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Back then as a kid I always wondered that how the hell would Windows Commander/Total Commander’s Connection between two PC with USB cable feature work and what cable would it need… (never saw A to A cables at that point)

The help file was about some special cable, but the photo had an A-A cable on it with some extra circuits in a plastic casing near the connectors. I was amazed and sad at the same time, since I would never had such a cable, and I really wanted to try hook up two PCs with USB, that just sounded nasty for some reason 😅

it was common amongst digital cameras in the early 2000’s.

and maybe you could somehow link up two computers as well…? tho that could have been some specialized cables

30 from it is stackoverflow, 10 are github, and 2 e926 pages.

They used to deliver these things for free, in 30 minutes or less, or your pizza was free too.

I guess that too now kinda falls into the “too late to buy your own house” thing

And Bonzi even was a 3rd party thing. Now imagine that shit, just built into the system by that time. 😅

Heck, even MSN Browser was a thing and I’m pretty sure just because it said “Good afternoon” or some shit when you launched it.

Since at that time these shits weren’t really normalized, I can imagine some people would actually like these things and maybe even use them. It would have feel… kinda modern? If that makes sense… (tho when I first saw XP after using 95 and 98 in my life at that point, it felt absolutely super-duper modern x3)

I like this image - it is really nicely done. I don’t like what it represents, but the image itself is decent.

I often use magenta, pink, cyan and purple, too

Visual Basic looks strange nowadays, huh…

Just to give you some opposite example, WordPress, Magento, Drupal, Django are using salts almost 2 decades now.

Same went for Blackberry 10 and its Hub

Lua-Nil

Fanta Exotic is pretty dope tho :/

I Looked up doing factorials and n! = n(n – 1) is used interchangeably with n! = n*(n – 1)

yeah, the way I have been taught is that either you put the multiplication sign there or not, it’s the exact same, there’s absolutely no difference in n(n-1) and n*(n-1). in the end, you treat it like the * sign is there and it’s just matter of convenience you can leave it off.

isn’t that division sign I only saw Americans use written like this (÷) means it’s a fraction? so it’s 6÷2, since the divisor (or what is it called in english, the bottom half of the fraction) isn’t in parenthesis, so it would be foolish to put the whole 2(1+2) down there, there’s no reason for that.

so it’s (6/2)*(1+2) which is 3*3 = 9.

the other way around would be 6÷(2(1+2)) if the whole expression is in the divisor and than that’s 1.

tho I’m not really proficient in math, I have eventually failed it in university, but if I remember my teachers correctly, this should be the way. but again, where I live, we never use the ÷ sign, only in elementary school where we divide on paper. instead we use the fraction form, and with that, these kind of seemingly ambiguous expressions doesn’t exist.

especially as you go more and more to the east

well there’s Logo which is translated to many languages - e.g. Hungarian in Comenius Logo, so great chance you can instruct at max 4000 turtles on your screen.

also, Excel functions are too localized and using them feels somewhat surreal 😆

I went straight from chaotic evil to lawful good.

most of the apps written in Klingon would have the “today is a good day to die” directive, which means no exception handling at all and bringing the whole OS down in glory if needed

reminds me (tho it’s inverse) old Visual Studio and how it liked to completely fuck up the solution to the point of being unable to fucking build the program.