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Omar Rizwan @omar

physical computing as new programming material w/ new grain

at a deeper level, i think a thesis of these systems is that materials are important, that you'll make different (and novel) stuff when you're programming here than when you program in JS (or when you program an iPhone app, or a shader toy, or whatever)
that by imposing these weird constraints and giving you this database and these default-recognized statements to query & doing all this stuff with pieces of paper, we're trying to create (or at least fake) a new type of material
and so of course if you have a specific idea already in your head and want to execute it, you can execute it with the existing tools of a web browser or a phone or whatever, but we're interested in generating new ideas

(it's like if you were like, what's the point of oil paint, or watercolor, or acrylic paint, because you can probably mostly fake a specific image made by one with the others -- the point is that these all have different resistances and grains that lead you to make different stuff in the first place)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

Typical

[–]waptaff 29 points 5 years ago
Reiser4 was promising but its design was very different from the other filesystems, so it included a great deal of code working around the kernel VFS. The kernel maintainers didn't like the idea of adding that much code that was not shareable with other filesystems and wanted something cleaner. There was a long stretch of (frustrated) back-n-forth where code was patched to ease its inclusion into the kernel, then Reiser had to deal with the consequences of his crime and the project was mostly abandoned afterwards.

[–]cbmuser Debian / openSUSE / OpenJDK Dev 5 points 5 years ago
One of the main problems were that Hans Reiser and Christoph Hellweg, the then VFS maintainer, couldn’t get along with each other.

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Omar Rizwan @omar

?? https://old.reddit.com/r/MVIS/comments/1b8pf9l/microvision_nasdaq_mvis_after_30_years_in_the/

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i need to look into this https://github.com/witnessmenow/ESP32-Cheap-Yellow-Display

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Dance Notation Bureau https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance_Notation_Bureau

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[repeating text in inward spiral: "This example shows PostScript's ability to rotate and scale fonts..."]

Figure 4.10
Early PostScript test using text layout that was not possible with previous printing methods. David C. Evans Papers, Box 145, Fld 12. Courtesy of John Warnock.

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Omar Rizwan @omar

the mild embarrassment of making two releases in quick succession

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I've been using a Pi 5 to make the portable Folk gadget -> oh, I should add a battery system -> oh, I should add an accelerometer and speaker -> isn't this basically a smartphone? and yet there's still some gap where it would be very annoying (in different ways) to use an old Android phone, and nobody really does that in practice https://social.omar.website/@omar/statuses/01HTZFTDK6P0NC2QY7Z6ATR4M1

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Interesting how this unlearns the equivalence that gets seared into you in elementary school math (4/6 = 2/3 and so on) https://merveilles.town/@neauoire/113178881180514551

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the CRT store called

Figure 2.16
Williams-Kilburn tube with a 1,024-digit store image, University of Manchester, 1947. Courtesy of the Computer History Museum and the University of Manchester.

(it says "CRT store" in white dots and dashes on a black background)

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