AFK BRB Chocolate (CA version)

My fun skill when I was in college was that when a modem/fax called I could whistle in a way that made it think it had reached another modem and connect. Couldn’t do anything past that, but it was funny.

Why do I feel like Dr. Seuss should have illustrated those words?

I’m old. I used the Internet before there was a “World-Wide Web” - so no web pages. I used telnet to connect to other computers, where generally I had to have a login. At home I only had dialup, but the school computers had Internet access. Those connections did include Usenet discussions, which were kind of like a primitive version of Lemmy.

Yeah, wasn’t disagreeing with you

I’ll take good things from bad politicians. Hell, if Trump started pushing medicare for all, I’d be on board even though I loathe the guy. Good decisions for the wrong reasons are still good decisions.

The least awful are the ones that just occasionally say “You are currently number <x> in the queue and your estimated wait time is <y>.”

Brother, the entire point of Ask communities is people asking questions they could technically search.

As Ember pointed out, no, that’s not the point of the community. It’s for open ended, thought provoking questions.

That person was saying he thought that because it was marked nsfw, and you didn’t address that, you just attacked him. Your response seems out of line.

Huh, interesting, I don’t think I’ve ever noticed that. Thanks.

What’s with all the downvotes on this post?

Probably a bleed-over from the embedded side. Spent a lot of years working embedded control systems for NASA and DoD - bare metal systems, often interrupt driven - and it was common to have 50% margin requirements. They know those systems will grow over time, and they often have lifespans measured in decades.