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robewaldon My Most Important Project Was a Bytecode Interpreter

PCREs are Perl Compatible Regular Expressions, they have backreferences and other constructs. Almost all languages that have Regular Expressions have similar constructs. "Computer Science" Regular Expressions are more limited and implement a "regular language" as defined in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy. This gives some guarantees, which go out the window with PCREs.

robewaldon The best interface is no interface

It is not Maslov, but Parasuraman[0] for automation and decision selection:

1. The computer offers no assistance. 2. ... offers a complete set of actions. 3. ... narrows the selection down to a few. 4. ... suggests one alternative. 5. ... executes the suggestion if the human approves. 6. ... allows the human a restricted time to veto the execution. 7. ... executes, then informs the human. 8. ... executes, informs the human when asked. 9. ... executes, informs the human when the computer decides to. 10. ... acts automatically.

This is a framework for more than user interfaces, but it comes close.

Look at Fig. 1 in the paper.

[0] https://hci.cs.uwaterloo.ca/faculty/elaw/cs889/reading/autom...

robewaldon Coulomb explosion

Thanks for posting. It is not really relevant right now, but an interesting concept that might be handy when facing other problems.

robewaldon Sheerwind

This is a nice concept. In populated areas there is quite a bit of pushback from the population to install wind turbines due to the distracting movement of the blades and their shadows. This idea solves that nicely by hiding the turbine. Maybe the marked for this is densely populated Europe?