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Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

#91

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No women were involved?

You're just trying to hop on the train, ain't you?

No.

How hard would it be to write "men and women" (or "women and men").

What do you reckon? The fellas who "did all the work" in US history, you reckon they did all their own cooking and cleaning, you reckon their intimate partners, or close-others didn't contribute any to the people whom history attributes greatness?

Probably not old boy, fair chance the wives, partners, and mistresses went a long way to getting us where we are.

And that's if they weren't directly responsible but not attributed. How's that saying go, next to every great man is an even greater women. It's often true, except that the woman part could be generalised to partner or carer.

Some people act alone, outliers though.

And to still, in this socio-political climate, not to bother to include women is, at least, tone deaf, if not outright intentionally exclusive.

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

#92
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Relevant units: https://i.redd.it/582slv24n1741.jpg PSA, don't use old deprecated units still pushed by confused country.

Why would aliens work in base10?

Given all the probing they do, they’re clearly after our best ideas.

They’ll be converting to imperial units and base 10 any day now.

Converting the flying saucers to coal will take a bit longer.

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

#93

Good to see some patriotism in a time when American patriotism has become faux pas. We live in a great country that doesn't need to be completely deconstructed in order to get better

Patriotism is about fighting for the principles and values espoused in the constitution, and working towards improving an imperfect republic, not worshiping the flag.

It’s a fun project and I like the colors, but let’s not pretend that the flag and the idea of ‘patriotism’ are anything other than distractions from the work that needs to be done.

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

#95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're just trying to hop on the train, ain't you?

No. How hard would it be to write "men and women" (or "women and men"). What do you reckon? The fellas who "did all the work" in US history, you reckon they did all their own cooking and cleaning, you reckon their intimate partners, or close-others didn't contribute any to the people whom history attributes greatness? Probably not old boy, fair chance the wives, partners, and mistresses went a long way to getting us…

Maybe try to assume best intent, and assume that this person doesn't speak English as their first language?

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

#96

As an European this is really cool and unlike others self-loathing Americans here in the comments I understand the idea, humor and originality. Happy 4th USA, you are great today due to the greatness of your forefathers and the men that built this nation.

No women were involved?

Not one.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betsy_Ross

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

#97
post #93

Good to see some patriotism in a time when American patriotism has become faux pas. We live in a great country that doesn't need to be completely deconstructed in order to get better

Patriotism is about fighting for the principles and values espoused in the constitution, and working towards improving an imperfect republic, not worshiping the flag. It’s a fun project and I like the colors, but let’s not pretend that the flag and the idea of ‘patriotism’ are anything other than distractions from the work that needs to be done.

Interestingly, everytime I hear this I feel like the constitution is treated like the bible, some holy book holding the truth. That is very dangerous imo

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

#98
Feels strange to have single decimal places in your inch figures. I’d have expected something like eighths, sixteenths and thirty-seconds of inches, even though the decimal representation of them is unwieldy (1⁄32″ becomes 0.03125in). That also helps you avoid fractional pixels, which is worth doing if convenient: 1⁄32″ is 3px, because 1in is defined as 96px.

(As an Australian, the main place I’ve ever seen fractions of inches is old tools like spanners from before the adoption of the metric system, and that’s all fractions with powers-of-two denominators. But maybe Americans use decimal fractions of inches? I suppose I have seen laptop screens described in that way, e.g. 13.1″, 15.4″ and 15.6″, though people typically truncate to the inch.)

Re: Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

#99

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Because freedom units ( https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=freedom%20un... ) are better than the metric system.

Just make sure not to use this stylesheet when describing the route towards a distant planet so as to avoid ending up in a smoking crater instead of in the promised land.

Or, use a type safe language.

Will web developers and rocket scientists ever learn?

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