This is stated under the first image: All images on this page are clickable and link to non-lossy versions when available.
The aim is to not have large amounts of data be downloaded by default.
> It does that by pre-calculating the width/height of individual segments - think words - and caching those.
From the description, it doesn’t calculate it, but instead renders the segments in canvas and measures them. That’s still relatively slow compared to what native rendered-text-width APIs will do, and you have to hope that the browser’s rendering will use the identical logic in non-canvas contexts.
I recently battled this and reverted to using DOM measurements. In my case the measurement would be off by around a pixel, which caused layout issues if I tried rendering the text in DOM. This was only happening on some Linux and Android setups
> Resistance isn’t suppressed. It’s absorbed. The very act of resisting feeds what you resist and makes it less fragile to future resistance.
On the other hand, if your primary goal is to change the world, or “be the change you want to see”, maybe being public and feeding it isn’t so bad, especially if others don’t?
> the obsolete prejudice that 0 is not a number equivalent with any other cardinal number.
When adopting zero in that way, to be consistent you’d also have to consider “nothing” to be an isotope of neutron.
But the real answer is that chemical elements imply atoms, and atoms imply the combination of a nucleus and bound electrons. The neutron is considered a subatomic particle.
The same is true for hydrogen ionized once, helium ionized twice, lithium ionized thrice, and so on. From the point of view of chemistry, a neutron is not more subatomic than a hydrogen nucleus or any other nucleus. There is indeed a difference between the nuclei with A = 1 and the nuclei with A > 1, because the latter can be decomposed into the former at high enough temperatures, of a few tens of MeV, similarly to the decomposition of any multi-atomic molecule at high enough temperatures.
"Nothing" is not an isotope of neutron, for the same reason why it is not an isotope of sulfur or of iron, i.e. the mass number A is defined as a positive integer number and there is no reason to define it otherwise. On the other hand, the atomic number Z can be defined as an integer number if antimatter is also considered, or as a non-negative integer when applicable only to ordinary matter.
Considering neutron as a noble gas like the others simplifies certain descriptions by eliminating special cases that must be considered separately.
The noble gases can usually be ignored in chemistry, because they typically do not participate in chemical reactions, but in nuclear reactions there is nothing special about them, so the noble gases, including the neutron, participate in nuclear reactions like any other elements.
