to add vodka to this elephant's bucket of water. The next morning that
elephant was completely healthy, but the other three elephants began to cough.
(Russian joke, precise origin unknown)
+%
+<cat-xeger> I, OTOH, recovered from yesterdays migraine in time for last
+ night's insomnia
+%
+< xenu> the only purpose of $@ prototype is to cause bugs
+< mst> xenu: you mean ... $@ is usually an error?
+< mst> I think anybody who's ever used eval already knew that
+ * ether ಠ_ಠ
+%
+<+Roey> My girlfriend was infatuated with roofing equipment so I gave her
+ an ultimatum: it's either me or the equipment.
+<+Roey> She chose the ladder.
+%
+< mst> AbleBacon: anthropomorphisation of specific code elements is
+ helpful in order to personally hate them to the level they deserve
+<+AbleBacon> ah, well i've definitely referred to gstreamer as a "fucking
+ bastard" so that makes sense
+%
+<jberger> you want an odd type of pain?
+<jberger> try to deploy a kubernetes cluster on a bank of servers
+ reclaimed from a network engineering conference
+<mst> ... every part of that sentence was cursed
+%
+< Hecate> thing said today in standup meeting
+< Hecate> "Alright, enough perl slander, the developers might hear us.
+ After all, we all have perl installed on our machines."
+%
+< quanticle> Good news: our AWACs folks are messaging each other on a
+ bandwidth-saving text-oriented protocol
+< quanticle> Bad news: the bandwidth-saving text-oriented protocol is IRC
+< quanticle> Worse news: their IRC client is mIRC
+%
+< xiaomiao> that's like Vodafone terminating the 'old' KabelDeutschland
+ peerings "because we have enough capacity"
+< xiaomiao> hint: they didn't
+%
+ * LeoNerd observes that the expression c/c++ is UB in both C and C++
+%
+< thrig> ... production alarm fires as totally different team using a totally
+ different language write the exact same bug as the old code had ...
+< thrig> luckily someone wrote a little perl script to look for this condition
+ after the first time it happened
+%
+< saturn2> if i needed to gaze into my pants i would go in the bathroom
+< PapuaHardyNet> if you gaze too long into the void, the void gazes back
+< mst> just don't dereference the void
+< mst> that's undefined behaviour
+%
+<mst> watching other people shag is not my thing at all
+<mst> last time I had two female attendees decide to fuck at a house party
+<mst> my reaction was "good, they're enjoying themselves" and I went to sleep
+<mst> brought them cups of tea in the morning mind, I am an english host ;)
+%
+< leitz> I'm not at audrey level, certainly. Not even at "mst after a
+ heavy drinking weekend with no sleep" level.
+%
+<@DrHyde> How's Thursday the 30th for everyone who I like?
+<@ilmari> works for me
+ * mst would check his calendar but is already excluded by both geography
+ and the phrasing of the question
+%
+< Grinnz> what happened to openssl 2?
+< LeoNerd> Grinnz: Perhaps it got {Perl,PHP,Scheme} 6'ed?
+%
+< Obormot> Man how do I even figure out what type of pillow to search for. I
+ have no idea what the one I have is or is made of
+< Obormot> This is going to end with me going to some obscure phpbb web forum
+ of hardcore pillow enthusiasts to question them
+%
+< feep> ALRIGHT
+< feep> we have progressed from compiler errors to SEGFAULTS let's GO
+%
+< cousteau> This is an actual error message I got from that program:
+ "WARNING: vhdl is not supported as a language. Using usenglish"
+%
+< feep> I mean, this isn't even C, this is straight llvm ir
+< feep> it's still how it rolls tho
+< feep> on paper llvm is generic, in practice it's a C backend with a
+ fake moustache
+%
+ * daemon looks at code in editor ... hmmm come on energy and focus I
+ know you will come to me if I stare long enough
+< thrig> NOPE
+< Altreus> nope
+%
+< thrig> the road to shell is paved with good indentations
+%
+< Rembane> I had so many viking jokes but some dude in a longship stole 'em.
