> Everything in life has turned to spam.

Why do we do this to ourselves?

Not "we", a fairly small number of completely anti social people who are happy to destroy a resource for others if they can make money.

I disagree, it's indeed "we" as in a big chunk of this community.

"We" just call it differently like "growth hacking" or "marketing" or "engaging" people to legitimize it.

Not really, I guarantee if they actually tracked down these scheisters and got the top 100 call volume would go down 95%.

It's even easier, really, just release their real phone number.

There is always a small minority of those whiners complaining that Google is too powerful and destroying their business when if their emails were actually desired they would be contacted back.

Because we don't punish the spammers. And by spammers, I mean the big "nice" players too, like Google and Facebook.

We tolerate them, and every year they grow a little more evil and audacious.

Google and Facebook are surveillance capitalists but they don’t spam me...

I think we need to start considering ads as spam. It's just the medium is different.

No that is you relabeling things you don't like. Just because publishers call unauthorized reproduction and distribution piracy doesn't mean you can just start referring to added arbitrary subfees to bills child molestation.

AMP links, search results with ads at higher placement, reordered news feeds to drive engagement of viral content, streamlined interfaces (goodbye URL) that belie a sinister purpose...

Your filter is constantly being spammed.

Not mine, I use duckduckgo. Might be slightly inferior results to google but it works 95% of the time for what I'm looking for

All ddg ever gets me are hyper-SEO'ed content farms.

We did this to ourselves by not making our systems Sybil resistant or DoS resistant. Bitcoin solves this problem by requiring a fee to submit a transaction to the ledger (Denial of Service). lightning does this by requiring you to select who you network with (sybil). Solution is for any modality is to restrict to known good addresses, and for anyone else charge a substantial fee.

I'd like to do this. Can you recommend a good starting place to learn how?

Start with drawing a single frame with SVG [1], then add animation with CSS [2] or Javascript.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Tutorial/Ba... [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_Animati...

Thank you!

Yeah. I've seen it in an old BBC documentary: The secret life of machines - Internal Combustion Engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfr3_AwuO9Y

Very neat!

For a deeper appreciation, check out "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants": http://algorithmicbotany.org/papers/#abop

My first CS assignments were based on this book. Using linked lists in C + opengl we made some pretty nice looking trees.

If not for this book and assignments, I would probably have switched to another major.

Roger Penrose devoted more than half of his doorstopper of a book "Road to Reality" to complex numbers in which he uses Riemann surfaces to visualize the complex-number fabric of Reality™: https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3474173W/The_Road_to_Reality...

I was interested in plotting these Riemann surfaces and wrote a little article about it sometime ago: https://honeybee.freeddns.org/Visualizing%2520roots%252C%252...

Looks great! LOL at the "Knuth is my homeboy" picture!

Dead link that. Should let the author know. But there's a link at the top of the page as well: https://zyedidia.github.io/literate/website-source/

Not much in principle. It is just that literate is language agnostic whereas knitr seems dedicated to R.

Really neat! I can use this for CFD simulations where geometries need to be optimized; OpenFOAM should snap on to these stls just fine! https://www.openfoam.com/documentation/guides/latest/doc/gui...

How can one tell if the books are being uploaded somewhere or not? Can this work offline?

I mean, it's not hard to test that ;) firefox has a builtin offline mode, for example

TIL! Thanks!