? < 1331229939 205396 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :because Ctrl+I is tab < 1331229942 976242 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :and blockquotes are usually indented < 1331229962 407765 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :but sometimes Ctrl+I is interpreted for italics due to the first letter of "italic" being "i" < 1331229964 443568 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :(such as Konversation) < 1331229966 90364 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :hope this helps < 1331230099 98361 :tzxn3!~tzxn3@cpc5-mapp3-0-0-cust464.12-4.cable.virginmedia.com JOIN :#esoteric < 1331230102 943409 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I would laugh so much if that was the reason < 1331230111 940829 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :*that were < 1331230117 459054 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :because apparently being tired makes me pedantic < 1331230225 91183 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 QUIT :Ping timeout: 276 seconds < 1331230243 387215 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION thinks it's a perfectly plausible implausible explanation
< 1331230273 833185 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I'm wondering if they used to italicise quotes by default < 1331230285 319912 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :then decided to do an s//

/g on their database < 1331230297 611850 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :to make them blockquotes instead < 1331230299 959064 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ISTR quotes on slashdot being italic < 1331230307 312885 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :ISTR that too < 1331230318 765549 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :and apparently they did it even in the middle of a sentence < 1331230360 311854 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :maybe they did it at the start of a line < 1331230360 881725 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :i.e. < 1331230363 934172 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :someone who writes comments < 1331230369 317499 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :wrapping manually like this < 1331230371 86678 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :would get caught by it < 1331230555 426201 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I don't wrap manually < 1331230558 703705 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 JOIN :#esoteric < 1331230560 160646 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :except when my browser does it for me < 1331230565 279615 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION glares at SunOS Mozilla
< 1331230583 424876 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :why did you use SunOS, again? < 1331230597 610928 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :wait, the reason is going to be really stupid, isn't it < 1331230635 214885 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :because it was a choice of SunOS and Windows and I was trying to run POSIXy stuff < 1331230639 803385 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :(including but not limited to C-INTERCAL) < 1331230656 946756 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :"The binding community discussion on the Abortion article names as requested by the Arbitration Committee has commenced. [dismiss]" < 1331230657 133547 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :my condolences to anyone involved in what will inevitably be a complete trainwreck < 1331230661 108669 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION suspects that this answer is less stupid than elliott might have been discussing
< 1331230671 249159 :asiekierka_!~asiekierk@078088180231.elblag.vectranet.pl PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh hey it's elliott < 1331230681 977793 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :wait, is there seriously a major push to name it something other than [[Abortion]]? or is this about subarticles? < 1331230682 769138 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :urrrrrrgh not you again < 1331230696 771155 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: "The Arbitration Committee has requested a binding, structured community discussion on the article titles "Support for the legalization of abortion" and "Opposition to the legalization of abortion"." < 1331230719 176884 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :so typical of Wikipedia < 1331230726 268842 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :also, hmm at [[absurd brainfuck]] < 1331230726 961333 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: prediction: half the people want "Support for the continued illegality of abortion" and "Opposition to the continued illegality of abortion" < 1331230730 947538 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :does that article even make sense at all? < 1331230735 229101 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://esolangs.org/wiki/absurd_brainfuck < 1331230735 415834 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :and no, it doesn't < 1331230746 226161 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :half of tailcalled's articles are just stupid joke BF derivatives < 1331230794 749296 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I mean, OK, TwoDucks is uncomputable, but it has nicely and precisely defined semantics, even if they're unimplementable < 1331230800 111912 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :Absurd BF doesn't mean anything < 1331230820 224661 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :btw, your link is broken < 1331230823 150882 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :(the article is mistitled) < 1331230835 439887 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh, right < 1331230847 559381 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I should really put a caps redirect in my autolinker, but I can't be bothered < 1331230852 228203 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :I was going to wikiformat it and categorise it, but I think I'll just leave uninteresting BF derivatives to rot in the future < 1331230874 956609 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :(there's an URL construction scheme that goes to the article verbatim if it exists, the name in various other cases if it doesn't, and the search page if none of those do) < 1331230884 190188 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :(it's intended for use by the Go button) < 1331230902 408779 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 QUIT :Ping timeout: 248 seconds < 1331230926 