The Art of the Bodge: How I Made The Emoji Keyboard

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  • čas přidán 23. 09. 2015
  • tomscott.com - / tomscott - Here's the behind-the-scenes "how I made the emoji keyboard" video! If you haven't seen the original: • Real Life Emoji Keyboard! But the thing is, the truth is basically just "I bodged some stuff together". Which gives me the opportunity to tell some stories...
    AUTOHOTKEY: ahkscript.org/
    LUAMACROS: www.hidmacros.eu/
    and Colin's channel! / colinfurze

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  • @zcamt
    @zcamt Před 3 lety +4647

    5:18 - "There's a joke that won't date well"
    Well, you see... this is gonna be a little weird to explain....

    • @evanwarren4083
      @evanwarren4083 Před 3 lety +202

      Even more weird

    • @NathSb
      @NathSb Před 3 lety +467

      Narrator: "It got worse."

    • @austinh1242
      @austinh1242 Před 3 lety +116

      Definitely didn't age well recently...

    • @xmlthegreat
      @xmlthegreat Před 3 lety +33

      Um, oops?

    • @zcamt
      @zcamt Před 3 lety +142

      6 months later, and I have to say... it got a lot worse... and a lot harder to explain

  • @colinfurze
    @colinfurze Před 8 lety +8613

    Was a pleasure working with you tom. I've still got the brown leather we used on the horse bot, a metal detector from the treasurebot and ski willy. Stupid TV schedules they can do one.

    • @TechyBen
      @TechyBen Před 8 lety +95

      +colinfurze Never knew you lot got together, or you had a TV show. Wow. Gotta get on to watching that one!!!

    • @playbackeverything1760
      @playbackeverything1760 Před 8 lety +6

      I didn't know you were working with him

    • @lovecastle7154
      @lovecastle7154 Před 8 lety +14

      +colinfurze have you built the bunker yet?

    • @systemvoid287
      @systemvoid287 Před 8 lety +1

      +Alan Kong I remember that show ._.

    • @kholoudkhelo4886
      @kholoudkhelo4886 Před 8 lety +1

      6اا ن9

  • @Benny_Blue
    @Benny_Blue Před 2 lety +755

    Tom: "Lua is a programming language that's weird, but not that weird."
    Also Tom: "Lua starts counting from 1."

    • @tnttale6637
      @tnttale6637 Před 10 měsíci +4

      Hey lua is good i use lua a Lot

    • @bageldogm
      @bageldogm Před 9 měsíci +10

      i tried using lua once. Enough said about that.

    • @palmberry5576
      @palmberry5576 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Lua is js if it was less cursed
      the only thing holding it back is the lack of keywords for handling prototype (or in lua’s case, metatable.__index) classes

    • @lxdixd
      @lxdixd Před 8 měsíci +3

      lua’s metatables are scary af. i tried to code a complex game script and it felt like genuine wizardry

    • @algotkristoffersson15
      @algotkristoffersson15 Před 7 měsíci

      because thats how counting works IRL, thats why

  • @grim66
    @grim66 Před 3 lety +2004

    I started genuinely laughing at "saves it to a file on disk", I was like "oh you set up a sort of API between autohotkey and lua" -- no, saved to a file on disk. That's amazing.

    • @satan69
      @satan69 Před 2 lety +46

      i have no idea what you said but this made me smile

    • @buca117
      @buca117 Před 2 lety +87

      @@satan69 APIs allow programs to directly access other programs. When you log into Facebook on your phone, the app stored locally on your phone needs to connect to the database software on Facebook's servers in order to authenticate you and eventually display the database's contents in the app's window.
      This is done through an API, or Application Programming Interface. Essentially a collection of things one program is allowed access to have another program do for it. That would look like his LuaMacro code asking AutoHotKey to translate the input they just received into plain text, then taking that translation back and finally inputting it into the textbox.
      Tom's solution was to not bother trying to get the two programs to talk directly to each other (which would be a lot of work for almost no benefit) and to simply have them work independently by doing the equivalent of sticking an anonymous note under a park bench to let your handler know the nuclear codes will be exchanged at 11pm at the docks and hoping the guy knows what to do with that information.

    • @henrydorsett6076
      @henrydorsett6076 Před 2 lety +70

      ofc that way. wiring lua up with ahk (shudder) would break the art of the bodge :D

    • @flannolman8100
      @flannolman8100 Před 2 lety +116

      Saving to disk, over an API, is simpler, stupider, less elegant solution... essentially, a bodge.

    • @joshbishop4870
      @joshbishop4870 Před 2 lety +15

      That’s the bodge xD

  • @Aguycalledmax
    @Aguycalledmax Před 3 lety +7300

    "I didn't study Computer Science, I'm not writing elegant solutions"
    Me, a computer science grad: Oh, is that what I was meant to be doing?

    • @Skidoodle18
      @Skidoodle18 Před 3 lety +48

      Hi! I’m considering majoring in CS when I go to college, mind if I ask a question or two?

    • @joshuaduplaa9033
      @joshuaduplaa9033 Před 3 lety +47

      @@Skidoodle18 what's your question bud? Current junior in cs

    • @Skidoodle18
      @Skidoodle18 Před 3 lety +42

      @@joshuaduplaa9033 What are some skills I can start teaching myself now to prepare?

    • @stevanmiladinovic4007
      @stevanmiladinovic4007 Před 3 lety +64

      @@Skidoodle18 basics of coding, logical thinking, etc.

    • @nerd_nato564
      @nerd_nato564 Před 3 lety +175

      @@stevanmiladinovic4007 Also mental resilience. That one's super important for coding.

  • @BigBahss
    @BigBahss Před 4 lety +2918

    Tom's upset that it took him a whole half-hour to solve a coding problem while I'm thinking "That only took you half an hour? Kudos."

    • @oktayyildirim2911
      @oktayyildirim2911 Před 3 lety +74

      No kidding; I've recently been learning GDScript for game development, and it sometimes takes me more than 2 hours to get past a single stump. And I never notice how long it's taking when I'm working through it, because I guess I'm too busy focusing on trial-and-error.

    • @andstriker
      @andstriker Před 3 lety +9

      @@oktayyildirim2911 Godot script? That's a strange one. I'm assuming you're a beginner since I believe the engine is tailored for that audience? I started out with good ol' Unity and C# so that script seems very alien to me lul.

    • @simmerthesauce9228
      @simmerthesauce9228 Před 3 lety +2

      @mane I recently went to godot from 3 yrs of unity

    • @randomgoose01
      @randomgoose01 Před 3 lety +14

      Fuk me took me a whole afternoon to realise I put break at the wrong place ..

    • @dadadaddyoo
      @dadadaddyoo Před 3 lety +10

      Kudos is right! I once spent at least 45 minutes pouring over some non-working code only to find I had left out a single period. Code can be SO unforgiving.

  • @withertoneultraluxxx
    @withertoneultraluxxx Před rokem +1354

    The “no” in response to hypothetical requests to use Linux is still one of my favorite Tom Scott moments to this day.

    • @phentas
      @phentas Před rokem +12

      I came here for this 🤣

    • @SioxerNikita
      @SioxerNikita Před 8 měsíci +12

      A lot of people have this "Worship" of Linux, it is REALLY good, for certain stuff.
      Not everything.

