• Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de
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    Reminds me of that old TV trope of saying “over and out”. This is not how you end a radio transmission. “Over” means that you are finished talking and are now awaiting a reply, “out” means that you finished talking and are going to stop listening for a reply. Saying both together is contradictory, you only say “out” when you’re done.

    • Cyrus Draegur@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      … feels kinda like someone saying “period full stop”

      it’s like they’re doing a mic drop >_>

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      Same with roger wilco. Roger means i understand the message. Wilco means i understand the message and will comply.

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      When I learned this in JROTC, it ruined me and I get so upset when I hear it in media now. Been like 30+ years and I’m still angry when I hear it.

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      Stop making a fool out of me.
      Why don’t you come on over, Valerie?

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    126Saying “over” is the old radio protocol. The new radio protocol is starting by saying the number of characters in the message.

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    So you are saying that we should refer to the null as the over byte?

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    Reminds me of some TV show where a rookie cop tended to forget that and the cop on the other end just stubbornly waited for an answer, every time.

    Of course you can always just stop listening after n bytes, no need for a null byte then.

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      I don’t think a semicolon is semantically correct in this case. It suggest you want to add something. That’s why it is used in programming. You are making statements.

      Maybe we should use a . after return statements to signal the end of our statement stream.