Shlomi Fish's Quotes as Fortunes Cookies [satire]

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Quotes by Shlomi Fish, his close friends, or transcripts of IRC conversations in which he took part.

( Note: on chat services, I tend to use the nicknames "rindolf" or "shlomif". )

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The Fortunes Themselves

I don’t Believe in Fairies

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I don’t believe in fairies. Oops! A fairy died.
I don’t believe in fairies. Oops! Another fairy died.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

The prefix “God said”

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The prefix “God said” has the extraordinary logical property of converting any statement that follows it into a true one.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

A Jewish Deduction

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A Jewish Deduction

The Bible dictates that “Thou shalt not seethe [= cook] a kid [= young goat] in his mother’s milk”. To avoid any possibility of breaking that regulation, the Jewish tradition ruled that it also applies to female goats, to mature goats, and to the meat and milk of two completely unrelated goats. It is also forbidden to eat the meat with fresh milk, and it applies to beef and mutton as well (including mixing the milk and meat of two different beasts). Finally, chicken, which are incapable of milk production, may not be eaten along with any mammal’s milk either.

We are fortunate that most mathematicians were not Jewish. Otherwise, it would have been forbidden to divide by all numbers between -1 and 1.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

I Used to be Arrogant

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I used to be arrogant. Now I’m simply Perfect.

AuthorOne of Shlomi Fish’s Relatives
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Murphy’s Law

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If the ancient Greeks had invented UNIX, Murphy’s Law would have been known as Aristotle’s Law.

Had they invented MS-Windows, Murphy’s Law would have been known as the Law of Socrates.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Microsoft’s Slogan

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Microsoft’s slogan used to be “Microsoft - making it all make sense.”

It should have been: “Microsoft - making it all make sense. Ours.”

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Linux - Because Software Problems...

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Linux - Because Software Problems Should not Cost Money.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkLinux Slogan and Banner
Published2008-07-04

The American Lottery

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The American Lottery - all you need is a dollar and a dream. We will take the dollar, but you can keep the dream.

Shlomi Fish

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

“Shit Happens” - 1

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“Shit Happens” according to the religions of the world (Deltas by Shlomi Fish)

Judaism: God knows you will do shit, does nothing to prevent it, but makes you take the blame for it anyway.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Shit Happens - 2

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“Shit Happens” according to the religions of the world
(Deltas by Shlomi Fish)

Judaism: God is all the shit, all the non-shit and all the intermediate demi-shits in between.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Interpret the Past

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Let’s interpret the past according to the present and not the present according to the past.

Shlomi Fish

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Computer Science and C Programming

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Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes

— Edsger W. Dijkstra

Programming Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about stars.

— Shlomi Fish

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Next Movie

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[Discussing the shortage of IT workers as of 1998 on E-mail]

Shlomi Fish to Omer Zak: “Even the NSA doesn’t have enough programmers. But it is not likely that they will have more, and that’s because Summerschool at the NSA may might as well be the name of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s next movie.”

Omer Zak to Shlomi Fish: “And as opposed to I Know What You Did Last Summer, it is going to be scary.”

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Objective Philosophy…

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Objective philosophy is like a pencil sharpener for one’s mind.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

“The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It” - 1

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Oh! I wish you could see the look on his face! Actually, I would have also liked to see the look on his face, but just then I woke up from the dream.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe Enemy and How I Helped to Fight It
Published2008-07-04

"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It" - 2

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Had I not been already insane, I would have long ago driven myself mad.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe Enemy and How I Helped to Fight It
Published2008-07-04

"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It" - 3

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“Aside from all that, I planned a political simulator that forecast the two World Wars after I entered all the relevant data until the year 1000 AD.”

“Do you have a computer at home?”

“Oh, no! At present the program is written on a paper. Don’t ask how much time it took me to fully eliminate all bugs out of it. But it was great fun!”

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe Enemy and How I Helped to Fight It
Published2008-07-04

"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It" - 4

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“Likewise.” Added the interviewer and said: “Your answers were also very… unusual.”

“Although this description cannot testify on their quality, I take it as a compliment.”