797188 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, the hourglass button these days < 1331230939 72481 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :which, btw, is inexplicably differently-aligned on Wikipedia to everywhere else < 1331230943 578119 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :anything of interest to me happen in the last couple of days? < 1331230956 972970 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :compare top-right of http://esolangs.org/wiki/Main_Page and http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page in Vector < 1331230989 23514 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :* A language that is similar to that in Star Trek the next generation episode "Darmok" [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmok] . I don't know what that could mean with programming languages. Look up Darmok reviews online. Here are 2: [http://blip.tv/sf-debris-opinionated-reviews/tng-darmok-review-5884483] < 1331231006 190234 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hahaha < 1331231011 310107 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :Best terrible idea /ever/. < 1331231013 232626 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :I want it. < 1331231034 684561 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :i like how it says "here are 2" but actually only links to one < 1331231102 142396 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 QUIT :Read error: Operation timed out < 1331231149 186823 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 JOIN :#esoteric < 1331231154 285726 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric : you mean magnifying glass, not hourglass, right? < 1331231202 937430 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :err, yes < 1331231205 737162 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :wow, MediaWiki's memoryalpha interwiki is really out-of-date; the links it produces don't even work < 1331231268 977814 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://esolangs.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_ideas&curid=1669&diff=30948&oldid=30947 hmm, this is possibly stretching the definition of "format" < 1331231713 876001 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's more similar to "wikify" < 1331231724 267608 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :but there's a content change too (if a trivial correction) < 1331231874 46973 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 JOIN :#esoteric < 1331231936 641043 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :surprise cpressey edit! < 1331231974 209912 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no JOIN :#esoteric < 1331231981 472331 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 PRIVMSG #esoteric :[[Absurd Brainfuck]] is the worst idea. < 1331231998 230491 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :You know the procedure. < 1331232014 229060 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 PRIVMSG #esoteric :It's not even the worst idea in that sense. < 1331232019 614502 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 PRIVMSG #esoteric :It's just generally an awful idea. < 1331232075 282271 :pikhq!~pikhq@71-219-223-35.clsp.qwest.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1331232084 713989 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :it might almost be a good idea if it made some sort of sense < 1331232086 477489 :pikhq_!~pikhq@71-219-197-182.clsp.qwest.net QUIT :Ping timeout: 248 seconds < 1331232091 334284 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :but it doesn't < 1331232277 679648 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :if it worked like haskell's reverse state monad somehow... < 1331232295 387819 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: realisation: I think I took down the sitenotice ~1 day before cpressey visited the wiki for the first time in months :D < 1331232317 745921 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan: Haskell has a reverse state monad? < 1331232323 361111 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I can, umm, sort of see how that would work < 1331232329 281138 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :but not think of any applications for it < 1331232332 868649 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://lukepalmer.wordpress.com/2008/08/10/mindfuck-the-reverse-state-monad/ < 1331232339 876658 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :you can do the fibonacci numbers with it < 1331232384 227098 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :there's also http://www.reddit.com/comments/6j2fy/backwards_state_monad/c03zgnv < 1331232387 357074 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :for a "practical" application < 1331232401 640717 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :bleh, mindfuck is a different thing from brainfuck and minscrew? < 1331232477 806955 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :*mindscrew < 1331232496 232974 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :hm the question i then have is whether you could ever do a loop test without data flow deadlock < 1331232524 394913 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric : I just googled “state monad simple example” and this link cropped up. < 1331232602 409526 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :I think if you combine the backwards and forwards state monads you should get MonadFix for State < 1331232683 795053 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :olsner: i tried that once, combining the flow from each direction monoidally < 1331232687 420996 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :it got messy < 1331232768 904838 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: wait, presumably the reason that user isn't in the creation log is because they /already existed/ < 1331232773 384636 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :and so didn't pass the captcha at all < 1331232778 627604 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :that's a plausible enough explanation < 1331232778 814395 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :which would explain why i couldn't find them in the logs < 1331232781 398111 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :*server logs < 1331232795 383196 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :that's how most of the spammers are getting through, after all < 1331232961 769105 :pikhq_!~pikhq@71-219-215-197.clsp.qwest.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1331232967 116546 :pikhq!~pikhq@71-219-223-35.clsp.qwest.net QUIT :Ping timeout: 245 seconds < 1331233070 593112 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION cackles evilly.