    • @ictoan1880
      @ictoan1880 Před 8 měsíci +23

      @@SioxerNikita alright but how is this one of the things linux is bad at? Device files exist specifically to enable the flexibility to do stuff like this. Each of the 14 keyboards will have an entry in /dev/input/, read from those with a (probably pre installed) simple program and you've immediately accomplished the task that most of this video explains how to work around on windows

    • @SioxerNikita
      @SioxerNikita Před 8 měsíci +8

      @@ictoan1880 I was commenting on Linux in general, not for this specific thing.
      Linux is an amazing OS, but not for everything. If it ever became amazing for everything, it'd have the same issues as Windows.

    • @Tuepp
      @Tuepp Před 8 měsíci +2

      ​@@SioxerNikitaActually not exactly.
      Think about the cuts of on Windows Home they only make to sell the more expensive Windows Professional. Or the Driver support, where hardware suppliers just develop for one system and take the most populare one and so on. It's simply lazyness to think Linux systems couldn't replace Windows completely, when software including drivers would only be written for it primarily...

  • @gilpo
    @gilpo Před 2 lety +930

    "Because Lua, unlike every other programming language in modern times, counts from 1 and not from 0."
    *laughs in MATLAB*

    • @tatianatub
      @tatianatub Před 2 lety +97

      MATLAB is just a graphing calculator on steroids

    • @gilpo
      @gilpo Před 2 lety +142

      @@tatianatub the only difference being that graphing calculators don't crash as often

    • @ananttiwari1337
      @ananttiwari1337 Před 2 lety +14

      @@gilpo BAHAHHAHAHA

    • @cricksol
      @cricksol Před 2 lety +3

      laughs in python!

    • @deathsins6008
      @deathsins6008 Před 2 lety +44

      @@cricksol What do you mean? Python counts from 0 like most commonly used programming languages not from 1.

  • @madumlao
    @madumlao Před 5 lety +3030

    "And then writes it to a file on disk"
    wow that is maximum bodge now

    • @camiloaa
      @camiloaa Před 5 lety +282

      We call it "advanced engineering" where I come from.

    • @denoww9261
      @denoww9261 Před 5 lety +89

      right? i was with everything up until this

    • @liesdamnlies3372
      @liesdamnlies3372 Před 5 lety +150

      To be fair...the I/O should be very itty-bitty. I mean, it’s not like anyone would just mash keys randomly, right?
      ...right?

    • @douwehuysmans5959
      @douwehuysmans5959 Před 4 lety +16

      Unless it was a tmp folder

    • @liranpiade4499
      @liranpiade4499 Před 4 lety +74

      I bridged a python script and an Apache server using text files for a semester 1 uni project 😂

  • @WindingDreams
    @WindingDreams Před 4 lety +5065

    "Someone will have done this before" Is basically how to learn to code

    • @williamduncan7401
      @williamduncan7401 Před 4 lety +8

      No.

    • @Rachel8260
      @Rachel8260 Před 4 lety +170

      CloudianOS Yes.

    • @williamduncan7401
      @williamduncan7401 Před 4 lety +7

      @@Rachel8260 I'm far past learning, but tell me, how would you learn by not doing anything?

    • @phantoids
      @phantoids Před 4 lety +232

      @@williamduncan7401 I can verify, as someone taking computer science, that half of my learning when it comes to my programming is through finding stuff on stackoverflow.
      I don't know it? Someone else will have done it before.
      I can then take that code, figure it out and apply it later. It's like formulas; you can know them, but if you don't understand you can't apply it. You can know code, but understanding it helps you apply it later by looking at examples to learn.

    • @williamduncan7401
      @williamduncan7401 Před 4 lety +84

      @@phantoids as a professional full stack developer, I can verify that as well. However, finding answers on SO doesn't mean copy-pasting code, but actually reading some plain English explaining the solution. And if you're copying code that you do not understand, then most likely problems will occur later on and you won't understand them either.

  • @paulamarina04
    @paulamarina04 Před 2 lety +1130

    me: * has never programmed anything in my life*
    tom: "this program counts from 1 intead of 0"
    me: * dies of heart attack*

    • @renzo00
      @renzo00 Před rokem +34

      madldeleine celetse linux

    • @fishingwithtoasters
      @fishingwithtoasters Před rokem +15

      @@renzo00 real

    • @kayyayeare
      @kayyayeare Před 9 měsíci +2

      ​@@renzo00 as tom scott said, no

    • @NerdTheDemon
      @NerdTheDemon Před 8 měsíci +1

      100 Stress
      Irrational affliction
      100 additional Stress
      Heart Attack
      Death's Door
      Deathblow

    • @mindit2096
      @mindit2096 Před 7 měsíci +1

      Madeline Celeste omg real

  • @hidazip
    @hidazip Před 2 lety +213

    The funny thing is, Japanese don't use emoji's that often anymore.
    You just type in ”かお” and press space, you can chose from a bunch of "顔文字(kaomoji)"s.
    (● ˃̶͈̀ロ˂̶͈́)੭ꠥ⁾⁾

    • @thomasrosebrough9062
      @thomasrosebrough9062 Před rokem +15

      ᕦ⁠(⁠ ⁠⊡⁠ ⁠益⁠ ⁠⊡⁠ ⁠)⁠ᕤ

    • @Absolute_LUNA-C
      @Absolute_LUNA-C Před rokem

      \\\٩(๑`^´๑)۶////

    • @ahumanthatexists1468
      @ahumanthatexists1468 Před rokem

      (^_^)/□☆□\(^_^)

    • @elideaver
      @elideaver Před rokem +31

      That’s funny: they’ve moved back to emoticons.
      I see this in english sometimes: emoji are fun, but are often too specific: you can usually get away with :) ;) :/ :| and :(

    • @itstherealbrace6424
      @itstherealbrace6424 Před 10 měsíci

      ༼⁠⁰⁠o⁠⁰⁠;⁠༽

  • @blakehawkins3296
    @blakehawkins3296 Před 5 lety +2463

    “Thats right there’s and f24 key...”
    *looks at keyboard*
    “...but it most certainly isn’t on your keyboard.”
    *dreams crushed*

    • @43615
      @43615 Před 4 lety +148

      don't worry, holding down shift will add 12 to the number
      so shift+f12 is f24
      and also f22 (shift+f10) is equivalent to the option key (to the left of r.ctrl)

    • @creaturedanaaaaa
      @creaturedanaaaaa Před 4 lety +51

      IBM Model F122 time

    • @Unknown-mf2zm
      @Unknown-mf2zm Před 4 lety +7

      F in chat

    • @lemon3rd800
      @lemon3rd800 Před 4 lety +8

      @@creaturedanaaaaa Yup, was thinking of the same keyboard because I've seen that model before - it's fairly expensive though

    • @C4FF31N3
      @C4FF31N3 Před 4 lety +7

      ibm battleship moments

  • @123seven3
    @123seven3 Před 4 lety +8463

    "That joke's not going to age well"
    2020: Well, actually....

  • @kindoflame
    @kindoflame Před 3 lety +481

    Tom: "By the way, if anyone out there suggest using Linux... no."
    Me, a Linux user for almost a decade: "Fair."

