X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=quotefile;h=9258988cf2d57e1bb530de0f9474b731fddb5048;hb=dfed9b421e1132ca404b2f4a1ca34274dc9189aa;hp=385709c957422c7247f4fde052201ff14c3172a9;hpb=46cbb7b24aa355bc3291c0630e0420e5caef0191;p=scpubgit%2Fmst-quotefile.git diff --git a/quotefile b/quotefile index 385709c..9258988 100644 --- a/quotefile +++ b/quotefile @@ -14580,3 +14580,412 @@ anime villain giving a long winded monologue? without toilets in 1923 % <+wodencafe> Don't worry, I'm laughing at you, not with you. +% +< sobel> learning to work with the tools now baked into modern languages + has been super interesting to me. i'm receptive to gripes about + 'automagic' languages but making sand produce computation is + already sufficient magic to me +% + damnit where is my awake + beats me + if you find it let me know if mine is also there +% + * TBSliver was pinged... *sees Oracle mentioned* Nope. Nope nope nope +% +< mst> > "Look I know I'm wrong but every time I hear the word "gastropub" a + little voice in my head immediately whispers "...pub for snails" +< LeoNerd> If a gastropub had little covid-safe eating booths for every + customer, could you call those gastropods? +% +< LeoNerd> Oh boo.. I fixed that bug but forgot to work in a reference to + "self-sealing stem bolts" in the comments +% + but i feel bad about it + yes, well, that happens no matter what + "roll a d6 on the anxietying erry table" + *rolls a nat 20 on a d6* +% +< LeoNerd> Personal update: My leg operation actually happened, finally. +< mst> LeoNerd: is it still attached? +< LeoNerd> I guess so. I mean, I can wiggle my toes and see them +< LeoNerd> So either that, or your Object::Remote has gained new abilities ;) +% +< ether> so my husband and I have decided we don't want children. +< ether> we'll be telling them tonight. +% +No highly esteemed deed is commemorated here +Mostly embarrassing deeds, as a matter of fact +% +< neilb> p5p's law: "it's a bit more weird and twisted than you might + imagine, even when you take into account p5p's law" +% +< [Tux]> sudo cpupower frequency-set -g performance ; make -j8 +< ilmari> TIL cpupower. I've just been fiddling about in + /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ like some kind of caveman +% +< ilmari> try and avoid imagining extra problems that don't exist - + programming is hard enough when you only have to deal with the + real ones. +< ilmari> Step back. Explain what you're trying to achieve. +% +< sungo> you know, the thing I want right now is an aerosol version of + the vaccine. then i want to hire all those assholes that + non-consensually spray me with cologne at the mall or wherever, + stock them with the aersol vaccine and let them loose in crowds +% +< sungo> right now I kinda want to murder things. well, more than usual. +% +< sobel> definitely gonna stop that malicious curl traffic by threatening the + author of a world-famous http util. it literally pulls the cat right + back into the bag, amazing. +< sobel> my actual cat said raow right after i sent that +% +< k-man> i wish there was a wwmstdo function +< k-man> what would mst do +< k-man> you input a cpan module, and it outputs what mst would use instead +% + Fucking mornings. I have so much adrenaline going through me + I swear if I sneeze Vulcans are going to land in Montana + asking "That was most fascinating. Humans got a warp core + faster than we thought." +% +< Hecate> love my db admin +< Hecate> > but technically, for my part, the app is doing the + ratelimiting on the db. by crashing, which is bad, but my + precious db is ok ! :) +% +< perigrin> asynchronous programming, Three most common problems: + caching, fenceposts, naming things (including verbs) +% + Anyway after that our PM told them to calm the fuck down and to + make a ticket and prioritise it + Suddenly it's not a "do it yesterday" emergency + it talks to the product manager or it gets the hose +% + * LeoNerd mildly amused there's a debian package called wbritish-insane +% +< sobel> i'm so over it. i used to try to make jokes like, "i could hire + better coders at Build-a-Bear workshop" but THEY'RE NOT FUNNY +% +< random> I am having a day of Pol WTF Did You DO? +< random> (Disney Plus doesn't work on the wifi) +< random> ...if my wifi is somehow bouncing through Hetzner... +% +< cat-xeger> bad day. no biscuits. +-!