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.
Nobody uses only CR afaik
I deal with some old embedded controllers that use only CR. It is part of the game when sending serial or UDP commands to them to figure out, usually by trial and error, which combination of CR, LF, or CRLF is needed to get things to accept the command, and then even more fun when they are looking for it all in hex.
I don't think she likes this either. Mom fail.
As a non-mom, I will suggest: suck it up, kid! The world can't always serve your immediate desires and it's good to learn that now when the stakes are so low.
Spending time with my brother's family it's become evident that my younger nephew has some form of sensory ... issue. He won't wear any pants other than loose polyester track pants, won't eat vegetables other than broccoli, and disdains avocado for the texture (although he likes guacamole). So far as I can tell he would happily go the rest of his life on sushi and grilled salmon (although his colon might not handle that well).
He's ten, and it's an adventurous family: it's not that he's not getting exposed to all sorts of foods. If I do any cooking here I must accept the possibility he won't like much that I make, since I'm mostly into big pots of veggie-bean stews and the like.
Is the return versus enter the difference between a paragraph make and a paragraph sign in Word?
No, "new paragraph" is a whole other thing. It doesn't exist at the basic character level, only in much more complex formattable documents.
I can remember noticing a difference between hitting return and hitting enter when filling spreadsheets, but I can't remember any context for that.
I feel like the clue as linked is ok, though - clearly the Enter key is also sometimes called Return even if they were originally both physically and functionally distinct.
Wait, was that something I needed to know to use vi? That was necessary knowledge at one point.
A whole lot of more or less esoteric knowledge has passed through my brain leaving very little residue.
clearly the Enter key is also sometimes called Return even if they were originally both physically and functionally distinct.
Agreed. Return vs enter is semantic on all computers that only have one, and I'm honestly surprised there are still keyboards that treat them differently at all.
Wait, was that something I needed to know to use vi?
vi is a programmers editor so it's quite good at accepting and working with all variants, but if you were working with go you were edging on the kind of programming / text-file heavy world where they can cause troubles.
I still instinctively call it the Return Key even when it plainly says Enter. This has caused trouble when I'm trying to explain Doing Stuff on the computer to other people.
I was just admiring a picture of the Moms From Portland -- they were all decked out with hardhats or bicycle helmets, goggles and of course masks.
Would you believe there's a Popular Science instructional tutorial about tear gas? Worth a read:
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I can't help but thing this shit is going to keep getting worse and we're going to need to get out there before November to get that gluttonous toad out of the white house.
They really seem to be doubling down on the scare old white people tactic and pouring fuel on the fire with federal crackdowns is surely part of the strategy.
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How long before someone kills one of the un-identified Federal Goon Squad or kills a co-worker that was being a non-mask wearing asshole out of work and gives them/their family COVID?