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If you do embedded work you gotta know vi. It's tiny enough to fit on embedded systems so you can futz around with them in realtime, you're not tied to fixing files locally and transferring them over, which is a pain in the rear end.
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Can we please keep talking about vi and emacs for like five more pages oh yeeeaaah. For content there was an awesome looking 8mm projector up on an auction site this morning. I wanted it badly even though I have absolutely no use for it. I mean, look at it. Imagined has a new favorite as of 15:37 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 15:30
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Imagined posted:Can we please keep talking about vi and emacs for like five more pages oh yeeeaaah.  I saw a man cry tears of joy for emacs in front of his little daughter and richard stallman.
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May 15, 2014 15:35
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Imagined posted:Can we please keep talking about vi and emacs for like five more pages oh yeeeaaah.
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May 15, 2014 15:36
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Serperoth posted:Okay what does the Greek button do? Does it work with the Meta/Super/Hyper ones? When I press Hyper and Greek, does a fat man with a mustache come to me and complain about foreigners while he scams the government? I'll go out on a limb and say the Greek key, when pressed, allows you to type the Greek characters visible on the fronts of the letter keys. And Rub Out is just the old word for Backspace.
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May 15, 2014 15:45
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Pham Nuwen posted:I'll go out on a limb and say the Greek key, when pressed, allows you to type the Greek characters visible on the fronts of the letter keys. I was so embarrassed when my mom caught me backspacing one out.
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May 15, 2014 15:49
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Pham Nuwen posted:I'll go out on a limb and say the Greek key, when pressed, allows you to type the Greek characters visible on the fronts of the letter keys. There is (maybe was, he survived a stroke a bit before I graduated) a British professor in the physics department at Penn State. He frequently asks "do you mind if I rub out right here?" in reference to the chalkboard 
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May 15, 2014 15:59
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Shugojin posted:There is (maybe was, he survived a stroke a bit before I graduated) a British professor in the physics department at Penn State. He frequently asks "do you mind if I rub out right here?" in reference to the chalkboard Our department leader is an elegant old Norwegian woman. She speaks English rather well, except for an unfortunate tendency to pronounce "come" with a U (as in "must"). She's also fond of expressions like "we need come together and...". I have maintained a completely straight face for several years.
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May 15, 2014 16:06
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Computer viking posted:Our department leader is an elegant old Norwegian woman. She speaks English rather well, except for an unfortunate tendency to pronounce "come" with a U (as in "must"). She's also fond of expressions like "we need come together and...". I have maintained a completely straight face for several years. What? How do you pronounce come, then?
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May 15, 2014 16:08
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DNova posted:What? How do you pronounce come, then? Uh, the same as 'comb'. How've you been doing it?
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May 15, 2014 16:17
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Uh, the same as 'comb'. How've you been doing it? I live in the midwest (for 30+ years) and everyone I know and have ever talked to pronounce 'come' as 'cum'.
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May 15, 2014 16:20
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Uh, the same as 'comb'. How've you been doing it? The other way. The way you have giggled at. People have probably been giggling at you for years. Sorry you had to find out this way.
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May 15, 2014 16:20
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GreenNight posted:I live in the midwest (for 30+ years) and everyone I know and have ever talked to pronounce 'come' as 'cum'. In Kansas everyone pronounces "burger" as "booger"
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May 15, 2014 16:21
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Uh, the same as 'comb'. How've you been doing it?
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May 15, 2014 16:21
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Uh, the same as 'comb'. How've you been doing it? You pronounce it as comb? I use the u as in must. Like a normal person.
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May 15, 2014 16:22
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Mr. Flunchy posted:Uh, the same as 'comb'. How've you been doing it? haha.
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May 15, 2014 16:23
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So when you say 'come over here' people start looking for a guy with a bad haircut?
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May 15, 2014 16:26
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"Come" and "cum" are pronounced exactly the same. Sorry about your embarrassing speech impediment, bro.
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May 15, 2014 16:26
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cobalt impurity posted:"Come" and "cum" are pronounced exactly the same. Sorry about your embarrassing speech impediment, bro. He might just be British. Over here in the US, if somebody pronounces "r" as "w", we send him to speech therapy. Over there, they give him a title and put him in the House of Lords.
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May 15, 2014 16:40
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Pham Nuwen posted:He might just be British. Hey!, most of us brits pronounce come and cum the same too, we're not all weird like Flunchy
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May 15, 2014 16:45
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Pham Nuwen posted:He might just be British. I don't think that works either (Apologies for weird flash animated travesty)
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May 15, 2014 16:47
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Pham Nuwen posted:He might just be British. I thought that too for a second but I can think of more than one british song that never sounds like "Comb Together". EDIT: ^^^ drat you!!!! Here, have another example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9G7n8DBpO8
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May 15, 2014 16:48
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I think my joke has backfired.
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May 15, 2014 16:50
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What, are you trying to say there's a way to pronounce it other than coom? Aye, reet...
