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by masswerk 4y ago
I second this. The STEM (= engineering) / humanities divide in software may miss some. (There had been times, when linguistics were still a major entry path into computing, where things were a bit different. Notably, this were also the
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by masswerk 4y ago
> that there are no demons underneath Given that Lacan already proposed the unconscious as structured language-like more than half a century ago and described attention in his turn on Freud's impulse in favor of his concept of deri
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by masswerk 4y ago
This would have been a viable path, when WebKit was still "a thing" and enjoyed some integration. I guess, with WebKit2, things became more complicated and resource heavy. Given the rapid development cycles and feature releases, I
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by masswerk 4y ago
Maybe it's related to some cloud service? (However, MS Word used to give you a fair amount of exposure to the beach ball. But I'm not familiar with any of the later versions.)
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by masswerk 4y ago
Some things about Win95 are lost to nostalgia, as well. Like broken drivers, esp. in concert with up-to-date office, which came with issues of its own, like broken export formats. (It took more than a year for serious support for Postscript
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by masswerk 4y ago
I can feel this. My main work computer was/is a late 2008 MacPro, running OS X 10.9.5 (the latest MacOS you can run officially on this). After one and half years, I've still not transitioned fully to a shiny, yellow M1 iMac standi
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by masswerk 4y ago
Actually, you do.
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by masswerk 4y ago
On this matter, my personal theory is that Friedrich III was just inventing the typewriter and this was his way of advertising it. Just have a look at the 2nd key row in Sholes' 1870 layout, the similarities are striking if not convinc
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by masswerk 4y ago
There was actually something very much in this line, from HyperCard to Web, namely the Viola WWW browser. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViolaWWW [1] Viola 3 website (archived): https://web.archive.org&#x
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by masswerk 4y ago
Also, typed arrays being slower than normal arrays for years on Chrome (and therefor pretty useless), Chrome breaking audio buffer playback for several major iterations, etc. This "whatever Chrome does is the standard" attitude re
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by masswerk 4y ago
System 9 was really just about some compatibility layers in preparation for OSX, as I remember it. (And, yes, 7.6 was a major step in terms of stability. There was also some pre-PPC, pre-OpenDoc version of System 7 that was pretty stable, b
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by masswerk 4y ago
Yes, Amelio's departure coincided with the release of System 8 in July 1997. (The NeXT deal and Jobs' return was in February.) To be fair, System 8 was more than just a service update for System 7: it introduced the Platinum UI, t
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by masswerk 4y ago
Well, there used to be FTP for this (esp. with a GUI client): just move your files from one window to another, no APIs required. Or, if this was still too technical (or too little), you could setup a folder for sync.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Haven't we already handed over phones for this? And, if you really want a phone, well, there are phones for this… (No need to put an end to computers. Why would you even transition to a computer to watch TikTok?)
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by masswerk 4y ago
It wouldn't have required this, since, who would have dared to decline the proven heir of Heracles and Julius Caesar their rightful claim? :-) (Rudolph IV substantially upgraded the genealogical claim from the 1st century Roman family
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by masswerk 4y ago
"spliceosomes" – I'm somewhat disappointed. (Not really the true greco-roman spirit.)
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by masswerk 4y ago
> Did the fast-changing fashions of the postwar era reflect something about normal trends, or was it a sort of equilibrating phenomenon, and now we've returned to some normal again, that we haven't seen in over 100 years? I&#x2
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by masswerk 4y ago
I don't agree on the cost cutting argument: preparing a wall of exposed brick is certainly more expensive than simply slapping another coat of paint onto it, industrial artefacts of the past have become sought after items and are selli
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by masswerk 4y ago
But you could go to Paris and have the equally iconic and functional plan illuminé, and it instantly felt like Paris.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Fashion used to have an important social and cultural function as it provided signals and markers for group alignment in society. As these kept changing periodically, this also gave a chance for realignment and reconsideration. (Compare thi
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by masswerk 4y ago
Something that was always fascinating to me: there had been a time, around 1100, when the style of ceilings in sacral architecture was "discussed" with urgency and churches went through 3 redesigns and rebuilds in just 10 years (f
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by masswerk 4y ago
This is contrary to my experience: trends and fashion were short lived, trends lasting maybe half a year, and the fashion of the last season was definitely "out". Nowadays, there's a previously unknown stability and trends sh
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by masswerk 4y ago
Earn key strokes by ad-clicks…
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by masswerk 4y ago
Retaliate: if someone is known as MS middle management, invest a short 20 minutes reading MDN news to them, before answering any questions or requests. (This shouldn't cause any annoyance, are they apparently deem this fine behavior.)
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by masswerk 4y ago
Which poses the question, what is the content? Compare the postscript.
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by masswerk 4y ago
You are missing the fact that the scandal would be equally so, if this objectified any other gender and that objectification is the game of that trope/genre. And it's effectively not the only case of objectification in this text.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Happy that it worked, somehow. ;-) (Also, I've to emphasize, the apparent scandal is not related to gender. Just as a thought experiment: Humans tend to anthropomorphize objects they are interacting with. At this point, it becomes near
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by masswerk 4y ago
Sorry: a text in its actualization is the product of the cooperation of the reader and the text as written. (This is basic text theory.) So, I guess, in-memory structures are not for you, as this is a/the common term. It's true, t
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind that this builds on a previous article (linked), detailing the storage formats of Commodore BASIC, which readers of the blog will be already familiar with. It recapitulates that variables are two ASCII characters with the type encoded
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by masswerk 4y ago
This would be an unexpected outcome: AI productions motivating us to generally move towards prefix/postfix/infix decorations. "X studied at uhm-Oxford." -> I'm not sure, if it was really Oxford, but I have picked

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