2003-02-07.txt:04:45:25: <SamB> is that life?
2003-02-07.txt:04:45:53: <SamB> game-of-life
2003-02-07.txt:06:36:35: <exarkun> any alien life that can pick up em radiation in the same spectrum as us (not necessarily without mechanical aid) could probably decipher them pretty quickly
2003-03-22.txt:02:52:51: <dbc> Well, that's nice to know. Now I can stop worrying and go back to my normal life in a pleasant city without bombs falling on it.
2003-07-26.txt:12:20:43: <andreou> anyone has halflife/counterstrike serial or keygen?
2003-07-29.txt:22:28:36: <Taaus> I've moved... Twice. In my entire lifetime.
2003-08-05.txt:23:44:29: <lament> (while clog was away, somebody came and told us the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything, but this sentence is too small to contain it)
2003-09-04.txt:01:36:07: <lament> For the first time in my life!
2004-02-08.txt:20:52:21: <lament> Toreun: second, you could implement something like the game of life - probably easy with a 2d field and source editing
2004-02-08.txt:20:52:27: <lament> and game of life is TC
2004-04-29.txt:06:22:21: <andretwo> life's full of difficult choices.
2004-05-27.txt:15:11:49: <fizzie> hm, since when have I had this '@' character in front of my name and why? it's scary. if I make an U-turn I might hit it and it'd terminate this program. (assuming life works like befunge. would think it does.)
2004-05-31.txt:19:05:04: <lament> he's the life of the party.
2004-06-28.txt:02:45:30: <Toreun> it made my life easy when proving turing-completeness for my language
2004-07-12.txt:21:54:08: <mtve> recursion is harder for computers, its purpose is only to make life easier for a human :)
2004-07-26.txt:21:50:23: <Keymaker> i hate quake(s), counter-strike and half-life, and i couldn't go anything nice to demo scene either..
2004-07-26.txt:22:18:55: <fizzie> I think I telnet'd to freenet and had my first IRC experience pretty soon after we got 'personal eunet' at home. and since I'm 21 now, I think after a year I can say I've irc'd (wasted?) half of my life.
2004-08-05.txt:04:49:27: <lament> anyway, don't choose esoteric languages as a hobby. it will ruin your life.
2004-08-05.txt:04:49:53: <JoeyP> It's actually a way of life.
2004-08-05.txt:04:55:01: <JoeyP> Haha, your life is a failure :(
2004-12-26.txt:22:23:39: <lament> oh, Game of Life is another one of those basic concepts
2004-12-26.txt:22:32:02: <ZeroOne> nooga: Conway's Game of Life
2004-12-26.txt:22:32:41: <ZeroOne> isn't that a familiar concept to you? fizzie said earlier that a befunge interpreter is often the first thing he does with a new language. Game of Life is mine. :)
2004-12-26.txt:23:27:45: <Keymaker> i'll suggest the "standardish" EOF=0 to make everyone's life easier
2005-03-04.txt:00:24:57: <{^Raven^}> it makes my life a bit easier and is less implementation dependant
2005-03-11.txt:04:50:53: <arke> which would make life SOOOO much easier
2005-03-18.txt:20:41:35: <arke> hows life?
2005-04-12.txt:06:11:08: <calamari> your life must be running in bf then :)
2005-04-12.txt:06:22:56: <lament> my life is very object-oriented at the moment
2005-04-12.txt:06:26:17: <calamari> so the game of life
2005-04-16.txt:03:23:51: <arke> and you approach life like that
2005-05-07.txt:19:01:09: <pgimeno> I'm going to have some social life for a change
2005-05-07.txt:19:01:21: <GregorR> But ... but I thought #esoteric was your social life :'(
2005-05-12.txt:06:55:40: <puzzlet> Conway's Game of Life in Braille patterns
2005-05-12.txt:10:47:36: <pgimeno> life is too short :(
2005-05-12.txt:10:48:17: <KnX> fork(life); 
2005-05-12.txt:16:11:12: <fizzie> I've met at least two in real-life too.
2005-05-12.txt:19:28:46: <kipple> I also plan to keep my domain for life, but who can really tell...
2005-05-12.txt:19:35:06: <GregorR-L> Who then spend their entire life trying to deny it ;)
2005-05-22.txt:02:03:44: <GregorR> Anyway, I've got to go eat home-made chicken soup.  It's a terrible life.  Bye 8-D
2005-05-24.txt:00:06:53: <pgimeno> there are so many real life aspects that remind me of moments in the movie...
2005-05-24.txt:18:43:45: <pgimeno> BF for real life? go away, you freak!!!
