The Official Status Thread
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Hey now, @boomzilla is an okay guy!
Since everyone is a boomzilla alt, we're all okay guys
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@magus said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar Hey now, @boomzilla is an okay guy!
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Status: Just successfully talked my way out of having done a thousand word essay in eight hundred words in the hour directly before class and showing up with neither of the two required hard copies. I think I'm getting the hang of this whole 'college student' thing.
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Status: Stuck at this position for about fifteen minutes.
https://i.imgur.com/WgVGj42.png
I assume this is their idea of a 'moment'.
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@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
That is how word processors and WYSIWYG editors work.
You can also follow this sequence in your favorite word processor:
- Type some words.
- Select some text.
- Press Ctrl+B.
- The text you selected in step 3 is now bold.
This sequence also works in the post composer here.
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@djls45 said in The Official Status Thread:
@Lorne-Kates said in The Official Status Thread:
That is how word processors and WYSIWYG editors work.
You can also follow this sequence in your favorite word processor:
- Type some words.
- Select some text.
- Press Ctrl+B.
- The text you selected in step 3 is now
boldsurrounded in two asterisks.
This sequence also works in the post composer here.
FTFY. If you're going to compare it to a fuller word processor, don't ignore the fact that most word processors don't require a separate view pane to figure out what the end results are...
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@tsaukpaetra When I was growing up, WYSIWYG editors weren't a thing yet. I remember learning to type (and typing many papers) on Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS. Fortunately my needs were rather minimal at that point. I do blame that for the fact that I never really learned good handwriting...my cursive grade in 5th grade was the lowest I've ever gotten: a C-.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
When I was growing up
Oye! We weren't talking about ye olden days! We were talking about your favourite word processor!
Besides, Wordperfect 5.0 for DOS totally supports bold and italics (even underlined! Markdumb doesn't support that!)
Edit: Whoops, wrong screenshot
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@tsaukpaetra supports them, but uses codes to tell you what's applied. That is, not WYSIWYG. I remember seeing my first "modern" word processor and being amazed at the actually bold type.
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS
I still miss the "show control codes" functionality.
You could fix any formatting error with it !
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@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra supports them, but uses codes to tell you what's applied. That is, not WYSIWYG. I remember seeing my first "modern" word processor and being amazed at the actually bold type.
It's a lot closer than **This is bold, use your imagination**.
@timebandit said in The Official Status Thread:
@benjamin-hall said in The Official Status Thread:
Wordperfect 5.1 for DOS
I still miss the "show control codes" functionality.
You could fix any formatting error with it !
Wouldn't it be great if we had the same kind of functionality in today's software?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wouldn't it be great if we had the same kind of functionality in today's software?
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wouldn't it be great if we had the same kind of functionality in today's software?
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wouldn't it be great if we had the same kind of functionality in today's software?
LibreOffice Writer
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Status: Somehow I find myself preemptively banned?
Is that a thing? Like, WTH?
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Status: GG, Linux...
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@tsaukpaetra This is valid Markdown, so your argument is invalid.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Somehow I find myself preemptively banned?
Is that a thing? Like, WTH?
They might have banned web IRC client hostnames.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra This is valid Markdown, so your argument is invalid.
Ew, get that fake spec away from me!
Use the real one:
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Which of these products do you have a positive opinion of?
- The chemical molecule of Methane
- Stoves that you can cook things on inside the sun
- Two words vaguely related to physics that we put together for some reason
- Element 1 on the periodic table
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Status: Somehow I find myself preemptively banned?
Is that a thing? Like, WTH?
They might have banned web IRC client hostnames.
Yeah. Google reveals as such.
Now, why can't a Ban message be presented? IRC is silly sometimes..
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra This is valid Markdown, so your argument is invalid.
No, that's valid HTML, not Markdown.
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@tsaukpaetra Markdown includes HTML.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra Markdown includes HTML.
It also includes C++, by that logic.
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@tsaukpaetra How so?
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra How so?
void main(int[] args) { //Fuck you I'm not going to type "Hello world!" here }
Look! Spec!
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra How so?
void main(int[] args) { //Fuck you I'm not going to type "Hello world!" here }
Look! Spec!
I'm missing the part where this is part of Markdown.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra How so?
void main(int[] args) { //Fuck you I'm not going to type "Hello world!" here }
Look! Spec!
I'm missing the part where this is part of Markdown.
Because you can type it and it's valid Markdumb! What's there to miss?
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@tsaukpaetra Markdown syntax, not markdown highlighting. The actual highlighting is done by highlight.js, and the spec makes no mandates about what is colored how.
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@tsaukpaetra Markdown explicitly includes HTML as part of its specification, including limitations on how they can be mixed.
OTOH, just because something can be written using Markdown that happens to be valid $otherLanguage, that does not include $otherLanguage as part of Markdown any more than the fact one could write Romeo and Juliet using Markdown to format it makes Romeo and Juliet part of Markdown.
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@pie_flavor @HardwareGeek y'all are making it really hard to troll... :(
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor @HardwareGeek y'all are making it really hard to troll... :(
Troll better
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Two words vaguely related to physics that we put together for some reason
It's actually a really cool project for providing home lighting to areas with no electricity. https://gravitylight.org/how-it-works/
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
Wordperfect 5.0 for DOS
I remember that, and the little card it came with that you stuck to the keyboard to remind you of all the different combinations of shifted function keys to get various options.
I switched to LaTeX for comprehensibility…
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Status: Hearing “how did it get into the attic?” come over the radio of the fireman who is evacuating you out of precaution is not a good start to the morning.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra How so?
void main(int[] args) { //Fuck you, give me money }
Look! Spec!
Don't pollute the forum with this open-source bullshit. Pay for your fucking software.
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
web IRC
mIRC or GTFO.
Filed under: I even paid to register it
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Just sent an e-mail to a company that sells books for having so many errors in one of their books that it's not even funny. (Well, it is, and I may post something about it later.) The particular chapter I focused on is an introduction to Linux, written by someone who doesn't know Linux. So many fact errors, getting terms confused, and not even bothering to do basic research about how things work. As an example, the introduction is based on "Linux Ubuntu 14" (actually 14.04 LTS to be precise, a fact that is mentioned once), but the author claims that applications are distributed as RPM files. Yeah...
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@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
Ssh! Don't interrupt the pointless nostalgia!
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@blakeyrat said in The Official Status Thread:
Ssh! Don't interrupt the pointless nostalgia!
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Status: Creating test coverage reports.
Status+1: Hiding from my cow-orkers…
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Status: that's a new one...
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@lorne-kates said in The Official Status Thread:
@ben_lubar said in The Official Status Thread:
web IRC
mIRC or GTFO.
Filed under: I even paid to register it
HexChat.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor @HardwareGeek y'all are making it really hard to troll... :(
Troll harder
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor @HardwareGeek y'all are making it really hard to troll... :(
Troll harder
I'll admit I'm not very good at trolling.
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@pie_flavor said in The Official Status Thread:
@tsaukpaetra said in The Official Status Thread:
@pie_flavor @HardwareGeek y'all are making it really hard to troll... :(
Troll harder
harder
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