%
<nox> Reminds me that I probably need to put away my I LOVE ANAL lighter
before my mum comes to visit again
+%
+< jnap> look what you did mst, I promised myself a nap and now I'm
+ reading a dissertation
+%
+< sobel> i'm so congested alexa didn't understand me
+< sobel> really, it's my kid's AI, i only ever say "computer STOP"
+ because her alarm goes off incessantly
+< sobel> but today it wouldn't seem to understand my saying, "cob puter stob"
+%
+< Dom> I had an email a few days ago to say I had new message(s) in my
+ inbox. I logged in and there was no inbox.
+< Dom> I logged in again today and it said I had 1 new message(s). I read
+ *both* of them and now I have -1 remaining.
+%
+< alh> Don't hold your breath
+< mst> if I was going to asphyxiate somebody to make this feature happen it
+ wouldn't be -me- I'd choose, no.
+< alh> I'm not fully aware of your ... proclivities
+%
+<sobel> someone told him perl was crusty and now that's a fact for him
+<sobel> like, shit mang. don't tell anyone how old unix is.
+<sobel> gonna be hell to pay when they find out we made all the machines
+ out of fucking beach sand
+%
+< revhippie> > ALLOW_INVALID_DATES may be useful for Web applications that
+ obtain year, month, and day in three different fields and store
+ exactly what the user inserted, without date validation.
+< revhippie> well, that's handy, mysql. "this is intended to support garbage."
+%
+< shaldannon> what they say about California ... "where the earth moves
+ and the traffic doesn't"
+%
+-!- sobel [~matt@66.219.34.76] has joined #chat
+< sobel> welp, there goes the neighborhood
+< phaylon> it sometimes already feels like eli roth directed an episode
+ of sesame street, so not sure we'll notice :)
+%
+< gwern> ... oh geez, he just died, so emailing him is definitely out of
+ the question
+%
+<+wodencafe> throw new AssertionError("No
+ java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets instances for you!");
+<+wodencafe> This is actually in the standard library. Hooligans.
+%
+< ragingrobot> aol: "yo, what's up?" "asl" "i'm so fucked today, my dog got
+ hit by a truck" "asl" "tomorrow i may die of cancer" "asl"
+< audio> 18/f/cali ;)
+< ragingrobot> irl: that translates to 65/m/alabama
+%
+< quanticle> who serves dinner parties with actual linen napkins anymore?
+< catern> as a millenial I prefer paper towels
+< mst> catern: I guess it would feel bad if the place settings were less
+ disposable than you are, sure
+%
+< mst> "what's the difference between america and yoghurt?" "if you leave
+ yoghurt on its own for long enough, eventually it develops a culture"
+< quanticle> I mean, tbf, that's a difference between America and *milk*
+< quanticle> Once it develops the culture, it's yogurt
+%
+< xiaomiao> friesisch?
+< sobel> esperanto, lojban
+< xiaomiao> it made more sense in the original klingon
+%
+< ether> I hear IKEA's CEO was elected prime minister of Sweden. He's
+ now busy assembling his cabinet.
+%
+<mst> I didn't want to have a go at him but also "FFS, kid"
+<sobel> yes, that
+<sobel> my god are we becoming responsible elders or something
+<mst> what a terrifying thought
+%
+< feepbot> <gwern> https://twitter.com/CatWorkers/status/1458441028013371397
+< |dbotdan> cats with jobs (@CatWorkers, 2021-11-10 14:26) Images:
+ https://nitter.skrep.in/pic/media%2FFD1sXR3XIAYqev-.jpg
+ (description: a cat with a sign on its back; confidence: 0.48)
+%
+< Kassandry> Push them off a balcony into a pool of alligators?
+< sungo> at the time, yeah that was a possiblity. the second floor fire
+ escape that we all used to avoid walking past the project
+ managers, at the time, was directly over animal infested swamps
+%
+<erry> 2 aroaces sitting in a tree; H E L P U S W E C A N T G E T D O W N
+%
+< velix> oh dear, pg_receivewal needs replication sluts
+< velix> slots!
+< mst> .oO "promiscuous replication"
+< davidfetter> I guess they're always in a dtf state
+%
+< velix> The left-overs from the vietnamese guy are tasty.
