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by masswerk 3y ago
It has been working for 40+ years, it does the job, everybody using the system is familiar with it, it's robust (no network required), it's exceptionally easy to service and maintain (all through-hole technology on a single, comfo
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by masswerk 3y ago
It's definitely a Sharp MZ-80K. https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=174 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_MZ Edit, regarding the video: It should be mentioned that the parts
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by masswerk 3y ago
It's never wrong to use a Sharp MZ-80K – what a beautiful machine! (BTW, there had been an actual 80-column punched card reader available for this.) It may be worth mentioning that the tape storage of the Sharp MZ family of computers i
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by masswerk 3y ago
Hasn't this been established for long by references to antique color names (both Greek and Roman), as well as the representation of spectra in African languages? While the article makes reference to Greek semantics and anthropological
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> Marketing theory is never tested rigorously. The <del> common sense </del> incredibly sound scientific view based on heaps of scientific evidence view – showing your ads to people more likely to buy your product is
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by masswerk 3y ago
Mind that there are already countries regulating what may be in published photos and what may be not. (E.g., the Eiffel Tower illuminated is protected: https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/business/use-image-of-eiffel..
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by masswerk 3y ago
May I suggest a more general "harvest.txt" for all purposes of scraping content? Edit: Alternatively, have a "Harvest" section in "robots.txt", using the same established syntax and semantics. This may come wit
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by masswerk 3y ago
Restituta may suggest a freed person (and would have probably not been given to a slave), and "the daughter of Salvius" provides a linage suggesting a free citizen. But these are only two, no idea what the others may be.
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by masswerk 3y ago
I second the concerns over the boxes time table. The boxes should mark the spans between the times given.
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It's just missing a few steps: First, remove the end from the lower (still empty) half of 7-minute hourglass, causing it to drain its sand, while it runs. When the 7-minute hourglass runs out, do the same with the 4-minute hourglass (b
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> Where in the statute does it say this? Generally speaking, in Section 108: > (…) under the conditions specified by this section, if— > (1) the reproduction or distribution is made without any purpose of direct or indirect comm
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> In other words, they are not authorized to allow you to make a copy for any other purpose. Even if that other purpose is covered by fair use. This is not how I parse this. Notably, the library is an intermediary and the purposes enabli
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As I understand it: The library furnishes (produces, provides) a copy on request, which is technically a publication to 3rd parties, since the library is not the user. But this is covered under Section 108, which provides a legal framework
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by masswerk 3y ago
https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/ Computer history, some PDP-1 and Commodore PET related content, and a few other things, as well, e.g., we have a closer look at Charles Joseph Minard.
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by masswerk 3y ago
Thanks for the kind offer! But this would be Europe/Austria — I guess, I'd rather spare ourselves the postage. (Let's see…) :-) PS: Lowe is quoted in "Delete." with, "The Aquarius would have blown the socks o
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It also favors all kinds of mob-like structures…
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I think, it's complicated. As I see it, Xerox tried to follow through on the paperless office vision, but it was either too early from a technological/price/scale perspective, and/or the organizational challenges and req
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by masswerk 3y ago
> we can't just have an entire world of sites and services all available for free with just a few ads slapped on top of them Arguably, advertising on the Web is too cheap and too ubiquitous. This may be even the key problem. As a re
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This was really meant as a bit of comedy, but with a grain of seriousness. It was meant to demonstrate that, if you just try hard enough, you can twist the history of about any product in this direction.
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To be fair, Star development started as about as soon as this had become a viable project. Compare the availability of D-processors, and things like Smalltalk76, the Gipsy editor, Mesa as the base operating system being less than a year old
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It's interesting that this somewhat implies the notion of a heap and garbage collection, but that this was not considered for strings.
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> "and most importantly the WYSIWYG, mouse-driven graphical user interface provided by the Alto" This should be better, "available on the Alto". Neither was this in the/any OS, nor was Smalltalk or Bravo/Gip
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PS: If you really want a prime example for parasitic Apple, look no further than the Mac eventually finding its killer application in desktop publishing. In order to so, Apple came up with the LaserWriter: They took Canon's LBP-CX lase
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Even it were true that the Lisa had been a simple copy of Alto software (it isn't), or there hadn't been any prototypes for a windowed bitmap display at Apple before this visit (there was), it's technically somewhat difficult
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See also "On Xerox, Apple and Progress" by Bruce Horn https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?&story=On_Xerox,_Apple...
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The demo Jobs & Co were given did not involve Xerox Star. (It was still the experimental PARC software.) The Xerox Star interface and OS were developed by Xerox SDD. (One in practice rather problematic side of the Star was the extensive
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Everyone involved in the efforts of developing a consistent and consumer-ready UI and stringent metaphors from the beginnings at PARC deserves due respect. E.g., the team at Xerox SDD (Systems Development Department) developing the Star, th
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To be fair, as already mentioned in other comments, it's the JS ecosystem. Writing plain vanilla JS in a text editor is still a pleasant experience. (However, this is deemed impossible, nowadays.) Having said that, I do get the comedy.
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The above URL seems to be dead, see: https://thetech.com/issues/83/24/pdf
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You may note the tsunami stones, marking flood levels from the 1930s with inscriptions like, "Do not build any homes below this point (…) Remember the calamity of the great tsunamis." Also, earthquakes, even sever ones (there ha

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