- LeoNerd [~leo@genoa.dictatorshipcake.co.uk] has joined #chat +< LeoNerd> \o/ I return + * cat-xeger drops teh bin of biscuits on leonerd's toes +% +< phaylon> mst: je m'appelle phaylon, je suis un fromage <- all I got left +% +< cat-xeger> welp... I just caused the marketing rep's brain/script to go boom +< cat-xeger> "could you answer just with a letter which range you and your + spouses combined salary are in?" "my spouse is dead" +% +-!- TorgoX [~torgo@S010610561194533f.ed.shawcable.net] has joined #perl +< TorgoX> FROZEN PIPE woooo-hoooooo! +< TorgoX> And I don't mean the thing from when you close a channel from + my $DONGS, "-|", "ls", "--sort=size" too early +% +When my friend was getting his degree in Economics he said that someone +had made a graffiti on one of the desks in the lecture hall that was the +Guns 'n Roses logo but it said "Guns 'n Butter". :) + -- @WhippleMarc +% +< TrueWolves> The best part of computers is they do exactly what they've + been told. The worst part of computers is they do exactly + what they've been told, and you're not always the one + they're listening to. +% +< sobel> claims of a new "roaring twenties" seem to be greatly exaggerated +< sungo> we assumed that we humans would be doing the roaring. if you're + a coronavirus, this decade fucking rules +% +< ilmari> we were talking about HTTP GET with a body the other day. today + I discovered an API that uses DELETE with a body! +< mst> ilmari: WHAT +< mst> ilmari: *WHAT* +% +< Altreus> thank you for loosening that rope before I kicked the chair away +< mst> de rien +< mst> I'm sure you'll come in handy for -something- later +< Altreus> Bring seasoning +% +< sobel> i had a very unusual thing happen to me this morning. my stereo + remote ran its batteries dead. they usually get lost or the + equipment is outdated or failed first. +5 +< cd> I turn 45 in just over two weeks, how did I manage to survive this long? +< ccooke> cd: Spite? +< cd> but I'm too lazy to be spiteful... +< ccooke> Did I say it was *your* spite? +% +< Dom> I remember when we had just completed moving a load of kit from + the datacentre in Chelmsford to the one in Hemel Hempstead and + were happy that it had gone live without a hitch. +< Dom> That was the day before the Buncefield storage depot blew up. +% +-!- LeoNerd [~leo@jaffa.dictatorshipcake.co.uk] has joined #io-async +< LeoNerd> A new cake +< LeoNerd> (A good British jaffa cake, because it's now hosted in DO's + LON-1 dc, rather than genoa being in AMS) +% +< mst> oh for fuck's sake I typed 'gaurd clause' +< mst> welp, fuckit, close enough +< ether> better than gourd clause +< ether> where's your perl pumpkin now +% +< Altreus> The nice thing about Perl is that no matter how much effort + people put into protecting you from yourself, there's always a + way around it +< LeoNerd> Perl: Sufficient Rope +% +< PapuaHardyNet> man, child swapping sounds so wrong +< PapuaHardyNet> it reminds me of wife swapping +< mst> do not fuck the other person's child +< adiabatic> hey, it's not incest anymore, right? +% +-!- Irssi: Starting query in libera with jberger + FUCK YOU WITH A RAKE AND GROUND GLASS CHILLI LUBE + I mean, I guess I probably deserve it, but why? + oh, good, I -am- connected to libera again +% + the HR sent a test email of job change accidentally + anyway my job title is now "" +% +< cat-xeger> I laughed loudly enough to get the cats to pay attention +% +< cyborg_ar> just get a roll of heavy duty aluminum foil +< cyborg_ar> then you can make a stylish hat to wear too +< ChuangTzu> stylish and functional +< Hecate> did someone say Haskell™? +% +< peerce> i wonder when the bean counters will finally figure out that + outsourcing everything just leads to dreck. +< sobel> oh they did, and they chose dreck +% +< cat-xeger> Cant type +< mst> -!- cat-xeger is now known as javascript +< cat-xeger> Oh c'mon... I only screwed up letters, not letters and + everything else! +% +<+Sauvin> Ladies and gentlemen, this airplane is about to crash. Fasten + your seatbelts and put your heads between your knees. +<+Sauvin> Um, sir, between your *own* knees. +% +< gwern> the real question: can gray goo run Doom? +< PlanckWalk> I'm sure it can, but does it want to? +< gwern> the hackers will make sure it does +< gwern> they'll defy being eaten just to hack Doom and a NES emulator onto it +% +< Obormot> -1 byte, lol +< Obormot> If you request this URL, the GW server reaches into your computer + and takes 1 byte away from you +% + * gwern googles 'epub icon' and calls the designers into his office. 