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SippinLeanon Michigan DOT Snowplow Names

Apparently these names were submitted in a contest, it appears Plowy McPlowface was one of them, but sadly didn't make the final cut

https://www.audacy.com/wwjnewsradio/news/local/mdot-names-al...

SippinLeanon Norton 360 Now Comes with a Cryptominer

It is disabled by default

> Norton Crypto is an opt-in feature only and is not enabled without user permission

SippinLeanon Poll: What does “Full Stack” mean?

> If Saskia could be guarded by men in bearskin hats riding horses, why, she could as well have a webmaster.

Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

SippinLeanon Don't copy-paste commands from webpages – you can get hacked

Related article from John Gruber in 2010:

https://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks

SippinLeanon Is It Time for the JavaScript Temporal API?

> it was copied from Java's JDK1.0 (1995) java.util.Date, which also had this quirk

SippinLeanon The Story of the Game Genie, a Cheat Device Nintendo Tried (and Failed) to Kill

I remember when new games would get released, Galoob would put fliers with the GG codes on them for you to take home with the game!

https://www.howtogeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/game_ge...

SippinLeanon Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

He was indicted in 2018 and released on bail

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-netflix-inc-vp-c...

SippinLeanon Omicron variant more resistant to vaccine but causes less severe Covid: study

> For individuals who have had COVID-19 previously, the risk of reinfection with Omicron is significantly higher, relative to prior variants.

https://www.discovery.co.za/corporate/news-room

SippinLeanon Ask HN: What extensions/packs of VS Code are must for web/developers to install?

It's no longer maintained, Five Server replaced it

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=yandeu.f...

SippinLeanon Username ending with MIME type format is not allowed

A ligature is a character composed of two or more graphemes, it is not a letter

SippinLeanon Helvetica Now Variable

Yes, the good ones require a lot of hard work by designers and producers.

Where else can you find a sans-serif battle-tested over a century that's variable, for free?

SippinLeanon Do we need a Scrum Master forever?

Hot take, but if you're doing Scrum you sure do. A good Scrum master can make meetings much more productive.

SippinLeanon Square Banking

From TFA:

> For instance, it is easy for a user to land at an awkward scroll position which leaves an item partially on-screen when panning.

> To this end, this module introduces scroll snap positions which enforce the scroll positions that a scroll container’s scrollport may end at after a scrolling operation has completed.

Which is exactly what this page is doing.

> primarily a touch interaction

It's exclusively a scroll interaction, whether the pointer event is the result of mouse or touch input.

> the DOM page is still scrolling natively

I'm not sure what you're trying to say by "DOM page." JS is reacting to the scroll position of the viewport. The user experience is the same.

SippinLeanon Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

Interesting aside. Back on topic: the homes were not granted to Zuckerberg; and his residents are not serfs. So they are not "perfectly comparable," they are barely comparable.

(not to mention serfs could not be bought alone, they could be sold with the land. Maybe you are thinking of slaves?)

SippinLeanon Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

> like a king granting lands to lords

He purchased the homes in a free market, they were not granted to him; the residents are not serfs.

So I guess it's like feudalism in that...there's a landlord?

SippinLeanon Leaked phone number of Mark Zuckerberg reveals he is on Signal

Serfs were not paid for their homes, and in many cases were not allowed to stay in their homes. How does this resemble feudalism?

SippinLeanon Microsoft Coffee

I actually had a cup holder for a drive bay that was intended as one, it even had a cigarette lighter!

https://sep.yimg.com/ay/yhst-39083765508394/thermaltake-x-ra...

SippinLeanon Brave Browser leaks your Tor / Onion service requests through DNS

I never understood this cliché. Half a sentence is invalidated by a conjunction? We can't have two contrasting clauses in a single sentence?

SippinLeanon Show HN: A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages

> If you want heading anchor links, go for something like[...]

...something like `a > h1`. Anchors wrapping block headings feels...wrong, but it's valid HTML5.

Most browsers will set the inner `h1` as display: block so the click/tap target for the `a` becomes larger. (`h1 > a` with `display: block` would have the same result though).

Also make sure that content isn't being duplicated for the user, `a` and `h1` are waypoints for users. `aria-` attributes can help you here.

SippinLeanon Show HN: A simple, plain, minimal, classless CSS for simple, plain HTML pages

LOTS of competition with "why did we ever stop using nested element selectors?!" projects like these. Baseline is you have to be better than Normalize, and this isn't.

Was anything but personal preference the reason for changing the link color, the body font to specific typefaces, the font-size to a little smaller than normal, etc?

Links are much worse, no focus, no text-decoration, confusing colors. You have to nail this stuff.

SippinLeanon Mvp.css – build your landing page with only semantic HTML

> there is nothing bad about divs when it comes to accessability [sic]

There certainly is. Prefer h1 over div, button over div, etc whenever appropriate.

https://www.w3.org/WAI/tips/developing/#use-mark-up-to-conve...

SippinLeanon Mvp.css – build your landing page with only semantic HTML

The light grey text under "MVP.css works with the following HTML elements:" surely fails (WCAG2).

`section` has an `h2`, but no `h1` for some reason. Other failures like this.

Other than that what's wrong?

SippinLeanon Microsoft ships Windows 1.0, November 20, 1985

https://web.archive.org/web/20201120230553/https://www.edn.c...

SippinLeanon Google plans to shut down Google Voice integration with classic Hangouts

Well, Play Music is already gone at least

https://play.google.com/store/apps/theme/promotion_gpm_shutd...

> The Music store on Google Play is no longer available.

> To continue listening to your Play Music library, transfer your library to YouTube Music

You can still Play Books though?

SippinLeanon Less screen time and more sleep critical for preventing depression

It was specifically "sedentary screen time" defined as the total "hours per week, adding together the participants’ answers to the questions:

1. "In a typical DAY, how many hours do you spend watching TV?" and

2. "In a typical DAY, how many hours do you spend using a computer? (not including time using a computer at work)"

SippinLeanon The IDE Divide (2004)

> HTML and CSS are all you need, with some vanilla JS

For a modern web application?! Absolutely not, the things the OP mentioned (webpack, 1000 node packages etc) are essential.

Even on the IDE side, I have...100 extensions installed?

SippinLeanon Most-mentioned links in Hacker News comments, 2006–2015

I thought we'd see #91 (1053/"Ten Thousand") but it's lame having a 4-digit XKCD in the top 100

SippinLeanon Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server

Yes. On every version.

SippinLeanon Pixel 5 review: Google spends its bill-of-materials budget unwisely

I've owned every one since the G1 as well and the the 4a is their best value since my $300 Nexus 4

SippinLeanon Oregon becomes first U.S. state to decriminalize possession of all drugs

> when Florida took a harder stance against Doctors prescribing Oxycontin making it more difficult for people to acquire and abuse, there was an exodus of people to states that had more relaxed laws

Is there a source for this? Florida was a MAJOR supplier of Oxycontin for other states near and far until the crackdown in 2011. Prescription monitoring reduced pill smuggling to other states.

Addicts didn't move to other states, they moved to another drug--heroin. Heroin is covered by the new Oregon legislation.

https://heroin.palmbeachpost.com/florida-cuts-off-oxycodone-...