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by masswerk 4y ago
I don't think that it's a good idea to introduce a left-to-right flow into a language, which strictly assigns righthand values by general design. The text mentions a back-and-forth in reading, this introduces a back-and-forth inte
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by masswerk 4y ago
Well, we may still worry about green computing. 50K requests/day per site isn't nothing, just for scans. Is does sum up considerably.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Maybe related, I had a few emails by alleged security researches, linking to standard tools, often even misinterpreting the results or maybe just too lazy to have a real look at them. Maybe, "security research" has just entered th
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by masswerk 4y ago
On the other hand, I hate websites that are built phone-only, meaning, you have to retract a few meters from a screen, in order to read it somewhat comfortably. (Then, you've to go back to reach for the mouse and scroll, since the scre
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by masswerk 4y ago
Chess meets Tablut / Hnefatafl… (I guess, Vikings would appreciate the constraints arising from infinitesimal granularity movement.)
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by masswerk 4y ago
> Being vigilant at all times when driving and taking breaks when I stop being vigilant I guess, you're not part of the target audience. :-) (More seriously, congratulations and many thanks for being a responsible adult.)
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by masswerk 4y ago
I guess, this is the vigilance problem cascading. Drivers just don't expect cars in a straight and clear lane in a tunnel to stop at random. (At least, not without warning lights and other signs of alarm.) It's not in the expected
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by masswerk 4y ago
IMHO, this is really more a documentation of the original behavior and maybe a test for consistency of later implementations against the original one. But it's not about validity. I'd call it a "traditionality test".
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by masswerk 4y ago
> Color monitors dropped in price quickly (…) It wasn't so much about the price, but the picture quality. (Monochrome CRTs do not require shadow masks, but color CRTs do – and were therefor blurry. E.g., dithered color often blended
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by masswerk 4y ago
A key point of what is now old tech is/was multiple paths of operations. On the other hand we have what I'd call appification, where there is just a single path and anything else has to be weeded out, for the sake of simplicity an
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by masswerk 4y ago
I like this comment, "More likely it's a proof that's not AI art - it usually doesn't reuse that much verbatim."
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by masswerk 4y ago
This was more a snarky remark aimed at those "how X stole from Y" narratives, not a serious criticism. (Progress is always a combination of ideas floating around and brilliant people who sharpen these ideas and make them happen. A
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by masswerk 4y ago
Regarding "Bill Atkinsons had not seen or experienced the Star": This was more aimed at the use of icons (esp. desktop icons) and drag&drop interaction on the Lisa, which emerged only late in development, when the Star was alr
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by masswerk 4y ago
Hum, usual confusion of what the Alto and what the Xerox Star was. (The Alto was an experimental development system and did not have a consistent user interface. Many of the innovations at PARC were eventually consolidated by Xerox SDD into
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by masswerk 4y ago
As many are talking about inspiration and inspirational goals, it may be worth risking a view on this from a more cultural perspective. Mars is really the "what's next?" to the Apollo program and how it shaped our cultural pe
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by masswerk 4y ago
Here's my helpful little time thingy (not a live clock, but let's you set arbitrary dates): https://www.masswerk.at/time/convert/
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by masswerk 4y ago
The point being: How does you licensing the alleged infringer to use the logo, even demanding the placement of said logo under the terms of said contract, not affect your ability to claim infringement? How could you make such a claim in goo
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by masswerk 4y ago
But, as you granted, even demanded the use by contract, is the right at this point still exclusive to you? Hasn't it been partially transferred under the restrictions of this very contract?
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by masswerk 4y ago
Personally, I think this is the great hiatus in moral philosophy, which is hard to bridge, maybe even impossible to mend. It's pretty much what divides the factions of Platonists and Aristotelians: is there a hierarchy to principles
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by masswerk 4y ago
Doesn't this include a factual claim, though, as in, "an exclusive right that is allegedly in-fringed "? (It may be somewhat difficult to argue that the use of signage as specified in the contract and provided for this very
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by masswerk 4y ago
I think, a decisive factor in this may be whether you believe in ethics arising from human nature or in an external source of truth and morality. In the latter case, loyalty, authority and sanctity become important factors for a community,
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by masswerk 4y ago
No, the idea was right from the beginning that you could name (additionally) other user agents conforming to the same or lower specs as your client. (Without this, it would have been nearly impossible to introduce a new browser. Mind that b
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by masswerk 4y ago
WAP enabled phones (the early mobile internet protocol of the early 200s, using a card metaphor) tended to have elongated pixels as well. Converting images for this was fun! (WAP used a special, binary image format, but the compiler for thi
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by masswerk 4y ago
I didn't know the Corvus Concept, at all – thank you! Skimming the user manual, there's a label window below the screen, very similar to the soft function keys approach of the early Lisa concepts, indeed.
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by masswerk 4y ago
I guess, this is targeted at Apple's butterfly key switches, which were used in their 2015-2019 MacBooks and prone to fail due to dust and other small particle intrusions. Compare: https://www.macrumors.com/guide/b
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by masswerk 4y ago
The problem being that browser vendors tend to implement Web APIs early, before the API and the respective specifications are frozen and are still likely to vary. They may even implement a certain (still valid) interpretation of the specs,
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by masswerk 4y ago
At that time, about every audio library was broken for 80+% of the users. If you happened to maintain such a library, you received bug reports for sure (on your library). Chrome claimed their new implementation was inside specs, so it was u
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by masswerk 4y ago
I can well see some non-trivial issues with `parseInt()`… if (paseInt(revMajor) === 72) { … } // rev 0110 detected! ;-)
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by masswerk 4y ago
> The Chrome team insist that this behavior is a bug, but it is actually in line with this particular version of the spec. Or, why any other browser is the new IE. /s
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by masswerk 4y ago
I think, there's still use for it. E.g., I recall when Chrome 32 would fail to play a newly created Web Audio BufferSource, unless the playback call came from inside a decodeAudioData() callback. At the same time, you couldn't use

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