Mark Anderson

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The Correct Incantation

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

I declare that today, Nov. 19, 2025 is the 50th anniversary of BitBLT, a routine so fundamental to computer graphics that we don't even think about it having an origin. A working (later optimized) implementation was devised on the Xerox Alto by members of the Smalltalk team. It made it easy to arbitrarily copy and move arbitrary rectangles of bits in a graphical bitmap. It was this routine that made Smalltalk's graphical interface possible. Below is part of a PARC-internal memo detailing it:
Every single barrier that is put up against vaccination carves off more and more people who won’t be able to get their kids fully vaccinated. The Republican Congress could STOP THIS AT ANY TIME.
Somebody who engages in logging is a lumberjack. But somebody who engages in blogging is just a blogger. What a missed opportunity.
For people outside the US, this is a classic example and by no means a rarity.

I'm installing DOSBox 0.74 again.

this version of DOSBox is older (14 years) than the entire run of DOS releases from Microsoft (1981-1994: 13 years)

New secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike

FrontierMath’s difficult questions remain unpublished so that AI companies can’t train against it.

Ars Technica
Oddly I can find other people's threads accounts on here, by not my own. I think they need to work out their implementation.
Apple. Apple please. You can't use the same short flag for two different things. Apple *please*
I’m from Appalachia. JD Vance doesn’t represent us – he only represents himself | https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/16/jd-vance-hillbilly-elegy-appalachia
I’m from Appalachia. JD Vance doesn’t represent us – he only represents himself

Hillbilly Elegy perpetuates a stereotyped representation of Appalachia, one in which people like me don’t exist

The Guardian