"Remembering Niklaus Wirth: father of Pascal and inspiration to many": https://hackaday.com/2024/01/05/remembering-niklaus-wirth-father-of-pascal-and-inspiration-to-many/
(includes a great programming language joke)
Ellis Pritchard
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A green geek, condemned to code software in a cluttered attic for evermore.
Pascal was the first language taught on my undergraduate course in 1990, and I ended up using it for a couple of years 'for real' in the form of Turbo Pascal in my first post-graduate job, for Radar configuration and maintenance software. A few years later. the course switched to Modula-2...
Richard MurphyTackling the nonsense talked about the national debt, and its cost https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2023/12/31/tackling-the-nonsense-talked-about-the-national-debt-and-its-cost/. Politicians are ending the year talking total nonsense about the national debt and its implications. Let me shatter a few myths about both its size and cost, both of which are being dramatically overstated right now.
Neoliberal education is failing around the world
The OECD has published a new report on the state of global teenage career preparation. As they say on their website: This report sets out key findings from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) as they relate to teenage career development. As the executive summary to the report says: Using data from...
pulsarIn case you intended to get some work done today:
https://c64.krissz.hu/online-playable-games/
I grew up playing many of those games. Also nice job on the CRT emulation.
Emeritus Prof Christopher MayMichelle Donelan was in Brussels yesterday to formally sign-up to the UK re-entering the EU's #Horizon research programme.
Now, the Govt. is going to spend up to £10k per organisation to help them (re)attract #scientists & prepare bids for the rest of the programme's duration.
So essentially, we've held out for a better deal (which we didn't get), but due to #RishiSunak's dithering, we now have to 'pump prime' appplicants who are out of the habit of applying and/or have lost key staff
idiocy!
q3k 
I can finally reveal some research I've been involved with over the past year or so.
We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third parties.
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JesseI don’t know if any time of my life has blurred together more than the last four years
Ivan Enderlin 🦀Carbon Bombs, https://www.carbonbombs.org/.
Transparent data and visualization about the world's biggest fossil fuel extraction projects, and their links with companies and banks.
Example with TotalEnergies, https://www.carbonbombs.org/companies?name=TotalEnergies+SE
- 17 carbon bombs
- 43.6 GtCO₂ emissions
- 55.7 $B financed since Paris agreement
Top banks financing TotalEnergies:
- Crédit Agricole
- BNP Paribas
- Société Générale
And so on.
Pretty useful. Banks have a gigantic impact. Choose a better bank.
Peter Gleick
Amiga Love ❤Can we all just sit here and gaze upon this mastery by Rick Parks in 16 colors? No scanning, done by hand in Deluxe Paint on an Amiga. It's almost photographic in its perfection.
Rick worked at Westwood Studios and worked on Eye of the Beholder I & 2, Dune 2, Kyrandia and other classics.
Rick died in 1996. His incredible creativity lives on.