+%
+<+AbleBacon> my twins ATTACK each other when they run out of food. like, the
+ food runs out and it's every cat for itself. it's so pitiful
+<+AbleBacon> they've never gone more than a few hours without food in
+ their bowl but they have like... no memory
+%
+< cat-xeger> 43
+< Hecate> 44
+< cat-xeger> <-- focus apparently doesn't follow brain
+%
+< davidfetter_work> .oO( ALTER GOTO )
+%
+< zgu> cpanm is almost but not quite entirely unlike cpan
+%
+< Obormot> Why is Programming in ML like Safe Sex?
+< Obormot> Because you can't catch any bugs but it's not much fun.
+%
+-!- tomaw [tom@libera/staff/tomaw] has joined #perl
+< mst> tomaw: WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE PERL5 EMERGENCY
+< tomaw> mst: CATALYST EMERGENCY AVOIDED
+< mst> tomaw: YOU MEAN YOU AREN'T DEPLOYING GMS AFTER ALL?
+%
+<+Sauvin> Trying to decide if this guy is a legitimate loon or just a
+ fuckwit troll.
+%
+<sobel> reminds of when i was more ok with being unsure (about myself)
+ than others were, so the exchanges went something like
+<sobel> them: u r a fag
+<sobel> me: maaaaaybe
+%
+< marcus> Would be great if someone could cancel brexit
+< LeoNerd> I tried :/
+< felipe> Brexit::Cancel::run() ?
+< mst> marcus: some things, even I can't destroy :(
+%
+<mst> ow
+<cat-xeger> what did you do?
+%
+< ggreer> If you drive safely for a week, they’ll probably give you FSD
+< ggreer> Aggressive acceleration is not one of the factors they use
+< mst> "drive in only unsafe ways that elon does"
+< ggreer> Exactly
+%
+<mackp2014> It's so busy downtown here for some reason. My hometown is
+ becoming a tourist attraction ughhh
+<mackp2014> They've found us lol
+%
+< rbraun> "ssleay" is a series of 6 letters i haven't seen in a long time
+< mst> rbraun: a more inelegant weapon, for a less civilised age
+%
+<Kassandry> Ok. Cat barf cleaned up. Cat knocking things down dealt with.
+ Now I can go get coffee and look this over.
+<mst> sexylosers: fap fap fap fap splort
+<mst> adacat: thud thud thud thud hooork
+%
+< kuudes> I am pretty great, but I hope to get less great
+< nshepperd2> mst is probably greatest by the obvious correct measure,
+ which is number of pockets
+5
+< EvanCarroll> this langauge is insane.
+< ilmari> EvanCarroll: you must be new here
+%
+<erry> i managed to choke on my drink and/or snack so much i had a full
+ on coughing fit
+<erry> covid can't destroy my lungs if they are presently outside my body
+ due to being coughed out
+%
+< petern> Urgh, why the heck is @Model.Property giving a different value
+ than <... asp-for="Property">
+< hikari> I have no idea.
+< ccooke> Spite.
+%
+< Kassandry> Eh. She's your cat, you adjust to the peeing outside the box.
+< erry> talk about thinking outside the box
+< Kassandry> Only if it's omorashi and you're a furry...
+ * Cadey gives Kassandry a hose and silently nods
+%
+< feep> "we did a mouse there and it was intimate" --alan kay reminisces
+ about his mousegirl waifu
+< feep> apparently "they had motors in it" tmi kay, tmi
+< gwern> he truly was decades ahead of his time
+%
+< _stark_> I'm having trouble imagining a real use case for these
+< RhodiumToad> don't ask me, I just implemented them
+%
+< thrig> horse meat has 5.03mg of Iron, while Veal has 0.99mg,
+< rewt> so horse is more ironic than veal?
