…e covered by Modem-HOWTO, PPP-HOWTO, Serial-Programming-HOWTO, or Text-Terminal-HOWTO. It lists info on multiport serial cards. It contains technical info about the serial port itself in mor…
…pecially when we need user’s input or don’t want users to lose context while informing them about something important. A wonderful yet forgotten UI component that’s left behind in all the co…
…to fix them. Sometimes this is simple: if an image is missing alt text, you add an alt attribute. Other times you may find yourself with 50 open browser tabs and lacking a few handfuls of ha…
…n, retain some record of that work. How memory is implemented (context windows, external databases, file systems) varies by system, but the capacity to carry forward state is baked into the …
…ear in the final design (e.g., full articles, product-description text and images). No: The prototype includes only a summary of the content or a stand-in for product images. A delay also gi…
…osed. Open-ended questions allow participants to give a free-form text answer. Closed questions (or closed-ended questions) restrict participants to one of a limited set of possible answers.…
…stems like Clippy or Siri, LLMs are trained to produce fluent, contextually appropriate responses and aligned to follow social norms. These qualities makes them especially prone to anthropom…
…oded dashboards or websites), but others lived purely in Markdown text files or in the LLM’s chat. One participant showed us a dashboard he’d built, then mentioned he didn’t really look at i…
…erface technology: command lines (like DOS and Unix), full-screen text-based terminals (common with IBM mainframes), and graphical user interfaces (GUI: Macintosh, Windows, and all current s…
… planning to take the class encouraged me to adopt it as the main text. It’s very different from anything I’ve ever used in this class, or any class for that matter: it’s mostly historical a…