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Epilogue to 2001: A Space Odyssey by Steve Begg

(Via 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Frank Poole Epilogue)

2001 A Space Odyssey, Epilogue. Featuring Frank Poole Some 203 years after astronaut Frank Poole is murdered by the Discovery's A.I. HAL 9000, his body encounters a Monolith. Using practical models and digital…

Noted by Damian Cugley 3 days, 9 hours ago.

Ad companies want to track your location so as to better manipulate you, and will stoop to some fairly underhanded tactics when thwarted by privacy enhancements in the browser.

Apple's new privacy settings vexes trackers George P. Slefo reports for Ad Age on how the tracking industry is reacting to Apple’s iOS 13 lockdown of apps using Bluetooth and Wi-Fi as tracking proxies. It’s a fine overview, but this is the paragraph that struck me: The move might al...

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 week, 5 days ago.

Twitter thread of old-timey computers with absurdly small screens back when screens were impressively expensive.

Marcin Wichary on Twitter “Hello, stranger. I’m glad you decided to join me on this impromptu tour of a somewhat forgotten era of computing: the time when Screens Were Expensive – and so computers had no choice but to use smaller screens, small screens, and even ridiculously tiny screens. Shall we…?”

Noted by Damian Cugley 3 weeks, 1 day ago.

Obviously is a warm and workmanlike sanserif typeface family with a ridiculous 96 styles. Here’s James Edmondson describing the journey to completing this mammoth task.

The Process of Obviously | OH no Type Company OH no Type Co. Retail and custom typefaces. Life’s a thrill, fonts are chill!

Noted by Damian Cugley 3 weeks, 1 day ago.

Offset-based pagination get inefficient for large offsets; seek-based pagination makes the link to the next page cheap at the expense of having no easy route to previous pages.

Thoughts on Arbitrary Pagination • Sean Griffin Pagination is the act of breaking a data set into multiple pages to limit the amount of data that has to be processed and sent by a server at once. We’re going to be changing how pagination works on crates.io, and I wanted to share some musings... | Sean Griffin | Co-lead of the crates.io team, full time Rust contributor. Creator of Diesel. Former Rails committer. they/them

Noted by Damian Cugley 3 weeks, 1 day ago.

Some emoji are actually a sequence of base character and modifiers and if text editors delete the modifiers one by one it produces a more generic emoji, with variously confusing or problematic results.

Brooke Watson on Twitter “just learned with horror that deleting any of the "family" emojis in google slides does not remove the emoji, but rather kills off each individual family member one by one, starting with the children https://t.co/0v2s8Bx91n”

Noted by Damian Cugley 1 month, 1 week ago.

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