<@witheld> Well, my computer from the age of 3 to about 10 was this frankenstein build that a family friend built us running 95. When I first started using it I just used a program called "baby type" which created various noises and visualizations from pressing buttons and messing with the mouse
<@witheld> And then when I was 10 or so the mexican guy gave me my own windows 98 computer
<@witheld> mexican guy down the street*
<@KittyKatt> Oh, I thought you meant THE mexican guy.
<@KittyKatt> Like, everyone was supposed to get their computer from the mexican guy at the age of 10.
<Odthin> dammit i just came out of the closet as a grammar nazi
<milaga> they are a little more fun than the grammar marxists
<Odthin> grammar marxist, do they try to share grammatical mistakes with the whole community
<milaga> but not nearly as fun as the grammar maoists
<milaga> who just say lmao whenever you try to correct them
<StoneCyp1erAW> dude i just met a fourth person named chance.
<StoneCyp1erAW> WHAT ARE THE CHANCES
<tomaka> WebAssembly + WebVulkan
<tomaka> wooosh skyrim in the browser
<tzaeru> a browser in webassembly + webvulkan that runs skyrim
<tzaeru> :O
<tomaka> an emulator written in webassembly, that runs a PC, that runs linux, that runs a browser, that runs skyrim
<tzaeru> an emulator in webassembly, that runs particle simulations, that run a bunch of chips laid out to imitate the functionality of modern PCs, that runs linux, that runs windows emulator, that runs a browser, that runs skyrim.
<OmniMancer> an emulator that runs a universe in which people argue over how to run skyrim in a web browser
< wushin> bjorn not ded, bjorn is parent, parents are zombies because children are parasites
< wushin> Trust me, I'm someone's father.
< Kage> wushin: I would see a doctor about it
< wushin> We did several times.
< wushin> #KidsAreExpensive
<Raven> Is it still Passover?
<Kyol> Is Jesus still dead?
<Morwen> No Kyol, thats what Easter was all about.
<Kyol> Ah. So let me see. He gets nailed to a tree on Good Friday, spends a few days in a cave, comes out on Easter.. Then what?
<hockwork> if he sees his shadow, its another 6 weeks of winter
<jacquilyn> Eh. Being kicked out of the lab.
<Agent_Orange> wear pants next time. They like that
<Leth> agt: but the sign only reads "No Shirts, No Shoes, No Service." Pants aren't ever mentioned
<Agent_Orange> leth: I've tried that argument many times and it *usually* ends in bitter disappointment
<Mr-Ben> Man, forgot about theguy finding God. A full week now.
<Samwise> He hasn't found him after a week?
<Mr-Ben> Evidentally not. Probably still looking.
<zompist> one whole week of god. better crack a window...
<Samwise> Man, you can't just look in churches, either.
<Mr-Ben> Some people look at the bottoms of whiskey bottles.
<jacquilyn> You can't find God in the bottom of a whiskey bottle, by the time you get to the bottom, he's already been poured out into the glass...
<wabewalkr> Oh, I dunno. Ignorance is bliss.
<zompist> then why aren't more people happy?
<maime> That means nothing to a card carrying makeup whore.
<TheEnigma> You carry a card that says "Makeup Whore" on it?
<maime> No but I like to call myself a card carrying makeup whore when the occassion arises.
<maime> Its difficult to explain.
<TheEnigma> Like right now, for instance.
<maime> Exactly
<Kyol> Oh good! My dog's found a chainsaw!
<me_tew> That's one hell of a retriever, Kyol.
<stereo_> y'all have some daddy issues
<clockwrok> nothing could be father from the truth
(Foone) did you hear about how my OBJ export system worked? that was the...
software centipede
(Foone) so I ran the target program in a debugger inside a VM, pausing on a
specific breakpoint. I also ran script in the VM that provided HTTP
access to RAM, so you could hit localhost:8080/ADDRESS/LENGTH and
get the contents of memory back
(Sotek) what
(Sotek) what.
(Foone) outside the VM I ran a script which connected to this and made a few
hundred requests and assembled the contents into a tree, which it
then exposed as a JSON endpoint
(Foone) then my opengl app (also running outside the VM, because 3d
acceleration) made a request to the JSON endpoint, loaded those
models and textures, then it would run the render function in a
special mode where instead of drawing each node it stored them to a
global dictionary, then reparsed that dictionary and exported it as an
OBJ file, which I then opened in blender, made manual fixes, exported
back out to STL, ran a script to package the STL + assorted textures,
then I manually uploaded that to shapeways which did further processing
and then they mailed me the completed model
(Foone) fun fact: the OS/2 mailing list CD of 1996 was involved in this
process, but you'll never guess where
(Foone) it was used in setting the breakpoint. see, the program was statically
linked with the 3D library used but I have no debugging symbols. but I
found a copy of the same(ish) library from the OS/2 developers
conference mailing list CD, which is provided in .lib format so I _do_
have symbols
(Foone) so by comparing the disassembly of the functions in the OS/2 .lib and
the EXE, I could identify them in the EXE
(Foone) this let me find where the main render function was called, so I know
at what point to set the breakpoint
(Foone) I also got the headers from it, which gave me the layout of the
structures in memory.
