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by msla 2y ago
> HTTP stands for Hypertext transfer protocol. The whole thing was predicated on sending HTML documents and couldn't originally send anything else. OK, HTTP/0.9 was apparently like that. By HTTP/1.0 (1996) they'd lear
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by msla 2y ago
To expand on this: The Gopher standard mixes a document format with a networking protocol. The HTTP standards don't say a damn thing about HTML, but the Gopher standard defines a standard for sending directory information to a client,
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A surprisingly simple pattern can give a pleasing melody: https://draw.audio/s/9fr7reqry
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The whole point of mathematical notation is to ease the cognitive burden by making certain things more automatic via symbol-shuffling: We don't need to think too hard about solving an algebra problem because we can shuffle symbols arou
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I'm not sure I believe that's actually the code the maintainers edit.
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My only "denial" when encountering high-church array languages is to deny them the precious brain space required to memorize their line noise syntax in order to be able to read them without a high ratio of comments to code. They&#
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Aren't you too smart to read the Mail?
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Previously: It's The Latency, Stupid: http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/latency.html
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by msla 2y ago
People aren't getting the joke because nobody here realizes how essentially crappy the ZX Spectrum was. You'd do better to render it on a four-function calculator or, perhaps, an abacus.
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They insist on it because big number sell better.
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> There arent any alternatives for major catastrophes that can top amplitude modulated radio. OK, then ensure the radio stations actually have people in them. Otherwise, it's a false sense of security: https://en.wikipedi
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by msla 2y ago
Yep: The machine code is in octal (three bits per digit), the low-order bit is on the reader's left in this image, and the words run top to bottom. Pretty easy to read, once you get oriented.
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by msla 2y ago
"I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran." —Tony Hoare COBOL is alive in that it keeps changing from era to era, to the point modern COBOL looks rather little like
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by msla 2y ago
If nothing else, getting people to accept a technical fix is a social problem. On the other hand, yes, some social problems have had technical solutions. Remember when “You just can’t get good help these days!” was a truism? It isn’t said a
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This, of course, is the true paper on the design of text editors: "Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation", Copyright © 1979, 1996 Bernard S. Greenberg https://multicians.org/mepap.html
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by msla 2y ago
I just like that it's normally legible, in that it distinguishes AI from Al and such, which normal sans-serif fonts rarely do. It does this by having serifs, yes, which seems like a lost art among the Usability Experts of the world.
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by msla 2y ago
> In this case, we're seeing the tension between "The official docs should be great" and "I've mistaken a community project for the official docs" What official documentation? The standards? C and C++ are we
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The effect on authors is the same: A book is circulated multiple times after being bought once.
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CDL is how physical libraries work: They buy a book and then lend it out multiple times to multiple people, on a one-in one-out basis, who then do not have to buy the book themselves. They even repair books to avoid purchasing new ones agai
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by msla 2y ago
Here's GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) in Byte Magazine from February 1985. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-02/1985_02_BY...
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Here's GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) in Byte Magazine from February 1985. https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-02/1985_02_BY...
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by msla 2y ago
Except it isn't thoughtful in the least, because it has absolutely no knowledge of the subject.
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"Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatchet_(novel)
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by msla 2y ago
Anyway, your post is serendipitous: Not very long ago (well, mid-May) I was looking for scans of Poor Richard's Almanack and I found the same things you did: The www.rarebookroom.org site, and its unfortunate UI. Thanks for putting t
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Yes, it would be disastrous if a widely-used chip had a bug in its division opcode. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_FDIV_bug It would be disastrous if a widely-used chip had a bug in a lock prefix that allowed cr
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by msla 2y ago
Frankly, the fact anyone posting here knows about Burning Man proves it's over. These things only work if they're special, such that only like-minded people know about them and can attend. It's the Summer Of Love Problem: Onc
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I'm just unconvinced that UI experts know what good user interface is given the utter monstrosities UI experts create, or advise others to create. The whole field is trend-driven, to the point good advice becomes bad and vice-versa on
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This is a blank page.
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So you can't write a simple form without JS? Weirdo.
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by msla 2y ago
So you admit you're being dumb on purpose. Go away.

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