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Archive for February 3rd, 2025

Computer History Museum interviews with Bill Atkinson on Apple Lisa now on YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03

Another few great pieces of history got puglished in full on YouTube:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Bill Atkinson Interview for Lisa’s 40th Anniversary – YouTube
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI – YouTube
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Bill Atkinson | Lisa Source Code – YouTube

Via [Wayback/Archive] Memories of Lisa – CHM.

Note that excerpts of the last video were published earlier as:

--jeroen

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Corran Addison – The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president,by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University. | Facebook

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03

[WaybackSave/Archive] Corran Addison – The best, most cogent and elegantly simple explanation into the inexplicably destructive negotiating processes of the president,by Prof. David Honig of Indiana University. | Facebook

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So when you approach international negotiation, in a world as complex as ours, with integrated economies and multiple buyers and sellers, you simply must approach them through integrative bargaining. If you attempt distributive bargaining, success is impossible.

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From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn’t even bringing checkers to a chess match. He’s bringing a quarter that he insists of flipping for heads or tails, while everybody else is studying the chess board to decide whether its better to open with Najdorf or Grünfeld.

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Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Andrea on X: “This is an old post that is making the rounds again. It is an interesting read…”

--jeroen

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The WordPress feature that “beautifies” (malforms!) your Blog text is called `wptexturize`: on WordPress.com you cannot disable it.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03

Over the years, WordPress started to beautify more and more text thereby malforming many (read thousands) of my older blog posts.

An example is this:

--jeroen

is now rendered as

–jeroen

The two hypen-minus signs or -- have become a en-dash or –, not even an em-dash or — that is is double the width of an en-dash.

So after figuring out the cause, I asked if one could change it for a WordPress.com blog backed by a premium account: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Hi @wordpressdotcom, how do I globally disable wptexturize for a paid wiert.wordpress.com blog (it has Premium subscription)? Over the years, it has malformed more and more of my text which I don’t want (as it is way too much work to re-visit thousands of blog posts).”

Unbelievably, the answer is no!

So WordPress.com mandatorily changes the display of all your old Premium blog posts and the only solution they offer is to upgrade for another USD ~17 per month to disable it.

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