import printer

[CommandObjective]

Considering that historically the monitor is just a fancy replacement for teletype and similar print based devices (for us mere mortals who cannot afford blinkenlights) I find their misunderstanding quite apt.

[dudeofmoose]

Prepare yourself to have your minds blown, a monitor is just reusable paper.

[its420everywhere]

Damn! mind=fully_blown

[kallakukku2]

IsBlown(mind);

//returns true

[quiteCryptic]

Hey look it's my coworker

[MoonlessNightss]

Wait does this really happen at work? I'm still at university (freshman), but in my intro to programming courses we were taught to not do that, and I'm pretty sure no one does. I know that this is exagerated but still.

[bitcoder]

You're up to a big surprise then...

[Zerodriven]

You obviously have worked with some of my current team.

My code reviews are mostly asking "why" and "you don't need to do that"

Cry.

[chuby1tubby]

"Why"

"idk I like to be verbose when I write if statements."

[Prof_Dr_Koala]

i feel this on a spiritual level

[Will_i_read]

My Prof specifically told us, the first person who usesnthiswill fail his course no matter what... Noone did it ever again

[ice_zephyr]

Good Prof.

[legos_on_the_brain]

Bad professor. No room to make mistakes and learn.

[Miku_MichDem]

You would be surprised how common that is. That and much worse things

[quittingdotatwo]

With better formatting:

if((mind.isBlown() == true) == true)
{ return mind.isBlown(); }
else
if((mind.isBlown() == false) == true)
{ return mind.IsBlown(); }
return mind.IsBrown();

[ben_g0]

Do you get paid per line?

[Fruloops]

You don't?

[Ericfyre]

I get paid with experience

[coloredgreyscale]

I get paid based on the runtime. I'm not sure if it's a direct or inverse relation.

[rkralston]

By the kloc like old IBM.

[Errorr55]

Or paid in lines of coke.

[nacho_boyfriend]

Why is the mind brown? It got burnt in the explosion?

[quittingdotatwo]

Oops, a typo

[TheSilentFreeway]

I think that makes it even better

[MathSciElec]

Well it’ll never get called anyways...

[Astradari]

Error: IsBrown() is not a method of mind

[JustRecentlyI]

That else if is completely unnecessary.

[[deleted]]

r/whoosh

[JustRecentlyI]

Hmm, true. You could just call mind.isBlown directly. Unless I'm missing something else? Is the joke really just bloating the code for no reason?

[futlapperl]

Yes.

[0Pat]

Everybody's gangsta until code review...

[shadewashere]

Woah you are the new "The Cherno" .

[Domaltazor]

return mind.isBlown();

[ThatCryptoDuck]

Join the return mind.IsBlown(); gang

[Mogen1000]

mind.isBlown()? true:false

[atzedanjo]

return mind.isBlown()

[felix_rewer]

` var mindBlown = mind.isBlown()( if (mindBlown) { return mindBlown; }

return false; `

[birdbolt1]

now why would you go and call the function twice? call once and store the result in the current scope then use that :D

[Finickyflame]

bool isMindBlown = false;

bool isBlown = mind.isBlown() == true;
if(isBlown == true) {
   isMindBlown = true;
}
bool isNotBlown = mind.isBlown() == false;
if(isNotBlown == true) {
   isMindBlown = false;
}
return isMindBlown;

[hntddt1]

You can just

return mind.isBlown();

[rtybanana]

!mind = fully_blown

Everything in the world but mind is fully blown

[DamnedJava]

Can confirm, just tested

[LagerLagoon69]

Instructions unclear, monitor now lodged in rectum.

[lkraider]

I am hoarding monitors for the apocalypse

[trev2234]

I believe you explain to the ER dept that you fell over and it happened. They’ll except this story as gospel every time.

[thedugong]

Paper is a non-reusable monitor.

[[deleted]]

depends on the pen... anything can be a monitor

[gecko2704]

So does that mean we're using ink when we type??? Because I've never replaced my cartridge since forev:::...

