I’ve got decades of hyperfixations ready to go
Do you want to ask me about owl facts?!
Which owl is best?
There are basically two schools of thought…
False! Black bear! Wait… Black owl!
Owlbear!
Bugbear?
Okay, so
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DSLR photography, CSS, obscure games from long gone times (Nox, Ultima Online, Railroad Tycoon 2). I have savant level of knowledge in these categories. Only one of those allows me to be alive, as in, I work and earn salary because of it. I practically lock up with anything that is of low interest to me.
I wish I had superfixation like this, everything slips through me except for boring, low math.
Played the shit outta nox back in the day!
Only one of those allows me to be alive, as in, I work and earn salary because of it
Is it DSLR photography?
Dark Age of Camelot
Like Avalon Hill games? Wooden Ships and Iron Men and that stuff?
No, sorry, don’t think these reached my geographical location
The historic evolution of the best practice of centering a div, please!
okay, so back in the dark ages, in html3 there wasn’t true horizontal centering. there was a <center> tag that would horizontally center content you enclose in that, but it would not really work for vertical centering, and I’m fairly certain that’s the one you care about. That’s truly goofy. Then html4 came and tables came and that’s when css1 and css2 came out. I believe that was early to mid 90s. With tables, came the table hack where you used valign. Funny thing, this shit is still valid and works and it is used daily. If you receive any newsletters, and they have fancy images, background color, buttons - that is built on the table hack.
Then, the silly hacks got introduced. Backbone.js, underscore.js - these were a must just so a page can work with all the crap people were doing. That’s why… instead of fixing underlying problems of web development, more hacks got introduced. The worst one was the transform hack. You absolutely positioned the element and then used transform to 50% so that made sure that, on a fixed height container, it’ll be centered. You obviously had to plan for the content height itself, etc - hence why it’s the worst one. I hated that one.
I believe the immense pain of doing the transform hack was the reason why finally flex and flexbox were introduced. I have not looked back since.
The newest one is literally telling css “yep, this container is a grid, center the items” and it’s done. Junior UI engineers will never know the pain. Good.
You were fair dinkum. 🤜🏻🤛🏻
I play UO on private shards every year and a half. Always lots of fun. And the last few years, lots of cool custom shards popped up
Okay so, who wants to start talking about Naval warfare spanning from Salamis to the Falklands with emphasis on the engineering aspects?
I’m assuming you’ve found the Drachinifel discord, but if not let me be the one to bless you with this knowledge.
I usually start with, “So, do you want to learn more about this?”
Oh they’re not getting a choice.
I went from that to asking what level of depth they want to just giving the most concise answer I can and adding, “But there’s a lot of interesting nuance I’m leaving out.” Then if they ask for more, I give my dissertation.
my “okay, so…” beginning are usually trying to break my specialty into human-understandable language and prep an analogy. aint nobody but my nerdboi peers care about the dinglehooper flooting the yoonerbix .001ms faster than the yumdumtrum.
“its like a bicycle with 7 wheels, but only three wheels work at once.” is easier to explain.
…I do 🥺
Yea but that .001 ms results in 16 more gigglebiggles per cycle and thats significant. Who wouldn’t be amazed!
Welcome to Romanmemes!
Honestly, it’s a lot of fun in there because if you aren’t smiling about some silly meme, you’re learning something new about Roman history.
