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91.
by kps 3mo ago
You had lower case? In my day...
92.
by kps 3mo ago
In my part of Canada it's illegal and allowed.
93.
by kps 3mo ago
Pet peeve: If I go to google.ca and ask [1 gallon to liters], it uses US gallons. (But if I ask [1 pint to ml] it gets it right.)
94.
by kps 3mo ago
> American voices always sound like parodies or the Walmart greeter. Timer set for “thirdy minnids”. Unfortunately the others also sound like parodies in their own way — the Californian's idea of en_GB, “Oi, you go' a loicense
95.
by kps 3mo ago
> I believe this is because of how Mac is designed Yes, that they actually got sleep working properly.
96.
by kps 3mo ago
No, restarting is an occasional unfortunate workaround for subsystems that don't properly update in place (e.g. OS kernel).
97.
by kps 3mo ago
Remember when NeXT acquired Apple for negative 400 million?
98.
by kps 3mo ago
One time I was on a 747 YYZ→LHR with a total of 14 passengers.
99.
by kps 3mo ago
7 years since `:prefers-color-scheme` became widely supported.
100.
by kps 3mo ago
In the era when video terminals were new I have to guess that K and L were just plausibly related enough to justify using them for additional cursor motions, after H and J fit exactly.
101.
by kps 3mo ago
Other way around. ASCII classified control characters into blocks and newline ended up a bit-flip away from J, so the ADM-3A printed ‘↓’ on the ‘J’ key.
102.
by kps 3mo ago
You're saying the same thing. vi uses ‘j’ because the ADM-3A printed ‘↓’ on the ‘J’ key because Control-J is newline because the code is J with a bit flipped because bit-flipping was practical on an electromechanical teletype.
103.
by kps 3mo ago
> grey on light grey That's not part of the satire?
104.
by kps 3mo ago
ix (IEC 61076-3-124)
105.
by kps 3mo ago
Sturgeon's Law: “[…] they say 'ninety percent of science fiction is crud.' Well, they're right. Ninety percent of science fiction is crud. But then ninety percent of everything is crud, and it's the ten percent th
106.
by kps 4mo ago
If Anthropic develops an AGI, it'll be too young to use any Anthropic services.
107.
by kps 4mo ago
To paraphrase von Neumann, isn't that how everyone does it?
108.
by kps 4mo ago
Chrome's too, but why ? It's just plain HTML.
109.
by kps 4mo ago
APFS stores it as "foo:bar". (I don't think the filesystem itself cares what's in a name.)
110.
by kps 4mo ago
Sure, there's a text encoding part and an equipment control part that puts the CII in ASCII.
111.
by kps 4mo ago
> They just chose different wrong characters. Unix followed Multics. Multics chose right. ASCII/EMCA-6/ISO646 drafts discussed this at least as early as 1963¹: “For equipment which uses a single combination (called New Line)
112.
by kps 4mo ago
Which has its roots in punch cards, where pre-computer hardware operated on fixed-sized fields and an unpunched column is equivalent to a space.
113.
by kps 4mo ago
“Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.” — Stan Kelly-Bootle (first person to obtain a postgraduate degree in computer science)
114.
by kps 4mo ago
The original programmers might settle the question, but Wikipedia wouldn't allow the answer. Something similar happened a decade ago with the page for the Unix command `cron` — it contained a made-up backronym (‘command run on …’) that
115.
by kps 4mo ago
Google still uses Piper, which started as a Perforce clone, though many people use it through a frontend like `fig` (try pronouncing ‘ P iper HG ’) or `jj`.
116.
by kps 4mo ago
I expected an alarm clock using a capacitor for timing. Either charge it to a delay-dependent level, or charge it to a fixed level and discharge through a delay-dependent path, or trigger when it drops below a delay-dependent level.
117.
by kps 4mo ago
Whoever built the fence should have put a sign on it saying why. Oh, and integration tests to check that the problem doesn't recur when the fence is replaced.
118.
by kps 4mo ago
Last century I would read and send personal email from work using telnet to pop3 and smtp respectively.
119.
by kps 4mo ago
I got it in seconds, now.
120.
by kps 4mo ago
Chrome's Reading mode avoids this.

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