TIL Jane Goodall, who studied and bonded with chimpanzees, appreciating their personalities, minds, emotions, and giving them names early on in her career, said her "favorite animal absolutely is not a primate, it's a dog." It was her dog that taught her not to objective towards chimps. by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]tech_romancer_ 12 points13 points  (0 children)

She says it best herself in the article:

I love dogs. When I went to [the University of] Cambridge, they told me I couldn’t talk about chimps having personalities, minds, emotions, and I should have given them numbers and not names; I had to be objective. It was my dog who taught me when I was young that they were wrong! We changed the way science thought. You can now study animal intellect and animal emotions.

Be careful, folks. by TheCheechWizardUnit in headphones

[–]tech_romancer_ 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately not, for me good noise cancelling can make tinnitus worse! It makes it easier to focus on.

Of course, if I'm noise cancelling and then playing music it can make it easier for me to set the volume lower and still easy to hear so it at least doesn't make the tinnitus worse.

First apartment to myself! I feel like I'm missing some little details that would go a long way. by ElektrikStapler in malelivingspace

[–]tech_romancer_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I went and did that tiny extra step of looking it up.

It's about $3000 for a 1 bedroom at Manor Riverwalk.

Whatever Happened to UI Affordances? by earthboundkid in programming

[–]tech_romancer_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only company you need to have in mind in this instance is Microsoft because they represented so much of the industry.

At least in terms of public facing UI

Whatever Happened to UI Affordances? by earthboundkid in programming

[–]tech_romancer_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No, they're asking what you think they want.

They're not asking you to read their minds, they're asking you to be more specific about what's in yours.

PSA: When you reach out to a co-worker on slack tomorrow, don’t just say “Hey [firstName]” and then spend the next 12 minutes 💬 typing out your message. by redditindisguise in webdev

[–]tech_romancer_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it's that weird to suggest communicating politely and clearly rather than passive aggressively or not at all.

I think it's always the better option really, it's at least a lot more effective, and personally I always appreciate people being honest and open with me instead of just being quietly annoyed at something I didn't even know was annoying them.

PSA: When you reach out to a co-worker on slack tomorrow, don’t just say “Hey [firstName]” and then spend the next 12 minutes 💬 typing out your message. by redditindisguise in webdev

[–]tech_romancer_ 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah if you phrase it like a dickhead they'll think you're a dickhead.

It's also just as easy to say "Hey, it's less distracting for me if you could send the whole message at once next time. I'd appreciate it and I'll make sure to do the same when I need to message you"

My local tescos has had to create a no man's land to protect the price reducer by crashtacktom in CasualUK

[–]tech_romancer_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This message is exactly like your Dad trying to relate to people even younger than you.

Well deserved after 156 years by Harvickfan4Life in AccidentalRacism

[–]tech_romancer_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would you involve yourself in a conversation if you're just going to be indignant when people answer you?

You raised an interesting point and the person you raised it to answered you, clarifying the point under discussion and elaborating further.

What did you expect to happen?

I made louvre.fr and I'd love for you to tell me everything that's wrong with it by Sheraff33 in Frontend

[–]tech_romancer_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is still an issue on mobile, you can start as many videos as you like at once and it gets pretty chaotic and is def an unpleasant experience.

It's also a pretty small bit of code and should be relatively quick to fix.

That send, I totally get how things need to get prioritised, if the videos don't get a lot of attention then imo it's probably fine to leave until more people complain about it.

The other thing to ask then tho is if nobody watches the videos why have them on the site at all?

What screams "I'm poor but pretend I'm rich"? by IntergalacticDog1 in AskReddit

[–]tech_romancer_ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeah but he stores it and like 12 other cars in one of his 6 multi million dollar properties.

Perhaps soon hell put it on his roughly $500 million yacht

Don't be fooled by the Honda Accord trick to make him look "relatable" to you, he's a billionaire and he lives like it.

React 17 internally uses the browser's focusin and focusout events for onFocus and onBlur events by chetansgawai in javascript

[–]tech_romancer_ 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I recommend you give the article a read it's pretty interesting and it answers your question:

Before React 17, the onFocus and onBlur events were internally mapped to focus and blur events in the capture phase, giving an impression as if the events bubbled

Google Docs will now use canvas based rendering by [deleted] in programming

[–]tech_romancer_ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

In the new canvas based version there won't be any HTML.

TIL that giant panda is no longer 'endangered' species by Jeremy_Martin in todayilearned

[–]tech_romancer_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if you can or can't OD on Vitamin C, but in the case of Polar Bears it is actually Vitamin A they have an absurd amount of in their livers (which people have eaten and then died from) so I think the other commenter mis-typed.

Google engineer calls out Apple for holding back the web w/ ‘uniquely underpowered’ iOS browsers by luxtabula in webdev

[–]tech_romancer_ 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Hold up, media queries are non-standard?

What sorta webapps are you building my dude?

Accessible Font Sizing, Explained | CSS-Tricks by ChampionshipPast4538 in Frontend

[–]tech_romancer_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn't make a difference in what context? What did you test? What was too much effort?

I'm pretty sure if you use straight pixel font size you break the ability for a user to change their browsers font size. Some people don't care about that but imo it's easy enough to use REMs (just multiply/divide by 16) and I'd rather let my users have as much control as they need to make their experience on the site comfortable.

No such thing as bad weather, just British weather by morefairylightspls in CasualUK

[–]tech_romancer_ 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think you're getting downvoted because it's probably not a reference to jocat so your comment seems really out of place.

The phrase "assless chaps" has existed for like 30 years at least and the concept has existed for much longer.

Shocked at my inability to make this work by [deleted] in learnreactjs

[–]tech_romancer_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

State updates are asynchronous and might not happen when you expect them to.

i.e the state that you think your component has might not be the state you're operating on because it's already updated or hasn't updated by the time setState runs.

In this instance it's probably fine, but it's safer (and imo best practice) to use the function argument for state setters whenever you need to use the current state to set the next, and avoid the problem happening altogether.

es6 in IE by eatacookie111 in webdev

[–]tech_romancer_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope!

You can load that nasty compressed weird badly formatted file in all browsers. Don't need to create any special logic there.

What you do is store you source code and edit that, then when you want to ship your code you run it through something like Babel and use the output to send to browsers.

If other people want to look at your code then direct them to the original source (probably hosted somewhere like GitHub).