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Swipe to go back can be implemented in frontend. It's been a couple of years since I used it, but I think the Ionic framework has this feature. https://ionicframework.com/

And to make it more interesting, Sweden also has the letter "å", but it's in the 27th place in the alphabet (followed by "ä" and "ö"). In the Danish/Norwegian alphabet, the letter …

> Anyone still feel the pain when Google discontinued its RSS reader? Yes, but mostly because of a lost opportunity. I was working on my own web based reader when Google made a sig…

Looking at the site it seems to be a (static?) HTML and shared "main.css" and "main.js" files. Both files can be cached by the browser, so it only needs to download a few KB of com…

What if FTL is not possible? In that case the attack will take a long time to reach us, and in the meantime we will be much more advanced technologically and could potentially defe…

Originally, the "o" on top of the letter "Å" was a lower case "a", because the sound could be written as "AA". Over time it transformed into a circle. Some names today still use th…

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus > The Ship of Theseus, also known as Theseus's Paradox, is a paradox and a common thought experiment about whether an object is the …

Yes, it's #176 on his list of countries: https://www.onceuponasaga.dk/journey

> The client then searches through the list to see if the desired email is in the list or not. The initial prefix check would probably reduce the amount of lookups necessary, as it…

It is my recollection as well. Most applications used VB, Delphi, MFC etc. that all had the "native" OS look and feel. There were some exceptions like WinAmp and others, but from w…

It doesn't work for me either (Android+Chrome)

I often prefer enums over booleans for this. It seems more readable for most cases, and can be extended with new values. This: isRegistered: true could be replaced with accountStat…

My guess is that he wants to be compensated for the time he spent. There's a lot of content on that site, and making a bit of money is a good motivation to keep updating the site

I would prefer to use a neutral tag, that was proposed in the xhtml2 specs. It always made more sense to let the browser infer the place in the hierarchy.

It's related to how older versions of Windows/Office handled Unicode in general. From what I have heard, it's still an issue with Excel, although I assume that Windows may handle p…

The same location (Andøya, Norway) has also launched over 1,200 sounding and sub-orbital rockets of various configurations since 1962. As others have explained, the news here is a …

My guess is that it was hosted on a physical server on campus, and they didn't want to pay IT to support it during winter break. It is probably easier to just close it down to avoi…

I liked Settlers, but I was much more invested in the Caesar/Zeus/Pharaoh series of games. Maybe it was due to the historical context.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250215014709/https://simonschr...

I subscribed to "CU Amiga" and "Amiga Format". I kept them for a long time, but had to throw them away when I moved a few years ago.

It's also the official name in several non-English countries, including variants like the French "soleil" https://idiot.vitebsk.net/i43/sun_english.htm

Another link with more information about Arpanet (1973) https://www.norsar.no/about-us/history/arpanet

I think knowledge was more localised to certain universities or researchers. Norway was the first country outside of USA to be connected to Arpanet in 1973 to share seismic data, b…