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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneColourules
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    9 days ago

    I recall in the CRT era, yellow-on-blue was considered the most comfortable.

    I can recall always typing “COLOR 15, 1, 1:WIDTH 40” to switch from light-grey-on-black to white-on-blue when I went to program my 386, much easier to read.

    Not sure how those studies map to the different properties of LCD screens.


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    16 days ago

    What’s wrong with #ffffff?

    Somehow when we had only 16 colours to work with we didn’t have the worst of the designer-brain “grey on marginally different grey” eyestrain factories. High-enough contrast for accessinility was essentially guaranteed. And you could go even more restrictive for laptops with early washed out LCDs and only-shades-of-red plasma screens.








  • HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.orgto196@lemmy.blahaj.zonerule
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    8 months ago

    The keyboard has 4 keys to the right of the space bar, so it’s probably a PC-style keyboard with “Windows keys”. But the Mac is old enough it would be ADB only. There’s no way that’s working without a spendy adaptor.

    Unacceptable. Beat the props guy with a Model F.



  • This feels like floating point would not work well.

    (Context for the non-programmer-socks crowd) Some systems store decimal numbers in a way that precludes an exact representation of some vslues. So 1/10 might have be stored as 0.0999999999999976, which makes little difference until the inaccuracy gets multiplied and rippled around enough to generate a letter for being 0.0000000047 cents overdrawn.

    I suppose for gender, the rounding error is catgirl. we’re all ever so slightly willing to mew and swat away people trying to rub our bellies, it’s just a matter of when it shows up in an unexpecyed place.








  • The mafia has infested law enforcement too.

    I accidentally took the wrong streetcar when visiting San Francisco and ended up in the Castro.

    They put a boot on my gender and had it towed. Apparently I have to pay $450 plus $85 per day storage to get it out of impound. I said “forget it” and they crushed it into a cube.



  • I’m sort of intrigued how they got the startup funding.

    You’re building a retail business around a meme. Even in the best possible case, you have a couple years of relevance to pay down the debt.

    It’s brick-and-mortar, with real inventory, not like just online drop-shipping stuff silkscreened on demand, so the overhead is pretty high.

    If a bank financed any of this nonsense, I want to know so we can send the FDIC Shock Troops in to find out what other stupid shit they’re doing with depositor money.