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My favorite thing about CSS is how it spits in the face of the "Single Responsibility Principle".
I would argue that CSS is not a UI descriptor. CSS has no structural aspects - it alters existing structures, it doesn't declare/describe them.
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Gwyll wrote: My favorite thing about CSS is how it spits in the face of the "Single Responsibility Principle".
No it doesn't. You just don't understand the hieracy of the DOM or specicficity. What I love is people that choose to hate something they know nothing about.
Gwyll wrote: I would argue that CSS is not a UI descriptor. CSS has no structural aspects - it alters existing structures, it doesn't declare/describe them.
It is. You should read up on what a descriptor is. You don't have to declare to fit that definition...
Data descriptor - Wikipedia
Also, it does have structures and describes things. Clearly you don't know anything about pseudo elements, transformations, animation, etc.
I've been "arguing" with devs online for 30 years. All with people who know nothing of what they're arguing about. So, sorry if I sound jaded, but again I've been arguing with devs online for 30 years who know nothing of what they're arguing about...
Jeremy Falcon
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It's not CSS that I hate, it's the fact that we have to compensate for the different browsers because their implementers can't agree not to step outside established standards.
After 30 years of hearing peoples complains, they still seem to think that coloring outside the lines is a valid way to one-up the other browsers.
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I totally agree with that. I don't blame CSS for that though, I blame Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, etc. And I certainly don't think it justifies perpetual hatred. The good news is it's sooooooo much better these days in regards to browser compatibility. A lot easier. These youngins just don't know how easy they have it. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I know how to block calls on my Android phone but that is not a great game plan here
anyone have experience with "Hiya" or "Nomorobo" software ?
The root cause is a friend in Denver uses Century Link for land line & email
the hacker got into her gmail which has my protonmail account info and I think they got my phone number from that hack
She has a Tracfone account that might be involved this seems impossible famous last words.
I am on the National Do Not Call Registry which has never worked for VOIP calls
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This just highlights that there are so many attack vectors to learn PII.
It's impossible to prevent leakage. (unless you use an adult diaper.)
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I build UI's for our commercial inkjet printing systems. This means a display on top of a cabinet that's the operator panel for the machine.
I really, really hate getting "screen captures" that are phone pictures. From three feet away  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Try looking at any of the programming forums on Reddit. Endless reams of questions about code which don't include the code, or even a screenshot of the code; instead, they include a low-res photo of their monitor with some of the code on it. 
It's a great reminder of one of the many reasons why CodeProject's QA doesn't allow pictures.
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- Homer
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If you want to code, but you can't take a screen shot using print screen or something you need to pack it in and find a different calling.
Maybe I'm being harsh.
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It might be that they are in a lab that doesn't have outside internet connectivity or has Reddit in particular blocked.
I do that wooden table sort of nonsense in similar situations where it's just easier to do that than to jump through all the hoops of shuttling a file from a PC/laptop to a cell phone (so as to use the cell's internet).
There are some apps that will cut/paste between cell and PC/laptop. Not always convenient/possible though.
My new favorite life hack for it is to start a draft gmail and attach the file and just leave it sitting like a temp drop box until I grab it from the other device(s).
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Half the time there's a cat or something in the picture so you know they're taking it at home.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: I build UI's for our commercial inkjet printing systems.
I've never understood how someone so nice can work in such an industry.
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Rage wrote: I've never understood how someone so nice
Thank you  .Rage wrote: can work in such an industry
I'm afraid the consumer inkjet industry copied our business model. We sell hardware (printing press plus the inkjet) more-or-less at cost, and then make earnings on ink and maintenance. It takes years of equipment sales, ink, and service on a product line to recoup development costs and to begin making a profit.
This has been How Things Are Done in commercial printing (not just inkjet) since Gutenberg  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Du jour?
I've several times commented to out service desk people that, never mind the operators, can't we at least train the field tech engineers to use the Print Screen button when reporting a problem. A full screen image would infinitely better that some of the photos we get taken from to far away to be useful, at a slight angle and with a bright light reflecting off the screen for good measure! Since we have remote access to the operator workstations it wouldn't matter if they left the file on the PC...
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Aside from the usual gripes about the over complicatedness of CSS from a usability standpoint, I have problems with it from an implementation standpoint.
CSS requires a DOM, just like JS does. With JS it's understandable. With CSS it's because they added a lot of more or less quasi-useful "convenience" features to their selectors.
If you could only do class and id based selectors your entire document could be parsed top-down, which is much more efficient than loading it all into RAM.
Why does it matter? Because embedded things exist, and HTML is so prevalent. If it wasn't for CSS a lot more devices could render a reasonable subset of HTML5.
I think they should at least come out with a standard like say eCSS (for embedded) that's a subset for forward only processing.
CSS is illustrative of what happens when you give a standards committee nothing better to do for decades.
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I think you are not the only one  
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I have a love/hate relationship with CSS. I love what it enables me to do (layout and styling), but I hate having to google the selectors/syntax when it gets complicated...however there's certainly no shortage of references to anything you need to do.
As for html/css/javascript, I chose this combination recently to render scorecard style reports in a winforms project. Build a webpage bit by bit and throw it into a browser control...it takes me back to the late 90's when I was building webpages with classic asp!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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I think really, just paring down a standard for things like embedded and formalizing the pared down "standard" for e-readers (it already sort of defines a subset depending on the format) it would open it up to a lot more hardware.
And frankly, it's so sprawling at this point that a cleaner, lighter version wouldn't hurt.
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Look at CSSStyleSheets.
const rules = new CSSStyleSheet();
rules.insertRule("selector {rules}");
document.adoptedStyleSheet.push(rules);
This provides some separation and you can replace all <style> tags with <script>.
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I mean, that's javascript though.
I'm more talking about parsing and interpreting CSS properly on embedded systems, no JavaScript.
Think a stripped down webkit for small embedded devices.
CSS as it stands requires the DOM. There's a reasonable subset of it in terms of selector syntax that wouldn't require a DOM and could be forward only parsed.
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I have a friend who was given a lighting console and was told that the previous owner thought the hard drive was on its way out. We're thinking about trying to replace the drive, the problem being, we need to copy over the OS as well, and there's a really good chance it's not Windows or Linux like most modern lighting desks; it's quite probably something custom. The other problem is this desk is officially obsolete, so the re-imaging kits that used to be available are no longer listed. We'll try to locate one, but not holding out much hope.
So here's the thing. The disk isn't very large (haven't checked but unlikely to be more than 250GB), so a replacement won't cost much, but I'm not sure what the best way would be to, essentially, do a "tape-to-tape" copy of the disk.
Any suggestions?
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There are hard drive reimagers that literally take hard drives in two slots like they were bread in a toaster.
If you want something to produce an exact copy regardless of filesystem, it's a pretty safe bet, as long as your ailing drive survives.
Here's one[^]
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Thanks, I hadn't come across those, and it's certainly an option. I have a SATA docking station, I wonder if there would be a way, with a second docking station, to effectively simulate what this does. Maybe a linux boot and a low level disk operator - does dd do this sort of thing?
Thanks for the pointer, anyway.
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dd might work, but honestly, I'd pay for the hardware for peace of mind. It's so simple it does a sector copy. it doesn't care.
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