« first day (124 days earlier)      last day (598 days later) » 

1:52 AM
lol I wrote "pronounce" in my bio
so if you want to refer to me, you can pronounce @Wezl' as "they" :P
 
2:25 AM
The only true pronoun is y'all
 
@thejonymyster Which one? allPronouns or unlikelyCombinations?
 
@user you have to worry about bInArY sIzE
@cairdcoinheringaahing yes plural pronouns :P
 
@user unlikely is fair, allPronouns is extremely bold when it doesnt even include it/its
 
Death to third-person pronouns! All hail variables!
 
@Wezl' See, y'all get it
@thejonymyster Refer to someone with "it/its", y'all dare y'all
y'all likely to get y'all ass kicked
 
2:27 AM
@cairdcoinheringaahing People do this all the time. "Who's that?" "It's me"
"Who's that?" "It's Brian"
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing ok, ill introduce you to my friend daggers, and it wont kick my ass for using it's preferred pronouns
 
"Who's baby is that? It's loud"
 
@user That's not a pronoun in that context :P
 
Really?
Grammar is confusing
 
Yeah, it's some weird shit that's like an implicit object or something
 
2:28 AM
(daggers is it's name, not an object im threatening you with)
 
Cause what would the object be in that sentence?
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Sounds like Scala
@cairdcoinheringaahing Me
 
Could you use "I"/"me" then?
 
i mean are you it pronouning the baby or are you declaring that the present situation has loudness
like are you "it's raining" or "look at that cloud, it's precipitating"
 
2:30 AM
ooo :o
 
In short, fuck context grammer, all my homies like context free grammers
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing My head started hurting just reading that page
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing oh wait i just understood how the mypronoun is part works lol
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I mean I like cfgs but in a totally different context
 
ok so you can get any pronouns or whatever on there lol
 
2:31 AM
@thejonymyster The baby is loud
 
@thejonymyster Yeah, if you use neopronouns
 
right ok
i guess a better var name would be allPaleoPronouns
 
the programming languages we use don't have pronouns (things like $_ don't count)
 
$_ kinda is a pronoun
 
fucked up
 
2:32 AM
But variables are just better
First of all, gender is such an arbitrary thing to divide pronouns over
 
Imagine referring to values *laughs in Jelly*
 
Second, most people use he or she so it's ridiculously ambiguous (and when you're referring to people as "they" (singular) it's again ambiguous)
@cairdcoinheringaahing lmao imagine if spoken languages became tacit
An introvert's dream :P
 
@user Future: spoken language is unspoken
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing tacit languages are also the best
 
i mean some languages are very pro-drop
 
2:34 AM
now I wonder if there's some connection there
 
To what?
 
because when I speak irl I find it uncomfortable to refer to people using names or pronouns
 
@UnrelatedString Those are even more ambiguous imo
 
Languages communicate well when tacitly explicit
 
did someone say tacit
*golfs*
 
2:35 AM
*communicates*
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing I don't know enough about grammar to understand what you did there, but I appreciate it
 
People often appreciate when languages display inherent advantages
 
Huh
Couldn’t study one because of that
Hindi
 
when I write and have time to think I sometimes mangle my sentences into passive voice because I'm uncomfortable using gendered pronouns but I know genders so I also feel uncomfortable using singular they... anyway its hard sometimes
 
:|
 
2:41 AM
In passive voice you also refer to doer
 
Passive voice is often easier to write than active tbh
 
You can just avoid referring to people at all
 
It has been found that passive voice is much simpler to use than active
 
"The beaker was filled with 10mL of sodium nitrite"
 
2:42 AM
Huh
Uh huh
 
"They filled the beaker with 10mL of sodium nitrite"
 
Passive is almost always easier to use, but can easily feel clumsy
 
@user That's more of what was meant in the most recent green message ig
 
Also more verbose nvm caird probably meant that by clumsy
 
2:43 AM
True
 
It is almost always easier to use the passive, but using it can often feel clumsy
 
anyway the bed must be occupied, and farewells must be said a second time lol
 
Clumsy in what way
?
 
