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Author: Josuah Demangeon <[email protected]> | |
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2022 22:31:26 +0100 | |
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@@ -16,18 +16,18 @@ ____________________________________________________________ | |
Before the era of smartphones, laptops, before Windows | |
and Apple, there were pioneers who took the fun of | |
- computers from the hands of the the few who could | |
- afford computers, and shared them massively so that | |
- mere individuals could afford it. | |
+ computers from the hands of the few who could afford | |
+ computers, and shared them massively so that mere | |
+ individuals could afford it. | |
- An ocean of creativity sprout. Art of all kind were | |
- made on these new toys, that were permitting to many | |
- to try on its own, or enjoy a tune of 8-bit music, a | |
- demo scene, a play of video game, an ASCII art... | |
+ An ocean of creativity spread. Art of all kinds were | |
+ made on these new toys, that were permitting many to | |
+ try on their own, or enjoy a tune of 8-bit music, a | |
+ demo scene, play a video game, ASCII art... | |
Offering these pioneers a one-way ticket to enter the | |
legend, 8bitlegends.com builds a corner of peace, | |
- making some room into our heart for the 8bit heroes. | |
+ making some room in our heart for the 8bit heroes. | |
https://8bitlegends.com/ | |
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ | |
I hope, this increases the listening experience. | |
All recommendations, especially about more auto- | |
- generated music, is welcome. We need to escape the | |
+ generated music, are welcome. We need to escape the | |
copyright mafia trap. | |
Sincerely yours, Chief Music Manager (CMM) | |
@@ -74,38 +74,39 @@ ____________________________________________________________ | |
physics to keep the Moore's Law dream going. | |
By Building faster computers, hardware engineers offer | |
- more resource to software makers, allowing to build | |
- more ambitious projects. The computer performance | |
- discipline sure have been worked up thoroughly. | |
+ more resources to software makers, allowing them to | |
+ build more ambitious projects. The computer | |
+ performance discipline sure has been worked up | |
+ thoroughly. | |
If the software comsumes all the extra computing power | |
for its own goal, then we are conjointly building very | |
fast snails. | |
- This conquest for aa better cost/performance balance | |
- is one direction for evolution of computers, but it as | |
- well possible to imagine a race for better reliability | |
- and durability instead. | |
+ This conquest for a better cost/performance balance is | |
+ one direction for the evolution of computers, but it | |
+ is also possible to imagine a race for better | |
+ reliability and durability instead. | |
- Ploum offers a vision of what a computer maximizing | |
- durability of the hardware, but also the software | |
- ecosystem, so that a computer built today still be | |
- useful in 50 years without upgrades (not preventing | |
- upgrades to happen). | |
+ Ploum offers a vision of what computers are like when | |
+ maximizing durability of the hardware, but also the | |
+ software ecosystem, so that a computer built today | |
+ still be useful in 50 years, without upgrades (not | |
+ preventing upgrades to happen). | |
An old knife is still a piece of metal that can be | |
sharpened over again to be able to cut long after it | |
- was built. Can it be the same for computers? | |
+ was built. Could this also be true for computers? | |
https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/ | |
- End Year Meeting 2021 Recordings Online 20h | |
+ Year End Meeting 2021 Recordings Online 20h | |
____________________________________________________________ | |
- For everyone not able to join into the end year | |
- meeting of 2021, here are the recordings: | |
+ For everyone not able to join the 2021 year end | |
+ meeting, here are the recordings: | |
gopher://bitreich.org/1/end-year-meeting/2021 | |
@@ -120,35 +121,36 @@ _________________________________________________________… | |
100 years of radiodiffusion tgtimes | |
____________________________________________________________ | |
- Internet existed forever: books and printed press have | |
- always been around for communicating ideas and | |
+ The Internet existed forever: books and printed press | |
+ have always been around for communicating ideas and | |
information, and evolved progressively to become what | |
- Internet is today. | |
+ the Internet is today. | |
Letters were carried by messengers riding horses, | |
postal train, or airplanes. Long-range communication | |
