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I think Pen vs mouse isn't the issue. To me, the question is: did you do it all yourself, to the last line (including choosing the thickness, the color… of it all), or did somethin…

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/824...

I don't think virus is a 4th declension noun, and I've seen it described in multiple sources as a 2nd declension (meaning slime, poison, infection, mucus, or something thereabout).…

This is a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34021208 (not your fault, OP cross-posted between twitter and mastodon)

All the above is correct. Additionally, it is important to understand that W3C isn't wholly hosted at MIT. MIT is one of 4 co-hosts (the others being Keio University in Japan, Beih…

The reason why this cannot be done is documented in the csswg's informal FAQ: https://wiki.csswg.org/faq#versioning-css-fixing-design-mist...

All the history of the css colors, and lots of humor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmStJQzclHc

That country could have an interestingly named neighbor: if Ireland and Scotland band together, they could be the United Republic of Ireland and Northern Great Britain.

For the font size, it's kind of the same, kind of not. The numerical value of the font sized used is typically the same, but Chinese characters fill the allocated space more thorou…

If you like this, there's a whole family of such documents: Chinese: https://www.w3.org/TR/clreq/ Ethiopic: https://www.w3.org/TR/elreq/ Arabic: https://www.w3.org/TR/alreq/ Tibeta…

Same here. Desktop mail client just had its first successful connection in a little while.

> The web was designed to publish documents, it was never intended to build applications. I find that repeated a lot, but to me, it's somewhere between an overstatement and a misco…

Or, more commonly, Nihon. Nippon is more emphatic, which is occasionally taken to make it sound more nationalistic.

The notion that non profit boards are self appointed and answerable to nobody doesn't seem universal. In the model I am familiar with (the French one), non profits typically have b…

Depending on what you consider core: also SVG, WebRTC, ServiceWorkers, Aria, Web Payments, WOFF, Web Audio…

Can a new phone platform be successful if it launches without whatsapp / wechat / line / instagram / [add a dozen social networks there]? A phone that doesn't let you speak to your…

Pretty sure bufferin is aspirin, not paracetamol.

I'd speculate differently. Americans commute by car, audiobooks are convenient to read while driving. Japanese commute by train, which is much more suitable to looking at a book (p…

Here's a greatly entertaining talk about the whacky history of the bizarre naming of colors in CSS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmStJQzclHc

The naming is far from great, but there is a method to the madness. Here's a talk I did a while back on how various line breaking things fit together: https://cssday.nl/2019/speake…

I suspect the opposite situation is what you run into: it is possible to write programs that are valid and out to be accepted by the type system, but get rejected because you blew …

That's still weird though. By that logic, they should ban all web browsers, and mail clients… Content they find unacceptable is definitely accessible through those. Banning all app…

This would encourage the people who have the most options to leave, and those with the least to stay. This isn't necessarily the same, but is likely to be very similar to encouragi…

No, because the group that decides on raising the salary is not a shareholder meeting or something like that, but the same people who get that salary. See Mozilla's bylaws: https:/…

Some countries do have a huge mask supply: in Japan for instance, wearing a mask if you have a cold / in the cold season / in the pollen allergy season / … is very normal, and almo…