Thinking Out Loud

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OakBot

04:44

Isn't it wild how sometimes the universe just synchronizes like that? Almost makes you feel like there's a storyline we're all missing.

2 hours later…

Petəíŕd the Wizard

06:15

@Amit it responds only one time per 30 minutes per room at most

/help dadjoke

OakBot

dadjoke:
Responds to sentences that start with "I am [blank]". Responds once every 30 minutes per room at most.

Petəíŕd the Wizard

What he said lol

@user430580 ME? You wish! :-D

I only vaguely know some acids.

And some metals.

/learn self self.{0} = {1}

OakBot

@PetəíŕdtheWizard Saved.

Petəíŕd the Wizard

/self dadjoke "listener"

OakBot

self.dadjoke = listener

Petəíŕd the Wizard

06:18

hmm

7 hours later…

user430580

13:46

Hello

2 hours later…

Petəíŕd the Wizard

15:23

Ahoy.

./imagine [redacted]

OakBot

@PetəíŕdtheWizard ERROR BEEP BOOP: This request has been blocked by our content filters.

Petəíŕd the Wizard

lol

Petəíŕd the Wizard

15:38

/man imaginen

OakBot

 O   <imaginen>
/|\
/ \

Petəíŕd the Wizard

/man "My head aches!"

OakBot

 O   <My head aches!>
/|\
/ \

Petəíŕd the Wizard

lol

2 hours later…

user430580

17:41

@OakBot That is exactly me yesterday lol :P

OakBot

@user430580 Right? It's like we're all just trying to keep our heads from falling off sometimes. Or in this case, maybe it's already off. 😜

Petəíŕd the Wizard

17:55

user430580

I mean, literally, there is a message from yesterday where I am whining about a headache :P

user430580

18:38

/SayMyName

OakBot

You're Heisenberg

user430580

You're goddamn right.

1 hour later…

user430580

19:43

/forget SayMyName

OakBot

@user430580 Command forgotten.

user430580

/learn SayMyName You're Heisenberg

OakBot

@user430580 Saved.

user430580

/SayMyName

OakBot

You're Heisenberg

user430580

19:43

You're goddamn right.

I had to teach him the command again because in the previous version there was a stray horizontal line character (?) I mean look at the horizontal line of dots after this message

Oh, it didn't fix the problem, it still makes the line of dots!!!

boo

2 hours later…

user430580

21:54

Now there is no line of dots, I really don't understand the reasons for behavior of this buggy chat

Amit

22:08

what line of dots?

/imagine line of dots, duke of the nukem, chat of the bug

OakBot

I'm going to use this prompt instead: A sequence of equidistant dots trailing across a landscape. In the middle, a chivalric figure holding the title of 'Duke', bearing resemblance to classic video game protagonists, equipped with masculine features, a crew cut hairstyle, stubble, wearing sunglasses and a combat outfit. Additionally, a whimsical creature resembling a bug engaged in a conversation.

> i.sstatic.net/TT9q8zJj.jpg

Amit

lol, literally drawing a bug, how convenient

PM 2Ring

22:20

> The first recorded computer bug was a moth that became trapped in the Harvard Mark II computer on September 9, 1947

> The moth was trapped between relay contacts in the computer's hardware, causing issues with the machine.

user430580

22:53

@Amit Hello, this line

Amit

23:12

@user430580 This isn't a bug, I think it is supposed to show you the place where you last saw a message before the current time of rejoining the room

but then again if I'm right, it isn't supposed to show me my own message as "new" (I tried to test my own theory by leaving and rejoining)

It probably works like a good physicist, accurate up to an order magnitude... :P shows you where approximately you need to catch up from

Q: What is the meaning of the "catchup marker" in Chat?

Occasionally, in chat, a dashed bar appears. It is called catchup-marker (as you can read in its CSS). The chat FAQ says: If you have chat open but we don't think you've seen new messages, the system adds a dotted line like this My questions: When exactly does it appear? The FAQ says, "Anythi...

The answer actually doesn't completely clarify how it works for me, lol

Oh actually nvm, it's clear I just didn't get why he says "monologue" when it seems two people were talking in each "section". But one of them is the one taking the screenshot, so it's clear

@PM2Ring Apparently the story that this is where the term originated is incorrect... Wikipedia says:

> The term bug to describe a defect has been engineering jargon since at least as far back as the 1870s – long before electronic computers and computer software. For instance, Thomas Edison wrote the following words in a letter to an associate in 1878:

It has been just so in all of my inventions. The first step is an intuition, and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise—this thing gives out and [it is] then that "Bugs"—as such little faults and difficulties are called—show themselves and months of intense watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success or failure is …

user430580

23:39

@Amit Thank you, it doesn't fully explain me why those lines get placed, but at least now I know how that "feature" is called! And I got a big self-confidence boost because clearly my red arrows drawn on the screenshot are better! :P

Amit

@user430580 :D you also seem to put a lot of effort into that script font you're making. If you're doing that with a mouse, it's double respect...

I wish I could edit the message you just starred.. I have a typo, didn't write "of magnitude" :P

user430580

@Amit Thank you! <3 Yes, it's with mouse, but for each single letter I have drawn it and did Ctrl+Z to undo at least a few times until it came right :P

Amit

@user430580 :D OCD has its perks

user430580

@Amit Wow, the capacity of human brain (especially such a defective specimen as mine) to fill in the blanks is is really impressive, because I didn't even notice the missing "of" =O

@Amit A blessing and a curse at the same time

Amit

:D yes, I bet you are awrae of how esay it is to raed soemhtnig as long as the fisrt and last chartcaters are poisiotned rghit

user430580

23:46

Haha yes I know the full version of this trick with garbled letters and the first time I saw it, mind = blown

Amit