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by kps 3mo ago
Star didn't have cut/copy/paste. Instead it had ‘copy to’ and ‘move to’ operations on the current selection, more like today's drag-and-drop. Some influential people decided that invisible fragile clipboard state was bet
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by kps 3mo ago
Without robust copyright protection, what will incentivize Anne Frank to write more diary entries?
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by kps 3mo ago
Now I'm imagining someone dumped in the river chained to a pallet of t-shirts rather than a cinder block.
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by kps 3mo ago
Does pork factor into this? (Serious question for an expert, not a joke.)
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by kps 3mo ago
That was 7 hours ago. Now, Google Images not only reads the text but links to that web site.
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by kps 3mo ago
The assumption is that if you use this alone to try to convey information to a human, a human with a visual disability can't use it. If you also provide a text channel (e.g. `ALT="…"`) then the LLM can use that and doesn&#x
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by kps 3mo ago
That's a derivative work of two parties’ IP.
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by kps 3mo ago
No, not simultaneously usable as foreground and background colours. For instance, on a light background, the default yellow is a good ‘highlighter’ background. If yellow is reconfigured to be dark enough to be usable as a foreground colour
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by kps 3mo ago
Colour addendum: If the user hasn't configured anything, don't use a colour other than red without checking whether the terminal has a light or dark background. Don't hardcode colours.
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by kps 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
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by kps 3mo ago
> RedAI That's Qwen. > BlueAI “All the Troubles of the World” (Asimov, 1959)
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by kps 3mo ago
Indeed, I did get email over UUCP in '90s, so I read and wrote offline. Worth considering again, if I can find a next hop again.
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by kps 3mo ago
‘Offline’ now gets used to mean ‘asynchronously’. (I remember when computer science cards were 7⅜″×3¼″)
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by kps 3mo ago
> Reads eMarker chip parameters in Type-C cables, providing detailed performance information (e.g., maximum current, voltage, data transfer rates) to help users fully understand cable capabilities and ensure safe, efficient device usage.
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by kps 3mo ago
HN accessibility isn't bad, since it's all just text.
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by kps 3mo ago
It's relatively difficult to enter and edit any significant amount of text on a phone, so phone-based discussions tend to be shallow.
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by kps 3mo ago
bad mobile support Good.
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by kps 3mo ago
The revolutionary French tried decimal timekeeping, but no amount of guillotines could make it stick. Planetarily, we only need to slow the Earth's rotation by 1.46%, so that the year becomes 360 days (1 day = 1° of revolution) and I c
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by kps 3mo ago
I get to sleep in. When do we leave? But seriously, the ‘second’ becomes a purely technical unit, and you have some other suitable local units.
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by kps 3mo ago
It's a bit simpler. C didn't have `unsigned` until 1976.
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by kps 3mo ago
Then take the Sten submachine gun, designed so that every little machine shop in Britain could produce one.
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by kps 3mo ago
I never liked git and held on the Mercurial until a couple years ago. Now, for all I do, jj is a better Mercurial than Mercurial.
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by kps 3mo ago
[0] Gives me HTTP 418
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by kps 3mo ago
The way I see it: Volume 7 is compilation. Since many optimization techniques are NP-complete, Knuth will have to take a break from writing TAOCP to settle whether or not P=NP.
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by kps 3mo ago
I think there's a proof that he can at best asymptotically approach volume 7.
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by kps 3mo ago
Metaphor for creative works from before 2025?
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by kps 3mo ago
That's… good . It's a page-snapping scrollbar. Much better than the common row of dots and arrows.
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by kps 3mo ago
> It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell tl;dr: > Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell , 485 U.S. 46 (1988), is a landm
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by kps 3mo ago
When I become a dotcom^H^H^H^H^H^H AI zillionaire, I'll start a web-only platform that blocks mobile user agents. (If you can work around that, you've passed the entry gate.)
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by kps 3mo ago
They still let Google crawl, so [site:reddit.com "username"] can be instructive.

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