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ShadSterling

@julie @timrichards @liamvhogan one of my classmates was using LaTeX for their homework and needed to use the card suit symbols, so searched for “latex suits”

… while sitting in the front row of class

15 November at 3:50 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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cuan_knaggs
Ysegrim

@ShadSterling @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan Back in 2005, when writing up my master thesis, in the lab, I needed a function for "substrings".

15 November at 7:52 | Open on furry.engineer
Tommaths (he/him)

@ShadSterling @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan

Just before I started my teacher training I had a short placement in a primary school. During a history lesson on Queen Victoria the teacher did an image search for "Prince Albert" on the interactive whiteboard. Safesearch was off.

15 November at 9:31 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
Martin Pallmann
Tommaths (he/him)

@martinpallmann
I will never forget that teacher's face, his double-take, and how he ripped the VGA cable out of the back of the computer.
@ShadSterling @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards

15 November at 9:56 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
jack is updating your database

@TeaKayB @martinpallmann @ShadSterling @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards it's a sad state of affairs when a person has reached adulthood without developing the ctrl-w close tab muscle memory

15 November at 11:42 | Open on beige.party
Tommaths (he/him)

@jackeric
He was closer to the cable than he was to the keyboard at the time.
@martinpallmann @ShadSterling @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards

15 November at 15:09 | Open on mathstodon.xyz
ShadSterling

@TeaKayB @jackeric @martinpallmann @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards I would always screw in my VGA plugs. I hope that hadn’t been done in this case

15 November at 16:07 | Open on mastodon.social
Dec.tar.bz2

@ShadSterling @TeaKayB @jackeric @martinpallmann @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards
Ask me why I developed the "don't screw in the VGA plugs" muscle memory.

17 November at 9:56 | Open on mastodon.ie
Ego Placebo 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 replied to Dec.tar.bz2

@dec23k
I learnt not to do that via a completely different dilemma... When I unscrewed one but it unscrewed on the wrong side, requiring opening up the case to re-attach the plug.
@ShadSterling @TeaKayB @jackeric @martinpallmann @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards

17 November at 23:21 | Open on aus.social
Kate McDonald

@jackeric thanks for teaching me what ctrl-w does

it took me a while to find this again to respond to it, though

18 November at 0:04 | Open on hcommons.social
jack is updating your database

@musiciankate there's so many shortcuts that are so unobvious!

like, I've been using computers pretty much daily for thirty years now. y'know Ctrl-A for "select all", that one comes up in the right-click menu, pretty easy to find. but I only learned Ctrl-D for "select the word the cursor's on" a couple weeks ago

18 November at 1:30 | Open on beige.party
Martin Pallmann

@TeaKayB @liamvhogan @julie @timrichards @ShadSterling but this is how you learn and how the greatest inventions came to life: by accident discovery.

16 November at 7:56 | Open on chaos.social
Cattz :autism:

@ShadSterling @julie @timrichards @liamvhogan and that's how you managed to get an anecdote for life 😅

15 November at 9:44 | Open on paquita.masto.host
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