< 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"
+%
+< perigrin> you gotta take that in the context of when mst does
+ front-end work …
+< perigrin> there isn't enough compiler to make scream for him
+ to be comfortable
+%
+< Obormot\Arcturus> Barefoot? Bah, that is for uncivilized savages
+< mst> -!- mst is now known as uncivilised_savage
+< mst> though of course I still had to correct the spelling - after all, I
+ might be uncivilised but I wouldn't want to be mistaken for *American*
+%
+< tirnanog> which is not what you have in the paste.
+< gloin> ... d'oh
+ * gloin goes off to rearrange the cargo crates on the beach so they
+ somewhat more resemble an aircraft
+%
+< Berge> _Slightly_ worried for a moment there since you mentioned AWS (-:
+< depesz> not rds. come on.
+< Berge> Would be very out of character for you!
+< mst> right, clearly depesz is an aurora fanatic
+%
+< mesaoptimizer2> maybe she was a very aggressive lesbian
+< CoJaBo> Honestly, that probably describes half our workforce at this
+ point. She'll fit in.
+%
+< xiaomiao> the customer is king? I'll get the guillotine out of storage ...
+%
+< average> I was actually thinking of getting a fanny pack myself..
+< average> idk what to put in it..
+< thrig> boiled makeshift bandages, spare ammo, cattail jelly
+%
+< Altreus> not my circus, not my monkeys
+< mst> ook?
+< Altreus> I mean apes! Apes!
+%
+< 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?
+
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