I've got decades of hyperfixations ready to go
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Which owl is best?
There are basically two schools of thought...
False! Black bear! Wait... Black owl!
Owlbear!
Bugbear?
Manbearpig
Okay, so
What categories are you offering?
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.
And here I was thinking I was the only one making a living by playing Railroad Tycoon 2.
In all seriousness, I will listen to DSLR photography information all day long.
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 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.
When I typed 'CSS' into google to get the details on how to use it, 'grid' was the first suggestion. 😁
You were fair dinkum. 🤜🏻🤛🏻
I had to search the meaning of that. I haven’t spoken to anyone from Australia. Or New Zealand? If it’s Australia, some of my favourite insects live there.
Christmas Beetle, Cotton Harlequin Bug and the Blue Banded Bee, for anyone caring.
I wish I had superfixation like this, everything slips through me except for boring, low math.
you don’t wish for that. It has damaged most of my life in a dumb way.
I see, but my life is pretty much destroyed anyway. I have hyperfixation, but only in my job, so I am basically one of the most boring person in the world.
do what you love. someone out there will find you the most interesting person on the world. it doesn’t matter if you are neurodivergent or neurotypical, longing for companionship is a human trait. There are activities that are considered “cool” because of a trend or because influencers or celebrities or it is being shoved in your face as the newest health craze.
Do what you love. the person that matters will see you. I’d rather be alone, than with people who like me only because I do the thing they like.
Played the shit outta nox back in the day!
Like Avalon Hill games? Wooden Ships and Iron Men and that stuff?
No, sorry, don’t think these reached my geographical location
Only one of those allows me to be alive, as in, I work and earn salary because of it
Is it DSLR photography?
No. I don’t like crowds. Only high paying work there is wedding & events photographer. I like macro photography of flowers, plants and bugs. They are cool.
Dark Age of Camelot
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
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.
Don't ask me about Yarn, Knitting, spinning .... Unless it's your holidays.
Might I dm you about yarn?
Of course !!!!
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.
Yup, my SO isn't very technically inclined, so describing anything I do in simple terms makes it sound super lame.
For example, I'm working on a P2P reddit clone, and here's how it goes:
Me: It's like reddit, but there's no website and it's all on your computer.
SO: So a note pad?
Me: No, it's also on other people's computers too, anything I wrote shows up instantly on their computer.
SO: Notepad with Dropbox?
Me: No, I don't have all of the data, and neither does anyone else. We only get what we subscribe to. Like reddit!
SO: So Dropbox, but with multiple documents.
Me: Sure...
SO: (pats me on the head) I'm glad you're excited about it, now do the dishes.
Yea but that .001 ms results in 16 more gigglebiggles per cycle and thats significant. Who wouldn't be amazed!
...I do 🥺
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.
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.
Okay? So what?