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KWC is a pretty fascinating place, but all I've ever seen about it is from people on the outside looking in. Are there any accounts from the people who lived there?

I cut my teeth on HyperCard and I'd say that the web (HTML, JavaScript) is a pretty good successor. Getting an image on a page and then linking between pages is quite satisfying when you're starting out. Something like a basic web page is great for a beginner but there's the whole gamut from there up to 3d games and virtual machines (wasm) to advance to when you're ready.

It's pretty appalling the number of people in this thread trying to rationalize and justify slavery.

This is anecdotal, but my experience has been the opposite. I briefly switched to Chrome some years ago because everyone else was and the dev tools were genuinely better, but as a user it felt clunky and slow, so I switched back to Firefox. They pretty quickly got their act together wrt to the debugger and such and so I only ever dropped into Chrome for work and to this day it's still clunky and slow. I never understood why anyone would want to stay with Chrome especially with Google ramping up their shenanigans.

I, like many others here, would love to have an EV. But in a world where people are being paid barely enough to eat, it's no wonder no one can afford premium EV prices. Make an affordable EV and people will buy it, that doesn't seem like a revolutionary idea to me.

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the ancient Greek thing whose name I forget with alternating directions on each line

I believe the word you're looking for is "boustrophedon"

That definitely wasn't the impression I got back when I frequented it but I'm glad if they're more antiwar now.

Oh I fully agree, that's what I mean by that attitude becoming more mainstream. Just growing up I saw that expressed more fully on 4chan before I saw it being adopted elsewhere.

I used to love the 4chan-style contrarian attitude until, in high school people I knew were killed in Iraq. Then I started to realize that those kinds of nihilist attitudes have real-world consequences. Since then, that attitude has become mainstream (or perhaps just my awareness of it) and following has been a constant trail of death and misery. I can't not take it seriously anymore when my friends and loved ones are dying and turning on each other.

Cool! Anyone have resources on what has changed since then?

I highly recommend keepass + syncthing. Avoid some third party having access to your password store while keeping it backed up wherever you need it to be.

I still have this book on my shelf, it got me started programming as a youngin'. Good times!

I'm in my 30s and finally going to college and can confirm that many of my fellow students (most in their teens or early 20s) believe that .org domains are credible. I've pointed out that anyone can buy one for $10 so hopefully some have taken that to heart, but I wonder where are they getting this from?

Maybe off the wall, but my first thought is certificate revocation. Could there be (or is there already) a semi-centralized database of research that should no longer be cited? With maybe a dependency graph of research that maybe needs to be revisited?

As an aside, this page is great, I was able to watch the videos and see all the images without needing to enable javascript for half a dozen 3rd party URLs!

I don't want to sound snarky or overly skeptical, but I've seen a lot of people say that the trackpad under macOS is a lot nicer than that under linux, but I don't see what they mean. I have a ~6yo linux laptop as my primary machine and I pretty regularly help my mother-in-law with her ~1yo macbook pro and, other than the mac's trackpad being quite a bit larger, feel no difference between them. I grew up using macs, so I get that they often have that extra bit of quality that's not always easy to put into words, but I just don't feel that with the trackpad. Just curious what the difference is for you?

Trap stars? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry

They're clearly vying for a place next to vi. Or maybe the v language, depending on how you pronounce it.

mounting a massive Plato's Cave-like conspiracy to convince people they are doing something useful

Maybe I'm missing something but I feel like that's what most of us are doing now anyway.

I've been doing software development in a small midwestern town for ~10 years. Most people drink coffee, but only a handful that I've known take other stimulants. In my (completely anecdotal) experience, the people who drink coffee or take drugs feel dependent on them for performance, but don't actually perform better or worse than those who don't.

Is there any kind of simulator that I could run on my classical hardware to get some experience programming with this kind of thing?

The wording made me think that there had been some kind of tragedy. Glad to see that it went well!

Very cool! I had an idea some time ago to create something like hyperpolyglot.org but for philosophic / religious ideas. Any plans on doing something similar?

If the new IE any good, I'd be willing to try it on my Linux box.

My first thought is the kernel should pre-allocate some space for running a recovery/cleanup/analysis process when malloc fails. Is anything like this done already? Can it defer to the user to decide what to do when that happens?

It's a bit concerning that https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=616915051&oldid=61... would be coming from someone in congress.

Just out of curiosity, do you say "array of string" or "strings" or something else?

Perhaps I am mistaken, but I was under the impression that the LLVM IR was subject to change at a whim. That may be something to keep in mind if you intend to target it directly.

As someone who has never used X's remote access, what are its benefits over VNC?