donatj

26 ms·

421.
by donatj 1y ago
It's truly fascinating that someone can be in 300 plus movies and I, a film buff, can have only heard of maybe ten of them.
422.
by donatj 1y ago
What I have learned after years of working with accessibility experts is that screen readers are largely incapable pieces of junk that need to be lead around manually. They don't try to be helpful, they only do exactly what they are to
423.
by donatj 1y ago
I think it actually slipped under the ad. Using a browser with Adblock I see it.
424.
by donatj 1y ago
Using "Find" in my browser says those words are on the page somewhere but I cannot find them anywhere.
425.
by donatj 1y ago
Keep in mind the bright shiny copper color one is just a modern interpretation of what it may have looked like when it was complete, and what was found was just the small fragment next to it. The article just neglects to mention this dire
426.
by donatj 1y ago
The problem has become less about cheap labor and more about general know how. China simply leads the world in manufacturing know how. https://youtu.be/L9f5SQQKr5o
427.
by donatj 1y ago
A niche programming language has fewer mirrors than a popular operating system? Makes sense to me.
428.
by donatj 1y ago
I am unclear exactly, what is this doing on top of Isoflow? Seems like Isoflow is doing a lot of the heavy lifting here?
429.
by donatj 1y ago
I've used the username "donatj" basically everywhere since the late 1990s with just a couple exceptions. Dude beat me to it on Skype, I called him just out of the blue and had a nice conversation with him, lived in Denmark as
430.
by donatj 1y ago
Mildly reminds me how being online on AIM or ICQ was an actual invitation to chat. I had so many interesting conversations with people I barely knew. There's no source of that signal that someone is open to chitchat these days, and it&
431.
by donatj 1y ago
It would probably help if they had a Wikipedia page. Someone who actually understands what they are should get on that. Googling "Prolly Trees", there's not much and this article is one of the top results.
432.
by donatj 1y ago
I was going to suggest just going back to it's original name of LiveScript but it looks like that was subsumed by a language from the creator of CoffeeScript. How rude. Early in my career, in the early 2000's I was tasked with mod
433.
by donatj 1y ago
When Major Nelson left, I knew the days of Xbox were numbered. I have loved the Xbox brand and systems since their initial launch back in 2001, but in recent years they have just felt forgotten. The UI is largely the same as it was 10+ year
434.
by donatj 1y ago
internet Explorer also had the ability to render XML directly into HTML tables without using any JS using the datasrc attribute. I had to deal with this nonsense early in my career in the early 2000s, along with people regularly complaining
435.
by donatj 1y ago
I have some eye issues, namely a lazy eye and double vision. I find same-sizer remarkably easy to read. Easier than standard text, which is very curious. I almost wonder if the idea could be used as a sort of accessibility mode.
436.
by donatj 1y ago
Syncthing is the most confounding user-unfriendly software I have ever had the displeasure of using. It makes a process that should be pretty easy, pick some folders and share some keys remarkably painful and convoluted.
437.
by donatj 1y ago
I tried to submit this just now, and was informed it was a dupe of this. This post is incorrectly labeled as it does not match the name of the video, and does not mention that the speaker is John Carmack which would have garnered far more a
438.
by donatj 1y ago
I was pondering this earlier today while manually prepending archive.is to a pay walled link on my Android phone for the umpteenth time today. The micro-transaction proposals everyone cried about in the early 2000's would have been so
439.
by donatj 1y ago
I work with a couple people who worked on these, and own one myself!
440.
by donatj 1y ago
> QBASIC was basically just a cut-down build of QuickBASIC with some features disabled Huh, I've wondered about the difference for the last 30+ years.
441.
by donatj 1y ago
There's a big hubbub in my small town about $60k every 4 years the local government could have avoided by moving the date of local elections to align with national elections that failed by one vote. I got curious about what our total b
442.
by donatj 1y ago
My wild guess would be urban renewal grants and drastically lower land costs made it easier to recoup investments. I'm sure that's only part of the equation though. Part of it is probably also just the realization they could be ma
443.
by donatj 1y ago
I'm not even sure it's entirely a matter of being blocked from doing so as much as the incentives merely not being there. What is the incentive for a developer to build affordable housing? The margins are surely much lower. The ci
444.
by donatj 1y ago
I live just outside Minneapolis. There's an absolute glut right now of largely unoccupied apartments that have sprung up in the last couple years anywhere there was an open lot and many places there wasn't - tearing down a number
445.
by donatj 1y ago
Generally speaking, it would be nice if the examples had simple execution examples like $ make foo Hello foo This ran too! That's a contrived example, but some of these take a bit too much thought parsing the example M
446.
by donatj 1y ago
I have been working with Makefiles for over a decade, though never with C nor C++ I knew there was a lot of weirdness and baggage but I am frankly kind of horrified to learn about these "implicit rules" that seemingly automaticall
447.
by donatj 1y ago
> [PearPC] did this successfully for a few years, until interest waned after the Intel switch Well, until the original maintainer was hit by a train and killed. It lost most of its momentum after that. I was an avid user and community me
448.
by donatj 1y ago
We started using AVIFs recently in picture elements with fallback to JPEG, and I'm a pretty big fan. The compression is good, the tooling is decent. They're supported by most things natively. Browser support for AVIF is nearly goo
449.
by donatj 1y ago
My parents live just 40 miles outside Minneapolis and use a very unreliable T-Mobile hotspot because the DSL available to them still tops out at a couple megabit. Their internet drops constantly and for completely unknown reasons. I've
450.
by donatj 1y ago
Is anyone asking for Apple to do this? I feel like this can only be perceived as a change for the worse.

More ›