- evolved from here slowly for a lot of time, but | |
- accelerated a lot on these recent years. | |
+ evolved slowly for a long time, but has accelerated | |
+ rapidly in recent years, until today extreme. | |
+ bandwidth and latency. | |
The common pattern: a new discovery in electronics | |
- permits a new way to communicate information on a | |
- long-distance, with a lighning-fast adoption all | |
+ permits a new way to communicate information over a | |
+ long-distance, with a lightning-fast adoption all | |
around the world: | |
- 1919 wireless telegraphy and music transmission on | |
+ 1919 wireless telegraphy and music transmission in | |
Germany, Netherland and United-States | |
1920 daily radio programmes in England, United-States | |
- and URSSR | |
+ and USSR | |
- 1921 radio broadcasting on Eiffel Tower with a 900W | |
+ 1921 radio broadcasting from Eiffel Tower with 900 W | |
power intensity | |
- 1922 foundation of BBC and arrival of 2000W | |
+ 1922 foundation of the BBC and arrival of 2000 W | |
broadcastings | |
A few years before, the long-range communication tool | |
- was paper. A few years after, the telephone and | |
+ was paper. A few years later, the telephone and | |
television started to develop. | |
@@ -182,18 +184,18 @@ _________________________________________________________… | |
giant? What if one of those giants had the curiosity | |
of looking down on our world, watching all our tiny | |
activities, our tiny trades, our tiny farming, our | |
- tiny meals, our tiny families, our tiny lives. | |
+ tiny meals, our tiny families, our tiny lives? | |
E.O. Wilson was one of these giants, looking at the | |
- ants: the real ones, the insects ones: An | |
- entomologist, someone dedicated to the study of | |
- insects. | |
+ ants: the real ones, the insect ones: An entomologist, | |
+ someone dedicated to the study of insects. | |
+ | |
+ After 92 years of empassioned life, E.O. Wilson is | |
+ fading away, joining the soil, which he spent his life | |
+ observing. Closing his own book, while at the same | |
+ time inviting everyone to open their eyes, and look, | |
+ carefully, at this world of tiny creatures. | |
- After 92 years of passionated life, E.O. Wilson is | |
- fading away, joining the soil, which he spent its life | |
- observing. Closing its own book, while at the same | |
- time inviting everyone to open their eyes, and watch, | |
- carefully, this world of tiny creatures. | |
@@ -247,7 +249,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ | |
The web is well-known for its drift toward platform | |
effect: reproducing the features of the underlying | |
- operating system from one of its application, in this | |
+ operating system from one of its applications, in this | |
case, the web browser. This is largely made possible | |
through javascript, and the advent of WebAssembly can | |
only contribute more to this. | |
@@ -275,7 +277,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ | |
>> Currently, there are ports (not all are complete) | |
for GBA, Nintendo DS, Playdate, DOS, PS Vita, | |
- Raspberri Pi Pico, Teletype, ESP32, iOS, STM32, | |
+ Raspberry Pi Pico, Teletype, ESP32, iOS, STM32, | |
STM32, IBM PC, and many more. | |
https://100r.co/site/uxn.html | |
@@ -308,12 +310,12 @@ _________________________________________________________… | |
The UNIX calendar(1) command tgtimes | |
____________________________________________________________ | |
- It is probably there sitting on /usr/bin, the | |
+ It is probably there sitting in /usr/bin, the | |
calendar(1) command can offer you a fair dose of | |
- flexibility that lack to web-based or smartphone-based | |
- calendars. | |
+ flexibility that web-based or smartphone-based | |
+ calendars lacks. | |
- By storing events on a single file of text edited by | |
+ By storing events in a single file of text edited by | |
hand, calendar(1) brings the comfort of your existing | |
text editor to manage events with a simple syntax: | |
@@ -335,7 +337,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ | |
tomorrow are printed (with more choice of durations | |
using flags), giving a digest of what is upcoming. | |
- A command line flag permits to send the calendar | |
+ A command line flag permits sending the calendar | |
digest to all users by email, making it a complete | |
suite to use as a calendar. | |
@@ -348,7 +350,7 @@ ____________________________________________________________ | |
of synchronising a single file. | |
By adding a few more custom syntax rules, a rather | |
- pretty digest can be written with very few effort. | |
+ pretty digest can be written with very little effort. | |
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