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by rezmason 2y ago
I'm pretty critical of my tech's ability to fulfill me exact needs, and the Magic Mouse is fine 98% of the time. The remaining 2% are when I want to play a video game that leverages multiple mouse buttons and a discrete scroll. An
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by rezmason 2y ago
One thousand times, this. My first decade of software development was on the Flash platform. Don't get me started. When I began building what I considered "Flash-caliber" HTML+CSS+JS things in 2015, I knew to avoid everything
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by rezmason 2y ago
You're cleared for takeoff: https://rezmason.github.io/excel_97_egg
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by rezmason 2y ago
Sorry, folks. I think Quanta discovered people like me rarely get past the third paragraph, and they made this to keep my attention. And it's working. —By "working", I mean I can experience it in Chrome and I feel like I&#x27
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by rezmason 2y ago
Is this the first time a spaceship disembarked from a space station and landed back on the ground, all while unpiloted?
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by rezmason 2y ago
One of these days, I'll write a TypeScript reinterpretation of an early version of the Macintosh Toolbox, and a little sandboxed web environment for its software to cosplay in
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by rezmason 2y ago
This was on the TV show Movie Magic ages and ages ago, but they certainly never went into this much depth and backstory. This is a great writeup.
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by rezmason 2y ago
My dad used array languages throughout his career— APL at some point, A+ at Morgan Stanley, and K later on at Conning, a finance modeling company serving the insurance industry. They moved what I think is a flagship product (a macroeconomic
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by rezmason 2y ago
Maybe this is what it'll take to seriously combat global warming. Filling zoos with wooly mammoths, and then extorting us into dropping global temperatures to keep them alive. Unless we're headed for a Day After Tomorrow situation
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by rezmason 2y ago
I wonder what software is available NT4 on a Power Macintosh.
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by rezmason 2y ago
Same. Looks like the "numeric" JS library is no longer hosted at the URL they link to in their dependency list— I had to replace it with " https://unpkg.com/numeric ", which seems to have fixed it for me.
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by rezmason 2y ago
The ability to purchase and download whole seasons of shows from iTunes was one of its major advantages. I bought all of West Wing ten years ago, and I know for a fact that it's all physically in this room, three feet away. This is als
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by rezmason 2y ago
I'm happy to see this studied and published. Still, if you have to explain a joke, you kill it. I'm an office clown but I've learned to keep it all in the chatrooms and ticket descriptions. Cross the wit/work barrier at
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by rezmason 2y ago
Intel and Qualcomm (seriously? one and then the other, while taking potshots at Apple silicon?) working with Justin Long suggests that they believe he was the active ingredient of the old Mac ads. That he was some major reason why they work
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by rezmason 3y ago
I'm really looking forward to reading its technical blog.
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by rezmason 3y ago
If you're more into evoking a feeling than simulating countryside, I humbly suggest (aka shamelessly plug) my project and another person's project: https://rezmason.github.io/drivey https://incoherency.
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by rezmason 3y ago
PR submitted!
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by rezmason 3y ago
I've downloaded saharan's repo and poked around the Life Universe project in Chrome and FF— it seems that the pixels representing the compressed animation are retrieved through a Context2D::drawImage call, and are different in Fir
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by rezmason 3y ago
I didn't know Wolfram was even available in short form. I bought NKS for fifty bucks twenty years ago because I thought I could form a group around it that would take turns summing up chapters for each other, but unfortunately, if huma
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by rezmason 3y ago
Many are undeniably garish by today's standards, on today's devices, and although they were maybe more refreshing to our palettes at the time and less intense in the default monitor color spaces back then, I must confess, I distin
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by rezmason 3y ago
I really like how much utility we've all managed to get from Cairo. It is everywhere. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cairo_(graphics)#Notable_usage I don't know the full story behind it, but from an outsider&#
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by rezmason 3y ago
Don't forget the OS 9 wallpapers: https://512pixels.net/projects/mac-os-9-5k-wallpapers My favorites among these are the gradient-rich desktops that dropped in Mac OS 8.5 back in '98, like those UFO ones. Tha
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by rezmason 3y ago
I think for many reasons the security model for code execution in HTML and SVG ought to be completely identical. They ought to just be slightly different DOM specifications. In other words, if I can set an SVG file as the image of an img ta
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by rezmason 3y ago
I think I now have to create an online version of it. Web Audio and CSS transforms should be more than up to the task.
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by rezmason 3y ago
Wild speculation: maybe the attacker's motive was to usher specific Sourcehut hosted repositories to the jurisdiction of the EU.
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by rezmason 3y ago
If you hated Windows in the nineties and you're feeling sentimental, seems like there's plenty of anti-Microsoft stuff in there for old time's sake
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by rezmason 3y ago
Are you talking about this? https://enterprise.ft.com/en-gb/blog/ft-app-now-available-io... This says they just wrapped their web app in a native app, like a web view, so they could then use system features that t
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by rezmason 3y ago
That is a real problem. But if that problem manifests in web and native software alike, then neither the web nor the app stores directly cause it, right?
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by rezmason 3y ago
Them's citin' words! Are you sure you're as well-versed as you portray yourself to be? The article which you linked to is from 2012; it pertains to the performance of Facebook's web client in 2010, when run on mobile d
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by rezmason 3y ago
I think you're right, and want to offer some additional perspective. I made a very, very simple game in Godot 4 with my friend this fall. To build for the web target, I ported our C# to GDScript, and it wasn't so bad. The resultin

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