< 1331233148 31890 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :wat < 1331233155 133116 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ah < 1331233463 841694 :calamari!~calamari@ip72-211-147-156.tc.ph.cox.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1331233638 258045 :monqy!~swell@pool-71-102-226-192.snloca.dsl-w.verizon.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1331233748 424710 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric : I was going to wikiformat it and categorise it, but I think I'll just leave uninteresting BF derivatives to rot in the future < 1331233773 294577 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :i have occasionally had the weird thought if they should get their own namespace < 1331233791 21146 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :just to make a point < 1331233891 27444 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :move them to the bfwiki < 1331233891 481345 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :Their own wiki. < 1331233896 563486 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :uninterestingbfderivatives.com < 1331233936 463146 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :meanwhile, Slashdot are busy arguing about whether the recent claim someone's made to have produced a 230% efficient LED are sane or not < 1331233969 105023 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :the argument is that actually it's an electrically-powered heat pump, that converts ambient heat to light, and more such heat than the electrical input < 1331233982 813942 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :quite a few commentors are suggesting connecting the thing to a solar panel to see what happens… < 1331234004 957596 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :the solar panel needs to be more than 44% effective for an interesting effect < 1331234012 345840 :Sgeo_!~sgeo@ool-ad034d00.dyn.optonline.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott, monqy tswett if you didn't see: UPDATE < 1331234018 424198 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :even a heat pump needs a temperature _difference_... < 1331234023 24730 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :indeed, but that's doable with modern technology, I think < 1331234031 155106 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan: no, it needs an energy source < 1331234042 794658 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :heat pumps create a temperature difference and consume energy to do so < 1331234050 456753 :tswett!~tswett@171.64.42.221 PRIVMSG #esoteric :Sgeo_: just the flash? Aye. < 1331234058 585376 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :now, there is an energy source (the electricity), but it's less than the amount of heat pumped… < 1331234095 304553 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :hm... < 1331234119 59428 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric : i have occasionally had the weird thought if they should get their own namespace < 1331234120 847335 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan: :D < 1331234123 277259 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan: I COULD DO IT < 1331234130 960547 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott: you know what you should /actually/ do instead, right? < 1331234217 71342 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://esolangs.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_ideas&curid=1669&diff=30952&oldid=30948 < 1331234417 237800 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh, btw, I had an awesome esolang idea in a dream weeks ago, and now can't remember most of it < 1331234421 904806 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :hmm, you probably need a few tokens beyond those keywords as well... < 1331234423 592188 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :<>{}; for starters - and identifiers < 1331234430 787512 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :(note that as I had it in a dream, it may not follow the rules of logic, or fail to make any sense for other reasons) < 1331234444 111452 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :but I remember that the main concept was that there was only one program, which was a physical obect < 1331234445 746101 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :*object < 1331234459 966011 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :and you programmed in it by physically travelling elsewhere in the world so that you were looking at it from a different perspective < 1331234462 273521 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: hey it could still be better than most on the wiki < 1331234463 831703 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :which changed what it meant < 1331234469 686242 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric ::D < 1331234511 455720 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :fractal sundial comes to mind < 1331234519 22838 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :wow, now I'm laughing out load at that for some reason < 1331234554 743624 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :*digital < 1331234560 819970 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, both < 1331234563 735788 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :wait, which word became digital? < 1331234567 824980 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott: fractal < 1331234577 8836 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :how about a language where the empty program does "everything" (in some defined universe), and to get useful work done you need to describe everything that the program should not do < 1331234577 195036 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :it helps if you know the object that oerjan's describing < 1331234585 414662 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :now I'm wondering if any of the things have ever been made? < 1331234607 635229 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :olsner: arguably, constraint-based programming does that < 1331234614 18569 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :oklopol-Clue, Proud, etc < 1331234614 844071 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION doesn't know the object oerjan is describing.
