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by masswerk 4y ago
I've been looking for this paper for 20+ years. Thank you!
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by masswerk 4y ago
The Mac really pioneered square pixels (at least for consumer machines). Reportedly, some wanted them for the Lisa, as well, but, as the Lisa was behind schedule and working perfectly with non-square pixels already, the Lisa was denied this
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by masswerk 4y ago
I guess, this means the US are starting to register the place of residence of their citizens, in order to provide data in due reciprocity? /s
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by masswerk 4y ago
Some of these new (unified) UI elements are just awful. My pet grievance is the range input, which is now filled by an accent color from the left (start) up to the selected value. Meaning, if you provide your users a range from -200 to +200
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by masswerk 4y ago
The problem being, the date picker is already a (single) input field. Having multiple input fields for what is already an input field somewhat defeats the purpose. This doesn't address the real problem, though, which is IMHO that a cal
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by masswerk 4y ago
While numerous websites settled for a fixed width indeed (I think, this was mostly a US school of thinking), responsive designs were somewhat doable with table layouts. What you couldn't do was a general change of element order etc. (H
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by masswerk 4y ago
I like this layout, which is really how I remember the late-1990s web: https://anioni.com/pauli/site1999/work/nurminen1-01.html A well considered arrangement of structure, content and design. Something we do
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind that this was the amateur section of the web. By 1999, professional websites had become pretty complex (often more complex than they are at average nowadays) and invested considerably in navigation. (There was still some experimentatio
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by masswerk 4y ago
A common problem seems to be connected to setting a CSS dimension to "auto", as for responsive layouts. This seems to do the job, though: <img src="whatever.jpg" width="400" height="300" style=
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by masswerk 4y ago
The AudioContext is suspended (by default, no auto-play). You have to resume() this on a user interaction. E.g., add a click-handler for the play button, which triggers, if (myAudioContext.state === 'suspended') myAudioContext
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by masswerk 4y ago
Also: as a user, I have no idea whom I am paying – is it the content creator, a scammer, an obscure man in the middle? What kind of transaction is this even? Is there any kind of resolution in case of conflict? It's just an actual paym
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by masswerk 4y ago
The problem being, social aggregations are essentially regulated by convention, meaning, by a network of trust, which in turn requires a minimum of stability. The lesson to be learned from this adventure is really about stability and how so
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by masswerk 4y ago
Epic talk (in German, David Kriesel, "Traue keinem Scan, den du nicht selbst gefälscht hast"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FeqF1-Z1g0
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by masswerk 4y ago
Turns out, skeuomorphism is fun. However, this totally ignores the fundamental principle of serious software being joyless.
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by masswerk 4y ago
I'm not surprised at all. (I actually assumed this, when the talk about "digital natives" was en vogue.) As it happens, we tend to accept technology that was mostly sorted out when we were born for granted and this tends also
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by masswerk 4y ago
To be fair, the goal of ChatGPT is to generate a highly probable answer. Given modern software ecosystems, we have to admit that it's highly plausible that a problem wouldn't be solved in code, but be delegated to a module that al
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by masswerk 4y ago
This is how styled SimpleText read-me files worked in classic Mac OS. A normal file was plain text, but styles could be appended based on indices (much like selection and regions work in modern web APIs).
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by masswerk 4y ago
"Simultaneously alone and in company" is an accurate description. What may be added, are long hours coffeehouses in context of the emerging "Beisl" scene in Vienna in the 1980s. With the added traits of a nightly bar, th
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by masswerk 4y ago
I think, the C65 is another overrated story. It wouldn't have hit the market before 1992, which was then i486/25MHz territory, the same year that Windows 3.1 and Photoshop 2.5 were introduced. (On the other side of the spectrum, i
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by masswerk 4y ago
If it really "sucks", you'd probably see incident rates go up, meaning down time, maintenance costs, legal issues, even impact on the public image. There is a point where bad mood and annoyance of a troubled work force become
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by masswerk 4y ago
Well, empathy, social issues, etc, may or may not cause an inconvenience…
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by masswerk 4y ago
I think, universal pagination will always be a problem, because of varying paper formats, etc. However, there's the `break-` suite of CSS rules (`break-before`, `break-inside`, `break-after`, formerly `page-break-before`, etc) to handl
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by masswerk 4y ago
Cosmology isn't only physics, it has also (always) been a playground for thought experiments and philosophy. (Compare the rather well established field of science fiction.) But, even if it's just about physics, I'm pretty ama
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by masswerk 4y ago
As this apparently requires some explanation: In this thought experiment of a hypothetical quantum-ontological universe, an (aware) observer would come with their very own sphere of causality, which not necessarily defines the entirety of t
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by masswerk 4y ago
Regarding being snarky: I guess, you've observed the ";-)" annotation… ;-) (Conventional meaning: this is irony/a joke and the author doesn't actually believe in this.)
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by masswerk 4y ago
Still, the Looshaus was rather ornamental for present day standards. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looshaus There's also a considerable difference in modernist/brutalist architecture and current blandness.
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by masswerk 4y ago
As in "an observer which/who requires causality and cannot exist in superposition". Whatever that is. Is causality a product of at least a minimal level of awareness? (We won't be able to tell, as exploring the concept o
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by masswerk 4y ago
Well, here's my hypothesis: The universe develops in superposition until the first observer emerges, causing the superpositions to collapse. Meaning, the first possible observer will not only be guaranteed to exist, they will also make
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by masswerk 4y ago
> At the risk of stating the obvious, the reason Madoff was arrested so quickly is because he confessed to every element of criminal fraud… From a European perspective, this is strangely backwards: Madoff confessed and was fully cooperat
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by masswerk 4y ago
A person looking for an answer usually doesn't know it already. So a correct and a wrong answer are equally valid in the absence of any means to tell the one from the other. So, yes, formatting is the decisive factor. And it has been s

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