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Star didn't have cut/copy/paste. Instead it had ‘copy to’ and ‘move to’ operations on the current selection, more like today's drag-and-drop. Some influential people decided that invisible fragile clipboard state was better than a copy/move-in-progress state.

Without robust copyright protection, what will incentivize Anne Frank to write more diary entries?

Now I'm imagining someone dumped in the river chained to a pallet of t-shirts rather than a cinder block.

Does pork factor into this? (Serious question for an expert, not a joke.)

That was 7 hours ago. Now, Google Images not only reads the text but links to that web site.

The assumption is that if you use this alone to try to convey information to a human, a human with a visual disability can't use it. If you also provide a text channel (e.g. `ALT="…"`) then the LLM can use that and doesn't need to read the confusing image.

That's a derivative work of two parties’ IP.

No, not simultaneously usable as foreground and background colours. For instance, on a light background, the default yellow is a good ‘highlighter’ background. If yellow is reconfigured to be dark enough to be usable as a foreground colour (i.e. brown), it's no longer usable as a background. You can't have both, and you can't assume the user has picked one or the other.

And how do you check the background?

OSC 11

Colour addendum: If the user hasn't configured anything, don't use a colour other than red without checking whether the terminal has a light or dark background. Don't hardcode colours.

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

RedAI

That's Qwen.

BlueAI

“All the Troubles of the World” (Asimov, 1959)

Indeed, I did get email over UUCP in '90s, so I read and wrote offline. Worth considering again, if I can find a next hop again.

‘Offline’ now gets used to mean ‘asynchronously’.

(I remember when computer science cards were 7⅜″×3¼″)

Reads eMarker chip parameters in Type-C cables, providing detailed performance information (e.g., maximum current, voltage, data transfer rates) to help users fully understand cable capabilities and ensure safe, efficient device usage.

Good thing nobody lies.

HN accessibility isn't bad, since it's all just text.

It's relatively difficult to enter and edit any significant amount of text on a phone, so phone-based discussions tend to be shallow.

   bad mobile support

The revolutionary French tried decimal timekeeping, but no amount of guillotines could make it stick.

Planetarily, we only need to slow the Earth's rotation by 1.46%, so that the year becomes 360 days (1 day = 1° of revolution) and I can sleep an extra 21 minutes.

I get to sleep in. When do we leave?

But seriously, the ‘second’ becomes a purely technical unit, and you have some other suitable local units.

It's a bit simpler. C didn't have `unsigned` until 1976.

Then take the Sten submachine gun, designed so that every little machine shop in Britain could produce one.

I never liked git and held on the Mercurial until a couple years ago. Now, for all I do, jj is a better Mercurial than Mercurial.

[0] Gives me HTTP 418

The way I see it: Volume 7 is compilation. Since many optimization techniques are NP-complete, Knuth will have to take a break from writing TAOCP to settle whether or not P=NP.

I think there's a proof that he can at best asymptotically approach volume 7.

Metaphor for creative works from before 2025?

That's… good. It's a page-snapping scrollbar. Much better than the common row of dots and arrows.

It's pretty amazing that South Park hasn't been sued (or lost?)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell

tl;dr:

Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), is a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held that parodies of public figures, even those intending to cause emotional distress, are protected by the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.

When I become a dotcom^H^H^H^H^H^H AI zillionaire, I'll start a web-only platform that blocks mobile user agents. (If you can work around that, you've passed the entry gate.)

They still let Google crawl, so [site:reddit.com "username"] can be instructive.