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RegDwight АΑA

23:00

Too geeky. And I'm on Windows.

I'm not even sure I have a Perl interpreter installed on this cucumber.

tchrist

Oh.

ΜετάEd

twirl how do you feel about west coast swing.

tchrist

No Cygwin?

Works pretty well there, I'm told. Guy at work put it on for the first two weeks while he was waiting for Unix access, just so he wasn't thumb-twiddling.

KitFox

@ΜετάEd I only know East Coast.

RegDwight АΑA

Once a boy named Reg came across that word, Cygwin, and he wanted to look it up, but then it occurred to him that he didn't really care.

ΜετάEd

23:01

@RegDwightАΑA It's sort of a cygwindle.

tchrist

It is much, much, much harder if you have diacritics.

ΜετάEd

But it's better than nothing.

thank you for the dance ... now I must be of

RegDwight АΑA

Yeah actually it's 1am here as well.

tchrist

leo has the code.

RegDwight АΑA

I was half asleep already, see ping response time.

tchrist

23:02

The hard stuff starts . . .

# This autoloading stub replaces itself with the real function,
# then jumps directly into its replacement via magic goto.
#
#     HEY LIKE I'M SORRY ALREADY, OK! It's just too hard to get
#     this right—and look ok—any other way.  Really, I *tried*.
#
sub flip_diacriticals($) {

    binmode(DATA, ":utf8");

Very scary.

But the best I could do.

Just don’t feed it accents, and it won’t take that code path.

And you don’t have to scream.

RegDwight АΑA

Today was a boring day here. Nothing in terms of questions or flags. Spent three hours analyzing pictures of the Tower Bridge instead. Let tomorrow be another one such day.

tchrist

Not much on questions, no.

RegDwight АΑA

Not much on meta, either. You tried, alas, you tried.

tchrist

Nobody said anything!

RegDwight АΑA

Well if anybody will say anything, it will be OMG what kind of crap is this. But since nobody in his right mind would say that, all that's left for them is to click the up arrow.

I'll give it another day before status-completing.

tchrist

23:09

I downvoted a goodly number, and close-voted no small few.

RegDwight АΑA

My profile says, only six votes today. That's even less than I thought.

tchrist

Hey, oed '\pM.*\pM' | leo says such cool things as səə̗ןo̬ɹʇuoɔ suoᴉʇɐןןəddɐ, ə̗də̬ɹɔ, ə̗ןə̬ɯə̗p, ʇuəɯəɹʌnœsə̗p, sə̱ɹo̱ɯ, sə̗ɹᴉɥɔə̗p sɹəᴉdɐd, əʇɐ̬d-ɹns-əʇɐ̬d, ə̗ɯnsə̗ɹ, əɹᴉɐɟ ɐ̖ səuə̖ɔs, uɐᴉɔᴉʇə̭u∩̗, sə̗ʇᴉɹə̗ʌ.

RegDwight АΑA

Feb 23 '11 at 15:56, by Kosmonaut

The antonym for bee is pee, btw

Think about that.

Meanwhile, good night.

tchrist

Hey Reg, good night. Thanks for being here.

RegDwight АΑA

Aye.

tchrist

23:15

@ΜετάEd Hm. Is that like a swindle?

Q: "liquidate" in metaphorical sense

Merriam-Webster reads: Main Entry: liq·ui·date Pronunciation: \ˈli-kwə-ˌdāt\ Function: verb Inflected Form(s): liq·ui·dat·ed; liq·ui·dat·ing Etymology: Late Latin liquidatus, past participle of liquidare to melt, from Latin liquidus Date: circa 1575 transitive verb 1 a (1) : to determine by agre...