< 1331234617 176108 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :didn't wikipedia mention a real one... < 1331234617 887017 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :however http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_sundial < 1331234649 177341 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: oh, that's kind of what I was thinking about yes... sounds boring :( < 1331234659 144572 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :"The first prototype of the device was constructed in 1994. In 1998 for the first time a fractal sundial was installed in a public place (Genk, Belgium).[3] There exist window and tabletop versions as well.[4]" < 1331234702 215753 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :now I want one of those, but I bet they're really expensive < 1331234715 63320 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :and I'd have nowhere to put it < 1331234747 327722 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PART #esoteric :"Leaving" < 1331234749 256494 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott JOIN :#esoteric < 1331234751 190971 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :btw, I think it's theoretically possible to have a (fractal) digital sundial that shows the date too (not the year, though) < 1331234756 427074 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :"window/tabletop" versions don't sound like they'd be expensive < 1331234760 337060 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :or they wouldn't be very profitable to make < 1331234764 403554 :pikhq!~pikhq@71-219-203-208.clsp.qwest.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1331234778 489229 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I have the feeling that they aren't made very much for that reason < 1331234782 697473 :pikhq_!~pikhq@71-219-215-197.clsp.qwest.net QUIT :Ping timeout: 272 seconds < 1331234806 371203 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :"The cost per sundial is $ 129.00. Sundials will be shipped from Vermont via USPS Priority Mail." < 1331234817 779799 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :Sorry, that was the US price. < 1331234819 705218 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: i recall discussing that previously and concluding that there must be days in the spring that cannot be distinguished from days in the autumn < 1331234824 486180 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :"The cost per sundial is € 91.00. Sundials will be shipped from Germany. Within Germany, the shipping cost is € 2.30 per sundial; for other European countries, the shipping cost is € 4.60 per sundial." < 1331234843 888108 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :fizzie: I just found that < 1331234847 551593 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :That's not "really expensive", but not quite cheap either. < 1331234851 67167 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :€91 is more than I'm willing to pay for a digital sundial < 1331234862 748495 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's in the range of things that I could afford, but more than the value I put on one < 1331234949 686362 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :"We currently offer mounts for 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, and 55 degrees latitude." Well, this is 60. < 1331234989 323880 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh dear, Wolfram has his own blog < 1331234996 121018 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott: why does that surprise you? < 1331235002 450695 :Sgeo_!~sgeo@ool-ad034d00.dyn.optonline.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott, I need to stop being part of the MSPA community. My levels of surprise at [S] Jane: Enter were rather low. < 1331235006 551004 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: it doesn't, just worries < 1331235017 379961 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :it was probably inevitable, wasn't it? < 1331235028 308423 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: :( < 1331235043 733624 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :"Every day—in an effort at “self awareness”—I have automated systems send me a few emails about the day before. But even though I’ve been accumulating data for years—and always meant to analyze it—I’ve never actually gotten around to doing it. But with Mathematica and the automated data analysis capabilities we just released in Wolfram|Alpha Pro, I thought now would be a good time to finally try taking a look—and to use myself a < 1331235043 971471 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :s an experimental subject for studying what one might call “personal analytics”." < 1331235056 238757 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :do you think he's this much of a shill 24/7? < 1331235059 172089 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :(yes) < 1331235097 943164 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :"But what about the 1990s? Well, that was when I spent a decade as something of a hermit, working very hard on A New Kind of Science." < 1331235099 677508 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott: I don't even think he's intentionally shilling < 1331235104 142883 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :what a waste of a decade < 1331235114 365791 :monqy!~swell@pool-71-102-226-192.snloca.dsl-w.verizon.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :that "self awareness" effort reminds me a bit of itidus < 1331235133 955345 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :and nah, ANKOS introduced me to a bunch of paradigms I wouldn't know existed otherwise < 1331235147 793015 :MDude!~fyrc@c-174-55-44-190.hsd1.pa.comcast.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :What, is he saying he's going to study patterns in his own writing? < 1331235148 17369 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :admittedly I had to find more reliable sources about them, but just knowing they exist is good < 1331235162 266887 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :MDude: no, email-sending and shit < 1331235166 523823 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytics-of-my-life/ < 1331235193 598933 :MDude!~fyrc@c-174-55-44-190.hsd1.pa.comcast.