laurence.gonsalv.es
I like old computers, making things, science, math, and science fiction.
Currently making something new at @Nipht.io. Helped create Google Reader.
@[email protected] on the fediverse. Formerly @laurence on the birdsite.
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Looks like 1942 or 1943?
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Yes, using the upload icon for "share" seems to be common on iOS.
Twitter (and I assume X retains this behavior) would switch the icon, using this "upload" icon on iOS (both app and web) but the 3 connected circles on Android (app and web).
On desktop web, I think it used to the "upload" icon.
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What are you going to do in a year or so when you run out of space for more issues of Retro Gamer?
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We had a problem where if we told our Google Home to "stop", sometimes it would respond "Stopping Marin State Route <number>... can't stop Marin State Route <number>" and it took us forever to figure out that it's because our AV receiver's default network name was "MR SR<number>".
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You can use piellardj.github.io/stereogram-s... and upload an autostereogram image. It'll add shading to show the silhouette of the 3D shape.
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Ah, interesting. That I actually did not know about... (but in my defense I haven't used Windows in almost 20 years.)
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I thought it might be from Usborne's "The World of the Future" series (1979), but I don't see it in those books, and they use a different typeface for headings.
Here's a virtual meeting and a smart watch from "Future Cities".
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"Hey Ernie, could I have more of that fruity ice cream?"
"Sure, Bert."
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This loading screen is the one thing I remember about this game. 😅
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Herbie on the other hand...
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I realized this when I was telling someone else about it, and said its name out loud for the first time. "Wait, why did what I just said sound weird?"
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I tried to think of movies that I'd seen in a theater a second time, and the only two I could think of were Alien and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan... but then I realized that both of those I originally did *not* see in a theatre. I don't think I've ever seen a movie in a theatre more than once.
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Neet! 😆
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That's what their GitHub readme says: "Vite (French word for 'quick', pronounced /vit/, like 'veet')".
github.com/vitejs/vite?...
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Is the g in "argbbhh" pronounced like gif?
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In other news, I made a moderation list, for the 80 or so bot accounts that started following me today: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Quadra 605?
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I used tweetdeleter.com
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GEOS 128 runs in 80-column mode, so 640x200. It means geoWrite doesn't have to constantly scroll horizontally, and it can run at 2Mhz.
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BASIC 7.0 was a million times better than BASIC 2.0.
GEOS 128 was also a significant improvement over GEOS on the C64. It used the 80-column display.
DesTerm is a great 80-column terminal.
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"In English, nothing starts with N and ends with G" energy.
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What is eye shadow, if not color calibration for the eyelids?
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Yeah, I think my original theory is incorrect, as even reloading immediately after clearing it causes Chat to show there's something new. The "Notifications" tab is unaffected.
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I just noticed that if I reload bsky.app immediately after clearing the "Chat" notification, it lights up again. Weird.
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I'm also on that weird "stream midnights" list, BTW. I think it's a bot, but it isn't a blocklist, at least.
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Looking at clearsky, I don't see you on any lists like that. I only see that you're on 9 lists (one which you created), and are blocked by 3 accounts. I don't see you on any blocklists. Maybe the ones you were seeing got deleted?
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I'd love to see an example of what you mean by this. You don't mean a tree of lists/sets/maps/pairs, do you?
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The builder pattern attempts to solve multiple problems, and one of them does pretty much boil down to named arguments (+ default values). Builders do have some power that named args lack, but in general I've found that Builder is far less useful when the language supports named args and defaults.
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My phone (Pixel 7 with Android 15) has an "Allow notification snoozing" option in settings. Once enabled, it adds a button to notifications that lets you pause them for up to 2 hours at a time. I mainly use it for noisy group chats.