40 points

“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.

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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!

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2 points

7 years ago is just 2016

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2 points

Why did you have to say that?! RIP Robin Williams :(

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2 points

goddamn it, it’s been this long? rip.

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18 points

Anyone else here have to endure IBM AS/400 at their workplace?

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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

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5 points

Not anymore, but I have worked at places that use them for inventory. Good ol green terminals.

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2 points

Thankfully I only caught remnants, and that was plenty.

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12 points
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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.

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14 points

it’s weird that it happened twice

Everyone who dabbles in programming eventually learns :q. Not everyone learns :wq.

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5 points

I learned :q! first!

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3 points

Not everyone learns :x

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3 points

It’s cold outside, there’s no kind of atmosphere!

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2 points

gazpacho soup?

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Why linking to a page that contains an image instead of posting the image with the source?

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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.

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7 points

How do you get the hover text on mobile?

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Some browsers show it when you long press the image. For the others, you can edit the URL to m.xkcd.com

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8 points

If you long press on the image, the hover over text will appear.

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7 points

Here’s the hover text for this one:

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.

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4 points

is this common for xkcd? because then I’ve been missing a whole layer of all the comics I’ve stumbled upon.

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10 points

Oh boy, every xkcd (maybe except the first hundred?) has alt-text, time for you to read them all again!

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10 points

Linking to the page is the best way to share an xkcd

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3 points

My lemmy client shows the full image anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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2 points

which one do you use?

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2 points

Summit, it’s pretty good

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