2011-05-07.txt:20:17:23: <NihilistDandy> Phantom_Hoover: If teachers can't shock our kids, WHO WILL?
2011-05-08.txt:01:49:31: <NihilistDandy> elliott: Hah
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2011-05-10.txt:02:42:48: <NihilistDandy> Yeah, have to make it ignore accidental input or it's a real hair trigger
2011-05-10.txt:02:43:44: <NihilistDandy> *move finger* -> Computer: DID YOU MEAN CLICK? I'M GONNA CLICK. CLICK, OKAY? CLICK.
2011-05-10.txt:02:45:15: <NihilistDandy> oerjan: Professore Farnsworth on Futurama
2011-05-10.txt:02:45:19: <NihilistDandy> *Professor
2011-05-10.txt:02:45:30: <NihilistDandy> In the episode where Fry needs to find an apartment
2011-05-10.txt:02:45:53: <NihilistDandy> @google youtube to shreds you say
2011-05-10.txt:02:48:01: <NihilistDandy> Haha. It's a touch more ominous
2011-05-10.txt:02:48:10: <NihilistDandy> More of a "one-sided phone conversation" sort of ominous
2011-05-10.txt:02:48:36: <NihilistDandy> You only hear the reaction to the horror, rather than the event itself :D
2011-05-10.txt:02:50:33: <NihilistDandy> Also, something funny from #haskell
2011-05-10.txt:02:50:37: <NihilistDandy> @where wtfmonad
2011-05-10.txt:02:52:22: <NihilistDandy> Yes, we had that discussion :P
2011-05-10.txt:02:52:40: <NihilistDandy> If you let facts pollute humor, you'll never laugh again :D
2011-05-10.txt:02:53:27: <NihilistDandy> Also mentioned
2011-05-10.txt:02:53:39: <NihilistDandy> In almost those exact words
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2011-05-16.txt:04:02:23: <NihilistDandy> I like this plan
2011-05-16.txt:04:07:33: <NihilistDandy> elliott: Gentoo
2011-05-16.txt:04:07:49: <NihilistDandy> O.o
2011-05-16.txt:04:07:55: <elliott> NihilistDandy: I'm sorry -- I can't type coherently over how hard I'm laughing.
2011-05-16.txt:04:08:05: <NihilistDandy> lol
2011-05-16.txt:04:08:32: <NihilistDandy> I'm aware. I only used Gentoo briefly
2011-05-16.txt:04:08:37: <NihilistDandy> I just enjoy the reactions :D
2011-05-16.txt:04:08:56: <NihilistDandy> LFS is clearly superior~
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2011-05-17.txt:03:52:17: <NihilistDandy> http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/11762072/native-html5
2011-05-17.txt:03:55:14: <NihilistDandy> You can call me daddy, anytime
2011-05-17.txt:03:55:39: <NihilistDandy> Oof
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2011-05-17.txt:20:53:59: <NihilistDandy> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charity_(programming_language)
2011-05-17.txt:20:55:03: <elliott_> NihilistDandy: What of it?
2011-05-17.txt:20:59:51: <NihilistDandy> elliott_: I didn't know of it. I thought it might be germane for this channel :D
2011-05-17.txt:21:01:05: <NihilistDandy> ## Latest News ## 12 October 2000
2011-05-17.txt:21:01:07: <NihilistDandy> :|
2011-05-17.txt:21:01:21: <elliott_> NihilistDandy: It's an old research language, what do you expect :)
2011-05-17.txt:21:01:34: <NihilistDandy> I wonder if it'll compile...
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2011-05-23.txt:03:11:12: <elliott> NihilistDandy: YOU ARE NOT BEING VERY DANDY AT ALL.
2011-05-23.txt:03:11:36: <NihilistDandy> elliott: YOU ARE NOT BEING VERY...
2011-05-23.txt:03:11:37: <NihilistDandy> erm
2011-05-23.txt:03:11:43: <NihilistDandy> DANDY, EITHER
2011-05-23.txt:03:12:50: <NihilistDandy> ALL CONNECTIONS ARE ILLUSORY
2011-05-23.txt:03:14:11: <NihilistDandy> You've struck to the heart of me. I concede, sirrah.
