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thomasedwards

488 karma · joined January 6, 2013

Web developer, London
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thomasedwards··on Why Aren't Movies Sexy Anymore?
This is a totally rational and normal comment to make.
thomasedwards··on PSone.css – Playstation 1 style CSS Framework
I think this has been shared before, I’ve tried using it but it as some flaws. The font for example puts a dot on the row below the letter V, and some of the default margins are tricky to work with. But it’s a fun idea!
thomasedwards··on Genders.wtf
So you know how to refer to them to other people or in conversation. The order notes preference. So someone might use they/him, which means they prefer you use ‘they’ but if you use ‘him’ it’s okay.
thomasedwards··on Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain?
> It is staggeringly unlikely that you would ever have encountered a .gb domain in the wild. The only domain which is registered, though inactive, is hmg.gb - standing for His Majesty's Government. The domain was originally created in the mid 1980s, and abandoned at some point in the 1990s. There are no active domains which use .gb and today, the government only uses .gov.uk for its domains.

Third paragraph.

thomasedwards··on Use plain-text email
I‘ve had problems with plain text emails being treated as spam, but send the same content as HTML and it’s allowed through. I’d send more plain text emails, but it would cause more problems.
thomasedwards··on Elementary OS is imploding
Hate to break it to you my guy, but that is not ‘gender politics’, it‘s just her name and her pronouns. If you use he/him and I say she/her, that’s rude. It’s no different.
thomasedwards··on Gmail – A New Integrated Layout
It was so good! Once they got rid of it I started moving away from Gmail because it was clear they just didn’t know what they were doing.
thomasedwards··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
It doesn’t sync your entire experience. I have a completely different setup for each profile, and then I use Containers _within_ each profile. They’re not the same thing.
thomasedwards··on Ask HN: Why is Firefox losing marketshare and how would you save it?
When I open Chrome, I can open any profile straight away from the menu. On Mac, there’s just one Chrome icon.

When I open Firefox, I have to go to a page that looks like a developer debug mode, and then open a new profile in a new Firefox instance. I now have two Firefox icons in my dock. I normally work with three profiles, so now I have three Firefox icons in my dock all called Firefox. 66.6% of the time I press the wrong one.

The problem is that Firefox has to be at least as good as Chrome to succeed. Being _almost_ as good as Chrome means people will just use Chrome.

thomasedwards··on Will real estate ever be normal again?
Just need to convince all my life-long friends to move with me and this sounds like great advice!
thomasedwards··on Will real estate ever be normal again?
This is borderline romantic at this point. What bank do you think would ever possibly agree to this? Most people can’t even prove to their banks that they can afford a mortgage that’s less than the rent they’re currently paying.
thomasedwards··on Revenge Bedtime Procrastination
996 needs to stop being a thing
thomasedwards··on Lego Island Rebuilder
From what I’ve read, they couldn’t work out how to make a free play game that would work online and stop people from making giant penises.

https://splinternews.com/lego-universe-had-a-huge-dong-detec...

thomasedwards··on React Ruined Web Development
It’s fine if you load each page as an HTTP request, but if your ‘pages’ aren’t real, re-loading everything from an API each time is a bit of a pain.
thomasedwards··on Bentley Railbike (2000)
I love that you looked at this website, saw its <table> layout, saw the copyright was the year 2000, saw the images with terrible drop shadows, the freeservers icon in the top, and thought “uh, weird this isn’t https”.
thomasedwards··on How pharmaceutical companies find sick users on Facebook
Or, I go to a doctor, who is a medically trained professional, and they prescribe a medicine to me based on their experience and training, without any incentive for financial reward?
thomasedwards··on Firefox to regularly nag users to change their default browser
Chrome is better than Firefox for most everyday use. I use Firefox because I don’t want to use a Google browser and I like the idea of having browsers that aren’t based on Chromium, but for goodness’ sake at least make me not hate that choice. I cannot, and do not, recommend Firefox to anybody because it’s not good enough. This is not helping.
thomasedwards··on Why Tech Moguls Are Obsessed with Building Utopian Cities
Really feel like they could have tried about 5% harder with the name. At least the brand doesn’t have to be soulless even if the place is.
thomasedwards··on Audi announces end of combustion A4, A6 and A8 models
From the photos and reports I’ve seen, they’re not giving a dime to anybody that needs a dime.
thomasedwards··on 81k UK-owned .eu domains suspended as Brexit transition ends
I want to believe you but their website says:

    Leave.EU Group Limited trading as Leave.EU.
    A company registered in England & Wales. Company
    Registration Number 9763501 Registered office:
    2430/2440, The Quadrant, Aztec West, Almondsbury,
    Bristol. BS32 4AQ
Edit: EURid says it’s registered to “BETTER FOR THE COUNTRY DIGITAL MARKETING SERVICES DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY” in Waterford, IE
thomasedwards··on Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds
And possibly lose their job during a massive pandemic? It’s hard to be a whistleblower.
thomasedwards··on The first person in the UK to have air pollution listed as a cause of death
When they introduced one of the efforts in April 2019 I noticed within a few weeks the difference – it has got better, but there’s a long way to go.
thomasedwards··on Games released before PS4 are no longer appearing in search on PlayStation.com
Erm, I think it’s the exact opposite? People want you to learn about history so we don’t make the same mistakes
thomasedwards··on Windsor Castle: Changing hundreds of royal clocks
I don’t understand why people have such an issue with DST. Longer summer evenings where you can wander around with light late into the evenings are glorious.
thomasedwards··on Lessons learned from onboarding emails with no HTML styling
The problem with everyone doing some of these tips is that I now just ignore all emails that appear to be from people instead because I don’t ever believe it’s from a real person, so unless I’m expecting an email from someone I won’t open these anymore and I just skim the subject. Not sure if people outside of the web community do this too, but probably only a matter of time if not.
thomasedwards··on Excel may have caused loss of 16,000 Covid tests in England
Using Excel is strange, so using columns really isn’t a massive leap. It is rows as per other articles, there aren’t even that many tests available to go over 1m.
thomasedwards··on Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?
Stripe is cheaper than CCBill, so it makes sense to send more that way when you can.
thomasedwards··on Ask HN: Linux Alternative to macOS?
I use a lot of Linux servers, including my own at home but it’s headless, so I’m pretty familiar but I’ve never used one as my own operating system. But I do prefer spending my free time working on projects and hobbies, rather than having to maintain my computer.
thomasedwards··on California bullet train contractors botched bridge project
> Sometimes I wonder what the world would be like if we just said "that sucks" and required a full postmortem instead.

This is how BAA built Heathrow Terminal 5. They took on all risk and just dealt with each problem as they came up: https://www.christianwolmar.co.uk/2005/04/project-management...

thomasedwards··on 27-inch iMac gets a major update
I still don’t fully understand this world, I ‘downgraded’ from an i7 to a slower i5, and my computer got faster. I wish they’d use sensible clear names for the generations so you can clearly understand what’s better.
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