'we + worked hard! they're great aren't they' 'EVERY SINGLE ONE IS A SQUARE WITH + THE WORD 'EPUB' IN IT' 'WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING' 'BECAUSE YOU ARE BAD + DESIGNERS AND SHOULD FEEL BAD' +% +< adiabatic> quanticle: you forgot I am one of the RETVRN types here +< mst> adiabatic: I don't believe you, I've never yet seen you GOSUB +< quanticle> lol +< adiabatic> eh, point +% +< Obormot> Surely it's not intuitive or natural to make the connection from + "this is a link to some sort of big file I guess" to "if I mouse + over this link then my browser will detonate and take out half my + apartment block in the ensuing explosion" +% +< hobbs> I did not know there was a River Exe +< simcop2387> i'm sure england has lots of exes. i blame henry the viii + for a lot of them +< hobbs> to be fair, he did his part to reduce the number +% +< LeoNerd> After two solid days of trying to hack up Parse::Man to + actually understand the output of pod2man, it finally runs to + completion and outputs... something. My quote: "Well, it is + wrong. But it's not *that* wrong" +% +< ilmari> last time I used openstack I broke anyone sharing a group with + me logging in +< ilmari> behold the åsome power of my name \o/ +% + I would not expect you to take swings at people ... I would expect + you to smile sweetly at the time and then wait several years until + you had the opportunity to slide a knife up under their ribcage in + a dark alley ... while also smiling sweetly +% +< erry> my friend recommended the nitro cold brew +< erry> in other news keep an eye out for news of an overcaffeinated enby + scaling the empire state building +% + * erry wakes up, nopes, takes sick/mental health day, goes back to bed +< erry> it wanted a description in the sick day request +< erry> i put "my brain is a potato" +< erry> i think that's accurate +% +< ether> I don't want to contemplate what "it" is. +% +< erry> 26C x_x + * erry melt +< erry> there's a "genderfluid" joke there i guess +% +< xiaomiao> tl;dr: intel hates everything, especially you +% +< mst> there are non-hipster parts of brooklyn? +< Obormot> Yes! There's The Orthodox Jewish Part, The Russian Part, The + Chinatown Part, and of course The Part Where You Will Get Your + Ass Capped For Real Tho +% +< cat-xeger> ah, the fun of trying to make it up the stairs in the dark + with black cats rushing past... +% +< mdk> Hah. Just found out that kids break up tomorrow at 2p.m. so I + cannot make my own meeting +% +< LeoNerd> Also: Whatwhywhat are you doing? +% +< marcus> Just tell them “it’s your fault for making me talk to mst”. +% +12:48 < cat-xeger> blearfthud +12:52 < erry> same thanks +12:52 < erry> well not right now because i'm caffeinated +12:52 < erry> but i definitely woke up with blearfthud +% +14:38 < BinGOs> mst: hey when you have a chance can you +o GumbyNET5 and + GumbyNET7 on #cpantesters please. Many tanks in advance +[fx: mst throws /mode #cpantesters +oo GumbyNET5 GumbyNET7 at the problem] +14:43 < BinGOs> Many tanks in advance" was what happened at the Battle of Kursk +% +< castaway> see "staging is talking to the production db" ;) +< pirateFinn> ....oh + * pirateFinn screams +% + Manager in a meeting: "Lacey doesn't carry makeup, she has a + system rescue cd" Me: "No, I have the system rescue cd on a + USB stick right next to my chapstick" +% +< ilmari_> Nicholas: yep, I've added a keyword highlight for ilmari_ +< Nicholas> and for lunch_ ? :-) +< ilmari_> Nicholas: baguette in the park from the Greek cafe +< mst> ilmari_: on a scale of 0 to nox, how angry was the baguette? +% + * mst offers tea and/or hugs and/or bourbon + thanks, and through the magic of irc's baked-in international + currency and liquor converter, i'm enjoying a nice cloudy sake +% +< Su-Shee> I tried to cleanup my bookmarks/tabs. Only 472 tabs to go +% +< huf> are you a soldier of napoleon or are you just happy to see me? +< huf> (Every French soldier carries a marshal's baton in his knapsack. + -- Nappy) +< mst> huf: don't you get