User contributions for Slippyd
A user with 261 edits. Account created on 7 March 2006.
13 May 2024
- 23:1623:16, 13 May 2024 diff hist +428 Half-precision floating-point format →Support by programming languages: Added Swift 5.3 to supported programming languages list
22 December 2023
- 08:4608:46, 22 December 2023 diff hist +114 User talk:Slippyd No edit summary
- 08:4508:45, 22 December 2023 diff hist 0 User talk:Slippyd No edit summary
- 08:4508:45, 22 December 2023 diff hist +433 User talk:Slippyd →December 2023
- 08:2908:29, 22 December 2023 diff hist +586 January 6 United States Capitol attack Undid revision 1191229741 by Andrevan (talk) No reason or validation given for this revert. Given the nature of this being a contentious topic, this revert may have been motivated by a desire to sway the topic away from objectivity, by reverting additional context and information to cover all viewpoints of this topic. Tags: Undo Reverted
- 08:0008:00, 22 December 2023 diff hist +586 January 6 United States Capitol attack Added additional context about statements article is purporting as proven fact that's still in legal limbo, and that additional statements were said by Trump that counter some or the more dire claims. Tag: Reverted
14 October 2023
- 01:1201:12, 14 October 2023 diff hist +7 Jim Jordan Previous wording “tried to overturn the election” is politically biased, matching Left-leaning mass media sensationalism. New wording matches facts we’ve seen in court cases: challenged election results. Former wording implies guilt of a party (Trump) that’s been legally acquitted— former wording was in opposition of current legal rulings. Tag: Reverted
1 September 2023
- 22:1622:16, 1 September 2023 diff hist +53 Bfloat16 floating-point format →bfloat16 floating-point format: Combined the float bit diagrams into a single table, so that the bits line up across types
22 August 2023
- 05:5905:59, 22 August 2023 diff hist +103 January 6 United States Capitol attack Adjusted wording to better reflect editor’s note to avoid shoehorning bold labels, and to better reflect the undetermined in-litigation nature of some of the prior politically-biased claims.
12 July 2023
- 17:5217:52, 12 July 2023 diff hist +5 List of debuggers →Debugger front-ends: Updated Xcode line— supports both LLDB (current default) and GDB
7 May 2023
- 23:4223:42, 7 May 2023 diff hist +5 User:Slippyd Updated link current
5 March 2023
- 12:3912:39, 5 March 2023 diff hist +92 Metal (API) →Supported GPUs: Replaced macOS marketing names with major version numbers. While marketing names are fine as one-offs, it’s really confusing when there’s a bunch of names in ranges relative to other version numbers (iOS). Also, it’s a developer-oriented article and devs use the version numbers almost exclusively.
27 January 2023
- 08:0008:00, 27 January 2023 diff hist +23 Foundation Kit →Cocotron: link to Darling
16 December 2022
- 04:0604:06, 16 December 2022 diff hist +17 Metrowerks →History: Added Nintendo DS to the bullet point of Nintendo platforms Codewarrior supported (and was Nintendo’s official dev tools for the DS). Source: self, former developer for one of the larger Nintendo DS developers in the late 00s.
29 November 2022
- 10:1310:13, 29 November 2022 diff hist −4 m Spider-Man: Web of Shadows Platform clarity for genre, grouping “PS2/PSP” (same game, same codebase) as done above in developer section.
25 November 2022
- 21:0921:09, 25 November 2022 diff hist −2 HDMI →Compatibility with DVI: Photo has a not-visible male DVI connector, not female. Male DVI connectors have captive thumbscrews; female DVI connectors do not.
