I'm morbidly fascinated by military technology, especially the clandestine stuff.
For one because I think it's a good idea to keep informed about what fresh hell states and corporations are cooking up, but also because it's this weird hyperspecialized area of engineering dealing with problems you don't see anywhere else.
Long story short, here's a video about the F-117 Nighthawk, one of the big three cold war stealth planes, and probably the least talked about one:
With the US military being seemingly serious about semi-autonomous UAVs as wingmen for pilots, this might be the first plane getting routinely paired with such vehicles, but of course we'd only hear about that in like 2035…
Okay, found out why the hell I even needed the Y-cables. I want to mix together the low and high components after the Crossover (i.e. get the entire audio signal, but without the frequencies used for the sub).
Got my sketch for how to wire this up done, too. Now to look up XLR pin assignment and figure out what lines I actually have to add the resistors to and then I guess implementation starts. :)
This is gonna require some soldering. I have to cut up the Y-cables and add the resistors after they fork* and have to solder the speakon connectors I have lying around to the speakers.
*: Don't ask me to explain this, someone with much more audio electronics knowledge than me told me to do this.
Okay, managed to write a small markdown-it-py plugin to break the rendered HTML apart into <section>s.
Now I can have free-floating (full-width) media while having the text sections centered and limited to a typographically sensible width – and I did a bunch of assorted theming work as well.
By no means done, but it's beginning to look right. :)
Ah, and if you're wondering – that the slowpoke fits into the same width as the sections is only a coincidence with the size of this particular png – a wider image would be rendered wider, up to the full viewport width.
@Sioctan I don't even know where I got that from. It's one of those files I've been lugging around for ages. Just like the high-quality properly transparent squinting fry png.^^
Probably my most prejudiced #CSS hack. Judge if you want, but this one line saves me from an insane amount of alignment issues and overly complicated calc()s.
If you don't understand: This makes an elements width include paddings and borders.
So you do width: 100ex; and no matter how much you mess around with paddings and borders, the resulting overall width will be 100ex.
When you have a bunch of elements with and without paddings and with and without borders, this makes visually aligning them so much easier because you don't have to constantly figure out dumb shit like width: calc(100ex - 2rem - 2px).
@bingocaller I've been using it since essentially forever, too.
This is interesting because I've never seen anyone mention it in conversation around CSS… at the very least I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that this makes things behave way more sensibly.
I am so old, the first store-bought new piece of PC hardware I ever got myself was a fancy 52x CD burner.
I have memories of pirating software with pirated versions of Alcohol 120% and CloneCD.
Back in the day, you could lend video games from libraries and movie rental places (which also were still a thing back then). So I had this routine of lending a bunch of interesting looking games and making copies to share.
It was like organically grown software piracy and I really liked this dynamic.
@danie10 Trump constantly talked even with a gag order during the trial and when he was warned he'd incur contempt of the court multiple times, he had some of his lackeys speak for him. Kinda disappointed that this wasn't added to the list tbh…
Zum Einen gibt es vierlerorts eine gerichtete Medienkampagne, alle israelkritischen Proteste als antisemitisch darzustellen, vor allem in den USA scheint das einfach die Standardposition der Medien zu sein. Ich habe aktuell ganz stark den Eindruck, dass das auf breiter Ebene benutzt wird, um absolut legitime Forderungen der Protestierenden einfach unter den Teppich zu kehren – und das gehört IMO von linker Seite aus bekämpft.
Zum Anderen glaube ich, dass viel von der Toleranz gegenüber antisemitistischen Positionen bei Protesten einfacher Naivität geschuldet ist. Das entschuldigt das Ganze natürlich nicht, bedeutet aber, dass hier mit Diskurs tatsächlich Dinge erreicht werden können. Vor allem bei jungen Studis habe ich den Eindruck, dass sie sich gar nicht bewusst sind, dass einige Slogans und Symbole auch als Ausdruck der Intention zum Völkermord aufgefasst werden können.
I so often see people argue about JavaScript frameworks being easier to learn than HTML/CSS, whilst showing they've never bothered to actually learn HTML/CSS!
I think they're making things harder on themselves, not easier.
@alcinnz This rings very true to me, but I think the bigger advantage is that your previous experience with it isn't just completely invalidated every couple years.
I'm still doing HTML and CSS stuff I did 20 years back. Honestly the biggest change was in the mid-2000s with HTML5, CSS3 and Flexbox.
Since then, the only big thing to happen was the addition of CSS grids.
