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I think, you're mistaking I.P. and creative effort. Certainly, there must be a reason for people reading, even searching for this stuff, beyond the mention of a well-protected trademark.

Nice example for how a standard, like PDF, can even persuade/force one of the mighty to adopt a crucial bit of technology, so that this may become a common standard in its own right (i.e. "c…

To entertain the few humans behind this, I run what I call "HTTP Adventure" on well-known admin addresses. E.g., https://www.masswerk.at/wp-admin …

Our product has many issues. You must pick one and must not discuss any other.

> Cons: Slightly more memory per entry (each number is stored as 5 bytes internally). Actually, integer arrays use just 2 bytes per entry (contrary to simple integer variables). And integers are re…

Archived: https://archive.ph/54LhN The study: https://budgetlab.yale.edu/research/evaluating-impact-ai-lab... …

That's totally correct! I once replaced some blurry scans from the 6502 manual by SVG versions, and, while I was at it, I coded them by hand (really, because for this particular job it seemed eas…

Proof for there being still some pretty simple ideas to be explored. – Well done.

Back in the day, when you could still have custom icons in the sidebar of the Finder and file dialogs (well, Snow Leopard…), I used colored spheres as identifiers for project folders, for minimal 1-bi…

PS, Another way to put this: are these still icons, as in "indicative of something", or are they merely ornamental, particularly in their individuality? And, if the latter, how good are they…

I'd call them "non-icons": they don't communicate in any way, they don't add significance or separate one application from the other at first glance, they don't really me…

Well, a fingerprinting dream… Meaning, no way, just for the security aspect.

Very much so, with the small difference that the VCS features the `WSYNC` strobe to sync the CPU with the start of the scan-line, but here we don't have even this. (Having said that, for somethin…

> And the Scandinavians had an "unfair" advantage :-) > the Cold War, which loomed as background noise A peculiar state between mid-term doom and business as usual, anyway. Thank y…

Ah, yes, like a breeze of fresh air!

-stand is what is (to something) or what has been established (about something). E.g., Bestand – the totality of what has been established about something, or what is available, etc. So Gegenstan…

BTW, this also kind of works in English: we notice objects around us, because they object to our intentions, just for their inert nature. It's their resistance (German: Widerstand ), which bri…

The problem being, if this is listed among other details and links regarding the Bostonian Dave Batty, there's a clear and unambiguous context established. So it is wrong. The versions with &q…

Danke schön! :-)

Small update: I did a write-up on LIST and its mishaps (covering the PET to the C64 – so, no BASIC 7, etc.) https://www.masswerk.at/nowgobang/2025/the-remarkable-misadv... …

It also happens on the PET, before BASIC 4.0. I had a cursory look at it: there's no check for REM, of any kind, but there's, of course, a check for quoted strings. For any tokens, an offset…

The problem being that the LIST routine should handle a comment like a string (which is how it is parsed and stored: a comment is essentially an unquoted string extending to the end of the line), bu…

Yes, variable names are 2 bytes, in their stored memory location in RAM. As these must be 7-bit ASCII bytes, the sign-bits and their distribution over these two bytes is used to encode the type. And a…

I guessed so. (Which is why I brought up the behavior on that other OS.)

Can't wait for consuming content in its original form becoming a violation of the ToS! :-) (I can see a bright future where smart TVs come with mandatory, non-optional instant translation… and ma…

Interesting: On MacOS, with the option "Check for updates but let you choose to install them" chosen in the Firefox preferences, the experience is exactly that, update in the background with…