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silveira··on Borland Turbo Basic
I absolutely loved the help docs that came in Borland products. To this day they are my gold standard of documentation and nothing has ever meet them. I learned so much simply navigating their docs. The best part was that they had actual examples that you could see it working, copy/paste modify. To an extent, a taste of open source.
silveira··on Microsoft killed FoxPro in 2007. Anyway, here's FoxPro revived
The website at least. Just look for the word "not". LLMs love writing things like "it's not ice cream, is pasta", "you get a full dog, not a cat".
silveira··on Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots
They are here right now, writing comments, upvoting and downvoting.
silveira··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
What about Elegoo Centauri Carbon? I've had my eye on this for some time.
silveira··on Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria
It seems that it's quire more complicated than that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medici...
silveira··on Community firmware for the Xteink X4 e-paper reader
I bought one yesterday from AliExpress. I hope I'm able to install new firmwares on it.
silveira··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
And sometimes 3 can be "every other CEO is doing it, let's do it too. At least we already have the narrative.".
silveira··on Oracle slashes 30k jobs
At least they had a decency of avoiding the ambiguity of doing this during April 1st.
silveira··on Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk
Thanks, I had deleted the app from all my devices but not deleted the account. I have deleted my account now too.
silveira··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
I really like this setup:

iPad + Korg microKEY-37 + KORG Gadget 3 + all a bunch of KORG apps

No subscriptions. Keyboard is wireless but no noticeable latency. In my workflow I pretty much never need more keys but if I do I just use a MIDI adapter and plug a larger keyboard.

KORG apps go on 50% sale several times every year.

silveira··on New iPad Air, powered by M4
iPad Pro (4th generation) 2020 here. Life was good then updated OS with liquid glass. Big mistake.
silveira··on Palm OS User Interface Guidelines (2003) [pdf]
I still remember using Palm OS for the first time and having my little mind blown away because there was no save buttons (at least in the version and apps I was using). You edited a document and that's it, it was saved. Like writing on paper.

Nowadays a lot of applications behave like this but back then it was a very different from everything I had ever used.

silveira··on 0 A.D. Release 28: Boiorix
I have been playing 0ad, single player, medium/hard difficulty, round-robing all maps, for years now. Great game. I have to try mods one of these days.
silveira··on Voith Schneider Propeller
The same article in german has some nice animations: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith-Schneider-Antrieb
silveira··on A method and calculator for building foamcore drawer organisers
I'm deep in the Gridfinity rabbit hole but this seems a good compromise since my 3d printer broke.
silveira··on Proof of Corn
https://farm.bot/ exists.
silveira··on Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes"
This made me think about another contrast, Hayao Miyazaki. His characters ("heroes" or "villains"), usually are more morally complex and nuanced than the ones you would find in the works I typically see depicted in Hollywood. They are not just good or evil. You may not agree with their actions, but you understand the logic of it.
silveira··on OpenAI to begin testing ads on ChatGPT in the U.S.
Let the enshittification begin.

Then you move to the paid plan, then they move ads to the paid plan, then you move to the premium-extra plan, etc.

silveira··on Apple Creator Studio
Thanks for the info, I was looking for this. I have the "Pro Apps Bundle for Education" that I bought years ago and it is an fantastic deal.
silveira··on Some Epstein file redactions are being undone
If you unlock a lock, that's still a lock.

Also, in light of everything that is happening, is incredible that the top comment on this thread is about some minor semantic definitions.

silveira··on Nokia N900 Necromancy
Oh, I wish I could do something like that for my Nokia N800.
silveira··on Making a Small RPG
Awesome. I while ago I was playing around some JS graphic/game engine/frameworks and came across Kaboom (now Kaplay) and it stroke me as a really different approach to the whole thing. I am now again playing with it and it's really impressive and fun.

Also, thank you for you tutorials. I have stumbled on some of them too.

silveira··on First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
Just watched a podcast on this. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-mysterious-death-o...
silveira··on First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)
I was reading the comments trying to find something similar to this. I remember reading a similar explanation. The brain in a ultimate attempt of solving that fatal situation goes deeply thought memories to find anything that could help. Evolutionarily, this would make sense.
silveira··on Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity
50% tariff on Brazil so they stop offering lessons in democratic maturity.
silveira··on I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file
Obsidian + folders (done, wip, todo, trash) + one file per task (and all details and notes inside each file). That's been really good for me.
silveira··on Ask HN: Why Did Mercurial Die?:(
1. Github. 2. Git was created and used as a version control in the development of the Linux kernel. Some people may correctly think: if it's good enough to be the version control for Linux, it should handle my project.
silveira··on The United States withdraws from UNESCO
Intelligence sometimes manifests as doing the wrong thing in the most convoluted way.
silveira··on Show HN: Lazy Tetris
The shapes are called tetrominos, four squares connected orthogonally. Tetris the game, was created with pentominoes (5 squares) and scaled down to tetrominos. The game was inspired by physical puzzles where fill a rectangle with the shapes. So these shapes existed before Tetris.

Would they go after the shapes? Possibly. See "Tetris Holding, LLC v. Xio Interactive, Inc.".

silveira··on Firefox tab groups are here
The same. Sometimes I pair with people working (programming) and having dozens of tabs open without any vertical tabs plugin. They pretty much have to spend time clicking and searching tab by tab what they need.

I don't get why vertical tab is not at least an option in all browsers.

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