It is prophesized that the Burger King will marry the Dairy Queen, and she'll have a daughter named Wendy and a son named Carl Junior. And they will have two jesters that will serve them.One named Ronald, who is a clown, and the other named Jack, who lives in a box. they will be guarded by the noble Five Guys. And the head of that army will be Colonel Sanders. On their wedding day, they will be married in their beautiful Olive Garden and forever live in their pristine, White Castle, which has a giant Taco Bell from it
Its a text editor joke by Patrick J. LoPresti posted on the Free Software Foundation website back in 1991 that satirizes tech elitism. The joke often resurface whenever someone is arguing one software is better over another (usually code editors) when both of them does the same thing and are arguably similar.
In the old (90s) programming world, there were semi-serious debate over which text editor is the best—primarily between vi and Emacs.
The joke ignores both of those modern (at the time) editors and aggressively champions ed, which is the absolute oldest, most primitive, and hardest-to-use text editor in the Unix operating system.
Because ed was created in an era where computers used teletypes (printing on physical paper) rather than screens, it was designed to print as few characters as possible to save time and ink. If you made a mistake, asked for help, or tried to figure out how to close the program, ed would simply respond with a single question mark: ?. It is famously impossible for a beginner to figure out how to exit ed. The author sarcastically praises this as being “prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.”
Short version
When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi and Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like, 'C-h for help' and "foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.
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When I log into my Xenix system with my 110 baud teletype, both vi
*and* Emacs are just too damn slow. They print useless messages like,
'C-h for help' and '"foo" File is read only'. So I use the editor
that doesn't waste my VALUABLE time.
Ed, man! !man ed
ED(1) UNIX Programmer's Manual ED(1)
NAME
ed - text editor
SYNOPSIS
ed [ - ] [ -x ] [ name ]
DESCRIPTION
Ed is the standard text editor.
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Computer Scientists love ed, not just because it comes first
alphabetically, but because it's the standard. Everyone else loves ed
because it's ED!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
And ed doesn't waste space on my Timex Sinclair. Just look:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 24 Oct 29 1929 /bin/ed
-rwxr-xr-t 4 root 1310720 Jan 1 1970 /usr/ucb/vi
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 5.89824e37 Oct 22 1990 /usr/bin/emacs
Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Let's look at a typical novice's session with the mighty ed:
golem> ed
?
help
?
?
?
quit
?
exit
?
bye
?
hello?
?
eat flaming death
?
^C
?
^C
?
^D
?
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Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is
generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm
the novice with verbosity.
"Ed is the standard text editor."
Ed, the greatest WYGIWYG editor of all.
ED IS THE TRUE PATH TO NIRVANA! ED HAS BEEN THE CHOICE OF EDUCATED
AND IGNORANT ALIKE FOR CENTURIES! ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS
BODILY FLUIDS!! ED IS THE STANDARD TEXT EDITOR! ED MAKES THE SUN
SHINE AND THE BIRDS SING AND THE GRASS GREEN!!
When I use an editor, I don't want eight extra KILOBYTES of worthless
help screens and cursor positioning code! I just want an EDitor!!
Not a "viitor". Not a "emacsitor". Those aren't even WORDS!!!! ED!
ED! ED IS THE STANDARD!!!
TEXT EDITOR.
When IBM, in its ever-present omnipotence, needed to base their
"edlin" on a UNIX standard, did they mimic vi? No. Emacs? Surely
you jest. They chose the most karmic editor of all. The standard.
Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you
are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should
not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE
SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE
FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!
?
I love living in North Carolina, but man, North Carolinians sure do love to complain about the weather. They complain all summer about how hot it is, then as soon as it starts to cool off, they're already complaining about the cold, and continue to complain until it finally starts to warm up again, but then the complaints about the heat start up again, of course. There's like a 2 week window in the Spring and Fall where everyone is fairly content, and that's about it. There's also the brilliant observations about how, it started to warm up, but then got cold again. People point this out like it's some crazy thing, and "that's North Carolina for ya!" Wow! Temperatures shift here, this doesn't happen anywhere else!
AKA ‘How Is Babby Formed?’ is from Yahoo Answers back in 2006. A user asked how baby is made with misspellings and grammar errors and another user replied with said copypasta as a way to troll them back. The answer has become a classic copypasta meme since then.
They need to do way instain mother> who kill thier babbys, becuse these babby cant fright back? It was on the news this mroing a mother in ar who had kill her three kids, they are taking the three babby back to new york too lady to rest. my pary are with the father who lost his chrilden ; i am truley sorry for your lots
SPOILER of the PRX vs NRG game.
