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by rhet0rica 9mo ago
Fun fact: NEXTSTEP went 10 years without shipping a basic design refresh, except in prereleases (4.0PR1 and traces in 4.0PR2.) This was because it was a good fucking GUI that did its fucking job, and had "usability before aesthetics&qu
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by rhet0rica 10mo ago
Although the author appears to be of Indian descent, I think this is just a case of "Silicon Valley Tech Bro Discovers Localization," particularly since he noted he didn't know the word "transliteration." YouTube do
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by rhet0rica 11mo ago
Indeed—I meant specifically the NeXT branch of the family tree because of this exhaustingly long list. I would very much like to see that quad-fat OS4.2 CD; most NeXT releases around that era drop PA-RISC and are only tri-fat. I only have a
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by rhet0rica 11mo ago
A lot of these questions are answered here: https://ravynos.com/faq To summarize... There is a WINE-analogous project, called Darling: https://www.darlinghq.org/ The goal for ravynOS is to be analogous to R
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
The author kindly informs us that he is a "UI prototyper [...] tinkering with design concepts" and also that he works for a company making AI coding software. This double-whammy may somewhat explain the strong Dunning-Kruger gravi
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Are you really criticizing a name chosen in 1979 by Princeton faculty because it doesn't comply with SCP Foundation nomenclature?
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
β particles. Do not recommend. Use proper shielding.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
The article agrees: > This suggests, I think, that in Thiel’s mind there are two cosmic forces warring over creation itself, and they both consist of Peter and his friends.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
You could view him through a flat piece of glass and the image would still look like a complete mess.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Addendum: This was posted to the front page today: https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utf-8_history It also notes that UTF-8 protects against the dangers of NUL and '/' appearing in filenames, which would k
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
https://i.imgur.com/7ITZb7d.jpeg Aren't web components a pain in the ass to use?
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
See quectophoton's comment—the requirement that continuation bytes are always tagged with a leading 10 is useful if a parser is jumping in at a random offset—or, more commonly, if the text stream gets fragmented. This was actually a ma
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Be aware that these are built on very barebones disk images compiled by a community member many years ago; the NeXT community is working on more tourist-friendly packages that we hope to offer to Mihai soon.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
The current best GNUstep distro is WMlive: https://sourceforge.net/projects/wmlive/ It's based on Debian Bookworm.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Generally the matter is one of blood purity, as with all racism. Southern Spain, Italy, and Greece were all occupied at one time by Arabs, which contributed certain hair textures, skin tones, and facial features to the local gene pool. Thos
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
The two concepts were often one in the same—a "magician" was simply any art that "we" considered to be not in keeping with "our" religious practices. The label was slung about freely for some thousand years. Th
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
I have two related stories. Googlebot has been playing a multiple-choice flash card game on my site for months—the page picks a random question and gives you five options to choose from. Each URL contains all of the state of the last click:
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
I'm pretty sure no employee wants to work for Adobe.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
True, but depressing. Definitely something to add to the FLOSS casus belli...
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
You're right; unfortunately I can't edit my comment to remove Adobe from it. Though they are plenty guilty of 'adding value' in the worst possible ways.
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
It sounds like the presumption that you would do this for money is the problem here—you don't have to "beg for scraps" if it's just a hobby done for fun. ...which is probably the most succinct way of describing where our
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
There are plenty of textbook cases of enshittification that are covered by price increases—just look at Adobe and AutoCAD selling credits that are used just to launch the program. As long as it fits with the "claw back value from your
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Severo-Kurilsk, an island town destroyed by a similar tsunami in 1956, lost its port again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severo-Kurilsk — the rest of the settlement was rebuilt on higher ground, leaving only the port
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Yeah, it's really missing the charm you'd expect from a AI-free spam site. Maybe more flashing text?
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Exactly. The expert system era was the first victim of the Bitter Lesson, as it was blown away when backpropagation was figured out at the end of the eighties. An author familiar with the history of AI would have mentioned this instead of g
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
From TFA: > No machine learning model was ever built using pure “human knowledge” — because then it wouldn’t be a learning model. It would be a hard coded algorithm. I guess the author hasn't heard of expert systems? Systems like MY
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
The ailments peculiar to the rich (gout notwithstanding) are largely ameliorated by functional immortality, but these ameliorations are greatly diminished by universal immortality. Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Alzheimer's treatment levels the playing field by restoring to sufferers something of which they have been bereaved: normal mental function. Even if only a subset of the population has access to it, all they're gaining is normalcy
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
Oh no, not a CGP Grey video. And a parable, at that! It's a shame the humans in the story still die of natural causes, otherwise it might actually be relevant to the discourse around the ethics of life extension. The dragon is a metaph
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by rhet0rica 1y ago
It's certainly not the mainstream position here on HN, according to this informal study of provoking commenters with incendiary remarks... It's true that there are many age-associated diseases that are morally trivial to oppose: a

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