The Belt Onion club
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QEdit.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
can they see I’m joined in both?
Only if they are also in those same servers.
@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
Or people in my friends list.
Also can't tell unless they too are in the same servers you are.
Edit: Uh, hi, I come from the past but in the future! Spoookyyyy~~~!!!!
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@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla but why stop there whan you have so many better choices?
I always wondered why there was an extra space there. Like, as if they wanted to specifically draw attention to it or something...
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@Gąska said in The Belt Onion club:
@GuyWhoKilledBear said in The Belt Onion club:
The second kid says, "Thank you, sir."
OOOF
I'm always fascinated by random tiny cultural differences. Like for example, in Poland, you use Sir for everyone who doesn't look obviously middle school or younger. "You" is considered very impolite, just one step below "you motherfucker". Things get much trickier with young women, though, since "you" is still very impolite but "Ma'am" sounds like you think they look old, which can be even worse. Theoretically you could use Mademoiselle but it went out of fashion some 80 years ago.
What about "miss"?
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@Tsaukpaetra ah yes, Miss - a word spelled like Mademoiselle but pronounced like Ma'am and somehow means both. Should go without saying that much like Latinx, it's a uniquely English thing.
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@Tsaukpaetra early versions of MovieOS were good like that.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Belt Onion club:
Me seeing boobs, any age:
I do wonder why certain people upboated that. Just because funny, I guess. But you?
I do not understand you.
Not sure whether I want to understand. Or whether a mere human mind can ever hope to. But I really don't.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Belt Onion club:
Me seeing boobs, any age:
\me
is confused, but afraid to ask.Fake edit: also I don't understand if or not.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Belt Onion club:
Me seeing boobs, any age:
You're too young to be this jaded. And this is coming from a member of the club.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
Me seeing boobs, any age:
If you’re gay: somewhat understandable. If not gay: seek medical attention.
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There are people who are asexual. Just saying.
Doesn't mean they are not valid human beings.Besides, I too react to boobs with occasionally, in particular when the boobs are to my left and I'm in the middle of some deep thinking.
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Did anyone even as much as imply anything about valid human beings? No. Fuck.
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@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
There are people who are asexual. Just saying.
Have you forgotten who we're talking about? He's pretty much the opposite of asexual.
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@Zerosquare not if you count success rate.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zerosquare not if you count success rate.
Perfectly average around here then
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in The Belt Onion club:
I do wonder why certain people upboated that
Accident?
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@DogsB said in The Belt Onion club:
If not gay: seek medical attention.
Their response: stop being fat and exercise! Oh and also eat tasteless things!
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@Zerosquare said in The Belt Onion club:
@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
There are people who are asexual. Just saying.
Have you forgotten who we're talking about? He's pretty much the opposite of asexual.
Seems emulation was successful at fooling at least one person at least....
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Belt Onion club:
@Arantor said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla but why stop there whan you have so many better choices?
I always wondered why there was an extra space there. Like, as if they wanted to specifically draw attention to it or something...
Maybe to their text terminal's innovative half-line spacing…?
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@DogsB said in The Belt Onion club:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Belt Onion club:
@boomzilla said in The Belt Onion club:
Me seeing boobs, any age:
If you’re gay: somewhat understandable. If not gay: seek medical attention.
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Hey, you and your fancy dynamically-typed language! This is the club.
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@Zerosquare said in The Belt Onion club:
Hey, you and your fancy dynamically-typed language! This is the club.
You mean like LISP?
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There are people who use fancy dynamically-typed languages. Just saying.
Doesn't mean they are not valid human beings.
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Careful. Next you'll be defending PHP.
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@Zerosquare said in The Belt Onion club:
Careful. Next you'll be defending PHP.
I met a PHP programmer who was a valid human being and intelligent to boot. At least twice even.
This is not a defense of PHP.
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"You got a bit of carbonara sauce on your chin"
"It's not coming out"
"Oh, your beard is becoming white"
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@Zerosquare Ours never went away (warning: Dutch)
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@Zecc said in The Belt Onion club:
"Oh, your beard is becoming white"
Yeah, for the last decade or so.
That said, my hair and beard are surprisingly much less gray than I would expect for someone my age. I have a lot of gray hair, but it's pretty evenly distributed, not streaked, and it doesn't contrast much with the blond, so it still looks blond overall.
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@HardwareGeek I'm mildly jealous; my hair started to get grey/silver streaks at the age of 24 and my beard started to get grey bits in it in the last couple of years.
Wouldn't be so bad but my hair is browny-red and my beard was quite firmly reddish.
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@Arantor The gray in my beard is quite visible, but even it isn't entirely gray, which is what I would expect for someone my age — hair completely gray, pretty much everywhere. And I still have almost all of it, too; it hasn't receded much more than it had 20 years ago (a tiny bit at the temples, and a little thinner at the crown than everywhere else, but still fully covered), so it's likely to stay that way.
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@boomzilla I know those feels.
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@boomzilla Somebody was apparently having trouble with that almost 30 years ago too:
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Just saw that some kid complained about the CRT whine on this OG Tetris demonstration video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0gAgQQHFcQ
TIL I can't hear 15 kHZ tones anymore. Oh well, that won't be missed.
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@boomzilla fear not; none are denied the final mercy.
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@JBert Here; let me drop it a couple of octaves for both of us.
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@Watson said in The Belt Onion club:
@JBert Here; let me drop it a couple of octaves for both of us.
Yikes, I could not hear that before.
Speaking of: did CRTs always make that sound back in the day?
I remember as a teenager mine getting old and sometimes whining when in text mode or switching resolution, but oftentimes stopped after applying some percussive maintenance from the side.
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All CRTs TV did, yeah.
Computer CRT monitors normally didn't, since they used horizontal frequencies in the ultrasonic range, at least since the VGA era. So either your monitor was really old, or the sound was coming from its power supply, not its deflection.
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@topspin said in The Belt Onion club:
did CRTs always make that sound back in the day?
Yes. As @Zerosquare said, the frequency was audible for TVs, not necessarily for computer monitors. For properly functioning TVs, the frequency was either 15734 Hz (NTSC, 525 lines * 29.95 frames/second), 15750 Hz (PAL M, 525 lines * 30 frames/s), or 15625 Hz (PAL, PAL N and SECAM, 625 lines * 25 frame/s). That's the rate at which the electron beam sweeps (or swept) across the screen, and a TV CRT uses a pretty strong magnetic field to deflect the beam. (The CRT in an oscilloscope uses an electric field instead, because it's easier to calibrate, but it can't deflect the beam as much, so the CRTs are much smaller screen, with a much deeper enclosure needed.) That magnetic field will make stuff vibrate unless it's well-secured (e.g., embedded in epoxy or something). I used to be able to hear it, but a) no more CRT TVs, and b) old ears.
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@HardwareGeek but what was the loss model as an actual integral? Don't leave us hanging. Was it directly variable with signal intensity, or was there an exponent?
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@HardwareGeek said in The Belt Onion club:
That magnetic field will make stuff vibrate unless it's well-secured (e.g., embedded in epoxy or something)
TIL you can secure magnetic fields by embedding them in epoxy.