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RegDwight АΑA

19:01

Hello kurkevan, in this site there are a lot of answers to this question. Please, search for a bit! — Xavier Vidal Hernández 3 mins ago

tchrist

@ΜετάEd That is insane. You have to remember a flipping four-digit number merely to enter a “super-common” codepoint? Nuts nuts nuts. Get a Mac.

No numbers. No nuttery.

JSBձոգչ

@tchrist how exactly does a mac help this situation?

i could never figure out how to enter unicode codepoints on a mac

RegDwight АΑA

It has round corners, duh.

JSBձոգչ

whereas windows alt keycodes are at least usable

cornbread ninja

@tchrist speaking of barf...

JSBձոգչ

19:03

@RegDwightАΑA of course! how could i forget!

Matt Эллен

“mac”

tchrist

@cornbreadninja Murine snarf-n-barf.

@JSBձոգչ You don’t enter the numbers, of course.

Matt Эллен

hit the road mac, and don't you come jack

tchrist

That would be stoopid.

You simply have regular keys that create those.

I “use” them ‘all the time’ without paying them a moment’s notice.

No numbers. No skullnummery.

JSBձոգչ

please elaborate

tchrist

19:06

¿Don’t you?

user19161

On some other sites, the mod has appointed a room owner other than himself.

JSBձոգչ

though in the first place, i have no interest in the mac automagically turning my " into fancy curly things

cornbread ninja

@tchrist ahhhh. I have to use this POS program at work that only accepts murine snarf-n-barf at the top level, but accepts CASIO snarf-n-barf further down.

user19161

But I guess we don't really need a room owner here.

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy we're all incomprehensible here.

ΜετάEd

19:07

@tchrist I wouldn't have brought it up except that you barfed when I mentioned the CP1252 input method. It was just an example.

JSBձոգչ

@tchrist the only non-ASCII input methods that i know of on the mac are the weird option+letter codes, which are far too limited and arbitrary and i can never remember them to begin with

user19161

Is it a US holiday today?

tchrist

@JSBձոգչ ❝These are fancy ❛curly❜ things❢❞ Whereas “these” aren’t.

KitFox

I prefer not to use the mouse.

I mean, if I can avoid it.

tchrist

kit++

user19161

19:08

I love to use the mouse.

KitFox

Keeping hands on the keyboard is more efficient.

Matt Эллен

mine's started demanding cheese per click

user19161

Keyboard only is for fast typists only.

user19161

Ordinary folks like me can't do without the mouse.

tchrist

Anything and everything that takes my fingers from my homerow while I am typing should be terminated with extreme prejudice.

JSBձոգչ

19:09

i see that @tchrist isn't interested in actually answering my question, but rather wants to just engage in apple fanboism

which, ok, whatever

ΜετάEd

@tchrist Agreed. It's one of the things I hate about entering any kind of codepoint.

RegDwight АΑA

@JSBձոգչ JSB++ would agree again.

tchrist

Damn it I can only do 7 things at once.

RegDwight АΑA

Perhaps @tchrist and @Robusto can get a room together. Then they can curlyquote each other to death.

JSBձոգչ

@tchrist so you're a vim user. at last, something we agree on!

user19161

19:10

Perhaps I can get a room for myself.

tchrist

@JSBձոգչ README

RegDwight АΑA

TLDR

KitFox

But how can you justify the superiority of the murine snarf-n-barf method then?

user19161

I guess TPTB have not deleted my accounts because they want to wait a few more days. I will send them another email then in a few days.

tchrist

𝔐𝔲𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔢 𝔰𝔫𝔞𝔯𝔣-𝔫-𝔟𝔞𝔯𝔣 𝔪𝔢𝔞𝔫𝔰 ℑ 𝔡𝔬𝔫❜𝔱 𝔥𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔱𝔬 𝔯𝔢𝔪𝔢𝔪𝔟𝔢𝔯 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔫𝔲𝔪𝔟𝔢‌𝔯𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯 𝔢𝔵𝔬𝔱𝔦𝔠 𝔠𝔬𝔡𝔢𝔭𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔱𝔰.

