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

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Post by earthboundkid »

simias wrote: post #57
earthboundkid wrote: post #27

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Screens around the world are sold based on diagonal inches. USA! USA!

As a European whose only familiarity with inches is that "it's about 3cm" that actually annoys me. Back when screens were small it sort of worked, I knew what 13", 15", 17" and 20" screens looked like. Since most monitors fell in that range (yeah, I'm showing my age) that was good enough. Anything bigger than that was "damn huge", anything smaller was "damn small". But now monitors and especially TVs are immense. I s…

In Japanese, they don’t translate “55"” normally, instead it becomes a “55 unit” TV. FWIW, as an American, the diagonal is unhelpful, so you need to look up the horizontal and vertical measurements anyway to know what will fit on your shelf.

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

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Post by realusername »

earthboundkid wrote: post #27
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/

Screens around the world are sold based on diagonal inches. USA! USA!

Depends where you are, in France typically inches are used almost only for phones & laptop screens. Anything above (like TV) tend to use centimeters.

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

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Post by chiph »

blackhope wrote: post #160
chiph wrote: post #152

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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.

You're the one who brought up Independence Day. And again, your knowledge of history is shallow. I am able to remember when the schools became integrated [0]. I also know why the bathrooms at the rest stops in the South have two entrances ("separate but equal"). And I had a teacher who as a young girl was chased by the Klan.

What we have now is so much improved over what it was like just 40 or 50 years ago that anyone younger just can't appreciate the difference. I advise you to turn off your internet for a few days, go drink a beer & chat with your neighbors and maybe shoot some fireworks off. The internet amplifies biases - don't let it.

[0] The moral panic was .. impressive. The local TV station decided to broadcast that there was a riot at the high school (there wasn't) and all these angry parents showed up to pull their kids out of school. Meanwhile, the kids were like: "Steve, your mom looks really freaked out."

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

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Post by dang »

purpleidea wrote: post #154
dang wrote: post #121

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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.

It's a classic flamewar topic, you put down a particular country, and you just did it again. That's flamebait enough and nationalistic enough for the internet.

Please don't post like this to HN again.

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

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Post by swebs »

Carpetsmoker wrote: post #128

I can't tell if this is intended to be serious or a parody? "All units set in inches" makes it sound like a parody, but the "God bless America" footer makes it sound serious? Hmmm

It's just a bit of fun. Not everything has to be some sort of statement.

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

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Post by swilliamsio »

adventured wrote: post #145
Svip wrote: post #47

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I think they were referring to the War of 1812. A war the US lost, and where the song "The Star Bangled Banner" comes from.

> I think they were referring to the War of 1812. A war the US lost The outcome of history indicates the US won that war. Technically it was considered a stalemate. The US lost no territory, repelled a malevolent empire again, kept its economy & trade fully intact, and won numerous major battles throughout the war. In the following decades the US became an economic juggernaut, while the British Empire began to fade i…

> repelled a malevolent empire again

That's just straight up wrong. The US started the war when they invaded Canada. The British Empire did not want to fight the war. To them, the United States was just a sideshow of the much larger and much more important Napoleonic Wars.

If anything, it was the British and Canada that repelled a malevolent United States, who had had eyes on annexing Canada since independence.

> In the following decades the US became an economic juggernaut, while the British Empire began to fade into the history books.

Uh, what. The 19th century was the golden age of the British Empire, whilst the US remained a small player on the world stage. You must be confusing the War of 1812 to the first or second world wars.

I know its the Fourth of July for you yanks, but this comment is just straight up propaganda.

And quoting Wikipedia to prove that it was a victory for the US is ironic given that Wikipedia states that the war resulted in stalemate and status quo ante bellum. The only real losers were the Native Americans.

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

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Post by swilliamsio »

Svip wrote: post #47
iliaznk wrote: post #39

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1812 – that's when Napoleon invaded Russia.

I think they were referring to the War of 1812. A war the US lost, and where the song "The Star Bangled Banner" comes from.

Hey, are you Svip from Paradox forums, of Ulm fame?

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

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Post by Carpetsmoker »

swebs wrote: post #165
Carpetsmoker wrote: post #128

I can't tell if this is intended to be serious or a parody? "All units set in inches" makes it sound like a parody, but the "God bless America" footer makes it sound serious? Hmmm

It's just a bit of fun. Not everything has to be some sort of statement.

I guess ... but "God Bless America!" seems like a statement to me.
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