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511.
by kps 2y ago
It's a very old joke, by computing standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expensive_Tape_Recorder
512.
by kps 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-paired_keyboard
513.
by kps 2y ago
> Like ACK/NAK - those are protocol signals, not characters! American Standard Code for Information Interchange
514.
by kps 2y ago
Reminiscent of Peter Higgs (Nobel Prize winner for the eponymous boson) saying that he would not be able to get an academic job today, not to mention Katalin Karikó (Nobel Prize winner for mRNA) being demoted by UPenn for not attracting gra
515.
by kps 2y ago
Heck, Apple did that once (CVE-2012-0652).
516.
by kps 2y ago
Yes, all the US dollar variants since then have had the same size and weight. The latter distinguishes them from Canadian dollar coins that are the same size (within wear tolerance).
517.
by kps 2y ago
This comment gets me 3.06 seconds of noise removal.
518.
by kps 2y ago
Not by default, but put in your ~/.XCompose: <Multi_key> <O> <o> : "" U2603 # SNOWMAN or whatever it is you want, where "" contains a snowman that HN strips. (Depending on your system, y
519.
by kps 2y ago
On the Mac, it's quite easy to have customized keyboard layouts to make it easy to type characters you use frequently. If you want to have Option-f and Option-p to give you 𝆑 and 𝆏, you can. https://software.sil.org/uke
520.
by kps 2y ago
Compose is nicely user-extensible (~/.XCompose) for those with domain-specific needs; it's one of the few workstation-era holdovers that DesktopLinux™ hasn't ruined yet.
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by kps 2y ago
VT100 has some demand; not later less iconic terminals. (Personally, I think I still have a few V2xx and a Wyse or two.) Many of these eBay listings are effectively permanent, from commercial resellers who are waiting for the rare case that
522.
by kps 2y ago
Yes, I have a number of things on the parent list (e.g. UNIX workstations, deskside and rackmount VAXen, terminals) and I can't give them away.
523.
by kps 2y ago
It does not.
524.
by kps 2y ago
“It would be better to never make a dime of profit than to have a product out there with a problem.” (Today, the generator attached to David Packard powers half of California.)
525.
by kps 2y ago
I like to mash on Shift until the screen wakes. On some outlandish systems this enables Sticky Keys and locks Shift.
526.
by kps 2y ago
Also part of 40. (In Google Maps, you can click on a building to get its address.) Actually, for me today the ‘40’ renders on the west part.
527.
by kps 2y ago
As for me, I like the “do one thing well” philosophy — I don't want my terminal to manage multiple sub-‘windows’, because I already have a window manager that I like just fine thank you. `tmux` is actually more than I want, because i
528.
by kps 2y ago
I would say so, yes (not a fan of kitty's general NIH), but it could be argued that `xterm-kitty` is at least not identical to a $TERM used for xterm.
529.
by kps 2y ago
xterm supports sixel, so surely anything that sets TERM=xterm256-color or similar will be compatible… right? ∗cough∗ gnome-terminal ∗cough∗
530.
by kps 2y ago
For anyone else wanting to know how this turned out without clicking through popups in German: Fritz.box won against the new anonymous registrant.
531.
by kps 2y ago
It won't work. It assumes 24-bit colour support, even if you have `TERM=vt320` or something else without it.
532.
by kps 2y ago
Apparently people work around this with an AAAAAAlbum containing 8 hours of silence.
533.
by kps 2y ago
Core didn't store memory in the wires, though. You're thinking of delay lines.
534.
by kps 2y ago
Is `!` still broken? Last I looked there seemed to be resistance to fixing it.
535.
by kps 2y ago
It also doesn't respect `:prefers-reduced-motion` or `:prefers-color-scheme`.
536.
by kps 2y ago
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/us-revokes-intel-qualcomm-licens... Being Huawei is suffering.
537.
by kps 2y ago
The immediate context was an objection to WFH, not driving.
538.
by kps 2y ago
A house can be approximately net zero from solar panels. Much denser housing can't be.
539.
by kps 2y ago
Yes. It's the non-Latin alphabets that lose with either UTF-8 or UTF-16, compared with stateful ISO 2022 page switching.
540.
by kps 2y ago
> Another good one is grandfathered symbols with both a text and emoji presentation and forcing the chosen glyph with the variant selector prefix. I despise that Unicode retroactively applied default emoji presentation to existing symbol

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