The Sand Trap

lyxal

00:06

never have i vibed with a nintendo character so much

Unrelated String

03:05

@lyxal no fucking way

now i'm wondering if that's actually where it came from or if it's just a beautiful coincidence

Dannyu NDos

06:26

I changed my opinion about cryptocurrency.

They're worthy enough only when one's government is shaking.

Indeed, they circulate actively in Venezuela, apparently.

The_AH

08:20

Hello everyone.

> Scratch is a gateway drug to JS

...

Ginger

12:19

@lyxal just realized that the text in your GitHub location is not only upside down but also mirrored

lyxal

well duh

Ginger

thereby proving that you are actually Shadow Lyxal from the Dark Realm

lyxal

what you expect me to read rtl?

lyxal

12:46

@Ginger is that a bug?

(confirming it did actually post)

or is it just a result of messing around with timestamps?

Ginger

@lyxal could you be more specific?

lyxal

Toasty posted an antifreeze 3 days after it's last one

in the PLDI HNQ room

last I checked it was supposed to be 7 days

Ginger

ugh, I know what's happened

lyxal

and if I math right 3 != 7

Ginger

Toasty will send an antifreeze message if either of two conditions are met:
- The last message in the room _sent by a non-feed user_ is over 7 days old, or
- The last message in the room was sent by a feed

which is not how it's supposed to work

so I guess I'm going to have to make yet another change to the antifreezer

Rydwolf Programs

13:17

Have you considered that 9 out of 10 doctors do not recommend eating antifreeze with your toast

lyxal

I wanna be friends with the 10th one because that sounds like they're a goofy kinda doctor

The_AH

My day:

1. Wake up and eat breakfast.

2. Go to computer.

3. Eat lunch.

4. Go to computer.

5. Eat dinner and sleep.

lyxal

smh no time dedicated to launching nukes at random countries

The_AH

Plan B initate.

Launching nukes...

Country set to Ohio.

Nuke launching in 1...

2...

3...

4...

5...

GO.

@lyxal There you go.

Rydwolf Programs

PFFT we sure love the US government

Ginger

13:26

> Country set to Ohio

@RydwolfPrograms ~~finally, some honesty~~

hmm, I wonder if Podzol can use SSH port forwarding to forward RCON

The_AH

@Ginger ~~Not tell anybody but I interrupted Plan B's protocol to send it to the US gov instead of Ohio~~

Rydwolf Programs

13:50

Okay it's honestly kind of sweet how worried my friend is about me flying a plane later today lol

The_AH

@RydwolfPrograms That's a good sign.

@RydwolfPrograms 99.9% of the population who don't even read the TOS.

Ginger

14:32

@lyxal didja do it?

The_AH

In the small town of Norway Hoe, ice covers the ground and feets of all the people around. They all sit near one fire for warmth and eat what they have. They are catious, they have learned to avoid the sandwich-who-must-be-not-known, a word for the sandwich man.

When winter comes the sandwich man lurks, he looks at all the friends and fellows of the town he swallows, under fear he wins and under bravery he hides. Pure evil he is, so the sandwich man hunts and he likes to turn others into his sandwich men. Together they will cross the fire and let everyone to eat afar where the sandwich men…

Ginger

?????

The_AH

@Ginger wdym?

Ginger

what is that

The_AH

Is that really a question to ask? Fiction that I made.

Ginger

14:38

why'd you post it here?

The_AH

Now that's a question to ask that I don't really have an answer to.

Do you like it?

Rydwolf Programs

14:58

I got college spam in the mail from UNC :p

I could go to college with Unrelated String :p

Ginger

~~what a deal~~

Rydwolf Programs

In other news Texas A&M keeps tryna go on a date with me

The_AH

.

Rydwolf Programs

Probably the most appealing of the three full-ride scholarships I've been offered but still not at all appealing lol

The_AH

..

Rydwolf Programs

15:00

Well ig Tulsa's probably more appealing since it's a private school

The_AH

...

Nailed it.

Rydwolf Programs

I kinda want to apply to Harvard just so I can get in and write them a rejection letter

@The_AH This is the kind of high-effort shitpost I approve of

The_AH

It is not shitpost.

It is fiction that I wrote.

