838) <shachaf> Bike: Your client colours people?  <Bike> it would be pretty boring to see everyone as white, i get that enough in real life
841) <Bike> "damn, my port of ghc to php isn't properly taking javascript booleans into account"
861) <kmc> i bet a blog post complaining about ");});});" syntax in JavaScript and comparing it unfavorably to Lisp would get approximately one billion comments on hacker news  <Bike> but at what cost?  your very soul, kmc!
866) [on Diplomacy] <Bike> man, that doesn't even mention greece at all [...] <Bike> oh, this is about a game, not world war i.
871) <Bike> i don't even know anything about feather and i'm getting sick of the time travel jokes
879) <Bike> so, i'm readng chaitin's book on the diophantine thing, and he uses lisp with single-character variable names, in APL's character set.  is there a reliable test to see if i'm actually in some caricatured hell?
887) <Bike> the idea is that you can get the information you need from reading the other players, isn't it [...] <Bike> and of course, reading isn't limited to facial expressions [...] <fizzie> That's true, you can read e.g. books.
890) <zzo38> What is your opinion on the Catholic doctrine and tradition and so on?  <Bike> i give it 7/10.
894) <Bike> I've heard the manga of Das Kapital is actually pretty good.
898) <Bike> Usually I'd use Rankine, but the fucking weather doesn't support it.
899) <elliott> okay so  <elliott> i went to wikimapia per Bike  <elliott> and found a tiny little nowhere that looked like it might be it  <elliott> zoomed in  <elliott> thought aw yeah this looks remote maybe it's it  <elliott> turns out it's hawaii  <elliott> i am not very good at this 
900) <shachaf> Taneb: STOP TRYING TO GET LENS INTO EVERYTHING  <shachaf> Bike: You should use lens!  <Taneb> NEVER  <Bike> shachaf: i'm getting mixed messages here 
904) <Bike> back in high school a guy printed out the entire script of portal 1 and was reading it out during a field trip.  it's possible i'm mentally scarred
916) <Bike> well he could register the new tld for just a few thousand fucks
917) <fungot> Bike: the best acid? where is it?
935) <Bike> if you say "java" three times to a dark mirror does steele come out and lecture you about operator overloading
946) <Bike> Are you sure this isn't the Sims  <kallisti> can you get married to your variables?  <kallisti> this is a feature I find lacking in most languages
955) <Bike> i've always wanted to xor swap transfinite ordinals
960) <Bike> kmc: ok i gotta admit i fully support the use of ultrafilters in social sciences
961) <Bike> When I imagine x86 I imagine a Swiss Family Robinson style treehouse, with parts continually bursting into flame underneath as they build higher and higher on the broken remnants of what they slapped together last week.
962) <elliott> also did you learn Haskell yet  <Bike> i think i've got most of it now what are these "type" things
976) <Bike> so speaking of something more interesting than whatever that is, [...]
979) <Bike> elliott: atlas shrugged is basically about wacking galt repeatedly with a giant platonic solid
986) <kmc> the innovation of the iPhone was... just that it had a web browser that wasn't awful  <Bike> i believe that's how the bolsheviks took over russia as well  <Bike> the kulaks mainly stuck with IE and so were rightfully put to death by the cheka
987) <Bike> i feel like i should say "sexual dimorphism" winkingly and then transmute myself into a horrid fleshbeast
989) <shachaf> Bike: I think you're ready to learn about lens.  <Bike> oh god  <Bike> fiora help somebody help  <Bike> anybody
991) <kmc> hm hitler probably did one thing that I like too  <kmc> he banned tubas, I guess I am neutral on tubas  <Fiora> oh!  he killed hitler  <kmc> oh yeah, there we go  <kmc> thanks Fiora  <Bike> he also killed the guy who killed hitler
992) <elliott> Bike: oh huh. addition is really easy.
993) <Bike> W A R N I N G. This source code follows transcomplex computational paths, even where more accurate, real, computational paths exist.  <Bike> Y O U  H A V E  B E E N  W A R N E D.  <Bike> It literally says that
997) <Bike> It's like narnia only with dicks
1000) <Bike> man at least job applications in biosciences are just like "you are willing to put your arms through a cow"  <kmc> Bike: please send us a link to your CowHub profile of cows you have previously put your arms through on your own time for fun  <Bike> please provide at least two zebrafish you have modified to glow in the dark
1017) <Bike> ◊_______________________◊  <elliott> help.  <Phantom_Hoover> jesus christ elliott  <Phantom_Hoover> apply pressure evenly when jamming eyes open
1023) <Bike> whenever you feel bad about projecting just think: "at least i'm not freud"
1026) <Bike> http://www.amazon.com/Someone-Cuttlefish-Shapeshifter-Erotica-ebook/dp/B0087PTMW2 i hope you know this is going to /fuck up/ my amazon recs
1031) <Bike> ok confession time  <Bike> because of the whole "generation" thing i thought that kids were born in waves until i was like twelve  <Bike> and everybody like reproduced at the same time
1033) <Bike> i think we need more clever well-recognized idioms based on nematodes
1034) <oerjan> i vaguely thought sigbovik was all jokes?  <Bike> oerjan: jokes written by CS people, so none of it's funny, just sad
1036) <Bike> can sex be liberated from the von neumann position
1039) <Bike> esolangs were originally developed to protest socialism in italy in the 30s
1045) <Bike> I'm glad I quit programming to take up listening to numbers stations
1049) <Bike> that reminds me of a great quote about bird semen
1052) <kmc> doom  <Bike> YES  <Bike> oh no
1055) <Bike> i can say "no, i mean the WEIRD porn" in over six japonic languages
1060) <Bike> Fiora: how long does it take to factor 8616460799  <Fiora> Bike: I think using gnfs to factor that would be like using a nuclear weapon to sterilize a needle
1065) <Bike> oh my, this is a photo of an elliott fisting [...] <Bike> i meant elephant  <Bike> but you know what, ok.  <kmc> Bike: ...  <kmc> Bike: can you send me that picture when i'm not at work ok  <kmc> plz and thx
1066) <kmc> Bike: so I'm home now  <kmc> i believe you owe me a picture of elephants fisting each other
1067) <kmc> Bike: i think it's a fermented fish product?  <kmc> either that or it means "welcome" in finnish
1068) <Bike> what's cereal  <mnoqy> cereal  <mnoqy> cant believe you dont know what cereal is
1073) [on the name "Watson"] <fizzie> And not the IBM "AI"?  <Bike> scare quotes eh  <fizzie> I don't think it counts as a proper AI until it kills people.
1078) <Bike> Fiora: hey gimme a ballpark here, how hospitable is a pH of 10  <Bike> is it basic or acidic  <Fiora> bike you should know this stuff, you know biology right?  <Fiora> this is like.  basic stuff.  <Bike> shut up
1091) <Sgeo> I think I just had a major impact in Active Worlds  <Bike> like you were hit by a car?
1092) <Bike> are you saying the rockies and some mountains in norway are the same range
1094) <Bike> a dark day for all of humankind  <zzo38> Bike: Wrong. Not all of humankind lives in the same timezone.  <shachaf> a dark day for some of humankind  <zzo38> OK
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