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9:36 PM
I just noticed i've been spamming you with videos today, sorry =(
 
@El'endiaStarman Augustine is great, truly
 
@ConorO'Brien Yeah. It's a shame I haven't read any of his work beyond quotes and snippets.
 
@El'endiaStarman if anything, you should read de doctrina christiana. It's got a lot of really beautiful stuff.
 
@ConorO'Brien Any chance I could read it online?
 
@El'endiaStarman I have no idea, actually. I received part of it in an Arts and Aesthetics class; they were photocopies, but maybe they came from online. Surely there is no copyright on it :P
 
9:55 PM
@ConorO'Brien Yeah, probably public domain. Found a PDF!
 
:D nice!
 
> This etext is in the public domain.
Yup, thought so. :D
 
10:23 PM
ii<esc>:w t<cr>qq:r%|w<cr>@qq@q
Type that in vim for a fun time. :D
 
Is it a quine variant?
 
No. More like a fork bomb
 
Wait, what just happened? A ton of is and then a "t"?
 
this just inserted an insanely long row of i's into my console then was like "nah I'm done"
 
And then I just clicked the X and I briefly saw a bunch of numbers, I think.
 
10:29 PM
my first and only time using vim >_<
 
@DJMcMayhem .... explain.
 
it defines a macro q that does stuff
 
@El'endiaStarman it recursively reads the contents of a file into the same file and saves it, thus repeatedly doubling the file
 
Oooh, I see. So the "t" is a marker for the end of the file?
> Physicists.
Incidentally, I'm starting to get mildly irked by people who say things like "If X hadn't discovered/done Y, then Z might never have happened!". Somebody would've noticed the ultraviolet catastrophe sooner or later, and history is full of people who came up with the same idea(s) at about the same time (or different times, for that matter).
 
No, "t" is the arbitrary name of the file
 
10:41 PM
So, I now have a 100 MB file full of nothing but is.
 
Yup
 
...t is the descendant of Argus!
 
I wonder how long it would take before vim crashes
 
@DJMcMayhem It basically crashed in less than a second for me.
 
Tip for getting predictable results in a random system: Try to record a video where you attempt to demonstrate its randomness. >.>
 
10:44 PM
Hahaha. Though, to be fair, you can't demonstrate something is random by showing it once.
What were you recording a video of?
 
Redstone dice in minecraft, for a tutorial
 
@flawr Wow, that thing is huge. And really reflective.
@HelkaHomba And what non-random result did you get? :P
 
@El'endiaStarman It was like "And this die is uniformly random, I've just rolled a 3 but if I roll again I get a 3.. and again I get a 3... and again..."
 
Hahahahaha.
 
11:13 PM
@HelkaHomba I've had that happen to me. I was trying to represent boolean randomness to a non-code friend, and I got twenty 1's in a row.
 
@ConorO'Brien So something was very broken, or you were one of the 1 in 1048576 people that got that (un)lucky
 
@ASCII-only I'm irish. I'll go with the latter :P
 
Anonymous
Remember: randomness is a property of a distribution, not a sample
 
@ConorO'Brien You should shown him how difficult it is to win the lottery.
 
@Dennis ahhh that's a nice example
 
11:21 PM
Especially when the explanation goes wrong. :P
 
at that point he was like "yeah I'm going to just learn CSS"
 
@Dennis Powerball is currently at odds of 242 million, if I recall correctly. Conor would have to get that lucky something like 240 times... :P
 
I just need 240 me's. I'm having enough trouble finding a second one tho
 
I'm making some progress on Cogol2. So far, I've mainly been trying to figure out what kind of language constructs I want to support.
 
TIL green dragon is leprechaun in disguise
 
11:30 PM
@PhiNotPi do while loops please
 
I'm trying to determine how I should handle objects/subroutines.
Right now I'm actually considering having them be the same. (similar to how things were handled in original Cogol).
 
what should the cell order be when returning a moore/von neumann neighborhood as a list?
 
top-left -> bottom right
 
wat
Also how does Jolf have a better builtin than an ascii-art language (here)
@ConorO'Brien What do you mean
 
@ASCII-only are you talking about GoL?
@ASCII-only I like ascii-art :I
 
11:44 PM
@ConorO'Brien No, a character grid
 
@ASCII-only oh idk then
 
Also I have no idea what order top-left to bottom-right is
 
#include <iostream>
#define very(x) x x

int main(){
    int i;
    very(long) number = 1;
    for(i = 2; i < 20; i++){
        number *= i;
    }
    std::cout << number;
    return 0;
}
I love #define
 

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