Clifton Royston
CliftonR@wandering.shop
<p>Me:<br />Reading SF&F since about age 9, friends with LGBTQ people since age 16, working in software/tech since I was 16, practicing Zen since 17 or 18, on Internet by late 1980s. I helped invent modern credit card terminals at Verifone in 1980s, founded small ISP LavaNet in 1994, back to sw dev from 2005 on.</p><p>Usenet (talk.bizarre), Making Light, Twitter.<br />"I'm normal by Cubetown standards."</p><p>Mostly here to chat, banter, & boost my friends & favorite writers.</p><p>Cis/bi, he/him, relaxed about it.</p>
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@oantolin@mathstodon.xyz I still have my Mathematical Logic and Set Theory textbook from almost 50 years ago - handwritten by the professor, W.W. Tait, xeroxed, and handed out chapter by chapter in the class. Cover? Certainly not! I hand-wrote my own cover/table of contents on the binders I put them into. Absolutely the best.
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I think it&#39;s getting rapidly to &quot;underground railway&quot; and &quot;hiding Jews in the attic&quot; time in the US. (We don&#39;t actually have an attic, unfortunately.) So I just asked my wife if she&#39;s willing to shelter people in our house and she said yes. I&#39;m putting it out there, if any trans person needs to get out of where they are fast, but can&#39;t get out of the US for whatever reasons, we will take you in until our house is full....
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@cavyherd@wandering.shop @deathkitten@firetribe.org A design word for this is "affordances." At the obvious level, it covers e.g. putting a handle on a door to make it clear you can push or pull it. If you don't put something in the interface that *clearly* hints there are extra choices, then many (most?) people won't ever think to click there. For many users, the "..." or "Ξ" that are now in vogue for menus don't do that; IMO they're an unfortuna...
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Operation Unbelievable Tantrum
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@cstross@wandering.shop @Cadbury_Moose@wandering.shop @tienelle@mendeddrum.org We're entering the realm of complete absurdity now. If you cook measuring in grams and ml, you *do* measure by volume as well as weight! What exactly do you think ml is a unit of? It's not weight, except in the unique case of water at a specified temperature. As I said, I *regularly* cook with recipes that specify grams (pro bakers commonly use it in specifying bread proportions.) There's no real diff...