Percival Lowell misunderstanding the Italian word “canali”[1] should rank pretty high in terms of similar phenomena and is probably the most impactful example.
It looks like Wikipedia [1] has a better explanation of the actual misunderstanding, the page you linked wasn't very clear to me (Italian "canali" corresponds to English "channel", not English "canal").
> If you fail to activate this evaluation after installation, or if your evaluation period expires, the desktop background will turn black, you will see a persistent desktop notification indicating that the system is not genuine, and the PC will shut down every hour.
I was ready to grab a ISO, but this sounds pretty user hostile to me.
Looks cool, but produce GIFs? Asciinema is text based IIRC.
The name is the downside of Asciinema IMO. Can’t help but read it as ASCII enema, which is funny, but not what I want think about. Just call it tty-player or something…
But the brilliant thing about Asciinema is that the output is just text (JavaScript). You can pause it and copy text from it if you need to, and the filesize is basically nil.
Basically, writing a CS paper in LaTeX using the "alg*" packages (algorithm2e, algorithmicx, algorithms, algpseudocode, algxpar, algpseudocodex, etc.) is living in the ALGO 60 / ALGO 68 world. For the most part, nobody uses anything from the standards that would require superfluous explanations in a paper.
Thinking Machines was chosen over the Cray because they had more visual appeal. Sheryl Handler the CEO had (has) a real flair for and it showed; they were neat looking machines
The Cray machines looked more like an airport seating area. Or with later models, obstacles in a laser tag arena. While the Thinking Machines with the moving LEDs looked alive, almost like it was designed to be a character in a movie, which they became.
The iPhone 8 was peak iPhone. I’m on my second iPhone 8 and am posting from it now.
I did also like the original iPhone SE mostly because of the size, but the haptics make the the iPhone 8, along with having a bezel, square screen, and home button.
For those that don’t know. Emacs was there before windows managers was the norm (I think), so after splitting the emacs view, each part was called a window.
The whole view is called a frame and store the window layout. You can create as many frames as you, each with its own layout and in terminal mode, they would swap like i3 workspaces. But in graphic mode (GUI) they are what we call window today, what emacs users refer as windows would be panes.
There’s no argument for the change in the general case. There’s rationalizations, sure.
But no euphemisms like “public”, “free software”, “copyleft”, make the change anything less than taking away a freedom and calling it “free as in speech”.
Actually, you don’t have that right. Most cities ban public nuisance noises such as blasting air horns.
You’re mostly free to do things that do not harm others. If you don’t like my speaking you can and should just move along. Blasting an air horn is not only harming me it harms everyone around you. Whereby you are interfering with everyone else’s right to not have public nuisances.
It isn’t remotely similar to what I’m saying anyway.
The free software foundation has brainwashed y’all to think less freedom is more freedom. And yes, I will die on this hill.
It isn’t my fault if you have an issue with objective reality.
WARNING: The Post Millennial is an extremist website.
I can’t believe that getting “news” about an extremist group from another extremist organization is a productive way to make sense of the world.
Honestly, read whatever you want but just be aware that radical extremist exist and commit horrific crimes and other radical extremist will exploit that.
It is radical extremism that’s dangerous in and of itself—not just a particular brand of radical extremism.
1. https://lowell.edu/percival-lowells-search-for-life-on-mars/