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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
> used to be Looks like they are still around? https://novationmusic.com/launchpad Also seems to be in stock locally. The device that I think popularized that design (citation needed) was the Monome ( https://m
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
What you can do is to instruct it to type out the word, in some language that you don't know at all, making it available in the context while also effectively hidden from you. Simpler than printing it to a file.
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
I use the assistant daily, often instead of search. The search is good, but the sad fact is searching www has been getting less interesting fast and there simply isn't much of value to find (maybe if they added an option to search in t
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
Emacs has a built-in M-x describe-char that prints out similar information and also this useful tip: to input: type "C-x 8 RET 2192" or "C-x 8 RET RIGHTWARDS ARROW" However in the case of trying to type the name
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
Special quotation marks sometimes end up in filenames (usually when I have saved a web page) and I hate trying to tab-complete or write globs for those. Of course it is equally annoying with other random unicode characters not present on my
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
I am not gp, but I like to have a nice collection of unread books to browse and pick from, not (to almost quote someone, from my vague memory) "shelves full of books to impress others with what I have already read". Kind of like t
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
I was happy a few years ago when I found a site selling DRM-free EPUBs on many topics I am interested in, but with no prior warning last week they sent out an email saying they no longer do that and instead you have to buy and read books th
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
I do not see any reason to not believe Vince Gilligan saying coming up with Pluribus pre-AI and that it is not about AI, but it was impossible to watch that show without thinking about what a great metaphor it is for living surrounded by hu
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
Confluence used to be built on top of pretty standard plain wiki markup that could be edited without being forced into a bad visual editor, even easy to edit in an external text editor to not have to spend so much time in the web UI at all.
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
The problem is "no one was ever fired for choosing Jira" (or Confluence). I can't imagine there is a single company that would keep using those products the moment some alternative exists that managers dare to switch to witho
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
The Windows version (a legal, non-cracked, copy, even) runs well in QEMU. Pretty sure I managed to get it working in WINE as well at some point, but I prefer to have software running in QEMU as that tend to be much more install-and-forget r
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
Animator pretty much required a mouse or tablet though and it was released late enough (1989) for PC mice to be common and certainly something someone would buy to use software like that. There is support for moving the mouse pointer using
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
I love the menus. Autodesk Animator from 1989 also has menus where the first letter is always unique. Also buttons and some other UI elements. I did not remember that UI convention from back in the day, but when I experienced it recently it
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
The video description only links to some clone and not to the now (since 2011 or so) also open sourced original Animator: https://github.com/AnimatorPro
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
See Bedrock Platform: https://permacomputing.net/bedrock_platform/ I keep looking for more useful DOS applications. Have had a git repo for 15+ years that has my config and virtual C:. Once something is installed it wi
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
> The catch was that old boxed software eventually breaks on new OS versions or devices. We have great emulators and virtual machines these days. As long as something runs offline and isn't doing anything weird you can just install
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
I have paid for Aseprite, but on many machines I just install the old GPL version, usually available as a package. It is fine for most tasks, even if the latest version has many improvements. A fork of the old version to have a slightly bet
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
That is pretty much what I hope will happen here. Step 1 is to fix the time at any UTC+N. I don't particularly care what n. Step 2 is adjust all times in society to work with whatever UTC+N we are now stuck with. I think step 2 will so
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
Funny that the first Swedish translation, from 1947, also had an illustration of a huge Gollum, and Tolkien already commented on that long before Tove Jansson's did her version. > The translation of the name 'Hobbit' to &
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by 1313ed01 7mo ago
It is useful for those of us always checking the comments first, to decide if the article is worth reading.
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
The 00's podcasts I listened to were often in 2-3 hour episodes, rarely well scripted (or scripted at all?), but a lot of fun and very amateurish. I re-listened to several entire series recently and the episode lengths were the only th
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
I use TUIs almost daily on my android phone, either some Linux application in Termux or a DOS application in DOSBox. Both have some extra on screen controls to add special keys, and DOSBox in particular allows adding widgets to control thin
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
I built a TUI application for MS-DOS (well, DOSBox) recently, just using the few functions in MSC 5.1's included graphics library (plus a few simple BIOS calls) and what a joy compared to web interfaces or any GUI library I have used.
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
> It’s easier to do split windows in a terminal or tmux/zellij panes than to script two separate app windows to stay locked together as a pair. Although, I’d welcome advice as to how to do it better. Did you try some tiling window m
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
Dropbox seem to be doing the same thing. After years of whining about my 2TB above limit I recently received a mail with a deadline to delete my files or they will.
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
No public version control. No issues or pull requests or other social features. Like every project, more or less, before GitHub or Sourceforge.
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
Tiled has some mode where you can paint the tile corners or/and edges to automatically insert tiles. When using only the corners to paint (and only a single terrain type) that would be equivalent to shifting the visual grid by a half t
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
I think community development with repos out in the open and all that is increasingly a too high cost. I will migrate my little open source projects from GitHub as soon as I can decide on what site to post source code releases (tar.gz). Hap
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
I always thought ed would be a perfect match. Line-based instead of having to manage cursor movements.
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by 1313ed01 8mo ago
I bottom-post if the other person do so first. That almost never happens these days. I guess if too many do it like that then no one will be the first to bottom-post, even when both would prefer that. Not sure what a good solution would be

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