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :So just what time of day he sends and receives stuff? < 1331235195 918181 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :"For many years, I’ve captured every keystroke I’ve typed" < 1331235199 274764 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :more than email, apparently < 1331235234 625431 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :"One day I shall publish every keystroke I've ever typed into a single book, and sell it under the title A New Kind of Novel" < 1331235245 985319 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :Friendship: you just made that up, right? still, it's great < 1331235246 171983 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :I should get something for vim that records every keystroke I make (except the text itself, which might contain secret sauce) < 1331235262 928374 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :also, this probably means it's quite easy to determine his password if you know where to look… < 1331235271 114857 :MDude!~fyrc@c-174-55-44-190.hsd1.pa.comcast.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :All I can tell from the first one is that he apparently goes ot sleep at 3AM. < 1331235349 668765 :MDude!~fyrc@c-174-55-44-190.hsd1.pa.comcast.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :Except for between 1996 and 2002, where he drifted later for a while and then suddenly snapped back. < 1331235389 697360 :MDude!~fyrc@c-174-55-44-190.hsd1.pa.comcast.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :Before that it's a bit fuzzier, though. < 1331235394 3728 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott: you know the Star Trek-related link that you wikified? < 1331235399 237461 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :are you sure it's not actually human-added spam? < 1331235408 507846 :pikhq_!~pikhq@71-219-198-165.clsp.qwest.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1331235417 707915 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :an attempt to add a specific link in an attempt to make it look ontopic? < 1331235434 161288 :pikhq!~pikhq@71-219-203-208.clsp.qwest.net QUIT :Ping timeout: 260 seconds < 1331235435 368715 :Finnmark!~area@wikipedia/PiRSquared17 JOIN :#esoteric < 1331235439 890574 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: 90% sure or so < 1331235441 598570 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :What is the motivation to spam a Wikipedia link ... < 1331235448 831153 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :Friendship: it links to a review of the TNG episode < 1331235449 361264 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :Friendship: not the Wikipedia link < 1331235451 183979 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :the external < 1331235452 857011 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :Ohhhh < 1331235460 188306 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :presumably the episode is known for being especially bad or whatever < 1331235472 618578 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :It's an amazaterrible episode 8-D < 1331235476 830782 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :I remember it well! < 1331235477 70366 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :but it's not "Spock's Brain", which is famously the worst Star Wars episode ever < 1331235481 589223 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :Darmok and Jillad at Tinagra! < 1331235486 550189 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes, Spock's Brain is the worst Star Wars episode < 1331235488 338283 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's the famousiest TNG episode, probably < 1331235494 86549 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :even worse than Attack of the Clones < 1331235499 355209 :asiekierka_!~asiekierk@078088180231.elblag.vectranet.pl QUIT :Remote host closed the connection < 1331235502 550415 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :err, Start Trek < 1331235506 979739 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :*Star Trek < 1331235510 213367 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes, which is better than Stop Trek < 1331235524 770283 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :anyway, (a) way too intelligently-placed for even a human spammer, < 1331235535 858540 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :That being said, that is a legit language idea, and even an esoteric one. < 1331235538 596751 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :(b) no obvious profit motive to spam that link, < 1331235539 201818 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :Although probably not realizable. < 1331235542 951322 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 QUIT :Ping timeout: 260 seconds < 1331235547 529780 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :(c) idea is fairly well thought-out according to those who have the context < 1331235551 295588 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :ah, OK < 1331235560 322296 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: also, the user who added it isn't an IP < 1331235564 462115 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :and has made other valid contributions < 1331235566 253715 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :to the list of ideas < 1331235573 526882 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :without links < 1331235577 401731 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :if they're a spambot, they're _really_ dedicated < 1331235578 321242 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I guess I'm just used to Wikipedia trolls who came up with really complex and sophisticated methods of spamming that are about on a level of what I've been describing < 1331235579 602052 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :*spamperson < 1331235598 581020 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :not for any obvious reason, either < 1331235617 20982 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :btw, star trek (starträck) means starling droppings in swedish < 1331235642 620225 :Friendship!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :The Final Frontier ... < 1331235671 277962 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: [[List of ideas]] is weirdly WardsWikiish < 1331235693 280569 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :with the varying styles of writing, intermingled content-and-commentary without signatures, etc. < 1331235697 522768 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I like that < 1331235706 484721 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes, it's pleasantly anarchic < 1331235714 854544 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :people should use that style of wiki more often < 1331235726 762334 :MoALTz_!~no@host-92-8-228-70.as43234.