25) <ais523> after all, what are DVD players for?
73) <ais523> so a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.com might be self-relative, but a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.com always means a.b.c.d.e.f.g.h.i.j.k.l.com.?
74) <ais523> let's put that in the HackEgo quotes files, just to completely mystify anyone who looks back along them in the future
81) <ais523> (still, whatever possessed anyone to invent the N-Gage?)
82) <ais523> theory: some amused deity is making the laws of physics up as they go along
95) <alise> like, just like I'd mark "Bob knob hobs deathly poop violation EXCREMENT unto;" as English  <ais523> alise: that's great filler  <alise> ais523: well it contains all the important words in the english language...
110) <AnMaster> oerjan, can you ever get any number higher than 3 at the start of "ordinary" [look-and-say sequences]?  <ais523> it's not clear from the RFCs
111) <ais523> reading playboy for the articles actually seems plausible nowadays  <ais523> after all, there's porn all over the internet, why would you /pay/ for it
114) <fungot> ais523: killer bunnies can be harmed by domesticated canines only.
115) <fungot> ais523: elf corpses are not considered expensive health food. but the most expensive.
117) <ais523> cpressey: I have actually done a waterfall-model project that almost worked  <cpressey> That's where you have a flexible kayak that bobs and weaves between the rocks as it plummets off the cliff
119) <Sgeo> Why shouldn't I just do everything in non-Microsoft-specific C#?  <ais523> it's like trying to write non-IE-specific JavaScript with only Microsoft documentation and only IE to test on
135) <cpressey> < ais523> then running repeatedly until you get the right sequence of random numbers < ais523> and just completely ignoring the input <-- some people live their entire lives this way, i reckon
143) <Vorpal> ais523, what is "MS Publisher"?  <Phantom_Hoover> Vorpal, you don't want to know.  <ais523> Vorpal: be glad that you don't know the answer  <alise> Vorpal: "horrible"
149) <fungot> ais523: my nose feels like a bad heuristic
152) <ais523> syntax is the least important part of a programming language  <ais523> other than Python
163) <ais523> fizzie: 50kB is quite a lot
169) <tswett> That is the mark of Gregor right there.  <ais523> tswett: except that Gregor didn't write that  <tswett> It's still the mark of Gregor.
179) <ais523> I love the way zzo38's comment was cut off after the f of brainfuck  <ais523> that's just the most hilarious place to cut it off in a discussion about censorshi
198) <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
214) <zzo38> ais523: Maybe it is better, because I don't think the octopus will live very well in the tree. But the difference is that the Internet is lying and you cannot see such things; you could make modified picture, though, in order to lie more clearly, at least.
215) <ais523> gah, why does lose keep winning?
226) <ais523> OK, I give up, logging into Wikia is harder than writing a Firefox extension
232) [on DNA Maze] <ais523> it requires more thought than Vorpal seems to be capable of
236) <ais523> gah, who'd have thought removing concurrency from algol could be so difficult
261) <elliott> ais523: quick, say something funny  <oklopol> something funny hagrea:D  <oklopol> can'tä sopt laughitn
262) <ais523> elliott: hey, thinking's easier than using the Internet
288) <ais523> the big issue with category theory is that pretty much everything forms a category
290) <elliott> ais523: YOU WILL HAVE YOUR QUOTE SOON
337) <ais523> I think I managed something like a one-expression increment that was only a few hundred characters long
346) [on petrol] <ais523> oklofok: it's actually poisonous, so I advise against drinking it  <Phantom_Hoover> ais523, also contains benzene, my carcinogen of choice.
356) <ais523_> meanwhile, I've been running a program for over 24 hours (getting close to 48 now) which is calculating digits of pi, in binary  <ais523_> so far, it has found four digits  <ais523_> I hope it will find the fifth some time this week
373) <ais523> Phantom_Hoover: nope, I removed . from the current directory
414) <monqy> rest in peace lambdabot????  <ais523> monqy: it'll probably be back later  <monqy> nap in peace
415) <Vorpal> ais523, how are we supposed to guess before you tell us unless you give us more hints?
