154) <fungot> elliott: i like scsh's mechanism best: it's most transparent and doesn't really serve a very useful feature.
157) <fungot> elliott: it's hard to debug havoc on your mirror if you accidentally hit r, then a character could be multiple words long, depending on the task.
166) <Gregor> elliott: My university has two Poultry Science buildings. <Gregor> Two!
172) <elliott> Vorpal loves the sodomy.  <Vorpal> elliott, sure why not
173) <elliott> So it's not exactly trivial. [Later about same thing] <elliott> It's a trivial C program :P
179) <tswett> elliott: just to bring you up to speed, you are now my baby nephew.  <olsner> wtf, elliott is a nephew and his uncle is here?  <nooga> what  <tswett> Heck yes I'm elliott's uncle.
182) <elliott> quintopia: that's offensive, i was in a mirror accident and now my second half is a permanent mirror  <elliott> typing is kind of difficult
184) <elliott> oerjan: What, can girls aim their penises better?
189) <oerjan> elliott: i think i wrote a proof of 0*x = 0 on this channel once
193) <elliott> </pedant> ... come to think of it, <pedant>
196) <elliott> clue is a language for beauty, not usefulness  <elliott> or ability to run at all  <oklopol> ability to run at all is not even close to a design goal, no
202) <elliott> Getting bad programmers to like something is a failure.
204) <elliott> i thought you said it was meant to be more useful in practice :D  <ais523> elliott: well, it /is/, for sufficient values of useful in practice  <ais523> umm, sufficiently small
211) <elliott> mtve, now he's an expert idler.  <nddrylliog> mtve: kitty kitty kitty
227) <Vorpal> `addquote <elliott_> I'm a bit 'tarded.  <Vorpal> (NOTHING PERSONAL!)
232) [on egojoust] <elliott> The fact is that EgoBot's % handling is O(slow) and O(big), and mine isn't.
239) <elliott> lol @ closed character set standard  <elliott> "What does this codepoint represent?" "Nobody knows."
245) <elliott> 320 quotes and still not a funny one yet!
247) <elliott> just because i'm homosexual  <elliott> doesn't mean i have sex with men.  <elliott> ...i'm also a paedophile [...] <elliott> see if i'm a gay paedophile  <elliott> i don't have sex with men  <elliott> i have sex with BOYS
248) <oklopol> actually the first joke i thought elliott was making was that he's so small masturbation is gay pedophilia
255) <fungot> elliott: there go my minutes of research!!
258) <Phantom_Hoover> elliott, incidentally, I started my explorations again after getting bored of the Himalayas.
269) <elliott> ais523: quick, say something funny  <oklopol> something funny hagrea:D  <oklopol> can'tä sopt laughitn
270) <ais523> elliott: hey, thinking's easier than using the Internet
271) <ZOMGMODULES> elliott: parents who put just "Chris" on a birth certificate are... like parents who put just "Bob" on a birth certificate.
279) <zzo38> elliott: I doubt water memory can last for even one second in a gravitational field (or even outside of a gravitational field), but other people think they can make water memory with telephones.
280) <lament> elliott: well what i would do if i were omniscient and omnipotent would be to create an immortal woman with perfect tits and bang her for the rest of eternity
284) <Vorpal> elliott, it was an artful robbery!  <Vorpal> wait, murder
287) <elliott> A priori one cannot say that post hoc ergo propter hoc the diminishing returns would give; yet under quid pro quo one can agglutinate fabula and sujet into vagrancies untold.  <elliott> See? I'm intellectual.
298) <elliott> ais523: YOU WILL HAVE YOUR QUOTE SOON
308) <zzo38>    <elliott>    <quintopia> i know it's unusual, but i agree with you both to some extent
309) <elliott> Nationalism is no more (probably less) logical than consumerism, after all, as stupid as the word "logical" is as a system to rank things
311) <elliott> AV is better than first-past-the-post, like every voting system apart from the Random Elephant Stomping method
316) <elliott> Top universities now employ people to watch infomercials all day to find the latest mysteries.
323) <elliott> sgeo do you actually know what sex looks like i am just checking here  <Sgeo> I think so
324) <ZOMGMODULES> I can trust elliott_ to have an opinion on anything and everything  <elliott_> Yes.  <elliott_> And the best thing is: it is the correct opinion.
332) <elliott_> `addquote <olsner> two quotes about quotes about django  <olsner> I guess the worst part is that I appear in all three hackego quotes about django  <olsner> elliott_: another quote? you're not helping :/
334) <elliott> oerjan: but hypothetically, assume a Christian spontaneously materialised during the apocalypse
357) <oklofok> "<pikhq> elliott: Americans also have 20 mile one-way commutes." <<< one-way commutes? you have like disposable jobs?
358) <elliott> It's a Toy Story character, you uncultured fuck.
359) <elliott> HAHAHAHA NO FNARF QUOTES EVER  <Gregor> Oh noooooooooooooooooose!  <elliott> Gregor: lol nose geddit
361) <elliott_> I'm not even going to try and understand what you're proposing.  <oerjan> i understand it perfectly.  it's completely nuts.
365) <coppro> elliott: actually, it's worse right now, I'm in the USA  <coppro> where the solution to counterfeiting problems is "add more ink"  <coppro> eventually all US bills will just be solid green
368) <Sgeo_> "system is fairly sane  <Sgeo_> <elliott> imagine if the roomba was called the Robotic Magic Vacuum  <Sgeo_> <elliott> would you object to that being trademarked  <Sgeo_> <monqy> I mean  <Sgeo_> <monqy> phrase trade"  <Sgeo_> oops
373) <elliott> oerjan: can you delete that and the meta turing completeness page  <elliott> thanks  <oerjan> elliott: IN UNIVERSO ALTERNATIVO, OERJAN PAGINAS DELET
375) <elliott> im going to resurrect rutian  <elliott> with vitamin pills  <elliott> and book sales
378) <NihilistDandy> elliott: His mouse obeys the law of the excluded middle :/
388) <tswett> elliott: by the way, you're now almost capable of crawling.
396) <fungot> elliott: i have yet to demonstrate that the sml community has less productive power than the real chunk of meat.
397) <fizzie> elliott: You have become the very thing you fought for!
419) <elliott> God, I sure do hate Apple and their header files that only include the functions they're specified to.
420) <elliott> Do one better! Pretend to be an idiot until YOU DIE.
422) <elliott_> Vorpal: Won't be slower than Python ;-)  <Vorpal> elliott_, yeah but that is like saying a T-Ford going down a hill won't be slower than a bicycle uphill on a bumpy road :P
428) <elliott> in the title of the page it says "Well-Typed - The Haskell Consultants" but i want to know who are the haskell conraisins?
441) <zzo38> elliott_: No it isn't a game, it is a computer game
451) <fungot> elliott: an old colonel lost, but a new brother gained. together they will ascend, each time you must be adventurin'.
468) <elliott> What does "life" actually mean, anyway; it seems to mean "this thing that's infinitely greater than all my actual hobbies that I do all the time because I rule"
475) <elliott> I MIGHT BECOME GHOST
481) <elliott_> I hope in the future people curse me for creating such a shitty protocol.
485) <evincar> elliott_: I don't see a difference between a function taking a function as an argument, and some composition of those functions.
494) <Vorpal> elliott_, oh they are people known in the ruby community?  <elliott_> Vorpal: Uh... you mean Hannah Montana?  <Vorpal> elliott_, yeah. And Zed Shaw. Either they are that or they come from popular culture.
496) <fungot> elliott__: my fnord into normal life was a painful and difficult process. [...]
500) <elliott> we need more films aimed at the lucrative irc nerd demographic
503) <elliott> Deewiant: How do you go through life without seeing at least one gaping anus, that's what I want to know
504) <Sgeo> Maybe I should try to learn Scala instead of Ruby  <elliott> I will boil your veins.  <Sgeo> Which is less bad?  <elliott> Probably Scala, but I don't want you learning languages.
515) <Vorpal> elliott, it is typical of you  <elliott> Vorpal: so are most things I say
516) <fungot> elliott_: it's a machine that looks like you!
517) <elliott_> now that we've cleared that up let us hug fungot =  <fungot> elliott_: let's not start that again."
520) <elliott> help me i am so alone :(  <monqy> new computer good enough to simulate real parents
521) <fungot> elliott: ppl should vote clinton because obama is biracial every1 knows that dood, look at him he has been on something lately.
523) <fungot> elliott: mr president, commissioner, i fully accept that description when it comes to human rights. yes, with an average fat content of chocolate, and we are using double standards! we all know that under present legislation and also in relation to standardization bodies. if i do not want.
532) <elliott> When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a monad.
537) <elliott> Vorpal: who needs cars when you can walk to latvia
543) <shachaf> elliott: GHC bug? Come on, it's the parentheses.  <shachaf> The more parentheses you add, the closer it is to LISP, and therefore the more dynamically-typed.
546) <elliott> Dear god stop staring at me.  <monqy> no never  <Phantom_Hoover> monqy is always staring at everyone.  <monqy> it takes many eyes to do this but I manage  <Phantom_Hoover> He is an inspiration to us all.
547) <elliott> Second Life is like... real life, modelled by people who've READ about real life, you know, in books.
551) <tswett> Come to think of it, I've praised you a little too effusively.  I'm not *that* pleased.  If you'll permit me to compensate slightly...  <tswett> elliott: fuck you.  <tswett> There.  Perfect.  Carry on.
564) <ais523> elliott: so what are the two issues with xfce?  <elliott> they're very unlikely to fuck up Xfce, and it can be made to work basically exactly like gnome two
587) <elliott> fizzie: It's like a JIT, if JITs were... strings.
588) (Of Minecraft:) <elliott> So basically I didn't understand what it was at all, I thought maybe you were meant to be like a worm and just sort of wriggle about underground.
