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Not trying to be rude but to me that is the essence of composition which feels perfect to me

It was also a Cold War. My father-in-law and mother-in-law were both gifted mathematicians and mainframe programmers. She also designed CPUs. She is a sweet sweet person and a major badass. She is my hero. She’s in her 80s and was more accomplished in her 20s than you and I put together will ever be.

My father-in-law worked there as a programmer during the Cultural Revolution. There were always guards on the other side of the (locked) office door. Sometimes they’d shoot at random things to remind the nerds just who was in charge.

When I worked at Microsoft the biggest complaints were parking and the variety of subsidized foods at the cafeteria.

Was trying to be concise. Also, stop accusing me of having any pride. I'm married and a father!

NOW I UNDERSTAND

I had much the same conclusions. The author did a perfectly good job of explaining the issues.

Excellent example! Thanks.

Not sure I agree. It's a fact.

> I had the impression that the original Macintosh team was extremely user-oriented, and wanted to build an empowering machine, in terms of applications.

One could say exactly the same for the original IBM PC, which had infinitely more tech pubs at introduction than the Mac.

> Text is complicated

So true!

> and english is bad at expressing these nuances.

I think English is a terrible shitpile of grammar and syntax. I'm very impressed that anyone who speaks another language natively can get good at it.

But I'm interested in the notion that it lacks nuance to describe the intricacies of text rendering. Can someone tell me where that would apply?

I cannot imagine a use case where I would want to do a style change mid ligature. Can someone smarter than I am give a reasonable example of doing so?

Big-screen TVs

Cabinets

Shelves

Large mirrors

Pot racks

I still can’t figure out what it does

How dare they accuse Intel of any kind of naming scheme at all. Everyone who’s anyone knows it’s an act of stochastic terrorism.

When you turn on a computer, it transfers code to software required to get the machine up and running reliably--the boot process. That used start in a chip called the BIOS. It's a 40-year old holdover from the early days of the IBM PC. UEFI is a more complex and feature-rich protocol. Due to its default memory management Go hasn't been considered the first choice for such purposes but this proof of concept uses Go for the very low level code needed for UEFI.

Not sure I agree? I made some famously (in my family) weird mistakes in writing when I was young. They were obvious dyslectic issues. Mostly that changed because I haven't shown any traits for years in reading & writing. I had an amazing teacher for reading (my mom, who was a teacher).

OTOH while I was educated in music for a long time, I have some kind of problem reading music that disappears when it's projected on a big screen. Yes, I have corrected vision. If I had been smarter I would have just memorized everything I played, which is what I have to do now because projecting music isn't too practical ATM.

So while I think for some people it's intrinsic, I think you're onto something. Never actually considered it as a cause.

Any. Even if you're doing a blue collar job, understanding the fundamentals (or at least the specifics about a particular subfield) makes you "the guy" and adds some job security. As a programmer I often got ahead just because I'd read all of the C standard library, the Windows API docs, etc.

To me the ability to read a whole book is a competitive advantage in the job market.

I had slightly higher blood pressure than that last time I was given a colonoscopy lol. (TMI: probably due to childhood abuse.) They stopped immediately and it plummeted equally fast. Now they knock me out and it’s awesome.

If I were a science fiction author with writer's block, I would totally use your prompt

I need to say you are totally living the life. Good on you.

So what language is ready to take its place in the thousands of new chips that emerge every year, the new operating systems, and millions of programs written in see every year?

Haven’t read the article yet, but I love the respect with which you pointed out your differences to GP. thank you.

However much karma this comment scored, it's underrated

Super fun but so much not for me. Fricking awesome if you're in the TV or movie business trying to get that effect right. Reminds me of the first time my artist kid used the term "pixel art", which in my memory brings back only frustration from my 1980s restriction to 2, 4, then 16 colors. I love unlimited colors, thank you very much. And I remember being grateful to pay $1,000 for a flat screen monitor around 1995 or so. I adore the crispness of digital output.

Again, not criticizing this effort. Just saying that I love being here in the 21st, thank you very much.

So now Roger Rabbit's creator has the rights back, which is awesome. There will never again be a movie version with as outrageous a cast as the original movie. Somehow they managed to get rights to the biggest characters from competing IP owners. It was a stunning, very much unheralded achievement. These days it would be roughly akin to DC getting to use Darth Vader, Captain Kirk, Spock, Iron Man, and the Hulk in one of their movies.

The test can be found here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDKfLZNMtmU

Paul Reubens wasn't great. With the right direction he could easily have been as good as Fleischer, but I'm sure he was (incorrectly in this case) trying to show he could be less over the top than Pee Wee Herman, who was a known quantity in LA at that time.

What fascinated me is how I reacted to the Jessica Rabbit pencil test, where she snuggles up to the live actor. Even in that low resolution, lousy video transfer, I had a visceral reaction to her character. Those animators were all kinds of good even for a minor demo.

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Surreal is precisely the term. I had no idea about this. It's sad.

Amazing. Thank you very much