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Omar Rizwan @omar

screenshot of http://mrob.com/pub/perl/hypercalc.html

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[words Jaggy / Blurry / Wobbly with those effects on each word]
Figure 1.1. Up close, high-contrast edges in texture images become jaggy, blurry
or wobbly.

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Omar Rizwan @omar

:=)

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Omar Rizwan @omar

i really like the idea of decoupling 'voice control of computer' from like 'friendly Siri assistant that you ask things in English'
like… why shouldn't one be able to have voice control of computer where ur this expert programmer flying around saying these strings of syllables

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Omar Rizwan @omar

paper computers (volvelles, slide rules)I are cool because they
suggest a vision of computing where you do the actual
computation with a paper/analog device, and you use the
electronic computer just to manage I/O at the edges :P

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Omar Rizwan @omar

good stuff: https://www.academia.edu/44034268/Period_Styles_A_Brief_History_of_Punctuation

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Omar Rizwan @omar

🙂

wait() is an outdated UNIX system call from the 1970s and waitpid() is an
outdated UNIX system call from the 1980s.

In 1988, the superior interface waitid() has been introduced.

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Omar Rizwan @omar

it's funny/interesting/weird how Tcl's treatment of variables is kinda based on how file paths work in Unix -- like it's a pretty consistent system, but it's not the lexical scope system that you've learned to expect from basically every other programming language

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Omar Rizwan @omar

In a cursive script, the line, as it unravels upon the page, issues directly from this
gestural movement, with all the care, feeling and devotion that goes into it. I
compare it to practising my cello. When I practise — which I do as often as I can —
the sound pours out from the contact between bow and strings. In just the same
way, handwriting flows from the moving point of contact between pen and paper.
The keyboard ruptures this connection. The tapping of my fingers on the keys
bears no relation to the marks that appear on the page or screen. These marks
carry no trace of movement or feeling. They are cold and expressionless. Typing on
the computer, I find, is joyless and soul-destroying. It rips the heart out of writing.

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Omar Rizwan @omar

I'm realizing my main issue is that I don't like not being able to
visually _see_ my data in the database

and also edit

Airtable is like GUI first, database second. Would be nice to have something that's as seriously a GUI spreadsheet thing as it is a database.

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