(Foone) I already kinda had those thanks to a carmageddon fansite, though
(Foone) yeah. carmageddon 1 for DOS used the same engine as the app I was targeting
(Foone) and they found an SDK manual for it from somewhere
<Se7eN> in my early days of irc like 15 years ago
<Se7eN> there was this guy called Wiccy, Jigsy^ZzZzZ and others remember him
<Se7eN> and he would always "fluff" people he liked when the joined the main chan
<Se7eN> and i thought of it as like, fluffing someone's pillow to make their spot comfy upon arrival or something
<Se7eN> so for years i /me fluffed people
<Se7eN> and later found out it was a porn thing people do to "prep" male actors.
<robin> everyone knows that CS undergrads are an excellent source of enterprise-grade software
<robin> they rigorously follow best practices
<robin> use advanced version control systems like copy&rename
<robin> and nothing clears up a confusing section of spaghetti code as well as /* drunk */
<muffin> robin: I used to attend some of the local CS undergrad meetups while in uni
<robin> muffin: orly?
<muffin> At that time I was learning some versioning practices that were supposed to alleviate my project issues at that time
<muffin> Anyway, I asked a few tips on git
<muffin> And one guy first asked me what git is. Then proceeded to tell me that I should use dropbox
<GeneralAntilles> wow
<GeneralAntilles> That's pretty pro.
<robin> it probably is adobe's fault
<robin> i bet you could measure the dollar cost of adobe security breaches
<robin> then calculate the amount of funding that programs like food stamps would have received had productivity not been wasted on adobe security breaches
<robin> pretty sure acrobat reader and flash are responsible for child hunger
<PFY> We should have a tattoo like the scarlet letter
<PFY> "I deployed on a friday"
<PFY> that way you knew what you were getting into at interviews
<anodos_> good entropy source - leave a newbie with a file open in vi, ask him to exit it, and track all the keystrokes
<Xena> just make sure to reduce your wildly using of things just because they are cool
<Xena> a filter like that will get you far
Stormbringer: also valve are slowly dropping
Stormbringer: tf2 support in favor of csgo and dota2
Rapscallion: well it's 8 years old or something
Rapscallion: a child could have been born on the release date of TF2
Rapscallion: and now be old enough to call you a faggot on it
<Reaper> Why do we need a magnetic field in our giant spaceship
<Sleepy> we'll all be dead from solar radation in like days if not less
<Sleepy> I hope you're not planning to nav your ship by compass :p
<Reaper> And, honestly, the magnetosphere doesn't stop radiation. It stops solar wind particles from stripping away the atmosphere :-D
<WK> what relevance would a compass have in a spaceship anyway?>
<Dragonfly> how else are you supposed to draw circles?
<Taisa> Hey Dan would it be creepy and/or manipulative to try and hit up my ex around the time her menstrual cycle normally clocks at "hornier than usual" or is that just me doing what nature expects me to do
<Rapestove> that sounds like both
<Dan_Maku> Well given you know about it and have tipped your hand towards using it, the former
<Doktor_Q> Those two aren't mutually exclusive at all
<Dan_Maku> Also that
<Dan_Maku> If you're horny just be honest with her about it
<Dan_Maku> ...And maybe don't mention that you keep tabs on her fucking menstural cycle
<Doktor_Q> Nature half expects you to kill your competition's children, this is considered a bad thing today
<Ursarkar_E_Creed> Social Minmaxing and sociopathy go hand in hand
<Taisa> I do like minmaxing...
<tmkf> if you offered steve ballmer a faustian bargain where he could do it all again, with full foreknowledge of how 2000-2010 transpired, but in return he would have to legally change his name to 'stevie peepants' and go by it
<tmkf> would he do it?
<pyna> probably. cause money
<pyna> one of the richest men in the world is named Anurag Dikshit - maybe that happened to him
<BadSpoon> I keep thinking... if I were the guy who actually used all the lifehacks he found online, I'd be the most annoying guy in the world
<Tuplanolla> This might be a silly question, but could there be a substitute for seq?
<jmcarthur> Tuplanolla: substitute seq how?
<Tuplanolla> Perhaps another mechanism to control strictness locally.
<jmcarthur> what do you mean?
<monochrom> $! is a substitute for seq
<jmcarthur> do you have something specific in mind?
<monochrom> "data X = !Int" is a substitue for seq
<Tuplanolla> No. I was thinking about other languages.
<monochrom> err, "data X = Ctor !Int"
<monochrom> Haskell is a substitute for other languages