Can you imagine entering that numerically?!

RegDwight АΑA

19:12

Ah yes the empty line again. I can totally enter those numerically.

user19161

@tchrist I don't even know what to enter.

tchrist

t/s

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA Is there anything to enter for that?

RegDwight АΑA

Feb 7 '11 at 16:14, by kiamlaluno

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Tchrist is way too late to the OMG LOOK AT WHAT I ENTERS party.

tchrist

I love that I can curse ad libitum and ◆boy sees me not.

cornbread ninja

19:14

pops popcorn

tchrist

You are mishandling the encoding.

user19161

Ever since tchrist came to this chat, we have had endless typography porn.

tchrist

No, we have not.

We have had codepoint pr0n.

ΜετάEd

loves typorn

cornbread ninja

we could.

tchrist

19:14

Typography pr0n is something else entirely.

cornbread ninja

See @tchrist, told you it was MetaEd

tchrist

Mayhap.

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist that's a typical case of a bug gone feature. Why would I want to see people curse?

user19161

By the way, I really hate popcorn.

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA I no do that. You should know that.

tchrist

19:15

looks for popcorn emoji

cornbread ninja

Perchance.

user19161

The smell of popcorn makes me want to puke.

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy even cinnamon?

RegDwight АΑA

I can curse myself, and in more languages than you can imagine, so keep your ad libido to yourself.

tchrist

Canelated popcorn is a Mexican affectation.

Matt Эллен

19:16

ÿ

I don't need no numbers for that

user19161

@cornbreadninja Well, I guess I did not smell every flavour. Perhaps I have associated popcorn with smelly cinemas already and get a conditioned response each time.

Matt Эллен

that's what extended keyboards is fors

tchrist

ÿ¬?

cornbread ninja

@JasperLoy :(

Matt Эллен

yer infomarshon ist oot uv dayt

tchrist

19:17

I use either nonnumeric keyboard escapes, or else sudo make me a Unicodez and thence the murine snarf-n-barf.

user19161

@MattЭллен This is the New English.

tchrist

I don’t do numberz. Everz.

Matt Эллен

@JasperLoy I'm an innovater

tchrist

Magic numbers are for computers, not for men.

user19161

@MattЭллен innovator

Matt Эллен

19:18

1 min ago, by Jasper Loy

@MattЭллен This is the New English.

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist so how much is a + b?

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA b+a

cornbread ninja

claps

ΜετάEd

thé PÇ hás án íntérnátíónál módé whíçh púts á lót óf çódés ón thé kéýbóárd.

user19161

QED

tchrist

19:19

@RegDwightАΑA Howsoever much you are willing to part with, good sir.

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy you sure? Who said we were an Abelian group?

ΜετάEd

One of these days I should develop a PC keymap with compose sequences for publishing.

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist so in your world, everything equals zero. I do wonder how you counted in base 1, then.

tchrist

@ΜετάEd s/PC// || die

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA Wow, you know about abelian groups? You did mathematics in university for a while right?

tchrist

19:21

@RegDwightАΑA By ﬆﬆﬆﬆﬆuttering.

RegDwight АΑA

I did many things. Thankfully. Can't complain.

@tchrist looks painful. Also, wet.

user19161

I think Carlo's suspension is over.

tchrist

Yes, it is.

user19161

I should talk to him if he comes to chat.

tchrist

If you say so.

He might not.

Maybe he will keep his word twice given.

But that would require more integrity than he has hitherto displayed.

user19161

19:24

I think he will remain on the site. Thos were just words of frustration.

tchrist

There are still one’s word.

ΜετάEd

@tchrist In an ideal world, yes. On the other hand, I have to make do with what I have.

RegDwight АΑA

If history is any lesson, he's literally cooled down now.

tchrist

Corpsicle?

RegDwight АΑA

Regretfully, if history is any lesson, there's also no way for the temperature to go from here but up.

ΜετάEd

19:25

Where's the library at?

