Grumbledour

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by Grumbledour 5y ago
Since we are talking notepad++, it takes up 11mb of disk space, the instance I have open here with 45 documents takes up 6.6mb of memory. Winamp was already mentioned in another comment. While 160mb is "fine" on 16gb systems, it&#
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by Grumbledour 5y ago
Do System colors even exist in windows 10? The option to set global color schemes seems to be long gone and Microsoft needed to spend extra effort to adapt a dark color scheme in explorer (It didn't support dark mode for a long time an
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by Grumbledour 5y ago
That's the thing though with well developed apps: I think I also dislike the new icons. But it doesn't really matter, since the old ones are still there and I can continue using them.. The dark mode seems a bit buggy still and the
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by Grumbledour 5y ago
I have to say I was much more taken with the description of computers in the books. Maybe it was more me projecting than what was actually there, but what I took away from it were computer systems that worked without networking most of the
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by Grumbledour 5y ago
But THEY decided to use Chrome! So the WANTED this to happen. Now, you can rightly point out that they don't know, but we are on Hacker News here. I am not talking about someones grandparents, I am talking about users of this site, wor
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by Grumbledour 5y ago
Why should I bother though? Privacy is really important to me, so I am not affected because I don't use chrome in the first place. All the people who use chrome, especially on this site, know damn well what they agreed to. You all alr
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
It probably refers to the controversy surrounding hacktoberfest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24643894
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
The github page sounds like there might be experimental support. There are instructions to build a windows VR version. I could not find much more information about it though.
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
The Internet Archive provides an Emulator of the Canon Cat at https://archive.org/details/canoncat
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
The interesting thing to me is, that I don't feel vi and modern programs do things that much differently. In vi, Esc puts me in command mode, in any modern GUI Editor (at least on windows) Alt puts me in command mode (Jumps to the menu
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
When the Pandora was made, it was mostly a group of enthusiasts who wanted an open device to play retro games on that wasn't quite satisfied with the offerings back then. (I think it was also GPD who offered some retro consoles?) So th
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
It is inspired by it as the wikipedia[0] article notes. Both are inspired by Cedar/Mesa[1] from PARC. There is a great video of Eric Bier showing some of cedars capabilities on youtube[2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
Thanks, this is really helpful! Since there seems to be no central point of information on the myriad versions of oberon and no official website at eth anymore, it's really hard to get the lay of the land and find out which version doe
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
My Linux-fu might just be to weak but I haven't yet managed to get the Symbolics VM to run. I was wondering, if there exists a Linux VM were someone already got it to work or if you could do it inside a container? It just seems really
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
It hasn't really affected the language outside of some fringe groups and doing what you suggest is the kind of behavior that gets regularly made fun of when someone tries it. For most germans, this seems silly, since we don't know
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
I think a big part of the problem is that there is so much gendered language in german. So there are no progammers, there are male programmers (Programmierer) and female programmers (Programmiererin), which leads to both forms or short form
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
So, how do you do it? How is your presidential campaign going? Or are you more into burning down factories and Power Plants? Show up at Elon Musks house with a gun so he stops shooting his trash into space? Of course we need to tackle the b
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
Personally, I always find these kind of stories a bit nitpicky and silly. They are right at their core though and it would be good to question, if we need high definition screens and streams all the time everywhere. It's not only the e
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
I think this is actually more a matter of taste. Been there, done that. These days I prefer to just mix in my language of choice with HTML instead of mixing it in with some extra templating language that basically does the same but is harde
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
That really depends heavily on the platform and specific app. It is not there by default for most. Using canvas based rendering is pretty much as accessible as flash apps where, which is not much by default.
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
I feel this complaint misses the point. This code is highly readable and reminds me a lot of the early times when we build HTML in PHP. You can also use it just like that. Render it server side and be done. Maybe load some additional js to
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
But isn't scuttlebutt User centric vs. content centric? So I will only easily find content from people I already know? And I guess I can find new people if they are somehow connected to me, but can I search just for content on the &qu
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
But Discourse is just old crap in new clothes. It reminds me of badly coded php forums of yore. It looks nicer, but without allowing dozens of external js files it just gets you a blank page. And their demo forum clocks in at nearly 5mb for
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
What I mostly get from this is, that there really is no good modern alternative to those great UMPCs.
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
Emails are also a special kind of hell, because we often need to fall back on table layouts, which are painful with screen readers. If you really want to make life easier for blind people (and many other users as well), makes sure you are a
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
I have trouble wrapping my head around this. When I think of decorational images, it's mostly back to times when we used spacers or built table layouts with sliced images. I drank the semantic cool aid. Decoration should be separate fr
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
Yeah, I meant to write attribute of course.
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
As a fellow German, I can understand the anger, though. Basically, we don't have a warning system anymore, because the pieces that are left are mostly being dismantled (sirens, tv and radio) and all they seem to want to replace it with
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
You are right. It seems screen readers these days do skip over images with empty alt tags. I don't use one myself and have most of my knowledge from friends that do, but this info is obviously outdated.
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by Grumbledour 6y ago
They used to. But your comment made me search a bit and it seems most don't any more, you have to turn that on. I guess you can then use alt="" for "decorational" images and practically hide them from screen readers

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