    • @casenc
      @casenc Před 2 lety +19

      I almost fainted

    • @stolenshortsword
      @stolenshortsword Před rokem +20

      the power expressed looking at the camera and declaring no

    • @zaper2904
      @zaper2904 Před rokem +28

      Fair? he made his life harder for no discernible reason, in Linux he could have literally just directly read each individual keyboard in /dev/input/ through any programming language.

    • @slobert
      @slobert Před rokem +35

      @@zaper2904 As Tom said - no.

    • @m4rcyonstation93
      @m4rcyonstation93 Před rokem +14

      @@zaper2904 who cares this is funnier

  • @cosmicjenny4508
    @cosmicjenny4508 Před 11 měsíci +395

    I loved the part when Tom said “It’s bodging time!” and bodged all over Windows.

    • @loco4loco
      @loco4loco Před 8 měsíci

      HAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHHA😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @lazprayogha
      @lazprayogha Před 8 měsíci +4

      16:09

    • @MaxerV19
      @MaxerV19 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@loco4loco🤨

  • @scptime1188
    @scptime1188 Před 3 lety +2635

    Fun fact about emoji: it is etymologically unrelated to the word "emoticon". Emoticon is a combination of the words "emotion" and "icon", whilst emoji is a combination of the Japanese words "e", meaning picture, and "moji", meaning character.

  • @DZrache
    @DZrache Před 6 lety +4220

    "There's a joke that won't age well."
    *Checks upload date*
    *'Curb Your Enthusiasm' theme plays softly in the background*

  • @h.v.1114
    @h.v.1114 Před rokem +60

    I absolutely love it when Tom gets in his excited rambling mode.

    • @JetFalcon710
      @JetFalcon710 Před 8 měsíci +2

      Same tbh. Generally I like it when anyone starts rambling on the subjects they like, and I'm prone to doing that as well

  • @Bodeification
    @Bodeification Před 3 lety +207

    We have a word in Brazilian Portuguese that means the same thing or at least is very close:
    Gambiarra -
    An improvised solution to a problem that will probably need to be fixed again later

    • @bl1tz533
      @bl1tz533 Před 2 lety +18

      We have a word here in North America that means the same thing
      "Chinese Infastructure"

    • @AkshayShukla.
      @AkshayShukla. Před 2 lety +7

      We also have a word for it in Hindi
      "Jugaad", "जुगाङ"

    • @user-xx8pp7jc2p
      @user-xx8pp7jc2p Před 2 lety +2

      @@bl1tz533 💀💀💀

    • @itsukizy
      @itsukizy Před 2 lety +3

      @@bl1tz533 it’s funny how americans cope with the fact that their government is completely incompetent at building public infrastructure by pointing fingers at another government which is trying (and succeeding) at housing and feeding the largest population in the world.
      but i guess you can keep spreading misinformation and western anti-chinese propaganda if it makes you feel better 👍

    • @floo1465
      @floo1465 Před 2 lety +3

      @@itsukizy watch laowhy86. china’s a failed state, or at the very least very close to becoming one. chinese infrastructure is of horrific quality, chinese buildings made 10 years ago are crumbling yet the east coast of the united states has hundreds of thousands of houses that are over 100 years old.

  • @rwantare1
    @rwantare1 Před 4 lety +6962

    That No for Linux caught me off guard and made me feel like a small child that's been told No by their dad.

    • @bakdiabderrahmane8009
      @bakdiabderrahmane8009 Před 4 lety +79

      same hahaha

    • @scottbuchanan8300
      @scottbuchanan8300 Před 4 lety +344

      @@robertkiestov3734 bruh

    • @robertkiestov3734
      @robertkiestov3734 Před 4 lety +360

      Scott Buchanan Any so-called “programmer” who advises against Linux doesn’t know a single thing they’re talking about and should be discredited against further discussion

    • @awildfilingcabinet6239
      @awildfilingcabinet6239 Před 4 lety +921

      Robert Kiestov and anybody who believes that someone’s entire argument is invalid because they have a differing opinion is a scummy person who you should ignore because they seem to think insulting other people makes them look cooler

    • @metrixel1488
      @metrixel1488 Před 4 lety +347

      A wild Filing cabinet this kinda sounds rude and there are definitely exceptions, but I guess it’s true what I heard about the Linux community, really really defensive about using Linux

  • @sambomacho1
    @sambomacho1 Před 4 lety +1551

    Best bodging story I ever heard of was when Supermarine were prototyping the Spitfire.
    They used smooth headed rivets but when the prototyping stage was nearly complete and they had achieved their targets for speed and maneuverability, flight ceiling, climb rate etc etc etc they realised that for time and cost restraints when it went into full production the production line would be using dome headed rivets. The limited knowledge of aerodynamics at the time they had combined with no computer modeling etc meant they realised it would have an effect but they didnt know what that effect would be.
    War was looming and they didnt have time to take the prototype to pieces and put it back together again (possibly multiple times) to investigate what the effect would be and how to overcome it what they did was...glued split chick peas to the rivets for testing and after a little trial and error found out that as long as the peas/rivets were aligned correctly with each other and mostly symmetrically the performance of the aircraft wasnt noticeably affected detrimentally and the precious top speed remained the same.
    Great British chic-pea based bodge

    • @renakunisaki
      @renakunisaki Před 4 lety +197

      Reminds me of how they test airplane windshields for their ability to withstand bird impacts. A bunch of complex modeling and simulation? Nah, just fire a raw chicken out of a cannon at it!
      (yes they do _also_ use models and simulations but that's less funny)

    • @RobertSzasz
      @RobertSzasz Před 4 lety +65

      @@renakunisaki always remember to thaw the chicken

    • @christopherleveck6835
      @christopherleveck6835 Před 4 lety +51

      @@RobertSzasz or freeze the windshield

    • @BuildYourOwnBass
      @BuildYourOwnBass Před 4 lety +4

      Brit Dal Bit Bodge

    • @richardharrold9736
      @richardharrold9736 Před 2 lety +3

      @@justinepaula-robilliard specifically, under negative G. Previously, the Spitfire had to be rolled inverted and then the stick pulled back before it could be dived. The Me109, meanwhile, was fuel injected and had no such problems. It was also heavier and more powerful.

  • @honeygdballs
    @honeygdballs Před 3 lety +194

    "Movie studios were bidding on an emoji-based pitch."
    *Well that didn't go very well*

    • @KillaBitz
      @KillaBitz Před 2 lety +10

      Well someone got paid for it so I guess that depends on what side of the table you sit.
      Your quite funny though I'll give you that.

  • @Leffrey
    @Leffrey Před 2 lety +84

    The greatest plot twist of all time: “one take” at the end of a 17 minute video

  • @riverw4721
    @riverw4721 Před 3 lety +4838

    As a Linux user I almost want to make my own emoji keyboard out of spite.
    Now, to obtain 14 keyboards...

    • @MrHat.
      @MrHat. Před 3 lety +481

      They better all be RGB or else you aren't gonna outdo Tom.

