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by ttepasse 3y ago
Back in the experimental 2000s my RSS reader* could subscribe to a shell script. I remember I used that funktionality for monitoring the success of some long running downloads or something like that. More a proof of concept. Oh, and that wa
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Atom/RSS can and did use WebSub (formerly PubSubHubbub) as a Push mechanism: https://www.w3.org/TR/websub/ And Userlands's RSS specified an <cloud> Element back in RSS 2.0, but the RSS Cloud API on
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We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus(antipope.org)
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There is also a lack of serendipity or explorability with voice: How do you know whats possible? There is a reason a GUI menu is called a menu. It not only gives you access to multiple options but also at a glance an overview what options a
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It may not me the most slick and elegant, but it had a very nice, minimalist design, and I deeply enjoyed the gameplay. Continuity was a small platformer, in which you needed to rearrange the levels in the form of a sliding puzzle. It was p
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That's a very nice implementation, not even janky on my old Mac. Great. I recently found out that the web is in the process of getting Scroll-Driven-Animations, which enabled a CSS-only CoverFlow, among other things. Here is an example
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Extremely minor nitpick: In this case the Fraunhofer Society is a non-profit, although it earns 70% of its income through contracts. That's why I can’t be that angry about the MP3 patent monopoly: The income financed other applied scie
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by ttepasse 3y ago
In the Falklands war the British Forces established a Forward Operating Base for its Harriers STOVL jets at San Carlos, using Prefabricated Surfacing Airfield interlocking panels. Some information here: https://web.archive.org&#x
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by ttepasse 3y ago
"collapsed" That would imply bankruptcies, mass unemployment, etc. But for some reason only the people on anglophile Youtube see this collapse. Germany mostly muddles through. That is not to say there are no problems. But "co
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(EU) Digital Services Act Transparency Database(transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu)
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> (I am the website author & tech co-creator with Said Achmiz.) I recently spend some time reading some parts of your website and found myself a little bit frustrated by the experience. I'm hesitant to criticise, since your si
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Twice: The usage of a giant text input box as a launcher or command palette was pioneered on the Mac by LaunchBar and Quicksilver and later Alfred, etc. Spotlight for a long time was only a menu extra.
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by ttepasse 3y ago
There was a discussion here about that in June: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36401854
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Back in the 2010s there was a TED Talker/grifter who advocated a wider stance to project power and confidence. For a time that notion must have been picked up by political consultants, leading in the UK to the so-called Tory Power Stan
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Back in the 80s Twix was called Raider in Germany and, I believe all of continental Europe, up until the early 90s, when they decided to standardise on Twix Europe-wide. So they flooded the airwaves with this rhyming advertisement jingle:
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Even sorting alphabetically sorted lists by last name differ in western cultures, in the case of particles in the last names. Some countries file “de Rohan”, “von Ruhr”, “van Rotterdam” and similar under “R”, others just under the first cha
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by ttepasse 3y ago
That looks like something which could be implemented with a function decorator. (A little bit ugly, though.)
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Life on the International Space Station at a time of war(theguardian.com)
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As an aside: Why are robocars practicing on wide, sunny roads in the American southwest? Shouldn’t they test on the hard cases? Rain, Snow, alleyways, streets, that exist since medieval or earlier times, traffic which takes a laissez-faire
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Please read the second part of the sentence before commenting. Or should I rephrase it? I could do, but I really can’t see what you missed or understood.
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You can "use" the platform without being a user of the platform: Clicking a link to a tweet or reading an article with embedded tweets. Useful habit, if you're a journalist or a blogger or such: never ever use native embeds,
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by ttepasse 3y ago
I believe the 20 year old MMS standard supported in principle a XHTML subset via WAP.
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But you’re already using perfectly good American regional identifiers for those regional differences in your original post. Pet peeve from a European: the American habit of using their distant ancestor’s European ethnicity as a shorthand fo
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The Duchy of Cornwall and the Duchy of Lancaster are not really land ownership. The Prince of Wales and the Monarch respectively receive the income, which is not nothing, but the land and commercial estates are held in trust, afair.
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by ttepasse 3y ago
You may be interested in the wunderfull Elastic Tabstops concept which although it has proof of concepts and plugins for most editors sadly never got widespread adoption: https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/
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@AlexBlechman on TwiX had this tweet some years ago: Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create Th
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Turning a 2001 Riese und Müller Birdy into a modern folding bicycle(jonworth.eu)
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Lee Child, in his Reacher novel “Night School”, has a major part of the plot being played out in Hamburg’s “HafenCity” quarter. Reading it, you’re rather sure that the author has visited Hamburg and has traced himself the steps of his ficti
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by ttepasse 3y ago
Some of the utter joys that Eco’s books give you, is that they grow with you. The more you learn about the world (and yourself), the more layers and nuances you’ll find in re-reads. As a stubborn and curious 14 year old Foucault’s Pendulum
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I already wrote upthread: The story behind the genesis behind Holy Blood, Holy Grail is far more funnier than the conspiracy theory in the book: The authors fell for a con-artist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Pl

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