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What an incredible historical resource that website is. Just look at the original Ethernet spec here: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/xerox/ethernet/
Here's the power-on procedure for a UNIVAC I:
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/univac/univac1/UNIVAC...
None of the Stack Overflow answers mention Alan Kay, who created the angled mouse cursor at PARC. When asked about this¹, he responded: "The Parc mouse cursor appearance was done (actually by me) because in a 16x16 grid of one-bit pixels (what the Alto at Parc used for a cursor) this gives you a nice arrowhead if you have one side of the arrow vertical and the other angled (along with other things there, I designed a…
https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/
and follow the instructions under "Running Smalltalk 76".
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Just try to convince the average person that “getting a big refund” is a bad thing, since it means you gave the U.S. government an interest free loan.
Try convincing a tech person that the shares they get as compensation from their employer are equal to getting money and buying those shares at the time they get them. I also think tech workers tend to over-estimate what "average person" really is because they mostly know "above average people".
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Not sure I understand. Taxes are due in April. You don’t get charged a year of interest on the amount you own when filing…
You owe taxes all year round. What you're doing in April is settling up and filing for the year. If you run your own business, you're required to pay a lump estimated taxes 3 times a year in addition to your annual filings. If you're too short, you owe and you owe interest. The IRS has a safe haven rule where if you pay 90% of what you owed this year, or at least 100% of what you owed last year, they won't penalize y…
$100 isn’t nothing but it’s not everything either.
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It is not a good thing because it is interest free and inflation exists. If you would have had that money earlier you could have put it in high yield saving account or payed down debt.
It is not interest free. E.g., I was paid $480 in interest on overpayments last year.
But they only pay that if they don’t return it that year (for normal W-2 employees).
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Some DE solved that by having an inverse outline.
I'm pretty sure even on windows there is the option of having the whole cursor be the inverse of the background
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Yup. You can even customise both the inner and outer colours as an accessibility feature!
What??? TIL. A lot of the accessibility features are actually neat even to those without the need for them.
It's a bit scary to see that one of the highest-voted answers to this question (188 points) is completely wrong. It says that the (0,0) hotspot simplified the calculations for a cursor position update, because you didn't have to add any (X,Y) offset. https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/52349/43259 The problem with this idea is that the arrow pointer was never the only cursor. On the first Macintosh, there were many others…
As you said ten years ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7253841 The scary part is that you will likely be saying it again in another ten years and again and then you’ll die as “that weird cursor offset obsessed fanatic”.
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Also make it maintain 2 cursor positions and switch between them depending on the mouse. It would be pretty neat with multiple monitors, with focus following the (active) cursor. (Assuming you're ambidextrous, of course :))
Woah! I may be ambidextrous, but no way am I ambicursorous!
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I have a mouse on each side of the keyboard, so changing the mouse pointer shape was never even considered.
> I have a mouse on each side of the keyboard In 30yrs of IT support, this is a thing I have never seen. If I had, I'd be forever inserting into conversations about end-users. Strictly for the novelty.
Then both hands can mouse and access a “near half” of both sides of the keyboard.