WillAdams

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by WillAdams 19d ago
That is an interesting argument --- maybe there could be a tax credit for publishing specifications/keys when a product is end-of-lifed and support is cut off? Or, maybe a company could be required to pay for disposal if that is not do
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by WillAdams 20d ago
I'm actually rather fond of OpenSCAD --- it has the advantage of being completely safe in terms of security/execution, so no worries about downloading a random .scad file and wondering what it might do. If one wants a full-fledge
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by WillAdams 20d ago
For more on this in spades see boxes.py https://boxes.hackerspace-bamberg.de/ For my part, I've been working the CNC router angle, so have a much larger kerf to cope with (and the added advantage of controllable partia
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by WillAdams 20d ago
The best programming course I had in college was one on comparative programming languages (and not just 'cause I was the only student who was able to do all of the Lisp exercises solo) --- it was quite striking getting an overview of t
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by WillAdams 22d ago
Trying to outbright the sun on a battery-powered device is an approach I've always found questionable. E-ink, instead just lets the sun reflect off of it, does want some sort of light in the dark, but, perfectly visible in full-bright&
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by WillAdams 22d ago
Sure! Until the stack got too large, or one forgot the ID of the card one wanted to link to or the search text which would allow one to make it a target, &c. HyperCard was _amazing_ (and I still have my copy of _The Manhole: Where Alice
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by WillAdams 22d ago
There was a commercial networking product which addressed principle 13 as well --- Kerbango? I remember a couple of ads for it, the idea was that adding a computer to a network and installing this would increase available storage space and
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by WillAdams 22d ago
The other books on hardware from this timeframe such as Tracy Kidder's _The Soul of a New Machine_ or Jerry Kaplan's _StartUp_ or Andy Hertzfeld's _Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made_ (
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by WillAdams 23d ago
Visit any older cemetery and look for the tiny headstones and the matching very brief lifespans, or read an older obituary for someone from your great-grandparent's generation or further back, or watch a couple of seasons of _Call the
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by WillAdams 24d ago
Or, just buy the source for a dollar and bury it: https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html
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by WillAdams 24d ago
Not a PDF, the ePub --- each Amazon Kindle has associated with it an e-mail address, which when a file is e-mailed to it, will be automatically converted and loaded (once the sender is white-listed) --- that way, each new issue would just a
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by WillAdams 24d ago
I just noticed that too. Do they offer a facility for automatically mailing the epub file to a specified e-mail address (I'm thinking the Amazon Kindle conversion e-mail) --- that might push me over into a subscription.
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by WillAdams 25d ago
There are two sorts of folks working in the trades: the ones who claim to have multiple years of experience, but in truth have the same year of experience repeated, and those who for each year they have worked, have applied the past towards
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by WillAdams 25d ago
Yeah, my great aunt's bridge partner's husband had a cabinet shop which I used to hang out in after school when I missed the bus --- learned a lot by osmosis just hanging out and helping and doing odd chores. When he passed away,
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by WillAdams 25d ago
I dunno about fulfilling career, but I have to admit that I often use BlockSCAD: https://www.blockscad3d.com/editor/ to rough out designs as well as simple algorithms for OpenSCAD and ultimately, PythonSCAD for my curr
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by WillAdams 26d ago
Obviously I need to start with a far simpler and more basic text.
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by WillAdams 27d ago
A notable context where the the on-curve node placement rules do matter is font design where the node placements interact with hints and are useful for ensuring consistency and consistent rounding when filling in pixels. Further, these rule
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by WillAdams 27d ago
A more interesting question might be, "What would homesteading independence look like in the 21st century in terms of sustainability and so forth?" An interesting extension on this is that the pencil manufacture which made his fam
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by WillAdams 28d ago
I have been reading: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/192405005-hypermedia-sys... and still having a hard time wrapping my mind around all of this. The thing which I would really like to see is a stand-alone ID
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by WillAdams 29d ago
The thing is, the problematic curves often violate the rules put forward as best practices: - place nodes at extrema (top/bottom, left/right) - place nodes at points of inflection (middle of an _S_ curve) - where possible/app
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by WillAdams 29d ago
Where possible, there should be keyboard shortcuts/navigation. Where appropriate, the labeling of fields and so forth should be such that it will work for a screen reader. Often, the expedient option is to use an HTML front-end so that
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by WillAdams 29d ago
Agreed. This is the stuff of magic and folklore, and neatly resolved by Ursula K. LeGuin in _A Wizard of Earthsea_.
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by WillAdams 29d ago
The thing which I kind of miss is the Stardate calendar app, which made managing class schedules more fun and less of a chore.
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by WillAdams 1mo ago
Yes, I'm familiar with his work --- it's very nice, but it's not the on-line and animated/interactive thing I was trying to describe/specify/ask about.
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by WillAdams 1mo ago
One of my favourite sites! and an interesting example of that class of sites which are book made into sites with animations/interaction --- the another classic and notable example is: https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce&#
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by WillAdams 1mo ago
Classic example of Gate's avariciousness at the expense of others is: https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html
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by WillAdams 1mo ago
The clickthrough behaviour used to be the default in NeXTstep (and it was one of the things which I misliked not having when switching from my Cube to my work Mac and ThinkPad portable ages ago). The apps it works in are probably written in
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by WillAdams 1mo ago
Yes, but aside from novels (in Japan), not much is written/created on cell phones --- an OS presumably would've had a development environment which might have caused the OS to continue on after education was done.
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by WillAdams 1mo ago
Well, there used to be nxhosting back in the NeXT days, which I _really_ miss. Unfortunately, it relied on Display PostScript and Quartz née Display PDF isn't architected to allow that sort of remote display/access on a per applic
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by WillAdams 1mo ago
For more of the same (though I wish source was available) which actually does something useful, see the various small utilities at https://www.grc.com/freepopular.htm

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