the owner was just like "keep your cats indoors but honestly it'll
have just curled up somewhere, it's too cold for it" and sure
enough it showed up three gardens down the street.
+%
+< sobel> no really, you wanted php to run client side too
+ * sobel takes an antacid
+%
+<erry> testosterone implies the existence of stagingosterone and prodtosterone
+%
+< mst> we already said don't do that
+< PapaChub> As a wise person once said: "learning crazy shit is fine by me"
+< mst> don't accuse me of being wise
+< mst> I'm just a madman with a box
+%
+< dmq> leonerd: when i first read your message i thought you said
+ "midevil" instead of "nontrivial". :-)
+< LeoNerd> dmq: You know me, why would I pick the *mid* evil? Go full
+ evil or go home :P
+%
+< rmmh> "School fined after pupil suffers 'terrible burns' and loses 8
+ fingers after trying to make cast of her hands with plaster of
+ paris" what's in the box? pain
+5
+< sobel> i don't really want to be up but here i am
+< sobel> bed was warm and i was under a cat but he decided it was time
+ for breakfast
+< sobel> i don't make the rules around here, i just pay the bills
+%
+ * Altreus starts a fire
+< Altreus> not that I'm any good at it. Fucking burn
+< Altreus> I dunno how the fuck people burn their houses down with a cigarette
+ when I can't make shit burn that's designed to fucking burn
+%
+< erry> i'm not good at computers
+< mst> well, yeah, you only spent a year working for me, I had limited
+ time to train you up
+< erry> :P
+%
+-!- Netsplit over
+< mst> fuck's sake. sorry about that. thought I'd got it bolted back together
+< LeoNerd> Ahyes, I've had bolts like that...
+< simcop2387> self sealing stem bolts?
+%
+<erry> speaking of names, some times people think it's pronounced like 'eerie'
+<erry> very eerie, much enby, such blob, wow
+<erry> it's pronounced like 'error', of course
+<erry> that's why my slack 'job title' is 'internal server erry'
+%
+< ether> the cat just came and gave me a headbonk, and she smells like bacon
+%
+< Altreus> Every extra dot is an extra is
+< Altreus> That's an ellipsisis
+< mst> wut
+< Altreus> Ellipsis is 3 dots and that's 4 so it's an ellipsisis
+%
+< mst> I was a founding hackspace member because it seemed like a cool idea
+ ... but then never showed up because frankly I'd've just been underfoot
+< LeoNerd> One of our founders was quite similar
+< LeoNerd> He then moved to California and we didn't notice for quite a while
+%
+< Mithaldu> i feel like i'm having to explain a magic trick to a dog
+%
+ * ilmari hears lots of honking outside, looks at sportsball results
+< ilmari> ah, morocco beat spain 3-0 on penalties
+%
+< mst> perl lets you do stuff simply and that's Not Wrong
+< mst> but it also gives you a fuckload of extra power if you want it
+< mst> that's the aesthetic :D
+< thrig> swiss army footgun
+%
+* pedja wonders how long until "we travel back in time to steal satoshi's
+ btc stash" heist movie
+< mst> pedja: given the state of the crypto industry presumably that would
+ mean building a reTARDIS ?
+%
+< mst> I hate CDATA so much
+< huf> it's really great for incompetent php programmers when they cant
+ write escaping correctly
+< huf> CDATA gives them false hope
+%
+* erry gets under electric blanket tho
+<mst> hey. I grabbed the jumper.
+<mst> that means it's actually cold :D
+<erry> yeah that must mean it's like -40 there
+%
+15:38 <erry> AERGH
+15:38 <erry> arghhhhhhhhhhh
+15:41 <erry> argh argh argh argh argh argh
+%
+< mst> vms14: that's what try/catch is for
+< vms14> I'd say a warning would be enough
+< thrig> and then noise and then 2>/dev/null and then a critical bug gets
+ missed and Amazon Payments went down
+%
+< LeoNerd> I wonder about the other kinds of kebabs... blitzen kebab,
+ prancer kebab, ...
+< thrig> time to rein in that imagination
+%
+<mst> them: The cats have sodding dropped slugs on my bare chest before
+<mst> me: Bet that left you feeling salty
+<cat-xeger> cats always know too much.
+<cat-xeger> also, yeah, helps to get a grip.
+%
+< thrig> peace sells, but who is dying?
+< vms14> thrig: the one who gets his code mantained by mst
+< vms14> he will come with his captured rats to devour you
+< vms14> you're lucky cause you'll just make more rat juice
+%
+< perigrin> and the rats weren't captured, they came willingly ... he rescued
+ them from toke.c ... they were afraid of gnawing their way out
+ because even rats aren't sure what happens if you make changes to
+ perl's tokenizer.
+%
+< thrig> := temporary ::= super temporary :::= temporary and eject warp core
+%
+<mst> aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
+<mst> fucking children
+<mauke> .oO( do not fuck the children )
+ * mst glares
+%
+< ilmari> Optimist: The glass is half full.
+ Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
+ Excel: The glass is January 2nd.
+%
+< v`> mst: supermarket has an imported from europe aisle so i looked for
+ the chocolate biscuits your pet rat liked but they're not there
+ * v` bitterly disappointed
+%
+< erry> huh, there's sun
+< erry> i think i'd forgotten what sun is
+< Altreus> I WANNA FEEL WHAT SUN IS ♫
+< cat-xeger> Stay away from the fusion reactor, dammit!