    • @gamingdiamond352
      @gamingdiamond352 Před 3 lety +12

      Same here

    • @prayerie
      @prayerie Před 3 lety +584

      How do you spot a Linux user? Don't worry, they'll tell you😳

    • @null-00000
      @null-00000 Před 3 lety +182

      @@MrHat. nah, using linux alone beats tom, because you just need a simple script to make it work, instead of all those workvarounds

    • @Rishnai
      @Rishnai Před 3 lety +204

      @@null-00000 Got a link to the simple script that will make all 14 keyboards do this in a mainline Linux desktop distro in a Live environment? That’s the bar that needs to be cleared to qualify as simple

  • @AtroGD
    @AtroGD Před 3 lety +1402

    Tom, all you had to do was connect the flumberboozle to the VGX Virtual Port

    • @xanecosmo5061
      @xanecosmo5061 Před 2 lety +34

      11:00

    • @KillaBitz
      @KillaBitz Před 2 lety +43

      but only if all the repos align otherwise it's just glitch out.

    • @Avaa2499
      @Avaa2499 Před 2 lety +30

      But don’t forget to stabilise the quantum fluctuations

    • @queenbiscuit311
      @queenbiscuit311 Před 2 lety +40

      @@KillaBitz make sure you put this arbitrary text in the config file or it will catch on fire

    • @wilh3lmmusic
      @wilh3lmmusic Před 2 lety +57

      Wrong port, it’s the GKX port. The VGX port defenestrastes your tangerines

  • @onesimushewett9335
    @onesimushewett9335 Před 2 lety +24

    I'm so grateful for this video. As part of my year 11 digital tech course, I was creating a map of public transit availability in my home city of Adelaide. However, the government doesn't have easily accessible stats for bus arrivals per suburb. So I used a windows access database with every bus stop listed and (After watching this video) realised I could use AHK to copy each link, look it up, & search the page.

  • @novemberbaby1994
    @novemberbaby1994 Před 2 lety +79

    You know it's a bodge when you stick on 1200 stickers before making sure you can actually program the keys to do what the stickers say they do.

    • @dIancaster
      @dIancaster Před 2 lety +1

      Who said that's the order it happened in?

    • @mtranchi
      @mtranchi Před rokem +1

      @@dIancaster Tom did in the video.

  • @teaser6089
    @teaser6089 Před 4 lety +1467

    4:16
    "It worked really well, I mean we had a reserve"
    Do you mean a reserve skydiver?

  • @Klick404
    @Klick404 Před 3 lety +2983

    13:29 “unlike every other programming language”
    LUA in a nutshell

    • @EsmeraldMaster
      @EsmeraldMaster Před 3 lety +89

      what's weird is that autohotkey also starts at 1

    • @buffalocrackerdong6978
      @buffalocrackerdong6978 Před 3 lety +40

      lua = roblox

    • @davidtitanium22
      @davidtitanium22 Před 3 lety +130

      uhh visual basic has arrays that starts from 1 and lists that starts from 0. Working with that cursed language drained my sanity

    • @davidtitanium22
      @davidtitanium22 Před 3 lety +26

      @@luck3298 the whole thing is bodge upon bodge upon a bodge

    • @Liggliluff
      @Liggliluff Před 3 lety +75

      @@luck3298 _> "They all use 1-indexing. It is more logical for natural sciences academics.
      "_
      It is not more logical, especially not in natural science. The reason why it starts on 0 is because that's where everything begin. Our numbers starts on 0, count up to 9, then roll over the next number over from 0 to 1, and the 9 back to 0. - Temperature has a zero point. Coldest isn't 1 K, it is 0 K. Length has a zero point; you can have no length. Well you can argue about the plank length, but it's still calculated from 0. - As Tom Scott showed; using 0-indexing makes maths so much easier: if each container has 15 items, and you have 25 containers, then 0-14 is the 15 items in container 0, 15-29 is the 15 items in container 1, and you can reference this number by using the formula item+(container×15). - A lot of stuff would be so much harder to work with if stuff was 1-indexed; converting inches to mm would be: (inch-1)×25.4+1 instead of just inch×25.4 - Academics, science, programming, all that benefits from 0-indexing. It's we common people who use 1-indexing.

  • @sandraviknander7898
    @sandraviknander7898 Před 3 lety +70

    “Index start at one unlike every other modern program language”
    Let me introduce R, MATLAB and Julia

    • @jyotiprakash3423
      @jyotiprakash3423 Před 3 lety +11

      these are not really meant for programmers

    • @PermireFabrica
      @PermireFabrica Před 2 lety +4

      @@jyotiprakash3423 I know Matlab, and it annoys me every time, because Matlab is a software use by most and foremost engineers. And engineers today needs to be half of a programmer, so they will know other programming languages too. Counting from 1 and not zero is just so stupid...

    • @agmlego
      @agmlego Před 2 lety +3

      Or FORTRAN, where indices are whatever you want them to be...those were dark days.

    • @altus3278
      @altus3278 Před 2 lety

      @@jyotiprakash3423 Julia is a big boy language. It features a JIT compiler, metaprogramming capabilities, multiple dispatch and probably the best dynamic type system there is (even better than Common Lisp's CLOS). I honestly think Julia doesn't get the recognition it deserves.

  • @kkeennddaall
    @kkeennddaall Před rokem +4

    obsessed with how this video; a behind the scenes ramble where he doesnt even show the final product working, has almost five times the views as the (presumably) intended actual official proper video about the keyboard.

  • @em__1
    @em__1 Před 3 lety +836

    5 years down the line, and one thing never changes.
    *One take!*

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Před rokem +2

      He uses a teleprompter. He admitted it in a recent video.

    • @hii-people2245
      @hii-people2245 Před rokem +1

      @@ajs41 which one I don’t think I’ve seen that video

    • @AlphaGeekgirl
      @AlphaGeekgirl Před rokem +11

      @@ajs41 I defy you to read for 17 minutes straight using a teleprompter, without making a mistake 🙄

    • @ajs41
      @ajs41 Před rokem +1

      @@AlphaGeekgirl He probably does more than one take a lot of the time. But I still think he's a fantastic video-maker.

  • @lookieeight1006
    @lookieeight1006 Před 4 lety +2407

    Everyone: arrays start at 0
    Lua and Matlab: *confused screaming*

    • @scragar
      @scragar Před 4 lety +168

      And R.
      All of them use the excuse that it's easier for non-programmers, which I kind of understand, but starting at 1 makes things more difficult later, you're not solving the problem, you're putting it back 6 months until they want to use nested arrays and work out a way to linearize it and convert it back or something similar, at which point the constant ±1 adjustments cause way more problems than just learning that stuff is indexed from 0.

    • @realEchoz
      @realEchoz Před 4 lety +30

      I agree with scragar that it's somewhat acceptable to count from one for Matlab and R which are more often used by non-programmers, but for LUA it's just silly.

    • @QqJcrsStbt
      @QqJcrsStbt Před 4 lety +13

      IIRC MS BASIC 7 allowed you to define the start of array. Could be 0, 1, 2, anything (probably had to be a uint).

    • @weakspirit_
      @weakspirit_ Před 4 lety

      in vimscript, its 0-indexed. BUT, every operation that involves specifying a range becomes end-inclusive.
      example: say you have a string "hello vim!". you want a substring "hell", so you do this:
      "hello vim"[0 : 3]
      notice how the end is the fourth character. the idea behind this (i think) is to be able to do this without error:
      "hey there"[0 : 0]
      as a bonus, Neovim has a builtin lua support :D

    • @abdellahcodes
      @abdellahcodes Před 4 lety +1

      Pop fortran also

  • @mutsgarfield6887
    @mutsgarfield6887 Před 2 lety +10

    I love to go back to this video to see and hear all of the excitement and enthusiasm tom has here. This video defenitely makes me believe anything is codable if youre stubborn enough

  • @hatchmaster_5745
    @hatchmaster_5745 Před 2 lety +15

    The Unicode Consortium sounds like a faction from 40K

  • @henryambrose8607
    @henryambrose8607 Před 6 lety +1741

    Tom knew about the Emoji Movie in 2015.
    He should have done something to stop it.

