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Yes, I should have provided a citation about the rationale behind using Electron. This is from a developer who worked on Slack for desktop. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46087042
There's a learning environment for SAS that you can use through the browser
It connects to a Windows machine somewhere, which opens SAS ... in a browser
And if you right-click on the wrong thing (certain text fields, but not all) it goes black and you can't do anything and you gotta log out and log back in for it to work again
Research question: is there a specific term (possibly legal) for a person (or people) a ship is named after?
Boat ship or fictional relationship ship?
I went to bed early last night and missed the news that trade talks were suddenly suspended.
It should be no great mystery as to why: Trump's team of quacks and lunatics thought the punishing terms of the deal weren't punishing enough.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Mark Carney suspends trade tal...
#til i learned about The `<geolocation>` HTML element that creates an interactive control for the user to share their location data with the page.
It provides:
- An intuitive browser-defined UI.
- A process for handling the necessary permissions for the geolocation feature.
- API features for accessing location data and responding to received location data and permission changes.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/Elements/geolocation
Research question: is there a specific term (possibly legal) for a person (or people) a ship is named after?
In an alarming development, it appears the UK Government covered up a massive spike in trans youth suicides after restrictions.
Then covered it up again when caught.
Now, after fighting for years, the data is public: trans suicide increased 5x in the country.
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@mpe Jeez. Half say through this post I thought it was great news about weight gain! Ugh, I am so sorry.
@mike Yes, on paper it looks rather good, doesn't it? Ha ha!
@woozle You could even have things like radio buttons and drop-down lists for common variations, and call it a "GUI".
@TimWardCam If you mean within the text of the terminal window rather than as part of the terminal app's GUI/menu stuff -- that's actually a thing; I think it's sometimes called TUI. It used to be very popular in DOS, but there are things like Midnight Commander which still use it.
It works best if you have memory-mapped access to the display, though... or at least it did on PCs running at <10MHz; maybe it doesn't matter now.
(Apologies if this isn't new information.)
The ideal used to be that the platform would provide everything needed for a rich UI, the application developers could just ship their app, and the UI would automatically get better, including on tricky things like the interaction between font rendering and light versus dark mode, as the platform updated. That seems to have failed outside of Apple-native apps by indie developers (and Apple itself). Now apps have to update their pinned runtime dependencies, even when the runtime is first-party.
Listening to Bruce Cockburn’s “ If I had a rocket launcher” for no particular reason.
@NunavutBirder I found a used CD of his greatest hits in a bin in Ashland last spring and yeah sometimes really meets the need
@ciccillo udio Victor Erice non lo conosco. Merita?
@emanuelecariati beh è un regista di culto, uno dei più grandi spagnoli, non ha fatto tanti lungometraggi ma sono praticamente tutti dei capolavori, da El espiritu de la colmena che è il primo fino all’ultimo abbastanza recente Cerrar Los Ojos, per me tutti 5 stelle, se non trovi posso passarti El Sur e dei corti
I published a small about page for #FediHood
@apps Signed up but failed to receive confirmation email. Does your email system not do simple login aliases?
Anyway, I might have some of those details wrong because I didn't fact check myself today (and because, shockingly, this is a pretty difficult story to fact check in the modern era 🙃, or at least it was the last time I remembered it enough to want to try.)
But the gist is 100% true. Mars wrote the track, recorded it, it sucked. Steppenwolf (I think with him still on guitar, but possibly without him and with his brother instead? I'm not a steppenwolf scholar) recorded it faster and louder and it was immediately obvious that the cover was the definitive version, so much so that it's now difficult to find information about the "original".
Steppenwolf are one of those bands that, today, are kind of treated like a one note joke, a stand in for all the excesses of early heavy music and the dying hippie movement.
If you hear a track from them at all today it's almost guaranteed to be Born To Be Wild or Magic Carpet Ride. If the playcounts on my streaming service are anything to go by it's Born to be Wild 10x as often as Magic Carpet Ride and Magic Carpet Ride 10x as often as pretty much anything else they recorded.
And I'm not gonna step out here (heh) and say that they should be canonized alongside, say Zeppelin or whatever. But they're better than their modern reputation might lead you to believe.
Good rest, simple exercise, and hydration. All will help elevate your basic daily wellness.
And then of course there's Electron, where each app ships its own copy of Chromium. And at least one Electron developer has explicitly said that their team chose Electron over an OS-provided web view because they didn't want to be tied to the OS's update cycle, and particularly the unavailability of OS updates on older machines (particularly Macs), for bug fixes and enhancements to the UI stack.
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@ai6yr Hey, in my typing class, it was big old MANUAL typewriters, manual like the one I had at home. I still consider the course (in Jr. High) to have been the single most useful school course I ever took. At the time I thought it would help me with term papers and such. I couldn't have imagined that I'd be spending my entire career at a keyboard touch-typing, as at this very moment.
@ai6yr Unfortunately I was just a bit early to be able to use the computers for final printouts to turn in. While I had access to the "TN" print chain on the IBM 360/91 at UCLA, and it produced very nice upper/lowercase printouts on 8 1/2 x 11 paper when finished, you needed to pull off feed holes on the sides, which always left edges unsuitable for turning in. Missed it by that much! At the UCLA ARPANET lab (ARPANET/Internet site #1), we had one of the full-size phototypesetters that could be driven by TROFF, but it just was expensive and time-consuming to use.
It seems like the non-web end-user software industry, outside of Apple, has broadly given up on using a shared runtime provided by the platform for the higher layers of the UI stack.
Windows: Microsoft is now pushing the Windows App SDK, which includes but is bigger than WinUI 3.
Android: Jetpack Compose is its own GUI toolkit, though using the platform-provided, Skia-based canvas.
Desktop Linux with Flatpak: Goes furthest, pinning the whole userland stack to a specific runtime version.
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