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@asdf said in Cool Computing Videos:
@boomzilla said in Cool Computing Videos:
It felt like when you watch an infomercial and they show you the retards who can't flip an egg or whatever without the amazing product.
As a person who cannot flip eggs, I find this comment offensive.
Don't flip eggs. I know you want the the top of your egg cooked. But try to flip them, and you'll ruin them and wreck the yolk half the time. Or overcook the top.
Instead, have a hair dryer by the stove. About 15-30 seconds before the egg is done, hit the top of the egg with the dryer on high. It will cook the white without flipping.
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@Weng said in Cool Computing Videos:
@asdf I can cook like fuck, but I can't flip anything with less structural integrity than a steak without disaster.
I'm not bad at flipping.
I rock at doing the "shake a pan to toss the food all about" thing.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Cool Computing Videos:
Don't flip eggs.
I never do. That's why I don't know how to do it. I was actually pretty surprised when I found out that there are people who flip their eggs.
I rock at doing the "shake a pan to toss the food all about" thing.
That's pretty easy. Flipping a whole pancake, OTOH, is something I'll probably never learn.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Cool Computing Videos:
I'm not bad at flipping.
I rock at doing the "shake a pan to toss the food all about" thing.
Once upon a time, I could do that - including the shake-the-pan-and-flip thing. Not even going to try that now!
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@Lorne-Kates said in Cool Computing Videos:
rock at doing the "shake a pan to toss the food all about" thing.
It's not hard once you realize the motion is supposed to be more like if you extended the handle and tied one end to a wheel and a smaller on in the middle.
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@cartman82 This is a misunderstanding! You never own an iProduct, it is a perpetual life-long license, much like the one true ring that only belongs to Sauron. Of course you cannot touch Apple's precious! let alone fix it? !!!
This one is also a good rant, and all true!
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@Yamikuronue said in Cool Computing Videos:
speakerdeck
.... is this a thing now? Like, not calling it a "presentation" or "slides"-- it's a "deck"?
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@asdf said in Cool Computing Videos:
Flipping a whole pancake, OTOH, is something I'll probably never learn.
Never done a whole-pan-flip on a pancake. I always cook them on a griddle.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Cool Computing Videos:
@Yamikuronue said in Cool Computing Videos:
speakerdeck
.... is this a thing now? Like, not calling it a "presentation" or "slides"-- it's a "deck"?
Yeah, I was wondering why powerpoint presentations were being called "decks". Fun fact: My integration suite that uses Excel, Powerpoint, and Report Services is called AutoDeck. I don't think I can release it though, code made while under contract and all that...
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@Lorne-Kates said in Cool Computing Videos:
.... is this a thing now?
"my presentation uploaded to SpeakerDeck" gets shortened to "my SpeakerDeck" in talks I've seen.
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@Lorne-Kates said in Cool Computing Videos:
Don't flip eggs. I know you want the the top of your egg cooked. But try to flip them, and you'll ruin them and wreck the yolk half the time.
Are you they guy they get for infomercials to show us how terrible we are without the gadget du jour? It's not that difficult to flip an egg.
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TIL there was a political controversy caused by scanner data compression.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0O6UXrOZJo
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@LB_ I recall there being a post here about how Xerox printers would glyph-substitute things like
6
and8
due to bad compression. Yay!
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@Tsaukpaetra Not printers, scanners. If printers started glyph-substituting, we'd be in trouble long before it came time to scan the document back in as a PDF to send it off to the printing company to be mailed overseas and scanned in as a PDF there.
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@LB_ said in Cool Computing Videos:
Not printers, scanners.
Whoops, not sure how that switch happened.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in Cool Computing Videos:
Whoops, not sure how that switch happened.
Bad compression, probably.
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@ben_lubar said in Cool Computing Videos:
AutoDesk
Nope. At risk of , it's short for "automated deck "
Really neat tool, I should post about it some time.
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I scrolled through the whole thread and didn't see this posted. Great talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tg1ONG18H8
Also, I've always thought "Nevermind" was better than "Cancel", but maybe they're just synonyms?
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@LB_ said in Cool Computing Videos:
No need for a jsfiddle. You could have put it right here.
You are closing this document with unsaved changes. Do you want to save them first?
Yes, save and close No, close without saving Nevermind, don't close
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From cppcon. Although superficially about C++, it's interesting from a purely psychological viewpoint -- you can see the C++ part mostly as a case that is being studied and that examples come from.
There are a few other talks from this year's cppcon online, I enjoyed the talk by Herb Sutter. That one, on the other hand, is really about C++. Haven't had time to watch any others yet.
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A very visual introduction to floats (by which I mean the datatype, not fishes, despite what the thumbnail would indicate):
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@anonymous234 I love Pannen, I can watch his secondary chan all day long and not even notice :D
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@Yamikuronue said in Cool Computing Videos:
@anonymous234 I love Pannen, I can watch his secondary chan all day long and not even notice :D
He has a secondary channel?!?
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@Tsaukpaetra It just got renamed to UncommentedPannen, it's all his discussions of how Mario 64 works and ways they can break it
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Tom Scott makes awful hacks in Windows
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@cartman82 I showed my 20 year old son the preview image. He had a one-word response:
NOPE
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@HardwareGeek said in Cool Computing Videos:
@cartman82 I showed my 20 year old son the preview image. He had a one-word response:
NOPE
was that nope as in do not want or nope as in impossible..... because i assure you only one of those is true. :-)
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@accalia said in Cool Computing Videos:
was that nope as in do not want or nope as in impossible
I'm pretty sure it was this sort of nope:
Although it might have been or .
