< 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?
+%
+< davel> and oh, the 00:02 goes to Redhill!
+< davel> note that there are no "00:00" trains, as "00:00" means "train
+ does not stop at this station"
+< dakkar> ah, the joys of magic values / in-band signaling
+%
+< Nicholas> but it's beyond zone 6. What sort of heresy is this?
+< mst> ah, yes, the "civilisation ends at the M25" londonism
+< Penfold> it does. the argument is about whether you approach from
+ outside or inside :D
+%
+< Obormot> You know what, every additional answer just makes me want to ask
+ more (and increasingly horrified) questions, so I will take your
+ word for it
+%
+< mauke> In Poland we say "poszatkować", which means the thing that happens
+ to your mouth when you try to say it.
+%
+< thrig> maybe Theseus liked eating string candy
+< mst> cursed AO3 thread titles: "Is Theseus the original ship?"
+< huf> i ship theseus with its past selves in an omnidimensional orgy
+< thrig> none of that was in the version of Ancillary Justice that I read
+%
+< erry> sometimes the games just give you an impossible hand
+< erry> just like in real life
+< Kassandry> Impossible hand sounds like a superhero name.
+< mst> or a combination yoga pose and masturbation technique
+%
+< Obormot> 'Under orders of the State Media Oversight Committee,
+ the next edition of "War and Peace" will be retitled
+ "Special Operation and Treason."'
+%
+< erry> i don't care for the coronation but i do care for having tomorrow off
+< erry> can we just coronate someone every week
+< erry> maybe they should coronate the curernt conservative pm.. I mean that'd
+ be scary but we'd have a lot of days off given how long those last
+%
+< nickb> Sap - gradually weaken or destroy (a person's strength or power).
+%
+< mst> I just read this so now you have to as well: "Migrating the data
+ took a week. The first issue was how large our database is: 40gb."
+< joepie91> ah yes, one of those phrases that seems completely innocent
+ unless you understand the implication
+%
+< cat-xeger> my cat branch grows bi black polydactyl cats
+< cat-xeger> big
+%
+< Kassandry> *raises water bottle* To being weird!
+< cat-xeger> campai!
+< Kassandry> *swigs*
+< cat-xeger> <-- waves arm about, confuses cats
+%
+< mst> yeah, so materialise that data via WITH or a subselect
+< Penfold> or a separate select, as we have the data in hand cause we just created the fucking rows
+< Penfold> mmmmduh
+< Penfold> BRB
+%
+< mst> Ada would have trouble outsmarting a rock
+< Kassandry> She has. She whapped one with her paw and was surprised it hurt.
+< Kassandry> And then whapped it again. Three times before she caught on.
+< Kassandry> So yes, she's had problems outsmarting rocks.
+%
+<erry> "most women want andrew tate" my uterus has got its shotgun and
+ locked itself in its room
+%
+<castaway> you, more smug than usual? that would be quite a thing :P
+%
+<erry> Watching Spongebob musical later this month in london :D :D
+<erry> Can't wait
+<mst> Who lurks in the memory under the C? SPONGEBOB SEGV
+%
+< mst> ... oh for crying out loud, it's the blowjobs spambots again
+< mst> cunts.
+< mst> (well, ok, slightly inaccurate, I'm sure the fucktards running
+ them have neither the warmth nor the depth ...)
+%
+<castaway> well that was fun, let's not do that again
+%
+Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what
+we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
+ -- Bertrand Russell
+%
+< nox> How do you call a genderfluid person who is lactose intolerant?
+< nox> Non buy-dairy
+%
+< cat-xeger> a friend misread terciel as tactical. I like the idea of
+ tactical cat cuddles
+%
+< erry> oh wtf is going on
+< erry> that looks like chatGPT had a seizure and then wrote code
+< mst> well, yeah, but other than it being python?
+< erry> oh shut up :D
+%
+< erry> i wish i could clone myself
+< erry> but then I'd have to deal with my clones
+< erry> I no longer wish I could clone myself
+%
+< Kassandry> *vrrrrrrm*
+< erry> yes, that is the sound of over-caffeinated erry
+< Kassandry> Like a gnome set on vibrate.
+%
+<erry> why don't washing machines have an 'incinerate' option
+<mst> because you'd select it by mistake
+%
+< Kassandry> Nobody wants commander? That'll disappoint Riker fans.
+< mst> now I have a mental image of Will Riker biting Secret Service agents
+< Kassandry> I think he would, especially during jamaharon.
+< mst> [[ominous horga'hn music]]
+%
+ * Penfold buys an MDF laser flatbed cutter. go me.
+< Penfold> Caution: do not look into laser with remaining eye.
+%
+< erry> if i dont beat myself up, someone else will
+< erry> and it'll be worse
+< sungo> get a magic marker, draw a penis on your forehead. then you and
+ everyone else are done with the shaming
+%
+< alethkit> "No one has ever been eaten by their pet knife"
+%
+13:01 < Zr40> the desk frame made it upstairs. Next, the surface
+13:14 < Zr40> reassembly time!
+13:38 < Zr40> You found loot: 1x Toe Cramp
+13:38 < Zr40> ow
+%
+< erry> sounds like some sensible economics
+< erry> capitalism means chart keep going up forever
+ * xiaomiao looks at average temperature
+< xiaomiao> welp, can't deny the capitalism
+%
+ * Leolo curses at his faulty UPS
+< LeoNerd> Is it an Unhelpful Power Supply?
+%
+< mst> I don't think 'insane' has ever stopped any of us
+< sungo> of course not. but I think it's at least important to give a
+ knowing nod to the insanity on the way past to make it clear we
+ understand each other
+%
+< cat-xeger> <-- tries opening one eye at a time
+< cat-xeger> ... loses count
+%
+< Mithaldu> the most potent english weapon is the cuisine
+< Mithaldu> also shoddy construction standards
+%
+<Kassandry> Yes, devs, when you use your words, I can get you what you want.
+%
+< Kassandry> I love how RDS hangs and cloudwatch alarms mean nothing and I
+ can't ssh into the server and fix it so yay $255/hr support
+ when we get it approved.
+< Kassandry> Goatfucker.
+%
+<ember> Sorry lost my phone under a cat
+%
+< TrueWolves> I can write in a sub-2 font size.
+< cat-xeger> can you read it?
+%
+<erry> yet again i'm like mx paranoid
+%
+< erry> my rolling wardrobe doors are slightly out of place but i can't fix it
+< erry> so probably they're going to fall put and kill me in my sleep
+< Kassandry> erry: Got really kinky, eh? Broke wardrobe doors.
+< erry> i was careless when coming out of the closet.
+%
+< kraih> at this point i spend like half my working day in video calls :S
+< mst> oh, right, you've reached -that- level of seniority
+< mst> congratumiserations on your career progression
+< kraih> *sob*
+%
+< erry> Erry has the following attacks: depression, anxiety, cry, code
+%
+<mst> What do a man who's had a vasectomy and a Christmas tree have in common?
+<mst> Decorative balls.
+<mdk> Not just decorative, I reclaim the protein and feast upon it, absorbing
+ the many potential babies, it's why I can't visit Alabama anymore...
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