416) <ais523> 99% OF USES OF STRDUP ARE ILLEGAL!
432) <ais523> it actually worked, and faster than using Excel for rendering
448) <ais523> it's probably the same people who were trying to organise gangs of shoplifters as some sort of complex protest against the government's economic policy
450) <ais523> oerjan: I'm not imaginative enough to write truly great slash fiction
461) <itidus20> software patents strike again  <ais523_> that's got to be at least three times, now  <ais523_> are they out yet?
468) <ais523> (Enigma is two games; one is solving Enigma puzzles, the other is working out how to represent things as Enigma puzzles, preferably with the minimal amount of lua and player-hidden information possible)
484) <Vorpal> ais523, how can TAEB take too long? It is turn based. As long as it isn't taking like several minutes per move it is acceptable!  <ais523> Vorpal: it gets boring waiting for it
513) <ais523> this strikes me as probably better than a singularity, because you can't trust a random AI, but you can probably trust olsner
515) <ais523> oh no, I think we've managed to mix three metaphors in a way that actually makes sense
544) <ais523> if all my Facebook friends were to visit a page, it wouldn't make any difference at all
548) <ais523> isn't a neutrino detector just a large vat of washing-up liquid with a bit of machinery attached?
552) <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
579) <elliott> ais523: those suck  <elliott> hmm, those are all pretty good
586) <ais523> it's not a list of /all/ interesting esolangs, btw; otherwise you can take the first command from the first esolang, the second from the second, the third from the third, etc, then add 1 to all of them  <ais523> and you get a new interesting esolang  <ais523> diagonal principle…
597) <ais523\unfoog> Vorpal: your ability to randomly make obvious comments in IRC as if they were profound is not a particularly useful one
600) <ais523> Vorpal: I was paying too much attention to elliott and not enough to my HP
603) <ais523> Just about all females often feel that exactly why all Hollywood stars common maintain its brightness as Tom in spite of frantic operate routine and large operate pressure from the skin. What do you think that they have got sufficient time to observe all attractiveness strategies and tips that his grandmother utilized to abide by?
614) <ais523> also, why isn't monqy from Hexham? his name sounds like he should be
616) <elliott> ais523: You might want to downgrade to a sock to be safe
617) <elliott> ais523: I pronounce "xor" by punching myself in the face and then "or"
618) <ais523> the parser would be even simpler if I didn't try to do type inference in it
631) <ais523\unfoog> Phantom__Hoover: is the processor hot?  <ais523\unfoog> also, does it smell of burnt silicon? [...] <ais523\unfoog> you can figure out if the processor is hot by touching it
662) <zzo38> Even the Spanish Inquisition is in this game.  <ais523> zzo38: was it unexpected?  <zzo38> Kind of...
667) <ais523> is there any evidence that Jesus knew the rules of tic-tac-toe?
669) <ais523> `delquote 419  * HackEgo has quit (Remote host closed the connection)  * EgoBot has quit (Remote host closed the connection)  * glogbot has quit (Remote host closed the connection)
678) <Phantom_Hoover> "Category 4 ("professional") fireworks are for sale only to fireworks professionals. They have no restrictions,"  <Phantom_Hoover> OK I need to become a pyrotechnician.  <ais523> Phantom_Hoover: that's like wanting to become a locksmith  <ais523> so that you can legally own lockpicks  <Phantom_Hoover> Did I mention when I wanted to become a locksmith?
679) <Vorpal> <ais523> northern ireland is quite a way to drag someone from scotland <-- not really. I just checked in google earth  <ais523> Vorpal: but dragging people across water's a bit tricky
682) <ais523> oh right: Frooxius, you wouldn't happen to live in Hexham, would you?  <Frooxius> No, sorry.  <ais523> phew  <Ngevd> How about Finland?  <Frooxius> Why would I live there?  <fizzie> That's a *very* good question.  <fizzie> Why would anyone?
