%
< 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
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