Hi.

@KitFox Caprica needs kicking again, wahhh. Thank you! :d

Hey!

Hi David!

Hi

I was playing a game and in that a court judge says, "This tape seems to prove that that the witness did indeed encounter...". I think the usage of "that that" is incorrect here, and I just wanted to make sure that this is really the case. So, is it?

I guess no one's here -_-

Good day!

Guys, would it be correct to say something like "Some images are not of an instance [type]"?

@Alraxite I would say the extra that is wrong

@Eugene I don't think so. What word might go in [type]?

Hi @Matt.

Hi other people.

It took me three days to perceive the racism joke.

It made it that much funnier.

Somebody give this man a fish:

"Some pointers on how to pronounce some common legal terms" is indeed precisely what that article is providing.

He doesn’t want understanding. He wants somebody else to figure everything out for him and tell him the quick, instant answer that will solve only one particular problem once, not address a whole class of problem for all time.

@MattЭллен Okay, thanks!

@KitFox excellent!

:))

ANDYBODY THERE

Hi @brilliant

@cerberus I don't know what silver edge you're referring to. Mine has no silver. Just black.

Hello, I would like to ask: "The timetabling software does not support <A/THE/nothing> two-week scheduling cycle." What article would you use? I'm not really sure if the sentence is correct in the first place because "two-week scheduling cycle" is rather a clumsy way how to deal with lack of terminology. Thank you

I'd say "a two week cycle" or "two week cycles"

scheduling seems redundant

thanks!

@Mahnax how are the toes?

Hi @RegDwighт

@tchrist I want that!

Like, where are the donuts?

hands out rotten fish

Can someone answer that for me?

@tchrist hm...these don't look like donuts.

What’s the opposite of foo-terminated?

As in null-terminated strings or newline-terminated lines.

duh...bar-terminated.

What do you call something that starts with something?

foo-initialized?

Those end in foo, so they are foo-terminated.

No, too much other meaning with that one.

foo-prefixed?

Hm.

Yes, maybe.

Initiated.

that's a good opposite even though the oposite of that would be foo-suffixed, which just happens to not be the way you say it.

Not initialized.

initialized is wrong, that means at the start of -time-.

Foo-initiated, maybe.

initiated...maybe but still sounds at the beginning of time.

Yes, well, and terminated sounds dead.

but has the cultural repetition of null-terminated to support it.

and suffix sounds like more than one character long.

The problem is record formats.

We should get rid of them. just use XML. for everything.

You have no idea how massive a fail that is.

or no-formatting, the counterpart of noSQL.

I mean, you really have no idea.

It horribly bloats your transferred data size, and it is impossible to recover from parse errors out of.

forget for the moment the particular difficulties with XML tas (size/parsing) the idea of variable structure is progress from fixed width formats, right?

Here are four different kinds of record, each with three fields each: "a:b:c", ":a:b:c:", "a:b:c:", ":a:b:c".

You have to be able to say which of the four kinds you are dealing with or you will get spurious empty fields.

Until a few minutes ago, I had had no idea people actually ever used ":a:b:c".

Hence my question.

A record like "a:b:c" is colon-separated.

A record like "a:b:c:" is colon-terminated.

@tchrist that seems weird. pretty standard to not put that thing up front.

A record like ":a:b:c:" is colon-delimited (read: surrounded).

But what the hell is a ":a:b:c" record?

unless a null entry for the first field is intended with 'a' being the contents of the second field.

Yes, that is the problem.

A colon-initiated record?

No.

Well, maybe.

I should probably change delimited to surrounded, because people are dumb.

Or to colon-sandwiched.

I've never heard of fields being foo-terminated (not the term but the concept)

Lines of text are newline-terminated records.

language statments, yes, but not data records.

But I agree that "a:b:c:" is dumb.

@tchrist but often not the last line, which does cause some parsing problems (when it shouldn't)

That’s a broken file.

From Microfuck.

It is not a proper text file.

or broken processing from the same.

A proper text file is a sequence of 0 or more lines, and each line is 0 or more non-newlines followed by a newline.

but yes A colon -before- the first field is pretty idiotic. What does that help anybody?

I think people are just dumb.

I can see the "a:b:c" and maybe the ":a:b:c:" if push came to shove or termcap files, but the other two annoy me.

Or they dont think. They could be not dumb they just end up being lazy and therefore dumb. Which is dumb.

Bad-lazy != good-lazy.

Good-lazy is smart.

Bad-lazy is dumb, and cruel,.

So now that we're in agreement about people being stupid, how about world peace?

Monkees? Beatles?

oh definitely Beatles.

It would be trivial to say that the Monkees were a pale imitation.

I think calling things "delimited" is a mistake, and I need to rename my class.

'Delimited' is just a word. hm... maybe you're right, maybe it's the wrong word.

I will have to say Foo::Reader::Separated and Foo::Reader::Surrounded instead, and Foo::Reader::Terminated.

I have no idea what to do with the ugly things that are probably going to have to be Foo::Reader::Initiated, but I don’t like that word.

But really? That's the behavior of the text you have to parse?

I have Foo::Reader::Delimited, and I know people will screw it up.

Flat files.

Foo-something-ated.

In all four types.

ugh

Yeah.

blech.

I cannot perform retroactive intelligence upgrades or abortions.

All I can do is cope with their idiotsyncrasies.

They're working on an aerosol for the intelligence thing. IN the AC. maybe the water system.

I think lead pipes works.

to the back of the neck.

Actually, I current have both Foo::Reader::Terminated and Foo::Reader::Linewise and Foo::Reader::Paragraph and Foo::Reader::Fixed_Width for reading whole records and Foo::Decoder::Separated and Foo::Decoder::Delimited and Foo::Decoder::Terminator for the stupid trailing separator ones. That’s already confusion with two different "Term" thingies appearing in two different places in the class system.

The decoders all break whole records into fields.

I guess I need a Foo::Decoder::Initiated, but I do not like it.

Science-fiction writer Iain M. Banks just died of bladder cancer at 59.

checks pee

whew

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Huh??

I could have sword it had silvery contours or something.

See what I mean?

I do apologise for that ugly other thing.

predictive text means never having to spell "I love you"

Sounds very convenient.

ta ta

Bai.