The Bridge

6:00 PM

so if I need to leave at an hour with the 30-minute connection, I "only" waste 20 on the tracks waiting for the train to start

kalina

and if that train is late by more than 5 minutes, I miss the next train that only comes once an hour

badp

...otherwise I either walk ~10 minutes to the next bus station, walking over a few guardrails and stuff... or just lunch before departing

kalina

so any kind of delay = me being home 2+ hours late

badp

@kalina argh

kalina

public transport is just bonkers

badp

6:01 PM

I've missed so many lessons to hourly connections. Like my bus's.

Most of those lessons were caused by the bus leaving EARLY

Makes my blood boil

kalina

oh god

the last time I went to London

I was "on time" to get to the platform but the train had left early

ended up invalidating £100 of train tickets

badp

Yeah, that's the worst

Here, once the bus driver closes the doors, he's instructed to leave them closed

no matter how hard I punch them

In Milan instead they understand their customers are the passengers, not the insurance companies, and they'll open the doors for you

kalina

with busses we kinda get away with it, most bus drivers are nice unless you act like all self entitled

badp

...but I hardly need buses in Milan

kalina

but trains don't open the doors once they're closed

badp

6:03 PM

@kalina Yeah, same here. Well, drivers should check that all passengers that made it made it with their whole body

kalina

if I actually bought my own train tickets, trains leaving early would annoy the hell out of me

@badp lol

that sounds so dangerous

badp

It's no laughing matter. A few people have died by only boarding a hand or a foot on the train, assuming that the doors would have sensors to realize what was going on

kalina

@badp O_O

badp

Turns out not all trains have these sensors

fredley

@RonanForman I can do this

badp

6:04 PM

Unless somebody inside pulls the emergency brakes or the driver notices, you're dead.

Ronan Forman

@fredley How?

kalina

that's stupid

badp

Luckily, the trains on my line DO have sensors. I believe

kalina

surely they're legally liable in those situations

badp

@kalina You're still dead

kalina

6:05 PM

since that would essentially be the train companies committing murder

fredley

So you work out the max strength of all the inputs: this is simple. You then use that as an input to a subtractor on all lines. Only the winning one will output.

kalina

true

your government should enforce multi-million euro fines on any train company doing that, would make them sort it out quite rapidly

I have a similar fear about the london tube system and they all definitely have sensors on

badp

turns out we pretty much have to bail out our national train company

yeah, metros do have them.

OTOH, metro tracks are also quite a lot deeper pits of death

SaintWacko

Ugh, just had to sit through a company wide town hall meeting

kalina

@badp plus electrified rails, most likely

badp

6:07 PM

@kalina that's a good thing to keep in mind should I find myself in that pit

user15026

@SaintWacko That sounds like the most unfun thing ever

fredley

@RonanForman I'm playing with it if you want to come join

badp

train tracks aren't electrified

Ronan Forman

@fredley 'kay,

badp

I've crossed them from time to time

kalina

6:08 PM

underground systems generally have a third rail for the power

OrigamiRobot

@RonanForman I logged into the FTB server.

kalina

overground systems generally have overhead cables

Ronan Forman

@OrigamiRobot Horay! Now?

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn I fell asleep halfway through

badp

heh, one morning, I left my friends at the train doors, each of us leaving to our separate university

OrigamiRobot

6:08 PM

@RonanForman No, on Monday.

kalina

remind me never to catch a train in italy though

user15026

@SaintWacko I really don't blame you for that

SaintWacko

I don't know for how long, but I woke up when I almost fell off my chair

badp

I took the stairs to the underpassage

OrigamiRobot

I was promptly met with a million things I didn't understand and logged out.

SaintWacko

6:09 PM

It lasted an hour and a half

badp

As soon as I did, I heard an Intercity train wailing as it sped through

Ronan Forman

@OrigamiRobot Pro-tip, it always starts pretty much the same way.

SaintWacko

He'd probably still be talking if lunchtime hadn't come around

Ronan Forman

Punchin' trees!

badp

...my almost-ex fucking friends were the fools who almost got ran over. Retards

kalina

6:09 PM

-.-

OrigamiRobot

@RonanForman Nope. Sensory overload.