12 August 2022
- 23:1723:17, 12 August 2022 diff hist +3 IP address →Subnetting history: Changed leading bits in table to have leading 0s, so all 3 bits are shown (in binary, it’s not common to strip leading zeros, unlike decimal). Tag: Reverted
28 March 2022
- 22:1822:18, 28 March 2022 diff hist −134 Bergen Neck Undid revision 1078772781 by Djflem (talk) Undo by Djflem|talk had no explanation; restoring original change by Slippyd, which correct factually false info on page. Tags: Undo Reverted
22 March 2022
- 23:3823:38, 22 March 2022 diff hist −134 Bergen Neck Satellite image claimed to have Bergen Neck highlighted in red, when the red area is actually Staten Island (which is south of Bergen Neck). Removed. Tag: Reverted
24 November 2021
- 00:1300:13, 24 November 2021 diff hist +23 Unity (game engine) →Overview: Unity’s UnityScript language is completely unrelated to JavaScript in terms of object model, parser, compiler, runtime, etc. This is a common misconception, due to Unity Technologies’ false advertising of calling UnityScript “JavaScript”. This is shown by the UnityScript open source repo (https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/unityscript), and in a past interview where Boo & UnityScript developer Rodrigo B. De Oliveira said that UnityScript was the result of building a JavaScr... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
31 May 2021
- 13:1013:10, 31 May 2021 diff hist +28 NeXT Reworded macOS naming to reflect historical record. The OS Apple turned NeXTStep into under Steve Jobs was originally named “MacOS X” until 2012, then “OS X” until 2016, then “macOS” since then (source: Wikipedia article on “ macOS version history” and personal memory). Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
7 March 2021
- 15:2815:28, 7 March 2021 diff hist 0 m Think different →Development: typo fix for last edit Tag: Reverted
- 15:2715:27, 7 March 2021 diff hist 0 Think different →Development: The Santa Clara Valley Historical Association‘s YouTube video of Steve Jobs saying these words is titled with the date as 1995, not 1994. Tag: Reverted
9 December 2020
- 16:0216:02, 9 December 2020 diff hist 0 m Cyberpunk 2077 Fixed unusual ordering of platforms, putting Stadia last in the list. (Stadia is still a niche platform with multiple orders of magnitude fewer users than any of the other listed platforms.)
- 16:0016:00, 9 December 2020 diff hist 0 m Cyberpunk 2077 Fixed unusual ordering of platforms, putting Stadia last in the list. (Stadia is still a niche platform with multiple orders of magnitude fewer users than any of the other listed platforms.)
6 October 2020
- 23:4423:44, 6 October 2020 diff hist +4 Reddit Reordered co-founder Aaron Swartz’s name last with an extra “and” to distinguish the 2 founders who were University of Virginia students from Aaron (who went to a different school and met the other 2 through Y-Combinator).
- 21:4221:42, 6 October 2020 diff hist 0 m Reddit Re-ordered co-founder names to the same order already-present in the infobar, for consistency.
- 21:3721:37, 6 October 2020 diff hist +262 Reddit Added additional ref for Aaron Swartz as a co-founder of reddit, citing an older revision of Reddit’s own CrunchBase page (typically only editable by the corp’s management themselves). Again, it appears the two living founders of Reddit are trying to erase the deceased co-founder Aaron Swartz’s involvement in the company (evidenced by his name being removed from the present-day CrunchBase page and Reddit Inc’s about page).
- 21:1821:18, 6 October 2020 diff hist +288 Reddit Re-added Aaron Swartz as one of the 3 co-founders of Reddit, corroborated by the Aaron Swartz and many news articles over the years (one of which ref’d). There appears to be a campaign to remove Aaron Swartz from history; this may be grounds to lock the page.
7 April 2020
- 10:1410:14, 7 April 2020 diff hist 0 m Conversion between quaternions and Euler angles →Source Code: Reordered the terms to match the mathematical notation above.
13 October 2017
- 14:3314:33, 13 October 2017 diff hist −76 Sumatran orangutan Removed the image in the infobox of the male Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus). This article is about the Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii), so the image was inappropriate for this article. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
10 October 2017
- 09:4409:44, 10 October 2017 diff hist 0 Iridium satellite constellation Updated infobox to reflect that there are now 30 NEXT satellites in orbit. Note: The Next-generation constellation section already reflects this with “A Third launch, which occurred on October 9, 2017 delivered another 10 Satellites”.
22 July 2017
- 21:3721:37, 22 July 2017 diff hist +174 List of software package management systems →Application-level package managers: Added Carthage, an alternative to CocoaPods for Objective-C/Swift projects that has grown in popularity in recent years (due to its lighter-handed approach).
27 March 2017
- 23:3923:39, 27 March 2017 diff hist +1 m Zero-day vulnerability →Protection: “Mac OS X”/“OS X” has been rebranded “macOS”; changed link to match the current naming (and present Wikipedia article name).
