< CoJaBo> Update: The object seen landing near Gale Crater on MSD 49,269 at around 05:50:16 AMT local time has been conclusively identified by the Martian Space Agency to be a weather balloon. Due to possible radioactive contamination, Mars citizens are forbidden to approach Gale Crater until further notice.
< xiphias> sycobuny: maybe you can answer this
< xiphias> sycobuny: if perl doesn't have a JIT, how come it's so fast
<@sycobuny> because it spends less time on buzzwords and more time on just fucking doing the work?
<@Treeki> "Final Fantasy 13-2" reminds me of European TV channel names
<@Treeki> Spain has a channel named laSexta (theSixth)
<@Treeki> and laSexta2, and laSexta3
<@Treeki> Britain has the Channel 4 network, which has Channel 4, More4, E4 and Film4
<@Treeki> and timeshifted versions: Channel 4+1, More4+1, E4+1 and Film4+1
<@Treeki> they recently launched a new channel, 4seven
<@Treeki> I'm just waiting for 4seven+1 for maximum confusion
<Pryoidain> I saw the new (old) arp-ing joke post on qdb, and just for a split second of amusement, set every device on my network to have the same IP as my laptop.
<Pryoidain> Now in my head, the intended result was for my lil ultrabook to ask the router "Hey who am I? Here's my IP." and think it had suddenly become a sun box
<Pryoidain> "THE COMPUTER IS THE NETWORK, I AM ALL OF YOU"
<Pryoidain> In reality, I turned the next 57 minutes of my monday morning into a frantic scrabbling to get the network back functional before I had to leave for work, and ended up giving myself a migraine.
<JCDenton> Am I the only one who seems to spend more time fixing stupid trivial errors when programming than real issues?
<nathan28> JCDenton: lolwut
<nathan28> that is programming
<@Pants> Hey Grue, so I figured out what was wrong with my chainsaw
<@Grue> Ja?
<@Pants> It turns out it has an on/off switch.
<@Grue> `lart Pants
BrainBleach brings in Charles Darwin and the Chainsaw of Natural Selection to have a go at Pants
<@Grue> More apropos, BrainBleach cannot become.
<PyroPyro> a guy just fax'd me a paper with text "i dont know how this works i will just email the doc to you"
<acenasir> asl angel?
<Tech_Angel> Dude, did you really just use asl?
<IT_Sean> He did.
<IT_Sean> HE MUST BE PUNISHED!
* IT_Sean gets the bullwhip, the mustard, and the geckos
<Tech_Angel> the geckos? you really are serious
<IT_Sean> Yup.
* Tech_Angel leaves Sean to play with acenasir while she gets lunch
* IT_Sean gives acenasir a 10 second head start
<adamaze> run boy
<grawity> hm, ranger is a cool file manager.
<chrise> What if I have uncool files that I want to manage?
<grawity> you cool them
<+blackroseMD1> Guess that's what I get for leaving the house hahahahahaha
<+Moon_Dog3VO> a life?
******a few minutes pass*****
<+Moon_Dog3VO> i must have got it right, blackroseMD1 is speechless
<+blackroseMD1> Yep. It kind of scared me too
<+blackroseMD1> I'm never leaving the house again.
<hagbard> i3Guest88: the pin9 that on the webpage is marked "NC" what are you doing with that pin?
<i3Guest88> just to ground
<myself> aha
<myself> when a bit gets shifted off the edge of the '595, it falls out pin 9
<myself> if you're pushing zeroes out there, the chip is trying to drive pin 9 to ground, which is already its state, and everything is copascetic
<myself> but as soon as you shift a 1 off the edge of the register, it tries to drive pin 9 high, but it's grounded, so it shorts your power supply
<myself> when a pin is labeled NC, that means you only connect it if you're in North Carolina
<myself> and since we're in Michigan, we use that as a no-connect pin, meaning leave it floating
<nathan> I think % is secretly the symbol for a titfuck
< Botje> daemon: the sooner we can kill off ftp the better
< daemon> Botje, what do you think for its replacement? scp
< spider-mario> webdav?
< Botje> sftp
< Botje> or the clown.
< apeiron> clown?
< Botje> cloud
< Botje> i mentally replace one by the other, makes marketingspeak a lot more interesting :]
<Migs> what does it mean when critics say a movie is "smart?"
<gildean> they didn't understand it
<derpcat> I only program when I want to automate some task
<advi> why the fuck else would you
<+beefCake> hmm has someone got stuck down a drain :d
<+beefCake> there's been a confined space safety and rescue unit van outside for a bit
<+beefCake> some sort of tripod on the pavement further up
< Cheez> go out and say "what's that? timmy's fallen down the well?!"
< Cheez> then run back inside barking
< Phatteh> run over and say "i came as soon as lassie told me what happened!"
<Dazuro> ...
<Dazuro> why
<Dazuro> why
<Dazuro> why cant i have a normal family
<Dazuro> i pissed off mom and she threatened to mail my foreskin to my girlfriend.
<Kelso> I try my best to avoid myself.
<Recall_Coordinator> Fishing and hunting aren't really sports in the soccer/tennis sense of the word. They're tactical games that you play against players that have no idea that they're playing.
<Genghis_John> Rugby should be played like that.
<bob> At last, a public opinion poll that gets the opinions of ordinary Americans on the issues that matter! Apparently, two thirds of Americans polled think that Barack Obama is better suited to defend against an alien invasion than Mitt Romney, according to a survey from National Geographic Channel
<ramsey> those are really the things that matter
<ramsey> but I'm more interested in who is better suited to get us through the impending zombie apocalypse, since it's more impending than an alien invasion
<bob> i'd probably still choose the black one.
<ramsey> wow
<@lysol> do you guys know about the len() function
<@pyna> yeah but i call it lennie() cause we tight
<Pryoidain> Finally developed a working method for discovering if it's going to be a good day or a bad day.
<asaph> Do tell?
<Pryoidain> So I sleep RIGHT NEXT to my phone. Like it's two inches from my face if shit blows up at 3AM because waking me requires an atomic attack.
<Pryoidain> Anyways, first thing I do every morning, even before glasses, is grab it, hit the screen button, and see if there are any alerts.
<asaph> right.
<Pryoidain> My background now has 2+2=? on it. If at any point between the first pressing of the screen button and managing to reach the pot of coffee i think "22" then I immediately go the fuck back to bed.
<eli> lesson learned: rm ** does not just remove all files that end with * :/
(On the topic of socialization)
< qkumber1> I just pretend everyone is NPCs
< qkumber1> works wonders
< ShaRose> not sure if talking about religion or my little pony