@user "Unnecessarily verbose" is included when I refer to "clumsy" usage of the passive tense
 
verbosity is always considered clumsy by code golfers
 
2:45 AM
@cairdcoinheringaahing @py3programmer clumsy in this way
 
Which appears cleaner to you?
I cleaned the pool,
The pool was cleaned by me
 
You kinda have to work around it sometimes
 
Sometimes, the passive voice must be worked around
 
Sometimes, work around the passive Yoda voice, one must
 
2:46 AM
@py3programmer The second is in passive voice, so, sometimes, it is cleaner to use the active voice rather than the passive
 
@cairdcoinheringaahing Cleaned, the pool was
 
Was the pool, Cleaned
Using old english convention :P
 
What about he sneezed? How’d you convert that into passive
You can’t
 
The sneeze was done by him
 
Yeah that doesn't really work well
 
2:47 AM
You'd never say that, but it works grammatically
 
The sneeze was...sneezed by him?
 
Now that is something I can tell my Grammar teacher
 
Got it! "The mucus was expelled from his nose"
 
Sneeze is intransitive
 
y'all want me to move this to OTTNB?
 
2:48 AM
Sure
 
104 pronouns moved from The Nineteenth Byte
 
So
Sneeze is subjectless
 
objectless
 
>pronouns
 
2:50 AM
<subject> <verb> <object>
I sneezed <lack of object>
>pronouns
 
Rights
Right I mean
 
rights are good too :P
 
Without any object it can’t be passive
 
true. i cant be passive without my object either
 
3:09 AM
i think there's an implicit "I sneezed myself"
 
That sounds mildly concerning
 
or maybe "I sneezed my nose"
 
That sounds like you sneezed and your nose was ejected out of your nose along with the snot and stuff
 
3:33 AM
it sounds like you forced yourself to sneeze
 
I big brained it
 
Is this AD?
 
no
it's a uni assignment I'm working on
 
3:52 AM
did i ever show y'all that misprint medal i got
 
idk but I haven't seen it and would like to see it
 
Thank you official breaking bad / better call Saul youtube account
Very cool
 
Ugh, I have a quiz on C and they want us to know the sizes of data types on the university's CS server thingy instead of the actual minimum sizes in the C standard
 
Because obviously knowing what the university specifically uses will be soo important in real life
 
3:59 AM
ಠ_ಠ
 
tbf aren't the standard minimum sizes smaller than 99% of actual implementations
 
Yeah I guess what the uni uses is what everyone uses but still
 
so it's only really a problem if they're different than what everyone uses
but also you shouldn't have to learn them anyways
 
They could also just not have us memorize the exact size of a long long on some specific server
 
because anything you'd want to know those values for is a bad idea
if you need a specific width use the types with a fixed width, if you need to allocate them use sizeof
 
4:01 AM
Yeah
 
and the standard bounds are all you really need for like heuristically deciding which to use in general
 
There's probably valid use cases for knowing that but it's probably super low-level stuff that most of probably won't get to anytime soon
 
anything where the size is important, you should use the stdint types
 
@user have no idea where i put it so i had to do a bit of hardcore photo library browsing
 
4:13 AM
2^d*2^d
close enough
 
@UnrelatedString they did you dirty
Also congrats
 
thanks ig
they did me dirtier with a tiebreaker criterion that sums the total time elapsed between the start of the event and each problem :P
i finished the whole set like 20 minutes before the 1st place team but didn't do the easiest ones first
wait that was a different year
point remains
it is still funny to me that i only lost on a technicality to one out of 39 other teams that actually had three people each
i don't think it was because i was any good
i think it was just because like 25 of those teams were using java and all of the problems were too easy for python to have any performance issues
 
4:34 AM
use vyxal
 
like most of them were just people from ap compsci classes at local high schools
i think some of them didn't even do the test exercise
 
What sort of problems were they?
 
