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by kps 1y ago
Anime has long had a model where shows are ‘free’ (historically, on broadcast TV) and the money comes from sales of disks, manga, and other merchandise. (On the other hand, Japan has copyright laws that make the US look laid back.)
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by kps 1y ago
Pournelle's iron law of bureaucracy : “In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals that the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and
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by kps 1y ago
We've been here before. The ‘Goldwater Rule’ says that “it is unethical for a psychiatrist to offer a professional opinion unless he or she has conducted an examination and has been granted proper authorization for such a statement.”
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by kps 1y ago
I blame the dotcom boom. Yes, the business-records jobs were always part of the field, but they didn't seem so dominant. We're all writing COBOL now. Old man yells at cloud services
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by kps 1y ago
The text reappears when I screenshot it twice .
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by kps 1y ago
Same with Japan using mostly kanji when they have a syllabary available (while Korea invented a pretty neat alphabet and largely dropped hanja).
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by kps 1y ago
Computer character codes descended directly from pre -computer codes, either teletype or punched card. The advantage holds back through printing to writing itself; having a small , fixed set of glyphs that can represent anything is just
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by kps 1y ago
I have astigmatic halation¹ so my phone is set to ‘light mode’. Despite this I'm seeing iOS use white on black or grey in multiple places, notably including notifications. (And in one case, white on very light gray.) ¹ similar to http
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by kps 1y ago
Apple botched the quotes by putting ‘’ on [ and “” on ], rather than the open quotes on the open bracket and the close quotes on the close bracket. (Personally I put the open quotes on ` and the close quotes on ', along with using Appl
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by kps 1y ago
Made me look! 265 in _Alice's Adventures in Wonderland_. I use em dashes and semicolons and ellipses and parentheses a lot, although I barely make the leaderboard¹. My doctor says I'm human. In the pre-Unicode era of Usenet and ma
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by kps 1y ago
> I believe on our typewriter either the ' ` and " didn't move you forward This is normal for particular characters on non-English typewriters. Those were ‘dead keys’, ‘dead’ because the carriage didn't move. Equivale
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by kps 1y ago
X has had a 2 pixel bitmap font, `nil2`, from time immemorial (i.e. it's in X10).
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by kps 1y ago
That doesn't work well for mass surveillance of regular people.
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by kps 1y ago
Then you're wasting 2/3 of the display bandwidth. Give me my greyscale with √3 times the DPI.
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by kps 1y ago
This is how all the Unix documents were written. See e.g. https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/doc/cacm/p...
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by kps 1y ago
That made me wonder why I haven't heard of Computer Associates lately. Turns out they're part of Broadcom now.
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by kps 1y ago
Ditto in kw.on.ca. A few Sparc pizza boxes and (IIRC) a 3/60, among other things (mostly DEC).
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by kps 1y ago
And Jesus spake unto his disciples, “Next time I'm getting a Camry.”
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by kps 1y ago
You must be confusing these with something else. Every Selectric had a fixed carriage and moving head. IBM Selectric: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNUEUth7qjc IBM Wheelwriter: https://www.youtube.com/watc
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by kps 1y ago
That was the origin, but for everyday typing of non-tabular work, like letters, it was used for indenting paragraphs and address and signature blocks. And it always moved to the next tab stop to the right on the line. ASCII calls it HT, ‘Ho
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by kps 1y ago
Speaking of overloading and Tab, piling on the ‘next field’ function is an endless source of pain.
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by kps 1y ago
> Neither the print ball (if there was one), the printwheel, nor the typebars moved. Certainly the head moved on most if not all ball/cylinder/wheel devices. Look at the Selectrics, Teletype 33, the Diablo/Xerox/Qume
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by kps 1y ago
Mostly to keep the new changes isolated from the original commit until they're ready, I think. The only time I use `jj edit` is to resume a leaf I left in the middle of something (where I might have used `git stash pop` but without nee
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by kps 1y ago
Not to be confused with Jen the 8675309.
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by kps 1y ago
It pisses me off that Unicode retroactively changed the meaning of existing text by turning some symbols into emoji. So much for stability guarantees.
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by kps 1y ago
Plenty of signals are asserted (true) by being brought low, or have 1=low (e.g. CAN).
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by kps 1y ago
They're boolean (single bit of information) but not boolean (single bit interpreted as meaning true or false). The LED isn't true or false, the microcontroller pin isn't true or false.
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by kps 1y ago
“Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.” — Henry Spencer, 1987
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The mechanical typewriter dead key worked by omitting the linkage that advances the carriage. That established the method of pressing the dead key and then the accompanying letter.
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by kps 1y ago
Depends on the system. X11/Wayland do it at a higher level where you have `<dead_acute> <e> : eacute` and keysyms are effectively a superset of Unicode with prefix combiners. (This can lead to weirdness since the choice of

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