2005-05-25.txt:01:11:55: <GregorR> I live in the happy world where the esowiki is about 1.6GB and there's more data there than anybody could swim through in a lifetime :P
2005-06-02.txt:20:31:10: <sp3tt> Thanks. Have to go now. Be back tomorrow. Esoteric for life!
2005-06-02.txt:21:54:50: <lament> oh and the game of life of course
2005-06-04.txt:08:17:03: <GregorR-L> Amino acids are combined into peptide sequences, which in turn fold into proteins, which are the most prominant physical building blocks of life.
2005-06-05.txt:18:48:52: <cpressey> wp has "article which should be a category" category... that way a topic can start life as an article, then eventually become a category when it's clear that it needs to be... maybe that model would work better than trying to categorize everything immediately
2005-06-07.txt:01:15:32: <cpressey> life, otoh, can
2005-06-07.txt:08:55:21: <lament> dunno what's more technically impressive, that thing or the life turing machine
2005-06-07.txt:09:01:15: <pgimeno> life turing machine? you mean Conway's Life, right?
2005-06-07.txt:09:03:21: <lament> the annoying thing is that after they do something like that, it's completely pointless to do anything with wireworld (or life) :(
2005-06-07.txt:09:06:54: <pgimeno> where have you found about Life?
2005-06-09.txt:06:11:47: <calamari> yeah.. I'm not very familiar with gas stoves yet.. I've had electric all my life
2005-06-14.txt:00:56:04: <harkeyahh> apparently Jackson got 10 years to life in Juvenile Hall
2005-06-16.txt:20:40:52: <calamari> whoever wrote this has even less of a life than I do :)
2005-06-16.txt:23:38:31: <lament> kipple: "programming is like sex, you make one mistake and support it the rest of your life"
2005-06-21.txt:18:30:54: <wooby> story of my life :)
2005-06-25.txt:00:14:44: <calamari> well, real life beckons.. bbl 
2005-06-27.txt:00:43:34: <{^Raven^}> thx, I really hate to keep bugging you about BFBASIC, esp since you have a life and all
2005-06-27.txt:00:44:44: <calamari> haha, I have a life?  
2005-06-28.txt:07:18:32: <calamari> is life the simplest turing complete automaton ?
2005-06-28.txt:08:37:01: <calamari> life is 3x3, right?  I wonder if there can be a 2x2
2005-06-28.txt:08:38:14: <pgimeno> am I the only one who thinks that Wireworld is simpler than Life?
2005-06-28.txt:09:24:57: <lament> wireworld makes a lot more sense than Life
2005-06-28.txt:18:33:06: <cpressey> of course, in befunge, you can make life easier by storing the data in one register and the program in the other... and you can use a less pathological encoding for the program (e.g. 8 bits per symbol)
2005-06-29.txt:23:43:51: <lament> unlike Life where you can create stuff
2005-06-30.txt:21:13:39: <BigZaphod> fun event: build those wood and water gates in real life on carts with hoses and stuff.  then you could do a live-action esolang thing where you code by pushing the carts around and making connections.  
2005-07-11.txt:23:45:36: <BigZaphod> not really esolang, but this was fun:  http://www.bigzaphod.org/life.html
2005-07-11.txt:23:45:42: <BigZaphod> game of life in CSS + javascript.  :)
2005-07-12.txt:00:29:18: <pgimeno> BigZaphod: your Life program is traversing the whole area and counting the neighbours of each cell, right?
2005-07-23.txt:18:54:05: <jix> lindi-: yes a real-life key
2005-07-23.txt:20:47:05: <{^Raven^}> Life and other projects got in the way
2005-07-25.txt:18:45:51: <calamari> I could come up with a more complicated real-life example, but the idea would be obscured
2005-07-28.txt:01:39:52: <Gs30ng> The word "Befunge" started life as a typographical error for the word "before", typed by Curtis Coleman at 4AM on a BBS chat system.
2005-08-02.txt:00:48:39: <GregorR> You know what I hate?  The phrase "life as we know it."  Every time somebody wants to argue against the theory of evolution, they use the phrase "life as we know it" hence completely invalidating their argument.
2005-08-05.txt:19:37:27: <calamari> function notation has been ingrained in me all my life.. it's hard to let go. :)  trying tho!
2005-08-06.txt:00:15:27: <puzzlet> half-life?
2005-08-16.txt:22:48:49: <jix> WildHalcyon: i talk about real-life knowing
2005-08-18.txt:01:57:48: <WildHalcyon> Yeah, Im taking a genetics course to fulfill a 2 credit life science req. Its b.s.
2005-09-16.txt:05:05:41: <twobitsprite> anyone here know OCaml, and care to help me debug my BF interpreter? I'm having some very frustrating problems that I can't for the life of me figure out...
