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by leoc 3y ago
The green-wireframe thing which this site somewhat misleadingly calls "Laser Grid" https://cari.institute/aesthetics/laser-grid (the main influence is of course CRT vector graphics, with technical drawing and
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by leoc 3y ago
I have a long-standing ambition to someday create an all-singing-all-dancing Befunge IDE just so that I can name it Fungicide.
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by leoc 3y ago
Any discussion of what happened to Google has to start with the two individuals who together still control most of the shareholders' votes and together still have (IANAL) effectively almost completely control over it, Page and Brin. (Y
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by leoc 3y ago
Viz. the screenwriter William Goldman’s “Nobody knows anything” from his book Adventures in the Screen Trade . https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1991-08-11-ca-807-st... https://variety.com/2018&#
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by leoc 3y ago
You won’t know unless you try! ;)
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by leoc 3y ago
If this interests you, then this may also interest you: there’s probably never been a better or more fun opportunity to learn Old English https://twitter.com/colingorrie/status/1688600761184210944 . Not for the pa
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by leoc 3y ago
Unfortunately HDMI audio is also notorious for often having serious lag, both in absolute terms and relative to the video signal.
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by leoc 3y ago
And in particular troff, which played a role similar to the one LaTeX plays today.
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by leoc 3y ago
Obligatory mention of leading concrete-engineering YouTuber https://youtube.com/@TylerLey . He’s discussed Roman concrete in eg. https://youtu.be/U86tlUiFM1s .
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by leoc 3y ago
Footnotes are mainly straightforward-enough glosses and references, but there have always been digressions (and quite often sniping) in there too. The C19 has some real specimens.
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by leoc 3y ago
As you may already know, the high-level answer is that our UI paradigm largely comes straight from the original release of the Macintosh and only a few improvements have stuck and become widely diffused since then, while indeed other parts
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by leoc 3y ago
I'll spam my comment on the recent, latest repost of "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36285097 here, because it's relevant and because someone ( https://
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by leoc 3y ago
This is really a good essay and surely deserves a high profile, but it's disappointing that it, and some bits of angst about Valve's internal situation, seem to be the only discussions of organisational structure that get widely s
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by leoc 3y ago
(Some of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/stalker happen to be on sale on Steam atm.)
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by leoc 3y ago
Certainly such compulsory-licensing schemes for photocopying of books in libraries are not uncommon: the ALCS hands out the money from the UK's, for instance https://www.alcs.co.uk/where-the-money-comes-from . Japan&#x
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by leoc 3y ago
A cynic might wonder if it would also help to renew the Intel/AMD x86 patent moat now that the core x86-64 specification is over 20 years old. If the plan is largely just to strip things out it might be hard to shoehorn in patent claim
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by leoc 3y ago
The Wolfram effect https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20071283 seems nearly as strong as ever on this topic.
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by leoc 4y ago
Yes, it clearly started out at least partly as a prestige thing. Books (and even periodicals) indeed used to often have the publication date in Roman numerals, and the older and more self-consciously presteegious a book is the more likely i
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by leoc 4y ago
Wanting to dual-boot sometimes isn't that rare, surely. And local storage for documents remains popular too. It seems to reflect the reality that serious Linux development effort has been very server-focussed for a long time.
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by leoc 4y ago
There are plenty of academics who oppose or have reservations about the capital-letters Science of Reading https://radicalscholarship.com/2022/05/23/nyt-blasts-calkins... . Of course they, too, could be ideol
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by leoc 4y ago
The much discussed "motion inputs" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WhbSNP_zF4 which came from SF1—the stick movements for special moves, like the fireball's quarter-circle-forward, the Dragon Punch's Z
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by leoc 4y ago
I think it's fair to say that that sentence almost screams "this is my adoption strategy". And fair enough, of course.
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by leoc 4y ago
Did you mean 'more progress'?
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by leoc 4y ago
Also, I assume that the Icelanders don't want all that many digital nomads showing up. From their point of view setting a USD7k cut-off limits the inflow and gets them something like the cream of the crop.
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by leoc 4y ago
Realistically, while shipping costs will play a part, the prices are going to have a lot to do with the fact that Iceland's a separate, small national market. It's not even in the EU customs union, though it is in the Single Marke
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by leoc 4y ago
IANAL but I think I recall seeing that the US libraries’ initiative to reprint some older books on non-acid-based paper was supported by an explicit carve-out in US copyright law.
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by leoc 4y ago
Also, I should add: I don't think Cloudflare is letting IPFS or the IPFS movement or whatever down, here. The protocol was deliberately designed not to force users to touch illegal or otherwise "hot" content against their kno
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by leoc 4y ago
Is there still a whacking great price premium between ECC and non-ECC memory for desktop, but not server, motherboards? If so then that suggests that there's more going on here than a simple expression of consumer choice.
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by leoc 4y ago
There's a misunderstanding here. IPFS' content addressing exists to serve the interests of people who might want to save someone else's content, and of people who might want to find and access content which others have saved,
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by leoc 4y ago
They likely (IANAL) had a much firmer legal footing in those cases.

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