nothankyou777

People who get excited enough about politics in this country to shoot someone are stupid. Love him or hate him, Charlie is just somebody's puppet. If you see them on twitter or television, they are puppets. Puppeteers are smart enough to stay out of the spotlight. There is only one person in recent memory who was smart enough to go after a puppeteer.

We move from the "prison phone" to the escape-proof "prison phone", and the spiritual abominations on hackernews celebrate.

You're looking at it through internet-era glasses. We're talking late 70s to early 80s tech and prices. Equipment was expensive. Clients were charged by the minute. Without city-level populations, the numbers didn't pan out. If the prospects were brighter, companies would have been more serious about converging on a standard.

A late 80s / early 90s BBS is no comparison. Cost-per-everything in computers had plummeted by then--even kids could host a BBS with the family computer.

Per wiki on Prestel (i know it's videotex, but the article covered both):

Hosting Costs:

> In 1985, British Telecom estimated that for an IP using a typical minicomputer (such as the PDP-11) located 100 km from London and handling up to 10 users simultaneously at peak times, the one-off software set-up cost would be at least £16,000, communication costs would range from £4,280 to £5,550 a year (depending on the type of connection), and Prestel usage would cost £8,600 a year.[82]: 4

Usage Costs:

> At the launch of the commercial service in September 1979, and in addition to phone charges, users were charged 3p per minute online to Prestel from 8 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday, and 3p for three minutes at other times. Installing a phone jack-socket cost £13, with a quarterly rental of 50p. Business users paid an additional standing charge (i.e., a flat charge regardless of usage) of £12 per quarter.[23]

> By October 1982, the online usage charge had risen to 5p per minute (8 am to 6 pm Monday to Friday and also 8 am to 1 pm on Saturdays, free at other times), the business standing charge to £15 per quarter, residential users now paid £5 per quarter, and jack installation cost "from £15", with a 15p quarterly rental fee.[24]: 2

Content Distribution Costs:

> A main IP rented pages from the Post Office (initially) or British Telecom (later), and controlled a three-digit master-page in the database. In 1982, this cost an annual £5,500 for a basic package,[24]: 1 equivalent to around £29,000 in 2021.[80]

Teletext had a better run in Europe for the same reason as public transport: higher population density. It is more economical when you can spread the cost over more customers. In places as sparsely populated as flyover US & Canada, the cost of maintaining a teletext presence wasn't worth the handful of contacts you'd get out of it. Boston or New York could have benefited, but for the rest of the country, it was brutally outperformed by the cork board.

Firefox reader mode

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...

Their CSS implementation is broader than what most actual browsers had 10 years ago. I would not have commented if I weren't already painfully familiar.

https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/css-overview.html

It even has a DOM inspector window:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/597259/how-do-i-open-gtk-ins...

You are projecting. Personally speaking, I would choose Electron waaaay before I'd choose GTK. That probably wasn't an option for his optimized terminal, but would be Good Enough™ for just about anything else.

Electron is bringing an entire web browser in to provide a cross-platform user interface. GTK has become almost a web browser to provide a cross-platform user interface. That is why I started off with

> CSS classes

To spell it out, I think it is all excessive.

Are we looking at the same title?

We rewrote the Ghostty *G* *T* *K* application

The article about struggling... with GTK.

USA was based on the principles of Locke & Paine, and we also kill on a large scale. Israel was based on the principles of Theodor Herzl, et. al., and they kill on a large scale. Maybe people just like mass murder when they think they can get away with it.

If a man who has been dead for over 142 years is a threat to "the principles of the free democratic basic order", they couldn't have been worth that much to begin with. And it is a lie. Germany is not a free country. Germany is a broken vassal state. Any ideology would be superior to that of being America's whipping-boy.

> CSS classes

GTK has gotten so fat that it's more like a 2nd-rate Electron. Not that Electron would have done Ghostty any good...

I have a bad feeling that the only decent & consistent UI option under Linux is to target Win32 API, then run it under Wine.

or maybe just a really nice lens

I was thinking more along the lines of Havana Syndrome. The brain is an electro-chemical system, so this is as much a biology question as it is a physics one. Direct enough wattage at it for long enough, who knows what the effects will be? Not cooking, but signal interference.

Putting too much stock in coherence. Sunlight is not coherent, but throw enough of it at a target, and things happen. Little moments of constructive interference are enough for an effect.

From your article:

> Note that the thinned array curse applies only to mutually coherent sources. If the transmitting sources are not mutually coherent, the size of the ground spot does not depend on the relationship of the individual sources to one another, but is simply the sum of the individual spots from each source.

A fraction of 8,094 is still quite a few.

Google says their 8,094 satellites use phased arrays. I wonder what would happen if you directed a few hundred of these phased arrays at a single target?