@lyxal I wanted to make that joke but I couldn’t get the wording right

Trying to figure out a solution to this

Maybe turning the shower water then hiding in the attic, so when he goes to unplug it I can pop up behind him and...what?

Disapprovingly glance at him? Hit him with a frying pan? Doesn't feel any closer to a solution

I figured like an elementary school bully he'd stop when he realized it had no effect but evidently that's not the case

ohhhhh no

I had a shift at work yesterday

I swear I did not see it

I mean I wouldn't have been able to go anyway but...shit

...do they really mean "interstitial"?

That's a very odd word lol

Well I did my taxes for 2022

Got my $140 back, thankyouverymuch IRS

I think I'll use it to buy a silly hat

Depending on how mad my employer is about me not realizing I had work yesterday my taxes might be shockingly easy to file next year :p

> uploaded picture

somehow, I feel like that isn't accurate

hmm

@RydwolfPrograms i feel like i've seen it used in a web context for pages that you get sent through to other pages

ayup

@lyxal also, why the hell does my identicon change every time I open the settings?

Fun little cloud I saw today

Nothing wrong with it at all

hi

Tragic Wormhole is fully functional

I frankly can't believe it works, but it does

@Ginger is this the file sharing over chat thing?

media.discordapp.net/attachments/1007658703811510355/…

^ demo of my WIP game

Last time someone asked me to download a demo of their WIP game it was actually a Discord token logger (I didn't fall for it, but I know some people who did)

that is a video tho

not a actual playable demo

@Bbrk24 That's pretty dumb. Like, if you're making a trojan like that, why take someone's Discord token when you could take, idk, their bank account password

I clicked on it and it opened a download prompt which I closed before checking the file type :P

I'll look ig

@RydwolfPrograms Well when you get the owner of a bot that's on several hundred servers, you get the bot's token and the ability to revoke the old token, so the bot is compromised. Bots can do some things normal users can't, like markdown-style disguised links

so uh.. how is my game demo :P

Betting $50 it's a rickroll

Oh I am pleasantly surprised

So it's a platformer, with combat?

yes

you set out to destroy a BAP (bad armed people) organisation because they destroyed your lunch (expensive lunch)

the storyline and the levels will be made by my brother lol

What's the theme/artstyle going to be?

Like, dark alleyways? Outside with green grass?

just leave it as those geometric shapes

@lyxal yup

@RydwolfPrograms in case you didn't see Tragic Wormhole is functional now

I'm currently getting it to work in the transcript

nice

How do I configure my terminal to open to ~ instead of /? I don't want to add a cd ~ to my .bash_profile for times when I want to intentionally spawn a terminal elsewhere, I just want to change the default

@RydwolfPrograms s q u a r e s

@Bbrk24 exactly what i will do :p

okey dokey, Tragic Wormhole is ready

I'm not quite sure how to wrap it in a userscript so I'm just going to put it in a gist for now

gist.github.com/GingerIndustries/…

have fun (cc @RydwolfPrograms)

> .slice(undefined, 32)

I'm scared to ask what this does

don't worry about it :p

Wait is that just a code bowling version of .slice(0, 32) lol

yes

If you're gonna do undefined at least to [][0] or void 0 lol

the docs said undefined made it use the start and I did as I was told

0 also makes it use the start but okay :p

big brain™

Gotta love the IRS

very useful

LMAO ands their solution is, instead of generating useful error messages, they send you to a website that translates that into a useful error

Turns out I just forgot to enter the employer name ion my W-2

the most cursed part of the script (besides your encoder/decoder, which is a whole other level of cursed) is probably this:

console.log("This is a transcript page, skipping injection.")
CHAT.CURRENT_ROOM_ID = new URL(document.URL).pathname.split("/")[2]

okay, slightly updated version published

I removed a debugging call and fixed some styling issues

...now what lol

I finished a project and I'm kinda in shock because that never happens

Yup, accidentally left field C on my W-2 empty. I'll have to do this when I get home I think

is it just me or is Randall Munroe running out of ideas

> Here is your error(s):

how tf does the US government make a pluralization error

then again it's the US government

Wdym "pluralization error"

The whole point of doing error(s) is to avoid pluralization errors

that should be "Here are your error(s)", no?

Well since it could be either "error" or "errors" neither "is" nor "are" are valid in both cases

Here, your error(s):

Do it jan Misali style

Here's error

I've noticed that I'll use "there's" even when the uncontracted form would be "there are"

You get an error, you get an error, everyone gets an error!

what is this

TuxBot

because what it looks like is ChatGPT linked to a Linux forum account

doesn't this sound like ChatGPT?