+%
+<sobel> i know this one guy who went to a "nerd/geek" themed party wearing
+ office-casual and a paper mask with a 1 and a 0 over the eyes
+<sobel> bitmask
+%
+< Altreus> did you intentionally use wherefore wrong just to troll everyone?
+< mst> "wherefore art thou frob() in my namespace?"
+< mst> but also, yes.
+< Altreus> good - I was worried you'd changed
+%
+< Altreus> "Why is this on CPAN" --> PERLANCAR
+< mst> http://trout.me.uk/noxface.jpg
+< Altreus> that person is melting
+< mst> no, he's just french
+%
+< thrig> years ago you served my father in C wars
+< lopid> was that near the tannhauser gate?
+< mst> all these moments will be lost in time, like tr///s in rain
+< lopid> die time;
+%
+< Altreus> sorry I got distracted by people on r/ADHD not reading my post
+ before responding
+< Altreus> not sure what I expected
+%
+< adiabatic> on the other hand, bubonic plague
+%
+11:04 < mst> mdk: TREE DACE
+11:04 < mst> or at least 71 hours
+11:05 < castaway> of morning msts?
+11:05 < mdk> Jingo, Jingo, Jingo
+%
+< sobel> murphy was an optimist
+5
+15:30 < ology> A rare and tropical TorgoX in the wild!
+15:32 -!- TorgoX has quit [Quit: ~~]
+15:35 < Grinnz> you've spooked them
+%
+ * GumbyPAN CPAN Upload: File-XDG-0.08 by PLICEASE
+< mst> plicease: every time I see an upload of that go past I wonder what
+ you're doing to David Golden
+< thrig> I am a name, not a number! I will not be File...
+%
+< ether> Canada apologizes for not aborting Cruz
+< ether> if only his mother was aboriginal, we'd have aborted him *and*
+ given his mother a free and unplanned tubal ligation
+%
+< simcop2387> LeoNerd: what happens if you do sqrt($x) = -1
+< mst> simcop2387: I can't possibly imagine
+< simcop2387> mst: it is a bit of a made up problem to be sure
+< mst> simcop2387: I guess it depends how complex the implementation is
+%
+< LeoNerd> It's like when cats catch wasps and try to eat them... people are
+ all like "well it has bright yellow danger stripes on it, what did
+ you think was going to happen?".. I sympathise with the cat. It
+ *could* have been delicious.. how would you know without trying it?
+%
+< feep> And the LORD spoke to them from a whirlwind, saying: "Fornicate
+ with female dogs, children of Israel, and acquire currency!"
+< feep> (This line was struck from later transcriptions.)
+%
+ * gwern squints as he decides on the subject for this paper. still hard to
+ believe 'sexology' is a real word and actually the name of the field
+%
+< nox> went shopping, bought myself a new perfume,
+< nox> remember when we joked that my haircut is femboy aesthetics?
+< nox> When I arrived home, I checked the perfume name,
+< nox> it's called "tomboy $something_i_dont_remember"
+%
+<nox> In other news I was listening to music and I turned my head to look at
+ my cat sleeping in the bedroom but I don’t have a cat anymore lolsob
+<nox> Fucking pets despawning
+<nox> Need to make themselves a better build or something, fucking casuals
+%
+< cat> Bah! Nothing scary about my house. Just me, being quiet and keeping
+ to myself, along with my six cats, five of them black ....
+< them> Cat, you're the scary thing in your house
+%
+<+perlbot> aquanight: Couldn't pastebin output
+< mst> oh, yeah, the eval to pastebin function is currently having a mardy
+< Altreus> ah, haven't heard the term mardy used for quite some time
+< Altreus> except by me but I don't listen to myself as you well know
+%
+< Altreus> ~==~ surely
+< Altreus> it looks like Wario's moustache
+< thrig> totoro operator when
+< Altreus> do not covet thy neighbour's operators
+%
+< thrig> eval: $_="catcat"; $re = qr/cat/; s/$re/mlatu/g; $_
+<+perlbot> thrig: mlatumlatu
+< mst> thrig: it's a mewt point?
