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The religious have managed to make every YouTuber say "gosh" though.

Not per se, but indirectly penalizing modest people is not OK.

I had the same problem initially. It's sometimes easier on the command line, since piping file and directory objects to commands generally binds their PSPath to LiteralPath using a parameter alias.

Marquee, blink, i, b... Older people like me remember the old "innocent" days of the internet. It's probably nostalgia, but the modern web doesn't seem exciting anymore...

IANAL, but they either have to honor the verbal contract (pour an additional cup AND pay $20) OR the contract is void and therefore they can be sued for assault. Of course, the "can" in "if I can" may be construed as "being able to", but that's up to the jury I guess.

That's a great point about stripping authorship. It would be nice if there was some sort of blockchain linking every bit of knowledge to its source. Some people at least would like getting attribution--I know I would. Instead we get a planet-sized meat grinder producing the perfect burger material. Just make sure to add enough spices to make it edible, i.e. not to offend anyone.

You are using LLMs to summarize bloated articles probably generated by LLMs. Maybe stop paying attention to such "articles" and cut the middleman?

I'm also not a fan of overly-funny writing, but I just wanted to say that I found your style quite enjoyable. Maybe it's because a can relate somewhat to your situation... :b

If A can die from sesame seeds and B can't and the A-to-B ratio is something like 1:1e+6, doesn't it make more sense for A to bake their own bread instead?

The Wikipedia entry on text-based user interfaces uses IT as an example of a text-mode program featuring a pixel-accurate mouse pointer. The "citation-needed" had always been annoying me, since I knew it was true, but I couldn't prove it. Now, we can finally link to IT_MOUSE.ASM and be done with it.

I think it was a rhetorical question. I wasn't a big fan of the SS series, but those damn kamikaze still echo in my mind. I've even had nightmares about them...

You could then fix the inverted x axis by using the mouse on the underside of the table. Works fine with optical mice, but a ball mouse might require fiddling with gravity (or magnets, but that's no fun).

I still prefer it the way it was when I started using computers with DOS 6.x and Windows 3.1: underline in console, bar in GUIs, block in both with overwrite mode. Always blinking of course. My problems with modern programs are 1) overwrite mode is usually not implemented and 2) moving the cursor does not reset the blink timer. The first I can understand (although it's trivial to do), but the second results in the cursor getting invisible when moving while pressing the arrow keys. It's the little things...

That's like a programming language with 0.5-based array indexing.

David Crane, the creator of Pitfall, explains it all very nicely in a GDC Classic Game Postmortem [1]. I'm linking at the relevant timestamp, but the whole video is pure Atari 2600 goodness. The full Postmortems playlist is quite enjoyable too. I particularly liked the talks about the original Deus Ex, Myst, Loom, Adventure, Marble Madness, Ms. Pac-Man, Paperboy, Lemmings, and more. I find these videos very soothing and nostalgic. Got to rewatch them now...

[1] https://youtu.be/tfAnxaWiSeE?list=PL2e4mYbwSTbbiX2uwspn0xiYb...

Although they're the same glyph, they are different codepoints in Unicode. There's an old joke about replacing semicolons with Greek question marks in JavaScript and baffling your colleagues...

And that the semicolon was used as a PRINT statement terminator when you wanted to suppress the implicit newline at the end.

I "solved" that by using two assembling passes. The first had dummy jump/call addresses in order to determine the code offsets of labels. Then I would resolve the relative offsets, replace the target labels with offset deltas and reassemble.

I used that trick to speed up my QBasic programs with graphics, string and list handling, etc. It was one of the first rewarding times in my programming "career" and it actually made me feel proud of myself.

Wouldn't that cause positive feedback in the analytics? Firefox usage is already below the magic 5%. If we start hiding, we may soon join IE5 in unsupported land.

An X-Mouse mode was available since at least Win98SE [1]. It was hidden and you had to enable it in the Registry [2], typically via Tweak UI.

That mode would move the input focus without actually clicking on another window. You could see the caption bars change color accordingly, but the "temporarily" focused window could be set to either stay in it's original z-order or moved to the top.

Windows 10 uses a different method: it doesn't change the focus and only sends mouse scrolling events to the target window. That's less powerful, but probably more intuitive for us non-*nix users.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/70599589/how-do-i-turn-o...

[2] https://superuser.com/a/19643

There's MMCE†, the spiritual successor of Marble Marcher. I've only played the original some years ago and it was pretty awesome. You simply have to move a ball across a 3D fractal surface that's constantly evolving in real-time!

Sadly, I can't run MMCE to test, since I'm using a PC and gfx card from 2009.

†: https://michaelmoroz.itch.io/mmce

I would pay much more for YouTube if they offered proper search and filtering tools. There's so much interesting stuff hidden behind light years of fluff. Ymmv, of course.

For future DaaS perhaps. Everything is becoming a service, why not decoration...

I also skipped that, but we won't have to worry about it anymore. They started enabling it by default. Recently got a toast notification that I barely got to read. Soon they'll probably make it mandatory. :o)

Known as myriads to many ancient civilizations.

Fun fact: in modern Greek a million is called "ekatommyrio", which means 100 (ekató) myriads.

They were probably referring to the random delays, form field wiping, focus-jumping and silly back-end errors which are prevalent in "healthcare UI/UX".

These are all my scripts. They're object-oriented, self-documented, tab-completable and a `hg clone` away. They're simply more polished versions of what I could do on Windows with built-in PowerShell (and FFPROBE of course):

    F:films> filter probe_format {
        ffprobe $_.fullname -v error -show_entries format=duration -of json |
            convertfrom-json | % format
    }
    F:films> ls -file -rec | ? extension -in .mp4,.avi,.mkv | probe_format |
        measure -sum duration | % { New-TimeSpan -Seconds $_.sum } | % tostring
    15.12:18:09  # same result as before (15days+12hours, etc.)

As long as we're golfing: In PowerShell, using my personal script library:

    F:films> ls -rec -file | gec video | gvi | ndur
    372:18:09

- `ls -rec -file` gets all files recursively under CWD (F:films)

- `gec video` selects video files via extension (gec -> Get-ExtensionCategory)

- `gvi` uses FFPROBE to get video info in custom object (gvi -> Get-VideoInfo)

- `ndur` sums Duration property of objects and converts seconds to 'hhh:mm:ss'

Most people I've shown this have found the syntax and aliases confusing and non-intuitive. They prefer the find/xargs/awk incantations, which, I'm told, are more elegant, correct and precise. After that, I'm usually speechless.

I remember doing this years ago, but it longer works on Firefox out of the box. Setting a custom page for a new tab requires an extension. Apparently, that's for security reasons: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1092024

Even worse, some use Linux as their desktop OS. Imagine that...