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Comment #48260775
That's because Chrome on Android has a partial implementation of Web Serial. The banner on top is to get information at a glance vs the detailed breakdown of the compatibility tabl…
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Comment #47572749
I was just correcting your numbers, but I also want to point out that power generated from solar has grown more than 30% in just two years and I think it's uncontroversial that we …
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Comment #47563168
The maximum amount of energy generated from nuclear in Germany was 171TWh in 2001 [0]. In 2020 solar and wind generated 175TWh and in 2025 they generated 206TWh [1]. [0] https://en…
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Comment #46766190
It’s rare, unfortunately, and usually not in the typical bulb formats. Here’s one for example with an SSI of 89 for tungsten: https://amarancreators.com/products/amaran-100x-s?Titl…
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Comment #46765271
It’s called SSI, spectral similarity index. SSI is specified for a color temperature, eg 3200 or 5600. 100 is identical to tungsten or sunlight. Values above 85 are good.
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Comment #45095123
It’s terrible discoverability, but a single click seems to do the trick, no long press necessary.
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Comment #44887100
Anchor positioning is part of Interop 2025. Firefox committed to shipping support for it this year: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2025 After that, it should take about 2.5 years for the …
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Comment #44786249
Reminds me of the hunger stones in Germany and neighboring countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunger_stone
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Comment #41945924
If you mean "driven or steered remotely": They were never teleoperated. I'm assuming that would be completely reckless given the nature of radio networks and possibly because of re…
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Comment #41219339
It’s called learned helplessness and is a good indicator for pessimism. There is a book I enjoyed that discusses the issue in depth, called: Learned Optimism, by Martin Seligman. T…
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Comment #40554281
I don't understand where the idea comes from that IKEA sofas fall apart after 5 years. All of their sofas come with a 10 year warranty, even the cheapest ones. Here's one at the $8…
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Comment #40049709
Unfortunately washing rice doesn’t remove the arsenic[0], cooking it with a lot of water like pasta does that. You might still want to wash the rice to remove other contaminants, d…
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Comment #39952958
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Comment #39806336
There are about 6000 spoken languages around the world with an extreme variety in how they produce meaning. How could you make sweeping statements about all of them?
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Comment #39236269
We made that change around 2017. Mozilla Developer Network is somewhat ambiguous. In surveys and user interviews people were confused about the name. Web developers thought it migh…
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Comment #35913574
Looking at browser usage for the last two major versions is misleading. That would only be true in a parallel release of a web platform feature in every browser, but that's basical…
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Comment #35913564
The issue with Safari is that it's tied to the operating system on iOS. That's an issue with minor releases, but even more so with major releases, where you can't get Safari 16 for…
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Comment #35913490
The core browser set is not defined in exact versions of browsers, since many browsers release every 4-6 weeks. The two most recent major versions refers to the number before the f…
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Comment #32532710
https://web.archive.org/web/20201108125833/https://www.vice....
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Comment #18896731
Wow, is that really necessary? It almost hurts physically to read that strong of a statement directed at another person. You aren't even really disagreeing with the OP. You could h…
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Comment #14745947
Thanks for the feedback! So, one thing we are doing differently this time around is updating the site incrementally instead of a big bang redesign. In the case of the article pages…
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