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1331235739 683232 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :strangely enough, Talk pages often end up like that on Wikipedia < 1331235754 640235 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :especially if they're being periodically refactored but everyone but the person refactoring is ignoring the refactoring < 1331235762 935293 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :(as in, not reverting it, just not respecting the fact it's happened) < 1331235900 963579 :MoALTz!~no@host-92-2-120-248.as43234.net QUIT :Read error: Connection reset by peer < 1331236236 316432 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: I think it might have been Chaitin who wrote that Lisp interpreter. < 1331236259 175450 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :"And in Chapter 4 we present a register machine interpreter for this LISP, and then compile it into a diophantine equation." -- Algorithmic Information Theory by Gregory. J. Chaitin, 1987 < 1331236261 762953 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :thanks, Google < 1331236266 263533 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott: that rings a bell < 1331236274 601983 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :although I wouldn't have got it without the reminder, I think < 1331236286 80614 :zzo38!~zzo38@h24-207-49-17.dlt.dccnet.com JOIN :#esoteric < 1331236296 498660 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :why am i suddenly thinking of pavlov < 1331236301 862395 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :and salivating < 1331236313 502420 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :diophantine equations are turing complete? < 1331236321 143064 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes < 1331236331 52361 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :this was almost a problem in my research a couple of years back < 1331236341 433602 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :I can't even remember what they are, though I think I knew at one time < 1331236346 481717 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :well enough to pass the course, iirc < 1331236358 931077 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :it took me some work to prove that the suspiciously diophantine-equation-like set of inequalities I had was actually decidable < 1331236376 251861 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan: wat < 1331236381 845792 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh rings a bell < 1331236383 794698 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :and equations concerning polynomials on multiple variables, all of which are integers < 1331236395 323952 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :olsner: go swat elliott for me, will you? < 1331236406 606073 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :err, oerjan: < 1331236429 908042 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: i cannot do that, it was entrapment < 1331236439 305060 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :OK, olsner, you swat him then < 1331236447 338691 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :actually < 1331237110 689192 :NihilistDandy!~NihilistD@108-84-17-83.lightspeed.miamfl.sbcglobal.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1331237184 688973 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :olsner: well? < 1331237285 978538 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott: well? < 1331237350 280590 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric : OK, olsner, you swat him then < 1331237355 71165 :Finnmark!~area@wikipedia/PiRSquared17 NICK :y-u-no < 1331237724 940783 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :ooh, apparently I've been on Reddit for a year, for the nearest day < 1331237747 587708 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :happy cake day! < 1331237771 759077 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :i'd have thought you'd been there longer. < 1331237790 367370 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :ooh, I got 16 comment karma for pointing out a respect in which Emacs and Eclipse were equally good, in the middle of what was becoming an editor war < 1331237802 328112 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :presumably, because claiming that they're equally good at something doesn't annoy fanboys of either side < 1331237818 586706 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :fiendish < 1331237832 60173 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, it was correcting an implication made by the parent comment < 1331237834 889452 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :the 16 upvotes were from vim users who hate both emacs and eclipse < 1331237840 495226 :Sgeo_!~sgeo@ool-ad034d00.dyn.optonline.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :I think I got a bit more karma than that for the less impressive feat of making a Christine O'Donnell < 1331237884 452656 :olsner!~salparot@c83-252-161-133.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :hmm, I'm not sure my last statement makes any sense < 1331237884 779555 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh, the single comment that gave me the /most/ karma was for bashing PHP, but it still wasn't very much < 1331237888 30193 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :after that, for bashing VHDL < 1331237917 11952 :Sgeo_!~sgeo@ool-ad034d00.dyn.optonline.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :I got 28 karma for saying "I'm you" < 1331237935 679950 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :were you? < 1331237964 294712 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :i got 101 karma for saying "I CAN SHARE CHEEZBURGR?". beat that, fuckers. < 1331238002 767177 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :most of my old comments are shite < 1331238014 632920 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :i did get 1419 link karma from stealing a link from another thread, though! < 1331238022 716453 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :someone here got over 1000 karma from one comment, IIRC < 1331238028 620931 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :but I forget who or why < 1331238035 60470 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :hmm, what's the single highest-rated comment on Reddit ever, I wonder? < 1331238057 501030 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :i forget what it was, but i remember it was shit < 1331238063 961233 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :the highest-voted post of all time is the "test post please ignore" i think < 1331238092 982829 