%
< LeoNerd> Ohyeah strftime is a right fucker
< LeoNerd> strptime doubly so
+%
+< erry> of all companies, uniqlo chose yodel to deliver a 100 quid coat
+< erry> are you kidding me
+< erry> i'd have more chances of getting that parcel if they just
+ airdropped in the general direction of london
+%
+ * GumbyPAN CPAN Upload: LUGS-Events-Parser-0.13 by SCHUBIGER
+< ology> LUG nuts
+< LeoNerd> Self-sealing?
+< simcop2387> LeoNerd: those are stem bolts not nuts
+%
+< LeoNerd> English's approach to commas is much like Perl's approach to
+ parens on function calls
+< LeoNerd> "eh sometimes maybe, if you want"
+< mauke> a comma chameleon, if you will
+%
+< Zr40> also today: "I have an applies_to table. If the table is empty
+ then I want it to apply to everything"
+< mst> Zr40: surely you should just use a row with a NULL pk for that
+< Myon> the evil is strong with mst today
+%
+< kraih> serverless is just like CGI, but you have to give Amazon your
+ credit card instead of using a standard API
+%
+< thrig> Cisco also used to have a "fixup SMTP" for some of their switches
+< thrig> it would notice "EHLO host.name" and correct it to "HELO host.name"
+< simcop2387> oh god why would you do that?
+< thrig> security reasons
+%
+-!- simcop2387-web has joined #perl
+< simcop2387-web> ugh knocking the power loose on your SAS expander
+ causes all kinds of weird issues and zfs going "holy
+ fucking shit what did you do, all your disks are dying"
+%
+Sales: "Can you come and have a look at this receipt printer please? It's
+ got smoke coming out of it."
+Me: "oh wow okay, did you turn it off?"
+Sales: "I didn't want to touch it, it looked angry."
+%
+< mauke> cpan = remote code execution as a service
+< integral> turing-completeness was a mistake
+< thrig> the big bang was a mistake
+< El_Che> luckily, we learnt from our errors and now we have npm
+%
+< ology> Wow someone already favorited my one day old creating rhythms module.
+< Altreus> What a supportive mother!
+%
+< revhippie> My last cat was a big proponent of
+ "catch-and-release(-in-the-living-room)".
+%
+<@DrHyde> i want to write ++++current_row++, to increment current_row
+ twice, give me that value, and then increment it again, without
+ the compiler deciding that "ooh, exciting unspecified
+ behaviour, let's sing a song about frogs"
+%
+< Penfold> ok. back to figuring out where my FK value went. but first, lunch.
+< mst> Penfold: did you check behind the sofa?
+ * Penfold returns from behind sofa. One cat, a pound coin, two chargers
+ (plugged in and running under it) and the PSU for the powered recline bit
+%
+< erry> i don't smoke
+< cat-xeger> You clearly fume :P
+< mst> I set fire to cigarettes, erry sets fire to kitchens
+< erry> that only happened once!
+%
+< simcop2387> my cat watches videos of birds on a cheap tablet.
+%
+<Mithaldu> oh wait, i read it as human language, didn't realize it was perl
+%
+We were told to wait for some specialist equipment to be sent to facilitate
+offloading and delivery. About an hour later the “specialist equipment”
+arrived which turned out to be half a dozen hefty blokes loaded into the back
+of a pickup truck. -- /u/omikl on /r/talesfromtechsupport
+%
+< adiabatic> I just noticed the "AM" in Anechoic Media's logo
+< adiabatic> this is like seeing the arrow in the FedEx logo for the
+ first time, but 10,000x more indie
+%
+< quanticle> Also, why do you have an emergency Michelob Ultra in your
+ adderall cave
+< quanticle> More to the point: Why do you have Michelob Ultra in any way
+ shape or form at all
+%
+<erry> i'd feed this code into ChatGPT but it'd probably kill itself
+%
+> I swear, 99% of users think we're telepathic, and "It's broken" is a proper
+> fault report
+well... y'see... for telepathy to actually work, there needs to be something
+on the other end 'transmitting'. nothing transmitting == nothing to receive.
+%
+< aquanight> # define PERL_GET_INTERP (PL_curinterp) //
+ seems innocent enough right?
+< aquanight> cannot seem to turn up a *definition* of PL_curinterp anywhere
+< aquanight> it clearly exists. It clearly *has* to exist somehow.
+%
+< erry> BRAINS
+< Hecate> erry: hiya
+< erry> brain?
+%
+< leont> Patches welcome
+< mst> not at this instant, I suspect
+< mst> if I tried to suck somebody off right now they'd end up with a
+ foreskin full of irssi internals the first time I coughed
+%
+<erry> when the form requires a value for gender when u select 'other'
+<erry> if i put 'teapot' will they think i'm joking
+<erry> :(
+<erry> GENDER: 418 i'm a teapot
+%
+< mst> amusingly there -is- a parser for something called graph6
+< mst> just ... not for dot
+< cat-xeger> there's all sorts of things --> dot and/or graphviz
+< cat-xeger> ... apparently we're nto supposed to go both ways
+%
+< Kassandry> I was hoping Fox wouldn't settle so Dominion could send in
+ the Jem'Hadar.
+%
+< ggreer> I think if you get killed by a saint bernard, it's
+ justifiable homicide
+%
+< mst> https://trout.me.uk/violin2.jpg
+< mst> Tardigrades: Playing the violins inherent in the cistern
+< Thuryn> mst, is that the violin you play in sympathy for whiny people?
+< thrig> yes. sympathy.
+%
+< erry> > hungry, desperate feral street cat to snuggly duvet monster
+< erry> these are the two genders and i'm both of them
+%
+< Altreus> Jen's laptop became convinced the only camera available to chrome
+ was the OBS virtual camera, even though OBS wasn't running
+< Altreus> The only way to use the actual camera was to launch OBS
+< Altreus> computers suck, has anyone else realised?
+%
+< davel> and oh, the 00:02 goes to Redhill!
+< davel> note that there are no "00:00" trains, as "00:00" means "train
+ does not stop at this station"
+< dakkar> ah, the joys of magic values / in-band signaling
+%
+< Nicholas> but it's beyond zone 6. What sort of heresy is this?
+< mst> ah, yes, the "civilisation ends at the M25" londonism
+< Penfold> it does. the argument is about whether you approach from
+ outside or inside :D
+%
+< Obormot> You know what, every additional answer just makes me want to ask
+ more (and increasingly horrified) questions, so I will take your
+ word for it
+%
+< mauke> In Poland we say "poszatkować", which means the thing that happens
+ to your mouth when you try to say it.
+%
+< thrig> maybe Theseus liked eating string candy
+< mst> cursed AO3 thread titles: "Is Theseus the original ship?"
+< huf> i ship theseus with its past selves in an omnidimensional orgy
+< thrig> none of that was in the version of Ancillary Justice that I read
+%
+< erry> sometimes the games just give you an impossible hand
+< erry> just like in real life
+< Kassandry> Impossible hand sounds like a superhero name.
+< mst> or a combination yoga pose and masturbation technique
+%
+< Obormot> 'Under orders of the State Media Oversight Committee,
+ the next edition of "War and Peace" will be retitled
+ "Special Operation and Treason."'
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