12-31 · So if you have typed for quite a while and find an error above, then to correct it you definitely have to position the cursor where you’ve got it wrong. You need to push Backspace. Unfortunately you have to keep pressing it if the error is far aw...

12-31 · So the DOS command line input was thus born. Keyboard input in fact. You know, the codes programmers write and the Matrix-style green characters rain on the black screen are just examples of this. It naturally saved us much trouble. You don’t hav...

12-31 · The earliest way humans communicate with electronic machines was through punch cards. There are only two states: punched and un-punched. And there’re probes in the machine. Slot one punch card into the machine, and they’ll pass through the holes...

12-31 · Sure machines are also human-invented tools, but their biggest difference from previous tools is that they are what humans must always consider how to communicate with. The most distinctive feature of machines is automaticity: cogwheels engage wi...

12-31 · A History of Touch / Interface # 1: What Does the Future Computer Mouse Look Like?
An English translation of the video transcript of “触觉/interface 史（一）未来的鼠标长什么样” by An Excellent and Most Improved Youth In Gotham (哥谭市优秀进步青年). The Chinese leftis...

12-31 · 回复 @啊啊是谁都对：学到了，感觉在自己实际购买房产之前根本了解不到相关知识……

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12-31 · 维吉尔的阿波罗式视野正是沿着时间与空间上的终极目的（teleology）的轨道：从混乱到秩序，从地球边缘到地球中心罗马。
希腊罗马的“普世”历史时代相当于一张幻想地图。地图上，秩序宇宙的穹顶（dome）结构以家庭空间与社区空间（domus[34]）的小宇宙为中心。[35]正如阿波罗注视地球，遍及其表面，诗意之眼也从家庭空间向外看去，望向狄俄尼索斯和得墨忒耳（Demeter）的垦殖领地。他们既是生育之神，又是社会秩序之神，同有把市民诱惑到“文明藩篱之外的山野”[36]的能力。垦殖领地之外，离...

12-31 · 更加正统的奥维德同代人维吉尔颂扬奥古斯都宣布的帝国全球秩序运用了相似的叙述方式。从田园风情的《牧歌》（Eclogues），到《农事诗》（Georgics）中的垦殖世界，再到埃涅阿斯建立罗马，维吉尔的诗歌以自然的方式[25]表达罗马自称希腊和特洛伊城市文明的直接后代的意识形态主张。这一宇宙演化学叙事和随后的普世历史学发展到顶峰，是在奥古斯都帝国和普世性的罗马治世时期（Pax Romana）。模仿之前荷马的地图学式描述，维吉尔对埃涅阿斯之盾的描写对希腊的宇宙地图加以修改来颂扬罗马对世界（orbis...

12-31 · 奥维德笔下彼此斗争的元素等待着“更仁慈的大自然”[15]——一个神。他把它们分开、归类，使它们在“彼此和谐相处”[16]中附于各不相同的形式：
他首先塑造了地球，把它作成一个大球的形状，让各面都一样。其次，他又让大海伸展开来， 疾风吹动，波澜兴起，冲击着被它包围的陆地的崖岸……
天穹的右半分成两带，左半也分成两带，当中是第五带，最热；同样，天神也费了一番心机在凝固的地球上划出五个地带。当中一带最热，不能住人，两端两带又全为大雪覆盖，其问他又安插了两带，气候温和，寒暑交替。[17][1...