RegDwight АΑA

@tchrist Global warming.

tchrist

counts no unhatched chickenlings

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA It's OK. I can talk to him and calm him down.

tchrist

@JasperLoy Every time?

user19161

@tchrist Well, a few sessions of therapy would suffice.

tchrist

19:27

Even the most selfless of caregivers is worn down by their charges.

user19161

I am a great healer, though I can't heal my own wounds yet.

RegDwight АΑA

Corphammers and corpsickles.

user19161

Some wounds are too deep to mend, says Frodo.

user19161

And Frodo sails away on the ship.

RegDwight АΑA

What is the different between crepuscle and corpuscle? Can use in polite?

tchrist

19:29

You will never change him. You might succeed in training him though.

Sound tenebrous the bells of the gloaming.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA Is that a question on the main site? I guess it is.

user19161

@tchrist Another difficult word outside my vocab.

tchrist

@JasperLoy Bells are the source of all tingling tones.

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA Corpse hammers and corpse sickles, rather.

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy it can be. There can be questions if you believe. Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill.

user19161

19:32

@RegDwightАΑA Very good. You are learning to believe.

RegDwight АΑA

@Robusto your ports are not very manteau.

simchona

@RegDwightАΑA cues Hebrew section

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA My ports are sanitized to keep out preying manteauses.

RegDwight АΑA

Praying, you mean.

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA You wish.

RegDwight АΑA

19:34

Every night I pray with no proof anyone could hear.

user19161

The plural of portmanteau is portmanteaux or portmanteaus, for everyone's info.

tchrist

% oed --fuzzy corpsickle
apricot sickness
chyle-corpuscle
Cordicole
corn-cockle
cornicle
corn-silker
corpse-cooler
corpseless
corpuscle
corpuscule
corticole
crickle
crickle-crackle
crop-sickness
hurt-sickle
Meissner corpuscle
moor-sickness
mucous corpuscle
muscle corpuscle
plasma-corpuscle
popsicle
red corpuscle
renal corpuscle
sturgeon-pickle
taste-corpuscle
Tom-come-tickle-me
white cell, corpuscle

Robusto

@RegDwightАΑA You don't have a roof? What? I can't hear you.

KitFox

Geezis.

RegDwight АΑA

There he goes again.

Robusto

19:34

@JasperLoy Once again ... whoosh.

user19161

@Robusto That's not a whoosh, that's just an educational statement you responded to.

Robusto

@tchrist You are like a cat leaving a dead mouse at our door. We don't want the mouse, and we are only going to ignore it until someone throws it in the trash bin.

simchona

@Reg Do you get pings from other rooms if it's not a super ping?

ΜετάEd

Ah, that's where the library's at.

Robusto

@JasperLoy What color is the sky in your world, Jasper?

RegDwight АΑA

19:36

@simchona I do.

Robusto

Reg only listens to the supper pings.

simchona

@RegDwightАΑA Ok, cool.

user19161

@Robusto The sky is colourless. It is the clouds which are white.

tchrist

chthon(tchrist)% ldd /usr/bin/at
/usr/bin/at:
Start End Type Open Ref GrpRef Name
1c000000 3c005000 exe 1 0 0 /usr/bin/at
03032000 23068000 rlib 0 1 0 /usr/lib/libc.so.48.0
00ff9000 00ff9000 rtld 0 1 0 /usr/libexec/ld.so

cornbread ninja

@Robusto hey man, it's like, the summer of love, though, man.

Robusto

19:37

@JasperLoy I'm glad I don't live in your world. I like my sky blue.

KitFox

The cat left us another bird yesterday.

tchrist

@ΜετάEd Actually, that’s where at’s libraries are.

cornbread ninja

I see skies of blue / clouds of white

ΜετάEd

@tchrist You must be a consultant.

user19161

@simchona There are ping settings an ordinary user can set using the microphone symbol above right.

Robusto

19:37

@tchrist When did The Incomprehensible Room become your personal output file?