  • @sarat6488
    @sarat6488 Před 5 lety +4009

    17 minutes, all that build-up, and we don't get to see you type even one emoji? :(

    • @cannoneq
      @cannoneq Před 4 lety +195

      I was so disappointed

    • @DanHaiduc
      @DanHaiduc Před 4 lety +84

      Really? There is no demo! I want one! It's not too late!

    • @MidiMaze178
      @MidiMaze178 Před 4 lety +102

      There’s a video of him typing on it, this is just the behind the scenes video

    • @kckph4264
      @kckph4264 Před 4 lety +8

      im just disapointed that this has 998 likes

    • @edef1244
      @edef1244 Před 4 lety +34

      @@MidiMaze178 Strangely, behind the scenes has 1.5M views while the original video had only 600k

  • @seeker3960
    @seeker3960 Před 3 lety +14

    And here I am, years later, getting recommended this masterpiece of information mixed with comedy and had one of the most hearty laughter ever since the start of the pandemic about the lua part ~13:00 min mark. Thank you really much for brightening up my day in these dark times!
    And never forget! index 0 is the entire table ;)

  • @dani-wg1rf
    @dani-wg1rf Před 2 lety +13

    this is an amazing monologue and the problem-solving process is so relatable to anyone who's ever tried to make anything!
    also the style and pacing make me highly suspect that you watch penn & teller XD

  • @weesalikesmilktea4829
    @weesalikesmilktea4829 Před 3 lety +586

    ”Well there's no burrito emoji but at least there's a jelly filled donut"

    • @Robin93k
      @Robin93k Před 3 lety +22

      Damn you 4kids! xD

    • @advanceringnewholder
      @advanceringnewholder Před 3 lety +28

      nothing beats a jelly-filled doughnut

    • @marquess2004
      @marquess2004 Před 3 lety +10

      You just put me on a nostalgia trip that will most likely end with me rewatching dozens of hours of Pokémon.

    • @None-Trick_Pony
      @None-Trick_Pony Před 3 lety +6

      Still don't know why they chose jelly donuts, but, considering 4Kids, I'm going to say the answer was generated by a stupid computer. Like really stupid. I'm talking _absurd_ levels of stupid.

    • @advanceringnewholder
      @advanceringnewholder Před 3 lety +6

      @@None-Trick_Pony Because nothing beats a jelly-filled doughnut

  • @johnthebull
    @johnthebull Před 6 lety +506

    This should be submitted to a museum as a tech-art piece and you can have this video play on loop to explain it whilst people play with the keyboard!

  • @franciscocosta195
    @franciscocosta195 Před 2 lety +11

    5:20 "there's a joke that wont age well..." Simpsons prediction?

  • @deepearson9094
    @deepearson9094 Před rokem +2

    This video was so informative/entertaining/riveting that we spontaneously applauded at the end! We love you, Tom.

  • @ItsJustOriginal
    @ItsJustOriginal Před 3 lety +1032

    "the art of the bodge" -Sun tzu

  • @floof_hair3857
    @floof_hair3857 Před 3 lety +1065

    Alternative title: Tom Descends Into Madness Every Five Minutes

  • @lisabowenhospital
    @lisabowenhospital Před rokem +18

    Well done Tom for explaining all that

  • @bazillio69wotblitz5
    @bazillio69wotblitz5 Před 3 lety +4

    That was hilarious!
    I don't care if this video is to old for someone to mention my comment, i just have to say it.
    This entire thing is so cool and intriguing and absolutely interesting!
    I don't even have any knowledge in programming, but i got all this stuff. Tom, you're great at explaining things, for sure. And you're perfect in telling great stories, thank you very much

  • @Nicoder6884
    @Nicoder6884 Před 4 lety +1940

    Basically every scene in “The Martian” is a bodge. Not sure if it beats Apollo 13 or not cause it’s fictional, but who knows

    • @lopezfamily2089
      @lopezfamily2089 Před 4 lety +77

      Yes the Martian has lots of bodges "ahem" blows self up making water supply

    • @JacDes82
      @JacDes82 Před 4 lety +72

      It’s a fictional film, but the bodge is based on the scientific challenges.

    • @Liquid_State_Drive
      @Liquid_State_Drive Před 4 lety +29

      Aight, imma cut a hole out of my pressure vessel for spare material.

    • @bartekblaszczyk
      @bartekblaszczyk Před 4 lety +4

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    • @0rangepel378
      @0rangepel378 Před 4 lety +7

      @@bartekblaszczyk bruh

  • @FilFee
    @FilFee Před 3 lety +884

    "it presses the F24 key. My keyboard doesn't have it, your probably doesn't too..."
    *Me, typing this comment on my Unicomp terminal 122-key board:* "maybe?"

    • @davidguthary8147
      @davidguthary8147 Před 2 lety +59

      Hence the word "probably".

    • @justkomodo
      @justkomodo Před 2 lety +28

      I was watching this while typing away on my 122 key 1984 Model F, but I had to admit it was fair of him not to assume that 😂

    • @ChrisPoindexter98
      @ChrisPoindexter98 Před 2 lety +8

      That is a perfectly nerdy thing to have; nice. 🥴

    • @illford6921
      @illford6921 Před 2 lety +3

      @@davidguthary8147 yes that's the joke

  • @RealRedRabbit
    @RealRedRabbit Před 3 lety

    4 or 5 years ago, I saw a news article on the emoji keyboard, and it brought me here to this video.
    I've been subscribed since, and it's been one of my favorite channels. So glad I clicked that random Facebook link.

  • @aetu35
    @aetu35 Před 8 měsíci +3

    i loved it when tom said "its bodgin time" and bodged all over the emoji keyboardd

  • @mahghuuuls7290
    @mahghuuuls7290 Před 3 lety +1288

    That "no" for linux distracted me for the rest of the video

    • @dhruvrai2113
      @dhruvrai2113 Před 2 lety +36

      Don't worry, writing elegant code to run complex systems is still better in linux. But we have to decide when to use what.

    • @georgedoty-williams2085
      @georgedoty-williams2085 Před 2 lety +158

      You're the epitome of everything Tom makes fun of

    • @kittyfangz5262
      @kittyfangz5262 Před 2 lety +12

      @@georgedoty-williams2085 L

    • @nathandam6415
      @nathandam6415 Před 2 lety +43

      @@georgedoty-williams2085 Software developers overwhelmingly use Linux or Mac OS to develop projects. He’s 100% right. Even Microsoft had to yield and implement a Linux subsystem for Windows because quite literally every single developer will say how awful the experience is when trying to dev on their platform. It’s not about being stuck up as much as acknowledging that Linux has a better kernel than Windows, which historically has been bogged down with legacy support with its own kernel.

