@NathanOsman think traceroute beat vim on number of symlinks to the original binary :p

Lol.

> <> is specifically reserved for joining strings in the Wolfram Language, avoiding the ambiguity of using + for this purpose.

And the Wolfram Language suddenly stopped making sense.

@KazWolfe #StillBetterThanPHP

@KazWolfe like this: "string1" <> "string2"??

@IanC yep

I'd expect that to return true :D

though mathematica does have an api call to get images of a wolf.

if wolfram considers anything different from 0 true, it would actually return true, and I'd get a functional program that has a "always true" conditional

man, so many better operators for string concat -.-

It does not like that.

What the heck.

My account just vanished.

wat

(The new one.)

what account?

they caught on!

Ah there we go.

wat

Of course you knew that was going to be the username.

BAN

shall I ping Seth?

No, it's a sock.

or, worse, Oli?

I'm disclosing it here for the express purpose of letting you all know.

I am not going to vote, flag, or basically do anything with it.

All it will do is ask or answer a couple things to get enough rep. to chat.

i should add a wolfbot feature to watch what known socks do.

Lol.

@KazWolfe worstestestest, Shog

hi @Seth.

@Seth The user linked above is my sock. It is not as evil as it looks.

It will also not be doing anything malicious - it's a substitute for George for testing things in chat.

@NathanOsman unless you're actually @ThomasWard's sock, and that sock made the other sock

I predate Thomas on this site.

So you're guilty of anachronism there.

no, he's not.

Thomas made NathanOsman first to not arise suspicion when he made his real account.

yeah duh

/facepalm

your excuses don't hold up, @NathanOsman, or should I say @ThomasWard

or should I say @GeorgetheDev or should I say @GLaDOS

@ThomasWard I guess the ruse is up. They found me. Er, I mean you. Er... wat.

lol

Sock 'splosion.

we broke the bot!

You broke everything.

does this mean i get to make more socks for "testing" purposes?

yes

NathanOsman2.0

@NathanOsman mind (and everything else too) blown

...

@Seth you're not @ThomasWard too are you? >_>

LOL.

And please stop.

Before you uncover the entire ring.

fien

That would really being the darkness.

This is much deeper than anyone realizes.

well, congratulations, @NathanOsman. Your user is the first one named GLaDOS.

slinks away while glaring suspiciously at @KazWolfe

or, as of right now, you're the only user named GLaDOS on AskUbuntu.

\o/

And I shall soon be the last.

>:)

o_O

are we disabling registration?

good idea, it'll cut down on the spammers

GET YER SOCKS REGISTERED QUICK

what about our shoes?

who needs em

they're just annoying wrappers

also, @Zacharee1... You fail to realize.

Everyone is Thomas.

Even you. We are all part of Project Ward, cretating a collective AI known as "Thomas"

AAAAAAAAAAA

X-Files music

dee-dee-dee-dee bum-bum

wah-wah-wah-wah-wah wah-wah

Everyone who has ever lived or ever will live will contribute their entire life to Project Ward. And when the AI is ready, it shall be released.

ba-da-da-da da-da

wah-wah-wah-wah-wah wah-wah

wah-wah-wah-wah wah-wah

The free AI, Thomas, will then simulate a new universe, and act as their god.

And it will create Project Ward.

bum-bum-bum-bum ba-dum

There's always a man (Thomas Ward), a city (Datacenter 1), and a lighthouse (The Launch Point).

bum-bum-bum-bum bah-dum

ba-dum

BUM

@KazWolfe I am so ripping that off in a game I will someday make.

"Datacenter 1"

(c) 2017, Kaz Wolfe. All rights reserved.

Made in Java, PHP and Assembly

@KazWolfe it's 2017

By reading this idea text, you agree to bypass and ignore the site license and instead apply the "Wolfian License" to this text.

ohno

weredoomed

Thomas Ward is eternal. He was there in the past, he will be there in the future. He is the constant. A representation of the AI, of God himself, in our own world.

sigh

And when our Project Ward completes its data collection, he shall launch the next iteration of the Thomas AI.

data collection of what

Of everything.

but isn't the AI everything?

Ah.

The AI one level above us is simulating everything. It's the current generation's AI job to re-catalog that. And then launch the child AI inside itself.

It's universes all the way down (and up)

That's a bit... odd.

Sounds like a video issue.

@KazWolfe to where

To more universes inside the AI.

"ubantu" alert!

#LowHangingFruit

@NathanOsman ban it

@KazWolfe Recursion?

@Zacharee1 ding.

What's outside the AI though? a blue-tinted universe?

there's no message bus from inside the Thomas AI to outside of it, so you can't just do a while loop, you need to start a new instance.

Dang, @KazWolfe, you beat me to the edit.

Outside the AI is a universe constructed by the parent AI.

@NathanOsman pew! pew! fastest edit in the west!

THE AI IS HERE

BOW DOWN

i'm confused, how did we determine I was an AI again?

idk

a couple hackers got really bored.

I blame Jorge.

@KazWolfe Actually, the AI was created at the end of time by the long-time-aways descendant of me, and plopped back at the beginning of the Universe, to be created as a constant, to stand the test of time and try and solve the end of time by the collective knowledge of everything. Failing that, it self-replicates itself and drops itself back at the beginning of time to try and learn something new again.

