I didn't know goats were so tiny (45 cm)
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#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
Emojis are fast, easy and universally understood, especially across language barriers. Not all responses between humans need to be written in prose. Using images has been and will continue to be a significant way for humans to communicate with.
You missed the point here. Instead of a clear explanation in written form, people think an emoji is enough, which is a problem. As the author doesn't want to know how other 're feeling , they want to know their thoughts instead.
Perhaps they missed whatever point you were making, but your comment is largely offtopic.
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#73Is it rendering the Emojis using the local emoji set so for example if I'm on an Android phone I will see the Android emojis and if I'm on an iPhone I will see the iPhone emojis?
Yes! Author here, the emojis text with css transforms.
Unfortunately the side effect is that some emojis, live the gorilla, are only a head in my font. Still, it's cute, despite the weird scales (your mouth is 12cm??)
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think some measurements are widths and some are heights.
I think they're actually all by height, and if you google them the OP actually matches up. e.g. googling "duck height": 20 – 30 in (51 – 76 cm) "goat height": 16 – 23 in (40 – 58 cm) Maybe it would be better to do them by mass.
Goats average 75cm https://www.dimensions.com/element/goats
Ducks average 12cm https://targetstudy.com/nature/animals/duck.html
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#75The other day I was running a web version of Townscapes on my smartphone, and it worked beautifully and smooth. But this one is so laggy and slow that I barely could scroll to Laptop (24cm), and then just stopped. How come a real-time 3D rendering is faster then just displaying a few 2D pictures side by side on a screen? Tech these days is weird.
It seems to run with native framerate in firefox while chromium gets maybe 20fps on my laptop
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#76The other day I was running a web version of Townscapes on my smartphone, and it worked beautifully and smooth. But this one is so laggy and slow that I barely could scroll to Laptop (24cm), and then just stopped. How come a real-time 3D rendering is faster then just displaying a few 2D pictures side by side on a screen? Tech these days is weird.
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#77The mosquito looks too small compared to the ant. I guess both can vary in size, but mosquitos I've seen have been larger than ants I've seen. Here's a video with a mosquito and an ant:
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#78Neat concept. As someone not very up-to-date in Web UI techniques, I was curious as to how the array was being advanced on scroll. Unfortunately, it looks like the answer is basically polling. The code constantly calls window.requestAnimationFrame(), checking window.pageYOffset. This means that the page is constantly doing work, even at idle. Surely the more correct way is to install an onscroll handler or something,…
Request animation frame exists specifically to avoid ‘traditional’ polling. You’re thinking more of setInterval() which is the old way of doing it. The requestAnimationFrame docs are a good read, there are lots of performance benefits.
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#79Holy shit that's a really big clover
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#80Is japan the only country that has its own map as a unicode symbol? If so, is there a story behind it? I would bet on compatibility with some regional encoding that had it to begin with.