2005-09-21.txt:04:15:45: <lament> what is the meaning of life?
2005-09-21.txt:04:16:39: <Arrogant> 42 is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything.
2005-09-21.txt:04:16:42: <Arrogant> Not the meaning of life.
2005-09-21.txt:04:17:14: <GregorR> Life (n): The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
2005-09-21.txt:04:17:46: <Arrogant> No, the meaning of life is expressed in eight instructions: +-><[].,
2005-10-01.txt:02:52:50: <Wildhalcyon> Anyhow, regardless of what direction up is, is there anything in your life that's pointing that way?
2005-10-03.txt:18:33:59: <WildHalcyon_> more like lazy evaluation applied to all walks of life.
2005-10-09.txt:16:14:53: <jix> so i thought make e] => exit with code POP and e[ => toggle life/buffered IO
2005-10-09.txt:16:16:53: <wildhalcyon> life/buffered?
2005-10-12.txt:06:50:36: <Robdgreat> I just can't use it to save my life
2005-10-18.txt:07:28:02: <GregorR> With the only selection being how often it runs the ! command, the only evolution is production of the most parasitic possible lifeform :P
2005-10-21.txt:14:44:50: <fizzie> 14:13:36 < fizzie> What I find funny is that it takes on the order of weeks of game-time for the "signals" to "propagate" through the "circuits". Doing this same thing in real-life would be incredibly slow and boring.
2005-10-22.txt:06:30:11: <lament> ah, life is a glorious cycle of song.
2005-10-23.txt:21:31:44: <fizzie> Or I go "hey, I haven't used a regular expression in the last 10 lines, must write while(length($rest) > 0 && $rest =~ /^((?:(?:$ex_nt|$ex_t|$ex_e)(?:\s+|$|(?=\|)))*)\s*(?:\||$)\s*(.*)$/) here". (Those are both real-life examples, btw.)
2005-10-28.txt:03:56:49: <GregorR> Oh, don't worry: Soon enough you'll have four and be able to say "Wow, that was a waste of my life" :-P
2005-10-28.txt:04:46:14: <wildhalcyon> There's a lot of "except that ones" that I would list... there's only a few religions I feel comfortable associating myself with in any kind of conversionary way - even for the last few minutes of my life
2005-10-28.txt:04:51:07: <wildhalcyon> Anyhow, right now I am *happily* agnostic, and a few religions have threatened that I shall not experience eternal life (i.e. no hell - just lack of existence if I deny jesus), which - as a partial atheist, doesnt exactly inspire fear.
2005-10-29.txt:10:35:54: <encoded> <Bender> My life, and by extension everyone else's, is meaningless.
2005-11-01.txt:05:38:43: <lament> GregorR: drivers destroy the environment. This will ultimately lead to death of all life on Earth. "Very little" adds up.
2005-11-01.txt:05:45:10: <Robdgreat> lament: if Gregor can go through life without ever having made a bad decision, so can anybody.
2005-11-26.txt:05:28:29: <calamari> I think I can make jix's life easier by treating jump locations like y values.. first it's a number, so jump 100, but jump *100 would jump to the line given in cell 100
2005-12-14.txt:11:41:28: <nooga> and for Half Life 2 
2006-01-15.txt:02:00:43: <GregorR> Maybe I need to make superstatic variables in Glass, so I could implement a randomiser with a lifespan ...
2006-01-18.txt:22:27:00: <fizzie> I think it's more about the arguable unfairness of life at that point.
2006-01-18.txt:22:27:43: <fizzie> A fair life is one where vending machines dispense products 50 % of the times you insert a coin.
2006-01-27.txt:16:15:27: <jix> i think it's a lot easier to use it for real life problems than the lambda calculus
2006-01-31.txt:03:00:53: <GregorR> Good thing we're all thinking of the /important/ things in life.
2006-02-04.txt:05:24:19: <calamari> to make your life possiobly easier, you might consider implementing a subset of c
2006-02-09.txt:01:36:14: <GregorR> You've just found the meaning of life?
2006-02-26.txt:16:53:05: <GregorR> DO NOT PUT THE BABY ON LIFEGUARD DUTY
2006-03-04.txt:11:42:10: <fuse> nooga: here's one i wrote a while ago: http://fuse.superglue.se/life.c.txt
2006-03-20.txt:22:57:57: <fluffythe> what is the answer to life the univers and everyhting?