17 March 2017
- 21:1521:15, 17 March 2017 diff hist +20 Half-precision floating-point format →ARM alternative half-precision: Added binary representation of 31, for clarity and consistency with the rest of the article (most of the exponent values given above are shown in binary).
13 March 2017
- 07:5307:53, 13 March 2017 diff hist +197 Adobe Inc. →History: Prefixing every product name with “Adobe ” on the page about Adobe is redundant and completely unnecessary. Also, the “Adobe ” prefix is confusing for products that have switched companies over the years.
12 March 2017
- 08:1808:18, 12 March 2017 diff hist +200 Unity (game engine) Unity doesn't support JavaScript. The Wikipedia page for JavaScript correctly states that JS is “ECMAScript” and “prototype-based”. The UnityScript language is neither of these. Unity Tech's marketing deceptively lists it as JS.
3 March 2017
- 10:3910:39, 3 March 2017 diff hist −2 Hello Games →Games developed: Renamed “Droid” header to “And” to match all the other headers which 3 characters long (with one expection which is 4-chars-long). Also, all the other abbreviations are the first few letters (or acronyms)— but “Droid... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
26 January 2017
- 23:4723:47, 26 January 2017 diff hist −12 m Talking Head Unboldened text in 2nd opening sentence
- 23:4623:46, 26 January 2017 diff hist −11 Talking Head Moved the Pundit definition up to the opening sentence (was at the bottom under “Other”). Rationale: “Talking Head” was originally a term for a pundit; all other uses are because of the popularity and named after that term.
11 January 2017
- 00:0200:02, 11 January 2017 diff hist +29 Steve Jobs Changed confusing statement that “(Classic) Mac OS was revamped into macOS” to state that it was revamped into “OS X” which (along with the name “Mac OS X”) was what it was titled from 1999-2006, under Jobs' tenure. The “OS X”->“macO... Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
20 December 2016
- 06:2406:24, 20 December 2016 diff hist −53 Doddle →The Product: Removed “using all the technology the iPhone has to offer”— this is WP:PEACOCK language, and disprovable (e.g. Doddle does not use the accelerometer, nor the gyroscope, nor the GPU, nor NFC/Apple Pay, etc.)
12 October 2016
- 01:1601:16, 12 October 2016 diff hist +2 m Hello Games →Games developed: “Droid” is not an operating system— its a device made by Motorola. The phone OS made by Google is called “Android”.
5 October 2016
- 08:5508:55, 5 October 2016 diff hist +3 Speaking tube →Domestic use: Fully translate French caption in English, instead of the existing half-translation. “Porte-voix” is a simple compund noun, easy to derive a literal translation for. Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
2 October 2016
- 09:0109:01, 2 October 2016 diff hist −1 m Monotone (software) →Monotone as Git inspiration: Changed “FLOSS” to “FOSS”. FOSS is the widely-accepted spelling of the term, and the name of the relevant Wikipedia page. FLOSS is an alternate term (same meaning) devised by the EC for multi-lingual purposes.
23 September 2016
- 05:4405:44, 23 September 2016 diff hist +28 Geometry instancing Added References section
- 05:4305:43, 23 September 2016 diff hist +539 Geometry instancing →Video cards that support geometry instancing: Added referenced to Apple Docs (archived) showing the PowerVR 535 as the 1st iOS-platform GPU supporting GL instancing extensions.
- 05:2505:25, 23 September 2016 diff hist +92 Geometry instancing →Video cards that support geometry instancing: Added earliest iPhone/PowerVR combination that supported OpenGL ES 2.0 EXT_draw_instanced & EXT_instanced_arrays extensions. Source: myself, running GL extension-listing test code on old iPhones.
3 September 2016
- 00:2600:26, 3 September 2016 diff hist +19 m Differential equation →History: Linked first mention of “Fourier” to the Joseph_Fourier page.
6 July 2016
- 18:4118:41, 6 July 2016 diff hist +15 Liquorice (confectionery) →Notable varieties: Added Twizzlers as a notable variety, since it's the most well-known and best-selling brand in the USA (albeit not the highest quality, but such is mass production). Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit
