Geek Jokes Volume 0b10

[Clockwork Cupcake]

captain_cynic said:

50 HAMMERTIME

credit: https://xkcd.com/210/

[tangerine_sedge]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

BrokenSkunk said:

In reality the typing pool is much more tetchy about being stereotyped?

Tell that to the Softies who have just coded round a hardware failure and have got Voyager 1 working again.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/14/voyager_1_r...

(Joking aside, that is absolutely awesome isn't it!)

I read that earlier and it's amazing that something made/launched nearly 50 years ago is still functioning. I believe that they had to poke in a new instruction to break out of a an output loop of nonsense (turned out to be a full memory dump which was probably very handy )? Not bad when a message takes 22 hours to get there and a response 22 hours to get back...

[Clockwork Cupcake]

tangerine_sedge said:

I read that earlier and it's amazing that something made/launched nearly 50 years ago is still functioning. I believe that they had to poke in a new instruction to break out of a an output loop of nonsense (turned out to be a full memory dump which was probably very handy )? Not bad when a message takes 22 hours to get there and a response 22 hours to get back...

Yes indeed. A truly amazing feat for sure.

The memory dump would have indeed been a big bonus, I would imagine.

And, since this is a joke thread and I don't want the inevitable complaints, I will add:

"In space, no-one can hear you poke"

[vaud]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

"In space, no-one can hear you poke"

Do you want a poke or a peek?

[Sporky]

Always peek before you poke.

[TGCOTF-dewey]

Sporky said:

Always peek before you poke.

Never buy a peek in a poke.

[Kowalski655]

Nice job: send command, wait 2 days for results, and spend those 2 days browsing the internet
Bloody brilliant job though

[S2r]

[MartG]

[MartG]

[ZesPak]

This one took me a second so seems right for the crowd here.

[Mammasaid]

Technically Vikings should be all the Georges.

[LunarOne]

Do the VKings have green scaly skin underneath their human skin?

[MartG]

[MartG]

[jeremyc]

ZesPak said:

This one took me a second so seems right for the crowd here.

And there was me looking for a punchline based on expert users of a Unix screen based text editor.

[Strangely Brown]

jeremyc said:

nd there was me looking for a punchline based on expert users of a Unix screen based text editor.

Nah. They'd be sedkings or awkings (yes, I know, double k).

[YankeePorker]

MartG said:

That’s like the AI that Amazon was using at the special stores with no checkout. Actually Indians.

[Clockwork Cupcake]

YankeePorker said:

That’s like the AI that Amazon was using at the special stores with no checkout. Actually Indians.

What a cowboy operation!

[YankeePorker]

Clockwork Cupcake said:

What a cowboy operation!

Indeed! Amazon decided that they were squawndering too much money on the monitoring team and closed the stores.