    • @justkomodo
      @justkomodo Před 2 lety +37

      @@nathandam6415 that’s fair, but I would agree with Tom that a quick bodge that takes advantage of already existing stuff works best in Windows and actual software development works better in Linux. And I don’t think Windows can ever escape its legacy support. If a customers working software stops working on a new version of Windows, Microsoft saying “you need to get the software developer to update it” isn’t a satisfactory response to most end users 😂

  • @chasegilley1906
    @chasegilley1906 Před 7 lety +4758

    I think that Donald Trump joke might age better than you thought Tom.

  • @mochji_
    @mochji_ Před rokem +5

    as a lua programmer i always love watching the frustration when people try to work with tables and wonder why they cant get the 0th item in the list :)

  • @rooislangwtf
    @rooislangwtf Před rokem +2

    13:39 I can just tell that when Tom fixed the equation he meant doing "counter - 1" in the equation considering the video

  • @novafrye3177
    @novafrye3177 Před 4 lety +518

    "that's right, there's an F24 key. It's not on my keyboard, it's almost certainly not on your keyboard,"
    _laughs in PC-122_

    • @plate4416
      @plate4416 Před 3 lety +31

      _laughs in IBM F122 Battleship_

    • @FilFee
      @FilFee Před 3 lety +6

      I have the Unicomp one!
      PC-122 gang

    • @GRLDT
      @GRLDT Před 3 lety +7

      _laughs in QMK programmable keyboards_

    • @haydmen2543
      @haydmen2543 Před 3 lety +2

      was just about to make that joke, there goes 100 bucks

    • @sophiedeergirl
      @sophiedeergirl Před 3 lety

      F25 key? Im gonna press the f25 key. Get ready

  • @deldarel
    @deldarel Před 7 lety +2575

    I did this on linux.
    I sneezed and it was done
    I sneezed again and it deleted all files on my computer, except for my porn, which got sent to every contact in my email list.

  • @rodneyowen1850
    @rodneyowen1850 Před 2 lety +5

    I would assume you have watched every episode of "Scrapheap Challenge," in which each episode was a challenge to see which team could bodge the best device/machine out of a scrapheap to accomplish the specific goal for that episode. It was how I learned the art of the bodge.

  • @charliegrpdixon5944
    @charliegrpdixon5944 Před 3 lety +4

    11:22 I have been flight simming for ages and never knew this. Thank you so much. Time to improve my flight sim set up 🤩

  • @roryookane
    @roryookane Před 4 lety +225

    Transcript of 16:12 to 16:59, Tom’s final summary of how it works:
    > Here’s how this keyboard works. You press a key. LuaMacros intercepts it on the way in, stop Windows actually typing the letter or whatever’s underneath it, it works out which number emoji you want, and it saves that number to a file on disk. Then it presses the F24 key - that’s right, there’s an F24 key. It’s not on my keyboard, it’s almost certainly not on your keyboard, but it’s still a key that Windows can deal with, because backwards compatibility. And AutoHotkey is listening for that F24 key, and when it hears it, it reads that same file, the file that LuaMacros just put the number in, it reads that number, it looks down the list of emoji, and it types that emoji.
    >
    > That is how the emoji keyboard works, that’s why I use Windows, and that is the art of the bodge.

  • @BigIggy
    @BigIggy Před 4 lety +1458

    "To any one suggesting linux, no." LMFAO I spat out my coffee!

    • @DanielFoerster
      @DanielFoerster Před 4 lety +169

      The sad thing is, a little xdotool might have been a lot easier.

    • @nilsgarberis
      @nilsgarberis Před 4 lety +11

      No, no!

    • @themasterofdisastr1226
      @themasterofdisastr1226 Před 4 lety +11

      @@DanielFoerster If it is stupid, but it works... I mean, using AHK is alot easier than JS or Ruby if you are a newbie, but once you have some xp in anything else, it is weirded.
      But it works.

    • @LaZZeYT
      @LaZZeYT Před 4 lety +102

      Linux with 7 lines of python using evdev could have done it.

    • @weakspirit_
      @weakspirit_ Před 4 lety +122

      clearly tom isn't familiar with linux enough to do it in linux. but the moment when i saw low-level winAPI stuff, i would've given up & considered linux.

  • @SP4CEBAR
    @SP4CEBAR Před rokem +2

    1:50 Tom really does look like a bridge between the two (like a linear interpolation)

  • @fsj197811
    @fsj197811 Před rokem +1

    Oh my gawd what a mess. Awesome thinking and how you put it all together. Yep, I used a DOS machine! TRS80 Model 1 thank you very much. Thanks for sharing!

  • @l.dexter4361
    @l.dexter4361 Před 4 lety +332

    And that emoji pitch would become one of the most hated films in history...

  • @TheEndergun
    @TheEndergun Před 7 lety +505

    "Yeah, alright. I've got 14 keyboards now. That's cool."
    my sides have colonized Europa.

  • @probablyjohn5589
    @probablyjohn5589 Před rokem +3

    5:53 "So this year, movie studios were bidding on an emoji-based pitch" Aged like milk.

  • @giannirusso5410
    @giannirusso5410 Před 3 lety +6

    Tom makes videos about things you don’t necessarily need to know but would like to know.

  • @polk-e-dot8177
    @polk-e-dot8177 Před 5 lety +190

    "yeah alright. ive got 14 keyboards now. thats cool."
    how i feel going to a thrift store.

    • @BuildYourOwnBass
      @BuildYourOwnBass Před 4 lety +1

      Better than coming home with 15 DVD burners for $15 🤣

  • @renakunisaki
    @renakunisaki Před 4 lety +365

    The greatest bodge ever was a video game cartridge. Unfortunately I don't know what game it was, but after they'd manufactured the ROM chips, they discovered they'd used the wrong byte order. Basically every pair of bytes was swapped, so the chips were no good.
    So they installed the chips onto the cartridge circuit board anyway, but lifted the lowest two address pins, and physically soldered little wires between them and the opposite holes. Thus swapping the bytes back to the correct order by bodging the circuit so they didn't have to throw out a bunch of the chips or circuit boards they'd already made.
    (I only saw a picture of the actual circuit board with the bodged chip; it wasn't labelled with the name of the game.)

    • @daniellewilson8527
      @daniellewilson8527 Před 3 lety +2

      Rena Kunisakithis is interesting

    • @dreded7961
      @dreded7961 Před 3 lety +17

      circuit board bodges are extremely common, so dont know if it qualifies for greatest ever.

    • @8bitwiz_
      @8bitwiz_ Před 3 lety +16

      I wonder what system it would have been for. For byte order to be a thing, it almost certainly would have to be a 16-bit game, but on a single 8-bit ROM. (A split ROM would just need the chips swapped.) Genesis/Mega Drive uses a 16-bit data bus, so not that one, but... yep, SNES only has an 8-bit data bus. But you may have the details wrong, because that particular wiring change would actually turn 0 1 2 3 into 0 2 1 3. The correct bodge would be a 7404 chip dead-bugged to the board and patched into the low address line.
      I once dealt with a 68000-based system (big-endian) running a Unix clone that for some crazy reason used an LSI-11 bus (little-endian), so when it wrote to disk, every other byte was swapped. (This is known as the "NUXI problem".) If using a LSI-11 bus wasn't enough of a bodge, it was also built into a VT-100 style terminal, which has space for a card cage. When a floppy drive was added to allow porting files over to a PC, and I was making a conversion program for it, I had to bodge in byte swapping in addition to reading from a generic Unix filesystem. Often an old bodge forces a new bodge.

