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Ah, well, the content has to fit localized ads! That's it! (You don't want that distracting break in languages between revenue earning productions and embedding media fluff. I guess, in this…

> How is there not at least an option… Haven't we learned in the last 15 years or so that options are bad for users? ;-) Moreover, watching videos in a foreign language with subtitles in that …

In Northanger Abbey we get an explicit reference to one of those books, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, which started the entire Gothic novel craze. Comparing the two is quite informati…

PS: As a literary stunt and challenge, the question, how can we do an entertaining and involving novel with an entirely inert heroine and protagonist? , isn't that dissimilar from Umberto Eco&#x…

It's probably the best thing after the well-meaning social execution of Jane Fairfax, Emma's foil, by Emma's father for the exceptionally dangerous luck of having wet socks.

It may be important to note that all of Austen's novels are set up and kept going by an essential flaw in the hero characters. And Fanny Price is the ultimate anti-hero: indeed, she is hardly a h…

> Do we as a society want to wade into the morass of telling people what kinds of activities they can use energy for? This really applies to any application which consumes high percentages of the r…

On relevance: I've never seen an ad on YT that would make me buy a product. I guess, this is now a matter of principle. Moreover, it's now also a matter of fending off GenAI content (AKA slo…

Well, as this is about Ireland, EU regulations state that a drone operator may control just a single drone at a time. (So, no simultaneous control.) *) UAS.STS-01.040 Responsibilities of the remote pi…

Ars Technica had an article on this on 2 May: https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/screwworms-are-coming... …

Ad Gould: The phrasing at around 2:40, where he has this voice stepping into the previously dominant legato voices, is tremendous!

I think, in terms of art, it's more like a death march: events will become more exhausting and less emotional rewarding for the performers, so there will be less events, which will be even more e…

Because artists need an at least semi-competent vis-a-vis, AKA audience. This is the main proposition for entering a stage to begin with. And chances are that the most economical potent ticket buyers …

Maybe interesting in this context: the CRT font renderers for the DEC PDP-1 (notably one of the first commercial machines for which a CRT was available) also rendered at 5 × 7 dots. (As bit patterns f…

There isn't any dedicated instruction decoding for these "illegal" instructions, at all. Generally, just two regular instructions happen to be executed at once. Some of these work out r…

I guess, the best you could do is emulating a frameset layout with a fixed navigation and a display frame for the actual content. (By setting the overflow to `hidden` you can get rid of the outer scro…

Fun fact: this does work with iframes: <ul> <li><a href="about.html" target="display">about</a></li> <li><a href="…

As far as I'm aware of it, changing the SRC-attribute was quite crash-y and the functionality was stripped soon. (I remember playing with this in beta, and then it was gone in the production vers…

Some more info is here: https://masswerk.at/jsuix/jsuix-documentation.txt All the man pages (same as `man -p`): https://masswerk.at/jsuix/man.txt (I think, …

This is a dangerous path! I once did the same and it grew to become https://masswerk.at/jsuix ;-) (Historical note: pixels were bigger, in 2003. Feel free to zoom in / increase t…

While I do not doubt that Northern Africa has cradled human civilization for a long time, to me, connecting the Richat structure and Plato is stretching it quite a bit, though. Why not say Plato'…

Please, see "No – Atlantis Has Not Been Discovered in North Africa" by Steven Novella (2018): https://theness.com/neurologicablog/no-atlantis-has-not-been... BTW, there…

Anyways, the real question should be: what is the most productive form for the project/technology? Separate efforts may not the answer, we're looking for.

Allegedly, there was yet another model after this, which wasn't advertised publicly, sold exclusively to creative professionals. (Mostly because of Quark XPress, which took years and years to tra…

Regarding the loud power supply fan of the G4 MDD: Apple actually had a free of charge replacement program for the power supply. The replacement was somewhat less noisy, but still loud, mostly a (rath…

My guess: it's the "mode change" code found in various IBM punchcard encodings, punch 11-8-7, canonically represented by an upper-case delta. It would make sense to render this somewhat…

Yes, I have no problem believing that this is what Adobe wants and/or a certain category of posters. But, what's the motivation for answering? (Notably, this was about "what's fuel…

Yes, but it's not what social media users want. How about posting tips, small micro courses, behind the scene stories about what motivated some choices in the app, anything useful or endearing? N…

I think, part of the fiasco is about that engagement posters are not really welcomed on Bluesky. And, "What’s fueling your creativity right now?” is a pure engagement post, contributing nothing…

1) Switched about 4 years ago 2) to Affinity Photo & Designer (perpetual license)