< 1605398760 706183 :deltaepsilon23!~deltaepsi@d179-68-39-184.evv.wideopenwest.com JOIN :#esoteric < 1605398766 774033 :deltaepsilon23!~deltaepsi@d179-68-39-184.evv.wideopenwest.com NICK :delta23 < 1605399451 518012 :dionys!~dionys@c83-248-76-164.bredband.comhem.se QUIT :Ping timeout: 246 seconds > 1605400213 337745 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07StupidStackLanguage14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78597&oldid=77190 5* 03Lebster 5* (-5) 10/* Hello World */ > 1605400235 567820 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Hello world program in esoteric languages14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78598&oldid=78377 5* 03Lebster 5* (-5) 10/* StupidStackLanguage */ > 1605401400 860612 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07BurgerFlipper14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78599&oldid=67258 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+75) 10/* Purpose */ cats < 1605401418 780059 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :fungot, what is the Kanto Pokedex index for a Zubat? < 1605401418 896109 :fungot!~fungot@unaffiliated/fizzie/bot/fungot PRIVMSG #esoteric :b_jonas: färm, hedkvist petersen, hans karlsson ( pse), in writing. < 1605401624 517928 :zzo38!~zzo38@host-24-207-14-22.public.eastlink.ca PRIVMSG #esoteric :Actually I have a book of that. The answer is forty-one. < 1605401624 668387 :dog_star!sid310875@gateway/web/irccloud.com/x-ixjozdcxrjwkqzlc PART :#esoteric > 1605401631 883755 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Finite-state automaton14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78600&oldid=37155 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (-3) 10/* Computational power */ not just "Several" > 1605401725 375349 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[074DChess14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78601&oldid=67259 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+62) 10/* Purpose */ cats < 1605403793 914606 :Lord_of_Life!~Lord@46.217.217.39 JOIN :#esoteric < 1605403882 545027 :Lord_of_Life_!~Lord@46.217.218.118 QUIT :Ping timeout: 246 seconds > 1605404082 519717 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07User:Hakerh400/Random JavaScript snippets14]]4 N10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?oldid=78602 5* 03Hakerh400 5* (+6939) 10Created page with "In this article I share some of JavaScript snippets I created in the past. == JavaScript snippets == === Very inefficient SAT solver ===
 const solve = cnf =>..."
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> 1605405029 615421 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Decision shrub14]]4 N10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?oldid=78604 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+428) 10Created page with "{{Stub}} A '''decision shrub''' is a version of a [[decision tree]] where each node in the tree-graph must be able to link back to itself.  ==Example of a decision shrub==..."
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< 1605433053 539703 :Taneb!~Taneb@2001:41c8:51:10d:aaaa:0:aaaa:0 PRIVMSG #esoteric :I think I've made an esoteric dice rolling program, I can't quite figure out if it's possible to do a D&D 5e "roll with advantage" with it
< 1605433097 524609 :Arcorann!~awych@159-196-65-46.9fc441.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :What features does it have?
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< 1605433187 708054 :Taneb!~Taneb@2001:41c8:51:10d:aaaa:0:aaaa:0 PRIVMSG #esoteric :Hang on, I'll post the spec I've written somewhere
< 1605433217 58121 :Taneb!~Taneb@2001:41c8:51:10d:aaaa:0:aaaa:0 PRIVMSG #esoteric :https://gist.github.com/Taneb/d8871c6a09b38ba316a8ab93b1696c16
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< 1605433648 6218 :Taneb!~Taneb@2001:41c8:51:10d:aaaa:0:aaaa:0 PRIVMSG #esoteric :(it takes inspiration from dc and Underload)
< 1605434260 564536 :Taneb!~Taneb@2001:41c8:51:10d:aaaa:0:aaaa:0 PRIVMSG #esoteric :Aha, '20d;20d-+l(-+0) -9
< 1605444369 391549 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :three 2s, really?