Kind of a bait title, I’m sorry for that. Sometimes pros do play time after planting a bomb, but not as frequently as they could, and it sometimes leads to the most mind-blowing throws I’ve seen.
Take PRX vs NRG that just finished a few minutes ago. Davai vs Mada in a 1v1, everything on the line for PRX. The bomb doesn’t have a lot of time left. Mada is playing Yoru so no smokes. Why on earth is Davai dry-peaking from B Hall and not trying to play his life, extend the time, and win with the spike. Roughly 30 seconds had already ticked on bomb. He only had 15 left to win the round.
I understand that bomb wasn’t planted for him in that position, but I don’t believe that a dry-peak when Mada already saw you is a better decision than playing time against NRG’s best mechanical player. Maybe someone can explain why this decision was made, and in general why pros tend to take fights instead of playing time so frequently, even when the bomb is about to go off. It happens so much and I always question why pros can’t have just a bit more patience. Pros are so incredible at everything in the game, but time management is frequently a weakness I see from pro teams, in my opinion.
I understand things aren’t always black and white, pressure is huge in matches, especially ones like the example I gave, and players don’t always have this in their minds. But they have 4 other teammates who should be considering these things and advising their decision making, especially in such important moments.
I’m only an Ascendant player so I don’t pretend to know everything. But in that scenario I’m playing time instead of taking a 50/50 virtually every single time, and I’ll win (in my rank) with that decision way more than 50% of the time. I guess this is more so a rant on the concept of playing time in 1v1’s at the pro level being so rare. And when pros do play time, whoever is playing time tends to win at a super high rate vs not playing time in 1v1 post plants.
EDIT: I just want to add that a lot of people are saying he was trying to catch a timing, and yes I agree and understand that decision if bomb was just planted. Even with Mada knowing the strat, that doesn’t make it easy for him to bait Davai so quickly. But at the same time, to everyone’s point, at such a high level you have to try to outplay at the micro level, and it doesn’t always work out. I can’t stress enough how little time was left. Even getting Mada off bomb once will likely win you the round. Better to wait for the drop. Let Mada sit in window and burn even more time imo.
Lar0k vs BABYBAY in a 1v1, everything on the line for BBL.
Pros Never Play Time
SPOILER of the G2 vs BBL game.
Kind of a bait title, I’m sorry for that. Sometimes pros do play time after planting a bomb, but not as frequently as they could, and it sometimes leads to the most mind-blowing throws I’ve seen.
Take G2 vs BBL that just finished a few minutes ago. Lar0k vs BABYBAY in a 1v1, everything on the line for BBL. The bomb doesn’t have a lot of time left. BABYBAY is playing Yoru so no smokes. Why on earth is Lar0k holding from B Hall and not trying to play his life, extend the time, and win with the spike. Roughly 30 seconds had already ticked on bomb. He only had 15 left to win the round.
I understand that bomb wasn’t planted for him in that position, but I don’t believe that a hold when BABYBAY already saw you is a better decision than playing time against G2'S best mechanical player. Maybe someone can explain why this decision was made, and in general why pros tend to take fights instead of playing time so frequently, even when the bomb is about to go off. It happens so much and I always question why pros can’t have just a bit more patience. Pros are so incredible at everything in the game, but time management is frequently a weakness I see from pro teams, in my opinion.
I understand things aren’t always black and white, pressure is huge in matches, especially ones like the example I gave, and players don’t always have this in their minds. But they have 4 other teammates who should be considering these things and advising their decision making, especially in such important moments.
I’m only an Ascendant player so I don’t pretend to know everything. But in that scenario I’m playing time instead of taking a 50/50 virtually every single time, and I’ll win (in my rank) with that decision way more than 50% of the time. I guess this is more so a rant on the concept of playing time in 1v1’s at the pro level being so rare. And when pros do play time, whoever is playing time tends to win at a super high rate vs not playing time in 1v1 post plants.
The copypasta came from a tweet by @Porkchop_EXP about the Taliban regaining control of Afghanistan in 2021. It became a Twitter copypasta where people would use her dad trauma tweet as a response to whatever that was happening in the world.
Sorry, not sorry, not going to care about Afghanistan because I grew up with an alcoholic, psychologically abusive father in constant state of distress, anxiety and worry about the future.
Hearing the key in the door every evening was my own “Afghanistan” for almost 20 years.
Northernlion version
Hearing the key in the door every evening was my own Afghanistan. I never knew which version of dad you're gonna get when he comes home.
