@ajroach42

"The solution isn't to push users back to the command line. The solution must be to bring composability to the graphical environment."

Definitely agree on this.

I've been waiting for a "composable graphical environment" ever since the 1980s and wondering what the holdup has been! Still am!

(because I was a kid who read Byte magazine, which talked about 1) GUIs and 2) Lisp/Smalltalk, so it seemed obvious to kid me that GUIs would be programming languages... and then they weren't)

Disagree with this assertion because it's obviously not factual

Billion dollar Netflix script idea:

A Chevrolet being chased through

Chevy Chase, Maryland; Chevy Chase Lexington, Kentucky, and Chevy Chase, Washington D.C,

starring Chevy Chase

@djsundog

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Imagine the apocalyptic geopolitical, legal and economic implications if someone ever invented a functional Truth Bomb

A startup with the mission of disrupting supply chains

But seriously what does happen to an advanced technological civilization when wages stay flat year over year while rent/mortgages rise by 20-30% year over year?

And when the small remaining sector of the economy that isn't directly based on real estate, is based on retail and hospitality that are the first thing to get cut by workers who suddenly have 20-30% less spending money year over year?

I don't know either but it's going to be exciting to find out!

This is interesting: CHERI (Capability Hardware Enhanced RISC Instructuctions)

A CPU architecture which does capabilities down at the memory-address level, like they should have been done decades ago.

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

I mean if your VDU is actually also a load-bearing pressure bulkhead, then YES you have a justifiable reason to bevel the corners.

If it's not, then you don't.

But bevelled corners on all the screens just look so pretty. It's a whole anime thing too.

Apple is totally gonna release a transparent iPad with the corners all bevelled now, isn't it

Spock's science station, powered off. (https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-enterprise.html )

It's.... hmm.

I can see turning the wheel of buttons into a weird touchscreen wheel, but what's with then dividing that up into chunks? And that glowy white strip right where you don't need it in your eyes?

The TOS bridge always has this conflict between the keyboard wheel and the long line of monitors which I think would give you massive eyestrain in practice. They haven't fixed that, sadly.

Flattening the lower monitors (and turning them from eight into four) just makes them feel cramped.

Bringing the upper monitors down towards seated eyelevel is probably a plus, but the bevelled edges of them is ARRRGH THAT IS NOT HOW SCREENS WORK HAVE YOU EVER DONE WEB LAYOUT ARRRGH

I feel if you wanted to make the TOS stations more usable by a single chair, you'd have to indent them a bit. Turn them from a straight bench into left, centre, right stations.

Honestly WHY WHY does everyone in the Future ALWAYS want to clip the corners diagonally off their nice rectangular screens? What do they think that will get them?

I know it looks cool but you're just causing your UX designers massive pain by doing that. You know they're just gonna inset a rectangle inside your weirdly shaped window and then you'll have two UX problems.

We have Improved the Customer Experience.

Pray we do not Improve it further.

🎵 Who's got time to watch an explosion
There's cool guy errands that they have to walk to🎵

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqz5dbs5zmo

🎵 Cool guys don't look at explosions
They stride forward in their diamond covered boots
They wear jumpsuits with glitter and rhinestones
And walk away in slow motion..🎵

<< State media says Kim Jong-un directly guided the launch of the powerful new Hwasong-17 missile >>

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/24/n-korea-confirms-missile-testing-ahead-of-long-confrontation-with-us

It's funny watching Google Image Search struggling to adjust to new info though

It turns out that cricket is the most dangerous game.

🎵 Cool guys don't look at explosions
They blow things up and just walk away 🎵

I want an interpreted Forth with per-RAM-address object capabilities somehow baked right in at the VM level so it absolutely cannot be bypassed.

I probably don't want this, but I think I do.

Any old Lisp actually comes *super close* to actually being this, because Lisp pointers inside conses *are* capabilities (sort of). They can't be faked, can't be read, can't be converted to or from numbers.

But object capabilities are a bit hard to reconcile with radical simplicity/transparency.