2006-04-01.txt:20:55:42: <jix> calamari: it's maybe impossible to create such an interpreter but even if one could the program would never complete in the lifetime of the sun
2006-04-19.txt:07:13:50: <calamari> Arrogant: nothing, been dealing with real life lately
2006-04-26.txt:06:51:28: <GregorR> And that's been my entire life for about a week :P
2006-04-30.txt:01:42:18: <graue> but now its size is no longer equal to life, the universe, and everything :(
2006-05-08.txt:19:13:53: <GregorR-W> Unfortunately, these stupid "life" threads get in the way and I can't spawn other hacker project threads.
2006-05-13.txt:02:04:22: <graue> how's life, Simon?
2006-05-26.txt:17:01:41: * SimonRC was using the format used by Life32, etc
2006-05-26.txt:17:05:10: <ihope_> Life32 doesn't seem to support generations rules.
2006-05-26.txt:17:06:16: <SimonRC> I suspect Life32 is faster, though
2006-06-05.txt:17:33:35: <GregorR-W> Whenever you are feeling very small or insecure, just remember how unlikely is your birth!  And hope that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, because it's bugger all down here on Earth!
2006-06-05.txt:17:57:30: <sedimin> you see. and no exceptions in real life when you try to speak it
2006-06-09.txt:18:06:28: <sedimin> when do you ask wazzup in real life?
2006-06-24.txt:22:45:59: <_W_> autocomplete for instance, is a lifesaver
2006-07-09.txt:02:50:26: <nooga> always look on the bright side of life i'd say
2006-07-10.txt:08:04:57: <thematrixeatsyou> RedGreen contains John Conway's "Game of Life" cellular automaton as a subset within it, and Life has been shown to be Turing-complete; thus, RedGreen should also be Turing-complete.
2006-07-22.txt:03:44:09: <GregorR> Yeah, there's a life acheivement to be proud of ;)
2006-07-25.txt:17:23:47: <nooga> my night hacking was really playing "half life 2 ep. one" and writing snake clone using SDL -.-'
2006-07-27.txt:23:50:49: <Razor-X> I think EgoBot is going through a Midlife Crisis.
2006-07-28.txt:19:10:11: <lament> how's life?
2006-08-03.txt:20:58:09: <RodgerTheGreat> stupid people breed earlier in life, which is all the more beneficial for organisms with a long gestation period. The only question is wether the survival of offspring is affected by the intelligence of the parent. (leaving babies in cars without cracking the windows, for example.)
2006-08-04.txt:04:16:15: <GregorR> Y'know, I'd consider esolangs a /minor/ part of my life :P
2006-08-04.txt:04:17:01: <pikhq> By sheer mass, I'd say you're in a lot of mailing lists, and that's your life. :p
2006-08-04.txt:04:17:06: <GregorR> mplayer and python were for work, so they're a fairly silly representation of my life.
2006-08-05.txt:04:39:55: <GregorR> Your know quote for life.
2006-08-06.txt:01:53:02: <Razor-X> In real life, I'm in 3D space, and I can move in any of the 6 directions at ANY time. I can't *only* walk along the Z axis, until I restrict myself to 2D-space and then *only* walk along the Y axis.
2006-08-06.txt:19:01:14: <RodgerTheGreat> like Life or Noit o' mnain worb.
2006-08-06.txt:19:10:15: <pikhq> 3D Life? :p
2006-08-06.txt:19:11:26: <ihope> 3D Life?
2006-08-07.txt:10:26:42: <Razor-X> Most adults read the newspaper, do their bills, et voila. That's their excursion with words done for life.
2006-08-07.txt:14:31:26: <pikhq> I read every waking hour of my life. . .
2006-08-09.txt:17:40:39: <Razor-X> I mean, if you've never coded in your life..........
2006-08-10.txt:17:45:30: * RodgerTheGreat has no life
2006-08-11.txt:18:02:34: <pikhq> If you Google my nickname, you'll find a history of my life from age 8 on (most of my life is on the Internet). :p
2006-08-16.txt:00:27:52: <GregorR-W> It's supposed to enforce a sort of unified coding style, but because said coding style makes one part very fuzzy (ending multiple blocks), people do it different ways, causing a proliferation of different styles, which is exactly what they were trying to stop by doing it in the first place X_X
2006-08-18.txt:20:00:53: <GregorR-W> No, that's the code problem causing Freenode servers to come to life and kill people rampantly.
2006-08-20.txt:02:02:36: <pikhq> Maybe just have it be a real-life Rubik's cube, instead of cubes with an infinite amount of colors on it?
2006-08-20.txt:02:59:10: <RodgerTheGreat> I feel that the primary requisite for life, contrary to the complex list posited in most biology texts, is simply reproduction with inherited change. Viruses are alive, because they are not static.
