AlbertoGP

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by AlbertoGP 6d ago
For a more detailed technical description you can see my 2019 edition of Chip Morningstar's “Xanadu Hypertext Documents” architecture and data structures from 1986, that got some comments in HN: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by AlbertoGP 7d ago
For my own selfish purposes I would like to have a license that allowed me to reuse parts of SearchEngineSuite as if it was a library, for instance Apache 2.0 which I used for my C preprocessor at https://sentido-labs.com/en
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by AlbertoGP 7d ago
This is absolutely relevant to my interests and I will try it out in a few hours as it is early morning in Europe now. So far I do not see any licensing terms, the source file headers only state the copyright notice. Do you have any plans a
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by AlbertoGP 10d ago
Thank you for the clarification.
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by AlbertoGP 15d ago
The article does not promote it on security grounds: > This article however will focus on the technical reasons why I won't be installing Omarchy yet. It boils down to what I call the security sweet spot. > ... Most of the imp
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by AlbertoGP 16d ago
> The person who used to edit things for me has not been replaced, I assume you meant "now" instead of "not": " The person who used to edit things for me has now been replaced, "
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by AlbertoGP 18d ago
Might be your ISP's DNS censoring the domain name, it happens to me for different ones depending on whether I am in Spain or in Germany at the moment when I click the link. It might work if you manually change the TLD part of the URL.
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by AlbertoGP 2mo ago
> A town, street name or postcode were omitted, but a highlighted note – presumably written by a postie – chirpily added ‘Royal Mail, we never fail!’ to the front of the letter. I think the note was written by the sender because the ha
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by AlbertoGP 3mo ago
Which one of the Markdowns should each browser support?
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by AlbertoGP 6mo ago
Alright but where is the link? Can you put in a comment?
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by AlbertoGP 6mo ago
I will try this out later, but for now the address https://mucss.org/ does not work for me. The Github link does.
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by AlbertoGP 7mo ago
In 50 years, people will be equally amazed that we could afford having our own computers on our desks.
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by AlbertoGP 7mo ago
I might be missing something, but parsing the HTML, even with the different formats, should be much simpler than the PDF form. In 20 years I would guess they used no more than 20 formats, which is doable even if writing XPath (perhaps CSS s
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by AlbertoGP 9mo ago
Thanks for the information, I have observed this in some of those links before (others worked, I do not know what the diffference is) and it might be the case. I am indeed outside the U.S.A.
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by AlbertoGP 9mo ago
The move to Singapore has been mentioned in several comments but he does address it in the linked piece: > Some might say: “Hang on, it’s all very well James Dyson telling Britain to support doers and makers, but he took his company’s m
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by AlbertoGP 9mo ago
I get 404 from the link.
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by AlbertoGP 9mo ago
This link shows me the paywall, I have not investigated why.
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by AlbertoGP 9mo ago
We had several Quickshot II's at home for our Commodore 64; each broke after a while and we had to get a new one. It looked and felt fantastic and was cheap, but the garbage switch mechanism was a thin metal cross pushed down onto cont
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by AlbertoGP 9mo ago
The URL is wrong, the right one is https://rodgercuddington.substack.com/p/the-return-to-full-f... > UK retailers are reporting a striking reversal in dairy consumption patterns. Waitrose searches for full-fat milk
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by AlbertoGP 10mo ago
That comment to which you replied, and the other thread of responses to it, are quotations of the malfunctioning and homicidal HAL computer from the movie “2001: a space oddisey”.
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by AlbertoGP 10mo ago
Around the time this website was made, I was building an application for a big company in Spain that was to run as a Java applet and required the code to be signed. They did not yet have their own certificates so I had to make my own CA dur
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by AlbertoGP 10mo ago
> Then apparently the editors renamed it to the (less interesting/more convoluted) title of the page it linked to. It is part of the submission guidelines: > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or lin
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by AlbertoGP 11mo ago
A particularly interesting part that I did not expect from the title: > Before the rats encountered the detour, the research team observed that their brains were already firing in patterns that seemed to "imagine" alternate un
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by AlbertoGP 1y ago
> Overall, I don’t think the LLM saved me any time. I didn’t end up keeping the code it gave me. But it got me unstuck, and that meant I actually made progress. I haven't tried LLMs yet but this sounds valuable.
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by AlbertoGP 1y ago
In 1984 one of the developers of Xanadu at the time, Chip Morningstar, wrote a technical description to apply for funding. In typical Xanadu fashion it was kept secret, protected by Dark Magick: > He who transgresses against the proprie
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by AlbertoGP 1y ago
It is indeed the 11th of September, here is the German Government's page about it: https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/leichte-sprache/11-se...
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by AlbertoGP 1y ago
That man, Rex Malik, participated in (among other things) the 1982 BBC series “The Computer Programme” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Computer_Programme ), typically in a small section at the end on an episode but a
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by AlbertoGP 1y ago
I tried it out to see if I would want to use this instead of miniz which I am using at the moment, but the example seems to be missing some includes. I filed an issue with the details: https://github.com/Ferki-git-creator&#x
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by AlbertoGP 1y ago
Ah, this fixes the problem I mentioned in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44501362 and was also reported in an earlier reply by someone else there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44508433 Thanks!
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by AlbertoGP 1y ago
The bottom-right camera view of Jonathan Blow and its audio do not match exactly the timing of the screen capture that fills the image. There are several seconds of delay. It can be seen clearly at this point: https://youtu.be&#x

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