2008-02-06.txt:17:17:28: <ehird`> ais523: i think yours is a bit too obscure, yeah
2008-02-18.txt:20:14:31: <ais523> Sgeo: I know you weren't asking me, but I know from experience that some obscure bugs in code I wrote were traceable to not doing that
2008-03-31.txt:15:44:02: <ais523> AnMaster: Kate recognises INTERCAL as some sort of obscure database script
2008-03-31.txt:16:42:13: <ais523> ehird: you just know that people will use obscure features like symlinked variables in order to confuse the fuzz tester
2008-03-31.txt:16:43:16: <AnMaster> <ais523> ehird: you just know that people will use obscure features like symlinked variables in order to confuse the fuzz tester
2008-04-03.txt:10:10:43: <ais523> wow, posix_fadvice is so obscure Google can't figure out what it does
2008-04-03.txt:12:20:08: <AnMaster> ais523, <ais523> wow, posix_fadvice is so obscure Google can't figure out what it does <-- try the man page, it knows
2008-04-04.txt:15:18:30: <ais523> (trigraphs are an obscure and rarely-used C89 feature, but this time I was using them to type chars like ] with a sequence of characters that was nop in Brainfuck)
2008-05-06.txt:19:26:32: <ais523> it's understanding what obscure language feature you need to solve it that's needed to solve the problem
2008-05-20.txt:19:08:45: <ehird> ais523: you seem to think git is some kind of obscure system
2008-05-20.txt:19:22:10: * ais523 thinks you should install something really obscure
2008-05-20.txt:19:23:01: <ehird> ais523: But only because I went looking for obscure editors before
2008-06-23.txt:13:44:15: <oklopol> ais523: read logs for a new language of mine, and obscure rant about Ef!
2008-06-23.txt:23:24:12: <ais523> Slereah2: probably not, it's a pretty obscure character
2008-09-12.txt:21:25:23: <ais523> I got quite good at it though despite it being so obscure
2008-09-12.txt:22:45:56: <ais523> it could easily beat most other tests at testing portability on obscure systems
2008-09-20.txt:21:36:02: <ais523> but that would have been a lot more obscure
2008-09-23.txt:20:27:04: <ais523> so I made it hard, obscure and without context
2009-02-28.txt:18:34:36: <ais523> it leads to massively obscure error messages, though
2009-03-01.txt:17:11:25: <ais523> that means there's something really obscure but standard on the level
2009-03-03.txt:16:09:02: <ais523_> ehird: that's kind-of obscure, rather than a basic test
2009-03-03.txt:16:09:09: <ehird> ais523_: ## is not obscure!!
2009-03-05.txt:16:10:54: <ehird> ais523: now _that's_ obscure
2009-03-05.txt:16:12:00: <ais523> it was pretty obscure...
2009-03-08.txt:18:17:02: <ais523> I've been getting obscure bugs when I try to use numbers as table keys
2009-03-08.txt:22:27:06: <ais523> like the diameter of the steering wheel, or whatever </obscure reference>
2009-03-10.txt:21:23:46: <ais523> and is it standard, or obscure, or did you just invent the name?
2009-03-22.txt:19:59:15: <ehird> ais523: You know it; considering how obscure it is I'd say you're an expert.