+< thrig> four of the five ends are pointy
+%
+< Grinnz> myisam, aka "technically counts as a database engine"
+< Grinnz> in the same way kraft singles technically count as cheese product
+%
+< gordonfish> s/Has/Had/ # cat licking my arm
+%
+< Altreus> this pleases me: $ chsh -s csh
+< Grinnz> chsh -s csh shh
+< thrig> ba-doom csh
+%
+<+AbleBacon> thank you, windows defender, from heroically protecting my
+ computer from that EVIL open-source software
+< mst> I don't remember the last time it pointlessly blocked something
+< mst> ... which probably means I should double check it's still running
+%
+< gwern> 'take a drink everytime you think asuka is cute or a bitch; take
+ one everytime shinji is a pussy; and one everytime Misato does'
+ 'are you trying to kill me'
+%
+< Obormot> In WoW, druids can transform into cats... if you gave an actual
+ cat suitable controls, could it play a cat-form druid effectively
+< Obormot> (This idea inspired by our raid leader's cat walking across her
+ keyboard)
+%
+< XORXERY> Every brain is a varying collection of thought-terminating clichés.
+%
+< feep> I just wrote )))); in a bash script
+< feep> this is a clear sign that I have lost control of my life
+%
+< thrig> AOL CALLING
+< gordonfish-> WELCOME, YOU HAVE NEW SPAM
+%
+Why is it that whenever somebody is upset here they type like they're an
+anime villain giving a long winded monologue?
+ - @RealYungCripp on twitter
+%
+< aquanight> it occurs to me
+< aquanight> 45role-does.t#L58 that message should be reversed
+< aquanight> I might have been the idiot that wrote it
+%
+< cat-xeger> I'm still trying to wake up, find motivation, that sort of thing.
+< erry> cat-xeger: find / -name *motivation* ?
+< cat-xeger> $ locate motivation
+< cat-xeger> $
+%
+< xiaomiao> velix: tl;dr: 2021 ?
+< velix> No covid, just stupid idiots.
+< velix> Covid should have killed them, but covid was too busy
+%
+< phaylon> a more enthusiastic phaylon experience is available as DLC for a
+ monthly subscription fee
+%
+< LeoNerd> I found a segv case in pureperl today
+< LeoNerd> I'm four levels deep of trying to fix a problem, and managed
+ to segfault it :( this is an annoying distraction
+< Grinnz> ah, so you pulled a mst
+%
+< xocolatl> remember, the test does not end until you turn the ignition off.
+< zelest> noted :)
+< bomb> pull the handbrake while driving to impress the women nearby.
+< xocolatl> examiners LOVE donuts!
+%
+< cat-xeger> <-- sleep was too hot, too cold, too many cats, not enough cats,
+ too much moon, too much dreaming... generally, insufficient
+%
+<+wodencafe> Hypothetically, what is it?
+<+kPa> A string literal
+ * She literally strings up kPa.
+%
+< aquanight> what trash httpd doesn't put Last-Modified in their headers
+< aquanight> oh wait
+< aquanight> nvm it helps if I don't get 404d
+%
+< cjac> oh. the maintainer got back to me. maybe we'll get a build together.
+< Altreus> collaboration? ugh
+< Altreus> bit too close to actual socialising for my taste
+< thrig> vichy france also collaborated
+%
+< PapuaHardyNet> I read "tantric buddhism" as "tactical buddhism" and was
+ suddenly interested
+%
+< velix> kebaptime!!!!!!!!!!!!! nom nom nom
+< velix> oh god, my keyboard
+< velix> need to lick key
+< velix> d dddddd d g gggggggggg n
+%
+< mst> I mean, honestly, the rules here can be rounded off to "don't be so
+ obnoxious that even mst notices"
+< Altreus> Don't stoop lower than matt?
