curlypaul924

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by curlypaul924 6y ago
One image that certainly isn't the oldest but might be one of the oldest important images that is still online at its original location is the Blue Ribbin Online Free Speech Campaign animated logo ( https://www.eff.org/f
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
The oldest image I could find on w3.org dates back to 19 Nov 1994: https://www.w3.org/Icons/32x32/warning The W3 consortium itself was only a month old at the time.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
As far as images that a modern browser can display, JPEG was created in 1992 and GIF in 1987, so there isn't going to be much prior to that. HTTP and Gopher date back to 1991, so the oldest image online that still resides at its origi
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I really like vttest. I used to use it when I was still working on Console Telnet for Win32 ( https://github.com/cout/consoletelnet ). It revealed a lot of bugs in how escape sequences were handled that I might never h
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Funny, I write terminal codes directly, because where I learned to program (PC DOS), there was no terminfo, only ANSI.SYS. I don't ever plan to port anything to DOS ever again, but old habits do die hard.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Do you think any of these stand a chance at replacing Doug Lea's malloc in glibc, or does dlmalloc provide more desirable behavior for the general case?
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Some states don't load for me on my iphone; they just show up as white. The only significant amount of blue I see is in NY and WA; almost the entire rest of the country is red (or white). I wouldn't be surprised if this shows up
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
My question still stands. If webkit is a bird and gecko is a reptile, then why are there (relatively) so few reptile browsers? Is it easier to embed engines from the webkit family, or are they popular because chrome and safari are popular
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Am I misunderstanding what webkit is? QtWebEngine uses chromium, but I thought that necessarily implied a webkit derivative (blink).
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
So many of these types of browsers use webkit; I'm curious why there aren't more that use gecko. Is it a technical issue or a social one?
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I do remember that, and while I wouldn't say I'm having flashbacks per se, I do agree that there are some disappointing similarities between that event and what we see in 2021. Do we not learn from our mistakes?
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
One enhancement I can imagine is charging a processing fee to have your face removed from the site. If it is as easy to build this as was claimed in the article, then it is only a matter of time before someone does this.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
It's not clear whether the President was the orchestrator, or whether he was the conductor for music written by someone else.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
This is similar to the conclusion I came to. Because there are so many logical possibilities, without a reputable source definitively stating that one of these is right, the door is open for anyone to pick a narrative and run with it.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
> And to date the state hasn’t even made their charges public which seems ridiculous. ‘I have an arrest warrant for you, but I can’t tell you the charge’. As I understand it, the police can tell _her_ the charges, but they cannot make th
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
The internet is real life, though. More and more, people are experiencing relationships through the lenses of their online personas. The online world is different from the offline world, and it works by different rules, but it is very much
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Both newspapers and social networks are multicast, but a newspaper is one-to-many and a social network is many-to-many. There's a material cost to publishing a newspaper that doesn't exist with electronic social networks. I don&#
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
> From what I understand, Parler was bankrolled and designed to do exactly what it was ultimately shutdown for. That is, be a concentrated anger-machine-echo-chamber. How is/was Parler different from Facebook in this regard? Facebo
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Do you have a source for that? I would like to see the rest of the email. I tried a Google search, but could not find anything from a source I was confident is reliable.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I cannot get to slack in my phone or in the browser. I wonder if this is because I haven't used the phone app in a few days, so I was already logged out, but you and others were still logged in?
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
My productivity increased when my son was that age. This was before COVID-19; I was working from home a lot for other reasons. With two kids I have to schedule my time a lot more carefully to reach the same level of productivity. Even typin
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Our system used to use grunt and then gulp and later webpack, and I was always annoyed at how slow the builds were. The startup time alone was several seconds, and it never used more than 1 core (our dev machines have 64 cores). I ended u
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I remember when I first learned about multitasking. I think I read an article in Compute! or PC Magazine about Desqview or Concurrent DOS, and I remember wondering "Who would ever want to run two programs at the same time? Nobody has
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I feel somewhat the same way, but I also wonder whether the same project with a different name would have been successful.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I especially like the histogram with the per-month bins. It shows clearly both the tendency of developers to leave over time and the fluctuation due to release cycle. The affiliation graph is also interesting. I think if I were to put a n
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Is the issue JS as an extension language, or is it using JS for core events? Or maybe something else? People write successful games with Pygame, and Python's VM is much less optimized than what's available in the JS world, even
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
Their target wasn't just tablets, but any device with a touchscreen and/or a small screen. As a Netbook user, I loved Unity and was excited about the Gnome 3 shell. It seemed like the logical progression of Ubuntu Netbook Remix.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
The last time I used Linux on a laptop, I had to edit a config file to get it to suspend or hibernate when I close the lid. Even then, sometimes it kept running, and I would run out of battery. To me that seems like such a basic feature,
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I haven't used Cinnamon in a few years, but when I did, I loved it. It felt like the true spiritual successor to the GNOME 2 shell.
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by curlypaul924 6y ago
I disagree that Plasma is lightweight. I've been running KDE since I set up my computer to work from home back in February. I don't have the latest hardware, since I mostly built it from parts I had lying around, but it's no

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