< 1605444371 942160 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :@dice 3d6-1d20
< 1605444371 962200 :lambdabot!~lambdabot@haskell/bot/lambdabot PRIVMSG #esoteric :int-e: (1+3+1) - 7 => -2
< 1605444392 688284 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :@dice 3d6-1d20
< 1605444392 708094 :lambdabot!~lambdabot@haskell/bot/lambdabot PRIVMSG #esoteric :int-e: (4+6+4) - 6 => 8
> 1605444696 78312 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Decision shrub14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78605&oldid=78604 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+35) 10see also
> 1605444733 241630 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Decision tree14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78606&oldid=69369 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+64) 10see also
> 1605444765 987537 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Decision tree14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78607&oldid=78606 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+1) 10Link to decision shrub
> 1605444809 517980 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Decision shrub14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78608&oldid=78605 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+0) 10/* Example of a decision shrub */ DIX
< 1605445546 76611 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :We bought a box of candies that's essentially a 65d12, and got a result that had 0 of one specific kind; either we're very unlucky, or they're not using fair dice at the factory.
< 1605445589 713454 :Arcorann!~awych@159-196-65-46.9fc441.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :Is there a calculator bot here?
< 1605445633 165190 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :There's a lot of different programming languages, the non-esoteric ones can pretty feasibly used as calculators.
< 1605445718 730395 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :> 1 + 1
< 1605445720 839739 :lambdabot!~lambdabot@haskell/bot/lambdabot PRIVMSG #esoteric : 2
< 1605445788 635264 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :`` dc <<<'1 1+p'
< 1605445790 659249 :HackEso!~h@unaffiliated/fizzie/bot/hackeso PRIVMSG #esoteric :2
< 1605445872 931541 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :I wanted to add a dc helper so that you could do `dc x y z directly, but then it'd shadow the actual dc, and I couldn't come up with any alternative guessable name for the wrapper, I don't think there's a convention.
< 1605445882 442990 :Arcorann!~awych@159-196-65-46.9fc441.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :Which one's the easiest to find 1 - (11/12)^65 in?
< 1605445890 584171 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :`` dc -e '1 1+p'
< 1605445891 508510 :HackEso!~h@unaffiliated/fizzie/bot/hackeso PRIVMSG #esoteric :2
< 1605445918 730728 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :I guess there could be a dc-e, because I think we've got a perl-e.
> 1605445940 67353 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Cod14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78609&oldid=78123 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+49) 10cats
< 1605445944 962532 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :`perl-e print 1+1;
< 1605445945 802340 :HackEso!~h@unaffiliated/fizzie/bot/hackeso PRIVMSG #esoteric :2
> 1605446009 485793 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07COD14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78610&oldid=78122 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+30) 10/* Raise an error (takes 3 inputs first) */ more
< 1605446019 528992 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :> 1 - (11/12)^65
< 1605446021 108592 :lambdabot!~lambdabot@haskell/bot/lambdabot PRIVMSG #esoteric : 0.9965026142016578
< 1605446024 67420 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :> 1 - (11/12)^65 :: Rational
< 1605446026 455320 :lambdabot!~lambdabot@haskell/bot/lambdabot PRIVMSG #esoteric : 13972027618997412615763213033014351656206668630973030353623136688948981 % 14...
< 1605446048 345274 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :err, right, that's a bit too much
< 1605446063 747938 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :Also, I initially intuitively thought it'd be (11/12)^65 too, but after some reflection, that feels more like the probability of missing a *specific* kind.
< 1605446080 296436 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :Indeed it is :)
< 1605446098 5121 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :Also, realistically... the kinds may always be biased.
< 1605446167 251708 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :Well, yes. Also, there was a news article saying they removed the one we were missing from production temporarily because of the covid thing (is there *anything* bad you can't blame the virus on?), but that was supposed to be over already.
< 1605446225 714752 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :For the record, this was about Quality Street, which is apparently a special kind of a thing here in the UK, but we'd never had.
