Blessed contrib has a pretty cool "retro future" look. I wonder if it's made it's way into any movies:
https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib
There's also "Hollywood Terminal" https://www.tecmint.com/fake-hollywood-hacker-terminal/
A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
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Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not nice to seem it work and I know exactly how I feel about them.
I really don't understand why people seem to hate emojis so much. They're the same as utf8 pictograms, except they're more styled. They can be really useful in my opinion. Maybe it's because young people use them a lot in messaging apps and older people are like "gah! young people and their picture messages! grmbl"?
This isn't ancient Egypt, or MessoAmerica, or any of the other places on the planet that invented/used symbology/ pictogram/hieroglyphs to communicate.
It makes communication MORE difficult and LESS clear. Text communication is a direct conversion(translation) of speech. You don't say:
"left arrow-jump-levitate-smiley face"
You do however say:
"I'm jumping for joy"
But consider the other possible meanings:
"Gravity is lower over there. Wee. This is fun"
"Did you see jump back there? WooHoo!"
"In the past I would practice yoga and meditation. I liked it."
... and i could go on. Because say it with me:
A picture is worth a thousand words.
Which of those thousand words depends on the individual decoding/defining/interpreting the message.
If you find you are unable to convey a clear, concise, unambiguous message using text; you need to read more and perhaps go back to school.
Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I really don't understand why people seem to hate emojis so much. They're the same as utf8 pictograms, except they're more styled. They can be really useful in my opinion. Maybe it's because young people use them a lot in messaging apps and older people are like "gah! young people and their picture messages! grmbl"?
Or perhaps it's because sometime the meaning of emoji can be hard to understand, rather than "gah! young people"
Exactly. They are ambiguous, increase visual clutter and not backwards compatible with older systems.
Even if they manage to convey a meaning, like the other poster said, that meaning is emotional instead of factual.
Why would anyone ever wish to express emotions in a commit message, or even in a business communications tool like Slack, is beyond my comprehension.
For personal communication they can serve a purpose, but that's not the topic here.
Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
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Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
#35I'm so happy something like this exists. I absolutely love TRON and anything that relates to it. I was really sad that Disney didn't push for a third movie.
Has that been canned? The cartoon TV series[1] was amazingly deep considering it was a kids show but that was cancelled after the 1st season because Disney wanted to focus on a 3rd movie. From what I read, those involved with the cartoon weren't happy (and neither was I, for that matter). [1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1812523/
I just want to second that TRON: Uprising was really good. Definitely the high water mark of the franchise.
Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
#36Off topic, but I think it's the first time I see emojis in commit messages. Nice to see that it works, but I don't know how to feel about it.
With recent(-ish) support for color emoji in Gnome terminal, where I work has fully embraced emoji driven development. Kidding aside, it's fine but on older terminals (read: default terminal in ubuntu 16.04) they cause display issues, so they fit a bit better in the README.
> emoji ... cause display issues
Well, that gave me a stupid idea.
https://github.com/lloeki/he_comes
Whatever.
Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
#37Blessed contrib has a pretty cool "retro future" look. I wonder if it's made it's way into any movies: https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib There's also "Hollywood Terminal" https://www.tecmint.com/fake-hollywood-hacker-terminal/
But... Can it take input from two people hacking on one keyboard? [0]
Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
#38I compiled it (takes a while there's a lot of native modules) and ran it on a Surface Go. Here's a video: https://twitter.com/mikemaccana/status/1065615451940667396 Short version: - Task manager, CPU cores etc works. - Touchscreen keyboard works - Yeah the globe is the location of your public IP plus socket connections (ie Get-NetTCPConnection / netstat) - It's slow, and Ctrl C doesn't work. It's not going to replace…
Ctrl+C works for me on a Mac.
Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
#39Blessed contrib has a pretty cool "retro future" look. I wonder if it's made it's way into any movies: https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib There's also "Hollywood Terminal" https://www.tecmint.com/fake-hollywood-hacker-terminal/
But... Can it take input from two people hacking on one keyboard? [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
Painful, but I watched it to the end. Urgh. "DOD Level 9 Encryption" and pretty sure their "fix" was unplugging the monitor.
Re: A fullscreen desktop application resembling a sci-fi computer interface
#40Aww, why was the title changed? Copyright concerns? That's a real shame if so.