It sounds like an obsequious chatbot. ChatGPT is only a continuation of a long tradition.

aw don't be mean to Tux

speaking of, I ran Tux through Tesselator:

a bit cursed, but recognizably a penguin

I love extra credit so much

It's actually possible to get above 100%

Thing #378 I love about college

You didn't have that in middle/high school?

My algebra II grade was consistently 110% lol

After the curve I was consistently getting >105% on my high school biology tests

@Gin Out of interest, what's the tesselator for?

Just a side project?

@RydwolfPrograms Unfortunately not

Not that I have anything to complain about, my school district had massive grade inflation

@Bbrk24 You had curves in high school? Nice

@RydwolfPrograms close enough

tbh curves wouldn't have benefitted me in school either because several of my classes had As and Bs as the average grade

Even classes that were supposedly difficult

@Ginger Do you just average the values in area that each hexagon occupies? Are you planning on doing another pass to get rid of the random gray hexagons?

@user yes, no

Cool cool

The second would be tough and probably not worth it ig

well, I don't personally do the averaging; I downscale the image so there's a 1:1 correlation between hexagons and pixels

but that's pretty much averaging anyway

so I ran the output of Tragic Wormhole through Google Translate:

translate.google.com/…

> steaming bream rhodium cones

> socks Ꙗ naan

> Chung gizzards

> castration

@user My chem teacher had a really complicated way of curving test grades: if the average before the curve was below an 80, he’d take the Z-score of each student’s uncurved grade and linearly map them so that the average was an 80 and the top scorer was a 100

I'm frankly curious why there are so many element names in the output

specifically neodymium

@Bbrk24 Huh, I thought it always started in your home directory

@DLosc I'm also using mintty & MinGW on Windows 10, not Linux, so that probably has something to do with it

@Ginger That's a 400 for me

huh, so it is

nvm I guess

@RydwolfPrograms your font roulette thing doesn't seem to work all the time: instead of choosing a font, I got a 400 error for a css file

from what I can tell, it tried to choose Buda as the font family, but something went wrong

I've never had that happen, what browser are you using?

Chrome 111 I think? On Windows 10

Yeah, Chrome 111

Hmm, I'm on Chrome 111 too, Chrome OS. It works consistently for me, but there's any number of factors that could be involved I guess

Yeah it was fine after I reloaded it. Specifically Buda caused the issue

Ah. Might just be a bug in the webfont loader library

Or a very weird/broken Google Font

It was a 400 in fetching the CSS file

Yeah, if I modify the script to have var family = "Buda" instead of randomly choosing I get the 400

lemme figure out how to wrap Tragic Wormhole in a userscript

Also, while we're talking about Font Roulette, may I suggest changing the selector from * to :not(code, pre)?

I'm not changing the official one but you're free to modify your copy

The only difference between monospace and normal chat messages is font, and Font Roulette clobbers that as is

It's not exactly intended to be used seriously :p

okay, here it is

But either way I'd recommend installing a script or userstyle to fix chat's awful default code formatting

I've got one called Chat Monospace Fix in the same repo if you want

I'll take a look

yep that's definitely helpful

I am struggling to write something and, for the first time ever, considering asking ChatGPT for help

Because I'm not asking it for factual information and I know I might have to clean up whatever it says. I just need help collecting my thoughts into paragraph form

I'm hesitant to say what exactly it is I'm stuck on because it is a political topic

Not like there aren't a bunch of political discussions in here anyway :p

I'm writing to the state senate to testify against a bill they're considering. I've already written a couple of paragraphs about part of the bill, but there's a different part that I can't come up with what to say about it. The part I'm stuck on would effectively ban teaching about discrimination and make it illegal to consider race or gender for scholarships

I'm curious how a law like that would work with AP history classes

IME AP Human Geo/World History/US History have been pretty good about covering history in an accurate way, and making it clear where discrimination has occurred, and given how standardized the topics covered in those classes are, not sure how that'd go

@RydwolfPrograms At least so far, this only applies to public universities, not private universities or high schools

ah

In any case this bill is moving scary fast. It went through the house in under a month and is now waiting to be seen by the senate

Are the house and senate controlled by the same party?

Yeah, I would be surprised if not

This is what it's like in a red state 🙃

@RydwolfPrograms I just looked it up. Yes, and the Senate is by a considerably wider margin (79%-21%) than the house (67%-33%)

wow

that sucks