2011-05-23.txt:03:22:59: <NihilistDandy> Nice
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2011-06-22.txt:20:23:01: <NihilistDandy> lol
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2011-07-01.txt:00:42:17: <NihilistDandy> WAIT A MINUTE
2011-07-01.txt:00:42:22: <NihilistDandy> I've spotted a hole in this story
2011-07-01.txt:00:42:46: <NihilistDandy> There are no women in Poland.~
2011-07-01.txt:00:43:02: <NihilistDandy> lol
2011-07-01.txt:00:43:34: <NihilistDandy> Those women could be from anywhere
2011-07-01.txt:00:43:42: <NihilistDandy> Most of them are just stock photos, anyway
2011-07-01.txt:00:43:44: <NihilistDandy> :P
2011-07-01.txt:00:44:55: <NihilistDandy> Lemma: All women from Poland are stock photo models.
2011-07-01.txt:00:45:47: <NihilistDandy> Well, with men like 'nooga' around, it's hardly a wonder
2011-07-01.txt:00:47:51: <NihilistDandy> Esoteric, indeed
2011-07-01.txt:00:48:38: <elliott> --NihilistDandy
2011-07-01.txt:00:49:42: <NihilistDandy> Are you decrementing me, commenting me, or attributing that to me? :D
2011-07-01.txt:00:52:50: <elliott> <NihilistDandy> Are you decrementing me, commenting me, or attributing that to me? :D
2011-07-01.txt:00:53:22: <NihilistDandy> It's all my fault
2011-07-01.txt:00:59:09: <nooga> NihilistDandy is a nolife
2011-07-01.txt:01:01:51: <elliott> NihilistDandy: you're a nolife
2011-07-01.txt:01:03:55: <NihilistDandy> I guess so
2011-07-01.txt:01:09:23: <NihilistDandy> Of course. I thirst for attention, and tiny validation I get everytime someone highlights me is the only thing that keeps me going in the vortex of depression that is my existence.
2011-07-01.txt:01:09:35: <NihilistDandy> Or something.
2011-07-01.txt:01:10:17: <NihilistDandy> Feels good, man
2011-07-01.txt:01:13:52: <NihilistDandy> zzo38: You might find more input on #linux
2011-07-01.txt:01:13:53: <elliott> NihilistDandy:
2011-07-01.txt:01:13:53: <elliott> NihilistDandy:
2011-07-01.txt:01:13:54: <elliott> NihilistDandy:
2011-07-01.txt:01:13:54: <elliott> NihilistDandy:
2011-07-01.txt:01:14:08: <NihilistDandy> I HAVE... THE POWER!
2011-07-01.txt:01:15:14: <zzo38> NihilistDandy: I will try.
2011-07-01.txt:01:26:29: <NihilistDandy> No need to get fermium with poor elliott
2011-07-01.txt:01:31:09: <NihilistDandy> I suppose he'll just have to grin and barium
2011-07-01.txt:01:32:28: <NihilistDandy> Don't be so niobium
2011-07-01.txt:01:33:50: <NihilistDandy> Don't radon my parade
2011-07-01.txt:01:37:33: <NihilistDandy> A nobelium effort
2011-07-01.txt:01:41:19: <NihilistDandy> I'll have your head on a platinum
2011-07-01.txt:01:42:29: <NihilistDandy> And either cut out your tungsten or feed you to the wolfram
2011-07-01.txt:01:43:54: <NihilistDandy> Drop the actinium or hit the rhodium
2011-07-01.txt:01:44:10: <NihilistDandy> nooga is a serial arsenic
2011-07-01.txt:01:45:36: <NihilistDandy> You don't know the hafnium
2011-07-01.txt:01:47:45: <NihilistDandy> Silicon Valley?