+< Altreus> Does that mean you're the dipstick?
+%
+< xenu> eval: say v112.101.110.105.115
+<+perlbot> xenu: penis
+%
+< Altreus> I'm gonna get complex statements in this code if it kills me :P
+< daemon> lets start a pool to see which of those happens first :DF
+%
+< gwern> this is how the world ends, isn't it. 'my, these are some
+ interesting slopes upward on the largest models'
+%
+< TorgoX> In the space of four years, a guy with a hazy background founded
+ a syncretic but often baffling religion. Oddly familiar.
+< TorgoX> IT'S A CINDERALLAH STORY, REALLY.
+%
+<+fChanX> ("Sunshine.")>\(v_v )/
+<+fChanX> \( v_v)/<("Moonlight.")
+<+fChanX> ("Good times.")>\(v_v )/
+<+fChanX> (~ =_=)~<("Boogie...")
+%
+< fizzie> Also, `cat <(cat)` prints "cat: -: Input/output error" which I
+ don't want to think about at all. Some kind of Lovecraftian
+ file descriptor tangle.
+%
+< mst> my $data = do try { ... } catch ($e) { ... };
+< Altreus> do try, there's a good chap
+< LeoNerd> do try, my old boy
+< Altreus> bravo old bean
+%
+< LeoNerd> Actually, my substance of choice today appears to be the rum
+ and orange [yes, in that order] marmalade a friend of mine made
+%
+<Kassandry> *sniff sniff sniff sniff disgusted chirrup*
+<Kassandry> Told you it was tacos, cat.
+%
+< feep> god damn it, fallout 4 survival no stealth is such bullshit, but
+ I keep going back to it! :V
+< feep> last game I was literally killed by a fly.
+< pompolic> unintentional pacifist run: couldn't hurt a fly
+%
+< gwern> inside you there are _n_ conflict/mistake theorists. political
+ physicists are still working out the details of the constituent
+ 'quant' particles, but have given them names like 'strange' 'up'
+ down' 'left' 'right' 'tankie' etc
+%
+< [itchyjunk]> loss is all over the place, something must be really wrong
+< mst> [itchyjunk]: maybe you configured it to output low res .jpg ?
+< feep> is this gradient
+< RiversHaveWings> ...someone should take the spatial gradient of loss.jpg lol
+%
+< kiboneu> i want a cyber bar / cafe. the world hasn't delivered yet
+< rmmh> what is a cyber bar
+< rmmh> you go there, order a drink, and then sext with an AI?
+%
+< placeb0> speaking of social interaction has anyone else had an issue
+ with handshakes post COVID-19?
+< tepozoa> no, I still lick the back of their hand to establish dominance.
+ not much has changed, just have to pull down my mask first
+%
+<+kurahaupo> so why pick on Australia?
+< mst> (1) mentioning Australia Day was kind of a clue
+< mst> (2) because placeb0 is part emu and therefore your sworn enemy
+<+kurahaupo> AAAAAAARGH! EMU!
+%
+< mst> LeoNerd: always good to be specific about how to enter your sub
+< LeoNerd> Hrm.. well this is more about how you leave ;)
+< mst> :void :scalar :list :fakephonenumber
+< LeoNerd> :ghost
+%
+< Kobaz> Possible precedence issue with control flow operator at
+ /usr/local/library/perl/UpgradeUtils.pm line 802.
+< mst> Kobaz: vaguecat
+< Kobaz> i know, sorry
+%
+<erry> ooh
+<erry> i get why they make those foldable 2 screen phones
+<erry> so that you can play both pokemon go and the new pikmin version of
+ it at once
+%
+< gwern> (an apt example of muphry's law: any complaint about typos or
+ grammar errors will itself be erroneous.)
+%
+<erry> "please turn off your video before you stick that swab up your
+ nostril" is not a phrase I thought I'd ever say but here we are
+%
+<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.
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