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601.
by kps 3y ago
OK, I interpreted this thread more generally about controls, like the checkboxes and radio buttons of the OP.
602.
by kps 3y ago
Doesn't a plain old <input> do it the way the platform does it?
603.
by kps 3y ago
If you have one button, I think it has to match what people are familiar with, and the major players all show the current state. If you have a volume slider or buttons, the mute button is adjacent to the silent end (bottom or left for me; I
604.
by kps 3y ago
119 — https://developer.chrome.com/blog/hr-in-select/ is linked from the OP article, but not prominently.
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by kps 3y ago
> HTML + CSS were invented for this goal. HTML (with SVG and MathML) is probably fine for most books, but CSS has spent 30 years resolutely resisting basic typography, i.e. default text baseline alignment.
606.
by kps 3y ago
Thread and Matter are IPv6 only. (They don't need externally routable IPv6, though.)
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by kps 3y ago
My father came from a town ten miles from the inter-German border, and people there were very, very happy that the Americans got there first.
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by kps 3y ago
Foglio's drawing was for UNIX, a couple years before the first BSD releases. Unfortunately the original was lost, and the best you can find online now are just photos of t-shirts like https://www.mckusick.com/beastie&#x
609.
by kps 3y ago
My recollection is that someone adopted the ksh93 tree and started making incompatible changes, which were picked up by some distributions (Debian I know) and broke things. I use ksh93 as my primary shell, interactively and for personal scr
610.
by kps 3y ago
More generally, is there a good place to ask these questions? There are several under this post already with different requirements, and I have one too, with different requirements — I just want an edge gateway to route upstream and provide
611.
by kps 3y ago
More or less. Some books have as part of their copyright boilerplate a statement that corresponds to (some countries') fair use principles, e.g. “… except short excerpts for the purposes of review.” (I know someone with hundreds of tho
612.
by kps 3y ago
Conversely, is there any ‘well-known’ statement that explicitly permits using a work for ml training, analogous to human learning, without permitting wholesale copying? (I've looked casually and not seen one, but I'm not well-re
613.
by kps 3y ago
I used to have a Model 43 Teletype. Sending a suitable number of BELs and then sleeping 4 seconds made for a convincing simulation of a ringing telephone.
614.
by kps 3y ago
The IBM 1403 line printer (1959) had an available chain with 120 characters including both upper and lower case and various special characters.
615.
by kps 3y ago
$ stty iuclc olcuc (You *nix may vary.) Edit: To return your tty to normal, $ STTY -IUCLC -OLCUC
616.
by kps 3y ago
Choice of case predates video display terminals by a very long time.
617.
by kps 3y ago
The example here includes faking a compressor failure, which is a bit beyond ‘vendor lock-in’.
618.
by kps 3y ago
> The US inherited a common law tradition from England that empowers judges to effectively create laws. Yes, but, in the English tradition (unwritten constitution) Parliament is supreme, and can explicitly choose to supercede any court (
619.
by kps 3y ago
Personally: 1. Let me install extensions locally (without making me hunt down some alternate build that harasses me to upgrade every day). 2. Fix using the GUI key for GUI shortcuts, which has been buggy since the Quantum transition. 3. I l
620.
by kps 3y ago
TECO, though not a visual editor, used the same `[count] command [text ESC]` structure as vi. (It's not a mode switch, it's an argument terminator.)
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by kps 3y ago
HTML was; Javascript wasn't.
622.
by kps 3y ago
Today I would make the distinction between those that are readily end-user programmable (microprocessors) and those that aren't (microcontrollers). Certainly many in this article were originally designed for what now would be microcont
623.
by kps 3y ago
“A left mouse push fires it. We actually asked for a great big red button, but they wouldn't give us one.” (British submarine, not the top-level story UI) https://www.theguardian.com/media/2003/jul/17&#x2
624.
by kps 3y ago
Matter runs over IPv6, over either Thread or WiFi.
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by kps 3y ago
> Obviously this is closer to “littering” than it is to murder Littering leaves behind something that costs money (effort) to deal with. Trespassing is a better analogy: temporarily using something that doesn't belong to you, in a w
626.
by kps 3y ago
Why did someone invent a centralized store for this instead of using a DNS TXT record like every other publicly useful domain property?
627.
by kps 3y ago
The tweet that Musk endorsed referred to “western Jewish populations”, not to the ADL. https://nitter.net/breakingbaht/status/1724892505647296620
628.
by kps 3y ago
The word “antisemitism” was popularized in late 19th century Germany by Jew-haters looking for a ‘scientific’ racial justification, since the traditional religious justification was becoming unfashionable. It has never meant anything else.
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by kps 3y ago
Common headlight height, while you're at it.
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by kps 3y ago
There are things like M5Stack (also ESP32-based) that suit some purposes.

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