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Religious technical opinions
tooki:
--- Quote from: billbyrd1945 on February 25, 2022, 08:12:14 pm ---You can't virtue signal with "slept together" and then show a couple humping under a sheet as they "sleep together". And that's another thing: Where do these people get off deciding such things. Oh, and one more thing, and this may be just me: Any time you see the back of a laptop on TV (probably movies too), it's always a Mac. Why is that? If it's not a Mac, it's some generic no-name badge. It's never HP, never Dell. And that would bother me even if I used a Mac, which I don't because I'm primitive and backward and slow and from the south. I feel better now.
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There’s plenty of product placement from other computer brands. You definitely see Dell and HP gear, too. Microsoft has done tons of product placement for the Surface line.
You think it’s only Apple, but if you pay attention, it very clearly is not. Apple is clearly the #1, but given that product placement is insanely cheap marketing, it comes down more to who is willing to give it, and who’s asking, and what the producers think looks best in their show. Often, it’s literally just aesthetics and popularity. Apple devices have always been overrepresented in media due to aesthetics — even in the days when Apple’s market share was at its lowest and the company was popularly believed to be on death’s door. (Yet it’s also been said that at the time, Apple did not even sponsor product placement.)
See e.g.
https://productplacementblog.com/tag/laptops-and-notebooks/
https://productplacementblog.com/tag/apple/
https://productplacementblog.com/tag/dell/
https://productplacementblog.com/tag/hewlett-packard/
https://productplacementblog.com/tag/microsoft/
I don’t know that site’s methodologies, so we cannot assume their statistics are representative. I provide them simply to disprove the claim that other computer brands ”never” do product placement. Moreover, your claim of “generic no-name badges” only says you don’t know what the badges are. It doesn’t mean they’re no-name, nor generic.
T3sl4co1l:
--- Quote from: Nominal Animal on February 26, 2022, 06:28:02 am ---If you cannot describe such basis, do consider whether your opinion has any worth, even to yourself; or perhaps it is something you ought to reconsider.
It is only that reasoning or experience that is useful to others, because we're not religious automata that adopt new opinions just because they were presented to us.
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Perhaps we should emblazon this above the 'compose' textbox, rather than faffing around with 'thanks' mechanics? ;D
Appreciate the story, as always. :)
Tim
PlainName:
--- Quote ---UCSD Pascal used to encode the space count at the beginning of a line into 2 byte sequences when working with text files.
See --tabs page 30 here:
http://ucsd-psystem-fs.sourceforge.net/ucsd-psystem-fs-1.22.pdf
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Interesting. Of course, it could mean UCSD knew the proper solution to tabs vs spaces right back then :)
m k:
I use as little indent as possible so that 10th indent is still sort of around.
For same reason I'm also adding rows instead of using wide single line stuff.
I've also learned that there's a tool for source code text styling.
Nominal Animal:
Also, one needs to remember that diff has option -b, and patch has option -l. (They create and apply patches ignoring differences in the number and type of whitespace characters.)
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