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by kps 1y ago
~wavy lines~~ I've never used this in anger, but I owned a second-hand Xerox Daybreak for a while to play around with. Later, there was a some freely available project (I've now forgotten) that used Interlisp running on an emulato
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by kps 1y ago
From the headline I expected a startling breakthrough in physics.
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by kps 1y ago
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.” He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I'll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature
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by kps 1y ago
Q0 is next.
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by kps 1y ago
Yes, for many people astigmatic halation gets worse over time.
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by kps 1y ago
And Unicode threw out all pretense of stability by retroactively changing some characters to default-emoji.
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by kps 1y ago
And then I have to guess which unicode cross this particular tool picked so I can search for it in log.
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by kps 1y ago
Combining characters and joiners should have been prefix rather than suffix/infix operators (and preferably in blocks by arity) so you'd always know without lookahead whether a grapheme cluster was complete. (Prefix combining ac
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by kps 1y ago
Too many ‘modern’ UIs are designed by people who think the Las Vegas strip is the pinnacle of good taste.
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by kps 1y ago
PowerPC has ‘Enforce In-Order Execution of I/O’ (eieio).
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by kps 1y ago
> do better I find that expression far more offensive than ‘fuck’ or ‘shit’. Similarly (and non-exhaustively): ‘bad take’; ‘not a good look’; ‘this ain't it’; ‘… not the … you think it is’; ‘…, actually’. They're all
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by kps 1y ago
More crap in the tree is also a sign of corporatization.
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by kps 1y ago
From the television era: Don't watch news channels; important news will be on all the channels.
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by kps 1y ago
The literal computers at the time were people. Computer : 1. One who computes; a calculator, reckoner; spec. a person employed to make calculations in an observatory, in surveying, etc. [OED, 1923] Punch cards held tables of records, and t
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by kps 1y ago
> IBM literally provided computers that ran the holocaust. IBM literally provided punch card record keeping equipment. IBM literally didn't provide computers. Computers literally didn't exist.
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by kps 1y ago
I doesn't surprise me that Android doesn't support any Ethernet hardware made by Control Data Corporation.
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by kps 1y ago
Toronto has 11m loops. Newark 10m. Boston had 10m until a few years ago. This used to not be a problem anywhere.
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by kps 1y ago
It's really about the assumption that the past was like the present, only older. Unix didn't have version control when `file(1)` was written, unless you count last week's backup tapes. (Granted, ‘backup tapes with fancy label
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by kps 1y ago
> Today, we can go all the way back to its first commit from around 40 years ago via its Git repository I can't wait to see someone to find the first commit of SCCS via its Git repository.
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by kps 1y ago
Baby shark, shitshitshit. Baby shark, shitshitshit. Baby shark! https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/10/06/oklaho...
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by kps 1y ago
I am reminded of the late great Eudora, a Mac mail program. Late versions would flag ‘offensive’ terms in both outgoing and incoming messages. A hidden option setting would cause it to read aloud all flagged text.
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by kps 1y ago
I'm post-boomer, but let me tell you, shit's still fucked.
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by kps 1y ago
If she doesn't, it wouldn't have worked out anyway.
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by kps 1y ago
> I hate it when people quote text as images because it makes it impossible to cut and paste. Yes. In this case the text is in the ALT tag, which would help if browsers exposed it.
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by kps 1y ago
“Increased engagement by 350%”
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by kps 1y ago
The term is ‘unreadable’. There are good reasons `:prefers-color-scheme` exists; use it.
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by kps 1y ago
I live in Ontario where major highway road signs are bilingual, e.g. “427 North/Nord”. Google has ingested these, blindly translates the French part, and tells me to take “427 North North”.
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by kps 1y ago
> This happens despite user's clearly communicated "prefers-reduced-motion" setting Let's not forget the user's clearly communicated "prefers-color-scheme" setting.
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by kps 1y ago
dtach for session persistence. “Do one thing well.”
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by kps 1y ago
This article doesn't mention it explicitly, but the Apple II used the same character generator IC as the TV Typewriter, the Signetics 2513, with its 64-character ROM.

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