SaintWacko

I ended up spending most of the meeting reading about information theory on my phone

fascinating stuff

badp

@kalina Trains tourists are more likely to take are usually safe - at least in the Milan area

kalina

@badp so its only the trains that the residents of Italy are likely to use that are dangerous?

badp

Actually when I have a return trip at 10-12am I almost always find at least one british couple or group with tourist leaflets and whatnot on my train line

kalina

6:12 PM

that sounds like a unique method of population control

badp

@kalina Mostly always out of necessity anyway

user15026

@SaintWacko anytihng in particular catch your eye?

badp

Italy has invested a ton of cash on car transport and train transport has suffered as a result

Train transport is a hell of a lot cheaper though.

kalina

this is why I willingly live this far away from civilisation, nothing short of the end of the world would stop me from getting to work

I would love to work from home, so I could move somewhere with a nightlife

but c'est la vie

badp

It's funny how you would move to your job if you could work from home

...I mean, it's funny how it works out

Lazers

6:16 PM

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kalina

on the days that I do work from home, it's hilariously fun

my productivity spikes through the roof

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn I'm just kinda wandering around wikipedia. Right now I'm reading about Kolmogorov Complexity and Shannon entropy

kalina

I can sit at home in my pajamas, getting high, and end up doing 16 hours of work without even thinking about it

don't have to worry about minimising RDP sessions or getting caught playing games

Retrosaur

@kalina can you ask @badp if he's reached area 2 yet?

I think he has me on ignore.

kalina

@Retrosaur did he put you on ignore?

badp

6:18 PM

I'm at 1-10, Retro

kalina

there is probably a reason he would do that

Retrosaur

@badp Good luck. I found 1-11 to be pretty fun.

Michel

back

user15026

@SaintWacko Shannon entropy confuses me but it also delights me

Ullallulloo

Microsoft ಠ_ಠ

Retrosaur

6:19 PM

@badp I'm not as good as you

This is all I have

kalina

@Ullallulloo -.-

Retrosaur

kalina

@Ullallulloo sites that do that are silly, but Microsoft should know better...

Retrosaur

@kalina, Want to see something scary

kalina

@Retrosaur I'm not sure how to answer that, there are a lot of scary things that I don't want to see, and many more that would probably get you chat banned

Retrosaur

6:22 PM

Scary enough?

kalina

not really

Retrosaur

Okay then, how about htis

kalina

nope

Retrosaur

Is that greenpickle scary enough

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn It's fascinating! I'm curious as to what language has the highest Shannon entropy rate

user15026

6:24 PM

@SaintWacko I have no idea, but now I want to find out.

SaintWacko

@Retrosaur Now that's disturbing

FAE

@AshleyNunn I don't know what this is so in my head I just picture a bunch of people named Shannon slowly acting more random over time.

Retrosaur

user15026

@FAE I don't know why your brain made that image, but I love that it did !

SaintWacko

Oh, and also Markov Chains, but that was just a short side trip

Michel

6:24 PM

@Retrosaur Image Spam Machine (ISM)

Retrosaur

WITNESS UNCLE DILL IN ALL HIS GLORY

FAE

@AshleyNunn Probably because my brain only got 3 hours of sleep last night.

user15026

@FAE That strikes me as good a reason as any :)

user15026

Sucks that you didnt get much sleep though :(

SaintWacko

I wonder what the maximum entropy rate is, and how hard it would be to design/use a language that hit that rate

FAE

6:26 PM

Rough night, endeavoring to stay awake today so I can sleep decently tonight.

SaintWacko

Actually, there's a Heinlein book where there's a secret society that uses what I now realize is an extremely high entropy rate language

user15026

@SaintWacko Which book?

fbueckert

@SaintWacko I'm also interested; my brain's not returning anything that matches that criteria.

user15026

@fbueckert Kylie Chan is writing more books, right? Like eventually we are going to get answers about Emma, right? (Mind you I am only reading Earth to Hell at teh moment, so maybe the other two tell me stuff)

fbueckert

@AshleyNunn I'm going to assume so; her site says she'd be stupid to reveal that before the end of the series.

user15026

6:36 PM

@fbueckert I just want to know and it is killing me :P

FAE

Bridge, tell me something good.

user15026

(Might have stayed up til 3 am working on more of Earth to Hell reading)

user15026

@FAE I made awesome lunch, and I am baking cake later, and it is snowing and my cat is licking the window trying to catch snowflakes

fbueckert

@FAE Awesome new games are coming out next week?

