David RevoyThe Correct Incantation
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Mark Anderson
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Known as @markemer on the Twitter if that is still a thing
Crazy Eddie's Used ComputersI 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:
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhDEvery 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.
Theresa O’ConnorSomebody who engages in logging is a lumberjack. But somebody who engages in blogging is just a blogger. What a missed opportunity.
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Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️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)
Jennifer OuelletteNew secret math benchmark stumps AI models and PhDs alike https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/new-secret-math-benchmark-stumps-ai-models-and-phds-alike/
Oddly I can find other people's threads accounts on here, by not my own. I think they need to work out their implementation.
MistyApple. Apple please. You can't use the same short flag for two different things. Apple *please*
Black IntellectI’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