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by jdougan 4y ago
Under the international hypertext accords of 2010, anytime the wired article is referenced, the rebuttal must be referenced also: https://web.archive.org/web/20001003011753/http://xanadu.com...
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by jdougan 4y ago
To be fair, that is pretty much the story of early interop testing: the bake-offs, where they put everyone in a room and tested against each other.
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I think picking just one would be a bad plan. Looking back, a more principled phasing in of adult privileges and responsibilities would have been helpful. The current arrangements (at least in Canada and the US) appear pretty haphazard to m
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Read the critique, didn't (apparantly) read the rebuttal. Shallow
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The last Oxide and Friends is Jul 18 2022, where does it say they are stopping?
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It is possibe to have the cookimg surface in a cast iron pan smoothed and in my experience, worth it.
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New cast iron usually isn't finished as well. I have seen people take new cast iron to a machine shop and have the cooking surface smoothed down a bit.
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In the old days, they finished the pan interiors more than they do now. I've known people who buy a modern cast iron pan and have a machine shop smooth out the cooking surface.
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He's missing an important step. The author(s) institution(s) PR department usually put out a press release, and that gets low res copied by everyone. Journals do it too, but in my experience it is the academic/corporate institutio
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Make Orgdown a real thing and you would have an argument.
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How does the screen on the Elipsa compare to the old Kindle DX screens? I'm babying my pair of old DXs, and it would be nice to have a replacements.
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Very nice, and I like the use of stretchtext. But I do wish you could de-expand the expansions.
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Clearly, someone need to build/port an RP game builder (EasyRPG?) to AS/400 RPG.
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You had to be careful with the tablet and magnetic floppy disks. On powerup there was a big magnetic pulse that could easily damage a floppy, if it was sitting on the tablet. And usually, the tablet was the only open flat space on the table
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by jdougan 4y ago
We may have found the GPT-3
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I am not familiar with any details, but the haskellians seem to still be working with STM. At least there are a bunch on talks online about it. I had spent most of the 90s working with transactional systems and while they are useful and pow
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by jdougan 4y ago
Rodney Bates called his independent invention of them K-Trees.
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by jdougan 4y ago
> a few sets of glasses to distort my vision Bless you for doing that. I have eye isses and every so often I suggest to devs that they put a thin layer of vaseline on their glasses just to see what a lot of older people do.
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by jdougan 4y ago
Thanks! Very enlightening.
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I usually recommend Smalltalk for similar reasons. When I was running a ST users group every so often we'd get people trying to sell us on various functional languages. My usual response was to (sincerely) say that if they built me as
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There are a surprising number of masochistic devs out there.
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I thought that was called "jerk".
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As I understand it, a bunch of people became less convinced of TM's usefulness eg. http://joeduffyblog.com/2010/01/03/a-brief-retrospective-on-...
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A different kind of replication crisis.
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Not exactly. It is a lot closer to pay for first view. https://xanadu.com/xuTco.html is Ted's most recent thoughs on thematter.
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Have they fixed the Firefox 2.0/XSLT dependency in Hyperscope yet?
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I can't speak for him, but my old devices are a pair of Kindle DXs. AFAICT there is no real upgrade for those.
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Because they weren't necessarily awful. Because in the future we may discover we need to do "weird" things again, for performance or other reasons.
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Nyxt, the lisp enhanced web browser
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My his memory be a blessing. Tom's post tracking page at Lambda the Ultimate: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/user/3938/track/

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