+< velix> Wait, that sounds crazy.
+-!- velix is now known as vorelix
+%
+-!- GeekRuthie has joined #chat
+ * GeekRuthie finds her way back in.
+ * GeekRuthie hunts for something to blame on pirateFinn.
+< pirateFinn> Oh no what did I forget I did now
+%
+< ragingrobot> brb makin myself a raktajino
+<+bin> whats your raktajino recipe, ragingrobot
+< ragingrobot> bin: I try to keep it simple: espresso, cinnamon, cardamom
+< ragingrobot> and maybe a little whiskey for an O'Brien raktajino :)
+%
+< mst> I quite like sticking a half scoop of chocolate ice cream into coffee
+<+She> mst: We call this mixture "affrontgato".
+%
+< phaylon> the building I grew up with was originally accidentally built
+ without toilets in 1923
+%
+<+wodencafe> Don't worry, I'm laughing at you, not with you.
+%
+< sobel> learning to work with the tools now baked into modern languages
+ has been super interesting to me. i'm receptive to gripes about
+ 'automagic' languages but making sand produce computation is
+ already sufficient magic to me
+%
+<mst> damnit where is my awake
+<erry> beats me
+<erry> if you find it let me know if mine is also there
+%
+ * TBSliver was pinged... *sees Oracle mentioned* Nope. Nope nope nope
+%
+< mst> > "Look I know I'm wrong but every time I hear the word "gastropub" a
+ little voice in my head immediately whispers "...pub for snails"
+< LeoNerd> If a gastropub had little covid-safe eating booths for every
+ customer, could you call those gastropods?
+%
+< LeoNerd> Oh boo.. I fixed that bug but forgot to work in a reference to
+ "self-sealing stem bolts" in the comments
+%
+<erry> but i feel bad about it
+<mst> yes, well, that happens no matter what
+<mst> "roll a d6 on the anxietying erry table"
+<erry> *rolls a nat 20 on a d6*
+%
+< LeoNerd> Personal update: My leg operation actually happened, finally.
+< mst> LeoNerd: is it still attached?
+< LeoNerd> I guess so. I mean, I can wiggle my toes and see them
+< LeoNerd> So either that, or your Object::Remote has gained new abilities ;)
+%
+< ether> so my husband and I have decided we don't want children.
+< ether> we'll be telling them tonight.
+%
+No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here
+Mostly embarrassing deeds, as a matter of fact
+%
+< neilb> p5p's law: "it's a bit more weird and twisted than you might
+ imagine, even when you take into account p5p's law"
+%
+< [Tux]> sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance ; make -j8
+< ilmari> TIL cpupower. I've just been fiddling about in
+ /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ like some kind of caveman
+%
+< ilmari> try and avoid imagining extra problems that don't exist -
+ programming is hard enough when you only have to deal with the
+ real ones.
+< ilmari> Step back. Explain what you're trying to achieve.
+%
+< sungo> you know, the thing I want right now is an aerosol version of
+ the vaccine. then i want to hire all those assholes that
+ non-consensually spray me with cologne at the mall or wherever,
+ stock them with the aersol vaccine and let them loose in crowds
+%
+< sungo> right now I kinda want to murder things. well, more than usual.
+%
+< sobel> definitely gonna stop that malicious curl traffic by threatening the
+ author of a world-famous http util. it literally pulls the cat right
+ back into the bag, amazing.
+< sobel> my actual cat said raow right after i sent that
+%
+< k-man> i wish there was a wwmstdo function
+< k-man> what would mst do
+< k-man> you input a cpan module, and it outputs what mst would use instead
+%
+<Kassandry> Fucking mornings. I have so much adrenaline going through me
+ I swear if I sneeze Vulcans are going to land in Montana
+ asking "That was most fascinating. Humans got a warp core
+ faster than we thought."
