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<oerjan> le/rn soviet union/In ancient history, the Soviet Union used to be the THEM. They believed in absurd principles like "Better Red than Dead". Then Ronald Reagan invented Star Wars to destroy it, after which there seemed to be no the THEM for a while.
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2008-02-06.txt:17:17:28: <ehird`> ais523: i think yours is a bit too obscure, yeah 2008-02-18.txt:20:14:31: <ais523> Sgeo: I know you weren't asking me, but I know from experience that some obscure bugs in code I wrote were traceable to not doing that 2008-03-31.txt:15:44:02: <ais523> AnMaster: Kate recognises INTERCAL as some sort of obscure database script 2008-03-31.txt:16:42:13: <ais523> ehird: you just know that people will use obscure features like symlinked variables in order to confuse the fuzz tester 2008-03-31.txt:16:43:16: <AnMaster> <ais523> ehird: you just know that people will use obscure features like symlinked variables in order to confuse the fuzz tester 2008-04-03.txt:10:10:43: <ais523> wow, posix_fadvice is so obscure Google can't figure out what it does 2008-04-03.txt:12:20:08: <AnMaster> ais523, <ais523> wow, posix_fadvice is so obscure Google can't figure out what it does <-- try the man page, it knows 2008-04-04.txt:15:18:30: <ais523> (trigraphs are an obscure and rarely-used C89 feature, but this time I was using them to type chars like ] with a sequence of characters that was nop in Brainfuck) 2008-05-06.txt:19:26:32: <ais523> it's understanding what obscure language feature you need to solve it that's needed to solve the problem 2008-05-20.txt:19:08:45: <ehird> ais523: you seem to think git is some kind of obscure system 2008-05-20.txt:19:22:10: * ais523 thinks you should install something really obscure 2008-05-20.txt:19:23:01: <ehird> ais523: But only because I went looking for obscure editors before 2008-06-23.txt:13:44:15: <oklopol> ais523: read logs for a new language of mine, and obscure rant about Ef! 2008-06-23.txt:23:24:12: <ais523> Slereah2: probably not, it's a pretty obscure character 2008-09-12.txt:21:25:23: <ais523> I got quite good at it though despite it being so obscure 2008-09-12.txt:22:45:56: <ais523> it could easily beat most other tests at testing portability on obscure systems 2008-09-20.txt:21:36:02: <ais523> but that would have been a lot more obscure 2008-09-23.txt:20:27:04: <ais523> so I made it hard, obscure and without context 2009-02-28.txt:18:34:36: <ais523> it leads to massively obscure error messages, though 2009-03-01.txt:17:11:25: <ais523> that means there's something really obscure but standard on the level 2009-03-03.txt:16:09:02: <ais523_> ehird: that's kind-of obscure, rather than a basic test 2009-03-03.txt:16:09:09: <ehird> ais523_: ## is not obscure!! 2009-03-05.txt:16:10:54: <ehird> ais523: now _that's_ obscure 2009-03-05.txt:16:12:00: <ais523> it was pretty obscure... 2009-03-08.txt:18:17:02: <ais523> I've been getting obscure bugs when I try to use numbers as table keys 2009-03-08.txt:22:27:06: <ais523> like the diameter of the steering wheel, or whatever </obscure reference> 2009-03-10.txt:21:23:46: <ais523> and is it standard, or obscure, or did you just invent the name? 2009-03-22.txt:19:59:15: <ehird> ais523: You know it; considering how obscure it is I'd say you're an expert. 