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P.S.: The story of Eilmer also hints at what may have been the real problem, which may have haunted early fliers, not so much flying/gliding, but safe landing. Another thing is topography: Either you have (steep) local elevations as a
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by masswerk 4y ago
Mind Eilmer of Malmesbury, first flight between 995 and 1010 CE. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilmer_of_Malmesbury
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by masswerk 4y ago
It isn't so that the Web wouldn't have gone from boom to bust rather immediately (it really began to surface and become known to a broader public in around 1996 and about 4 years later, there was already the burst of the dot-com b
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by masswerk 4y ago
Regarding (1), the real statement here is, "many of us were there at the start of the Web, it was evident that it was going to change the world, and it was usable from the start." And it's mostly about the the Web (but you ma
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by masswerk 4y ago
Regarding books, I've always opted for a book named "Glass" on various display technologies and methodologies, along the lines of "Core Memory" by John Alderman and Mark Richards (who does this amazing CHP photogra
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There are also some interesting GUI elements in GENESYS, a parametric image animation program for the TX-2 at MIT, by Ronald M. Baecker (1969) [1,2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYIPKLxoTcQ [2] Baecker, Ronald M. (1
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by masswerk 4y ago
Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) really needs a representation of the brushed metal appearance in the image gallery. (There had been two presentation styles, the general one seen in the images, and a brushed metal one for utilities.) Edit: Interest
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by masswerk 4y ago
Minor nitpick: The "Alto GUI" is really Smalltalk, there was no such thing as a general GUI for the Alto. Also, image 10/10 is a screenshot of the Xerox Star. (The merits of Xerox SDD in turning the experimental odds and ends
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Thankfully, there's always a way to discard an offending node in the DOM, but really, why do I have to do this every time, I want to read an article? (I'm speaking of you, Ars Technica, but – sadly – not exclusively.) Rule of thum
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by masswerk 4y ago
Not so sure about the lid: if this is indeed a true quality product leading the market, why does it need this gimmick? You'd rather expect a basic, functional statement. Together with the nondescript sans-serif type, this gives the app
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by masswerk 4y ago
I still like Perl as a single-developer language, because of its freedom of expression. However, this is also why it is not that a great language for teams. As I see it, the decline of Perl isn't so much for the language being "ba
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I find the workings of logic in the absence of logic quite fascinating. Apparently, there has to accumulate a critical mass of information in the local history in order to produce a pattern that outweighs the existing resolution. (Could thi
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by masswerk 4y ago
Also, does dang ever sleep?
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by masswerk 4y ago
I'd say, 99.x% of the scam or fishing attempts I receive are easily detectable by the email address. E.g., a fairly accurate rendition of the bank CI, even with an appropriate text, an email clear name in accordance with the bank, but
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There's this interesting dynamic, which links those who insist on "quality news media" and those canceling their subscription for the media not being partisan enough and allowing opinions or stories which do not necessarily f
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The preference for real names in email clients is actually quite annoying. E.g., some of my clients are using institutional email addresses, which are used and processed by multiple real-person users with associated clear names. Every time,
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by masswerk 4y ago
I really doubt the basis of this argument. Arguably, there is something to be learned with any new technology and any expectation to the contrary may be rather illusionary. E.g., with the postal system, how do you know that Paris, Texas, is
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by masswerk 4y ago
Especially in email, the clear name is rather a comment. Showing just the comment instead of the real data is negligent, at best. (It's actually quite the opposite of what is going on with URLs, where everything is suppressed but the c
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by masswerk 4y ago
What has become of the LISA source code? (It was announced to be just months from publishing a few years ago, but then everything went silent.) Does anyone know?
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Also, when this term was coined, most (if not all) attributes of greatness listed in the article still applied to the British Empire, rivalled only by France.
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That is before any default or user styles are applied, which are in turn overwritten by author styles. (Think of the default values of a base object or base class, which are then overwritten by the constructor or more specific methods.)
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There's much confusion in this. The map is about uncharted business opportunities, ie. introducing new competitors. Yes, consumer products (in contrast to goods that enable buyers to generate income) are competing for buyers' budg
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I think this is a great feature and a huge step in the right direction. However, will this comply with the new EU Digital Markets Act (DMA), which provides a general interoperability for messaging apps (for big players, with Apple and iMess
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Ok, I made something weird, recently: https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2022/philosophia-mechanica In case you asked, there's also an explanation for this. :-) (Notebook or desktop preferred, at least some mo
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> Of course they should make some effort to ensure there is competition. My guess is, we'll rather see some consolidation, like in every other segment. Which also means considerable expenses for the remaining players, who will exper
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Mind that if you'd ever wanted to integrate again, this means buying land, planning infrastructure, building it, planning, obtaining and setting up hardware and software, hiring, training, defining and testing procedures, etc, as you&#
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However, when the situation starts to become unbearable, how long will it take to rebuild the infrastructure and source talent? Another decade? Adding the startup costs for any possible rebuild, you're apt for a substantial net loss.
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BTW, there's also Lemmings for the PET by Jim Orlando, all PETSCII-graphics. Demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6aA5Y1SRd0 Homepage: https://jimbo.itch.io/petscii-lemmings-for-commodore-pet O
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Just a reminder that terror is commonly known as a strategy to inject fear and tensions into a society with the goal of implementing a more restrictive/authoritarian framework or a revolutionary change of the principal organization of
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I really wish, certain groups would leave European history alone, instead of twisting it for the purpose of their talking points. (Compare, "Hitler was a socialist", "Hitler was an atheist", etc – but this is really as o

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