+%
+<mst> after the day I discovered a core handler in a CGI::Application
+ codebase deployed under mod perl that did part of its dispatch by
+ doing a string eval of an unvalidated and unescaped query parameter
+ very little scares me anymore
+%
+< erry> for legal reasons i'm not going to blow up westminster
+%
+< erry> *coughs a lung out*
+< erry> covid? RIP
+< Hecate> erry: RIO -> Rest In Ouzo
+%
+< mst> the only sane interaction with File::Slurp is removing it and replacing
+ it with something that actually works
+< mst> hence the rage level attached to me discussing it :)
+< ology> select rage_level from mst where discussion like '%File::Slurp%';
+%
+< peerce> 9.6 ? why such an ancient version ?
+< ButtDog> Was using a dockerfile I found. It happened to use it.
+< peerce> wow do you pick up used gum off the street, and chew it too?
+< ButtDog> Sure
+%
+< two2thehead> Why yes, it *does* look like he's using meat to bait the crane.
+%
+< feep> rent-a-friend-who-is-a-girl, the new, somehow even sadder, manga
+< two2thehead> >_>
+< feep> friendr
+< gwern> the hit new toyline, SaaSy Girl
+%
+ * gwern squints. is this a code for weird sex things
+< mst> gwern: not everything is an in-your-end-o
+< gwern> mst: ha, like I believe that coming from you!
+< mst> gwern: emphasis on 'coming' I guess
+%
+< mst> I'm still disappointed they never did a Guitar Hero: Nirvana Edition
+< mst> the custom editions usually came with an extra instrument and I was
+ looking forwards to the shotgun
+< sobel> you can play the Elvis edition on the toilet
+%
+< erry> > what's the capital of greece
+< erry> > about 20 euros
+%
+< CoJaBo> The first bad sign was finding a connecting rod in the tire.
+< mst> amateur.
+< mst> a true pro like Laura Loomer doesn't even need a connecting rod.
+< CoJaBo> Apparently, neither do we
+%
+< Obormot> What if someone on your staff is so distraught about potential
+ data loss that they're about to jump out a window
+< gwern> 'I see. you make a good case for killing yourself. once you
+ implement that, I'll close your ticket.'
+%
+< Zr40> the raw value wraps around at 2^28 as does the health value
+< mst> just apply the same code you're already using to handle SNMP data
+< Zr40> I'm not :D
+< Zr40> which I suppose means I am
+%
+< Hecate> u rox
+< nox> No I nox
+%
+< simcop2387> also there's a cat in the way and i can't see what i'm typing
+%
+< user> why is my development server restarting every request
+< user> oh, the change detection code is seeing the sqlite WAL files
+< mst> but that code defaults to only looking in lib/ and templates/
+< user> I don't like subdirs so I put everything possible in one directory
+%
+< feep> they call it 'oven' even though of out hot eat the food
+< feep> they call it 'oven' even though of out hot eat the food
+< feep> ..... oops sorry, you are not the right xterm to arrow up return in
+%
+< XORXERY> It occurred to me some years ago that the mating call of the
+ nerd is: May I put my one into your zero?
+%
+< tm604> dvorak user located
+< mst> arming lawn defence cannon
+< huf> lawns are white supremacist, so please dont defend them
+< tm604> white? the fuck you been feeding your grass?
+%
+< erry> there's screenshots of target substituting tampons for mushrooms
+< erry> r/nononono
+< mst> I guess whether that makes sense depends on whether you have a
+ Donald Trump fetish
+%
+< geir> Is there a word for misspelling words because you usually write
+ something similar? Such as serve => server, or normal => normail.
+< perigrin> I call it 'typing'
+%
+< erry> me: accidentally cmd+p on my mac terminal
+< erry> the terminal: shows me a print preview, complete with syntax
+ highlighting colours
+< erry> me: youtriedstar.jpg
+%
+<mst> heh. it just occurred to me that the people I used to refer to as
+ 'right SJWs' are even better described as 'Mirror Universe Wokescolds'
+<Kassandry> OMG WOKESCOLD LORCA
+<Kassandry> Mr Rhys, could I trouble you to whine at something
+%
+< nox> mst: Yeah saw the entire thread and when I was reading the lack of
+ caffeine part I almost walked head first in a pole in the street
+ so that was pretty appropriate
+%
+Attempting an earnest conversation with someone from Gawker on Twitter is
+like attempting to play Risk with a dog.
+ - Jesse Singal
+%
+< EvanCarroll> HALLO EVERYONE IT IS I, EVAN THE GREAT
+ * mst removes the top three layers of your skin
+< mst> BEHOLD, EVAN THE GRATED
+< thrig> probably a lot of grating for a pound of flesh
+%
+< Altreus> It's an extra skill, I've found, to build one in a tiny iron stove
+ that you can barely fit a damn log in.
+< Kassandry> Or you chop the logs smaller, burn a hotter fire, and be toasty.
+< Altreus> I tried chopping them. I broke the patio.
+%
+< dbohdan> Let's wait until Friday the 13th and see what simcop2387 posts
+ before we judge his authenticity
+< simcop2387> so you're asking for a bunch of gay porn then?
+< dbohdan> Only for verification process
+%
+ * mst wonders if docker's corporate disclosure statements include as a risk
+ factor "loss of essential institutional knowledge due to accidentally
+ forgetting to only ever buy edible crayons for the office"
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