orbitz

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[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 1 points 23 hours ago

Makes me think of the novel cryptonomicon where the guy had to encrypt and decrypt every message on his finex (may be misremembering that one) laptop.

For those that aren't familiar it's from the late 90s so tech is dated but a pretty fun novel that deals with cryptography, by Neal Stephenson, long but enjoyable.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 day ago

Talk about an awkward conversation with the fiancee, or a short time before it's called off. Unless their partner is as scummy as the candidate, I see a big future in the GOP for them, assuming they get that seat. Party of family values for sure heh. Nothing like showing lies to show how highly you consider those values.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

I always hear Mulder saying his line 'agents Mulder and Scully, FBI' whenever agent characters introduce themselves on other shows. It gives me a smile while I think of him flashing his picture... Well badge.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

As many times he played with Julian? Hmmm...

Edit oh I imagine that was the joke, oh well I'm leaving it.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Dunno what OS's it supports besides Windows but I use Kdiff for random comparisons regularly, I think it works pretty well untill you get to much larger files (20+ MB slows down a lot). The huge file wasn't code but needed to check output changes for those curious.

I constantly check git comparison with previous versions to see what changed to break things in a build though. Didn't know there was a way to diff any files in git,should probably just learn to use that one.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago

After reading a walkthrough I'm confident I beat at least one round of the game, heh, maybe I misinterpreted that for the game ending screen (he gets on the spaceship at the end of the round for those that don't know).. If there're no pits in the first round I believe I made it further than that at because I remember them well.

Though with my memory these days I'm happy when I leave work with everything I intended to so not saying it's completely accurate I mostly just remember ET getting on a ship.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Was ET actually difficult or just unclear how to progress? I swear I finished it when I was a kid but the amount of games I've finished in my life is extremely tiny, if things get too hard I just go play something else for awhile (looking at every stealth mission shoehorned into non stealth game). So maybe I just misremembered finishing it but I sure played it a lot before I got an NES.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

Yeah he said people would never hear from him again or something similar if he didn't win, if I'm recalling correctly. He always lies, I wish that'd have been the one slip of truth.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

Well hopefully you have it when they ask randomly some time. I was carded the first time in almost a decade, was a surprise but gotta be ready for it when you purchase age restricted products. If anything someone as a governer should be happy people are checking, as annoying as it is, since the rules are (supposed to be) for all.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well Trump has no imagination so that's simple for him, not sure I'd say that about all conservatives, just the simple ones. The ones that have an imagination are possibly more dangerous but least none of them are running for president...this time.

That said can you imagine how stunted someone would have to be not to have an imagination? If so you're probably better off mentally than half the presidential candidates.

Edit oh right 3rd party... So better off than half of the realistic presidential candidates.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's no where like that for rich( or pretend to be billionaire?) orange people that I can find. If he was noticably poor I bet something could be figured out without much hassle.

Such a shame there's no institutional protection for the pretend billionaire oompa loompa class when they invite violence.

Maybe the survivors can sing him a song.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Don't you know the pattern buffer system?

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