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by masswerk 4y ago
Very nice and very clean! And I love the demo page. May deserve an update for styled pop-up menus, which became available recently, compare [1]. (Minor nitpick: I'm missing the combo box, the much discussed genuine UI element of Window
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by masswerk 4y ago
That's the funny thing: we're running mainframes to access a centralized mainframe – terminal model.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Well, they have been in the focus for several years, now, so shouldn't we settle this first? ;-)
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by masswerk 4y ago
> I use Triplicate as my monospace, and yeah, it lacks U+1FB87 RIGHT ONE QUARTER BLOCK, so this technique looks awful. Mind that there are also U+258F LEFT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK U+2595 RIGHT ONE EIGHTH BLOCK So it can be all done i
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by masswerk 4y ago
> No corners pieces. Darn. Actually, Unicode "Symbols for Legacy Computing", U+1FB7C – U+1FB7F ('LEFT AND LOWER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK', 'LEFT AND UPPER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK', 'RIGHT AND UPPER ONE EIGHTH BLOCK&#x
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by masswerk 4y ago
"Old school" foragers typically stick to a few mushrooms to be safe. Meaning, they have quite an expertise on 3 or 4 kinds of mushrooms (or, even more likely, just a couple of them) and are staying away from anything else, especia
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by masswerk 4y ago
How are you going to address accessibility when rendering everything on a canvas element? What are search engines going to scrape?
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by masswerk 4y ago
I'm somewhat out of options in my thought process about this, as well. How does anything justify death by hegemonial power without due process? How does anything justify the particular proceedings? How comes that there is an observable
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by masswerk 4y ago
I'd make a point that the entire line of experimental computers as developed at MIT and later commercialized by DEC, with an emphasis on realtime and graphics, doesn't really adhere to this pattern. E.g., we may call the PDP-1 the
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by masswerk 4y ago
I'm under the impression that I'm reading words from both ends with a rather diffuse emphasis on the middle, progressing from both ends towards the middle (maybe at times with a slightly stronger emphasis on the ending) and stoppi
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind that visual reading – I actually do not know about tactile, but I'd guess it may be similar – isn't about letter by letter, but about the impression of entire words. Here, similarity helps a lot. (Otherwise, you have not only
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind that there are studies that mean to prove a natural, spontaneous origin at the Wuhan wet market. E.g., https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/covid-19-originated-at-...
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by masswerk 4y ago
This is meant to counter the idea of ARS-CoV-2 being somehow derived from RaTG13, which is still around.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind that RaTG13 isn't the closest known relative, BANAL-236 and BANAL-52 are much closer, and they are not known to have been present in China, nor is there evidence for these being studied at WIV. (Also mind that these are also just
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by masswerk 4y ago
> What I realized I had no idea how to convey was how important television was to the whole experience (9/11). What really struck me was the kind of reporting. Where I live (or, in Europe in general) – and I'm not under the imp
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by masswerk 4y ago
However, there is only evidence to the contrary, the entire stretch from the Wuhan Institute of Virology to the Huanan Seafood Wholesale Market as the confirmed hotspot of the outbreak (samples from cages have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2
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by masswerk 4y ago
Was this really a commercial? I think, I've seen this earlier described as an (internal) image film.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Would a sketch of stick figures erecting a flag pole be infringing with respect to the famous Iwo Jima photo? The reference may be instantly recognized, but still… The only way I could think of this happening, is with respect to this actual
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by masswerk 4y ago
I think, this can't be handled on a general or universal basis. E.g., in the given case, I don't think that anybody would find a rough line tracing infringing. So, how comes that it's infringing, when the lines are filled by
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by masswerk 4y ago
So what about turning a person (Prince) into a photograph, by the "mere" use of a technical apparatus? It's an interesting aspect that we do not allow a model or actor to own the specific posing and/or acting, as this wo
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by masswerk 4y ago
The funny thing being, I much get the vibes of a nowadays senior programmers meeting a veteran programmer from the last century. (Maybe, he's avoiding meetings to not show off his grey beard? :-) )
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by masswerk 4y ago
Ah, the AI versus advanced automation debate and the Lighthill Report (UK, 1973). [1] Report: http://www.chilton-computing.org.uk/inf/literature/reports/l... [2] Video of the public debate: https:/&#x2F
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by masswerk 4y ago
Nothing to waiting for contemporary versions of Word to collect the fonts list…
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by masswerk 4y ago
> why an app needs to do this in the first place This is – besides all those programming related oddities – a question of holistic UX: if collecting the list takes that long, make the list on-demand, hide it behind a button or documents
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by masswerk 4y ago
Based on what I've read, this seems to be also true for the soviet PDP-11 single-chip designs.
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by masswerk 4y ago
It is to be mentioned, though, that some of the Eastern Bloc chips were only on the outside identical to the Western originals, but featured their own internal designs, some of them even robuster and/or more feature rich than the origi
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by masswerk 4y ago
Also, if you're planning to boast to HN, consider a provider without any bandwidth or data caps. :-) (With a bit of luck, this comes at no extra cost.)
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by masswerk 4y ago
Seeing `&` on a page like Reuters is quite a throwback to the 1990s. There's actually something soothing about the imperfect exposing the "stroke" of the underlying media. :-)
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by masswerk 4y ago
And, if you need more, there's still PHP, as kind of server side includes on steroids.
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by masswerk 4y ago
Less than 5 USD/EUR per month should buy you traditional web hosting ("webspace"), a domain, personal e-mail addresses and probably even database access. There are plenty of providers to choose from.

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