2006-08-20.txt:02:59:43: * CakeProphet considers computer code a form of life.
2006-08-22.txt:02:18:45: <pikhq> I've been coding for half of my life. :)
2006-08-23.txt:00:44:39: <CakeProphet> I just simply don't care... life is here for me to have fun... if I'm not having fun I'm wasting my life.
2006-08-23.txt:01:38:07: <Razor-X> You think I've taken a programming course in my life? :D
2006-08-24.txt:04:00:55: <GregorR> They all suck and your life is a failure.
2006-08-24.txt:22:14:01: <Razor-X> You and your ``life''.
2006-08-25.txt:18:33:29: <Razor-X> Maybe I should start writing a blog and labor under this false illusion that other people care about what I do in my life.
2006-08-25.txt:18:54:02: <lament> what is the meaning of life?
2006-08-25.txt:19:03:55: <ihope> Life: noun. 1. The state that precedes death and follows birth or conception.
2006-08-26.txt:00:09:39: <RodgerTheGreat> anyway, the point I was trying to get to is that high-school isn't about learning things, really- it's about getting high enough grades to get into the college you want and developing rudimentary social skills so that your life in the real world won't suck ass.
2006-08-26.txt:00:16:56: <lament> CakeProphet: it's just how life works
2006-08-26.txt:00:21:30: <pikhq> Realise that sexual attraction is the major driving force in, oh. . . Life? The universe? Everything?
2006-08-26.txt:00:32:58: <RodgerTheGreat> not going to work. wether you like people or not, you will deal with and interact with them for your entire life.
2006-08-29.txt:04:12:40: <GreyKnight> I say "world", because there's little sense of an actual *story* as such; things are coming and going without so much as a by-your-leave, like real life
2006-08-30.txt:02:16:45: * GreyKnight trips over pikhq's corpse as it comes back to life
2006-08-31.txt:06:25:56: * GregorR has breathed life into his olde m68k >: )
2006-09-02.txt:15:15:38: <GreyKnight> zomigosh he came back to life
2006-09-02.txt:20:48:16: <GregorR> (12:38:02) <>: life
2006-09-02.txt:20:48:18: <GregorR> (12:39:03) CD Gregor R: The game of life is not a game.
2006-09-04.txt:03:29:29: <GreyKnight> I do have a life, you know :-P
2006-09-04.txt:10:26:01: <fizzie> Razor-X; That's not something to teach to small children. They'll be scarred for life!
2006-09-04.txt:23:12:09: <ihope_> That means it sucks random things and you fail at life.
2006-09-06.txt:07:57:17: <Razor-X> That was the stupidest I've ever felt in my life :D.
2006-09-20.txt:22:51:29: <pikhq> Presumably she has a "life".
2006-09-21.txt:00:24:55: <CakeProphet> Well, I need a real life application... which confounds me slightly.
2006-09-21.txt:22:08:52: * RodgerTheGreat stabs GregorR-W, holds a gun against his head, and pulls the trigger. His lifeless corpse makes a feeble gesture of victory before collapsing in a heap. A ghostly voice says "Pwwwnnnz000rr3d..."
2006-09-25.txt:01:16:46: <Razor-X> Well, I'll probably be needing an X server of some sort (XVesa is my guess), GNUPlot to make life easier, and if possible, the capability to run Chicken.
2006-09-27.txt:03:58:37: <RodgerTheGreat> such a hard life you must have...
2006-10-05.txt:20:33:24: <|wez|> always look on the bright side of life
2006-10-14.txt:21:57:55: <Razor-X> So. How's life?
2006-10-14.txt:21:58:26: <ihope> My life has not yet ended.
2006-10-14.txt:22:32:13: <RodgerTheGreat> RNA itself can fold into simple enzymes, which is a revelation when you start thinking about what must've gone on in the initial formation of life.
2006-10-22.txt:19:02:40: <oerjan> sure, if you have more than the lifetime of the universe...
2006-10-23.txt:22:25:21: <GregorR-L> Maybe not by mere humans with their short life span :P
2006-10-29.txt:00:02:18: <oerjan> ah, it comes with a nifty lifetime guarantee
2006-10-29.txt:18:30:46: <CakeProphet> But you must not eat meat that has its lifeblood still in it. And for your
2006-10-29.txt:18:30:48: <CakeProphet> lifeblood I will surely demand an accounting. I will demand an accounting
2006-10-29.txt:18:30:51: <CakeProphet> the life of his fellow man.
2006-11-01.txt:23:24:48: <RodgerTheGreat> those that say otherwise haven't seen the postscript game of life or raytracing simulations
2006-11-06.txt:01:43:24: <oerjan> are you referring to the game of life (in which case you are being silly) or do i need to explain lorentz transformations?
