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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
While I think the idea is good, this is really just a local business directory, of which there have been many. There's not much I could find that specifically addresses problems of lockdown.
Regardless, it's always good to see alternatives to Facebook groups.
The nature of the business should perhaps be more prominent than the name - it's what they sell that's important when browsing a directory.
I also note that while Edinburgh is the target, businesses from Fife and East Lothian are not easily distinguishable from more relevant local businesses.
Some kind of map integration would be useful to see location and, where relevant, delivery radius (which seems to be an issue at the moment). This would help me work out what I could reasonably collect in a single trip.
Good effort, particularly the information to others to reproduce their own versions. I think there's work to do to make it live up to its name.
He moved his head office to Singapore around the time he was pushing the UK to leave the EU. Manufacturing had already been moved offshore years before that - Malaysia as I recall, though probably elsewhere too.
Here is the very high level specification that the government has provided. It refers to various further specifications and regulations that the device must comply with in order to be accepted by medics.
You can see that the hardest part isn't so much the mechanics, but the parameters within which the device must operate, including safeguards on multiple conditions.
From a software point of view alone, I'm sure most of us here can appreciate the difficulty in producing this from scratch. e.g. "It must have 100% duty cycle for up to 14 days".
I suspect a huge challenge will be sourcing components, such as pressure sensors, that meet the required specifications. These seem likely to be specialised parts.
I don't think your question is meaningful in light of why GCC exists at all. It was created to enable people to write free software and, along with binutils, it's hard to imagine any software that's been so profoundly influential in the free and open source software that we have today.
I think GCC will remain relevant for as long as there are people who care about free software.