You can still be enraged by things you know are not real. You can reason about your emotional response, but it's much harder to prevent an emotional response from happening in the first place.
The '$' being used in variable names I think originates from the word 'string', from when it was necessary to differentiate types of variable in the code. It never related to currency.
A bit like people who get annoyed by the word soccer, an English word originally to distinguish Association Football (soccer) from Rugby Football (rugger) and other codes.
This is the perfect marriage of music and animation. I absolutely love it.
Here's a video of her creating an animation, the technique is called KYBDslöjd or Live Type In, I think all the key-presses get recorded, then the sequence replayed in time with the music.
So I ~lied~ erred when I said that there was no software other than a naked C64 involved - thank you for the heads up! I saw a talk by Raquel Meyers at a tech/art conference a few years ago, where she explained a few of her works, including this particular video. I guess I just forgot about the software because I was so impressed by the stuff she made :)
Especially when it is a public square. Lots of officials and government agencies to your local fire department uses Twitter to communicate to public exclusively.
Unacceptable and despicable. It has unbelievable to me that we are using a for-profit platform for communication between governments and the public they serve.
> Lots of officials and government agencies to your local fire department uses Twitter to communicate to public exclusively.
Speak to policy makers directly and demand they publish directly into publicly owned infrastructure.
we live in a world where the interoperable social web exists. Gov bodies could shoehorn those protocols into their content management systems and bypass commercial social media directly. no ponzi blockchain necessary either.
No one voted for our governments to exclusively use it to communicate on Twitter. It kinda just organically happened. Even Iranian officials use Twitter.
We had government websites and official channels, but hard and inaccessible.
I think the problem I have is the need for phone numbers and identification to access government comms through Twitter. No one asked who I am to listen to radio (even though some were commercial for-profit ventures).
I’d like to see GSA offer a US gov official Twitter of sorts for instant communication. No ID or Phone required, funded by tax payers.
A similar (and in my opinion more viable) approach is Marginalia Search. This down-scores pages with a large number of scripts, among other heuristics.
I like your proof of concept. I guess, next step would be to take google result, and crawl all their result and convert it into scores, rejecting in the process those that are going outside defined limits. Additionally, a weekly list of most infamous sites would be interesting to see, in the sense what people visit the most (probably social ad driven) but has bad UX...
BBC Basic II does have ELSE, it just has to go on one line.
IF A=4 THEN PRINT "FOUR" ELSE PRINT "NOT FOUR"
Statements for the IF block and the ELSE block can be separated by ':'.
I was recently given a BBC Micro and it's a fascinatingly impressive machine, the hardware and software are so beautifully designed in tandem that it's quite awesome even in 2020.
For more geeky insights into the time, I can recommend the book The ZX Spectrum ULA http://www.zxdesign.info/book/ The business side of things is incidental to the rich details of the hardware design and production.
This looks absolutely stunning. The range of components is impressive, and the UI is really quite intuitive (I got a simple circuit running with measurements in a minute or so).
Looking through the changelog, it seems that MCU simulation includes peripherals like I2C, PWM, and all sorts of low level stuff like power modes (sleeps, wake).
There are lots of situations that don't demand highly accurate simulation, especially for educators and hobbyists, and accessible software like this makes experimentation a joy.
I think it's more a moment of realisation that a lot of time has passed, that things have changed to such an extent, and that it's hard to imagine something so large having so little function, relative to today's tech. I don't think it's written in the spirit of the stereotype you suggest.