+%
+< Hecate> love my db admin
+< Hecate> > but technically, for my part, the app is doing the
+ ratelimiting on the db. by crashing, which is bad, but my
+ precious db is ok ! :)
+%
+< perigrin> asynchronous programming, Three most common problems:
+ caching, fenceposts, naming things (including verbs)
+%
+<erry> Anyway after that our PM told them to calm the fuck down and to
+ make a ticket and prioritise it
+<erry> Suddenly it's not a "do it yesterday" emergency
+<erry> it talks to the product manager or it gets the hose
+%
+ * LeoNerd mildly amused there's a debian package called wbritish-insane
+%
+< sobel> i'm so over it. i used to try to make jokes like, "i could hire
+ better coders at Build-a-Bear workshop" but THEY'RE NOT FUNNY
+%
+< random> I am having a day of Pol WTF Did You DO?
+< random> (Disney Plus doesn't work on the wifi)
+< random> ...if my wifi is somehow bouncing through Hetzner...
+%
+< cat-xeger> bad day. no biscuits.
+-!- LeoNerd [~leo@genoa.dictatorshipcake.co.uk] has joined #chat
+< LeoNerd> \o/ I return
+ * cat-xeger drops teh bin of biscuits on leonerd's toes
+%
+< phaylon> mst: je m'appelle phaylon, je suis un fromage <- all I got left
+%
+< cat-xeger> welp... I just caused the marketing rep's brain/script to go boom
+< cat-xeger> "could you answer just with a letter which range you and your
+ spouses combined salary are in?" "my spouse is dead" <pause>
+%
+-!- TorgoX [~torgo@S010610561194533f.ed.shawcable.net] has joined #perl
+< TorgoX> FROZEN PIPE woooo-hoooooo!
+< TorgoX> And I don't mean the thing from when you close a channel from
+ my $DONGS, "-|", "ls", "--sort=size" too early
+%
+When my friend was getting his degree in Economics he said that someone
+had made a graffiti on one of the desks in the lecture hall that was the
+Guns 'n Roses logo but it said "Guns 'n Butter". :)
+ -- @WhippleMarc
+%
+< TrueWolves> The best part of computers is they do exactly what they've
+ been told. The worst part of computers is they do exactly
+ what they've been told, and you're not always the one
+ they're listening to.
+%
+< sobel> claims of a new "roaring twenties" seem to be greatly exaggerated
+< sungo> we assumed that we humans would be doing the roaring. if you're
+ a coronavirus, this decade fucking rules
+%
+< ilmari> we were talking about HTTP GET with a body the other day. today
+ I discovered an API that uses DELETE with a body!
+< mst> ilmari: WHAT
+< mst> ilmari: *WHAT*
+%
+< Altreus> thank you for loosening that rope before I kicked the chair away
+< mst> de rien
+< mst> I'm sure you'll come in handy for -something- later
+< Altreus> Bring seasoning
+%
+< sobel> i had a very unusual thing happen to me this morning. my stereo
+ remote ran its batteries dead. they usually get lost or the
+ equipment is outdated or failed first.
+5
+< cd> I turn 45 in just over two weeks, how did I manage to survive this long?
+< ccooke> cd: Spite?
+< cd> but I'm too lazy to be spiteful...
+< ccooke> Did I say it was *your* spite?
+%
+< Dom> I remember when we had just completed moving a load of kit from
+ the datacentre in Chelmsford to the one in Hemel Hempstead and
+ were happy that it had gone live without a hitch.
+< Dom> That was the day before the Buncefield storage depot blew up.
+%
+-!- LeoNerd [~leo@jaffa.dictatorshipcake.co.uk] has joined #io-async
+< LeoNerd> A new cake
+< LeoNerd> (A good British jaffa cake, because it's now hosted in DO's
+ LON-1 dc, rather than genoa being in AMS)
+%
+< mst> oh for fuck's sake I typed 'gaurd clause'
+< mst> welp, fuckit, close enough
+< ether> better than gourd clause
+< ether> where's your perl pumpkin now
+%
+< Altreus> The nice thing about Perl is that no matter how much effort
+ people put into protecting you from yourself, there's always a
+ way around it
+< LeoNerd> Perl: Sufficient Rope
+%
+< PapuaHardyNet> man, child swapping sounds so wrong
+< PapuaHardyNet> it reminds me of wife swapping
+< mst> do not fuck the other person's child
+< adiabatic> hey, it's not incest anymore, right?
+%
+-!- Irssi: Starting query in libera with jberger
+<mst> FUCK YOU WITH A RAKE AND GROUND GLASS CHILLI LUBE
+<jberger> I mean, I guess I probably deserve it, but why?
