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
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