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Cake day: November 9th, 2024

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  • Web designer/ devs needed to add back visual indicators to long articles when OS designers started hiding scroll bars.

    It’s also helpful when the article ends, but has a bunch of shit below it (like required advertiser garbage or huge footers). If the up dev is smart, they’ll calculate the length of the article so that the progress indicator is accurate.





  • Spacewar! Basically the first graphic video game had an accurate star field.

    [The] early version also contained a randomly generated background star field, initially added by Russell because a blank background made it difficult to tell the relative motion of the two spaceships at slow speeds.[2] The programming community in the area, including the Hingham Institute and the TMRC, had developed what was later termed the “hacker ethic”, whereby all programs were freely shared and modified by other programmers in a collaborative environment without concern for ownership or copyright, which led to a group effort to elaborate on Russell’s initial Spacewar! game.[4][13] Consequently, since the inaccuracy and lack of realism in the starfield annoyed TMRC member Peter Samson, he wrote a program based on real star charts that scrolled slowly through the night sky, including every star in a band between 22.5° N and 22.5° S down to the fifth magnitude, displayed at their relative brightness. The program was called “Expensive Planetarium”—referring to the high price of the PDP-1 computer compared to an analog planetarium, as part of the series of “expensive” programs like Piner’s Expensive Typewriter—and was quickly incorporated into the game in March by Russell, who served as the collator of the primary version of the game.[2][4][7]


  • anomnom@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@sopuli.xyz‎ ‎ ‎
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    4 days ago

    Or it’s based on some of the shitty apartments in the greater Boston area.

    We viewed one where the “shower” could only be used while kneeling because the peaked roof cut the top off, and it was a walk in. Another where the back door could only open 1/3 of the way because the only place in the kitchen for a refrigerator block the door except enough to squeeze a slim person through. That back door was the only way down to the laundry, but there was no way in hell to get a basket through it.




  • anomnom@sh.itjust.workstomemes@lemmy.worldNO DOGS IN HOUSE
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    5 days ago

    I think it’s a poorly worded theory that dogs with colon cancer lick their buts and then lick you, giving you colon cancer.

    Possibly they heard about the Tasmanian devils with cancer on their faces that spread by biting each other. Or possibly they know about HPV and cervical cancer and extrapolated from there.

    It’s hard to say, but if they’ve had colon cancer and it’s been traumatic, I can understand wanting to get a message out. If you don’t have the education to do it other ways, mailbox letters on your truck probably make sense.



  • Yeah, I’ve had them fly into my mouth too, most memorably in mid air after jumping off a diving board. So I had to endure the damn thing in my mouth, under water, until I could come up for air/spitting it out.

    Still way less annoying than horse and deer flies. Those fuckers really hurt.