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Behodar
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  #2660747 21-Feb-2021 20:35
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I'd never even heard of it, but after reading the first sentence of the Wikipedia page I shall just say "message received and understood"!


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  #2660753 21-Feb-2021 20:43
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freitasm:

 

Rikkitic:

 

No possums, though.

 

 

 

Damn! Wrong again!

 

 





Plesse igmore amd axxept applogies in adbance fir anu typos

 


 


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  #2660758 21-Feb-2021 20:56
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Behodar:

I'd never even heard of it, but after reading the first sentence of the Wikipedia page I shall just say "message received and understood"!

 

 

Incredibly Strange Film Festival when I was Baptis... uhh, student, how could we not go and see it?

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  #2661023 22-Feb-2021 10:52
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This may have been suggested before, but I can't be bothered re-reading 806 pages of the thread to check, so...

 

People who refer to computers as "hard drives".  They mean the case, containing the motherboard, CPU, PSU, and of course the storage devices, but they still call it the "hard drive."  Grinds my gears, and when it happens with colleagues at work, I just wince, and tightly smile, and go "mmm hmm" rather than try and explain the componentry of the device they will have doubtless used for the better part of two decades in the modern workforce.

 

 


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  #2661024 22-Feb-2021 10:55
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Back at school circa 1995, I was chastised by the teacher for not referring to the computer as the "CPU".


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  #2661027 22-Feb-2021 11:01
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I guess for some people (who can trace their careers back to the 40s or 50s), they could be forgiven for not using the word "computer" - as was pointed out in the film Hidden Figures (about the women involved in the early American space programme), and probably elsewhere too, "computers" were the people who performed the mathematical calculations necessary to work out trajectory etc.

 

Human computers

 

Of course, when I think of human computers I immediately think of Mentats.


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  #2661192 22-Feb-2021 16:44
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Lizard1977:

 

This may have been suggested before, but I can't be bothered re-reading 806 pages of the thread to check, so...

 

People who refer to computers as "hard drives".  They mean the case, containing the motherboard, CPU, PSU, and of course the storage devices, but they still call it the "hard drive."  Grinds my gears, and when it happens with colleagues at work, I just wince, and tightly smile, and go "mmm hmm" rather than try and explain the componentry of the device they will have doubtless used for the better part of two decades in the modern workforce.

 

 

 

 

"oh, you're still using hard drives?"





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  #2661193 22-Feb-2021 16:51
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Muppet drivers that continue a passing manoeuver well after the passing lane ends and cut you off.


  #2661200 22-Feb-2021 17:14
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MikeB4:

 

Muppet drivers that continue a passing manoeuver well after the passing lane ends and cut you off.

 

 

im always keeping my eye on the mirror and i always put my indicator on to merge at the end of the passing lane and start moving over.


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  #2661201 22-Feb-2021 17:16
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Jase2985:

 

MikeB4:

 

Muppet drivers that continue a passing manoeuver well after the passing lane ends and cut you off.

 

 

im always keeping my eye on the mirror and i always put my indicator on to merge at the end of the passing lane and start moving over.

 

 

That rarely stops them unfortunately.  The "I must be ahead at all costs" attitude is something that needs to stop.





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  #2661203 22-Feb-2021 17:19
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geoffwnz:

 

That rarely stops them unfortunately.  The "I must be ahead at all costs" attitude is something that needs to stop.

 

 

 

 

The ones that really amaze me are the ones who refuse to abort a maneuver if there is oncoming traffic, forcing everyone else to take evasive action


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  #2661516 22-Feb-2021 21:35
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Lizard1977:

People who refer to computers as "hard drives".  They mean the case, containing the motherboard, CPU, PSU, and of course the storage devices, but they still call it the "hard drive."  Grinds my gears,

 

 

Think about it the other way round though, you're talking to a tradesman and you refer to a sliding paff gongbudger as a reciprocating offset phlarp, I mean any child can see that the running gudgeons are completely different on a phlarp so why can't people get a simple name right?

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  #2661556 23-Feb-2021 03:55
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Mikrotik's network gear mainly in white color :-(




- NET: FTTH, OPNsense, 10G backbone, GWN APs, ipPBX
- SRV: 12 RU HA server cluster, 0.1 PB storage on premise
- IoT:   thread, zigbee, tasmota, BidCoS, LoRa, WX suite, IR
- 3D:    two 3D printers, 3D scanner, CNC router, laser cutter


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  #2661570 23-Feb-2021 08:06
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I have two computers on my desk, only one of which is in regular use, and in theory I can switch the inputs on my HP display between DisplayPort and DVI when I need to use the other one. In practice, it takes more than one switch because it'll regularly 'think' it's using DP when it's actually using DVI, necessitating changing it to DVI (which does nothing) and then back to DP again to force it to actually switch.

 

You'd think that a display with multiple inputs would have a reliable way to switch between them...


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  #2661605 23-Feb-2021 08:53
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neb: sliding paff gongbudger

 

I can never get mine to work. 





Handsome Dan Has Spoken.
Handsome Dan needs to stop adding three dots to every sentence...

 

Handsome Dan does not currently have a side hustle as the mascot for Yale 

 

 

 

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