very easy
 
Example?
 
like they were icpc style but i think mostly recycled from the easier end of problems from older icpc events
uhh
i think one of them was bijective base conversion one year
there were always like two or three that were just parse input then do basic arithmetic
 
4:39 AM
oof
If you do this again you could legit win with jelly or vyxal
 
i think it's closed to college students :P
 
first year i was there there was one that actually required a bit of thought because the way the problem was phrased was kind of confusing
like it was basically, given a string of bits that is the xor of a bunch of unique strings of for some n 1 at every index which is a multiple of n, determine what the ns are
 
so, 1001001^101 for example?
That's... interesting
 
yeah except it always repeats up to the end of the input
 
4:44 AM
oh lol
 
That's just untruth?
 
yeah i meant this
it wouldn't just be untruth if i hadn't picked a length which is divisible by all of the ns :P
anyways almost nobody could solve it including the two other guys on my team
i could barely even program at this point but managed to walk them through it
 
 
1 hour later…
5:50 AM
@user it's not like he hasn't done what if ads before but they've actually been amusing instead of just being product placement with another silly flowchart slapped on top
 
 
3 hours later…
8:58 AM
The list of dead russian oligarchs is growing quickly...
 
 
4 hours later…
1:03 PM
anyone want to play a piano :p
 
hmm...
 
Okay so, driving to school, nyoom vroom pew pew pew, right?
And the car a few cars in front of me is driving crazy
Slowing to 35, then speeding up, then suddenly slowing down, people are passing, but I need to be in the right lane, whatever
We get to where the car's turning off. Finally. Except it slams on the brakes.
I stop in time, but the car behind me is sandwiched
I'm stopping way faster than the car behind her
So she hits me
I'm in a truck with a grill guard on one side and a trailer hitch on the other, so I'm like, invulnerable
I didn't even realize it was a crash
Couldn't see any damage and the car behind me was giving me a thumbs up, so I just drove to school lol
Car behind me followed me and pulled into the parking lot, she gets out and goes like "are you okay?"
 
you were driving the car?
 
wow
 
1:18 PM
Oh and here's my dad's somewhat anticlimactic response to learning that his truck's been in an accident:
 
> Thanks dawg
i mean not surprising tbh that the response was ok
 
You need to charge your phone
 
is it all done now or do we get the chance to iNfLuEnCe ReAlItY
 
@lyxal Oh yeah that was for something else
 
also 8:16am?
sheesh
americans and their timezones amiright?
 
1:19 PM
> Ok
best response lol
 
@lyxal Like you find it late or early?
 
early
 
@Wezl' This is actually a choose-your-own-adventure thing. Your choices are: 1. go on a car crash spree since you're already probably getting insurance money, or 2. sell the car and buy all of the onions in Indonesia
 
@lyxal I wake up at 7 every day
not even American
 
@RadvylfPrograms wait you were driving a truck?
 
1:20 PM
(btw tbc I'm not a demon trapped in the internet, using my many profiles to manipulate people towards my end goal of peanut-butter coated cats)
 
Yeah
4 mins ago, by Radvylf Programs
I'm in a truck with a grill guard on one side and a trailer hitch on the other, so I'm like, invulnerable
 
@mousetail early in the day compared to the 11:20pm it is here down under
 
This is Texas, literally half of the cars are trucks :p
 
@RadvylfPrograms this is why I would never visit Texas
just let me walk without almost dying every step
 
They're actually pretty safe, as I can now attest to.
Unless you're on foot or a bike
Or a tree
 
1:21 PM
lol
 
I'm not doubting the safety for people inside the truck
that's not the point
 
So I guess the moral of the story is, if you're in a car accident, be the one in the biggest car and don't own it
 
you are focring everyone to buy oversized trucks to survive
 
@RadvylfPrograms I'm going out on a limb here and guessing that's not the fastest way to do your daily commute xP
 
how big is a truck?
4 medium sized refrigerators?
 
