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I doubt that, when confronted with an image that you've learned to associate with a plethora of low-quality / low-effort productions, you'd search for the possible origin, in the first …

I think, Studio Ghibli will be affected, as well, since their "trademark style" (as we used to say), formerly a welcome sight and indicative for a certain type of story telling, will be deva…

Regarding the display, it's a point plotting display, which is really the major performance bottleneck, as each dot has to be drawn individually and each dot takes 50 nanoseconds to display. (You…

As for the current one, a few years ago (2016), I wrote a new game for the PDP-1, a Computer Space simulator for the machine that inspired this first coin-op arcade video game. (Hence, Ironic Computer…

Also, MkLinux wasn't that stable. I experimented a bit with it at the time and it wasn't really ripe for production. It kind of worked, but there would have been lots of work to be invested …

Regarding that choice: Given that this is really a different library (the DOM and its individual browser implementation), it's probably quite sane to just define a certain object to evaluate as f…

Moreover, it was kind of a standard for any scripting language at that time. In other words, this was generally expected behavior. (E.g., compare AWK, Perl, etc.)

Fun fact: JavaScript 1.2 did feature -0 and 0 = +0. Which has quite a number of rather confusing aspects and effects, if you run a script in this context.

However, there's no notion of the first example operating on a single scope and the latter on three different, individual scopes. Which is why scope ranges and where you declare a variable with `…

E.g., I think, there are now entire generations, who never played anything as a child that wasn't tied in with corporate IP in one way or the other.

What I'm kind of concerned about is that these images will persist and will be reinforced by positive feedback. Meaning, an adventurous archeologist will be the same very image, forever. We'…

Since the early 1990s, I had never a single Apple factory provided RAM fail, but certainly severals from 3rd parties – in the very same machines. And, of course, I've been too greedy to pay the p…

That said, I've a MacPro 3.1 in production (also 17 years now – always up), which is from Apple's era of easily (or even hot) swappable parts. Apart from failing 3rd party RAM, no issues eve…

> so do humans very often. While I do see this argument made quite frequently, doesn't any professional effort center in procedures employed particularly to avoid mistakes? Isn't this rea…

BTW: This is from 2012. There's also a corresponding card reader to interpret these cards: https://www.masswerk.at/cardreader/ This was a spin-off of a now long defunct cust…

There's also a more advanced version that lets you experience the joys of punch-card programming with modern languages (JS, Perl, Python (mostly Python2)): https://www.masswerk.at/…

The problem is in economics and scale. Hollywood productions were pretty expensive, hence, there were few of them – and they could be tracked as known narratives. ("Ah, well, this is Ben Hur. We …

Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company, which became the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR), which became International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). These are the same thin…

But it was common to encode missing two-digits data as something in the high-90s, maybe specifying a reason in the least significant digit. (I was taught to do so at university and did so myself for a…

Notably, this is from December 1955, already on computers. There's no mention of how data was handled before this. (Also, pre-WWII, people used do talk of "Hollerith cards" in a general…

Let's say, someone grew up in an orphanage in the 1940s with an unknown date of birth. This was before any computer systems and the date would have been recorded on punch-card, probably in 2+3 di…

Isn't it possible that 1875 was chosen, because of compatibility with US legacy data encoding and that then an arbitrary, but notable date in this year was chosen as the reference date (i.e., the…

> All this was stored on paper Rather, as also mentioned in the answers, on Hollerith cards, 5-digit encoded (2 for the year, 3 for the day of year). Punch-card appliances were very much a thing. (…

This is not true. E.g., Safari is tied to the OS settings, Firefox has some dependencies regarding the locale of the first install, etc… Moreover, probably most people speak or can read more than a si…

This is close to home, geographically speaking (65km). ;-)

Of course, this is by no means historic evidence, it's more an example of the common notion of his appearance – and, admittedly, a rather extreme one. (And, as already mentioned, Umberto Eco kind…

> Early accounts depict him as being both very tall and strong having a big head The article, on the other hand, makes a point that the skull is quite small… (which seems to be the principal argu…

I'm aware of this. But the article gives no reason for this choice. It's rather a "well, couldn't it be" hypothetical, provided as a quote: > “Now, it could be that on the …

Isn't this reconstruction a bit on the slim side? Aquinas was reportedly, let's say, a man of portly presence. I can't find a scholarly source on the matter, at the moment, but here are…

Notably, the Motorola 6800 has decrement and increment for the accumulator, both of them. It also features an indexed address mode that is somewhat reverse to how the 6502 does it: there's only o…