I say ass key
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ASCII a stupid question and you get a stupid ANSI
ASCII a stupid question
if you’re ISO 8859-1
a stupid ANSI
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You sure it wasn't IBM time travellers from 1985 sent her to ebcdic you?
Lemmy is the only place I've seen EBCDIC referenced, other than the college class that introduced me to it.
Lemmy is for sure the only place where I've seen a JOKE about it. Nerd.
I like you.
NERRRRRRRRRRRRD!!!
Okay, Homer.
lulz
I worked for a credit bureau for a while and a product we had used a mainframe for billing customers. So the billing file was in EBCDIC.
Financial and health institutions are famously behind the times.
One can find little quips like this in Usenet archives:
Donkey Button == Ass Key == ASCII
https://www.rocksolidbbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=8199&group=alt.folklore.computers#8199
Even in japanese it's like asukii
Dai asukii
Someone once told me that JWT is pronounced "jot", so I do. People call me a lunatic for it, but I still do.
It's missing an O sound, that's why you're a psycho
Please don't kill anyone whose net worth is <= 100m
Maybe he's Welsh.
For me it will always be the James Web(b) Token.
I'm always discombobulated by JWT because I keep thinking it's some kind of Java web technology.
jwit when I am in a good mood, jwat when I am not.
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It seems more rikely, if hit by an IBM truck in 1985 that he would be ebcdic'd to Seattle.
i pronunce iy AS CEE (c as in the first on ein the word "cicada") and EE SEH KAY (a as in bat, the "seh" part the e is like in net (thats why i put the h))
idk thats just how we pronounce it in spain
I had lived in Japan and can speak pretty good Japanese. I can say that this is just straight up wrong. LOL where does one even get this info
gaikokujin AMIRITE
I've also heard "A S C I 2" which seems really weird.
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