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OT: Why doesn't web text flow anymore?

I increased the text size of this post because it started uncomfortably small (for me). Curiosity made me keep increasing the text size until it hit both ends of my browser, then I increased it some more and the text disappeared off the ends. The text did reflow as the size increased, within some internal margin set by the site's style, so it's clearly possible to reflow within the bounds of the window.

Why doesn't it reflow to stay inside the window, and why is this considered good? I vaguely recall that it used to be normal to reflow and keep everything visible.

I checked with FF and Chromium on linux, same behavior.

It may also be the case that the car, or the charging infrastructure, or the system that is the car plus the charging infrastructure, is not ready for the NYT's general audience or its writers. It could just be a usability issue that early adopters would not have had a problem with.

Maybe this was too early for a NYT treatment.

If Wade was fired for having sex with Karen, then why wasn't Karen also fired? Oh, Wade was also making fun of one of the author's partners. So OK, Wade was fired for a poor attitude, and who boinked who was irrelevant. We hope. Because we have a number of people at my work who met there and are married to each other, and I assume that there was some amount of boinking going on. Why, there may be boinking going on right now.

Otherwise, I enjoyed the list at the end, I have to be reminded regularly how to treat people (really), so this was that reminder today.

pairnic.com. They aren't the cheapest, but they aren't expensive either.

Unless they were able to get to and integrate with somewhere else.

But now it doesn't matter, because there is no somewhere else.

For those on a budget, search for this book's ISBN on Abe Books. This edition looks like it's available for around $30, plus or minus. I suppose shipping would make this somewhat less attractive in Brasil, but probably still better.

Abe Books sells used books, as well as international editions. YMMV on the legality of the international editions.

Maybe he's since fixed it, but ctr + works fine in FF on linux. I installed the Readability extension in FF and that appears to work too. At least I assume it works, I've never used it before, it looks like just a nicer version of turning off styles, which is my solution for pages that are too cute for their own good.

In any case, Readability got rid of the annoying black "Ask Us" box on the left that obscures content. (I hate those.) Of course, so does View/Page Style/No Style.

"Is this even deemed legal?"

I'm sure the government itself deems it legal. The rest of us might disagree.

"When the President [or government] does it, that means that it is not illegal."

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22if+the+president+does+it%2C+the...

l'Etat, c'est les

The danger and difference is that governments that use these capabilities are dangerous. Not only can they rightly or wrongly harm individuals, they can do so for whole populations.

If you were shunned (rightly or wrongly) by your village for some observed or inferred transgression, you could go somewhere else.

There is no longer somewhere else.

It may be that there's a huge mismatch between citizens and the government, but that does nothing to remove or reduce the fact that the constitutional right to bear arms in the United States is based on the possible need to revolt. The Constitution and its Amendments were written in the aftermath of that exact circumstance.

The 2nd Amendment has nothing to do with hunting or sport. Any serious discussion about gun control cannot ignore that, and you can't logic it away. It's the elephant in the room, and it won't seriously change one way or another except in a constitutional context.

No.

The article specifically mentions customer service reps. Don't know what percentage is csr, and what are stereotypical "I can work anywhere I want" devs.

But for those remote csrs, besides the upheaval, it's going to be tough working in SV on csr pay.

And how much team building do you need to read troubleshooting prompts out of a binder anyway?

A great employee is more than a great programmer.

My current job, they asked me one of those. I pretended to think about it for about 15 seconds, then asked for the answer (it had an answer).

The guy said "You want me to tell you?" I said "yeah."

I've been here a year.

Unfair.

Do you hear that? It's the world's smallest violin, smuggled in to prison in a body cavity.

"Multi-tasking was the problem of making a single core run multiple tasks. The core would switch quickly from one task to the next to make it appear they were all running at the same time, even though during any particular microsecond only one task was running at a time. We now call this “multi-threading”, where “threads” are lighter weight tasks."

I must have missed something.

Multi-tasking is multiple processes, which mostly have nothing to do with each other, switched in and out of the processor(s) by the OS, which do not share in-process memory or context. The programmer does nothing to make this happen, and normally has little to no say in it.

Multi-threading is a single process, where the threads carefully share context and memory, and they're all working roughly on the same thing; the programmer makes this happen explicitly, and usually fucks it up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitasking

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitasking#Multithreading

I think Colonel Cathcart works in the White House.

I don't like infinite scroll, and I don't like automatic reloads.

I haven't been to yahoo in awhile; it looks mostly like I remember it, which i suppose is a branding success. But I don't feel compelled to go, they don't do anything unique. That said, if you want what they and others do, you have to go somewhere to get it, and they seem to be doing a credible job doing it, so it's as good as any other portal.

Because there's a large infrastructure dedicated to exactly that, from law enforcement officers to prosecutors and judges to storage to politicians.

Just getting 3 Strikes laws undone would be practically impossible. Any politician proposing it would immediately come under attack by an opponent who would gladly pick up that rock. Political courage is uncommon enough to be an oxymoron.

The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. If drugs were legalized they'd start arresting us for something else. It has nothing to do with the crime rate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration#Incarceration_ra...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_rate

"Upon request."

By anyone, it seems to read. Even by an anonymous requester.

Now anyone can be a censor.

Based on comments like yours, and general awareness of MS, I think Microsoft has long ago moved from <choose any category you like> to generic mega corporation. In such a company, an individual's success depends on learning how to operate the corporation, and operate within it.

It's a destination for MBAs and project managers, not a place to innovate.

The best first language is one that your friends use, so you can get help from friends. If you're in a community of schemers or smalltalkers, great. Otherwise ...

Staples, and only when it's worth the trouble to get in the car and go there.

It's not always strictly numbers. Take bee stings. If you're not allergic to bee stings then 25m/1 against dying from it is probably right. You may have been stung in the last year and not even noticed it, or thought it was something else.

If you're allergic to bee stings then that probably brings your odds up significantly, although it's probably still in the millions to one magnitude.

"At the very best, it’s been a painful way for a lot of people to have to live."

And statements like that, and the mindset behind them, are a good part of that pain.

I'd like to see companies contribute $10 Million grants to study cluelessness. That's a painful way to live.

Won't you help?

At this point I have to believe that a Justice Department that will push a guy to suicide for taking files is plainly in partnership with corrupt banks. The Justice Department is merely the legal firm for the banks.

"I wonder if someday we'll have credit cards that help you be aware of ..."

If a credit card was an API, then you could wrap any sort of service around it that you like.

It was just a domain name.

Where will we ask "Is HN down?"