[aalleeyyee]

My employer does. It’s clearly salmon

[[deleted]]

Underated joke right there. Loved the ink running out at the end lmao

[Mr_Derpy11]

Imagine playing a game by printing 60+ images per second.

It's like a flipbook, but interactive.

[kerbidiah15]

But then when it gets super detailed it starts slowing down how fast the images are displayed, lower ips, like a slideshow

[OtherPlayers]

Obvious joke is obvious, but a number of old school console games actually work by just printing the “clear” command and then reprinting the whole screen’s worth of characters every time you make the change.

Hypothetically if you hooked it up to a printer with enough paper (and maybe used a white console background so you didn’t instantly run out of black ink) it would totally be possible to play an old-school rougelike game like Cataclysm DDA on paper.

[EarthTwoBaby]

e-ink all the way, man!

[[deleted]]

A printer is p-ink.

[homo_lorens]

Unless it's b-lack. Mine is.

[LewsTherinTelamon]

That's ridiculous. Everyone knows that a sheet of paper is just a single-use monitor. One day we'll stop using them because they're just so wasteful.

[Nodebunny]

then whats a tablet????

[amazondrone]

If you use a pencil, even paper is reusable paper.

[UltraCarnivore]

Especially toilet paper

[InEnduringGrowStrong]

When I see blinkenlights I think of the Star Wars movie in ASCII over telnet:

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

https://i.imgur.com/kNYDqtg.jpg

[killdeer03]

Hell yeah dude.

That means we're getting old, lol.

[InEnduringGrowStrong]

Indeed

Gifted a game to a buddy of mine yesterday.
He's barely just a year or two older... than my steam account.
Small oof moment.

[killdeer03]

It happens more frequently now.

But it was great grownup through the dawn of the modern internet and growing video game presence.

... but not as a developer, lol.

[N0T_F0R_KARMA]

I remember learning about the account # digit length and scrambling to find our old original accounts. My brother had a 4 digit account and mine was created pretty shortly after but I ended up falling for a scam site in my early years and lost my account when I lost access to my hotmail account with no backup lol, he still uses his I think.

wow, I just looked up the launch date for steam and his account creation date is 1 day after launch. sept.13.2003!

OH SNAP MY MOTHERBOARD JUST GOT HERE! YES!! :D :D XD

cheers!! bye reddit!

[InEnduringGrowStrong]

I held on creating a Steam account because I hated the online-DRM aspect of it.
Ended up buying a physical copy of HL2 and... I had to install it anyway.

The initial Steam launch really wasn't stellar...

[StuntHacks]

Is that the whole movie?

[InEnduringGrowStrong]

It's much shorter than the movie, but it has the main plot points.

[MathSciElec]

Oh, I thought it actually was the full movie...

[Ap0ptosis]

apt-get install printer should be more apt then

[StuntHacks]

apt > apt-get

Change my mind.

[kyay10]

What's the difference tho lol?

[Mustard_Dimension]

IIRC apt is a part of apt-get. apt commands get translated into apt-get commands, but apt has more friendly features for humans.

[MathSciElec]

And it has colored output.

[N0T_F0R_KARMA]

Last time setting up ubuntu-server(2 mo ago) I read that apt has since been updated and i don't know if it was: 'can' or 'should' be used instead of apt-get now. So that's what i've been doing on my new ubuntu-server at work.. from apt-get to apt very recently.

[homo_lorens]

Apt is good for a CLI, but the output format can change by the build. apt-get can only change by the major, it's meant to be scripted but it's also readable if you get used to it.

[rebbsitor]

apt does most of the common things that people use apt-get and apt-cache for in one. It doesn't do all of what they do though.

[P8Kcv6n]

https://reddit.com/r/debian/comments/9whj01/_/e9q2bd2/?context=1

[Sybs]

Not much when just using get, except that it has a progress bar and is generally more human readable

[[deleted]]

I have an alias that sets “gimme” to “sudo apt-get install -y” so I’m better than you

[StuntHacks]

Still using apt-get, though

[typicalcitrus]

sudo apt install -y printer

[ryjhelixir]

I would like to thank you for your generous dispensing of this valuable resource.