1:23 PM
@PyGamer0 I was driving an F-150, so like 33% bigger than a sedan in most dimensions
 
*suddenly spaces out*
like what do these name mean
 
that?
 
F-150: A medium sized truck made by Ford
Sedan: One of those cars that are like, normal car shape
@PyGamer0 Yeah, an older model though
And silver
 
oh
what is the minimum driving age in texas?
 
16, typically
 
1:26 PM
@PyGamer0 I see this and am like: wow that's a nice blue. cool shading too. The consistent [thickness? height?] and parallel lines were used well. no idea what normal car observations are like
 
"Wow oh boy I will sit on that transmission. And those oil sure are changed."
 
@RadvylfPrograms ohhhhhhh
 
lol how do you even tell what the oil is like
 
It's a trick question. Oil is always (a politically) charged (topic)
 
@Wezl' So what's the end goal there? Do the cats just exist with peanut butter? Or are you supposed to lick the peanut butter off of them?
Do they excrete additional peanut butter? Or do you need to manually reapply it?
Do they still have fur, or is it replaced with peanut butter?
Does peanut butter have the same insulating capability as fur?
Would it be smooth or chunky, normal or honey roasted?
You can't just say these things without providing details that society requires.
Everyone knows the coating of cats in peanut butter is a very sensitive topic after the Incident of 1744
 
2:17 PM
Our teacher told us to write a sentence using 3 types of averbial clauses
so naturally,
"I ran as i ran as I ran if I ran"
 
 
as in, "I ran while (time) I ran because (i-forgot) I ran if (conditional) I ran"
 
@lyxal "Did that fix the rain" "sorry, still going sideways" "try unplugging the clouds then"
 
which makes perect sence
@lyxal haha
 
@RadvylfPrograms here
this is (99.9% probably) what wezl means
cc @Ginger to the above
 
2:32 PM
haha
 
He is not a happy boi
He's like
why have you done this
 
That's definitely a face of "wtf lyxal" which is about what i'd expect ginger's reaction to be
 
Whose cat is that?
 
Ginger's
 
lol
Yeah Ginger probably wouldn't be happy if you peanut buttered his cat without him
I know I'd be furous
 
2:37 PM
I only know how to say haha
haha
 
Well you can also say that you only know how to say haha apparently
 
@RadvylfPrograms well see the thing is that I was originally considering transcript diving to find one of yours but figured it'd be easier to find one of ginger's
 
This is Stormie, the one who looks like he's seeing ghosts all the time
This is blurry stormie
Blurriness gives him power
This is Scully:
She do be kinda floof tho
 
 
That's better
He looks happier already
This is another Scully
Here's a surprise soggy Stormie
My sister gave him a shower
We do not know why
Here's both at once:
I love how even tho you can't see Stormie's face here, you can still tell he's giving that "I can see through you" look to whatever's in front of him
 
2:44 PM
 
Very good
 
that's the last cat I cover in peanut butter tonight
i'm gonna bed
 
o/
Stormie will invade your dreams though
He has too much blurry
He can enter and wander around your mind
 
3:14 PM
@RadvylfPrograms sorry I already gave you my most basic motive. It doesn't get more fundamental than that. Or at least I don't know why it has to be my motive.
I feel more content when cats have peanut butter
anyway, where else would they keep it
 
3:50 PM
Ah, so cat peanut-buttering is the terminal goal here.
 
I mean maybe if I was a demon trapped in the internet
 
 
3 hours later…
7:19 PM
@Wezl' if?
 
is it that obvious :P
wait I'll find the context if that's what you need
 
8:09 PM
@cairdcoinheringaahing I'm pretty sure it's a pronoun. I suspect this is one of those rare cases where English still goes by grammatical gender rather than natural gender. "That" is neuter, so we use "it" to refer back to it, even though the referent happens to be a person.
 