592) <elliott> ais523: those suck  <elliott> hmm, those are all pretty good
613) <ais523> Vorpal: I was paying too much attention to elliott and not enough to my HP
614) <oerjan> elliott: it occurs to me that `? welcome is atypical:  its information is actually true.
615) <Vorpal> oh my god  <Vorpal> that is one ugly solution  <elliott> beautiful
619) <fungot> elliott: young john soon afterward receives as a visitor a fnord spaniard, fnord de moncada, who has escaped from fnord fnord dissolved in the absolute.
624) <Vorpal> elliott: well how will you represent "The dog jumped over the lazy dog" then?
625) <Phantom__Hoover> elliott, cars aren't perfectly spherical.
628) * Sgeo|web wants to see elliott be wrong about something  <elliott> Sgeo|web: That literally never happens.  <shachaf> Sgeo|web: There you go. A great example.
629) <elliott> ais523: You might want to downgrade to a sock to be safe
630) <elliott> ais523: I pronounce "xor" by punching myself in the face and then "or"
642) <fizzie> Do you want me to live dangerously and just stick it in the bot without testing it?  <elliott> fizzie: Yes.  <elliott> There is pretty much no way it won't be amazing.
654) <elliott> right: you didn't find out you were wrong, just right in a way we failed to consider.  <elliott> if only every wrong person could be so lucky
663) <elliott> monqy: it's only... ascii porn... the unicode bits stay covered
668) <elliott> I'm not biased towards humanity over sentient .txt files.
671) <Gregor> elliott: Back in my day, I didn't have to walk with a cane, but I couldn't shake it at kids on my lawn either!
698) <fungot> elliott: but, there are imps around, the pad. it's hard to remember though your cross-hairs would never settle on an innocent little girl. chokes up now imagine she's white.
700) <fungot> elliott: to be honest, it doesn't exist in a state of almost perpetual stalemate, and expands to a larger board and more exotic collection of what he refers to as a thermal hull, instead of some kind of clock pun. no, dammit, will this breakfast injure his shrill, bearded, scraggly old men in space. jade's radioactive, omnipotent, space-warping dog named...
703) <shachaf> elliott: Anyway, if you wrote a Haskell book, I would read it and possibly provide classical criticism.  <shachaf> That is to say, non-constructive.
707) <elliott> @more  <elliott> @more  <elliott> @more  <elliott> @more  <elliott> @more  <elliott> @more  <elliott> @more  <elliott> :(
712) <fizzie> fungot: Yeah, "fungott" would [...] remind people of elliott.  <fungot> fizzie: now that could be nice for a simple language can be used
717) <elliott> aaaaah my scherzo is unmeasurable
718) <elliott> oops I accidentally deleted the universe  <olsner> looks weird when you put a verb after accidentally like that
719) <fizzie> elliott: I'm not going to even bother with the recursive "I'm not going to dignify that" stuff. [...] <fizzie> *LAA LAA LAA NOT DIGNIFYING LAA LAA*
721) <fungot> elliott_: how usable is borges in the real world
723) <fungot> elliott: the new fnord  <fungot> elliott: what is the point? nothing changed.
731) <fungot> elliott: fibonacci heaps, trinomial heaps, fat heaps, thin heaps, fat heaps, thin heaps, fat heaps, relaxed heaps, and maybe even specifically optimized by the implementation
732) <elliott> then they edited their own talk page comments after someone replied to it, and edited /the replier's comment/ so that it made sense in context
738) <elliott> I CAN'T DEAL WITH THE PRESSURE OF EVERYBODY THINKING I'M CONAL
743) <shachaf> elliott: Apparently Rowan Williams is Primate of All England.  <shachaf> CHECKMATE CREATIONISTS
751) * elliott is back not for killing purposes but here to kill people.
755) <elliott> It's... not really links2-optimised.  <nortti> elliott: I don't think that any page is links2 optimised
756) <elliott_> (help why are german)  <monqy> i play the german version of crawl  <elliott_> i
759) <elliott> gah  <elliott> this language is of the devil  <elliott> oklopol: you're meant to use your powers for _good_
769) <elliott> i just whacked it  <monqy> whacking is fine
783) <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <elliott> ha  <zzo38> Stop repeating yourself so much all at once
787) <elliott> I couldn't survive an apocalypse. I don't even have any bitcoins.
791) <elliott> oh, "legal" as in legal
798) <itidus21> elliott___: we have been calling a book new for 2000 years and it took einstein to figure out relativity
800) <elliott__> i just hit enter b/c its easier than ctrl+a del
818) <elliott> this sounds sort of like @ kmc  <kmc> well @ is the least upper bound of all ideas in computer science
822) <elliott> `delquote 869
838) <elliott> seriously q is the best fucking letter in the alphabet
854) <elliott> i wrote a better version once but it was broken
860) <elliott> I kept telling my therapist I wanted more conventional, non-hip-hop-oriented treatment, but it was no use. my shrinkwrapped.  <elliott> okay i hate myself for making a pun that bad  <elliott> please kill me  <elliott> :(