< 1605446243 732814 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :> let c n 0 = 1; c n k = c (n-1) (k-1) * n `div` k in sum [(-1)^k * (1-fromInteger k/12)^65 * fromInteger (c 12 k) | k <- [0..12]]
< 1605446246 177389 :lambdabot!~lambdabot@haskell/bot/lambdabot PRIVMSG #esoteric : 0.9585004275442837
< 1605446272 330624 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :Yeah, that could still plausibly happen.
< 1605446309 158577 :olsner!~salparot@c83-249-186-43.bredband.comhem.se PRIVMSG #esoteric :> 1 - 12*(11/12)^65
< 1605446311 386837 :lambdabot!~lambdabot@haskell/bot/lambdabot PRIVMSG #esoteric : 0.9580313704198934
< 1605446357 739700 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :olsner: 12*(11/12)^65 accounts cases where there are fewer than 11 candies multiple times.
< 1605446377 959397 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :but obviously it's a decent estimate :)
< 1605446756 611413 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :fizzie: no way is it that simple. they probably have types of bonbons with different rarities, even if they don't tell you about it and they put an Island in a rare slot as distraction.
< 1605446778 123189 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :ah, I see int-e already said that
< 1605446837 270232 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :it needn't be slots for different rarities like in M:tG, there are other ways to implement different rarities of bonbons, and with 65 bonbons you don't need a guaranteed rare to make it feel fair
< 1605446944 391151 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :fizzie: btw, if each bonbon is chosen independently and uniformly from n bonbons, then you need in average n*log(n) bonbons to find at least one of every type
< 1605446980 868542 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :"coupon collector problem" is the search keyword
< 1605447056 986230 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :and that's natural logarithm, and the actual average is a harmonic number, for which this is a good approximation except for n=2 or n=3
< 1605447086 197655 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :no wait\
< 1605447101 172128 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's supposed to be n*(log(n)-1) right?
< 1605447104 301196 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :I'm stupid
< 1605447118 708150 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :make it n*(log(n)-1) then
< 1605447292 249673 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :or maybe... maybe it's n*log(n) and the average is n plus the harmonic number?
< 1605447298 264240 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :I've no idea how this works
< 1605447303 800667 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :sorry
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< 1605447852 775494 :Arcorann!~awych@159-196-65-46.9fc441.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net PRIVMSG #esoteric :https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon_collector%27s_problem <-- It's n * H_n ~ n * (log n + gamma) where gamma is the Euler-Mascheroni constant (0.577...)
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< 1605452166 568019 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :fungot, how many acows do you suppose the farm has if they have to hire six maids to amilk them?
< 1605452166 897253 :fungot!~fungot@unaffiliated/fizzie/bot/fungot PRIVMSG #esoteric :b_jonas: mr president, i asked you to endorse my group's motion, for we want to see a large step forward in the intense debate which occupied the committee on budgetary control, by which i mean true tolerance and not that expressed in the debate.
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< 1605452738 382392 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :no amaids?
< 1605452748 588379 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :amilk sounds like a unix system call, with a random letter like lseek and pread
< 1605452790 310472 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :surprisingly not all 5 letter combinations are unix system calls
< 1605453027 750297 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :int-e: of course not! some clash with established function names from the C library, like clogf, so to clog a file you have to call fcntl with the right arguments instead
< 1605453150 675781 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :although in some cases you get something where the system call name still exists but the libc wrapper function is called differently, like the exit system call, where the libc wrapper function used to be called _exit, but now that's not good enough for linux either, so now _exit is the wrapper for the system call exit_group just to be confusing
< 1605453169 43486 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :and no, _Exit isn't it either, that's just a synonym for _exit
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< 1605453264 252721 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :also some five letter combinations are K&R C keywords, like break, float, short, union, while, so the corresponding system calls had to be renamed after unix married C
< 1605453289 258472 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :so we have brk and cbrk instead of break now
< 1605453290 607785 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :I know 'l' in lseek is for "long", but never really thought what 'p' in "pread"/"pwrite" might be for.