2009-03-23.txt:19:36:24: <ais523> the point is to have the smallest possible amount of information obscure 2009-03-28.txt:18:20:23: <ais523> wow, C94 is sufficiently obscure that even Google has few relevant results 2009-03-29.txt:16:31:23: <ais523> well, I'm getting an obscure bug in the C-INTERCAL profiler 2009-04-03.txt:23:28:16: <ais523> some of the more obscure edge cases need people to be writing third-order non-recursive functions in their simple imperative langauge to trigger them 2009-04-29.txt:17:11:51: <ehird> ais523: OBSCURE REFERENCE BUDDIES *HI5* 2009-05-02.txt:17:04:21: <ais523> that's a minimal testcase for an obscure optimizer bug 2009-05-04.txt:22:08:35: <ais523> AnMaster: yes, although some of them are rather obscure 2009-05-04.txt:22:08:45: <AnMaster> ais523, too obscure for aspell even 2009-05-29.txt:09:26:01: <ais523> and lambdas aren't really obscure nowadays 2009-10-13.txt:16:56:46: <ais523> from what I've heard on Slashdot, it causes massive data loss but only in a rather obscure corner case 2010-04-16.txt:19:05:04: <AnMaster> ais523, doesn't that exist? As embedded sql or such? Fairly old and obscure thing iirc 2010-06-20.txt:22:36:53: <ais523> try more obscure vegetables 2010-06-20.txt:22:43:32: <AnMaster> ais523, guess: asparagus is commonly considered obscure. Thus it isn't 2010-07-18.txt:15:51:56: <ais523> and if so, why would they go for a relatively obscure webmail service? 2010-08-14.txt:23:13:51: <ais523> and either they have to write a huge comment "don't change this apparently ridiculous code because it breaks on (insert obscure compiler here)" 2010-08-15.txt:01:45:15: <ais523> Vorpal: apart from unihorn and prayer, the other cures for foodpois are really obscure 2010-09-30.txt:16:48:53: <ais523> although it was only repealed about 10 years ago, when they noticed there were still some obscure offences that carried it 2010-10-04.txt:20:12:21: <ais523> I have higlights on quite a few obscure things 2010-10-10.txt:21:47:42: <fizzie> ais523: Oh, and feof/ferror too, as well as the somewhat obscure system(NULL) case. (And a lot of multibyte string functions when called with a NULL s.) 2010-11-08.txt:17:52:30: <elliott> ais523: .zip is the Old Rubbish, .7z is the Obscure Stuff. 2010-11-09.txt:16:37:00: <elliott> ais523: that ... beyond obscure 2010-12-16.txt:23:36:09: <elliott> ais523: "I want a charset encoding that has box-drawing chars as single bytes. What is it? (Is it obscure? If so, I'd better not use it.) Here is a C-based demonstration that I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about, and also use Windows. Goodbye!" 2011-05-18.txt:19:11:32: <pikhq> ais523_: Not really a *bug* as it is a very obscure feature. 2011-07-18.txt:07:41:24: <ais523> that explains anything I do that results in obscure questions about Linux internals 2011-07-22.txt:20:14:13: <ais523> probably a really obscure method involving libraries 2011-08-13.txt:18:33:36: <ais523> it'd work better if there's a really obscure non-eso lang called iridium 2011-08-31.txt:23:37:56: <ais523> Sgeo: I wonder if zzo38 getting interested in something /makes/ it obscure 2011-12-01.txt:21:31:28: <ais523> (on another note, I love the way that the standard way to indicate that you get a reference is to make a different obscure reference to the same thing) 2011-12-15.txt:17:39:01: <ais523> you know, some day there'll be someone who says "I only know one/two Pokémon", then names a really obscure one rather than one of the starters 2011-12-15.txt:17:39:42: <elliott> <ais523> you know, some day there'll be someone who says "I only know one/two Pokémon", then names a really obscure one rather than one of the starters 2011-12-20.txt:05:43:51: <shachaf> ais523: It's this really obscure SI unit. 2011-12-24.txt:20:35:12: <ais523> the second is rather more obscure 2011-12-31.txt:22:26:41: <ais523> ah right, on the basis that Hexham is an awfully obscure and specific place to lying about having come from 2012-01-01.txt:02:00:17: <elliott> ais523: {Haskell, occasionally C, sometimes Python, rarely Perl, probably all sorts of obscure things like ATS and Rust and Bit-C and stuff, not C++, not C++, not C++} 2012-03-04.txt:05:08:46: <HackEgo> 2011-07-22.txt:20:14:13: <ais523> probably a really obscure method involving libraries 2012-03-04.txt:05:08:59: <HackEgo> 2009-03-03.txt:16:09:09: <ehird> ais523_: ## is not obscure!!