2006-11-06.txt:01:45:03: <lament> game of life of course
2006-11-06.txt:01:52:41: <pikhq> Which would imply a finite lifespan.
2006-11-06.txt:07:04:19: * rt was thinking that the perfect name (had it not already been taken) for sort of the "anti" Second Life would have been Halflife.  It's a massively multiplayer game, but you never see anyone, the environment is just your dingy apartment, surrrounded by coke cans and pizza boxes, where your only interaction with others is by typing on your virtual computer, but there are no women, only guys.
2006-11-07.txt:15:53:34: <SimonRC> What's more mind-numbing than _Big Brother_ and more pointless than _Second Life_?  Yes, it's _Big Brother_ set *in* _Second Life_:   http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/bb_second_life/
2006-11-08.txt:01:37:59: <SevenInchBread> Are there any programming languages based on Life?
2006-11-08.txt:04:08:28: <Razor-X> Life itself is just like a programming language, with a set of operations, and a specific form of machine it operates on.
2006-11-08.txt:04:15:58: <calamari> there is a turing machine (or was it a utm?) implemented in the game of Life
2006-11-12.txt:01:15:32: <Razor-X> And he is convinced that he has to make faulty real-life analogies to Physics concepts.
2006-11-15.txt:02:57:20: <Asztal> there's a lot of rules that you will, in practice, almost never need to know (such as... did you know the lifetime of an typeinfo object returned by the typeid operator? etc)
2006-11-17.txt:00:41:27: <Razor-X> I think a higher-order function is only difficult if you've been trained as an imperative robot all of your life.
2006-11-19.txt:21:44:56: <SimonRC> If I were a cracker, I would make sure that I hosted my own DNS, set the reverse lookup lifetimes to 0, then made reverse lookups *really* slow.
2006-11-26.txt:04:16:52: <RodgerTheGreat> like the game of life, only with different rules
2006-12-02.txt:05:56:21: <pikhq> Classifying Lisp and COBOL together is like classifying Life and Death together.
2006-12-04.txt:00:17:36: <GregorR> I searched for "what is the true meaning of life"
2006-12-04.txt:00:17:53: <GregorR> "The meaning of life is to increase fitness"
2006-12-06.txt:03:34:30: <SimonRC> hehehe:   http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4049365580674350429&q=half+life+2+physics+domino+effect
2006-12-07.txt:00:06:22: <SimonRC> They can last as a project from a few days to a lifetime.
2006-12-20.txt:20:26:09: <Sukoshi> Well, I lie. He just came back to life yesterday.
2006-12-20.txt:22:27:19: <GregorR-W> IMHO it makes life easier for developers who don't know/care about aclocal, autoconf, autoheader, libtoolize and automake.
2006-12-20.txt:22:33:54: <GregorR-W> If you're having trouble with HTML on your way to a CS degree, you need to reconsider your life choices XD
2006-12-23.txt:11:41:17: <pgimeno> xlife claims to support Wireworld but the rules are incorrect
2006-12-23.txt:11:50:53: * pgimeno considers taking a look at xlife's source to see if he can hack some true-Wireworld code
2006-12-23.txt:12:04:04: <pgimeno> in particular, xlife uses a Von Neumann neighbourhood
2006-12-23.txt:12:04:16: <pgimeno> xlife's implementation of Wireworld, I mean
2006-12-23.txt:12:10:02: <pgimeno> bah, xlife is too buggy
2006-12-24.txt:01:13:47: <ihope> Conway's Game of Life... now there's a real esoteric thingy.
2006-12-24.txt:01:15:36: <ihope> http://www.yucs.org/~gnivasch/life/article_cat/cat_picture.gif <- the Caterpillar, scale 1:40
2006-12-24.txt:01:36:11: * ihope tries to run Life32 under Wine
2006-12-24.txt:01:43:47: <ihope> Cannot open /home/ns/Desktop/Life32/Life32.exe: No application suitable for automatic installation is available for handling this kind of file.
2006-12-24.txt:01:50:59: <ihope> Life32 under Wine.
2006-12-24.txt:02:07:35: <ihope> This is what large Life patterns look like, then?
2006-12-27.txt:23:12:57: <oklopol> what do you life for then?
2006-12-29.txt:01:31:46: <oklopol> less sleep, longer life
2007-01-03.txt:21:20:19: <CakeProphet> If the language is designed for it's purposes... rather than implementing it as a bolt-on later in life... it'll be more well-suited for it.
2007-01-03.txt:21:21:45: <SimonRC> You know about the lifecycle of Lisp source code, right/
2007-01-11.txt:20:59:05: <ihope_> Average lifespan divided by world population...
