…hey, that’s just like my library’s old PET 2001, my first computer!..
…hey, that’s just like my library’s old PET 2001, my first computer!..
…ah, i may be conflating contextal menus with opening new tabs, since that’s the primary UI mode i use to do so: regardless, any kind of shenanigans which aim to disable application-level UI get under my skin…
…and now you’ve hit upon my other peeve: (mostly shopping) sites coded to disable browsing links in a new tab…
…ringworld, johnny mnemonic, and cube all taught me that monofilament is material to be feared…
…you have a birthmark in the shape of legible english characters, not just one, but a full sequence which spell a word?..
…that’s when it ended original production in its final holdout markets, but it withdrew from most markets at least a decade earlier…
…when did they phase out coca-cola classic branding?..i posit that anyone whose age of literacy followed later wouldn’t organcially become aware of new coke; might even be skeptical of its veracity the first time they heard mention…
…i parsed that as ‘once a month’ and pondered your ensuing lifestyle…
…from what i’ve read, shapeways and all their subsidiaries have ceased operation entirely and have no corporate officers; i’m guessing that if the site’s still up there’s noone behind the wheel…
…child of ulster scot farmers, here: yes, we tan a bit, but working outside leaves our necks perpetually red nonetheless, even with long collars and hats…
…it’s called a farmer tan for good reason…
…NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i’m unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround…
…i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended…
edit: …is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..
…i’m absolutely ignorant of its current state, but every time i’ve checked in on progress of GNU/hurd over the past three decades, it still hasn’t matured into a stable production-ready platform: i’m not sure if that’s an artifact of technical viability or developer interest…
…my grandmother never drove in ninety-one years after suffering a siezure in her youth; now i work with a girl who does likewise…
…i relish saying canadia; it rolls so deliciously off the tongue that i can’t resist using at every opportunity…
…american residential houses are neither expensive nor slow to construct and 3D printed houses aren’t significantly cheaper nor faster: what’s expensive is land and infrastructure and what’s slow is permitting…
…tomatoes, olives, peppers, zucchini…