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Yes. - Parked cars on the street. - Drive somewhat fast. - Avoid killing people. Pick two.

A human driver travelling at the same speed would have hit that child at exactly 17 mph, before their brain even registered that child was there. If that driver would also have bee…

I can’t be the only one who has ever read https://practicaltypography.com/hyphens-and-dashes.html

At least it is not as bad as on Windows 11. There the resize area is inside or outside the visible frame depending on which side and which corner of the window.

Oh for the time when chairs were still for sitting and PDFs were still for printing. Restaurant websites mentioned — the majority of restaurant web sites I’ve encountered were much…

That planned obsolescence thing on light bulbs isn't the entire story. Light bulbs will last longer if driven less hard, due to the lower temperature. But that lower temperature al…

Auckland has an almost finished through running project in its city centre, which will greatly improve its railway network. It currently has only one terminus in the city, but trai…

PHP was blamed for a good reason: for a long time it did not by default support prepared SQL statements. You could install the mysqli extension to gain such support but that was al…

Today in “typesetting before we had typewriters”: … At least we have dedicated O/0, and l/1 keys now. But we still see a lot of "straight" quotes instead of “those smart quotes Mic…

Yeah one wart about Windows is that you always have to lookup these weird registry hacks after getting a fresh install. Disabling this automatic reboot was one of them. Otherwise t…

That looks rad. One bit of feedback: don't move the camera if someone clicks one of the circles, that is super disorienting. There is also a bug that if a drag to move the camera h…

One of those project is the OG — GIMP.

It is quite confusing because there are strong points in favour of either POV. Point: you can ride a bicycle without hands. That would be completely impossible without gyroscopic e…

Oh yes it may very well over half your kid’s weight. These things are ABSURDLY heavy. This makes starting hard (an already hard problem when learning), it makes falling off worse b…

That is a common fallacy, I suspect it comes from having enough budget to not having to think about being able to afford something decent. It is like photographers with $5,000 wort…

It is a legitimate thing now, if you can type more than a word per minute you'll notice that many apps are not able to keep up. The most common offenders seem to be Electron apps. …

For bonus points, some menu web sites also do that on their desktop web sites. I have seen many of them that show like 10 items on a 27″ 1440p desktop monitor.

Haha yes I remember that. Pros and cons of using DIVs and CSS: + hipster cred - DIV soup - CSS back then was wildly, W I L D L Y unsuitable for what people where trying to do (I th…

There are good reasons why the next generation just looks up videos. The idea of a web search engine is disappearing into the mist of time. Text search engines worked well 10 years…

If you underexpose too severely, the JPEG compression will eat up all the detail in the shadows.

There are obvious downsides to many of these CSS hacks. Pay close attention to the usage notes. An example not on the page are menus powered by the CSS :hover pseudo-class. It seem…

Steamboat Willie is from 1928, almost a hundred years ago. And it is still under copyright. So you can make that “the lifetime of their grandparents” too.

Ah I remember the experience of just dropping files on a server from a long time ago. I had one web host where magic_quotes_gpc was enabled. Good luck figuring out what the hell is…

I started reading it, saw the first photo and went oh my gaaaaaaaaad wear gloves. And not just for the goop inside the thing, people had this thing in their mouth. The next paragra…

Yes there was this one day where you open Facebook and literally every other post is Sponsored. And this Reels thing with some random videos from whatever. But yeah anyway, do you …