TylerH | 1 year ago | on: China Is Rapidly Becoming a Leading Innovator in Advanced Industries
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TylerH | 2 years ago | on: The first walkable city in America in a century
Also many cities in America are walkable.
TylerH | 2 years ago | on: Cities Skylines 2 runs with 20fps on an Nvidia RTX4090
I fault the people complaining about performance of a city builder running at 1440p more than the developer. You're looking at concrete and asphalt and brick textures and shit like that. You don't need anything higher than 720p.
TylerH | 2 years ago | on: Exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested
If you buy pine or oak or cedar you can be pretty darn sure it is regenerative. That's how the industry is able to exist: they cut the same fields of trees every 15-30 years.
If you're concerned, you can always plant a tree or two somewhere for every project you do that uses wood. There are lots of places that let you plant trees even outside your own property.
TylerH | 2 years ago | on: Exclusive hardwood may be illegally harvested
The hardwood family this article is about, ipe, is not grown at all in the US.
TylerH | 3 years ago | on: EA announces kernel-level anti-cheat system for PC games
I'd sooner have real IDs tied to internet personas than this shit
TylerH | 3 years ago | on: Mercedes-Benz says Level 3 self-driving option ready to roll
That's not really "full self driving" if you are referring to the SAE scale. Level 5, the top, is fully autonomous driving, everywhere. What you are referring to is level 4; fully autonomous driving in specific geofenced areas on predetermined routes. Think Delamain in Cyberpunk 2077.
TylerH | 3 years ago | on: I got a computer science degree in 3 months for less than $5000 (2020)
Buying a diploma is not really a bragging point.
TylerH | 3 years ago | on: College became the default – Let's rethink that
As if college doesn't also require a lot of certification and training which is time consuming and costs money.
TylerH | 4 years ago | on: Why Are Movies and TV So Dark Now?
Oh my god yes trying to watch Carnival Row is freaking impossible during the day. But also, I'd be OK with worse picture if they would let the sound guys actually get a microphone within 20 feet of the actors.
TylerH | 4 years ago | on: Amazon used tactic to make it harder to quit Prime – cancellations dropped 14%
Yes, actually. According to current FTC rules, canceling a subscription has to be as easy or easier than signing up for it. Lina Khan is great, and a shining example of why votes matter and both parties aren't the same.
TylerH | 4 years ago | on: US Senate votes unanimously to make daylight savings time permanent
Depends on your latitude. Here in Georgia in the US permanent DST is far better than permanent Standard Time. It might be bad up in Canada I suppose.
TylerH | 4 years ago | on: Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B
The vast majority of users never post an answer or a question, and most of those that post only once or twice never get upvoted (or get downvoted more than upvoted), so their reputation stays at 1.
I think they said a couple years ago that over 50 or 60% of registered users have 1 reputation.
TylerH | 7 years ago | on: Bootstrap 5 will remove jQuery as a dependency
Well, IE has not been receiving feature updates for over a year. It only receives security patches, and these days only critical ones. It is a dead browser; do not use it unless your job forces you to.
TylerH | 7 years ago | on: Amazon, GM in talks to invest in electric pickup truck maker Rivian: sources
It's likely that Amazon and GM want far more control in the car manufacturing process than someone like Elon Musk would be willing to give. So it's not so much why Amazon and GM aren't willing, but that Musk isn't. Rivian makes superb trucks, but it's incredibly small right now and not likely to last a long time without some kind of deep-pocket investment... especially considering its business strategy is as much an electric vehicle platform as it as a 'traditional' electric automobile manufacturer... that last bit is probably super enticing for a company like Amazon.
TylerH | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is it just me, or is CSS too damn hard?
The main things you should learn to become decent at CSS are:
- the box model
- how cascading, specificity, and inheritance work
- googling CSS problems with the site:stackoverflow.com filter
Bit tongue-in-cheek with that last one, but the rest will give you a solid understanding of why certain things work the way they do when your code doesn't look the way you expect.
> I can't do anything basic on CSS without turning for help
The thing is, if you are working with a whole website (even simple looking websites can have a lot of HTML and CSS), then there are often no "simple" problems, at least with layout, because every element can and often does affect every other element.
Sometimes you just need a good old analogy or picture to demonstrate some things: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33132586/why-isnt-my-mar... (disclaimer - I wrote that answer). In a lot of ways, your elements and their CSS are like rocks in a river... the water/document flows around them in certain ways, which affects stuff around them or downstream. Removing one or adjusting it can change how the water/document flows, and thus can affect other rocks/elements, etc.
TylerH | 7 years ago | on: Firefox 65.0 released
Happy with a lot of stuff 65 introduced (this is a nice trend in a lot of recent Firefox releases)
One thing I'm not happy about; opted-in recommendations for addons when you browse websites.
TylerH | 7 years ago | on: Condé Nast to Put All Titles Behind Paywalls by Year End
That will never happen in a capitalist system
TylerH | 7 years ago | on: What Makes .NET Core So Special?
.NET Core is the future just like moving on from COBOL and FORTRAN was the move 30+ years ago, eh?
TylerH | 7 years ago | on: What Makes .NET Core So Special?
by and large, btw
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Eh? There are like 60 Chinese dynasties throughout history. The US has been around longer than most of them. And some of the dynasties that were around longer than the US has been will lose that title if the US lasts another ~30 years. The Qing, Ming, Tang, etc. dynasties all lasted ~275 years, and the US has been around for 248 by now. But the vast majority of the Chinese dynasties lasted like 10 to 50 years.