This old dog has learned a new trick keyboarding for #MissionAssist.
There are many types of Apostrophe, & even the descriptions are confusing.
In the screenshot we see that the apostrophe on your keyboard is coded as U+0027, but the note says that U+2019 is preferred for apostrophe.
On my #PCLinuxOS#Linux system running #KDE, to type U+2019 I use the Compose key:
<Multi_key> <greater> <apostrophe> : "?" U2019 # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
Mine is set to Right Alt on my US Keyboard.
I think in PowerShell and can manage in Python. I want to learn Rust to the degree I can write in it directly, rather than prototyping in PowerShell and then converting.
A lot of what I do is data manipulation and analysis. (Take several CSV files as input, and output new CSV files that answer business questions based on the inputs.) I'm seriously impressed with Rust's performance here.
If you've made this transition, advice on where to begin?
I have tried so many #monospaced#fonts, but I keep coming back to #Inconsolata as pleasant and readable. Latest I tried was the #Monaspace family, but the block "@" sign did them in for me. (Really interesting otherwise though!)
I'm trying to explore an alternate history (via emulation) where I got an equivalent A500 system from my parents for Christmas 1989 instead of the Macintosh SE (20MB HD, 1MB RAM) I got that year.
What magazines can I look for on archive dot org or elsewhere online to find hardware prices and bundles for that year? Any idea?
@Tionisla@RL_Dane AmigaOS also was unlike anything else. Great multitasking, built in speech synthesis, named disks (refer to GAME: and it will prompt you to insert that disk, not any other disk). Also instead of (say) /lib or DH0:lib, you use LIBS:, which could be assigned to any folder or disk that stores your shared libraries. The named disk feature was great when using a stack of floppies, as it avoided confusion. If you had multiple drives, it would immediately detect which drive had the necessary disk and prompt if missing.
@RL_Dane@Tionisla I had an A500 around 1990, maybe 89. Eventually added a GVP hard drive and 80286 card. Don't remember ram capacity. Funnily enough i didn't care for the other Commodore computers.
@Tionisla@RL_Dane One of my favorite capabilities was a utility that allowed me to highlight and copy to clipboard any text, in any font, in any window, button, or title bar generated by any program. It would identify the bitmapped font in use and essentially did lightweight OCR with 100% accuracy. I've never found anything comparable since (macos, windows, or Linux).
@NanoRaptor I think a lot of people viewing this ad would assume it had been composed in a desktop publishing system - but those were uncommon until after the release of the first Macintosh.
Any idea what was used for producing these ads in the early 1980s?
@NanoRaptor@RL_Dane For a few weeks I worked on PageMaker on Windows 2.11 (yes, 2 not 3). For our purposes PageMaker was the "killer app" that required a very early version of Windows.
@RL_Dane Good example of pro users (early DTP in this case) challenging the capabilities of available hardware. It seems DTP drove Mac design much as video production and games drove the Amiga, and super-exciting spreadsheets drove IBM clones.
@grammargirl , I really appreciated Episode 974 on language and the aging brain, and ways to improve one's phrasing for better communication. Evidence-based and useful. Thank you!
Me: press windows key
Me: "sleep"
Windows 11: Sleep settings?
Me: press escape, press windows key
Me: "suspend"
Windows 11: HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS OF SUSPENDERS!!!
How the crap does anyone use this utter flaming garbage?
I am not recommending Microsoft Forms at this time until they resolve basic accessibility issues in their platform. This saddens me. They often get it right and then someone breaks it. If you consider this a valuable tool, try creating a survey with basic radio buttons and checkboxes and see what you get. If you try it please file feedback with Microsoft. Hoping we get them to solve this issue quickly.
