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 ""
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