    • @j10eff56
      @j10eff56 Před 3 lety +4

      @@8bitwiz_ after listening to Tom’s video, I feel so smart that I can actually kinda understand what you just said

    • @akshaytati
      @akshaytati Před 3 lety +2

      @@8bitwiz_ ah yes that thing yep haha

  • @paul1337x
    @paul1337x Před rokem +1

    Funny thing, i recently started the using the F24 key as my push-to-talk Button in Video games and Discord because all F keys upward from F12 are not used anywhere. But almost any other key on you keyboard already has a function.
    So i used AutoHotkey to remap my CAPSLOCK Key to F24. So now my CAPSLOCK Key is my Push-to-Talk button and it is not locking my Characters to big size anymore.

  • @LadyGavGav
    @LadyGavGav Před 8 měsíci +1

    Eight years on, I'm still waiting for the Big Book of Bodges.

  • @thom_wye
    @thom_wye Před 3 lety +331

    "So anyway I started bodging..."

    • @random_person_i_guess
      @random_person_i_guess Před 3 lety +5

      - Tom DeScott

    • @xmlstudios
      @xmlstudios Před 3 lety

      Bodging should be the standard way to make anything, we don't need elegant solutions

    • @sponge1234ify
      @sponge1234ify Před 3 lety

      ​@@xmlstudios Have you ever heard of this obscure thing called Linux?

    • @adamrezabek9469
      @adamrezabek9469 Před 3 lety +1

      @@sponge1234ify Linux has some nice architecture, so it's not bodge as windows. But you can make bodges in both

    • @ano_nym
      @ano_nym Před 3 lety

      @@xmlstudios it is...

  • @esmewayne318
    @esmewayne318 Před 5 lety +250

    I forgot which country, but one of them realised that they had the measurements for their tallest mountain, or it night just be a random mountain, something like 60 feet lower then they though. They measured it back when they didn't have very good equipment, and never bothered to check it. But this measurement was in all the textbooks. So instead of recalling all the textbooks, they dumped 60 feet of gravel on top of the mountain. They will be updating the textbooks so that once the gravel falls off the textbooks will be correct.

    • @AltName7
      @AltName7 Před 4 lety +56

      That's a high level solution.

    • @hydrolifetech7911
      @hydrolifetech7911 Před 4 lety +14

      This might a joke, no?

    • @Jazehiah
      @Jazehiah Před 4 lety +10

      They made a movie about that. It's called "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill, But Came Down a Mountain."

    • @karlkarl93
      @karlkarl93 Před 4 lety +1

      @@Jazehiah This was also in the Donald Duck comics.

  • @zagarak
    @zagarak Před 4 měsíci +1

    This helped me today! Bodge welcome! I have been working to do something very similar with a different section of Unicode (PUA) for a conLang I'm working on and was about ready to learn to write device drivers.

  • @morpheus_uat
    @morpheus_uat Před 2 lety

    i am using ahk since almost 9 years now, started using it at school to prank some friends and what else, and now i use it to automate the boring repetitive task of my jobs, and here i am watching a video of old 2015 talking about one of my fav tool of my life
    i even made a bot with text to speech and speech recognition to assist me playing keep talking and nobody explode, entirely writed on AHK
    such and amazing tool

  • @moosesnWoop
    @moosesnWoop Před 4 lety +367

    "I'll run windows, someone's done it before"
    No truer words spoken. S/O out to all the cracks ever made and the forums to go with them.

    • @ledirigeant
      @ledirigeant Před 3 lety +27

      And it's almost always freemium with a 7-day trial period.

    • @ano_nym
      @ano_nym Před 3 lety +11

      @@luck3298 three different browser toolbars are installed along with it...

  • @mercentperrault
    @mercentperrault Před 5 lety +688

    14:11
    "There might have been swearing at this point."
    Programmers can relate to this.

    • @applemoose9675
      @applemoose9675 Před 4 lety +12

      You want 14:12 for that line.

    • @MetaBloxer
      @MetaBloxer Před 4 lety +14

      WorkYouCrapMachine()

    • @noesunyoutuber7680
      @noesunyoutuber7680 Před 4 lety +14

      I've found "goddammit" to be as essential a bit of programmer speak as any sort of technical term.

    • @maradupras7278
      @maradupras7278 Před 4 lety +10

      After a while, you just find yourself writing like
      public string crapFunction (double ugh, string biggerUgh) {
      this.ugh = ugh;
      ugh = ugh + someRandomDouble;
      if (biggerUgh == 'no please help me') {
      return biggerUgh;
      } else {
      biggerUgh = crapList[ugh];
      return biggerUgh;
      }
      }

    • @kingonmax
      @kingonmax Před 4 lety +9

      There is a Twitter account that posts all the commit messages with swearword on github

  • @glossaria2
    @glossaria2 Před rokem

    I damn near stood up and applauded at the end of all that. You, Tom Scott, are what we in the U.S. would call a Master of Kludge.
    (And yes, 80s child here, and I still use Alt keystrokes because it's a LOT faster for weird alphanumerics.)

  • @l0k048
    @l0k048 Před 3 lety +12

    we have a word for that in portuguese, it's gambiarra. it ranges from drilling a hole in the wall to use one light for two rooms to tying up a rope to an excavator to move bricks across a wall. the word itself is more like a junction between boldge, workarround and laziness

  • @rowansmart9104
    @rowansmart9104 Před 6 lety +316

    "Emoji Based Pitch" If only you knew the horrors of the emoji movie...

  • @billyjoeparker8054
    @billyjoeparker8054 Před 7 lety +534

    this video but every time Tom says bodge it gets faster

    • @mischa7823
      @mischa7823 Před 6 lety +8

      is it already done? I would do it otherwise... :D Is the speed doubled each time, or only increased a bit?

    • @almatsailaukhan9181
      @almatsailaukhan9181 Před 6 lety +12

      Mischa Behrend like 10%

    • @skepticmoderate5790
      @skepticmoderate5790 Před 6 lety +6

      Mischa Behrend Almat Sailaukhan Please one of you do it!

    • @insanejughead
      @insanejughead Před 5 lety +5

      It would quickly become the shortest video in all of Tom's library. XD

    • @hebo-pe6ct
      @hebo-pe6ct Před 5 lety +2

      @@mischa7823 so ummmmm whos doing it?
      i could. just reply
      EDIT: its already been done

  • @johnhagen31
    @johnhagen31 Před rokem

    Tom, I love your funny, anarchic, brilliant work!

  • @Azide_zx
    @Azide_zx Před rokem

    i love how he called autohotkey as the greatest bodging tool because i recently installed it not too long ago to "bodge" something in a programming homework to get it done faster (aka i didnt have time to manually test the program because the input would have to be so long to type and i needed to attach a copy of a readout of the input and output so i couldnt redirect it in an IDE)

  • @seafoamspirit3484
    @seafoamspirit3484 Před 4 lety +341

    L E V I T A T I N G M A N I N B U S I N E S S S U I T

    • @rubiconnn
      @rubiconnn Před 4 lety +13

      🕴️

    • @itoastpotatoes399
      @itoastpotatoes399 Před 4 lety +2

      🕴🏿

    • @JonesNate
      @JonesNate Před 4 lety +8

      🕴️
      Wow, I actually have it.
      🕴️🕴🏻🕴🏼🕴🏽🕴🏾🕴🏿
      And apparently it comes in multiple ethnicities now.