2007-01-11.txt:21:01:56: <ihope_> Average lifespan seems to be 66 years.
2007-01-16.txt:01:42:54: <GregorR> It does seem kind of silly to make a timestamp with an end time that could actually be in your lifetime.
2007-01-16.txt:14:06:21: <andreou> well, R is for real, L is for life
2007-01-18.txt:01:58:00: <oklopol> i loved making 2D life simulator when i was little (with set vars, not code)
2007-01-18.txt:01:59:39: <CakeProphet> might as well... while we're at it... planning a big-ass game of life.
2007-01-21.txt:06:07:33: <CakeProphet> How's life?
2007-01-24.txt:03:14:46: <pikhq> The Game of Life and Wireworld are good examples.
2007-01-24.txt:03:15:35: <pikhq> (in both of them, a Turing-complete system has been designed. . . Life has a Turing machine, Wireworld has an OISC system (it's instruction is MOVE))
2007-01-24.txt:03:20:25: <CakeProphet> and hell, if something as rudementary as LIFE is Turing complete... I'd imagine OoU could be too.
2007-01-24.txt:23:46:24: <GregorR> In real life, yes.
2007-01-24.txt:23:48:50: <oklopol> in real life the guys make solutions based on what they see of course, so they woulnd't turn right back out if all urinals are taken either
2007-02-12.txt:01:20:22: <oerjan> there was this book i read about alien life that suggested maybe interstellar travel was _so_ awkward no civilization actually bothered to do it
2007-02-15.txt:14:20:10: <SimonRC> "No, everyone is born Christian. Only later in life do people choose to stray from Jesus and worship satan instead. Atheists have the greatest "cover" of all, they insist they believe in no god yet most polls done and the latest research indicates that they are actually a different sect of Muslims."
2007-02-16.txt:03:46:34: <oerjan> You haven't seen Life of Brian?
2007-02-16.txt:04:53:13: <oklopol> okoing is a way of life :)
2007-02-19.txt:01:34:49: <oklopol> well, i don't care about real life
2007-02-25.txt:01:32:02: <SimonRC> Problem: If you decide to be cryogenically preserved for 1000 years, future generations may not think you are worth keeping or restoring to life.  Solution: Attach a sign saying "COBOL Programmer".  This will ensure your safety.
2007-03-11.txt:05:07:56: <GreaseMonkey> afk, getting a life
2007-03-20.txt:18:21:34: <RodgerTheGreat> perhaps all that's necessary is using the life cycle of the trees for computation
2007-03-20.txt:18:22:41: <ais523> I'd like to see an apple-tree implementation of Life. It would be kind of appropriate.
2007-03-22.txt:11:56:27: <ais523> (For instance, ALPACA gives one of the simplest Life implementations around, and BF (not C89) is probably now the world's most portable language)
2007-03-22.txt:19:48:44: <SevenInchBread> >.> it's only strange if you've been using "math" for your whole life.
2007-03-26.txt:17:05:44: <Figs> sounds like Conway's Game of Life
2007-03-26.txt:17:06:07: <ais523> because Black has an instruction pointer, and Life doesn't
2007-03-27.txt:02:21:53: <oklopol> all my sentences will, from now on, have an implicit iirc, for the rest of my life.
2007-03-29.txt:19:23:12: <oklopol> i mean, will it terminate during my life time
2007-04-01.txt:04:29:07: <Figs> it makes life a lot easier
2007-04-05.txt:06:51:38: <Sukoshi> I who've been interested with such impractical things all my life. It feels weird to even me.
2007-04-05.txt:06:58:05: <RodgerTheGreat> there's nothing like spending 6 hours bringing life to a tiny machine only to have it stab you in the finger and then fall off the table.
2007-04-06.txt:06:43:35: <Sukoshi> I like languages which I don't have to devote my entire life to to code in.
2007-04-06.txt:06:45:13: <Figs> I haven't devoted my whole life to C++
2007-04-07.txt:03:24:00: <CakeProphet> ah... computer programming... making life easier for us all.
2007-04-07.txt:17:36:25: <Sukoshi> (Life.)
2007-04-10.txt:01:45:13: <ihope_> Once "Game of Life" hardware becomes common, you'll really want that constructor stuff.
2007-04-11.txt:02:54:42: <SevenInchBread> to.... proliferate the licence?
