"He was talking about how all his life these movies of history had been getting better and better looking. How they'd started out jumpy and black and white, with the soldiers running around like they had ants in their pants, and this terrible grain to them, and the sky all full of scratches. How gradually they'd slowed down to how people really moved, and then they'd been colorized, the grain getting finer and finer, and even the scratches went away. And it was bullshit, he said, because every other bit of it was an approximation, somebody's idea of how it might have looked, the result of a particular decision, a particular button being pushed. But it was still a hit, he said, like the first time you heard Billie Holiday without all that crackle and tin." - William Gibson, Virtual Light (1993)
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YouTubers are upscaling the past to 4K, but historians want them to stop 6 years ago
Have you thought about making art uploadable? Many times have I been intrigued by a drawing game only to get frustrated by the limitations of the tools. Paper and pen is easier to use (and a tablet computer is more fun).
A Story about Symbolics Lisp Machines 11 years ago
I'm surprised a machine explicitly designed to write and run Lisp requires a two-key combo to make a parenthesis.
Lime Text: Open Source Sublime Text clone 12 years ago
Atom might not be up to Sublime Text levels of quality, but I find it much nicer than the defaults gedit and kate.
Teenage Haskell 12 years ago
If you're curious: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtRG9GLtNcHBv4cuh2w1c...