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by masswerk 1y ago
I think, in terms of art, it's more like a death march: events will become more exhausting and less emotional rewarding for the performers, so there will be less events, which will be even more exhaustive as they are exclusive. So, und
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by masswerk 1y ago
Because artists need an at least semi-competent vis-a-vis, AKA audience. This is the main proposition for entering a stage to begin with. And chances are that the most economical potent ticket buyers are not in this group and probably also
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by masswerk 1y ago
Maybe interesting in this context: the CRT font renderers for the DEC PDP-1 (notably one of the first commercial machines for which a CRT was available) also rendered at 5 × 7 dots. (As bit patterns for 35 dots fit perfectly into two 18-bit
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by masswerk 1y ago
There isn't any dedicated instruction decoding for these "illegal" instructions, at all. Generally, just two regular instructions happen to be executed at once. Some of these work out reliably and somewhat useful, others resu
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by masswerk 1y ago
I guess, the best you could do is emulating a frameset layout with a fixed navigation and a display frame for the actual content. (By setting the overflow to `hidden` you can get rid of the outer scrollbars.)
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by masswerk 1y ago
Fun fact: this does work with iframes: <ul> <li><a href="about.html" target="display">about</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html" target="display&
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by masswerk 1y ago
As far as I'm aware of it, changing the SRC-attribute was quite crash-y and the functionality was stripped soon. (I remember playing with this in beta, and then it was gone in the production version.)
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by masswerk 1y ago
Some more info is here: https://masswerk.at/jsuix/jsuix-documentation.txt All the man pages (same as `man -p`): https://masswerk.at/jsuix/man.txt (I think, the simple vi implementation acquired a
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by masswerk 1y ago
This is a dangerous path! I once did the same and it grew to become https://masswerk.at/jsuix ;-) (Historical note: pixels were bigger, in 2003. Feel free to zoom in / increase the text size.)
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by masswerk 1y ago
While I do not doubt that Northern Africa has cradled human civilization for a long time, to me, connecting the Richat structure and Plato is stretching it quite a bit, though. Why not say Plato's Atlantis is actually Göbekli Tepe – it
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by masswerk 1y ago
Please, see "No – Atlantis Has Not Been Discovered in North Africa" by Steven Novella (2018): https://theness.com/neurologicablog/no-atlantis-has-not-been... BTW, there's still the problem of claiming th
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by masswerk 1y ago
Anyways, the real question should be: what is the most productive form for the project/technology? Separate efforts may not the answer, we're looking for.
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by masswerk 2y ago
Allegedly, there was yet another model after this, which wasn't advertised publicly, sold exclusively to creative professionals. (Mostly because of Quark XPress, which took years and years to transition to OS X, which also opened a lar
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by masswerk 2y ago
Regarding the loud power supply fan of the G4 MDD: Apple actually had a free of charge replacement program for the power supply. The replacement was somewhat less noisy, but still loud, mostly a (rather subtle) change in frequencies than an
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by masswerk 2y ago
My guess: it's the "mode change" code found in various IBM punchcard encodings, punch 11-8-7, canonically represented by an upper-case delta. It would make sense to render this somewhat differently from the regular Greek char
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by masswerk 2y ago
Yes, I have no problem believing that this is what Adobe wants and/or a certain category of posters. But, what's the motivation for answering? (Notably, this was about "what's fuelling your creativity, right now?" a
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by masswerk 2y ago
Yes, but it's not what social media users want. How about posting tips, small micro courses, behind the scene stories about what motivated some choices in the app, anything useful or endearing? Not just harvesting likes and account nam
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by masswerk 2y ago
I think, part of the fiasco is about that engagement posters are not really welcomed on Bluesky. And, "What’s fueling your creativity right now?” is a pure engagement post, contributing nothing on its side of the conversation. Hence,
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by masswerk 2y ago
1) Switched about 4 years ago 2) to Affinity Photo & Designer (perpetual license)
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by masswerk 2y ago
I doubt that, when confronted with an image that you've learned to associate with a plethora of low-quality / low-effort productions, you'd search for the possible origin, in the first place. (After all, it's yet another
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by masswerk 2y ago
I think, Studio Ghibli will be affected, as well, since their "trademark style" (as we used to say), formerly a welcome sight and indicative for a certain type of story telling, will be devaluated as an indicator for slop. (Much l
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by masswerk 2y ago
Regarding the display, it's a point plotting display, which is really the major performance bottleneck, as each dot has to be drawn individually and each dot takes 50 nanoseconds to display. (You can interleave computations and display
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by masswerk 2y ago
As for the current one, a few years ago (2016), I wrote a new game for the PDP-1, a Computer Space simulator for the machine that inspired this first coin-op arcade video game. (Hence, Ironic Computer Space Simulator or short ICSS.) It prov
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by masswerk 2y ago
Also, MkLinux wasn't that stable. I experimented a bit with it at the time and it wasn't really ripe for production. It kind of worked, but there would have been lots of work to be invested (probably more than Apple could afford)
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by masswerk 2y ago
Regarding that choice: Given that this is really a different library (the DOM and its individual browser implementation), it's probably quite sane to just define a certain object to evaluate as falsy, as compared to any attempts to che
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by masswerk 2y ago
Moreover, it was kind of a standard for any scripting language at that time. In other words, this was generally expected behavior. (E.g., compare AWK, Perl, etc.)
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by masswerk 2y ago
Fun fact: JavaScript 1.2 did feature -0 and 0 = +0. Which has quite a number of rather confusing aspects and effects, if you run a script in this context.
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by masswerk 2y ago
However, there's no notion of the first example operating on a single scope and the latter on three different, individual scopes. Which is why scope ranges and where you declare a variable with `let` matters.
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by masswerk 2y ago
E.g., I think, there are now entire generations, who never played anything as a child that wasn't tied in with corporate IP in one way or the other.
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by masswerk 2y ago
What I'm kind of concerned about is that these images will persist and will be reinforced by positive feedback. Meaning, an adventurous archeologist will be the same very image, forever. We're entering the epitome of dogmatic ages

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