Ginger

I was about to say that it seemed pretty serious to me :p

The_AH

> a deliberately provocative or off-topic comment posted on social media, typically in order to upset others or distract from the main conversation.

It is not provocative and this is literally meant for off-topic discussions.

It wasn't meant to upset and there was no conversation going on at that time.

Rydwolf Programs

15:03

Eh that's not a very good definition

It's a compliment

The_AH

That is Google's definition.

Ginger

it was a joke lol

The_AH

OH.

What do you guys think about that fiction though?

Rydwolf Programs

I think it fits very well into the genre I mentioned, and it's one I have respect for :p

Ginger

that's definitely more tactful than my answer

Rydwolf Programs

15:04

Very along the lines of my "C418 torches his ex's car"

The_AH

@RydwolfPrograms What genre?

Ginger

a literary classic, that

Rydwolf Programs

@The_AH High-effort shitpost

The_AH

I think it fits well into horror or classic fairytales.

Ginger

so you wrote that 100% seriously?

The_AH

15:05

Of course.

Rydwolf Programs

(I mean I'm assuming it's intended to be kind of silly given "Norway Hoe" and "Sandwich Man" :p)

Ginger

apparently not?

The_AH

I should have used other words...

"Norwaya" and "Snowman" might work.

Maybe.

Do you guys want more SERIOUS fiction.

The death stare.

Ginger

TIL that ChromeOS opens the app selector thingy if you scroll up on the empty space between the app-selector-thingy button and the pinned apps

Rydwolf Programs

@The_AH It's likely nobody here would read it, fwiw

Ginger

15:08

^

I don't really want any kind of fiction

if you insist on it you should probably go to Lit.SE

Rydwolf Programs

Not even Joe Biden erotic fanfiction?

Ginger

okay, I'll make a special exception for that

The_AH

I don't care though.

If nobody reads it.

Ginger

unfortunately, I do

The_AH

Why?

Ginger

15:09

because if nobody reads it all it does is take up space and interrupt other conversations

The_AH

If there is no conversation then...

Also one post doesn't take up much space.

It is like limited size.

And has (Read more) if it's too long.

Ginger

it throws the whole conversation off

The_AH

What if there is no conversation though?

Ginger

it's like if you were talking to a friend about seeing a movie and somebody else showed up unprompted and started reading Finnegan's Wake

Rydwolf Programs

As an RO I'm going to intervene here and say The_AH is perfectly free to share their writing here

The_AH

15:11

@RydwolfPrograms Wait really?

Rydwolf Programs

I'm sure 90% of the stuff I post here nobody cares about

The_AH

lol

@Ginger But what if you were not talking to a friend and there was no conversation, nobody was talking?

Rydwolf Programs

A lot of what goes on here is people stream-of-consciousing on every topic imaginable

Including you, Ginger :p

Ginger

fair enough lol

Rydwolf Programs

Let the first without ~~sin~~ random tangents throw the first stone

Ginger

15:12

I trust your judgement; if you say it's fine then it's fine

The_AH

Well will you guys read fiction about someone going through a time portal to a world where everyone is a cat and wants to eat the someone so the someone needs to find a stone which will allow them to create another time portal to go back.

However an army of eagles that look over the deadly cats are hiding the stone.

Ginger

I should probably stop whining about new people tbh :b

Rydwolf Programs

It's natural, there was plenty of whining about you, and probably plenty of whining about me :p

Ginger

the only person I have ever seen get chat norms right first try is Bbrk

can't say I blame yall, I would've complained about me when I first joined

~~this is also why I don't read old transcripts very often~~

Rydwolf Programs

@Ginger I think there've been a lot of lurkers who just kinda faded into existence here

The_AH

15:14

Okay so what about my question?

Rydwolf Programs

I probably wouldn't read it, mostly just since that's not what I'm here for :p

The_AH

Well yeah.

That makes a lot of sense.

I have a preview of SvelteChat btw.

Ginger

so I've been looking into sshj's port forwarding mechanism and I think I can ~~abuse~~ use it to tunnel RCON over ssh

The_AH

@Ginger Didn't you already say this?

Ginger

who knows!

The_AH

15:18

@Ginger This?

Ginger

okay wth is happening to chat

The_AH

I have no idea.