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May 15, 2014 16:52
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Lately I keep having (literal, during sleep) dreams where I am overcome with nostalgia and longing for some kind of software I used to use. I don't think it actually exists/existed because the things I see in the dreams are very contradictory. But hey let's try and list some details from the dreams anyway: It is some kind of chat room / game launcher thing that had at least LAN if not internet, you'd chat with people and play games together. The games were 2d I think. Sometimes in the dreams I feel like it was "were I first played Minecraft" or something, which is wrong, so maybe it had falling sand or something. It may have been something I used at some sort of school/daycare sort of thing, but early teens-ish. I'm 31 now. Sometimes it feels like it had a sprite based GUI thing going on, sometimes it seems like mostly text based. Sometimes it even feels like it had some sort of wacky dedicated hardware like a game console. If there is anything that jumps to mind that fits some of these details lemme know. I realize this post is dumb as hell but it's bugging me so if there is closure to be had I'd like it. Feel free to use this post as a jumping off point to talk about obsolete game launchers / chat services though too (I once ran a server for ThePalace).
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May 15, 2014 17:52
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 I know a guy that has and still uses a six-digit ICQ number.
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May 15, 2014 18:13
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Light Gun Man posted:Lately I keep having (literal, during sleep) dreams where I am overcome with nostalgia and longing for some kind of software I used to use. I don't think it actually exists/existed because the things I see in the dreams are very contradictory. But hey let's try and list some details from the dreams anyway: The closest thing I can think of is the Internet Gaming Zone. Edit: or maybe something like the prodigy games
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May 15, 2014 18:22
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Light Gun Man posted:Lately I keep having (literal, during sleep) dreams where I am overcome with nostalgia and longing for some kind of software I used to use. I don't think it actually exists/existed because the things I see in the dreams are very contradictory. But hey let's try and list some details from the dreams anyway: Jagex's old castle@gamesdomain, I think.
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May 15, 2014 18:25
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Light Gun Man posted:Lately I keep having (literal, during sleep) dreams where I am overcome with nostalgia and longing for some kind of software I used to use. I don't think it actually exists/existed because the things I see in the dreams are very contradictory. But hey let's try and list some details from the dreams anyway: Sort of sounds like the old Total Entertainment Network (TEN) which became Pogo.com, or Mplayer or Sega Heat (which was licensed to use the same core software as Mplayer. edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x-dQXQbiQI Lowen SoDium has a new favorite as of 18:42 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 18:39
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I actually dug out my old RCA Lyra yesterday and put some music on it (after a hunt for a mini-USB instead of micro  ) because it has a little armband for biking and stuff. I have the 256mb model because the 128 I had first had a volume button fail and they sent me a new model with more space. I have like two whole albums on it guys!!
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May 15, 2014 19:01
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, those are pretty cool things to check out in an internet history sense. Sadly nothing triggering waves of recognition yet, but neat regardless. Another thing sort of along these lines that I can think of is http://www.maidmarian.com/ with their retarded 3D chatroom games. Moon Base Chat is my favorite, you can jump from the Moon to the Earth if you do it right.
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GOTTA STAY FAI posted:
But what use would anyone have for a 6-digit ice cucumber? I seriously thought ICQ had shut down years ago. Oddly enough, I still have muscle memory of my number, it's 163421177 
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May 15, 2014 19:35
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KozmoNaut posted:But what use would anyone have for a 6-digit ice cucumber? Holy poo poo I am still logged into the drat thing, and my number's eight digits. I haven't looked at Adium's account list in so long that I forgot.
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May 15, 2014 21:55
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Going through some old college stuff and found a bunch of videos I made, stored on this fine format back in 2000: I bet it will be really easy to find a D2 machine to play these on. They're so small and light! 
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May 15, 2014 22:29
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Exit Strategy posted:Holy poo poo I am still logged into the drat thing, and my number's eight digits. I haven't looked at Adium's account list in so long that I forgot. I find it interesting that despite being unable to remember the birth date of my wife of 16 years, I remember both my ICQ number (not my original 8-digit one, but the 10 digit one from 2001) and my Prodigy e-mail address which is a string of random letters and numbers from like 1995.
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May 15, 2014 22:49
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Pshh, I'm a 7 digit ICQ user, scrubs. 1826200. Never forget.
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I had friends with 5 digit ICQ numbers. I didn't sign up then because the internet was billed by the minute but local calls weren't. Glad to see those things are obsolete now.
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Light Gun Man posted:Lately I keep having (literal, during sleep) dreams where I am overcome with nostalgia and longing for some kind of software I used to use. I don't think it actually exists/existed because the things I see in the dreams are very contradictory. But hey let's try and list some details from the dreams anyway: That reminds me of a short story (fiction) about a guy who could never beat some DOS text adventure game from his youth. It was unfinished and impossible to beat, but he had dreams of the game's ending. The guy that made the game cut all ties with society and became a hermit living in his parents' house or something (???) and the narrator went to meet the guy in person. The guy gave the narrator an old school floppy or Amiga tape that had the finished game, I think. He beat the game and it had some kind of twist or revelation. Can't remember. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Looking for the webpage right now but I can't remember the game's title or anything else that will help me track it down.
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p-hop posted:That reminds me of a short story (fiction) about a guy who could never beat some DOS text adventure game from his youth. It was unfinished and impossible to beat, but he had dreams of the game's ending. The guy that made the game cut all ties with society and became a hermit living in his parents' house or something (???) and the narrator went to meet the guy in person. The guy gave the narrator an old school floppy or Amiga tape that had the finished game, I think. He beat the game and it had some kind of twist or revelation. Can't remember. If you find it, let us know. It sounds pretty interesting.
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p-hop posted:The guy gave the narrator an old school floppy or Amiga tape That would have been horrifying. Although you could get this system that let you backup data to VHS tapes as video, so maybe you mean one of those? 
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