< 1605453375 149038 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :positional?
< 1605453404 355291 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :fizzie: what does it stand for in pselect and ppoll? does it stand for POSIX anywhere?
< 1605453435 555580 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :there's also the p in pthreads, which would indeed be POSIX
< 1605453450 997333 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :ah true
< 1605453494 602224 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :and I think it stands for process in ptrace
< 1605453503 987046 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :(as well as in getpid)
< 1605453534 387365 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :(pread seems particularly useful in threaded programs)
< 1605453613 95003 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :the most mysterious letter prefix is of course u. we have a pretty good guess what it stood for in umount, but there's uname, utime, ustat (obsolete), ulimit (also obsolete)
< 1605453614 194560 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :though the more common convention is an r suffix, which may be for re-entrant?
< 1605453618 286379 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :and umask
< 1605453639 101336 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :int-e: I think that's a libc convention, not a linux convention
< 1605453660 137955 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :why can't they be the same :P
< 1605453673 207538 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :and there's the v in vfork
< 1605453702 788050 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :otoh, in a world where not even programs can get a uniform convention on their command line arguments...
< 1605453744 927161 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :as for that, I think gnu's long option parser was a big mistake
< 1605453749 390877 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :firefox -no-remote -ProfileManager <-- this took me a long time to get correct consistently
< 1605453782 802811 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :int-e: no, that's just because firefox changes everything once every few years. I think that command has changed at least twice.
< 1605453820 805965 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :Well, not in the past 8, maybe 10 years, I think?
< 1605453835 569587 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :also it's (firefox --no-remote --ProfileManager) according to the output of (firefox --help) – wait, maybe I should try (firefox -help) just in case
< 1605453843 794561 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's just that one is CamelCase and the other is hyphenated. It's pretty bad.
< 1605453855 526469 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :nope, firefox -help still shows double dashes for the long options
< 1605453882 254512 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :int-e: yeah, they changed that one long ago. I'm a long-time firefox user, contiguous with netscape and mozilla suite.
< 1605453940 15812 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :I've also been using it since forever, but I don't know when I started using temporary profiles.
< 1605453946 229392 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :Which is what I use that command for.
< 1605453956 33189 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :ok, this gives me an esoteric idea. have a program print different style of options if you invoke it as (foo help), (foo -h), (foo -help), (foo --help), (foo -?), (foo /?)
< 1605454007 855084 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :I don't use temporary profiles, but I have used multiple profiles a few times, partly to get different firefox processes to coexist easier, and partly to have different settings, including proxy settings
< 1605454011 167611 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :and it's quite possible that I've made it through one transition (change of the spelling of those flags) without fully realizing it.
< 1605454023 788817 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :right now I have a firefox profile for a library proxy 
< 1605454037 452352 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :for accessing some articles on JSTOR and such databases
< 1605454079 938419 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :btw, I have two different things giving me access to some JSTOR articles, but not all, so now if I meet an article on JSTOR to which I don't have access, I have to waste time trying both of them
< 1605454093 358528 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's like the two watches problem
< 1605454096 844133 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :I try to minimize this, but sometimes I need to use a site that sets tons of cookies from multiple domains... and it's easier to just use a fresh profile, do some stuff, and then discard the whole thing again.
< 1605454126 76093 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :easier than adding all the prerequisites to the whitelists.
< 1605454174 228294 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :int-e: isn't that what the "new private window" thing is for in firefox, for not remembering new cookies and similar after you close all windows derived from that?
< 1605454201 477579 :int-e!~noone@int-e.eu PRIVMSG #esoteric :this still wouldn't disable the addons that do the filtering
< 1605454203 848658 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :oh
< 1605454207 844138 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :you mean to disable filtering
< 1605454208 400136 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :ok
< 1605454224 818081 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :makes sense
< 1605454933 516640 :TheLie!~TheLie@business-24-134-17-157.pool2.vodafone-ip.de JOIN :#esoteric
> 1605456114 808555 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Esolang:Introduce yourself14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78611&oldid=78540 5* 03Expliked 5* (+185) 10
> 1605456187 424442 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 N10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?oldid=78612 5* 03Expliked 5* (+1364) 10Created page with "PUSH is an esoteric programming language created by [[User:Expliked]] in November 2020. It uses a memory tape that can be appended (pushed) to, and removed (pulled) from. PUSH..."
