mhd

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by mhd 4d ago
Yes, I'm pretty sure it's by the human Jackie Daytona.
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by mhd 4d ago
I remember playing a somewhat decent adventure based on the BiFi salami snacks in the 90s.
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by mhd 8d ago
I hope "slop doula" sticks around…
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by mhd 15d ago
"human ↔ machine collaboration" sounds rather creepy, to be honest.
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by mhd 17d ago
I have some pretty fond memories of Matrox. Saw the Millennium at a trade fair, as pretty much the first sign that 3D will reach the PC segment (I also saw a SGI Onyx there). And later I got one as pretty much the most solid Linux graphics
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by mhd 2mo ago
In Germany this was certainly true, as the local distributor CPS put out their own "Sound Blaster" cards for a while until stopped by a lawsuit. IIRC they were rebranded Aztech sound cards. I had a "Sound Blaster Junior"
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by mhd 2mo ago
There's also Renoise, which tries to marry the contemporary DAW with a tracker-style timeline. https://www.renoise.com
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by mhd 3mo ago
On the same page (for me): "Silicon Valley needs to get God" Well, seems it already did.
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by mhd 3mo ago
Beowulf cluster time for old Pixels?
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by mhd 4mo ago
> I love that there are compilers beside the big 2 Whatever happened to Tendra?
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by mhd 4mo ago
Surprised that this isn't part of a "journey"…
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by mhd 5mo ago
One interesting predecessor were the versioned files of time-sharing systems. You can still access Donald Knuth's directory tree for example, and see that a lot of files have different revisions. Knuth's Tex directory: https:&#x2
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by mhd 5mo ago
I once had some Norwegian room mates in Ireland, and whenever we collectively couldn't find the proper English word, we usually got lucky with our native tongues. When listening to Scandi TV series, I'm still surprised more than I
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by mhd 5mo ago
Like a more devious Lingua::Romana::Perligata? https://metacpan.org/dist/Lingua-Romana-Perligata/view/lib/L...
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by mhd 5mo ago
No mention of Algol? Or Mesa?
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by mhd 5mo ago
> Why is everyone compelled to write one of these articles? LinkedIn clout.
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by mhd 5mo ago
Enlightenment always had a pretty weird value proposition. In the very beginning, there was "fvwm-xpm" and early "E" prototypes. They were graphically crazy with a heavy focus on shaped Windows. There's still nothin
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by mhd 5mo ago
> Teapot is pretty great, it's too bad there is close to zero room for real innovation in the spreadsheet domain. One issue is that this is hard to do while still retaining backwards compatibility. Lotus Improv basically gave you no
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by mhd 6mo ago
Way back in the days, I always thought that Tcl/Tk had a pretty good packaging story compared to the P-languages, given the presence of Starkits-/packs[1], and (somewhat sadly) the absence of dependencies. 1: https://ww
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by mhd 6mo ago
Maybe it's time to get out my Cowlishaw Rexx book again…
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by mhd 6mo ago
I'd say most people run Emacs in the GUI mode, not in a terminal. So these days, you're pretty much on the same level as most rivals. Sadly, "these days" is a low bar. The days of consistent platform-specific "Human
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by mhd 7mo ago
I remember playing at least one game without the mouse, to save those precious KBs…
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by mhd 7mo ago
People doing DTP with Calamus on their Ataris stuck around for a long time after the systems weren't used for much else – MIDI tooling excepted, of course. On the other hand, there you didn't have that many powerful packages on
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by mhd 7mo ago
One thing I always liked about some older languages was being able to have blanks in identifiers. Although I see that they actually managed to invent a new stropping variant that doesn't work with that… For the "kids"…
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by mhd 8mo ago
So Copilot in Office is the new "Hall of Tortured Souls"?
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by mhd 8mo ago
> motif had the opposite of versionitis I basically meant that we could've avoided the (needless) versionitis of gtk , the toolkit once introduced to rewrite a Motif-based application. (Never understand why they did have to reinven
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by mhd 8mo ago
That's a cruel alternate universe, I would've hoped that Motif being in use by more people than just the devs of one homebrew Unix desktop would mean that we wouldn't have suffered through that much versionitis.
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by mhd 9mo ago
I'm also pretty sure that there was an "Elixir" in IT before there was the language said framework is written in… I mean, given that the letter "X" is in both Unix and X11, I'm pretty sure most words containing
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by mhd 9mo ago
Don't a lot of courts use/mandate Century? Just use that. Better than TNR. If you can't afford a custom font…
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by mhd 10mo ago
Seems everyone has. Which is weird, given how bad everything looks despite this focus. I'm not sure what's going on in the design world. I mean, of course there's the influence of the web design spheres. The web didn't h

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