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Around 2015, I authored my résumé in LibreOffice, and I sprinkled in an assortment of bullet points. Some were indented. I used open squares, filled squares, open and filled circles, right-arrows, stars, etc.

I brought it into an employment center for critique, and my mentor informed me that those shapes all had different meanings and functions. It was a wake-up call for me.

I am not a UX/UI designer, so my experience with the UI elements in applications had been intuitive, and moreover, disconnected from the activity of authoring a non-interactive document.

So I believe that these UI features were imitating paper-based forms. Those ovals or circles on Scantron sheets: you'd better not fill in more than one per line! And being named "radio buttons": yes, if you pressed "AM" then the "FM" button popped out. If you had six presets in a car--wait a minute, those were oblong...

Couple things here:

The GP describes resolver software, which corresponds to item 6.3.3, not a caching server. This does specify the same behavior.

In RFC terminology, "MUST" > "SHOULD" > "MAY", so there is some wiggle room there.

6.3.2 permits Chromium and other apps to hardcode localhost names as such, instead of using a resolver.

A very popular vector for adware/malware is to take over the system resolver, or replace the DNS client configuration, so this is one reason Chromium jealously guards 127.0.0.0/8

Brahmic scripts such as devanāgarī, Gurmukhī, and Bengali are noted for joining glyphs with a long horizontal line across the top (shirorekhā). However, other examples such as Tamil use more curls and curves, and lack the shirorekhā.

I am told that one reason for this change was because manuscripts in certain regions used parchment or vellum, and in other regions used palm leaves. Writing on a palm leaf, if you made long, straight horizontal marks on it, you could split the fibers.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiruvaymoli_palm_ma...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Palm-leaf_manuscript...

The last time I set up DNS at home, I decided to use a fictitious and undelegated subdomain under my ISP's domain name. This structure did not create any "extra" problems in the short term.

But I suppose that I still ran the risk that the subdomain could "become real", or draw attention from security admins, or I would change ISPs.

The sort of compound words which we're discussing appear by a process of synthesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_language

See also: agglutination https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination

A portmanteau is different, where parts of several words are blended, rather than retaining the substance of each word in a compound.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blend_word

And let's not forget xkcd's coinage of the malamanteau:

https://xkcd.com/739/

This example was performed on the block-special device, so there is no filesystem.

dd uses a default block size of 512 bytes, according to the manual page: calling write(2) directly means you need to choose a buffer of some size.

"bs=" sets both input and output block sizes, which probably isn't the best idea in this case.

Block sizes are a tricky subject:

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/StatfsPeculiar...

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/SSDsAnd4KSecto...

I hosted a friend from Catalonia who was amazed and bewildered by the variety in shelves full of crisps: Chee-Tos, Doritos, Pringles, that sort of thing. And that was in a corner gas station's convenience store.

When I visited her in Catalonia, we visited a Carrefour, and I took note of the varieties of olives available. Also, the mounted legs of jamón serrano, curing in the open air. Complimentary olives were served at every Italian restaurant there, and her sister eagerly served me a jamón sandwich at her café.

I think she has the better part.

bend over backwards

That is literally a valid movement of the tongue to produce a retroflex [ɭ].

In contrast, Spanish phonology lacks retroflex entirely.

In 1980, Rogue for Unix was a dungeon crawl game that coincidentally used the same keys as vi for navigation. Even today, Nethack and vim are widely revered. Nethack takes vi training further: there are several two-key commands, and some prefix keys which open a "command-line" interface.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_(video_game)

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Commands

https://vim-adventures.com/

Even today, I posit that twitch video games train future developers and users on UX/UI features. In a mobile or web GUI, there are moving targets; there is progressive rendering; there are ephemeral dialogs. If you've played DOOM and Fortnite, then you're better equipped for all that.

That currently applies to photos with animals deliberately triggering the shutter. I would hesistate to say "it's established" without more than one precedent in US case law.

However, candid nature photographs taken with camera traps are copyrighted, and Wikimedia Commons has tolerated this status since 2011.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_trap

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Photos_taken_wit...

Look at the bright side: a bricked phone won't collect your personal data, you won't be able to fall for phishing scams on it, and its battery should last a really long time!

Hyperbole aside, let's remember that "better" and "safer" exist in dialectic tension. Or, "convenience" vs. "security". Often, functionality or features are removed because they were insecure, so now your device is "safer". If you've got a big feature update pending, consider how many bugs/flaws it may introduce as the software gets "better".

September 24, 1995: The Simpsons S7E2: "Radioactive Man" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_Man_(The_Simpsons_...

Comic Book Guy demonstrates exactly how to query Usenet forums such as "alt.nerd.obsessive" with the single line: "need [to] know star rm pic" which is answered within 7 minutes by a cadre of nerds, including Prince Rogers Nelson, and a guy hiding under a Hollywood conference table.

https://youtu.be/uVuyPn3t1CU?si=pou3NZ9apXGUuUCj&t=48

Fan art and memes are tolerated despite their infringing nature. It's a laughable double-standard. You only need compare the contents of a typical Fandom wiki vs. Creative Commons repositories to see this in action.

If fan art increases brand recognition and promotes the properties, then it gets a free pass.