I'm a high school teacher and I recently was discussing this. Protip: don't talk to 14 year olds about how if something is in between hard and soft, it's firm. π
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Thereβs a surprisingly more expansive demographic that pro tip applies to.
Tip
Hehe
You called out βtipβ, but you left βexpansiveβ just lying there helpless?
I'm 41f (going on 13 at times), and this is why my husband hates(loves) having me around the shop - all the mechanical everything is full of euphemisms and innuendo. "mating surfaces" π
Yeah, that tip is applicable for a lot of people who understand what sex is, this isn't something that really goes away with age in a lot of cases.
Whiskey-ware
I feel like you should really have seen that one coming.
coming for sure
Half-chubware
Wait... It's not "firm" as in "company that made the stuff"? FIRMware = the official software a firm pushes to patch things they make
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Firmware is just software that runs in a different place.
Source: me, I write firmware sometimes at work.
Well, it's usually closer to the hardware though. Your average x86/64 software dev doesn't have to struggle with pins, addresses, buses and timings that much, if at all.
Everyones a hardware engineer they just don't want to admit it.
I''d like to know that where spyware is located?
Windows
Ahahhaha, good one
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By the way, "joystick" was kinda rude back in the day, but nobody even notices now.
What was more acceptable? "Control stick"?
No, "joystick" was the original term. Everyone in the past were a bunch of perverts.
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Started computer science in grade school with only an hour of actual computer time a week. A LOT of theory and history. Charles Babbage, Ada, ENIAC, etc.
This stuff was drilled into our heads. Same with bit, byte and, halfway between bit and byte, a nibble. It's a thing. 4 bits is a nibble.
Funny enough, I couldn't code to save my life now.
Extra firmware cannot be modified.
Firm firmware might be able to be modified, but documentation is largely unknown.
Silken firmware is easily modified by the user.
These names are taken from tofu packaging.
My favorite is smoked firmware.
Mmm ... Tender ware
TIL! I have never even wondered why it is called that. Just took it as a fact and went along with it.
holy shit
I thought this was common knowledge. I distinctly remember this being taught in a basic high school computing class back in the 90βs.
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Chubware.
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