2011-07-01.txt:01:49:57: <NihilistDandy> Now the helium can begin
2011-07-01.txt:01:50:45: <NihilistDandy> coppro: Except that they're at capacity right now
2011-07-01.txt:01:51:02: <NihilistDandy> Oh, wow
2011-07-01.txt:01:51:08: <NihilistDandy> Maybe the situation's changed in the last few hours
2011-07-01.txt:01:51:45: <NihilistDandy> We should test it
2011-07-01.txt:01:51:49: <NihilistDandy> pikhq: Invite people
2011-07-01.txt:01:52:49: <NihilistDandy> T_T
2011-07-01.txt:01:53:56: <NihilistDandy> ever
2011-07-01.txt:02:03:45: <NihilistDandy> At least it's there
2011-07-01.txt:02:03:58: <NihilistDandy> Keeping Facebook out of my business is a bitch
2011-07-01.txt:02:12:21: <NihilistDandy> It sounds so... circular
2011-07-01.txt:02:14:53: <NihilistDandy> Very nice
2011-07-01.txt:03:50:02: <NihilistDandy> pikhq: So just do it with busybox?
2011-07-01.txt:03:50:13: <pikhq> NihilistDandy: Yeah.
2011-07-01.txt:03:50:40: <NihilistDandy> My feeling on the whole LFS thing was "Here are some neat instructions, but do whatever the hell you want."
2011-07-01.txt:03:50:57: <NihilistDandy> I built two of them, and I never followed everything to the letter
2011-07-01.txt:03:51:25: <NihilistDandy> If you're a Linux user who's content following directions because the internet told you to, you deserve the cargo cult
2011-07-01.txt:03:51:38: <NihilistDandy> Or any *NIX, for that matter
2011-07-01.txt:03:52:43: <NihilistDandy> O(n^2)?
2011-07-01.txt:03:53:20: * NihilistDandy didn't even read the question
2011-07-01.txt:03:53:36: <elliott_> NihilistDandy: gj
2011-07-01.txt:03:54:19: <NihilistDandy> pikhq: Message, please? :D
2011-07-01.txt:03:54:25: <NihilistDandy> elliott_: How far off was I?
2011-07-01.txt:03:55:51: <elliott_> NihilistDandy: dunno, it's me asking you guys
2011-07-01.txt:04:07:06: <NihilistDandy> lol
2011-07-01.txt:04:19:59: <NihilistDandy> Awesome
2011-07-01.txt:04:20:06: <NihilistDandy> FSOV awesome
2011-07-01.txt:04:20:49: <NihilistDandy> pikhq: Have you seen the "serious" Super PACs?
2011-07-01.txt:04:20:53: <pikhq> NihilistDandy: No.
2011-07-01.txt:04:21:02: <NihilistDandy> Hang on, I'll find some links
2011-07-01.txt:04:22:09: <NihilistDandy> pikhq: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv_WG0v_kO0
2011-07-01.txt:04:22:32: <NihilistDandy> The ad released by "Turn Right USA", another Super PAC
2011-07-01.txt:04:22:49: <NihilistDandy> Probably NSFW, and definitely unsafe for nonracists
2011-07-01.txt:04:26:34: <NihilistDandy> ^
2011-07-01.txt:04:48:05: <NihilistDandy> Stick to SKI, then. At least that's a mathematical fact.
2011-07-01.txt:04:49:14: <NihilistDandy> monqy: Well, then you'd have Haskell~
2011-07-01.txt:04:49:22: <monqy> NihilistDandy: or scheme
2011-07-01.txt:04:49:24: <pikhq> NihilistDandy: Haskell is versioned.
2011-07-01.txt:04:49:32: <NihilistDandy> pikhq: ~ means sarcasm
2011-07-01.txt:04:49:46: <NihilistDandy> lol
2011-07-01.txt:04:50:20: <pikhq> NihilistDandy: Strange, I thought it was a vaguely sing-songy type thing. だね〜？
2011-07-01.txt:04:52:45: <NihilistDandy> pikhq: In Japanese I've always thought of it more as an extension of the vowel, but I suppose many speakers make that sound fairly sing-dongy
2011-07-01.txt:04:52:48: <NihilistDandy> *songy
2011-07-01.txt:04:53:48: <pikhq> NihilistDandy: Fair 'nough.
