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For those unfamiliar with Monty Python's Flying Circus, "The Golden Age of Ballooning" is the first episode of the fourth and final season, notable for being the first episode without John Cleese.[0] No idea if 9front is intentionally referring to this. [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0650996/
It's a fork of Plan 9. Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12617036
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Clickpads are horrible, but touchpads aren't so bad when they have tactile buttons. That's why I always print some for mine.
* Tries to imagine what the STL for a clickable button would look like *
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The submitter was indeed very young and naive. The offending text was removed well before 2016.
Unrelated to this topic, but tangential: I believe the first step in repeating history is to forget it happened. Being human is a continual process of error-driven development.
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> So like I said. It's complicated seeing it on HN. on one hand I want the world to know this technology that sadly we left behind and seem hellbent on reinventing. On the other hand, a lot of you guys suck now, and are too capable for the amount of forethought you have. First of all, as interesting and divergent as Plan 9 was, I think you overestimate it's potential for popularity, No doubt due to your seemingly fet…
Not the first time your entire argument has been made. You're probably right about me, but you're off the mark about the plan9 part. I've seen this happen repeatedly over the decades. Just off the top of the head, we've seen this in Linux multiple times, before that it was the WWW, and it will happen yet again in plan9. All I can say is "just watch" and hope to God above I'll be proven wrong. In a world where we are…
While I made my points separately, together it does spin my argument as being "right" when the whole is perhaps not, I will concede that. I guess like you said, time will tell what's to come. I am also inclined to believe you are who you say you are.
I mainly take issue with gatekeeping, and I make a stink about it when I see it. The more positive variant I endorse is initiation. Instead of "you know nothing, go away" I'd rather see: "you know nothing, let me teach you the ways." Granted it's quite a feat to initiate an anonymous mass on the internet. Certainly not for the sane or faint of heart.
> Make a note, you have one coffee on me, should we cross paths. Though we disagree today I can tell you're alright.
You are too. I sympathise, I really do. The little corners we carve for ourselves are precious in their own way. Even when they change, perhaps for the better, we still grieve the past.
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* Tries to imagine what the STL for a clickable button would look like *
https://www.tinkercad.com/things/9igWZfgh07J
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What if you had a OCR overlay that had a DOM like structure along with coordinates? You could hit a key combo, and then the text dom could float over the page and you could select nodes of it using your keyboard modifiers of choice (vim, emacs, etc). You could also read the process memory directly by a supervisory program, like a debugger, to extract or insert text directly. It would be like idea implantation. Does t…
Durée has something like that http://durden.arcan-fe.com/
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Unrelated to this topic, but tangential: I believe the first step in repeating history is to forget it happened. Being human is a continual process of error-driven development.
That moment may come in the future but I don’t think anyone in Europe or the USA is ignorant of what the Nazis did, and in fact the guys I mentioned (Charlottesville) seem to be pretty openly sympathetic towards nazi ideologies