Great work! The video does state this clearly that it was about the journey first and foremost and that's great, but yet to me it feels unfinished when it ends as soon as we get to the really fun stuff, so it's complete in the sense of it being well-produced, publishable content, but it's uploaded as soon as it's publishable, and I'm left with "what, that's it?", as I've mostly been looking at milling and some coating. I get this often with similar videos today. Either it's just me (entirely possible) or it's a sign of the times.
Readit Newswowczarek commented on I made a floppy disk from scratch kottke.org/25/08/i-made-a... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
Not the point of the exercise obviously, but at five minutes' training I wonder how this would compare to a Markov chain bot.
don't know if you used lotus 123 back in the day, but it was one of the best keyboard-driven interfaces i've seen. everything was done by navigating hierarchical menus, but the menus were displayed horizontally in a bar on the bottom of the screen, no popups to obscure the rest of the display. so if you were a power user you would just automatically type e.g. /fs to open the file menu and then the save option thereunder, but if you were new to it you could look down, see that /f was file and when you hit that the bar would change to include s:save and you could hit that.
I remember those horizontal menus; Lotus 1-2-3 really was the pinnacle of productivity. You could also create custom menus, assign shortcut keys to your macros, and of course have your macros call other shortcut keys. I was too young to use it for serious work back then, but the 123 and dBase combo really was a powerhouse.
I have to admit I don't like customizing tools like tmux too much. Personally I prefer to just learn and live with the defaults. That mean losing out on some things, but I think it's a good trade off for having thing just work like you expect on random server you sign in to.
Especially something like keyboard shortcuts and leader keys doesn't make sense to change in my mind. It just confuses you when login in to a remote host.
This exactly. While on the visual side I prettified it a bit over time, Initially I was really tempted to do some major keybind remapping, having used lots of GUI terminals like Terminator in parallel, especially the infuriating h/v splits that I still routinely confuse after years with tmux, but I stopped myself so as not to cripple myself when I log in to anything that has tmux running defaults - and I'm happy with this choice.
...meanwhile, as always with any major/meaningful/useful Android updates, here on Earth in the world of non-Google hardware, we wait, patiently, for we have learned that one needs patience.
Oh what filun it was when Internet Explorer supported XSLT natively ... have your webpage content in an RSS file or similar, add XSLT Stylesheet reference and the browser would render it as nice web page. Nice way to have a single page blog without server side code, no generator step or anything.
But well, Firefox didn't do it that way, thus no proper use.
I did this in embedded some 20+ years ago, I was working on a project where the microcontroller didn't have enough resources to do much CGI and store much more than a few kilobytes, so a big dashboard with tens of temperature gauges and other things was all done as a combination of serving XML data and a single, small XSLT file and the rest was all in the browser. Fun times indeed.
I'm more of a mercurial guy (since 2009) and I honestly never understood the success of git with its total nonsense of options, UX and documentation. Each command does too much thing and has different behavior. Type git diff -x and git switch -x in a non-git repository and check the output...
I love OpenBSD and I'm really interested in got for several years. I just hope that this https://framagit.org/stsp/got/-/blob/main/got/got.c?ref_type... gets removed at some point.
That message should go. Also don't know if it's amalgamation or just because, but look ma, a single, 300k+, 14-kloc+ C source.
wowczarek commented on Burning a Magnesium NeXT Cube (1993) simson.net/ref/1993/cubef... · Posted by u/leoapagano
Is it just me or does this read a little boring and a lot longer than it should..? So much of the email is just him calling random people... whole paragraphs of it
Dunno, I thoroughly enjoyed it, it was a, well, slow burn, but nicely written IMO, setting up the scene and all. Felt a lot like reading Neal Stephenson's Zodiac, with a bunch of engineers and the chemistry aspect. I didn't read it as an actual email; it's storytelling, and pretty good one at that.
I'm 19 years old, kde3 is just out and compiling it with objprelink makes it go brr, gkrellm on the side of my desktop, XMMS and a playlist of ripped CDs and assorted downloads, Quake II deathmatch is as fun as it ever was, I have no real worries and make just enough to never skimp for a beer or two. Life is good. Thanks for the memories ;)