiring anyone. I don't think this would ever actually scale well, but if there's any way to exploit labor, corporations are going to figure out how.
Comment · 5 years ago
I agree, I hate how long it takes for the title attribute to show up when hovering over elements. It takes a few seconds, where any decent tooltip will take maybe 0.5 seconds or so to show up. I'd love to be able to style the title attribute for length of time to show up.

Fortunately tooltips are pretty easy to make these days. You don't need Javascript at all to make a nice tooltip. But again, it's a tooltip - it's been done so many times before that it'd be nice to have a native browser version.

Comment · 5 years ago
I wonder if using a color e-ink display would make the art look more appealing on a wall.
Comment · 5 years ago
One of my favorite YouTube niches is turtle unboxing videos.
Comment · 5 years ago
I am very happy many news sites are now behind paywalls. There is now less of an incentive to drive revenue via clickbait or "picking a fight" as many tabloid journalists are wont to do.

There appears to be some kind of concern that this will put people in their own subscription bubbles. Please. Having a subscription to your city's newspaper or subscribing to a documentary streaming service is a far healthier way of ingesting content than getting put into algorithmic engagement bubbles via social media.

To be fair, most print newspapers were subsidized not necessarily by costing money or traditional advertising, but by classified advertising. Maybe news sites can figure out classifieds next.

Comment · 5 years ago
I'm not sure why utility frameworks are so popular. It seems like Sass solves most of the problems of vanilla CSS. Writing Sass is not only quicker and more powerful than regular CSS, but you can also create your own utility classes very easily with loops.

Moving CSS into HTML does not makes much sense either, as it's far stylistically cleaner to separate CSS and HTML into their respective files.

Plus, if you have two elements with the same or similar styling, re-writing all those utility classes over and over seems extremely cumbersome. Why not just write the class name and use it everywhere it needs to be used? .button or .button-primary is far simpler than writing out inline CSS over and over again.

Comment · 5 years ago
What did people do before CSS transforms?

I've been making an app with React Native and react-native-svg and even though react-native-svg supports transformations, I've had to do a lot of transforms with trigonometry (i.e. rotating a shape around a center point, then getting the new bounding box, which requires things such as Math.atan2).

It's made me really appreciate 1. how much easier front end web development is and 2. how far we've gotten. I cannot tell you how much I appreciate web methods like getBoundingClientRect() or element.closest(), and how easy it is to make animations with CSS and move things around with transforms.

Comment · 5 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIiAAhUeR6Y

This is the TED Talk you're talking about.

Comment · 5 years ago
I've bought numerous Thinkpads and I still can't find myself using them daily because of the awful trackpads. It's not even the tracking, it's the amount of force you need to put on the trackpad to get it to register a click. Also the lack of media keys on Thinkpads is outdated and annoying. If Lenovo fixes these two things I'd gladly use a Thinkpad as my daily laptop.

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