dankm @ dankm @lemmy.ca

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And who bring a Playboy mag to their university's computer lab, and advertises their possession?

Probably a random grad student. They were just coming out of the "sexual revolution" of the 60s at that point. It'd be a lot weirder ten years earlier or ten years later.

That a similar thing did happen ten years earlier is the weird part, I think.

I like to measure the area of rooms in foot-metres. Square foot-metres is a great unit for volume.

Today I unironically described the length of something as "about 1 centimetre less than a foot".

Mine will too, when it's reasonably warm out, but not below -15 or so. Below -30 it's even longer, and might not keep it clear, and I need to open windows just so moisture goes somewhere other than the windshield.,

If it's cold outside it usualky takes at least 10 minutes to be warm enough to keep the windshield clear, so not all of it will be walking.

The initial hurdle of incompetence can be extremely frustrating and almost impossible to climb, if you don't have guidance.

Can confirm. 15 years in industry, still incompetent.

Now, you could get around it by calling someone "a female person" - except that we already have a word for "female person", and that's "woman".

I'm going to nitpick a touch. "Female person" includes girls. "Women" ecludes them.

I think the Amiga boing ball looks like that ball.

Sounds like another plus for 5ghz to me.

And now I need to design a keyboard and name it the hoighty toighty tippy typer.

Carousels came later :P

Ironically, it's a very old term for a powerpoint presentation. Presentations used to be done with actual photographic slides in a projector. They were stored in a deck of slides.

I only know this from Mad Men.

One of the girls didn't have any smoothie. She said he came downstairs multiple times to check if they were asleep.

Sounds fishy.

I was at a Walgreens in California a few years ago and handed my card to the cashier. She stuck it in the machine, looked at it funny, the swiped it. Said she had to swipe it because it asked for a pin. She didn't know that chip & pin is a thing.

I also had to sign a reciept when I used tap at a gas station in North Dakota. Stange place, the USA.

Smoking, white smoking, non, or black non?

Let's not ask the impossible, sir!

The only right way to slam down the phone requires an old phone with actual bells for the ringer. You know you did it right then the bells ding at you.

I set up FreeIPA at home. Similar in principle to AD.

The USA should just do what many other countries do: universal compulsary military service for a time during early adulthood. That'd meet the mandate.

libc++ here.

Bring it.

Damn right! It's somebody else's greed! Totally different.