2007-04-12.txt:14:16:48: <Figs> Proof that I need a life:
2007-04-15.txt:00:50:01: <Figs> and I can't for the life of me figure out how the output came out as it did
2007-04-21.txt:01:08:43: <fax> lambda calculus has 3 cases to consider, brainfuck has 7 (if you ignore inputs) and life has 8 cases
2007-04-21.txt:01:20:21: <pikhq> Although I'd argue that as far as instruction set goes, Life is the simplest. :p
2007-04-21.txt:01:20:47: <pikhq> Life has 2 states.
2007-04-28.txt:20:57:24: <ihope> Unless we discover the universe to be based on Conway's Life, or something.
2007-04-28.txt:21:00:09: <ihope> You know, if the universe is based on Conway's Life, I want to introduce a stray glider! >:-)
2007-04-28.txt:21:03:43: <ihope> See, most research in Conway's Life is concerned with objects surrounded by dead cells.
2007-04-28.txt:21:09:30: <pikhq> ihope: gliders are used in as part of quite a few life patterns, though.
2007-04-30.txt:05:02:32: -!- freeindex has quit ("After life is eternal death. May this be the salvation of your soul.").
2007-05-04.txt:01:16:33: <ihope> bsmntbombdood: create a list containing every free instant of your life from now on. Infinite lists are fine.
2007-05-18.txt:02:45:36: <SimonRC> I recall all this from a breif mention of the advantages of LISP for exvolving computer programs in the book Artificial Life (a good book).
2007-05-23.txt:11:41:47: <fizzie> Quite the contrary: undefined operations add a little spice to the life.
2007-05-26.txt:00:39:15: <oklopol> plus given any X > 100 the program will easily take so many steps it will not terminate this lifetime, in pretty much any language
2007-05-26.txt:18:39:24: <SimonRC> # I'm going to rise and dawn // with no clothes on // and colours on my skin. // Colours of life and love // from heaven above // absolve me of my sin. #
2007-05-26.txt:22:11:30: <Pikhq> Called "life".
2007-05-26.txt:22:11:51: <bsmntbombdood> Pikhq: you can fly in life?
2007-05-26.txt:22:16:31: <oklopol> but they all require a change in lifestyle
2007-05-26.txt:22:22:11: <SimonRC> And, as in many ares of my life, the bits that I can recall are really just the ones I believed already.
2007-05-29.txt:23:15:23: <ehird`> oklopol: Apple, iLife, duh!!
2007-05-31.txt:20:28:06: <lament> not in our lifetime of course
2007-05-31.txt:20:50:19: <lament> it's "cyclic" in the same death as the "circle of life" is cyclic
2007-06-01.txt:02:25:34: <bsmntbombdood> "In one review of colorectal foreign bodies and their management, all patients were male and mostly in the fourth and fifth decades of life."
2007-06-01.txt:02:28:04: <GregorR-L> "mostly in the fourth and fifth decades of life"
2007-06-01.txt:04:39:33: <oerjan> i think a better "rational" behavior might be to maximise your expected total remaining life quality
2007-06-01.txt:05:11:16: <oklopol> if you think of death as infinitely bad, if someone asks you whether you want a bullet in your head or eternal life, you will pick a random choise.
2007-06-01.txt:05:11:33: <oklopol> because you might have a heart attack just before the eternal life.
2007-06-01.txt:05:28:59: <oerjan> so then eternal life would be the preferable choice.
2007-06-01.txt:17:03:11: <lament> a billion is enough to live the rest of your life without having to worry about money.
2007-06-02.txt:02:13:32: <SF|008> Ever heard of a proposed esoteric language called LifeScript?
2007-06-02.txt:02:16:18: <SF|008> http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/LifeScript
2007-06-02.txt:02:22:02: <SF|008> /!\ Google doesn't turn up anything related to programming for LifeScript.
2007-06-02.txt:03:54:55: <bsmntbombdood> i think i have eaten one cheeseburger in my life
2007-06-02.txt:07:31:04: <GreaseMonkey> and besides, if you're gonna cut your life short, you'll be doing nothing forevermore, which sucks more than life
2007-06-02.txt:07:35:07: <oerjan> that's one theory.  i go by the theory that people who commit suicide get reincarnated into a new life with the exact same kind of problems they didn't resolve in the previous one.
2007-06-02.txt:07:37:24: <oerjan> but then everyone is so sure of things that everyone is probably going to be hugely surprised, assuming there is an afterlife at all
2007-06-06.txt:07:30:40: <GregorR-L> bsmntbombdood: I now have one hat for every year of my life :P
2007-06-06.txt:07:31:13: <fizzie> "The hats of my life", sounds like a book and/or a movie and/or a musical title.
2007-06-06.txt:07:36:59: <GregorR-L> I don't have enough to say about my life to blog X-P
2007-06-08.txt:01:49:38: <oklopol> (real-life example)
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