This cycle continues for fifteen universal cycles

but it doesn't drop itself back at the beginning.

you just Doctor Who'd that story

it spawns a new one inside the last one.

@KazWolfe nah, those're just its own threads. :)

@Zacharee1 and?

a thread inside a thread inside a thread?

Kaz was going for infinite recursion

@KazWolfe infinitely.

yes.

you went for wibbley wobbley timey wimey

so it's not a respawn, it's the AI creating and calling itself.

ultimately the thread pool of infinity is consumed, and it dies off, causing another big bang, and recreating existence from scratch

which is a predestination paradox because the AI will again one day be created

christ

@ThomasWard oooh, that gives me an idea! You go back to the beginning and create the universe. So reality is entirely a paradox. That'd be an interesting story.

@Seth Family Guy did it already

(or is that what you were trying to say?)

@Zacharee1 I don't watch Family Guy.

but the source code I extracted from /dev/null says the opposite, @ThomasWard!

@Seth read two messages from me earlier :P

but Fox lawyers do @Seth

@KazWolfe That's the source code of the previous universe.

it's rewritten every time :P

must be Java

unless your AI thought of the existence, and generated a red herring and put it in the pool...

and if it did, then it is a self-creating god being that overrules all else. and it is eternal, yet nonexistent, yet it is also existence at the same time.

so you're saying it recurses infinitely until such time that it runs out of the infinite thread pool, and then resets the entire universe by sending a message to the very first AI simulation through some sort of message bus?

Oh, @ThomasWard my master is here.

I am totally not a sockpuppet of his.

@KazWolfe yup.

lol

if anyone asks about the insanity we've all been breathing in the paint fumes from that freshly painted wall over there --->

wut

exactly

righto

@NathanOsman Maid's Cafe is over here:

lol

O_o

wut

@ThomasWard The line breaks the arrow on my display.

lol

THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE WITH SMALLER SCREENS.

:)

no

o/ @AaronHall, what brings you here on this fine day?

people with smaller screens need to get bigger screens

get the Nexus 6 :p

or the Mi Mix

nice 6.4" screen

flagged for spam.

or get an LTE tablet on AT&T or T-Mobile and use NumberSync to call and text from it

@Zacharee1 I had one.

@KazWolfe it worked o_O

:p

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\ \_/ /| |\  \| | | |  | |     | |  | | | || |___ | |\  |
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that's because i secretly have a blue name

Well.

lol

ok i gotta tab out

and i need to find a new hard drive.

I was bragging about a Q&A here on emacs IRC.

@KazWolfe I think i have a 500GB SATA3 HDD lying around, but it's not laptop sized

are you that one guy in 2051 who uses IRC @AaronHall?

i have a 500 sata3 laptop-sized lying in front of me.

i'm trying to find a 1tb 7200 laptop-sized.

500GB isn't enough for anything

@KazWolfe I don't think you'll find a 7200

@KazWolfe I have one of those in my laptop rn

I'm that one guy in 2017 who uses emacs, so probably.

@AaronHall lol

oh? i found a literal stack of ECC ram a while back.

And my client will probably be erc - emacs irc mode.

About 180 sometihng GB.

all DDR3 ECC

ECC doesn't work in anything but servers though

and even then I've only seen it in a Solaris box

true, but i still found it.

true

@KazWolfe $73, USA, Newegg, WD Black 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200RPM 32MB cache, here

@ThomasWard that's $73 too many if i can find one in the office.

ah

i want to go "as cheap as humanly possible"

We need to add a Stallman bot for 2051, though. We can just use any speech transcript though, since he never goes off-message or off-the-cuff.

@ThomasWard $63 HGST on Amazon amazon.com/HGST-Travelstar-2-5-Inch-Internal-0J22423/dp/…

@KazWolfe ECC Ram is expensive, you should sell it.

what kind of ECC RAM?

DDR3

what speed? what cas latency?

idk, i just found boxes of the stuff and didn't look at any of that.

i don't need ECC, so...

what kind of ECC? ECC Registered, ECC Unregistered, ECC Buffered?

or this for $60, @ThomasWard: this

registered ecc

workstation computers also can be designed to use ECC RAM

both of mine, which are acting as hypervisors, use ECC

@ThomasWard fairly uncommon...

Yikes.

@TheXed Not when you put server boards into the workstations :P

I would be just as mad as he is if I had a 480 and was only getting 10 fps :P

@ThomasWard no I mean it would be fairly uncommon for the average to do something like that.

@Zacharee1 that's a laptop hard drive tho.

@TheXed for the average what? consumer? Yeah, well, I'm not an average consumer - I target higher end and/or server-grade equipment

and i've got five year old server parts here that are still working

and there's a seven-year-old server that still runs beautifully without any parts failures in the server room back at the one place I work with

I have a 486 with hard drives from (possibly) the 80s that still work.

So there's that.

I win?

been up for all but seven days in the past seven years

(maintenance periods)

@NathanOsman cool.

Granted, they haven't been running all this time :P

:P

@JourneymanGeek doesn't @KazWolfe want that?

yes he does

(yes, this is a laptop)

oh?

ahh

oops

hands @JourneymanGeek a cup of tea

For your troubles :P

not sure if the HGST advantage is true for laptop drives

and you totally should just get an SSD ;p

i should, but i'm cheap

and this laptop already has a 512 SSD in it.