That’s lies! I lived there for ¬15 years. Either dead cold or roasting hot. It’s like mother nature during menopause!
That’s when you offer her a bottle of wine.
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From 34 → 42 in my days off… But I have my mount now so that should help me get around 
Hope everyone had a good week!
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Now, that I’ve been doing alts in BFA, I’m noticing some weird things like…how exactly is Moxie flying. Most NPCs have a mount assigned to them. She just flies like superwoman.
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I haven’t kept up with usages since retirement, the only usage for the " ¬ " symbol I’ve ever seen was as a Boolean negation and it wasn’t a negation symbol I ever used. Not 15 years didn’t seem right, would have expected either ~15 or >15.
I didn’t find what I was looking for and wouldn’t have responded except that looking on Google just now to see if there was another usage I was surprised to see that this symbol is included on a standard QWERTY keyboard in the UK (apparently where we have the ` and ~ key). I hadn’t realized that there was a different standard for UK vs US QWERTY keyboards.
Do Australia, Canada, and/or New Zeeland use the US or UK style keyboard?
You have the patience of a saint considering the stuff u have to try to answer and the folow up questions kudos.
People consume information in different ways.
I’m a more visual person, so when I was a Game Master I would always try to include screenshots for steps I was suggesting - especially if it meant navigating to specific sections of the website.
Sometimes people took that as me talking down to them, sometimes they were very appreciative.
A lot of what we do here is try to find the communication style that will work best.
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Still kuddos you guys dont get enough credit.
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We mainly us the US keyboards here in Canada. Whether or not the “`”/“~” key is on the keyboard seems to depend on the keyboard. The more compact keyboards put the “ESC” there instead. I haven’t seen " ¬ " on my keyboards.
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depends on the person, the canadian(French Canadian) keyboard looks as follows:
I personally ordered a norwegian keyboard with my mac, mostly cause its easier for me to use, using the Danish one, it always confuses me when i want to type in german cause of the Umlaut postitions.
With the norwegian keyboard Æ = Ä, and Ø = Ö, with the danish ones its annoyingly swapped for some reason.
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You have to be careful when you do such things, sometimes it could lead to you being assigned the job of writing a user’s manual, in addition to not instead of, your already full time job. 
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I have written a number of process docs in my time because it just needed to be done and I thought I could do it in a visually pleasing way 
It’s tedious, but I often feel satisfied when done. Until someone refactors something and I GOTTA DO IT AGAIN
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So i got the mario aniversary edition decided to play on my tv well thats all good and said except i didnt know how to switch thankgoodness for google and me not throwing out stuff lol.
You sound like Dauth. He wrote a bunch of knowledge stuff in his spare time.
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I had some fun typing emails home when I lived in Southern Europe. Also, whatever happened to Dvorak replacing Qwerty?
Took me an eternity to learn how to type and I had just escaped having to do it on a typewriter. Our class was using whatever notepad like app was on Windows 3.1
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I had fun back in college using Edlin.
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In my day we used paper and pencil!
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NULL pointers of the mind
Exclusive preview, an excerpt from the upcoming novel telling the story of a geek veteran and his battles with posttraumatic stress .
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After all these years he would still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat screaming “Q! Q!” the memory of grep, AWK and shell scripts that just wouldn’t work still echoing in his head as he desperately tried to grope his way back to reality.
He would take to drink at these times trying to exorcize the daemons from his mind, but to no avail, glancing at the clock to see how long till dawn, all he saw was Cronos leering back at him.
At these times she would try to comfort him and bring him back to the present “it’s OK” she would say pressing cool compresses to his fevered brow “we have windows now, it’s all GUIs”.
“X-Windows?” he mumbled. “No no just … Windows”, she would respond, carefully avoiding the name of the Monster of Redman; “it’s all over now, nobody has written a 42 character command line in years, remember Visual programming? Put the bottle away and come back to bed”.
“My god I saw it with my own eyes” he moaned “the Wall Street Weenies got poor old Borland, and they almost killed Apple! It was horrible!“ “That’s all in the past now” she reassured him “Apple makes telephones and music boxes now remember? COBAL, FORTRAN, Fourth, Even C and Pascal, these things only exist in history texts, hell even history texts are history it’s all wikis now, try to forget what’s done and gone and concentrate on the present, we need you here and now”
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Eh, you could look like me and have one eye smaller than the other and a curved right arm. I’m fairly confident your mom looks nicer than that and thus so do you, even on camera. 
After having to deal with me earlier today, I can vouch for that. Sure, I didn’t call anyone names or troll or anything like that, but for prudence’s sake I needed to be ultra nitpicky to get to the bottom of what certian things are and why they are the way they are with the digital pre-purchases. It reminded me of what I go through in some of my own tech support helpings. 
Kalv went back and forth and back and forth with me and didn’t even hit me with the kitchen sink. That is patience!
That’s why I often include pictures and a step by step guide or list when I help out, at least on the Diablo 3 side where I have TL3. It’s a bit more difficult to do that when you don’t have TL3 though, so here I have to rely on text only. But I’m definitely good with text - I can even build walls with it!
Been there, done that. I’ve had to write very long cheat sheet type guides for people I’ve helped in workplaces over the years. Thankfully I got a break from that and my current project is taking apart an i-CAT Classic facial CT machine to troubleshoot why it won’t show up to the computer. We’ve narrowed that down to either a borked floppy drive or a floppy disk (3.5") that’s finally become demagnetized (they put a Faraday cage around the motherboard, but not the floppy drive containing the supplementary OS update that fires up the acquisition board and the floppy drive sits not more than six inches from a twelve inch toroidal transformer).
I’d have tested out the floppy drive theory tonight, but the Samsung 3.5" drive that Amazon sent had a connector that came off the drive. I can’t even see where it was soldered to begin with, meaning it came completely sheared off the PCB, since the connector pin solder joints were on the piece broken off, not on the drive PCB itself.
At least I got my dentist’s network set up finally. Did that from scratch going from an old Cisco VPN router (100 Mbit/sec ports from like 2005!) coupled with a Comcast business modem from around ten years ago (no IPv6 at all) to a new Comcast CBR (Technicolor CGA4131) and a couple gigabit switches. All manually assigned IPs with a dedicated DHCP server for wifi connections on the guest and internal network. Once I finished, I made backups of his CBR’s configuration and put it in three different locations. As long as the CBR gets internet, I can log in via Splashtop and restore it and/or the server remotely for him.
The fun part now for all that? I get to put it in his doomsday book in a form he can understand but that’s still useful to me for quick restoration. 
I get that with the cosmetics guide I volunteered to do for MissCheetah/Mirasol on the D3 side ( https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/d3/t/list-of-all-wings-cosmetics-pets-and-promos/61/62 ). Everything is hand coded since the Discourse forum software uses a mishmash of bastardized HTML 4 and HTML 5, minus the often critical CSS that HTML 5 needs to fully function. Everything looks and works great in the guide, but one tiny thing goes missing and aaaaaargh the update process.
But hey, I learned lots of new things in the process, which made it fun despite the initial version taking close to 80 hours to do from scratch in pure HTML (you can’t properly mix markdown and HTML with Discourse). And since I keep both separate files for each section of the guide and a master file after I update it each time, I can easily restore a borked guide should I need to (and I have had to twice so far).
Being able to do something really nice for someone else feels awesome!
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww. I think that was the only thing I hated anywhere near as much as I do vi or vim. No, wait, I hate nano even more.
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