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TIL the Hairy Ball theorem (wikipedia.org)

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The theorem has been expressed colloquially as "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick" or "you can't comb the hair on a coconut".

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why encode it in the URL.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

How else do you do it? Cookies? JavaScript? That would be terrible.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Responsive design usually doesn't require detecting anything about the client. There's probably some differences in actual HTML markup between mobile/non-mobile Wikipedia, but I'd be surprised if it has to be that way. Media queries have been available for a long, long time.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

read the user agent when u visit the link like every other site ever

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Shitty sites with stupid devs*