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   by achairapart 2y ago

   This! Upvote for ST SSH remote development, currently using ST for local dev and VSCode for remote.
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   by achairapart 2y ago

   Can you also provide a simple RSS feed?
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   Books Without Covers(rmo.zkm.de)

   1 points by achairapart 2y ago|1 comments
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   by achairapart 2y ago

   Isn't Wi-Fi Sensing built-in in next-gen Wi-Fi specs? It doesn't even need to interact with your own phone, so no luck with turning it off.
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   by achairapart 2y ago

   Suddenly I remember this movie from the 90s where people drugged themself with some kind of minidisc. “Strange Days”, maybe? Anyhow, I always found the plot weird, but maybe they actually were onto something…
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   by achairapart 2y ago

   I don't know how I fell down this rabbit hole tonight, but here is another interview[0], I think circa 1985: Susan Lammers: Have you ever explored the field of artificial intelligence? Wayne Ratliff: I was really involved in
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   by achairapart 2y ago

   Found this old Wayne Ratliff' interview in a 1984 PC-MAG issue[0]. PC: What is this “big picture”? RATLIFF: I have to be a little careful about what I answer. It's probably safe to say Artificial Intelligence. PC:
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   by achairapart 2y ago

   Also, there were a ton of very powerful third-party libraries too!
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   by achairapart 2y ago

   Same, among other manuals of the era. Now I regret they all went lost.
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    I mean Gates made up the infamous apocryphal story that he was flying for fun, careless about IBM and whatnot. Not that he wasn't actually on a plane (coming back from a business meeting). Gates told that story to reporters. That is fa
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    Do you know who made the story that he “went flying”? Yes, Bill Gates.
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    He has been asked his whole life if was true that he was out flying his plane when IBM representatives showed up at his office. https://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/Bill-Gates...
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    Films by Jean Epstein. Experimental use of close-ups, slow-motion (as a way to better explore "present time"). Must watch films: - Faithful Heart / Cœur fidèle - The Fall of the House of Usher / La chute de la maison Ush
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    From the article: Interestingly, although Civilization uses an almost identical setup menu and also contains multiple exes that look like sound and graphic drivers based on their name, the overlay header format of those seems to be dif
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    See: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/f15-se2/2023/07/12/overlays.... From this series: https://neuviemeporte.github.io/category/f15-se2.html Related HN thread: https://ne
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    There is also Mailpit[0] in this space. Actively maintained, written in Go, runs from a single static binary, very low footprint. [0]: https://mailpit.axllent.org/
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    Also, another project from Kagi founder: https://teclis.com
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    For reference, there is declassified footage (very clear images, even with some original voice over) of the RDS-4 bomb[0] ("only" 1.5 Megatons) detonating at the infamous Semipalatinsk Test Site[1] (now Kazakhstan). [0]: https:&#
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    Full quote from Susan Sontag's essay (Thirty Years Later): What I didn’t understand (I was surely not the right person to understand this) is that seriousness itself was in the early stages of losing credibility in the culture at
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    Is There a Crisis of Seriousness?(honest-broker.com)

    6 points by achairapart 2y ago|2 comments
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    Yes, but it was called DHTML back then! Added: And it was not a deliberate choice but kind of a necessity.
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    Also noted that the song (or "lyrics" at least) has "Open Source" in its title so they can position for the "Zendesk Open Source Alternative" long tail. That's evil!
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    EQL – Better Launches for In-Demand Products(eql.com)

    2 points by achairapart 2y ago|0 comments
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    And today you can listen to (most of?) those John Peel sessions again: https://davestrickson.blogspot.com/2020/05/john-peel-session... The circle has been closed!
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    I'd like to have a listen to those waves and I'm not in Slovenia, any source on the internet? Edit: Found a short sample of a Commodore Datasette program on Wikipedia[0]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    This will be very useful, especially for vertical aligning, but as of today is essentially unsupported: https://caniuse.com/css-text-box-trim
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    The story was not so linear, though. These new 16 bit machines (8080 & 8086) were useless without an OS. They needed it badly and fast. 86-DOS/PC-DOS/MS-DOS was born as a kind of throw-away OS to fill this hole temporarily. Mi
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    by achairapart 2y ago

    So, the background story is that CSSWG DevRels from browser vendors are debating how to formally include the Masonry layout into CSS, at least since 2020, when Firefox first proposed it. The news here is that people at WebKit decided to pus
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    Help us invent CSS Grid Level 3, a.k.a. "Masonry" layout(webkit.org)

    591 points by achairapart 2y ago|343 comments
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    by achairapart 3y ago

    Same for the CSS3 Cursor properties, doesn't make much sense on a touch-based device.