france all over my diaper fetish bitch +% + I may be a bit out of touch here, but only in the sense of "I was + getting punched in the head by chav idiots while you were still in + primary school" +% +< mst> Machi Basad. +< mst> shit. +< mst> Machi Bhasad. +< Mithaldu> bloodywood? +% + I try to be nice. I really do. + but at a certain point, "fair game" applies. + or: "who does he think he is?" + me: "how sure are you that you want the answer to that question?" +% +< ilmari> so many faces, so few palms +% +< zelest> but then again, you also have voice control for everything on a Tesla +< zelest> you can even say "open butthole" to open the charge port :) +% + the only indoor only cat I can think of is Darwin and that's cos he + has dental issues that means he'd hurt himself if he killed anything + I need more coffee. I read that as "mental issues" + I mean, that too. +% +< pndc> Some of us gain tact and manners in our dotage. +< pndc> For example, I politely informed a crypto recruiter I was not + interested and left it at that without even using four-letter words. +% +< phaylon> truth of the day: vegan salami counts as salad +% +< sobel> i used to get bank holidays off, then i took an arrow to the knee +% +< mst> cat-xeger: metaphorically, yes, very much +< mst> cat-xeger: literally? not with a borrowed cock. +< cat-xeger> That's infinitely funnier when I think of it as some poor, + scrawny, borrowed rooster. +% +< alh> mst: You're far too kind +< mst> alh: not something I get accused of often :D +< alh> A part of me did die inside while typing that +% +< mst> plicease: "I've gone blind, Arthur!" "No you haven't, you're + wearing your peril sensitive sunglasses and it's 2022" +< thrig> perl sensitive sunglasses might be reasonable +% +< two2thehead> By legalizing Cannabis and same-sex marriage we finally + interpreted the bible correctly +< two2thehead> "A man who lays with another man should be stoned" +% +< revhippie> It's the Gordon Ramsay of code review? +< TieUpYourCamel> well yeah except Gordon Ramsay doesn't do "gentle" +< thrig> paging Dr. mst paging Dr. mst code to review +% +< Altreus> this is so weird ... does this just not work or something +< thrig> a) firewall b) proxy c) other +< Altreus> literally just installed it on my digital ocean +< thrig> c) cloud d) other +% +21:42 < cat-xeger> I'm sure there are better things in this world than a comfy + heated chair and a purring cat, but... can't think of any +[...] +22:24 < cat-xeger> different, more demanding cat, same setup +% +< zelest> the "h" in "system development" stands for happiness +% +< nox> mst: Do you have weird people with sticks, who pretend they can + find water sources with them? +< mst> nox: ohhh, dowsing rods +< nox> mst: This thread has people using dowsing rods to find gas pipes +% +< ilmari> I'm going to bruges with some friends of mine in november, and + they're planning on getting the 08:16 eurostar +< ilmari> I might just get the 18:04 the day before … +< DrHyde> hours with a zero in them just shouldn't be allowed. +% +< mst> mostly I refer to en_US as either 'English (rebellious colonial)' + or 'English (but afraid of the letter u)' +< Myon> 'English (center of the world)' and 'English (centre of the world)' +< Berge> "English (favourite language)", "English (favorite language)" +% +< mst> but also this is the spirit of perl +< mst> if we hadn't already decided we could live with that trade-off, + why the fuck are we even here? :D +< ether> habit +% +< kerio> [patrik]: i was thinking of occasionally selecting a field or two + and inserting and reading back 500mb of json blob +< [patrik]> 500mb of json seems to be a broken design. whats in that json? +< rk4> pain +% +< zelest> Me and the lady booked a cabin like that going from Berlin to Sweden +< zelest> The train boards a ship and goes by sea to Sweden +< zelest> So.. I've literally had sex on a train AND a boat at the same time! +< zelest> #weirdflex +% + "slept" like crap last night... was also a cat highway +% +< cat-xeger> It's 03:30 here. +< erry> F +< erry> RIP +< erry> that's a forbidden hour xD +% +< Nicholas> Beware of low flying meetings + * ilmari spots one on the horizon (16:00) + * ilmari decides he wants a steak sandwich +< ilmari> decision paralysis, what's that? +< Nicholas> a recipie for starvation