2011-07-01.txt:04:54:01: <CakeProphet> NihilistDandy: loldongs
2011-07-01.txt:04:55:10: <NihilistDandy> An incestuous family of languages
2011-07-01.txt:05:14:12: <NihilistDandy> What's confusing about it?
2011-07-01.txt:05:14:37: <NihilistDandy> Ah, that
2011-07-01.txt:05:36:38: <NihilistDandy> They're not called perl monks for nothing
2011-07-01.txt:05:39:10: <NihilistDandy> Perl pedants are former C pedants who decided they wanted something more opaque.
2011-07-01.txt:05:39:18: <NihilistDandy> ~
2011-07-01.txt:05:39:44: <NihilistDandy> Sort of
2011-07-01.txt:05:40:20: <NihilistDandy> Actually, I don't think I've known anyone that used perl for long without developing their own particular brand of pedantry about it
2011-07-01.txt:05:40:38: <NihilistDandy> Except the ones who switched to python because it was the sexy new (nonexistent) thing
2011-07-01.txt:05:41:23: <CakeProphet> NihilistDandy: I switched from python to perl, so...
2011-07-01.txt:05:41:53: * NihilistDandy nods
2011-07-01.txt:05:42:00: <NihilistDandy> Just don't drink the Wall-aid too hard
2011-07-01.txt:05:42:54: <NihilistDandy> Any language is dangerous if you buy into the hype
2011-07-01.txt:05:44:48: <NihilistDandy> lol
2011-07-01.txt:05:59:16: <NihilistDandy> Pervert. :P
2011-07-01.txt:21:05:49: <NihilistDandy> Sgeo_: That's hilariously awful
2011-07-01.txt:21:06:23: <NihilistDandy> Ah, yes, A Euro B
2011-07-01.txt:21:07:41: <NihilistDandy> And the little cop-out at the end just makes it all the sweeter
2011-07-01.txt:21:09:48: <NihilistDandy> elliott: His mouse obeys the law of the excluded middle :/
2011-07-01.txt:21:09:55: <elliott> `addquote <NihilistDandy> elliott: His mouse obeys the law of the excluded middle :/
2011-07-01.txt:21:09:59: <HackEgo> 476) <NihilistDandy> elliott: His mouse obeys the law of the excluded middle :/
2011-07-01.txt:21:11:46: <NihilistDandy> Related Videos: "2x2=5? Good math trick!"
2011-07-01.txt:21:12:00: <elliott> NihilistDandy: youtueb intelectual
2011-07-01.txt:21:12:12: <NihilistDandy> This much is obvious
2011-07-01.txt:21:13:01: <NihilistDandy> elliott: I got here through #haskell
2011-07-01.txt:21:13:11: <elliott> NihilistDandy: oh well that's just personal recruitment.
2011-07-01.txt:21:13:15: <NihilistDandy> lol
2011-07-01.txt:21:13:24: <Phantom_Hoover> NihilistDandy, you didn't come through during the Great Channelling, did you?
2011-07-01.txt:21:13:30: <NihilistDandy> I don't think so, so
2011-07-01.txt:21:13:32: <NihilistDandy> *no
2011-07-01.txt:21:13:55: <NihilistDandy> I think elliott dropped into #haskell and said "hey, somebody come to #esoteric"
2011-07-01.txt:21:14:06: <Phantom_Hoover> NihilistDandy, ah, no, this was greater still.
2011-07-01.txt:21:15:20: <NihilistDandy> Latest comment on that 2+2=5 video: Aλγεβρα. the best part of mathematics. God i adore it.
2011-07-01.txt:21:15:23: * NihilistDandy sighs
2011-07-01.txt:21:15:59: <NihilistDandy> Truth
2011-07-01.txt:21:16:26: <NihilistDandy> monqy: Three people in the last 24 hours seem to have thought it's some kind of tech support channel
2011-07-01.txt:21:16:53: <NihilistDandy> But python's not a language~
2011-07-01.txt:21:17:15: <NihilistDandy> Heavy drinking
2011-07-01.txt:21:17:21: <Nisstyre> NihilistDandy: no, PHP's not a language
2011-07-01.txt:21:17:31: <NihilistDandy> Nisstyre: It's a reference to an earlier conversation
2011-07-01.txt:21:17:50: <elliott> NihilistDandy: [asterisk]trolling session
2011-07-01.txt:21:18:00: <NihilistDandy> heh
2011-07-01.txt:21:18:26: <NihilistDandy> I mean, what do they even talk about? Ruby?
