merari42

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[–] merari42@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Only pope to wear a custom anime robe

 
[–] merari42@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (9 children)

We generally had the reasonable rule that property ends at dead. Intellectual property extending beyond the grave is corporatist 21st century bullshit. In the past all writing got quickly into the public domain like it should. Depending on country within in at least 25 years of the publishing date to the authors dead. Project Gutenberg reflects the law and reasonable practice to allow writing to go into the public domain.

 
 
 
[–] merari42@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

This is a bluesky screenshot, not a twitter screenshot. This is to show, where I reposted this from.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

If you can tariff penguin island you could also tariff polars, which isn't slow.

 
 
 
[–] merari42@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago

Code Didn’t Break — They Did

 
[–] merari42@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Text encoding 'standards' were clearly the devil’s work, handed down to humanity to sow chaos and suffering.

 
 
 
 
[–] merari42@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Well the Synthesizer is a sound of the Future. The sound of the future

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This 80s metal band is making real music without synthesizers!

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

The Omen of the Blind Hound:
Émile felt a chill. "A blind beagle revealed our tricolor," he whispered. The Prodigiae’s voice echoed in the dim chamber: "An omen urging France to stand alone; alliances will falter."
...TO BE CONTINUED IN THE COMMENTS...

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Na, that is just historically inaccurate. The original Macintosh team collected their stories/memoires at folklore.org, which give you a pretty good overview of his talents. He was really mercurial and Woz was the better engineer, but played a really important role in the vision/design of computers as we know them today. In the original Mac team others did the engineering and Jobs never claimed to be and engineering type of person, but he had a good feel on the importance of design, clear visual metaphors and good interaction design and pushed the team relentlessly into that direction.

[–] merari42@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It did depend a little bit, what kind of machine/production line he was working on. Before he retired, he worked for an automation engineering company and had different projects in other EU countries, and tried to be understandable for people in those places. He once even coded some Siemens control panel for an aluminum oven loading robot in the czech republic and tried to translate everything to czech with a dictionary (to have the panel info available in czech,english and German). He did of course speak to the foreman of the workers to get it correct.

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