masswerk

Color coding any executables in file managers (in an otherwise reserved color) should be a standard.

Still, the attraction, it got the attention for, may be the more general question.

That may be a factor, excellent point. Electric supply is pretty good and there hasn't been a major outage, since I was a child. Also, power lines are buried (under ground), here. (But I have sur…

My two cents: If we are talking about 1970s and '80s machines, they tend to run pretty hot, related to the PSU technology. Things like electrolytic capacitors "don't like this" and…

This is exactly what EM (electro-mechanical) arcade games were, which were eventually replaced by video games. There were driving games, flight simulators of sorts, bombing missions, shooters, etc. So…

I once wrote about this on the example of Computer Space (1971) — the very first coin-op video game and also the first one using this technology — and how this relates to the Atari VCS / 2600 a…

A "message at no-not-the-famously-complex-RPG-with-the-aliens"is always worth considering and probably on topic. ;-)

> Are people just... not doing any due diligence around company names any more? At all? Well, there was a famous tweet/post/("X"?), answering to the claims of illegal relicen…

The problem being, we have "economized" academia, by things like "publish or perish", a citation pseudo stock market or third party funding, and all incentives are built around thi…

Well, this is about Pierre Bourdieu, and he had a few things to say about academia, as in Homo Academicus . And I'm not sure what example could illustrate the problem with the lopsided valuation…

But this is really a societal/political issue: since we decided that economic capital is king and symbolic capital not that much… (This is really the story of the last four decades or so.)

> The thing I’m tired of is elites stealing everything under the sun to feed these models. I suggest to apply the same to property law: make a photo and obtain instant and unlimited rights of use. …

The behavior may be also vary depending on whether it's an actual link a document or direct input to the location bar. (I get different prompts on Firefox, while both will forward to the built-in…

Nowadays, on macOS, "dict://Internet" will open the Dictionary app with the query "Internet". (Probably behind a security prompt.) Not sure, if there's similar funct…

Well, we all know how humiliating Pearl Harbor had been… (While areal bombing, sanctions, assassinations, surprise attacks, and the like, have never worked, and, to the contrary, have always proven to…

It's a pager! Also, there's some evidence for this, as 2 out of 12 killed are children. And it's not a full-fledged war, yet, as illustrated by the fact that the targets were still in…

But you will be always riding some unproven assumptions. E.g., even if those pagers had been initially issued to maybe-combatants, they may have diffused to other audiences and uses, since. It may be …

By definition a blind weapon.

It kind or makes sense: I always thought, if we were take an undead corpse for real, lacking any élan vital , this wouldn't be driven by hormones or reproductive drives (as in popular fiction), …

I wonder, when dealing with human readable formats, is there a notation dealing with the repeated hour at the end of daylight saving time (DST)? E.g., in the US, DST ends on Nov. 3, 2024 and the hour …

Hum, from the conclusions of the somewhat parallel case of Hans Franke (which is about a catalog of ca. 800 "lost" works and 87 "preserved" works, and a fraudulent CV, as well), al…

So shouldn't this be the "0-episode"? ;-) (0, because only after the first question, we have actually 1 episode performed. Consequently, the 1-episode is then the second one.)

Isn't this pretty much one of the proposed new concepts for online dating? ;-)

I still think, we should honor the very beginnings in the same space. Also, in the context of OP, most of these names were once protected by trademarks, some may be even still alive. (I guess, FOCAL i…

This is my favorite concept: writing HTML by hand, but having a static wrapper, which also takes care of links and their validity, and things like tags, public visibility of posts, RSS feeds and so on…

Personally, I think we should respect the classics. Quite literary overwriting computer history (e.g, as far as search results are concerned) may not be the wisest thing to do.

Also, FOCAL used to be thing, a programming language by DEC, kind of a precursor of BASIC. (E.g., Lunar Lander was originally written in FOCAL.)

Think of Antiquity, when the world was empirically a globe, but conceptionally a circle ( orbs ), and still had corners for the 4 winds. :-)

My favorite variant is probably Pac-Gal [1] (a hack from 1981, sometimes also attributed Uchida, 1982) – it doesn't get more '80s than this. [1] https://www.gamesdatabase.org/…

Here are some game characters, I did with POV-Ray, and it was great for such things! https://www.masswerk.at/JavaPac/LostInMaze-FamilyPortrait.ht... (See the link at the bottom f…