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In that case my guess is wrong, or at least off, because that sounds like an orphaned component, or perhaps a logic misfire corrupting the state with the effect of partially activating a notification tray or something of the sort.

In the worst case, it could be a viewport dim calculation bug that has nothing to do with Voyager. IME those can persist for a long time, forcing developers to work around it.

If the behavior can be reproduced in a browser, you could use the built in devtools to narrow it down quickly.

I suspect it’s the container for the comment textarea getting left behind after submission, where the vertical misalignment is the top+bottom padding of the container, because Android uses a different rendering engine for PWAs which follows slightly different rules in its box model, especially WRT flexbox.

I hadn’t seen this proposal yet, but this type of reform strategy is usually my favorite.

It not only acknowledges what we have now is broken, it actually uses that very brokenness to break free so that we can finally fix it.

It also is one of the only ways to maintain provenance. Yes, we could just discard the old government and start over, and that may become necessary, but clever workarounds can enact reform without the years of upheaval and instability.

Fuck em up Z

Kinda cool that he would call directly. That’s pretty human compared to the usual robot and virtual assistant driven cattle calls. But it’s a bit too old school. he really should just leave a message. Or respond to the email to setup a call.

Because gone are the days that people build their lives around random phone calls. Most of the time, it’s considered rude to even take a call without escaping to some isolated location, especially if others could hear your phone ringing first. And of course if the number is unknown it’s most likely spam.

He either needs a time machine or needs to learn how phone calls work in the 21st century.

Old internet thing. Hotly debated at the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_dress

I’ll add the contextual link above for others, since it’s been awhile.

Right, and that clue IMO unravels the more troubling aspect of why this content spreads so quickly:

It’s deliberately aimed at people with a rudimentary math education who can be made to feel far superior to others who, in spite of having roughly the same level of proficiency, are missing/forgetting a single fact that has a disproportionate effect on the result they expect.

That is, it’s blue-dress-level contentious engagement bait for anyone with low math skills, whether or not they remember PEMDAS.

Agree but I’d add “unnecessarily” or something, because yeah many common aliases and smaller convenience functions offer meager cumulative time savings in trade for the skill atrophy, but script files can also contain seriously lengthy and/or complex logic that would simply be counterproductive to attempt typing line-by-line into a terminal without any mistakes, especially for scripts that are run often.

A repeated and inexplicable desire to do something you think you shouldn’t is often called a “compulsion.”

A compulsion to expose your inner thoughts, specifically, is often called “not having a therapist.”

Honestly that’s my pet peeve about this category of content. Over the years I’ve seen (at least) hundreds of these check-out-how-bad-at-math-everyone-is posts and it’s nearly always order of operations related. Apparently, a bunch of people forgot (or just never learned) PEMDAS.

Now, having an agreed-upon convention absolutely matters for arriving at expected computational outcomes, but we call it a convention for a reason: it’s not a “correct” vs “incorrect” principle of mathematics. It’s just a rule we agreed upon to allow consistent results.

So any good math educator will be clear on this. If you know the PEMDAS convention already, that’s good, since it’s by far the most common today. But if you don’t yet, don’t worry. It doesn’t mean you’re too dumb to math. With a bit of practice, you won’t even have to remember the acronym.