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by masswerk 9mo ago
Thank you! I can see that this may a bit of an issue. However, this being a simple webpage is what allows to quickly tinker with this and push a quick update, which is also how much of this has kept growing.
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by masswerk 9mo ago
https://masswerk.at/ The site covers mostly retro- and classic computing. (Strictly no AI generated content.) Here in convenient format: ( :name "Norbert Landsteiner" :site "https://mass
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by masswerk 9mo ago
Only, I think, a foot is actually a half a cubit (length from elbow to fingertip). So, sort of a misnomer, rounded to the nearest body part.
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by masswerk 9mo ago
Notably, Dave Nutting Associates (Bushnell's former employer, who also distributed Computer Space) had played around with an Intel 4004 in 1974 and then demonstrated (to Bally) a CPU based system with a frame buffer in September, whic
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by masswerk 9mo ago
May require "(2022)" in the title.
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by masswerk 9mo ago
The choice of AppleSoft BASIC for a recreation seems to be somewhat odd and deliberate, and doesn't represent the typical limitations of the time (AppleSoft BASIC does floating point math!): in August 1975, the MOS 6502 hadn't eve
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by masswerk 9mo ago
Curious detail: the button/widget icons of the browser chrome are composed of multi-layered box-shadows (i.e. one box-shadow definition per pixel or line, concatenated to a sting) of a `:before` pseudo element. (I don't think that
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by masswerk 10mo ago
For me on Firefox/macOS it's terribly slow, fails to initialise/resume sound, no keyboard input.
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by masswerk 10mo ago
Also, warnings for ambiguous results. For example, when a process implies a conversion according to the contract/convention, but we know that this conversion may be not the expected result and the input may be based on semantic misconc
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by masswerk 10mo ago
I'd suggest a simple test: remix menu items and icons and test, if this has significant impact on usability. If not, the icons are just arbitrary decoration and ultimately add clutter. Referring to the examples provided in the article,
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by masswerk 10mo ago
This may be an even greater challenge: analysing a table layout and recreating it in CSS with absolute positioning.
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by masswerk 10mo ago
Hum, table cells provide the max-width and images a min-with, heights are absolute (with table cells spilling over, as with CCS "overflow-y: visible"), aligns and maybe HSPACE and VSPACE attributes do the rest. As long as images h
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by masswerk 10mo ago
Well, historically, styles were first in JS (JS StyleSheets in Netscape 4.0) and were pulled out into CSS. – This is an old man card! ;-)
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by masswerk 10mo ago
Well, having a platform agnostic runtime, you could throw arbitrary code at, was potentially a great deal. It was one of the founding concepts for ARPANET, which never took off, since nobody wanted to run foreign code from the network on th
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by masswerk 10mo ago
Some seems to be server-side (LiveWire), as well, which was a Netscape product long before Node.js, but I'm not sure if this was already available, then. (When was the Netscape Enterprise server launched?) I'm also not too sure, i
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by masswerk 10mo ago
It's kind of funny to see how the endorsements were talking about rich multimedia integration, when your output options with JavaScript 1.0 were: writing into a textarea, writing into a form input field, or setting the state of other f
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by masswerk 10mo ago
"LiveScript" – all the proprietary Netscape technologies were named "Live…", as in LiveWire, LiveBridge, etc.
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by masswerk 10mo ago
So, because of certain tech patents, patents and IP are bogus in general? What's the point, then? (Meaning, if we're making generalisation from worst examples a virtue, there will be hardly an argument left. E.g., as there are bug
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by masswerk 10mo ago
Well, let's say, an alternative history novel, is it just ripping off a history textbook or is there more going on?
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by masswerk 10mo ago
I think, you're mistaking I.P. and creative effort. Certainly, there must be a reason for people reading, even searching for this stuff, beyond the mention of a well-protected trademark.
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by masswerk 11mo ago
Nice example for how a standard, like PDF, can even persuade/force one of the mighty to adopt a crucial bit of technology, so that this may become a common standard in its own right (i.e. "cascading standards").
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by masswerk 11mo ago
To entertain the few humans behind this, I run what I call "HTTP Adventure" on well-known admin addresses. E.g., https://www.masswerk.at/wp-admin
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by masswerk 11mo ago
Our product has many issues. You must pick one and must not discuss any other.
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by masswerk 1y ago
> Cons: Slightly more memory per entry (each number is stored as 5 bytes internally). Actually, integer arrays use just 2 bytes per entry (contrary to simple integer variables). And integers are really all what's needed here. Theref
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by masswerk 1y ago
Archived: https://archive.ph/54LhN The study: https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-lab...
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by masswerk 1y ago
That's totally correct! I once replaced some blurry scans from the 6502 manual by SVG versions, and, while I was at it, I coded them by hand (really, because for this particular job it seemed easier than doing it in a drawing program.)
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by masswerk 1y ago
Proof for there being still some pretty simple ideas to be explored. – Well done.
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by masswerk 1y ago
Back in the day, when you could still have custom icons in the sidebar of the Finder and file dialogs (well, Snow Leopard…), I used colored spheres as identifiers for project folders, for minimal 1-bit attention. Which may be a proper use c
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by masswerk 1y ago
PS, Another way to put this: are these still icons, as in "indicative of something", or are they merely ornamental, particularly in their individuality? And, if the latter, how good are they as ornaments? Is there even a need or a
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by masswerk 1y ago
I'd call them "non-icons": they don't communicate in any way, they don't add significance or separate one application from the other at first glance, they don't really mean anything without the file name, they

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