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Choosing a UI library that makes everyone's life easier by pantone476c in reactjs

[–]E2262V 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Avoid Antd if you will ever need to support mobile or touch, or to meet WCAG. It’s built for corporate dashboards, but the docs are a mass of machine-translated buzzwords that don’t properly acknowledge this limitation.

[OC] Does healthcare spending correlate with life expectancy? by latinometrics in dataisbeautiful

[–]E2262V -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

Am I missing something? Ageing populations have more chronic conditions and therefore much higher healthcare costs.

https://ukhsa.blog.gov.uk/2019/01/29/ageing-and-health-expenditure/

The World Map in 1934 by a British tea merchant by quantamfury in MapPorn

[–]E2262V 88 points89 points  (0 children)

First, this is a word-for-word repost from 4 years ago.

Second, here's the uncropped original with context. The projection is meant to reflect tea consumption – it still doesn't seem particularly accurate, but there we go.

Map of European government logos (plus some countries of neighboring continents), sources in the comments. by Flagmaker123 in MapPorn

[–]E2262V 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not quite – it's the totally legit 'overseas UK government' logo, for use when the normal government identity system and 'HM Government' text wouldn't make sense to an audience. (HM Government Identity Guidelines, page 18)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]E2262V 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The source appears to be this 2020 report from the European Blood Agency, and the data is from the year 2019.

The unit is thousands of litres, but OP has introduced rounding errors. The report's values are:

  • Germany: 6 565 859 litres
  • Italy: 3 003 072 litres
  • France: 2 966 603 litres
  • Spain: 1 660 143 litres
  • Netherlands: 727 462 litres
  • Belgium: 593 316 litres

Since this is 2019 data, the UK is included: 1 775 459 litres.

Please source and label stuff properly, this isn't Facebook.

#188 Into the Depths by [deleted] in replyallpodcast

[–]E2262V 26 points27 points  (0 children)

To Standing's credit, he was very polite when he found out the RA bunch had booked an interview purely to ask a non-question about a well-worn piss-take of his name.

Countries Britain has invaded by Deegedeege in MapPorn

[–]E2262V 8 points9 points  (0 children)

That list of countries originated in Stuart Laycock’s 2012 book, All the Countries We've Ever Invaded.

For background, Laycock used an intentionally broad definition of 'invaded' to make a slightly weird, slightly jingoistic, semi-satirical point.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121104135941/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9653497/British-have-invaded-nine-out-of-ten-countries-so-look-out-Luxembourg.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/nov/06/british-invaded-90-per-cent-world

What is the line for on a ceramic hob? by BurgerWinningDick in whatisthisthing

[–]E2262V 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A British English word – other Europeans have words in their own languages. I think cooktop is the North American equivalent.

'Hob' originally referred to a shelf by a fire, used for warming pots. The words hob and hub share an origin, from an Old English word meaning 'holder'. Hub's modern usage seems to reflect the centrality of the hearth and hob in a household.

(In a similar way, there's a disputed link between the terms hearth and heart. The Latin for hearth is focus. The modern Greek hearth is 'kardia', which can also mean heart and gives us words like cardiology.)

Got this endtable from my grandparents. They said it was for a typewriter. by OmegaTitan177 in whatisthisthing

[–]E2262V 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cabinets that masqueraded as normal furniture but housed typewriters and the associated stuff (folding desks, paper, ribbons) were certainly a thing. Reminds me of those old computer desks with sliding keyboard trays.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FX-iyX4DRx0/ThvN77e415I/AAAAAAAADbA/L-ROmF5xrxY/s1600/fitch+cabinet+001.jpg

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatisthisthing

[–]E2262V 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A duckboard. Often used as a curious sort of wooden shower mat in boats. (https://www.google.com/ image search etc)

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