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@LB_ said in Cool Computing Videos:
Also, I've always thought "Nevermind" was better than "Cancel", but maybe they're just synonyms?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg&list=PLja1EMQNW5eOoEJxALwuLSxajmOGswIlA
Also, according to Hertzfeld, Apple were originally going to use
Do It!
for the confirmation buttons on the Lisa, and even put it in early pre-release versions of the Mac (ISTR that it was previously used in some Xerox PARC software), until they noticed that it seemed to confuse a lot of the UA testing/focus groups, and even appeared to anger some of them. They didn't understand it until one of the focus group people got pissed off and asked the proctor, "Why does this damn thing keep calling me a dolt?"
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@ScholRLEA said in Cool Computing Videos:
Also, according to Hertzfeld, Apple were originally going to use
Do It!
for the confirmation buttons on the Lisa, and even put it in early pre-release versions of the Mac (ISTR that it was previously used in some Xerox PARC software), until they noticed that it seemed to confuse a lot of the UA testing/focus groups, and even appeared to anger some of them. They didn't understand it until one of the focus group people got pissed off and asked the proctor, "Why does this damn thing keep calling me a dolt?"These UA testing/focus groups, they actually had people that could read in them, right?
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@RaceProUK said in Cool Computing Videos:
@ScholRLEA said in Cool Computing Videos:
Also, according to Hertzfeld, Apple were originally going to use
Do It!
for the confirmation buttons on the Lisa, and even put it in early pre-release versions of the Mac (ISTR that it was previously used in some Xerox PARC software), until they noticed that it seemed to confuse a lot of the UA testing/focus groups, and even appeared to anger some of them. They didn't understand it until one of the focus group people got pissed off and asked the proctor, "Why does this damn thing keep calling me a dolt?"These UA testing/focus groups, they actually had people that could read in them, right?
Apparently, but I can only think that they couldn't Do It! very well...
To be fair, 12pt Chicago on the Lisa's original 12" diag. 720 x 364 (rectangular pixels) screen was probably not the easiest thing to read.
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Just thought I'd add: you have to recall that while mice, touch screens, light pens, and screen windows were developed in the 1960s, and the WIMP GUI model was developed in the early 1970s, hardly anyone in that period (mid 1979 to late 1982) had seen them, and even among programmers they seemed like alien intruders. Chances are, even if the whole idea of buttons on the screen and clicking the mouse to do things was explained to them, most of them would have had trouble understanding that the oblong thing on the 'TV part' represented a button that they could press using this rat thing that they were supposed to roll around on the desk and somehow make that arrow move, and how does that even work?
Especially since the focus groups for the Lisa were mainly business executives and secretaries, not teens who had played video games and could make the analogy to using joysticks, twist paddles (as used in many versions of Pong), and trackballs (al la Missile Commander) and using the mouse, while the Mac focus groups were mostly housewives and college students - the latter were often familiar enough with game controllers to pick up on the similarities, but the main target audience of the 'intelligence appliance' were the housewives.
There's a story of Apple (or maybe Xerox, or both) doing focus group testing where they showed the users the prototype hardware with the mouse and everything, and asked them if they could figure out how to turn it on and use it. Most couldn't get it turned on, nor could many of them understand how to insert the floppy disk (even those who knew the 5 1/4"disk drives of other computers, in the case of Macs), and would try to point the mouse at the monitor, use it as a foot pedal, and so forth.
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@ScholRLEA said in Cool Computing Videos:
point the mouse at the monitor
For the record, Air Mice mostly suck balls...
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@Tsaukpaetra This is true. But these weren't meant to be used that way, anyway.
For that matter, even in Silly Valley the majority of people would never have seen a home computer in person in 1979. They weren't coming in with the preexisting expectations of an MS-DOS user, they were coming in with the preexisting expectations of people whose sole experience of computing was watching films like The Forbin Project, television shows like The Prisoner and The Six Million Dollar Man, and hearing urban legends of people getting billed a million dollars by Ma Bell because of a damaged Hollerith card.
Even in the late 1980s and early 1990s, people familiar with PCs tended to see Macs as something unintelligible because they had those mouse things and it didn't do anything when you typed in
dir
. And they were still more knowledgeable than most - prior to the start of the September that Never Ended, only about a third of US citizens owned or had ever owned a computer, and almost 40% had never even used one. Most of those who had used one at work or school had only run Wordperfect (or AppleWriter on the Apple ][), Lotus 1-2-3, and/or a few games. Maybe one in ten of those who had done more than that might have known some of their system's BASIC dialect (hard to avoid on the Apple II or the Commodore 64), but had never really used it except to punch in something from a magazine listing.For those who reminisce fondly over those days (and I'll admit that I do myself), let me repeat what I said about Dorothy Sayers' essay on education: that system only worked because it was enough - just barely - for the tiny minority of people who were actually involved in it. It didn't, and couldn't, scale.
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This Swedish js programmer makes pretty neat weekly videos.
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@cartman82 said in Cool Computing Videos:
Tom Scott makes awful hacks in Windows
It still would have been easier on Linux
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eyFDBPk4Yw
This is apparently famous. I was one of today's lucky 10000.
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This kind of fractal structure shows up a lot in computer science, and mathematics, and Hyrule.
:D
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A rather misleading title, but it's actually a great introductory video about floating point representation in binary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQs_wx8eoQ8
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https://youtu.be/MiLAE6HMr10?t=26m34s
New web features coming up in 2017 and beyond.
The linked timestamp is demo of C# running inside browser with web assembly, including a C# based SPA framework. Pretty cool.
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@r10pez10 Web Standards: Always Five Years Behind!
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There are two lphants in the room
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So I heard you like mechanical computers... now you can buy a kit to build your own
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vp9k6n1A7eE