> 1605456214 215606 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78613&oldid=78612 5* 03Expliked 5* (+5) 10
> 1605456255 396260 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78614&oldid=78613 5* 03Expliked 5* (+2) 10
> 1605456367 250540 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Language list14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78615&oldid=78593 5* 03Expliked 5* (+11) 10/* P */
> 1605456458 545512 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07User:Expliked14]]4 N10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?oldid=78616 5* 03Expliked 5* (+82) 10Created page with "Hello, I'm Expliked. I created the [[PUSH]] language. Many more to come hopefully."
> 1605456571 856914 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78617&oldid=78614 5* 03Expliked 5* (+2) 10
> 1605456588 420425 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78618&oldid=78617 5* 03Expliked 5* (+4) 10/* Examples */
> 1605456605 360029 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78619&oldid=78618 5* 03Expliked 5* (+4) 10
> 1605456701 152569 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78620&oldid=78619 5* 03Expliked 5* (+57) 10
> 1605456717 509202 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78621&oldid=78620 5* 03Expliked 5* (+10) 10
> 1605456731 209090 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78622&oldid=78621 5* 03Expliked 5* (+0) 10
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< 1605460327 142543 :TheLie!~TheLie@business-24-134-17-157.pool2.vodafone-ip.de QUIT :Remote host closed the connection
> 1605460716 778699 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07SickPig14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78623&oldid=41976 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+132) 10added interpreter link
< 1605461089 484953 :arseniiv!~arseniiv@95.105.10.219.dynamic.ufanet.ru QUIT :Ping timeout: 264 seconds
> 1605461503 52750 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Segmentation Fault14]]4 N10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?oldid=78624 5* 03Not applicable 5* (+657) 10Created page with "Segmentation fault is a programming language made by User:Not_Applicable. It has only one valid program: 
 Segmentation fault 
And that prints ''"Hello, World!"''. A..." > 1605461549 571830 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Special:Log/newusers14]]4 create10 02 5* 03PANOPTES 5* 10New user account < 1605462437 194094 :adu!~arobbins@c-76-111-99-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1605462565 375782 :spruit11!~unknown@86-82-44-193.fixed.kpn.net QUIT :Quit: Lost terminal > 1605462815 26543 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Imeight14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78625&oldid=76756 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+15) 10fixed title > 1605462948 771843 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Pipe14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78626&oldid=76804 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+37) 10Undo revision 76804 by [[Special:Contributions/Redwolf10105|Redwolf10105]] ([[User talk:Redwolf10105|talk]]); repository was made public again > 1605463291 45546 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Esolang:Introduce yourself14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78627&oldid=78611 5* 03PANOPTES 5* (+180) 10 > 1605463320 72908 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PANOPTES's Dumb Burger Thing14]]4 N10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?oldid=78628 5* 03PANOPTES 5* (+1784) 10Procrastination is wild, yo. > 1605463486 790185 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PANOPTES's Dumb Burger Thing14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78629&oldid=78628 5* 03PANOPTES 5* (+127) 10It's weird not to be able to add a line break just by pressing enter. > 1605463531 471680 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PANOPTES's Dumb Burger Thing14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78630&oldid=78629 5* 03PANOPTES 5* (-26) 10Forgot an extra