2009-03-23.txt:19:36:24: <ais523> the point is to have the smallest possible amount of information obscure
2009-03-28.txt:18:20:23: <ais523> wow, C94 is sufficiently obscure that even Google has few relevant results
2009-03-29.txt:16:31:23: <ais523> well, I'm getting an obscure bug in the C-INTERCAL profiler
2009-04-03.txt:23:28:16: <ais523> some of the more obscure edge cases need people to be writing third-order non-recursive functions in their simple imperative langauge to trigger them
2009-04-29.txt:17:11:51: <ehird> ais523: OBSCURE REFERENCE BUDDIES *HI5*
2009-05-02.txt:17:04:21: <ais523> that's a minimal testcase for an obscure optimizer bug
2009-05-04.txt:22:08:35: <ais523> AnMaster: yes, although some of them are rather obscure
2009-05-04.txt:22:08:45: <AnMaster> ais523, too obscure for aspell even
2009-05-29.txt:09:26:01: <ais523> and lambdas aren't really obscure nowadays
2009-10-13.txt:16:56:46: <ais523> from what I've heard on Slashdot, it causes massive data loss but only in a rather obscure corner case
2010-04-16.txt:19:05:04: <AnMaster> ais523, doesn't that exist? As embedded sql or such? Fairly old and obscure thing iirc
2010-06-20.txt:22:36:53: <ais523> try more obscure vegetables
2010-06-20.txt:22:43:32: <AnMaster> ais523, guess: asparagus is commonly considered obscure. Thus it isn't
2010-07-18.txt:15:51:56: <ais523> and if so, why would they go for a relatively obscure webmail service?
2010-08-14.txt:23:13:51: <ais523> and either they have to write a huge comment "don't change this apparently ridiculous code because it breaks on (insert obscure compiler here)"
2010-08-15.txt:01:45:15: <ais523> Vorpal: apart from unihorn and prayer, the other cures for foodpois are really obscure
2010-09-30.txt:16:48:53: <ais523> although it was only repealed about 10 years ago, when they noticed there were still some obscure offences that carried it
2010-10-04.txt:20:12:21: <ais523> I have higlights on quite a few obscure things
2010-10-10.txt:21:47:42: <fizzie> ais523: Oh, and feof/ferror too, as well as the somewhat obscure system(NULL) case. (And a lot of multibyte string functions when called with a NULL s.)
2010-11-08.txt:17:52:30: <elliott> ais523: .zip is the Old Rubbish, .7z is the Obscure Stuff.
2010-11-09.txt:16:37:00: <elliott> ais523: that ... beyond obscure
2010-12-16.txt:23:36:09: <elliott> ais523: "I want a charset encoding that has box-drawing chars as single bytes. What is it? (Is it obscure? If so, I'd better not use it.) Here is a C-based demonstration that I have no idea what the hell I'm talking about, and also use Windows. Goodbye!"
2011-05-18.txt:19:11:32: <pikhq> ais523_: Not really a *bug* as it is a very obscure feature.
2011-07-18.txt:07:41:24: <ais523> that explains anything I do that results in obscure questions about Linux internals
2011-07-22.txt:20:14:13: <ais523> probably a really obscure method involving libraries
2011-08-13.txt:18:33:36: <ais523> it'd work better if there's a really obscure non-eso lang called iridium
2011-08-31.txt:23:37:56: <ais523> Sgeo: I wonder if zzo38 getting interested in something /makes/ it obscure
2011-12-01.txt:21:31:28: <ais523> (on another note, I love the way that the standard way to indicate that you get a reference is to make a different obscure reference to the same thing)
2011-12-15.txt:17:39:01: <ais523> you know, some day there'll be someone who says "I only know one/two Pokémon", then names a really obscure one rather than one of the starters
2011-12-15.txt:17:39:42: <elliott> <ais523> you know, some day there'll be someone who says "I only know one/two Pokémon", then names a really obscure one rather than one of the starters
2011-12-20.txt:05:43:51: <shachaf> ais523: It's this really obscure SI unit.
2011-12-24.txt:20:35:12: <ais523> the second is rather more obscure
2011-12-31.txt:22:26:41: <ais523> ah right, on the basis that Hexham is an awfully obscure and specific place to lying about having come from
2012-01-01.txt:02:00:17: <elliott> ais523: {Haskell, occasionally C, sometimes Python, rarely Perl, probably all sorts of obscure things like ATS and Rust and Bit-C and stuff, not C++, not C++, not C++}
2012-03-04.txt:05:08:46: <HackEgo> 2011-07-22.txt:20:14:13: <ais523> probably a really obscure method involving libraries
2012-03-04.txt:05:08:59: <HackEgo> 2009-03-03.txt:16:09:09: <ehird> ais523_: ## is not obscure!!