Rydwolf Programs

15:40

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Welcome to empty chat lol

Ginger

16:12

well, this has certainly been a day

Rydwolf Programs

I'm four questions away from finishing the CGT

So you can take it and discover your true gender™ on a normalized scale™ for official purposes™

Ginger

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spicy

The_AH

Spicy.

Rydwolf Programs

Actually I think 40 questions is plenty

Ginger

16:58

@RydwolfPrograms remind me of the scoring mechanism it uses?

Rydwolf Programs

Two subscores, one based on the composition of your attraction and gayness, and one based on your predicted masc/fem-ness weighted by your nonbinaryness

Ginger

wacky

it'll be interesting to see how it handles me

The_AH

hmm...

Ginger

it'll also be interesting to see the questions

"do you drink beer (y/n)"

The_AH

Ginger I just uploaded a screenshot.

Ginger

17:01

wrong room

The_AH

Oh.

user

18:00

@RydwolfPrograms Wait what is this

I love taking silly online tests

Please can I take this CGT thing?

The_AH

Haha.

Rydwolf Programs

> Research into advanced generation IV reactor types was officially started by the Generation IV International Forum (GIF) based on eight technology goals

...what genius put a Roman numeral in an initialism

@user Yes, just finishing up some UI

The_AH

I want to really make a web game where you launch nukes.

And then it rates you morally based on the nukes you launched.

So like a morality score from 0 to 100.

user

Like, 100 if you manage to cause as little damage as possible, 0 if you hit a major city?

The_AH

Yes.

Maybe there would be different plans.

Plan A launching nukes but other plans doing other dangerous stuff.

I want to tie it into an "mutated cat who escapes from the FBI and now will take revenge by launching nukes" story.

DLosc

18:08

@lyxal The 10th Doctor is pretty goofy, yeah :D

@Ginger I doubt original writing would be well-received in The Reading Room. Maaaaybe Writing.SE, although I'm not familiar with their chat culture.

Writing Meta used to have monthly writing challenges, although those seem to have died off recently

(On the subject of writing: I've started to notice that many of my sentences are structured as "Clause 1, (but|although) clause 2" and it's bugging me a bit :P)

The_AH

@DLosc Clause 1 and clause 2.

DLosc

That too

Maybe I need to practice my asyndeton. I could take my cues from A Tale of Two Cities.

The_AH

18:29

That seems important although not a lot of people are going to notice that.

See what I did there?

user

Forgot a comma? :P

The_AH

No, "Clause 1 although clause 2".

user

Yeah, I was joking about you forgetting the comma after clause 1

The_AH

Okay something unexplainable is happening.

In SvelteChat is is decoding the decoded post every refresh.

Using the last decode as it's decode target.

For some reason it's saving it?

Maybe I should do that on the client-side.

Not on the server-side.

Rydwolf Programs

19:56

Every time I reread about the natural nuclear reactor it amazes me

It's so cool, and the odds it happened are so low. Like how lucky are we that we ended up on a world with one?

Ginger

considering the amount of time that it could've happened in, the odds are probably not to shabby

Rydwolf Programs

It's actually not a huge window tho. It can only happen when the U-235 concentration is right, which was only true for one period of time, and it's not really like the other conditions (the geographic structure of the area) change much with time

Also the fact that it managed to run for hundreds of thousands of years fees incredible to me

Like the fact that nuclear fission produces so much energy it could output hundreds of kilowatts for a hundred thousand years before it stopped is mind boggling

Ginger

20:11

CMQ: does the Minecraft launcher's play button go "beep" or "kachunk"

there is only one correct answer

Unrelated String

20:58

...i'd say "there's a sound for the play button?" but then i realized it's been years since i've actually used the minecraft launcher lmao

Ginger

21:11

there isn't d:

what I'm asking is if the pressing animation looks like a "beep" animation or a "kachunk" animation

surely you understand

Unrelated String

ah

lyxal

21:33

Duality of code golf

lyxal

22:23

@Ginger you never told me that you had started a grammar checking business

Ginger

22:57

I did?

lyxal

yeah

gingersoftware.com

Ginger

23:26

that looks... suspiciously close to Grammarly lol

same logo even

lyxal

23:43

thanks uni

very cool

Dannyu NDos

When they force you to be in Linux.

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