At the same time, it's about 1200 strips before the latest, which is like 7 years ago? But still not even halfway back, not quite.
Man, he's been around since forever.
Yeah same, I've been reading them all again and I didn't check when it was originally posted but it seemed far enough from today to count as old!
7 years ago is just 2016
Why did you have to say that?! RIP Robin Williams :(
goddamn it, it's been this long? rip.
Yeah man, loads of good people died in 2016, it was a whole thing.
Anyone else here have to endure IBM AS/400 at their workplace?
It's the backbone of the entire company I work at. And I work at one of the largest companies in its field. If it went down for an extended period of time the company would grind to a halt. I guess it's called "IBM i" now but everyone calls it AS/400
The login page still says copyright 1980
Not anymore, but I have worked at places that use them for inventory. Good ol green terminals.
Thankfully I only caught remnants, and that was plenty.
I am not a programmer, but on 2 occasions I was able to improperly fix (1 argument in 1 line stuff) very small bugs without really understanding how. I've also made a number converter (dec-bin-hex) at least twice. I know those aren't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice twice.
I'd say there's an issue here with language design having major tradeoffs, but maybe it's just a paradox*? Though I have found a language I like (even though I'm not learning it because other issues), so I know it's not impossible at least.
*= Like the people who could make something with less tradeoffs don't have the need/desire to do that, they just use the existing stuff. Though that is much more fitting for visual programming.
it's weird that it happened twice
Everyone who dabbles in programming eventually learns :q. Not everyone learns :wq.
I learned :q! first!
Not everyone learns :x
Or ZZ
Wtf is this bullshit. When tf did vim start allowing you to do the same thing in more than one way
hmm, when was vim invented?...
Vim wasn't invented, it spawned fully written and tested at the moment creation came into existence
That's why vi is already installed on every Linux system
of course!
no but i bet configurability was an early fearure
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere!
gazpacho soup?
Why linking to a page that contains an image instead of posting the image with the source?
Linking an xkcd image directly would strip out the hover text, which is part of the comic.
Learning arcane bullshit from the 80s can break your computer, but if you're willing to wade through arcane bullshit from programmers in the 90s and 2000s, you can break everyone else's computers, too.
"Old". This was after I started reading it.
At the same time, it's about 1200 strips before the latest, which is like 7 years ago? But still not even halfway back, not quite.
Man, he's been around since forever.
Yeah same, I've been reading them all again and I didn't check when it was originally posted but it seemed far enough from today to count as old!
7 years ago is just 2016
Why did you have to say that?! RIP Robin Williams :(
goddamn it, it's been this long? rip.
Yeah man, loads of good people died in 2016, it was a whole thing.
Anyone else here have to endure IBM AS/400 at their workplace?
It's the backbone of the entire company I work at. And I work at one of the largest companies in its field. If it went down for an extended period of time the company would grind to a halt. I guess it's called "IBM i" now but everyone calls it AS/400
The login page still says copyright 1980
Not anymore, but I have worked at places that use them for inventory. Good ol green terminals.
Thankfully I only caught remnants, and that was plenty.
I am not a programmer, but on 2 occasions I was able to improperly fix (1 argument in 1 line stuff) very small bugs without really understanding how. I've also made a number converter (dec-bin-hex) at least twice. I know those aren't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice twice.
I'd say there's an issue here with language design having major tradeoffs, but maybe it's just a paradox*? Though I have found a language I like (even though I'm not learning it because other issues), so I know it's not impossible at least.
*= Like the people who could make something with less tradeoffs don't have the need/desire to do that, they just use the existing stuff. Though that is much more fitting for visual programming.
Everyone who dabbles in programming eventually learns
:q. Not everyone learns:wq.I learned
:q!first!Not everyone learns :x
Or
ZZWtf is this bullshit. When tf did vim start allowing you to do the same thing in more than one way
hmm, when was vim invented?...
Vim wasn't invented, it spawned fully written and tested at the moment creation came into existence
That's why vi is already installed on every Linux system
of course!
no but i bet configurability was an early fearure
It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere!
gazpacho soup?
Why linking to a page that contains an image instead of posting the image with the source?
Linking an xkcd image directly would strip out the hover text, which is part of the comic.
P.S.
You're one of today's lucky 10,000.
How do you get the hover text on mobile?
Some browsers show it when you long press the image. For the others, you can edit the URL to m.xkcd.com
If you long press on the image, the hover over text will appear.
It cuts off
"Learning arcane bullshit from the 80s can break your computer, but if you're willing to wade through..."
Maybe try tapping on the text?
That works!
I almost got it by switching to landscape, but still not quite.
You can tap on the text to have it expand.
Here's the hover text for this one:
is this common for xkcd? because then I've been missing a whole layer of all the comics I've stumbled upon.
Oh boy, every xkcd (maybe except the first hundred?) has alt-text, time for you to read them all again!
Linking to the page is the best way to share an xkcd
My lemmy client shows the full image anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
which one do you use?
Summit, it's pretty good