I remember one year when a friend of mine went as a cereal killer for Halloween. She had a bunch of cereal boxes taped onto a vest, one of them had a fake knife in it. :P
So I'm cleaning my room and I just took down a world map and a U.S. map from my wall because A: they're outdated and falling apart, B: I need to clean behind them anyway.
A: Wow, my wall is really big without them, B: holyshit these things were dusty.
Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."
I should probably sign off for now so I can get ready for my internship interview. See you this evening.
Dude, I was 2 years old when the Berlin wall left and 4 years old when the USSR dissolved. Yes I know that even that this point, most of your life was spent in the Cold War :p but not everyone is that old here (except Morven but hes well old) :p
...Also, my assumption was correct. My sister didn't make it past page 2 of Homestuck. XD She had to leave in a hurry, but when she gets back I'll tell her that the first act/chapter/thing is a lot different from the rest and 9 out of 10 fans agree that it isn't very good. :P
From the "things I kinda suspected but didn't confirm until now" file: The default Microsoft C formatting style is Berkeley/K&R with a few changes made for ANSI compliance. In K&R, you set up params like this:
int function(arg1, arg2) int arg1; void *arg2; { /* body */ }
Standard ANSI puts the types with the formal params, like Pascal does:
int function(int arg1, void arg2)
{
/* body */
}
Whereas the hybrid K&R/ANSI thing Microsoft does looks like this:
int function(
int arg1,
void *arg2
)
{
/* body */
}
I actually kind of like the latter, especially with functions with lots of arguments, because it keeps me from getting confused. C wasn't all that great at passing lots of arguments, especially on the PDP-11 or the 8086, which is why you see named structs a lot.
As for why Microsoft did it this way? Before they hitched their wagons to Windows and wrote OS/2 and NT, they were UNIX fans, and even had a port of 7th Edition called Xenix. Even into the 1980s, they had Xenix and SCO people working there, mainly because NT wasn't ready yet and OS/2 1.x and 2.x were IBM's to play with.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I once found a world map that had the USSR on it :p
When I was growing up the public library in Upper Arlington had a globe that showed the Soviet Union on it. Someone posted a note on the suggestion board requesting they get an updated one.
(The was the 1990s, so it would have only been a few years out of date at the time)
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A: Wow, my wall is really big without them, B: holyshit these things were dusty.
I'd say...between 11 and 13 years. I have a hard time remembering them not being there.
Note that when I said World and U.S. map, I meant that they were two different maps. I had one map of the world, and one map of the U.S. specifically.
She was born two months after it collapsed.
SO SHE'S ALMOST THAT OLD.
desu
...Also, my assumption was correct. My sister didn't make it past page 2 of Homestuck. XD She had to leave in a hurry, but when she gets back I'll tell her that the first act/chapter/thing is a lot different from the rest and 9 out of 10 fans agree that it isn't very good. :P
i get so angry sometimes i just punch plankton --Klinotaxis
int function(arg1, arg2)
int arg1;
void *arg2;
{
/* body */
}
I actually kind of like the latter, especially with functions with lots of arguments, because it keeps me from getting confused. C wasn't all that great at passing lots of arguments, especially on the PDP-11 or the 8086, which is why you see named structs a lot.
As for why Microsoft did it this way? Before they hitched their wagons to Windows and wrote OS/2 and NT, they were UNIX fans, and even had a port of 7th Edition called Xenix. Even into the 1980s, they had Xenix and SCO people working there, mainly because NT wasn't ready yet and OS/2 1.x and 2.x were IBM's to play with.
"6.10 GB free of 218 GB"
that's bad, yes?
YELLOWMAN ALBUM
Y U ALL IN .FLAC
I know it's a 'nicer' format, but it's also incredibly inconvenient.
I AM DOING TOTALLY FINE TODAY *sob sob*
like that.
(The was the 1990s, so it would have only been a few years out of date at the time)
Justice: don't die.
☭
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A YAOI STORY
BUT ONE OF THEM IS ACTUALLY A TRANSMAN
SO STRAIGHT YAOI
LE PLOTTWIST
And I know my parents have a globe with the USSR on it.