no, see the important part is to get xerox to be a major player in the graphical minicomputer industry while it was still important, so that the world of guis would all be based on their paradigm with instant editability and deep interconnection.

oops, yeah.

it definitely would not.

yeah the frames are different but that doesn’t matter to 99.9% of people.

oh god, the nightmare that “adding a fifth number” would be

ipv4 is a 32-bit number, which means the total number of possible addresses are 2³² = 4 294 967 296, which is waaaaay less than the amount of computers we have today. ipv6 is a 128-bit number, so the total is 2¹²⁸ = 340 282 366 920 938 463 463 374 607 431 768 211 456, which is more than all the grains of sand on earth.

the only thing i’ve heard people don’t like about ipv6 is that the addresses are longer and have letters in them.

i’d have blocked steve jobs from visiting xerox PARC.

the nordic systems are based on popular sovereignty by proportional representation, which lies in opposition to separation of power.

no, not every democracy. every government performs those roles but they are not all split the same way. the nordic countries are single-branch and he chinese government has many more than three.

No branch of government should be allowed to accumulate too much power.

tell me you’re from the us without telling me you’re from the us. what’s a “branch of government”?

skunk works by ben rich, about his work as chief of the lockheed skunk works during the time they built the sr-71 blackbird and the f-117 nighthawk.

the soul of a new machine by tracy kidder, about the development of the data general eclipse minicomputer.

poor moomin

it’s mostly the interface, the layout, the clickbaityness the format encourages, and the fact that no useful information can fit in that short a video.

a mess

i mean python is 99% backwards compatible so as long as you tell your tooling you’re working with 3.10 it will warn you about using stuff that’s too new. that’s why the shipping version is usually enough. in general it’s not recommended to have multiple versions of python3 installed at the same time, but if you are a habitual venv user it’s usually not a problem. however i have also run into the issue of some versions being “too new” for a project, where the thing just would not work with newer versions.

basically, if your issue is only that you don’t want to “contaminate” an older codebase, that can be solved by configuring your tooling. but if your issue is that the thing just doesn’t work with the “wrong” version, you’re probably best of using a container. a user installation of the version you want will work but having multiple installations is annoying.

use something like uv to install whatever python version you want and set up a venv with it. that way you can have project-specific python versions.

for this to be accurate superman would need a ball window

png is not designed for photos, it compresses graphics buch better. jpeg is the opposite.

yeah that’s my impression as well. being a child star really fucks you up mentally.

then again i haven’t seen the documentaries.

michael jackson made incredible music. i don’t even know how much of the stuff about him is true but it does feel weird listening to his stuff now, even though it’s extremely well made.