+<mst> oh, good, I -am- connected to libera again
+%
+<erry> the HR sent a test email of job change accidentally
+<erry> anyway my job title is now ""
+%
+< cat-xeger> I laughed loudly enough to get the cats to pay attention
+%
+< cyborg_ar> just get a roll of heavy duty aluminum foil
+< cyborg_ar> then you can make a stylish hat to wear too
+< ChuangTzu> stylish and functional
+< Hecate> did someone say Haskell™?
+%
+< peerce> i wonder when the bean counters will finally figure out that
+ outsourcing everything just leads to dreck.
+< sobel> oh they did, and they chose dreck
+%
+< cat-xeger> Cant type
+< mst> -!- cat-xeger is now known as javascript
+< cat-xeger> Oh c'mon... I only screwed up letters, not letters and
+ everything else!
+%
+<+Sauvin> Ladies and gentlemen, this airplane is about to crash. Fasten
+ your seatbelts and put your heads between your knees.
+<+Sauvin> Um, sir, between your *own* knees.
+%
+< gwern> the real question: can gray goo run Doom?
+< PlanckWalk> I'm sure it can, but does it want to?
+< gwern> the hackers will make sure it does
+< gwern> they'll defy being eaten just to hack Doom and a NES emulator onto it
+%
+< Obormot> -1 byte, lol
+< Obormot> If you request this URL, the GW server reaches into your computer
+ and takes 1 byte away from you
+%
+ * gwern googles 'epub icon' and calls the designers into his office. 'we
+ worked hard! they're great aren't they' 'EVERY SINGLE ONE IS A SQUARE WITH
+ THE WORD 'EPUB' IN IT' 'WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING' 'BECAUSE YOU ARE BAD
+ DESIGNERS AND SHOULD FEEL BAD'
+%
+< adiabatic> quanticle: you forgot I am one of the RETVRN types here
+< mst> adiabatic: I don't believe you, I've never yet seen you GOSUB
+< quanticle> lol
+< adiabatic> eh, point
+%
+< Obormot> Surely it's not intuitive or natural to make the connection from
+ "this is a link to some sort of big file I guess" to "if I mouse
+ over this link then my browser will detonate and take out half my
+ apartment block in the ensuing explosion"
+%
+< hobbs> I did not know there was a River Exe
+< simcop2387> i'm sure england has lots of exes. i blame henry the viii
+ for a lot of them
+< hobbs> to be fair, he did his part to reduce the number
+%
+< LeoNerd> After two solid days of trying to hack up Parse::Man to
+ actually understand the output of pod2man, it finally runs to
+ completion and outputs... something. My quote: "Well, it is
+ wrong. But it's not *that* wrong"
+%
+< ilmari> last time I used openstack I broke anyone sharing a group with
+ me logging in
+< ilmari> behold the åsome power of my name \o/
+%
+<mst> I would not expect you to take swings at people ... I would expect
+ you to smile sweetly at the time and then wait several years until
+ you had the opportunity to slide a knife up under their ribcage in
+ a dark alley ... while also smiling sweetly
+%
+< erry> my friend recommended the nitro cold brew
+< erry> in other news keep an eye out for news of an overcaffeinated enby
+ scaling the empire state building
+%
+ * erry wakes up, nopes, takes sick/mental health day, goes back to bed
+< erry> it wanted a description in the sick day request
+< erry> i put "my brain is a potato"
+< erry> i think that's accurate
+%
+< ether> I don't want to contemplate what "it" is.
+%
+< erry> 26C x_x
+ * erry melt
+< erry> there's a "genderfluid" joke there i guess
+%
+< xiaomiao> tl;dr: intel hates everything, especially you
+%
+< mst> there are non-hipster parts of brooklyn?
+< Obormot> Yes! There's The Orthodox Jewish Part, The Russian Part, The
+ Chinatown Part, and of course The Part Where You Will Get Your
+ Ass Capped For Real Tho
+%
+< cat-xeger> ah, the fun of trying to make it up the stairs in the dark
+ with black cats rushing past...
+%
+< mdk> Hah. Just found out that kids break up tomorrow at 2p.m. so I
+ cannot make my own meeting
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