He is piping us.

user19161

@Robusto Since he entered. QED.

tchrist

@JasperLoy s/Q/O/

Robusto

I am going to create a new religion: The First Church of Christ, Consultant. For enough money, I will redeem your company. Or your coupons.

tchrist

has no trek with capons

Robusto

Knock off the cheap RegDwight impersonation. We know it's you.

user19161

19:39

@Robusto You should make a new Hell's Kitchen or something.

tchrist

You get what you pay for.

Robusto

Jasper, stop telling me what to do and "correcting" the misinformation in my jokes. Now.

tchrist

And then some.

user19161

I always find "and then some" or "this" or "that" a bit hard to understand.

Robusto

Well, you shoulda looked them up.

tchrist

19:41

Rob, be good.

Robusto

I vote that we close Jasper as general reference.

user19161

After which deletion votes are possible.

tchrist

promotes Jasper to Field Marshal

Robusto

Narq!

tchrist

narf

Feldmarschallfff

RegDwight АΑA

19:43

demotes everyone just because he cans

tchrist

observes the remarkable elevation of Ger’s pointy boots

Robusto

knocks @Reg on his can

tchrist

can can the can-can

Robusto

You can knot.

user19161

Can Can can cans?

user19161

19:45

Can can can cans!

ΜετάEd

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.

tchrist

mislikes the cannotation

Robusto

All this is making me want to go exercise. See what you've done?

user19161

@Robusto Walking is the best exercise for the body, says model Linda Evangelista.

Robusto

But I don't want to look like Linda Evangelista. I want to look like Ryan Gosling.

user19161

19:47

@Robusto Ryan Gosling? Come on, set your standards higher. Go for Taylor Lautner!

Robusto

I'll settle for Gosling.

tchrist

s/Gosling/Lochte/

Picard and Arya team up against Scotty

user19161

0

Q: special meaning of numbers

I have googled a lot to find a list of numbers which signify special meanings,but failed. Like: 1 — the lonely number 13 — good or evil 42 — answer to life,the universe and everything 69 — :P 666 — number of beast 786 — holy Can anyone post a link to such list, or suggest some more? (Simila...

ΜετάEd

garbage scow

user19161

How is this GR? Isn't it more like OT?

tchrist

19:51

Numerific.

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy It is anything I want it to be, and then some.

cornbread ninja

@tchrist narf-herder

ΜετάEd

@JasperLoy It's NC.

Asks for lists.

user19161

@RegDwightАΑA I see you used the "and then some" to confuse me. Very good.

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy actually I used the word "is" to confuse you. Looks like i failed.

ΜετάEd

19:53

@RegDwightАΑA Copulatives always get me flustered.

RegDwight АΑA

2

Q: In what context or situation (if any) would the words "try to see me" make sense?

If there is such possible situation, please, describe it. Please don't insert any punctuation between those words and keep their order intact.

expressions conversation

Now what is this?

@JSBձոգչ finds the niftiest questchons.

ΜετάEd

Next we'll be getting questions from people who want help completing a crossword puzzle.

Actually I bet we have.

RegDwight АΑA

Quite a few.

ΜετάEd

In fact, according to rule 34, there should be crossword puzzle porn.

JSBձոգչ

they probably have their own tag

user19161

19:56

@ΜετάEd Many cases.

Matt Эллен

I need a nine letter word, T______T, The clue is: something something

RegDwight АΑA

@JSBձոգչ yes, and it's adjectives.

user19161

I need two words such that they are opposite and exist as users in a chat room.

RegDwight АΑA

Jasper, Loy.

user19161

Wrong. Matt and Shiny.

Matt Эллен

19:57

lol

tchrist

@MattЭллен tonguelet

RegDwight АΑA

@JasperLoy Sorry, but Matt doesn't start with a J.

tchrist

He starts with a beer.

user19161

@MattЭллен See, I am so funny!

user19161

Funny as in strange, not haha.

RegDwight АΑA

19:58

@tchrist starting on a high note. Shouting, Lager Lager Lager Lager Lager.

tchrist

wonders whether the J mightn’t have worked out better after all

RegDwight АΑA

Megamegawhite thing.

tchrist

terawhite

Matt Эллен

going back to Romford

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