2011-07-01.txt:21:19:02: <NihilistDandy> #programming is the same way
2011-07-01.txt:21:19:26: <NihilistDandy> monqy: Yeah. It's depressingly awful.
2011-07-01.txt:21:19:59: <NihilistDandy> How's #gentoo?
2011-07-01.txt:21:20:07: <elliott> NihilistDandy: full of Gentoo users, I'd presume, so... "yeah"
2011-07-01.txt:21:20:11: <NihilistDandy> lo
2011-07-01.txt:21:20:13: <NihilistDandy> *l
2011-07-01.txt:21:21:31: <NihilistDandy> We should do a study
2011-07-01.txt:21:21:43: <Nisstyre> NihilistDandy: it's full of this guy http://www.filehurricane.com/photos/7162007115229PM_ricer_10.jpg
2011-07-01.txt:21:22:00: <NihilistDandy> Nisstyre: I might cry a little
2011-07-01.txt:21:23:16: <NihilistDandy> Hey, now, you can't blame the PHP users. They lack the higher cognitive functions to operate as we do.~
2011-07-01.txt:21:23:22: <NihilistDandy> Or, wait, was that animals?
2011-07-01.txt:21:23:26: <NihilistDandy> I can't remember anymore.
2011-07-01.txt:21:23:41: <Phantom_Hoover> NihilistDandy, yeah, I feel bad for mocking elliott about it.
2011-07-01.txt:21:24:43: <NihilistDandy> What a great phrase
2011-07-01.txt:21:25:03: <NihilistDandy> pikhq_: People still use CVS?
2011-07-01.txt:21:25:16: <pikhq_> NihilistDandy: Yes.
2011-07-01.txt:21:25:38: <NihilistDandy> I thought it had gone the way of the dinosaurs and the Dodge Dart
2011-07-01.txt:21:27:24: <NihilistDandy> pikhq_: I like git and hg, mostly
2011-07-01.txt:21:27:32: <pikhq_> NihilistDandy: I prefer git, but hg's alright.
2011-07-01.txt:21:28:13: <NihilistDandy> http://importantshock.wordpress.com/2008/08/07/git-vs-mercurial/
2011-07-01.txt:21:28:48: <NihilistDandy> I thought the analogy was gunny, if nothing else
2011-07-01.txt:21:28:51: <NihilistDandy> *funny
2011-07-01.txt:21:40:14: <NihilistDandy> Well, considering that the definition of God seems to be a moving target when the subject of proof or disproof comes up, it seems like a futile effort
2011-07-01.txt:21:41:25: <NihilistDandy> All right, let's go from an abstract perspective
2011-07-01.txt:21:41:37: <NihilistDandy> What are the minimal axioms a God must satisfy?
2011-07-01.txt:21:42:09: <Sgeo_> NihilistDandy, does Zeus count as a god?
2011-07-01.txt:21:42:17: <NihilistDandy> Sgeo_: Sure, why not?
2011-07-01.txt:21:42:31: <NihilistDandy> If you can disprove one god, I don't see why you couldn't disprove them all.
2011-07-01.txt:21:42:58: <NihilistDandy> Nisstyre: A category can be anything you want, it still satisfies basic rules.
2011-07-01.txt:21:43:21: <Nisstyre> NihilistDandy: okay, it has to be un-observable
2011-07-01.txt:21:43:40: <NihilistDandy> Sgeo_: First we have to define first principles, then we can decide what qualifies. :D
2011-07-01.txt:21:44:21: <NihilistDandy> Magnets
2011-07-01.txt:21:44:28: <NihilistDandy> Rainbows
2011-07-01.txt:21:45:01: <Nisstyre> They all have in common the fact we don't know how they work NihilistDandy
2011-07-01.txt:21:45:22: <NihilistDandy> Nisstyre: People didn't know how groups worked until they tried. :/
2011-07-01.txt:21:45:54: <NihilistDandy> Benevolence, for instance, is not an axiom of godhood. There are evil (or at least dickish) gods in mythology.
