%
< 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)
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