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

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Leherenn wrote: post #124
macinjosh wrote: post #111

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The Constitution is THE Supreme Law of the land. It literally is the ‘bible’ in how America is to be governed. The difference is that The Constitution has mechanisms within itself for change. This is the opposite of dangerous. It is the reason slavery was abolished, women have the vote, etc. It is a living document and it serves the people.

I would say one of the tenet of the Bible and other holy books is that there are immutable. It's the words of God, and he doesn't make mistakes. (In theory at least, I've heard the Bible's translations haven't always been kind to the original text.) That's a huge difference with the constitution, a fundamental one I'd say. And, most of the time, the people I see treating the constitution as gospel denies this very im…

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

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Post by chiph »

blackhope wrote: post #143
gnuisance wrote: post #134

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Tunnel visioning on slavery is a pretty bad mindset. There are many facets to American society beyond slavery. It's almost impossible to imagine a person today who supports slavery. We've come a long way, and nobody is celebrating slavery.

This is implicitly what you are celebrating if you choose to worship the Independence Day.

I think your sense of outrage has leapt far in advance of your knowledge of history. Look up "Divine Right of Kings" sometime. We got rid of it and inspired the world, starting with France in 1789.

Are we perfect? Not even. But we're a pretty nice place to live.

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

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Post by dylan604 »

anonytrary wrote: post #150

It's cute that this library is 1776 bytes, but that's quickly going to change as bugs are found and new features need to get added. It seems like coupling a product's name to something that will likely change very shortly is just bad product naming.

meh, call it done. it's modifiable by the user, so leave it alone and let the user mess with it. i have no idea what the author's intentions are/were for the project, but it seems like 'mission accomplished'.

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

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Post by purpleidea »

dang wrote: post #121
purpleidea wrote: post #34

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

Please don't post nationalistic flamebait to HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Sorry, but it wasn't nationalistic, if anything I'm advocating for moving a confused country forwards with humour (click the link!) Cheers.

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

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Post by quickthrowman »

klyrs wrote: post #105
Stratoscope wrote: post #26

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And 1812 when I clicked just now. This must mean something!

Burn down the white house?

Those chaps from across the pond really liked to burn things down in the 19th century, the Old Summer Palace in Beijing being burnt and looted was a bit harsher.

  "This is the reward for perfidy and cruelty"

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

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Post by anonytrary »

dylan604 wrote: post #153
anonytrary wrote: post #150

It's cute that this library is 1776 bytes, but that's quickly going to change as bugs are found and new features need to get added. It seems like coupling a product's name to something that will likely change very shortly is just bad product naming.

meh, call it done. it's modifiable by the user, so leave it alone and let the user mess with it. i have no idea what the author's intentions are/were for the project, but it seems like 'mission accomplished'.

FWIW I'm not saying I dislike the project, I love when people post quirky projects like this to HN for fun. I'm just saying that even the smallest change to this project would cause the author to lose the "1776 USA" marketing strategy. One could say it's an unstable strategy at a local maximum.

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

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Post by kalleboo »

CivBase wrote: post #17
mediumdeviation wrote: post #8

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Mostly useful for print stylesheets. On screens it seems to be defined as a constant 96px[1], which means it has no correspondence to physical inches. [1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/09/css-length-explained/

Welcome back to HNC News. Tonight's top story: US law makers have introduced a new bill that would require all digital displays in the United States to feature a pixel density of 96 ppi. White house officials say the new bill represents "the first step on the march to bring freedom to the cyber world". More on this after the break.

Ah, but since the retina iPhone, a CSS pixel != a screen pixel

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

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Post by dylan604 »

anonytrary wrote: post #156
dylan604 wrote: post #153

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meh, call it done. it's modifiable by the user, so leave it alone and let the user mess with it. i have no idea what the author's intentions are/were for the project, but it seems like 'mission accomplished'.

FWIW I'm not saying I dislike the project, I love when people post quirky projects like this to HN for fun. I'm just saying that even the smallest change to this project would cause the author to lose the "1776 USA" marketing strategy. One could say it's an unstable strategy at a local maximum.

What name are you concerned about? The file is called 'usa.css'. The file size is specifically listed right next to the download link. Not unusual. If the file size does change, it'll just be another number, yet the name of the file/project is still 'usa.css'.

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

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Post by vandahm »

jholman wrote: post #132
jedberg wrote: post #109

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We usually use fractions, but sometimes we're forced to use decimals, usually when related to computers, since the usual fractions don't translate well to decimal.

Wait, what? You're saying that Americans preferentially use base-2 fractions (nearly) everywhere except on computers; on computers you preferentially use base-10, even though said computers are going to store the values as base-2? That's the funniest thing I've heard all week.

> "on computers you preferentially use base-10, even though said computers are going to store the values as base-2?"

I don't understand this comment at all. Most people are not computer programmers and therefore have no insight into how computers represent numbers. They just populate text fields in Excel, or whatever, with numbers. It's easier to use decimal points to do that than fractions.

When I'm not using computers or calculators, I do prefer American-style fractions over decimal point representations. Fractions are a lot easier for me to manipulate in my head. If I'm out in my garage, upside down, underneath a car, and trying to decide which drill bit to use, I don't have convenient access to the calculator on my cell phone or a pencil and paper, and reliable mental math is important. The fractions are easier, so that's what I want.

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

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Post by blackhope »

chiph wrote: post #152
blackhope wrote: post #143

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This is implicitly what you are celebrating if you choose to worship the Independence Day.

I think your sense of outrage has leapt far in advance of your knowledge of history. Look up "Divine Right of Kings" sometime. We got rid of it and inspired the world, starting with France in 1789. Are we perfect? Not even. But we're a pretty nice place to live.

Now you're just changing the subject. We weren't talking about ending monarchical rule.

The topic was how our still deeply racist country is built upon slavery and similar horrifying abuses against people, right from the very start.

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