2011-07-01.txt:21:46:30: <NihilistDandy> oerjan: Exactly :/
2011-07-01.txt:21:47:07: <NihilistDandy> monqy: Fight Club is not a well-defined mathematical object.
2011-07-01.txt:21:47:42: <Phantom_Hoover> NihilistDandy, yes it is.
2011-07-01.txt:21:47:44: <NihilistDandy> I see what you did there
2011-07-01.txt:21:55:01: <NihilistDandy> The polymorph is god.
2011-07-01.txt:23:34:24: <NihilistDandy> zzo38: I THROW THE CARDS ON THE FLOOR AND CALL THE OTHER KID A BITCH
2011-07-01.txt:23:35:20: <zzo38> NihilistDandy: Calling your opponent a bitch and stuff isn't going to help you to win the game. Especially since your opponent will not even get a turn.
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2011-07-16.txt:05:40:03: <NihilistDandy> What book?
2011-07-16.txt:05:40:35: <NihilistDandy> quintopia: That's the only way I get anything done anymore~
2011-07-16.txt:05:42:43: <NihilistDandy> itidus20: Surprisingly, I can't find it either. I thought I had a near comprehensive set of books on chess.
2011-07-16.txt:05:44:48: <NihilistDandy> I hope I solve chess. That'd look great on a resume~
2011-07-16.txt:05:48:27: <NihilistDandy> Chess is always exciting, unless you play with people who know a little about it
2011-07-16.txt:05:48:42: <NihilistDandy> People who know nothing are interesting because they are hard to predict
2011-07-16.txt:05:48:56: <NihilistDandy> People who know a lot are exciting because they think in the metagame
2011-07-16.txt:05:49:20: <NihilistDandy> People who know a little have a small repertoire and decent middlegame. No fun at all
2011-07-16.txt:05:50:18: <NihilistDandy> zzo38: I remember that game :D
2011-07-16.txt:06:09:20: <NihilistDandy> Trees seem to be the most correct representation, at least to my mind
2011-07-16.txt:06:09:46: <NihilistDandy> Chess
2011-07-16.txt:06:10:21: <NihilistDandy> Generality is a flaw?
2011-07-16.txt:06:11:51: <NihilistDandy> What insight are we after? Optimal strategy?
2011-07-16.txt:06:12:47: <NihilistDandy> En passant is the rule that no one knows about unless they play regularly. Most of the adults I played with recreationally when I was younger had never heard of it
2011-07-16.txt:06:13:05: <NihilistDandy> Taneb: Ah, I see. Well, that does make a tree a little ridiculous
2011-07-16.txt:06:14:28: <NihilistDandy> I suppose what I'm curious about is what exactly we are trying to quantify about the pieces and their movements.
2011-07-16.txt:06:15:09: <NihilistDandy> Ah, okay
2011-07-16.txt:06:17:51: <NihilistDandy> hmm
2011-07-16.txt:06:18:27: <NihilistDandy> Are we talking a computational system, or a general formalization?
2011-07-16.txt:06:20:48: <NihilistDandy> Depends what you find exciting, I guess
2011-07-16.txt:06:34:20: <NihilistDandy> First let me grab those sweet free Dutch dating links!~
2011-07-16.txt:06:39:08: <NihilistDandy> Taneb: mIRC, Leafchat
2011-07-16.txt:06:41:20: <NihilistDandy> Taneb: Leafchat's got perl scripting and so on, which is neat
2011-07-16.txt:06:45:49: <NihilistDandy> Use irssi-proxy and any client you like
2011-07-16.txt:06:45:53: <NihilistDandy> Problem solves
2011-07-16.txt:06:45:57: <NihilistDandy> *solved
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