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I always remember turning the channel control to 9 to watch ITV, I still call ITV channel 9 (in those moments of mental confusion) which tends to baffle folks.
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Funny how the young folks look at you when you talk about life without a smartphone. I am old enough to remember sitting by the radio and listening to Jack Benny. Then the air raid warden came by and said he could see light coming from our window. Our little town was so remote an enemy bomber could never have found it without GPS (NIY)
I don't think my grandchildren could go 2 hours without their phone. I often leave mine behind when I go for my walks, it is like a leash.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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theoldfool wrote: I don't think my grandchildren could go 2 hours without their phone. I often leave mine behind when I go for my walks, it is like a leash. Similar, and people keep being surprised that I not always pick up the phone.
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I ALWAYS answer the phone - never miss an opportunity to be rude to someone. I am continually disappointed by the lack of spam calls on my phone.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity -
RAH
I'm old. I know stuff - JSOP
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theoldfool wrote: I don't think my grandchildren could go 2 hours without their phone
2 hours??
I don't have kids myself (let alone grandkids), but I was watching some interview a good while ago, where the interviewer took away some kid's phone, and within 20 seconds she quite literally didn't know what to do with herself, was getting fidgety and practically shut down. The interviewer gave her the phone back, and it's like you would've flipped a switch.
With or without phone, she never made eye contact with the interviewer. These kids people are raising are broken and unable to function.
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I do not remember those milestones (never payed attention to the number of members), but do remember b/w tube TVs, using one of them as monitor for years...
But still feel young
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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"You are as young as the woman you feel"
Until the wife finds out, and then you'll never grow older ...
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Marc Clifton wrote: Now: 14,819,111 members
And probably almost 100,000 of those aren't spammers or key-mashing bot-trolls.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I consider myself young, but I also remember that I had the best PC in school with a Pentium II and 500 GB storage, a real beast!
It wasn't hard to have the best PC back then, most people didn't even own one or had one PC for the entire family (making it more of a FC I guess).
That said, I didn't step onto the stage until Windows 95, I was 7 or 8 years old at the time
On CP, I think I signed up when there were already 10,000,000 members and that was ten years ago
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Sander Rossel wrote: I think I signed up when there were already 10,000,000 members
Nope, you were "Member 7605910", and signed up about two years after I did ... the member homepage tells you all this.
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So it does! I was only off by 2,500,000
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That's close enough for government work!
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I joined just before we reached 200,000 members way back in the first decade of this millennium.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Is someone who writes horror movies a ghost writer?
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"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
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Do they format their stories in JaSON[^]?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Such ideas are often spooken about in a spirited yet crypt-ic manner, and then, intern, buried in the archives.
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Dunno, I'll ask my mummy!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Prolly someone with "zombie in your head".
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"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I Kuntz reply mon, ah not be King but I do Love 'te craft...
Software Zen: delete this;
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Not if he's been encrypted...
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Surely it's the decrypted ones you need to worry about...
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Hi,
Has anyone else done this, looked at a bit of code written many moons ago and thought "How the did I do that, why did I do that?" I was just hunting around for a standards doc to check something when I found an old C# answer to someones homework I might have written. I think the question was about using an array to store and calcualte Fibbonanci numbers (1+1=2, 2+1=3, etc) the answer was using no arrays and would only got 93. Does anyone recongnise this:
double sqrt5 = Math.Sqrt(5);
double phi = (sqrt5 + 1) / 2;
return Convert.ToUInt64((1 / sqrt5) * Math.Pow(phi, n));
It doesn't resemble my code.
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Google does: series - Fibonacci in C# | DaniWeb[^]
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Quote: Has anyone else done this, looked at a bit of code written many moons ago and thought "How the 🐘 did I do that, why did I do that?" Forget many moons ago; it's happened the next day after writing code despite having had too much wine.
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