FAE

@AshleyNunn This is acceptably good, thank you.

@fbueckert Slightly less good, as I'm probably not buying anything anytime soon.

Ullallulloo

6:38 PM

@SaintWacko someone reads xkcd

fbueckert

@FAE Hmm. For quick jolts of cheerfulness, play Kerbal Space Program. Designed to put a smile on anyone's face.

FAE

@fbueckert Unfortunately a little too overwhelming for me at the moment. I end up in analysis paralysis.

SaintWacko

@Ullallulloo Well, I do, but what does that have to do with this?

fbueckert

@FAE Aww. I can re-post my waltz video. That's usually good for a couple minutes of cheerfulness.

SaintWacko

@fbueckert @AshleyNunn It's called "Gulf"

Ullallulloo

6:40 PM

@SaintWacko what-if.xkcd.com/34

badp

@FAE That saturday is one of the fondest memories of my Erasmus stay

user15026

@SaintWacko Ah, I have not read that one

SaintWacko

@Ullallulloo Oh, yeah, that must be why I was looking at it

FAE

@fbueckert That would not be unwelcome!

SaintWacko

I couldn't remember why I had started reading about Shannon complexity

Ullallulloo

6:41 PM

@SaintWacko I can't tell if that's sarcasm.

SaintWacko

@Ullallulloo No, completely serious

I couldn't remember what had led me to start reading about it

FAE

@badp Aw, yay. :) Though wasn't it a Friday? I seem to remember it being a school day.

Ullallulloo

@SaintWacko ha :P

badp

@FAE Probably, it doesn't matter though!

fbueckert

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CruelCow

6:44 PM

@FAE "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is valid english sentence.

SaintWacko

@CruelCow So is "Tom while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect on the teacher"

user15026

@SaintWacko I love sentences like that

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn Me too :)

Have you heard of garden path sentences?

CruelCow

List of linguistic example sentences

The following is a partial list of linguistic example sentences illustrating various linguistic phenomena. Interaction of syntax and semantics Syntax and meaning can interact, such that although a sentence is syntactically valid, and all of its words are meaningful, the sentence as a whole is meaningless. Examples of this type of sentence include: *Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. (Noam Chomsky) *The gostak distims the doshes. (Andrew Ingraham.) Ambiguity Different types of ambiguity which are possible in language. Lexical ambiguity Demonstrations of words which have multiple...

user15026

@SaintWacko No! Do tell!

FAE

6:47 PM

@fbueckert Thanks, that was nice.

fbueckert

@FAE Welcome. Happy to oblige.

SaintWacko

@AshleyNunn They're sentences that at first seem to have one meaning, but by the end you're forced to reevaluate how the words are used

"The old man the boat."

user15026

@SaintWacko That is beautiful

user15026

@SaintWacko brain explodes

SaintWacko

"The horse raced past the barn fell."

"The cotton clothing is made of grows in Mississippi."

Garden path sentence

A garden path sentence is a grammatically correct sentence that starts in such a way that a reader's most likely interpretation will be incorrect; the reader is lured into a parse that turns out to be a dead end. Garden path sentences are used in psycholinguistics to illustrate the fact that when human beings read, they process language one word at a time. "Garden path" refers to the saying "to be led down the garden path", meaning "to be misled". According to one current psycholinguistic theory, as a person reads a garden path sentence, the reader builds up a structure of meaning one wor...

They're fun

kalina

6:52 PM

why me?

Why do I always attract the critical comments from people who don't read what I've put?

@kalina I think you should include information about raid and instance helper addons as part of the answer because unless you know the raids you could lose time wiping over and over while you learn them, even if you're over geared, so using addons could make it much quicker than not using any at all. — axrwkr 15 mins ago

I am too polite to new people to respond with "read before typing"

fbueckert

@kalina Why are you engaging on a question that got closed?

kalina

@fbueckert I didn't realise you had closed it

This is why I can't have nice things. @fbueckert closes them all.

fbueckert

@kalina Everything but that I deem acceptable.