Yes, the bird on the crest of the Japanese football association does have three legs. It’s a mythical three-legged crow:
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In the 1980s, two-thirds of the EU budget was spent on agriculture.
I like it when things are easier to notice. The default text cursor can be hard to notice.
Patrick BrossetCSS `field-sizing` is now Baseline Newly Available!
It replaces JS code we won't be missing.
https://web-platform-dx.github.io/web-features-explorer/features/field-sizing/
ELI5: culture
Culture is how people live together
Culture is the shared way of life of a group of people. Think of it like the “recipe” a community follows—it includes the ingredients (beliefs, values, customs) that make that group unique.
Croatia’s legal system still includes at least one law (from 1978.) that defines fines in Yugoslav dinar, which was two currencies ago.
Yugoslav dinar –1994
Croatian kuna 1994–2023
Euro 2023–
TIL: The lime in limescale has nothing to do with lemons. It comes from Old English līm (pronounced leem) = sticky substance
I guess once voice assistants become widely used, the next step will be tweaking them to your liking. The first thing I want to do is turn off the sycophancy. I don’t think that’s healthy. I want my assistant to be strict with me, a critical thinker that always questions me, that speaks in a serious tone and with very few words.
Ivory Coast has interesting translations into other languages. In German the literal translation is “elf’s leg coast”, in Croatian it’s ”white bone coast”. There’s probably more.