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Casimir Radon posted:I’ll take dorky over toxic any day. I almost bought Planet X2 on floppies because the idea of a new bona fide VGA DOS game in modern times just sounded rad and I didn't know of his politics and gun fetish at the time. Kind of glad I didn't.
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Powered Descent posted:There are still radio and TV ads that use "backslash" when speaking a URL, as in "visit company dot com backslash rewards". They've had over a quarter century to learn this poo poo. And people who call # a hashtag! No! There is no tag connected to it!
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lobsterminator posted:And people who call # a hashtag! No! There is no tag connected to it! It's "pound," goddamnit.
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You mean wattle fence.
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Apr 21, 2022 08:33
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3D Megadoodoo posted:You mean wattle fence. And @ is a cat's tail or meow-meow
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lobsterminator posted:And @ is a cat's tail or meow-meow Atta, for the old-school people. To honour one of the heroes of 11.9., I'm sure. e: Only useful if you need to understand a Finnish COBOL wizard or solve a Finnish picture crossword puzzle. But still useful!
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Powered Descent posted:There are still radio and TV ads that use "backslash" when speaking a URL, as in "visit company dot com backslash rewards". They've had over a quarter century to learn this poo poo. Hell, this happened in an episode of Brooklyn 99 and I flinch every time I hear it. Especially because the character who says it would definitely not make that mistake.
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Apr 21, 2022 18:47
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lobsterminator posted:And @ is a cat's tail or meow-meow in my neck of the woods that's called a whack-alpha # is a lumber yard
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Apr 21, 2022 19:09
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Do you live in a mid 2000s Tina fey sitcom?
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lobsterminator posted:And @ is a cat's tail or meow-meow In swedish it's an elephant trunk.
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lobsterminator posted:And @ is a cat's tail or meow-meow it's a human or elf
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BattleMaster posted:it's a human or elf
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Apr 21, 2022 22:40
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BattleMaster posted:it's a human or elf this is wizard of yendor erasure and i for one will not stand for it
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Apr 21, 2022 23:04
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In Dutch it's an ape tail oddly
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Apr 21, 2022 23:52
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Norwegian went for "curly alpha", which is kind of boring but also makes a bit of sense. On a completely unrelated note I've been setting up tape backup at work, and so far I enjoy the sounds and clunky physical presence of the LTO tape and cartridges more than I expected - it's nice when the things I do actually feel like part of the real world instead of just text in a terminal. I'm sure I'll run into something frustrating about it eventually, but for now it's neat.
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Apr 22, 2022 01:07
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lobsterminator posted:And @ is a cat's tail or meow-meow I convinced a kid at school @ stood for 'around'. as in Humphreys is around xschool.com (humphreys@xschool.com)
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& is an and-persand @ is an at-persand w/o is a without-persand
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It's an Amper's At, you fool!
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Humphreys posted:I convinced a kid at school @ stood for 'around'. as in Humphreys is around xschool.com (humphreys@xschool.com) There's that old Today Show segment where they were discussing what @ meant and one of them says they think it means "about"
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Humphreys posted:I convinced a kid at school @ stood for 'around'. as in Humphreys is around xschool.com (humphreys@xschool.com) I like this one. A parallel universe where the internet is really vague. "Humphreys has been known to hang around xschool.com, but you might need to check a few domains that are nearby. Just ask around."
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Apr 22, 2022 06:11
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in that alternate universe every website has big arrow buttons you can press to go to the next website in the registry
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Schir posted:in that alternate universe every website has big arrow buttons you can press to go to the next website in the registry  that's called a "webring"
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Another bit of my old computer shop haul was a NOS 13/14" CRT monitor dust cover. Perfect for my Commodore 1084:
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No. 6 posted:In Dutch it's an ape tail oddly Apes don't have tails.
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a bunch of languages use the same word for monkey and ape i thinkWikipedia posted:"Ape", from Old English apa, is a word of uncertain origin. The term has a history of rather imprecise usage—and of comedic or punning usage in the vernacular. Its earliest meaning was generally of any non-human anthropoid primate, as is still the case for its cognates in other Germanic languages. Later, after the term "monkey" had been introduced into English, "ape" was specialized to refer to a tailless (therefore exceptionally human-like) primate. Thus, the term "ape" obtained two different meanings, as shown in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica entry: it could be used as a synonym for "monkey" and it could denote the tailless human-like primate in particular. 
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r u ready to WALK posted:a bunch of languages use the same word for monkey and ape i think 3D Megadoodoo's language calls apes "human monkeys"
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lobsterminator posted:3D Megadoodoo's language calls apes "human monkeys" Orang-outans are just very dangerous old men. e: Only marginally related but look at the price on this: https://www.boozt.com/fi/fi/kay-bojesen/monkey-large-teak-limba_28487099/222497886 3D Megadoodoo has a new favorite as of 09:43 on Apr 22, 2022 |
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GutBomb posted:In swedish it's an elephant trunk. In french it's "arobase" 
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Oops also forgot to mention the clincher for the kid at school was I explained that the a ends with a line going AROUND itself.
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 nice. Never had the screen visor, but I did have the external battery pack:  I think it took 4 D batteries.
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where does Atari expect me to source four dimensional batteries??
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Light Gun Man posted:where does Atari expect me to source four dimensional batteries?? your mom's nightstand, inside the lightsaber.
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Light Gun Man posted:where does Atari expect me to source four dimensional batteries?? It doesn't matter where you get them, just make sure you don't take them on a plane.
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My USB4VC showed up today. Fastest I've ever seen something from Kickstarter get fulfilled. Close to a month from the campaign ending. Unfortunately I'm not at home and have neither a Raspberry Pi, or an old computer to test it with.
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SlowBloke posted:That kit is current regional tv studio level. Some of my local tv stations broadcasts in 576i which is less of what those sdi inputs allow. The last company I worked for had what looked like that same model. I helped set it up, move and deployed it at conferences, and ran it for some of our video streams of corporate meetings. It would totally handle hd video, 1080p if I remember right.
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LifeSunDeath posted:your mom's nightstand, inside the lightsaber.
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Lowen SoDium posted:It would totally handle hd video, 1080p if I remember right. Spec sheet from newtek says 1080/30p or 1080/60i which is perfectly fine for tv broadcasting. 1080/60p is a relative rarity on terrestrial/satellite tv feeds.
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I'm sure I've mentioned my old MS stuff but found this boxed one that I KNOW I spent $500 to buy. It was specially ordered for my by the local Dick Smith Electronics, and the day it arrived, I spent my money on a police scanner and they were NOT happy I didn't pony up the money for it. Obviously I bought it the next week - and BONUS! Got a job there!  EDIT: Checked whats on the MS: Some HardStyle and 'Skazi' Humphreys has a new favorite as of 14:46 on Apr 23, 2022 |
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It's like he did everything in his power to hold that camera in a way it was not designed to be held. wonder if he can even see into the VF. also congrats on becoming a Dick Smith Man.
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