    • @KKdessu
      @KKdessu Před 4 lety +1

      🕴️

    • @Kyle-xk2rb
      @Kyle-xk2rb Před 4 lety +1

      🕴️

  • @Fede_uyz
    @Fede_uyz Před 8 lety +1743

    so bodge is an english word for Duck tape and wd40??

    • @Shakzey
      @Shakzey Před 8 lety +146

      Dont forget zip ties. But yeah pretty much

    • @CoffeeOnRails
      @CoffeeOnRails Před 8 lety +8

      Basically :D

    • @floridmonkey2723
      @floridmonkey2723 Před 8 lety +67

      Duct*

    • @floridmonkey2723
      @floridmonkey2723 Před 7 lety +24

      Core Blaster Didn't know that that is a brand.

    • @muffinproject
      @muffinproject Před 7 lety +22

      Not quite. Those are quite refined products. A bodge is anything _made_ with duck tape.

  • @fredhasopinions
    @fredhasopinions Před 3 lety +4

    9:10 is nobody going to comment on how that is the SINGLE best Ricky Gervais impression I've ever seen anyone do?! Is Ricky Gervais really just Tom Scott in a skin suit? I've never heard anybody have two identical ways of doing a funny voice

  • @supremecalamitas342
    @supremecalamitas342 Před rokem

    Wasnt expecting autohotkey in this video! it's one of my favorite hobbies to make programs to play games with it

  • @dabbrill4609
    @dabbrill4609 Před 4 lety +864

    "Emoji's are the Donald Trump of computers. Here's a joke that won't age well"
    Hahahahaha

    • @Megacooltommydee
      @Megacooltommydee Před 4 lety +46

      We were all so naïve back in 2015, weren't we?

    • @ShroudedWolf51
      @ShroudedWolf51 Před 4 lety +22

      Why is "emoji" posessive?

    • @RisenSlash
      @RisenSlash Před 4 lety +6

      The joke won't age well.
      No one can stay in headlines forever.

    • @justifiable
      @justifiable Před 4 lety +11

      @@RisenSlash Eh. He's president. Knowledge of him will probably be around as long as the internet is.

    • @ibwam3611
      @ibwam3611 Před 4 lety

      Hahahahahaha

  • @nilleftw
    @nilleftw Před 4 lety +539

    "... if anyone out there suggests using Linux... no."
    I blew air through my nostrils

    • @OrchidAlloy
      @OrchidAlloy Před 3 lety +5

      @@tamim6673 pog

    • @Sompursone
      @Sompursone Před 3 lety +4

      Apparently you were feeling triumphant? 😤

    • @computergeek8299
      @computergeek8299 Před 3 lety +5

      You mean like every time you exhale? WOW... you took a breath?!?

    • @B1GB3RN
      @B1GB3RN Před 3 lety +38

      @@computergeek8299
      Talk about living up to the stereotype that nerds aren't great with humour...

    • @stevanmiladinovic4007
      @stevanmiladinovic4007 Před 3 lety +14

      @@Sompursone I use arch btw

  • @ereder1476
    @ereder1476 Před rokem

    tbh... what blew me away wasn't how excited he became at the end.
    it was the: "one take". 0.0 omfg..

  • @patrickoberholzer4278
    @patrickoberholzer4278 Před 8 měsíci +1

    Tom's version of "Eureka!" is "AutoHotKey!"

  • @mitsync
    @mitsync Před 6 lety +701

    5:55 wait... Was that the emoji movie?

    • @jukajoj2400
      @jukajoj2400 Před 6 lety +48

      yes

    • @jukajoj2400
      @jukajoj2400 Před 6 lety +103

      See, movies aren't made overnight. At this point, major releases are lined up until the end of 2019 at least, which, oh surprise surprise, it just about adds up. And dont forget, announcing a release usually takes place AFTER you start working.

    • @lunaakayourmom3238
      @lunaakayourmom3238 Před 6 lety +28

      Yep. Most movies are pitched years before announcement.

    • @MasterFGH
      @MasterFGH Před 5 lety +7

      July 28

  • @thegardenofeatin5965
    @thegardenofeatin5965 Před 7 lety +82

    Another space related "bodge" (or, as we say in the former United States, a kludge) happened on Apollo 11. Apparently, after the historic moonwalk, one of the astronauts broke a crucial circuit breaker with his backpack, which would have prevented them from igniting the ascent engine and departing the moon. They noticed that it was only the plastic button they had broken, but the actual mechanism was still intact inside the instrument panel. They couldn't reach it with a finger, so Neil turns to Buzz and says "do you have a pen or something?" Buzz produced a felt tip pen with which they pressed the breaker, and the mission ended normally. From what I understand, Buzz still has that pen in a glass case.

    • @spike4850
      @spike4850 Před 7 lety +1

      The Garden of Eatin okay cool....

    • @lilman82111
      @lilman82111 Před 7 lety +6

      The Garden of Eatin wait, we say kludge?

    • @Hero-bs2bx
      @Hero-bs2bx Před 7 lety

      The Garden of Eatin so buzz is the real hero of the story

    • @Searching4Solace
      @Searching4Solace Před 7 lety +7

      US citizen here and i've never heard the word kludge in my life.

    • @jabbbed23
      @jabbbed23 Před 7 lety +2

      I heard that buzz took a nap when nasa was trying to figure out what to do

  • @grglgrgl2
    @grglgrgl2 Před 3 lety

    I don't know how many times I've watched this video over the years, but it still rings true.

  • @vitorxd12_81
    @vitorxd12_81 Před 2 lety +3

    greatest bodge in history? the Brazilian constitution. it was made in 1989 to last six months, and we use it to this day

  • @markl3871
    @markl3871 Před 4 lety +399

    Everyone: computers and programmers count from 0
    Matlab and lua: ONE

    • @libbyheeren
      @libbyheeren Před 3 lety +5

      Haha, I came here to say the same! R, SAS, MATLAB... 🤔

    • @waldolemmer
      @waldolemmer Před 3 lety

      Delphi smh

    • @johnw.3270
      @johnw.3270 Před 3 lety

      One of the very few design flaws in LUA, yes.

    • @MCLooyverse
      @MCLooyverse Před 3 lety

      @@johnw.3270 Ha! Few. Good one

    • @Seltyk
      @Seltyk Před 3 lety

      @@johnw.3270 Your comment implies there are design flaws in Lua, and someone suggests that one such hypothetical flaw would be counting from 1

  • @gracelandsux
    @gracelandsux Před 5 lety +95

    6:10 “you might know the story.”
    me: [nods, because i’ve seen the several other videos of tom scott explaining the existence of emoji]

  • @NonaRoe
    @NonaRoe Před rokem +1

    the flight sim community has made so many great low level programs. i believe HIDKey is based in luamacros and essentially allows for recognizing and rebinding keys based on their hardware id, so different keyboards can do different things. theyre insane geniuses

  • @ErikratKhandnalie
    @ErikratKhandnalie Před 8 lety +2057

    "The emoji is basically the Donald Trump of computers..... there's a joke that won't date well."
    About that.....