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :indeed < 1331238117 226410 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh right < 1331238123 365362 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :was it first post ever, or something? < 1331238129 4982 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :no < 1331238146 305401 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :people just upvoted it because it told people to ignore it and because qgyh2 posted it < 1331238152 803184 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh, right < 1331238155 374959 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :who's qgyh2? < 1331238168 455036 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :one of the highest-karma users on reddit, the highest a few years ago iirc < 1331238181 462437 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, http://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/92dd8/test_post_please_ignore/c0b6xx0 is a comment at 6356 points, that has to be one of the top comments < 1331238188 629669 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :there's something weirdly circular about upvoting someone because they have high karma < 1331238197 522245 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :and, umm, what's the picture (and is it SFW)? < 1331238219 347292 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :what picture? < 1331238226 554675 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, it's in r/pics < 1331238239 383825 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :qgyh2 is a mod of /r/pics < 1331238241 448456 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :so I assumed the post was at least vaguely ontopic < 1331238248 253840 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :not the comment itself, but the post it was attached to < 1331238254 595120 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, test posts for a subreddit generally go in that subreddit < 1331238273 560363 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: oh, and it was a self-post, so he got no karma for it :) < 1331238275 332929 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh, it's a test /post/, not test comment? < 1331238285 405823 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :also, why aren't self-posts worth karma? < 1331238316 467130 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: because "UPVOTE IF DSKLSDJFLKSDFJ;" and all that kind of shit are self-posts < 1331238343 568234 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :surely making them worth karma would encourage people not to upvote them? < 1331238343 754223 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :UPVOTE IF YOU BREATHE OXYGEN < 1331238372 224690 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :btw, highly-rated YouTube comments are often hilariously insightful parodies of the whole YouTube comment thing < 1331238379 728127 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :fsvo hilariously insightful < 1331238387 878153 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :well, by /YouTube/ standards < 1331238388 970442 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :ais523: no, people upvote them no matter what, because reddit is full of idiots < 1331238404 993302 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :hmm, right < 1331238408 268330 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I mostly stay confined to proggit < 1331238422 37040 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :and occasionally r/nethack, if we're trying to do an announcement there < 1331238459 348067 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :proggit is probably the least terrible of all the popular subreddits < 1331238471 534448 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :except when they try and talk about non-tech-related things < 1331238475 126766 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :the theory is any subreddit larger than about 10000 subscribers will turn into a meme fest unless heavily moderated < 1331238517 572745 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :is proggit on the default front page? < 1331238537 749915 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :no, not for the past few years, I think < 1331238554 130189 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :proggit's comments are rather low-quality usually < 1331238560 930705 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :359k subscribers < 1331238565 32343 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :i think r/science is the only front page subreddit i still read < 1331238568 796686 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :though it's questionable how many of those actually pay attention to it < 1331238571 79627 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :since it used to be default < 1331238587 829207 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :oerjan: not /r/askscience too? oh, wait, they got taken off < 1331238602 320377 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott: proggit's comments are typically low-quality but there are frequently high-quality ones there too < 1331238613 801455 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :(they asked to be since it was becoming too shitty for the mods to handle thanks to the traffic) < 1331238618 140978 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :although that's more pronounced in Slashdot, which almost always eventually ends up with a few excellent comments < 1331238626 820161 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :no i don't follow askscience but i thought that was better due to particularly heavy moderation? < 1331238649 752696 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no PRIVMSG #esoteric :but perhaps even they couldn't handle being frontpage < 1331238666 866424 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes, they delete comments in almost every thread < 1331238869 244959 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :http://www.securelist.com/en/blog/667/The_Mystery_of_the_Duqu_Framework fancy < 1331238964 489520 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :Vagrant 1.0 released! (vagrantup.com) < 1331238966 993464 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :WHO FORKED MY ROGUELIKE < 1331239110 600080 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :elliott: I thought of your roguelike too < 1331239116 887541 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :it isn't, but what it is is actually moderately interesting < 1331239168 42315 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :yes, Vagrant actually looks useful, I've seen it before < 1331239612 64412 :nortti!