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Re: Pagination Situation: There are N results shown per page. There are N+1 results remaining. Rigid/simple: The last result is put on a separate page. Flexible/human: If the last …

Perspectives [2015-09] Anne C. Reboul: "Why language really is not a communication system: a cognitive view of language evolution" - , Laboratory on Language, Brain and Cognition (…

In a web context, I was thinking this when I checked out the web site of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) [1]; why would they use a thin, small typeface with light gray col…

Somewhat related: "The Egg" [2009*] is a fictional short story by American writer Andy Weir. [1] > You, a 48-year-old man who dies in a car crash, meet God, the narrator, who says …

Underscore as a separator, YYYY_MM_DD: 1970_01_01 2024_06_09 2024_12_31 16383_12_31 Treated as base-10 number literal in some programming languages. 5 bits for DD [0, 31] + 4 bits …

Related: 2016: Facts and statistics on domestic violence at-a-glance > The Partner Abuse State of Knowledge Project: The world's largest domestic violence research data base, 2,657…

Windows should be broken up. "Windows 11 Platform" for applications, drivers, security updates, and gaming. No (forced) Microsoft account. Only security updates. "Windows 11 Plus" …

EU: In the name of the EU government, you are all under arrest. Democracy: It's treason, then.

See also: Bit Twiddling Hacks https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html

Cloud 1: Cloud does all the compute, logic, storage, and transfer. Cloud 2 = Cloud 1, but delegate more compute/logic to edge/local computers to reduce cost. [1] Cloud 3 = Cloud 2,…

Replace it with a QR, but it contains a UUID which has to be used to look up the current street name. (If all you have is a phone, everything can be solved with an app.) https://en…

See also: The Elephant in the Brain [1] > The main thesis of the book is that we are very often not aware of our real reasons for most of our behaviours. Our behaviors are optimise…

Android defaults to sending the IMSI (SIM ID) to Google. > SUPL is used as part of the A-GPS (Assisted GPS) system to get a faster Time to First Fix. The problem is that Android's …

I can imagine this happening in many places: 1) Idealist phase. 2) Hype phase. 3) Novelty wears off = Leave. 4) Bean counter phase. 5) ???

Random stuff: David Lynch on what lead him to cast the set decorator, Frank Silva, as "Bob" in Twin Peaks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37P0ukg4io0&t=40s

This is what happens when you over-iterate on a specification. Keep it simple. Be kind to your fellow automaton.

Sidenote: MSVC had an optimization option for Windows 98, I think it was /OPT:98 (/FILEALIGN:4096). It sets the "file alignment" of sections in the portable executable (PE) file to…

> They haven't open sourced anything. They posted a tweet. [1] [1@2024-04-06] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7MRj4N2Cyk&t=429s [Twitch] https://twitch.tv/georgehotz

In some 1990s sci-fi series, an alien race played the long game by directing some (invisible) energy beam at the sun, accelerating its transition into becoming a red giant, a proce…

Star Trek: TNG, season 1, episode 8, "Justice". > One punishment for any crime. Execution. [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7XqGiwfUyI

See also: Data, context, and interaction (DCI, 2000-) [1] > The paradigm separates the domain model (data) from use cases (context) and Roles that objects play (interaction). DCI i…

The problem is that we as a society constantly have to deal with adult children, so don't expect reason. Do expect elaborate rationalizations intended to waste the energy of an ind…

Maybe one hack would be to have a binary "restricted" flag communicated through the ISP's reverse IP lookup (probably very slow). It wouldn't put any personal information at risk, …

Alan Kay mentioned this recently at a UCLA talk [1] in February. It's known as the "The Friedman doctrine" after the American economist Milton Friedman. A) Milton Friedman: Shareho…

Writing by hand implicitly involves a delay which is another factor to consider. With the modern typewriter and rectangular light bulb, you may have to explicitly slow down to soak…