 < 1605464119 244013 :imode!~linear@unaffiliated/imode JOIN :#esoteric > 1605466821 979127 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07!@$%^&*()+14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78631&oldid=77926 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+63) 10/* External resources */ copy from other page > 1605466855 202039 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Ecndpcaalrlp14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78632&oldid=65826 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (-1500) 10duplicate page < 1605466870 759600 :LKoen!~LKoen@9.253.88.92.rev.sfr.net QUIT :Read error: Connection reset by peer < 1605466884 787140 :LKoen!~LKoen@9.253.88.92.rev.sfr.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1605467381 350642 :dionys!~dionys@c83-248-76-164.bredband.comhem.se QUIT :Ping timeout: 260 seconds < 1605467523 948026 :LKoen_!~LKoen@9.253.88.92.rev.sfr.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1605467567 565821 :LKoen!~LKoen@9.253.88.92.rev.sfr.net QUIT :Read error: Connection reset by peer < 1605468353 719808 :dionys!~dionys@c83-248-76-164.bredband.comhem.se JOIN :#esoteric < 1605469148 246501 :Sgeo!~Sgeo@ool-18b982ad.dyn.optonline.net JOIN :#esoteric > 1605469867 269212 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07BrainForth14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78633&oldid=77588 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+202) 10fixed formatting > 1605469977 626619 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Special:Log/move14]]4 move10 02 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* 10moved [[02Mapfuck10]] to [[MapFuck]]: fix capitalization > 1605470041 80666 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Special:Log/move14]]4 move_redir10 02 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* 10moved [[02MapFuck10]] to [[Mapfuck]] over redirect: wait no that's not right > 1605470041 101495 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Special:Log/delete14]]4 delete_redir10 02 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* 10LegionMammal978 deleted redirect [[02Mapfuck10]] by overwriting: Deleted to make way for move from "[[MapFuck]]" > 1605470058 671218 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Mapfuck14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78638&oldid=78636 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+0) 10fixed the correct capitalization this time > 1605470568 333259 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Triad14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78639&oldid=77674 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+14) 10fixed title > 1605470700 923871 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Infinifuck14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78640&oldid=78596 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+14) 10fixed title > 1605471477 578025 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Talk:AnnoyStack14]]4 N10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?oldid=78641 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+202) 10Created page with "This language is not Turing-complete, since programs cannot conditionally halt based on input. ~~~~" < 1605474748 458599 :deltaepsilon23!~deltaepsi@d179-68-39-184.evv.wideopenwest.com JOIN :#esoteric < 1605474792 472310 :deltaepsilon23!~deltaepsi@d179-68-39-184.evv.wideopenwest.com NICK :delta23 < 1605476140 887370 :arseniiv_impostr!~arseniiv_@95.105.10.219.dynamic.ufanet.ru JOIN :#esoteric < 1605476182 541713 :adu!~arobbins@c-76-111-99-194.hsd1.md.comcast.net QUIT :Quit: adu < 1605476431 327643 :arseniiv_impostr!~arseniiv_@95.105.10.219.dynamic.ufanet.ru PRIVMSG #esoteric :Sense of smell left me today. Feels bizzare. Alcohol-based solution just makes nose warmer inside. Ammoniac still does something radical but it doesn't feel like usual extremely foul smell. And that's when I'm otherwise getting better for a couple of days already < 1605476537 300654 :arseniiv_impostr!~arseniiv_@95.105.10.219.dynamic.ufanet.ru PRIVMSG #esoteric :I was lucky to be able to smell vanilla powder just before it shut off completely; now I can't > 1605476547 4310 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Special:Log/move14]]4 move10 02 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* 10moved [[02A.R.T.I.C.L.E. Lang10]] to [[A.R.T.I.C.L.E.]]: fix title > 1605476573 185475 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Language list14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78644&oldid=78615 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (-5) 10/* A */ > 1605476589 814106 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Hello world program in esoteric languages14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78645&oldid=78598 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (-5) 10/* A.R.T.I.C.L.E. Lang */ > 1605476604 335599 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Truth-machine14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78646&oldid=78595 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (-5) 10/* A.R.T.I.C.L.E. Lang */ < 1605476682 221792 :arseniiv_impostr!~arseniiv_@95.105.10.219.dynamic.ufanet.ru PRIVMSG #esoteric :Nose washing didn't help too, if anyone's interested. I hoped it would return vestiges of smell for a short time but no. Don't know what other experiments I could make < 1605476809 158693 :arseniiv_impostr!~arseniiv_@95.105.10.219.dynamic.ufanet.ru PRIVMSG #esoteric :Be safe! < 1605476819 763891 :arseniiv_impostr!