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by masswerk 3y ago
Mind that continuous scrolling was a function of the scroll buttons (arrow buttons), which were axed in favor of visual simplicity. You just kept them pressed for continuous scrolling. On macOS, absolute scrolling is still Option-clicking o
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by masswerk 3y ago
What is the gesture for "let's go to page 196 of this 320 pages document"?
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by masswerk 3y ago
Ah, Win98 installation dialogs… :-)
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by masswerk 3y ago
At least on macOS, this is a gloabal system setting, which also applies to any web browsers. (I can't speak on the subject of other OSes/GUIs, though.)
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by masswerk 3y ago
I think, it's also, instead of just approximating the position in the document, we now feel compelled to translate our mental image to a visual one and to match this with the rendering in the minimap. Which introduces an additional ste
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by masswerk 3y ago
I defence of that web site, I do see a vertical scroll bar for this section. But I'm also one of those funny individuals who check that "Show scrollbars" is set to "always" in the system preferences, after each upda
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by masswerk 3y ago
Arguably, Snow Leopard was peak interaction design. Just for the highly functional visual grouping of elements. (MacOS has drifted off from this quite a distance, since.)
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by masswerk 3y ago
> it's nearly impossible to click and hold on anything along the edge to resize the window. This is what the resize box is/was for. (It's actually draggable edges with no "meat" to them, which introduce the con
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by masswerk 3y ago
Regarding minimaps: I thought, these were great, too, but then I discovered that I find them rather irritating and that I actually don't use them. I guess, this is, because you have to maintain a mental mapping of that document and how
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by masswerk 3y ago
My fellow readers, do not succumb to the heresies expressed in that blog post! Clearly, the future is in eye tracking data streamed to the cloud, where an AI will predict the scroll target, to be revealed by the application. Most cheerfully
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by masswerk 3y ago
However, this area moves the screen a page per click, instead of a line per click. It actually replaces another, now long forgotten scrollbar button found on the Xerox Star and in some Lisa applications.
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by masswerk 3y ago
It's a verified fact that words have meaning. *) Disclaimer: neither "verified" nor "fact" implies by any means that somebody believes that the stated and/or expressed sentiment or observation is actually true.
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by masswerk 3y ago
There may be some design issues with this. First, the graphics depend on color and don't lend themselves really well to a monochrome display. We may try to emulate another intermediate shade by flicker in order to overcome this, which
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by masswerk 3y ago
I have the condition, as well (that is, I may have a short visual flash or broad impression, but I can't sustain this), still, part of my work is working as a designer and I'm considered proficient at drawing. It really comes down
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by masswerk 3y ago
Play it here in online emulation (PET 2001): https://www.masswerk.at/pet/?prg=pssp&ram=32k&keyboard=games... For some more PET games by Jim Orlando, ready to run in the emulator, see: https://www.mas
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by masswerk 3y ago
I'm still not happy with any of this: the model is traversing a semantic field according to inherent probabilities, which are in turn a function of its specific aggregation. Hence, as an alleged "speaker", it is more like coe
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by masswerk 3y ago
I wouldn't be too happy about such a divide into high-level analysis and interpretation on one hand, computational social science, on the other hand. A certain degree of intimacy with your data is essential. There are even cases, where
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by masswerk 3y ago
This is how the program is actually stored: 10SAVE"4",8:PRINT4 0801 0F 08 link to next line at $080F 0803 0A 00 line number (16-bit binary): 10 0805 94 token SAVE 0806
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by masswerk 3y ago
Just have a look at that cassette tape drive for a PDP-11-style computer [1] (same channel)! — I was actually quite impressed by the production quality. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7PQIRKF8wI
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by masswerk 3y ago
> While I'm not aware of any technology that claims to classify faces as liars Hadn't there been similar systems for phone conversations, based on voice stress analysis? I totally expect this to move to AI based systems, includ
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by masswerk 3y ago
In this case, there are two mechanisms at work: a conventional rounding bit (for each of the two floating point accumulators available), and a special routine, which zeros out all bytes of the floating point accumulator, when the result is
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by masswerk 3y ago
There was recently an interesting thread on the Retro Computing Forum [1] related to this and curious behavior in 6502 flavors of MS BASIC. In brief, the condition in IF SQR(3 * 2) = SQR(3) * SQR(2) THEN… evaluates to false, while,
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by masswerk 3y ago
Yes, a terrible headline. But also a nice contemplation on the scroll as a medium.
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by masswerk 3y ago
As I understood it, the idea is that analytics are the wrong answer, or rather, if they are an answer, at all, you're asking the wrong questions. Which I, in turn, interpret as a signal for more opinionated approaches. (Meaning, if you
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by masswerk 3y ago
> mentioning this in context of energy trade This is in historical context rather ridiculous. This is actually related to the Gulf War, and Iraq (yay, the Western ally in the greater region) formerly prominently supplying Austrian demand
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by masswerk 3y ago
We've seen some concentration over the last 30 years or so. It hasn't been about regulations, though. In actually, the remaining companies first aggressively extended their selections of products and lowered prices, only to backtr
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by masswerk 3y ago
Nothing of this changed in the last two years, though. So this hardly serves an explanation for the current price hikes.
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by masswerk 3y ago
This is tied to those days of the coalition of the conservative party with the FPÖ, which terminated on Mai 28, 2019 (which is significantly before 2022), with strong positions of the FPÖ in the entire security apparatus (including some inf
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by masswerk 3y ago
Notably, this happened before any of these events, and to help you with Austrian history, the entire "family" has been since dismissed. (Kneissl is now a blogger in Russia, far from Austria or its politics.)
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by masswerk 3y ago
First, I wouldn't say that Austria is pro-Russian. Neither official politics, nor the majority of the people (with the notable exception of the infamous FPÖ). Then, it's mostly about infrastructure. While the western parts of the

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