Alas, I do not have my full-sized keyboard to see how the keys are labelled. My laptop definitely just says "Enter" but from that write-up is actually Return? I don't know. I think I understand the reverse polarity vs 180 out of phase thing better (and I don't really understand that but I think at one point in my life I would have...)
Mal: Inara, think you could stoop to being on my arm? Inara: Will you wash it first?
'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Jul 22, 2020 11:01:43 am PDT #23872 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Laura - Jul 22, 2020 11:23:32 am PDT #23873 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
Scary to think about for me.
I would think. I'm glad he is okay.
Jesse - Jul 22, 2020 11:23:43 am PDT #23874 of 30019
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I am thinking ahead to what's going to get me out in the streets.
Yeah, my problem is being anxious about taking public transportation to get to where protests are happening, but that's got to be worth it at some point.
And if there is a call for "moms," I would definitely go, because I know what they actually mean is middle-aged middle-class white women and I am that even without children.
Zenkitty - Jul 22, 2020 11:44:26 am PDT #23875 of 30019
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Much health~ma for your aunt, Laura.
-t, glad your brother is okay.
Sheryl - Jul 22, 2020 11:53:55 am PDT #23876 of 30019
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Health~ma to your aunt, Laura.
sj - Jul 22, 2020 12:35:23 pm PDT #23877 of 30019
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Health~ma for your aunt, Laura, and yay for your son's new job!
t, I'm glad your brother is okay.
TCG has a meeting tonight. So, I decided to make an easy dinner of frozen pizza and frozen sweet potato fries. ltc hated everything. TCG just left, and now we're watching The Sword in the Stone because it was my turn to pick our movie. I don't think she likes this either. Mom fail.
msbelle - Jul 22, 2020 12:46:45 pm PDT #23878 of 30019
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
I think I will want a hard helmet head covering and eye protection before going to any protest. I have a big face mask thing from working with chemicals that I think I would wear also (this would keep me from yelling). I do not think I would do a sign, so my hands would be free.
Laura - Jul 22, 2020 1:04:59 pm PDT #23879 of 30019
Our wings are not tired.
I'd be totes okay with pizza and sweet potato fries and the movie pick. Mom win!
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 22, 2020 1:12:29 pm PDT #23880 of 30019
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
My laptop has an enter/return key, but my work computer has two separate keys and the enter key does different things when posting to some websites.
Gris - Jul 22, 2020 1:33:24 pm PDT #23881 of 30019
Hey. New board.
Both "carriage return" and "line feed", the two character codes used semi-interchangeably for "go to the next line" in modern computers, have their roots in type writers. A carriage return sends the big box of letter sticks (the carriage) back to the beginning, while line feed advances the paper up one line, so I'm order to start typing on the next line you technically need to press both. When computers essentially controlled typewriters, that made sense, so both characters got space in the 128 character ASCII standard.
Once the world decided that no longer made sense, different operating systems settled on different rules. In Unix-based systems, it was decided that only a LF character would be used to demark a new line. In Mac-based systems (old ones), it was decided it would be a CR. In DOS (and therefore Windows) it was a CR AND a LF, also known as CRLF - more accurate to old usages but also less efficient.
These days, Mac's are based on Unix so they only use LF (despite the key being called "Return" still), while Windows still uses CRLF. Nobody uses only CR afaik. This can cause programmers sharing code across different environments a lot of trouble - in fact, I ran into that just yesterday when I forgot to change a setting - I had to throw everything away and start over, basically, re-downloading the code.
I have no idea why Matt's computer has both an Enter and Return. My guess is the Enter is sending CRLF generally but the return only CR? Which would definitely be weird in any modern situation.