710) <ais523> bleh, why doesn't tab-complete work in mkdir for the name of the new directory
726) <ais523> and then I spent much of the rest of the time trying to work out how to implement 3D Hashlife efficiently when at least one of the colors has free will
731) <tswett> ais523: well, Dylan said "hahaha, Lawlabee is running windows", and then Lawlabee said "'cuz it's pretty awesome."  <tswett> Except that by "it", Lawlabee was referring to something entirely different.  <tswett> So when I added that quote, Lawlabee emotifrowned.
733) <itidus21> ais523: thats very zen really  <ais523> no, it's more or less the opposite of zen
752) <ais523> coppro: I'm researching compiling high-level languages to hardware, which involves inventing new ones  <ais523> because there were no modern variants of algol specialised for hardware, oddly enough
783) <ais523> rogues using maces is traditional [...] <ais523> not D&D tradition, people coshing people in back alleys tradition
814) <HackEgo> 88) <ais523> (still, whatever possessed anyone to invent the N-Gage?) [...] <Sgeo_> Is there supposed to be a joke in 88?  <Sgeo_> Unless "N-Gage" is some pseudoscientific spiritual mumbo-jumbo, I don't get it.  <Sgeo_> Oh, it's a cell phone gaming thing apparently
825) <ais523> OK, I'll use roman numerals to reduce confusion
827) [after a quote deletion session] <fungot> ais523: i just checked, and the whole purpose of this is not necessary....
828) <monqy> what does it mean for a pencil to be turing complete....  <ais523> monqy: it's the same concept as USB sushi, really
871) -!- ais523 has parted #esoteric ("someone is going to mention Feather, I know it").
885) <fungot> ais523: intercal-72 c-intercal clc-intercal j-intercal yes all versions all versions
886) <ais523> btw, I finally discovered what a burrito was, recently  <ais523> they're kind of nice to eat  <ais523> but don't really resemble monads
902) <ais523> in Smalltalk, as in Feather, in order to do I/O, you must first create the universe  <Sgeo> ais523, it seems quite capable of I/O... GUI is a form of I/O  <ais523> Sgeo: yeah exactly  <ais523> where does the GUI come from?  <ais523> it's written in Smalltalk, clearly  <ais523> and how does the GUI do its I/O?  <ais523> if you think about the issue for too long, you end up inventing Feather
903) <ais523> you can define Feather as "Smalltalk done right" if you want to confuse people into wondering why that would involve time travel stuff and all that
907) <ais523> oerjan: humans are very hard to anthropomorphise
909) <ais523> if you mentioned you'd rewritten textutils (or is cat coreutils?), I might have guessed what was wrong with the program
919) <elliott> well what is time  <elliott> imo: an illusion [...] <Taneb> elliott, I think it's more like a burrito  <Taneb> If you have too much of time you get ill  <Taneb> But damn it felt good  <Taneb> You only get out what you put in, unless your time was made by someone else, which isn't as fun  <ais523> burritos don't work like that!  
928) <shachaf> what are some good concurrency primitives  <ais523> shachaf: how primitive do you want?
935) <fungot> Áis523ÎkËÇÏ52Í¿ÉnÐffjliated/ais523: ever tried reading while confused?
937) <boily> ais523: I'm not sure my grasp of the English language is getting better by visiting this channel..
944) <ais523> did you know that likes follow you around the internet and steal your browser?  <Taneb> I thought that was Phantom_Hoover
954) <ais523> Phantom_Hoover: my department teaches prolog, to second years I think  <ais523> some people choose it because it isn't ocaml, and then are disappointed to find it has lists
955) * ais523 challenges the americans here to remember who lost in the most recent UK general election  <Phantom_Hoover> ais523, the lib dems
965) <ais523> there's more evidence that scammers exist, than that, say, the average Nigerian exists
966) <ais523> is it March 3?  <olsner> on some dates, yes
1015) <ais523> in soviet russia, what sees you is what gets you
1042) <ais523> elliott: it's not so much that I've failed, just that I have not yet succeeded