knuckleheadsmif

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by knuckleheadsmif 1mo ago
It is a blunder that Japan could not see that they just copied other characters in to JIS and it’s also why we see duplicated Romaji characters within Unicode. The duplication is frankly bad regardless of number of bits need to encode altho
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by knuckleheadsmif 1mo ago
That’s correct, it was deemed critical to making Unicode 16bits (although there were other good technical reasons but they would apply to unifying other languages as well.)
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by knuckleheadsmif 1mo ago
I was involved in this before Unicode be a e Unicode when it started as discussions with Xerox and Apple—Xerox at that time had their XCCS standard. Those discussions directly morphed into Unicode. [[I was even there when we picked the name
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by knuckleheadsmif 5mo ago
That’s correct. The best example is that of cellophane tape which was a brand but it lost protection. Xerox very aggressive in the day and wrote lawyer letters to anyone who used Xerox as a verb to protect their brand. I’m not sure if Googl
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by knuckleheadsmif 5mo ago
No one knew the market at the time. Clearly this was for large businesses and not a home computer. It targeted the same demographic as the Xerox Star which shipped before it and suffered a similar fate. No one knew what would work, easy to
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by knuckleheadsmif 5mo ago
All these years I thought The Dragon Book referred to the “Green” Dragon book (which was the text I used in my compiler class in the very early 80s) only to Just realize that when folks refer to “The Dragon Book” that it is the red/pur
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by knuckleheadsmif 5mo ago
Mesa was my first language that I used out of Collage for the seven years that I worked on the Xerox Star document editor. The job where I learned more in 6 months than I did in 4 years of collage or my entire working career afterwords. It
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by knuckleheadsmif 1y ago
Being a physics researcher he built a time machine and in late 2001 went back in time to post it.
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by knuckleheadsmif 1y ago
More likely late 82 or even 83 when you saw it.
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by knuckleheadsmif 1y ago
The desktop metaphor absolutely was in the Xerox Star and that was copied by the Lisa team (and carried over to the Mac) after they viewed it when Star was first announce. That’s well documented. The Star also had limited pull down menus mo
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by knuckleheadsmif 1y ago
I was there and it’s true. Another point that people forget was the Head/CEO of Palm (which was an independent subsidiary) at the time was Jon Rubinstein who was head of software at NeXT and Apple. I’m pretty sure the decisions were ma
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by knuckleheadsmif 1y ago
I was at Palm when launched working on the device end user software startup experience. The software I think was ready but the hardware was far inferior to the current iPad at the time. However it’s possible that the next iteration could ha
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by knuckleheadsmif 1y ago
There is mortality and there is quality of life and someone who is fit will have a better quality of life even if they don’t necessarily live longer.
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by knuckleheadsmif 1y ago
Yes, making UI’s is not a new problem but building on top of the DOM/HTML as the backbone is. I too am from the before times where I guess we built essentially our own frameworks to handle own unique issues and take security into our o
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by knuckleheadsmif 1y ago
But you can Copyright the Name of a font. But yes long standing rule says you can copyright how letters & numbers look. Note that if you make a font that contains your own “artwork’ that does not represent a letter or number you can get
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by knuckleheadsmif 1y ago
We used these for my first CS class at UCSB in 1979 running the UCSD P-System and they were great machines. It was frankly a much better system than the shared university IBM mainframe clone based computers used for other first year courses
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
In the mid 90s (1996?) So myself and 3 others worked for Intuit and we traveled, from Mountain View CA, to your tiny office near Harvard to look at acquiring the company. I believe Intuit made a lowball offer and eventually you sold yoursel
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
NYT is worth paying for and is one of the few institutions doing real journalism these days. It would be said to see if go.
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
Never heard of the Xerox Palo computer and I worked at Xerox for much of the 80s. Xerox made a lot of different machines (mostly but not exclusive in the D-Machine family) but if there was a Palo machine I’d be interested in seeing a photo.
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
Yup similar rates to PG&E although most of PG&Es customers don’t live in Silicon Valley. Only Municipal power companies like in Sacramento, LA, Palo Alto & Santa Clara to name a few have rates that are 1/3 to 1/2 of PG
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
In CA, in 2025, if you have PG&E it’s approx 55 cents/kwh at peak, non-peak rates are lower but the average ands up being close 50 cents. It’s close to the highest in the country.
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
No rates are high excluding the wildfires which has a separate surcharge to finance. But PGE having to provide power to wilderness areas in genera costs all PG&E customers to bear the cost and it’s a cost that Municipal power companies
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
Perhaps it is ‘undocumented’ and is used as proof of someone copying the source code some portion of the source code. Another possibility is that is a special institution in the chip specifically for Apple that again was used as a copy writ
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
A little more complicated because in some settings drugs are covered by Medicare part B but generally not if administered yourself at home. Then yes it’s part D and the most out of pocket in Part D from 2025 going forward is $2K. Also, they
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
That’s because Medicare only covers drugs for approved FDA usage. It’s covered for diabetes but not weight loss. In general this is good policy. It is possible to challenge for some cases but generally that is the rule. It’s a perfectly re
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
Over 65, outside drugs delivered in a clinic, hospital or doctors office you don’t get drug coverage UNLESS you pay for it through Part D Medicare, have a Medicare Advantage pan (the privatized version of Medicare that now 50% of the Medica
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
Musk firing people at random was not an exaggeration. My friend was head of all software at Tesla for the original car and much of the Model S development. Musk would routinely fire random folks in his department and he’d have to go to musk
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
As another aside to this story, when I was at Intuit Bill Campbell who was on the Apple Board and CEO/Board Member of Intuit in 1999 or 2000 arranged for my project (An entirely internet version of Quickbooks as a subscription service)
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
A decade or so later I worked at Intuit where Intuit, Adobe, Apple, Google, Pixar (and one or two other companies that escape me) had an anti-poaching agreement not to approach anyone for a job (if they however we approached by someone they
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by knuckleheadsmif 2y ago
This crap happens all the time between companies. When I worked at Apple around 1990, Steve who was as we all know was CEO of NeXT at the time was recruiting 6 Apple folks (including me) to help add the internationalization infrastructure t

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