~chatzilla@a88-113-14-106.elisa-laajakaista.fi JOIN :#esoteric < 1331239875 610993 :oerjan!oerjan@sprocket.nvg.ntnu.no QUIT :Quit: Good night < 1331239950 674553 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :SQL.js: SQLite Compiled to JavaScript via Emscripten (badassjs.com) < 1331239954 475483 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :JUST WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS < 1331240237 478404 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 PRIVMSG #esoteric :ooh, now we can run it in the JS interp that's embedded in PHP! < 1331240346 621716 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :that's just a binding to V8 < 1331240356 414846 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :the only ridiculous thing about that is that PHP bundles all its external library bindings < 1331240438 882528 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 QUIT :Remote host closed the connection < 1331240632 445374 :zzo38!~zzo38@h24-207-49-17.dlt.dccnet.com PRIVMSG #esoteric :I know a chess variant called Pole Chess. There is an extra piece called a pole which starts off-board. It can move to any vacant cell as a turn, but cannot capture or be captured. < 1331240638 11523 :zzo38!~zzo38@h24-207-49-17.dlt.dccnet.com PRIVMSG #esoteric :Once I played Pole Chess; neither me nor my opponent used the Pole but both of our < 1331240644 5796 :zzo38!~zzo38@h24-207-49-17.dlt.dccnet.com PRIVMSG #esoteric :Once I played Pole Chess; neither me nor my opponent used the Pole but both of our < 1331240655 795294 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :Once I played Pole Chess; neither me nor my opponent used the Pole but both of our < 1331240661 967397 :zzo38!~zzo38@h24-207-49-17.dlt.dccnet.com PRIVMSG #esoteric :Once I played Pole Chess; neither me nor my opponent used the Pole but both of our moves still took the existence of the pole (off-board) into consideration for out strategies. < 1331240672 33999 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :catchy chorus you have there < 1331240703 376490 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :you should work on your rhymes though < 1331240707 33966 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric ::D < 1331240715 577305 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :someone's gotta record that < 1331240804 847220 :zzo38!~zzo38@h24-207-49-17.dlt.dccnet.com PRIVMSG #esoteric :I was not trying to make a chorus; I made a mistake in entering the message < 1331240813 305771 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :ohh < 1331240817 327577 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :sorry, i misunderstood. < 1331240857 138967 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :no it's a chorus now < 1331241084 857679 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :zzo38: could you write the verses as well? < 1331241170 629416 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :oklofok: the verses are everything else he's said today < 1331241181 850694 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :ah. < 1331241189 987094 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :could you record them? < 1331241197 574355 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :i mean, sing them and put a beat under it. < 1331241201 652602 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :and sell it < 1331241210 686689 :oklofok!~oklopol@40.Red-83-33-112.dynamicIP.rima-tde.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :zzo38 gets nothing because he doesn't want money < 1331241755 501173 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 JOIN :#esoteric < 1331242495 542961 :coppro!~scshunt@denardo.csclub.uwaterloo.ca PRIVMSG #esoteric :`help < 1331242501 631028 :HackEgo!codu@codu.org PRIVMSG #esoteric :Runs arbitrary code in GNU/Linux. Type "`", or "`run " for full shell commands. "`fetch " downloads files. Files saved to $PWD are persistent, and $PWD/bin is in $PATH. $PWD is a mercurial repository, "`revert " can be used to revert to a revision. See http://codu.org/projects/hackbot/fshg/ < 1331242759 634205 :zzo38!~zzo38@h24-207-49-17.dlt.dccnet.com PRIVMSG #esoteric :oklofok: There are no verses. And I do not have the microphone on my computer. < 1331244129 602353 :Jafet!~Jafet@unaffiliated/jafet QUIT :Quit: Leaving. < 1331244734 600551 :y-u-no!~area@wikipedia/PiRSquared17 NICK :PiRSquared < 1331244822 644781 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott PRIVMSG #esoteric :fizzie: ping < 1331245182 813064 :augur!~augur@129.2.129.33 QUIT :Remote host closed the connection < 1331245213 887057 :augur!~augur@129.2.129.33 JOIN :#esoteric < 1331245318 284347 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 QUIT :Ping timeout: 276 seconds < 1331245506 892270 :augur!~augur@129.2.129.33 QUIT :Ping timeout: 260 seconds < 1331245515 723636 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 JOIN :#esoteric < 1331245682 453046 :tzxn3!~tzxn3@cpc5-mapp3-0-0-cust464.12-4.cable.virginmedia.com QUIT :Quit: Leaving < 1331245728 97105 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 JOIN :#esoteric < 1331246233 180073 :azaq23!~derivecto@unaffiliated/azaq23 QUIT :Quit: Leaving. < 1331246848 149191 :Jafet!~Jafet@unaffiliated/jafet JOIN :#esoteric < 1331247929 835827 :Jafet1!~Jafet@unaffiliated/jafet JOIN :#esoteric < 1331247933 148540 :Jafet!~Jafet@unaffiliated/jafet QUIT :Ping timeout: 260 seconds < 1331248111 480806 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott QUIT :Quit: Leaving < 1331248286 681535 :Phantom_Hoover!~phantomho@unaffiliated/phantom-hoover/x-3377486 QUIT :Remote host closed the connection < 1331248304 21230 :elliott!~elliott@unaffiliated/elliott JOIN :#esoteric < 1331248552 352460 :ais523!~ais523@unaffiliated/ais523 QUIT :Ping timeout: 246 seconds < 1331249410 953660 :GULPF!d5723659@gateway/web/freenode/ip.213.114.54.89 QUIT :Quit: Page closed < 1331249433 89173 :tswett!~tswett@171.64.42.221 PRIVMSG #esoteric :What does the phrase "Matalii ja Mustii" mean, if anything? < 1331249621 131942 :ion!ion@heh.fi PRIVMSG #esoteric :A spoken-language version of “matalia ja mustia” which means “low and black [ones]”. < 1331249623 382591 :nortti!~chatzilla@a88-113-14-106.elisa-laajakaista.fi PRIVMSG #esoteric :short and black < 1331249700 893478 :NihilistDandy!~NihilistD@108-84-17-83.lightspeed.miamfl.sbcglobal.net QUIT : < 1331250942 8367 :tswett!~tswett@171.64.42.221 PRIVMSG #esoteric :
ACTION nods.
< 1331250944 306969 :tswett!~tswett@171.64.42.221 PRIVMSG #esoteric :How sinister. < 1331250946 21059 :tswett!~tswett@171.64.42.221 PRIVMSG #esoteric :Thank you.