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Yes, the version of Snow Leopard people are referring to (and have fond memories of, me included) was 10.6.8.x. The point is really that it was given time to mature. (Back in the day, users used to …

How do these 3D architectures scale regarding yield? (The naïve expectation would be that adding vertical layers should have exponential impact on yield.) Is this commercially viable, near term?

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I played around with one that, I think, was a type-in from Compute! Gazette. Since this was also the time of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose , I remember devising a medieval handwriting font …

Regarding the shape of the letter "C", mind that of the 10 digits of the MICR E-18B font, the digits 2, 5, 6, 7, 0 don't have any "thickenings" at all, all thin, even strokes.…

Every hand-knotted carpet has some error per design, since only Allah is perfect. But, I guess, "resulation" may be a bit blotchy for a sign of humbleness. :-)

Sorry, I had to fix this. (You're welcome anyway. And yes, I think, it's the sort of quirky article, an LLM can't come up with.)

*) "emulgate", maybe better emulsify, but this is a bit lateral to this? The point being, a homogenous preparation, which is more a superficial operation than an essential one, as the establ…

If we're talking about concepts and communication, in text, I don't know what meaning of synthesis to apply (as long as there is meaning), other than the meaning this has had for centuries. …

The general consensus used to be that questions should be either closed (i.e., all the knowledge is disclosed in the interface) or open (any in-between doesn't help to organinze and conceptionali…

I'm afraid, the essence is that is not. Re-sequencing content is not the same as synthesis and therefore not the same as a person processing information and communicating their own conception of …

Rather: composes (or: re-sequences). Synthesis requires reason and essential capabilities, like an empirical a priori judgement. Without concepts, meaning or imagination, there's no synthesis.

Mind that input + datalist is the HTML equivalent of the Windows combobox, once generally regarded as the worst UI element ever. (This was enjoying meme status in usability related articles and writ…

Notably, this process of struggle is meant to go away, to make room for instant satisfaction. This is really about some kind of expression consumerism. (And what will be lost along the way is meaning.…

The issue being, it's not an expression of anything. Merely like a random sensation, maybe some readable intent, but generic in execution, which isn't about anything even corporate art shoul…

Ah, the MS Word experience: User enters German date "1. April" MS Word: new ordered list with item "April" User furiously hits delete key.

> Can you imagine if every button on every site was the same Windows button gray color, regardless of the site's color? It'd be awful! As it happens, this is how it was for years and year…

The new idiom: You are right, of course this is your account name! Do you want me to be keep you logged-in? > _

As a Viennese, I missed appropriate options, like rules and their mutual negotiability by lateral maneuvers (AKA dissimulation) and a general sense for disgruntledness. Moreover, smalltalk as the cor…

No diverging opinions, no unexpected critique, but universal basic intelligence. And here is the kicker: we won't even notice. Here's an easy three-step plan to unanimous democracy: • ask yo…

I guess, as the meter is above 50%, you're not supposed to read it.

As in, "I put it on you to better check and follow-up before acting on this…" ;-)

I guess, it was probably intended as the second one (it was also the default email signature, so advertising that feature, as well), but its usefulness was definitely in the implied warning. Mind tha…

Back in the day, it was useful, as in, "Expect awkward phrasing and unintended effects of autocorrection, because mobile device. This message doesn't necessarily reflect the intent of the …

On the dark side, it will take quite a while to offset the environmental costs of this war, even if this provided an essential incentive for switching. (In reality, energy infrastructure is often lock…

I guess, this means logging out as the current user and logging in again, so that the various services are relaunched with changed settings.

> And education is much, much worse almost everywhere by leaning more to memorization The idea that (correct) answers are something that can and may be known is all over the place, lately also in t…

It's still impressing how the entire chrome can be collapsed into a single background bit of information, indicating a presence that may be attended to for interaction. In contrast, the newer int…