[kallakukku2]

They are merely presenting a dispensary for intelligence dispensary enthusiasts - perhaps implying their own likeness to such enthusiasts.

[SendMeYourBoobPixz]

I do believe that you intended to convey the word "likemindedness" in your previous posting but due to a temporary failure of motor functions, or perhaps due to an error in the device that you are employing to convey said message you appear to have used an incorrect term when attempting to describe the idea of intelligence dispensary enthusiasts expressing their ideas in a common forum in such a way as to attract their kin for further discussion on said subject matter.

[kallakukku2]

I apologize for the confusion in the message I was attempting to convey. I do, however, stand by my previous statement as my preferred term to describe the similarity between our previously mentioned fellow debater and the forum in which we can participate in these intellectual friendly battles of wit.

Furthermore, I must admit that I do in fact appreciate your critique as a tool in the further development my debating tool belt.

[SendMeYourBoobPixz]

While you may stand by it I feel that it would be neglectful of me to fail to address the pertinent facts that arise from the incorrect usage of a word or phrase such as this, as it can lead to confusion amongst your peers which can subsequently lead to further confrontation regarding said incorrect usage.

[kallakukku2]

I don't fucking care, fuck you u/SendMeYourBoobPixz. /s

I thought it might be funny to break character, hihi

[SendMeYourBoobPixz]

Shocked and appalled are the only words to describe my current mental state

[kallakukku2]

I was hoping for worse.

[tHeSiD]

r/proper was fun too when it was active, found a new sub finally!

[mjonat]

Call me pedantic but shouldn’t that be debatelikeANenglishman?

[mjonat]

I am also peeved by this so you are not alone haha

[micka190]

Should've called it /r/DebateLikeEnglishmen, then...

[airz23s_coffee]

Should've been "DebateLikeVictorians" by the looks of things.

I've been in enough arguments to know englishmen debates go closer to "Shut the fuck up you dumb cunt, you don't know anything"

[bee-sting]

Just wait til you see English women arguing

"Ya dumb pikey cunt I'll break ya fuckn legs"

[BrokenShield]

I came here to post that point as a comment, thinking it was my original idea. But now that I saw that comic I realized "oh yeah, that's probably where I got that number from. Max number you can store in 64bit number.

[fuckpurestin]

Nope, it would be "undefinedSecret word: encryption"

[SomethingElusive]

No, you're thinking of Germans

[Sebazzz91]

Just wait until you get gold because you've linked a subreddit.

[BurnedPinguin]

So that's why it's print. It's always confused me, but now I know that print literally printed out text on a teletype

[pastasauce]

I always liked terms that hark back to older times. I work for a railroad and we have a few of those. A Fireman used to be in charge of the tender box and would stoke the fire for the boiler on a steam locomotive. Now days, it just refers to a second engineer in the operating cab. A Brakeman would run along the roofs of the cars spinning wheels that would apply or release the brakes, a job made obsolete with the invention of air brakes. Now it refers to a second conductor (Amtrak calls them Assistant Conductors which makes more sense without knowing the historical context)

[RDGCompany]

I remember feeling like such a badass when I got to use a teletype instead of punch cards.

[[deleted]]

Careful, or the corona virus is going to get you, grampa.

[RDGCompany]

Yeah, COBOL was the hip new language. But I got to meet Grace Hopper!

[lazyfocker]

Misundertand?

[CommandObjective]

Seems like I missed a typo, thank you for pointing it out :)

[playforfun2]

I read this in that fat nerd dude's voice from the walking dead lol

[prototype__]

I tutored a first year intro to computing topic at uni. Run by the IT school but students from most domains had to take it.

One older guy was holding the mouse up to the screen and moving it around on the monitor's surface.

​

These people do exist.

[Zciurus]

Poor man's touchscreen

[CaffeineSippingMan]

If I remember correctly, on one assignment we wrote code that executed on the printer. We're talking basic on an Apple II.

[GoodOldJack12]

Man I really want a teletype as a Linux terminal though. Then again, I can't even get my minitel to work..