DLosc is right, it is grammatically a pronoun. The reason we say "it" instead of a normal personal (they/he/she) in this context is because the pronoun is referring back to the "who" and/or "that", which are not personal pronouns and don't have an associated gender
I wouldn't say it's related to grammatical gender as English really doesn't have that. "That" isn't neuter, because neuter isn't a thing in English
(yes I know about blond/blonde but we're not using those here!)
 
@pxeger The tricky part is, since "who" unambiguously refers to a person, wouldn't it be more appropriate in today's English to use the common-gender singular "they" to refer back to it?
 
Actually maybe my reasoning was wrong
 
But I think you're right that the "it" refers to "who" rather than "that," because you can still use "it" even if you don't have "that" in the question: "Who is speaking?" "It's me"
 
I guess this is an instance of using it as an impersonal pronoun: "Who is speaking? It's me [who is speaking]."
"What is that red thing? It's an apple [which is that red thing]."
@pxeger Dummy pronoun, not impersonal pronoun
In Modern English, it is a singular, neuter, third-person pronoun. == Morphology == In Modern English, it has only three shapes representing five word forms: it: the nominative (subjective) and accusative (objective) forms. (The accusative case is also called the "oblique".: 146 ) its: the dependent and independent genitive (possessive) forms itself: the reflexive formHistorically, though, the morphology is more complex. == History == === Old English === Old English had a single third-person pronoun – from the Proto-Germanic demonstrative base *khi-, from PIE *ko- "this" – which had ...
I don't know what I'm talking about
But I do know that "it" is a pronoun
 
8:24 PM
Interesting pair of examples:
"Who is that woman?" "It's Kamala Harris."
"Who is that woman?" "She's the Vice President of the United States."
I'd be less inclined to use "She's" in the first example, or "It's" in the second example.
Not entirely sure why, but it's probably some subtle difference in the usage of "is."
 
Maybe because the "who" in both questions isn't the same?
The first is the name/identity
The second is not really her identity itself
 
 
1 hour later…
9:29 PM
@RadvylfPrograms He eats JPEG artifacts, remember?
 
@user Yeah, I think you're right. The first is identity and the second is more like significance: "Who's that guy?" "Oh, no one special."
 
9:41 PM
@emanresuA wow the memories
which are made stronger with transcripts
 
@pxeger Wait those are gendered?
I always just thought "blonde" was a fancy old spelling of it
@lyxal lol
I'd imagine Tosh is a more common last name in Britain/Ireland since it's a Scottish last name
 
9:59 PM
@RadvylfPrograms Originally from French, where it's common to have a masculine word whose feminine equivalent is the same thing but with an extra -e on the end. See also fiancé (m) and fiancée (f).
Technically, "brunet" is the masculine version of "brunette," but I doubt anyone would use it anymore. We'd probably just say "he has brown hair." :P
I love it when Etymonline's "Trending words" list is influenced by current events:
1. catafalque
2. queue
3. queen
4. de
5. assassin
6. king
7. culture
8. wanton
9. con
10. pro
And if you're saying, like I did, "What the heck is a catafalque," it's apparently a "stage erected in a church to support a coffin during a funeral."
 
The inclusion of the word "assassin" would paint a pretty interesting story if you sent this back in time
 
Yeah, I don't know where that one came from.
 
@DLosc I’ve actually heard men referred to as brunettes (spoken, not written, though)
 
10:26 PM
wow just tried my first migraine. On the plus side it includes more time with my cat and one less thing on my bucket list
interesting, lyxal can be used to treat migraines
 
Migraines are on your bucket list?
 
well they weren't but now they are so I can have something crossed off
 
I'd make a bucket list but I have no idea what to even put on it
Also, everything I want is way out of my reach (private jet, personal island, star named after me :P)
 
10:41 PM
Iron buckets, aluminum buckets, plastic buckets
 
Good idea
 
@user I'll name a star after you. for free!
k just named the sun after you
 
tyty
 
it was the only visible star rn. It'll be a while til userset
 
Sorry wrong image
 
10:44 PM
> 4. Bucket
 
Ninja'd
 

« first day (124 days earlier)      last day (598 days later) »