~arseniiv_@95.105.10.219.dynamic.ufanet.ru QUIT :Quit: Quit > 1605476917 315779 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PANOPTES's Dumb Burger Thing14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78647&oldid=78630 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+50) 10cats > 1605476966 849354 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78648&oldid=78622 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+108) 10/* External resources */ cats > 1605477011 460674 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07PUSH14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78649&oldid=78648 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+25) 10/* External resources */ This is essentially stack-based > 1605477120 203498 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Language list14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78650&oldid=78644 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+35) 10/* P */ Add [[User:PANOPTES]]'s language, [[PANOPTES's Dumb Burger Thing]] > 1605477379 55081 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Objects In Mirror Are Heavier Than They Appear14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78651&oldid=75272 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+12) 10clarify > 1605477703 129126 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Objects In Mirror Are Heavier Than They Appear14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78652&oldid=78651 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+122) 10/* Object movement */ Finish a sente > 1605477777 503950 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Particle automaton14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78653&oldid=75042 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+22) 10see also > 1605477818 177015 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Bully automaton14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78654&oldid=72659 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+64) 10see also > 1605477865 516319 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Cellular automaton14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78655&oldid=57289 5* 03PythonshellDebugwindow 5* (+67) 10/* History */ see also > 1605478991 546946 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Asparagus14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78656&oldid=78585 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+0) 10fixed link > 1605479438 791566 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Dotcomma14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78657&oldid=78271 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+6) 10fixed name < 1605479955 935683 :LKoen_!~LKoen@9.253.88.92.rev.sfr.net QUIT :Quit: “It’s only logical. First you learn to talk, then you learn to think. Too bad it’s not the other way round.†< 1605479989 105770 :Arcorann!~awych@159-196-65-46.9fc441.mel.nbn.aussiebb.net JOIN :#esoteric < 1605480145 425720 :zzo38!~zzo38@host-24-207-14-22.public.eastlink.ca PRIVMSG #esoteric :Fossil allows "fossil help", "fossil -help", and "fossil --help", although "fossil --version" doesn't work (although maybe they fixed that in a new version), and "fossil /help" results in a segmentation fault (maybe they fixed that too). < 1605480725 986588 :dionys!~dionys@c83-248-76-164.bredband.comhem.se QUIT :Ping timeout: 256 seconds < 1605481201 113911 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :... < 1605481217 75060 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :a segmentation fault is probably not supposed to happen, but I wouldn't have thought of typing /help because nothing takes that < 1605481224 858909 :b_jonas!~x@catv-176-63-12-45.catv.broadband.hu PRIVMSG #esoteric :it's /? for any program that takes slashes > 1605481283 333786 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Special:Log/move14]]4 move10 02 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* 10moved [[02Elvm10]] to [[ELVM]]: fix capitalization > 1605481299 863294 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07ELVM14]]4 10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78660&oldid=78658 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+6) 10fixed name < 1605481541 781241 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :"git: '/?' is not a git command. See 'git --help'. The most similar commands are: am gc mv rm" < 1605481549 989726 :fizzie!fis@unaffiliated/fizzie PRIVMSG #esoteric :...they're not *that* similar. Okay, fair enough, the Levenshtein distance is just 2. > 1605482579 355370 PRIVMSG #esoteric :14[[07Segmentation Fault14]]4 M10 02https://esolangs.org/w/index.php?diff=78661&oldid=78624 5* 03LegionMammal978 5* (+6) 10fixed name < 1605484451 274260 :TheLie!~TheLie@2a02:8106:215:3300:7285:c2ff:fe0b:917f JOIN :#esoteric