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe Enemy and How I Helped to Fight It
Published2008-07-04

“The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It” - 5

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The government of the Supporter will finance your travel, and you will be able to leave tomorrow morning. We would like to inform you of the following facts: we cannot assure your safety during this travel. Furthermore, despite your long service at the Organisation and your constructive proposal, we cannot say, wholeheartedly or halfheartedly, that we wish to protect your safety. Likewise, we cannot guarantee that we would not take actions that may harm you, indirectly or in a direct manner.

We hope to see you here very soon.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe Enemy and How I Helped to Fight It
Published2008-07-04

"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It" - 6

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“Okay, I think that I can now return to my country and my village. By the way, how many forbidden books do you have?”

“Oh,”, one of them said to me, “their number is growing geometrically. When I checked two weeks ago, their number was 2,148,763. A week ago there were 4,278,109 forbidden writings. Now there must be about 8,600,000 ones.”

“You are wrong.”, I said to him.

“I beg your pardon?”

“There are now exactly 8,517,559 or 8,517,560 forbidden books.”

“Why is it so important?”

“Why, it means that, for the time being, you have 82,440 or 82,441 extra books which you can read at bedtime if you can’t fall asleep!”

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe Enemy and How I Helped to Fight It
Published2008-07-04

"The Enemy and how I Helped to Fight It" - 7

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“And what is the nature of those activists: Socialists? Communists? Liberals?… ”

“Let’s say, for the sake of simplicity, that they are people of my intellect, only that as opposed to me they are sane.”

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe Enemy and How I Helped to Fight It
Published2008-07-04

A more experienced programmer…

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A more experienced programmer does not make less bugs. He just realizes what went wrong more quickly.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Microsoft Notepad

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BTW, for an editor with no replace feature (at least not on Windows 95), no regular-expression search and replace, no indentation support, no syntax-highlighting and no macros and scriptability features: MS Notepad is one hell of an editor!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkWonderous are the ways of Microsoft
Published2008-07-04

WYSIWYT - Documentation Improvement

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Suggested Improvements to the Documentation:

The WYSIWYT project was for a long time fascinated by Microsoft’s tremendous desire to advance its Internet Explorer web-browser. We saw the fact that they switched the help systems of the upcoming Windows 98, as well as Microsoft Visual C++ 5.0, to HTML a major step in advancing our project.

As a complementary step, some of the chief heads of our project suggested that the Windows’ manuals themselves, as well as all of Microsoft’s ads, will be designed in HTML and printed after being rendered by IE 4. While this project is in the preliminary and planning stages, we expect it to acquire a large momentum soon.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkIRPWUG Announces Project “What you see is what you think”
Published2008-07-04

If A is A and A is not not-A…

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If: 1. A is A.
2. A is not not-A.
does it also imply that:
1. B is B.
2. B is not not-B.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

I know I’m blond…

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I know I’m blond, but I have to colour my hair brown, so people would not think I’m stupid. Because, like the title of the book says: "You’ve only got Three Seconds".

Actually, since Amazon sent us two books like that, you’ve only got six seconds.

AuthorOne of Shlomi Fish’s Relatives
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

“Knuth is not God!” - 1

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Knuth is not God! It took him two days to build the Roman Empire.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s “Knuth is not God!” Facts
Published2008-07-04

“Knuth is not God!” - 2

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Knuth is not God! God has already released TeX version 4.0.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s “Knuth is not God!” Facts
Published2008-07-04

Taking a Turing Test

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>
> Shlomi,
>
> Have you ever considered taking a Turing test? ;-)
>

<sarcasm>
Sure I did. I sat at one point of an IRC channel, and someone
tested me. Eventually it was discovered that I am a computer, but it
turned out the other side was an Eliza program. Strangely enough, I could
not detect that the latter fact was true.
</sarcasm>

— Shlomi Fish in Hackers-IL message No. 2465
AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkHackers-IL message No. 2465
Published2008-07-04

IGLU Cabal and the Turing Test

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There is no IGLU Cabal! None of them could pass the Turing test. But strangely enough a computer program they coded, could.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkHackers-IL message No. 2465
Published2008-07-04

“Knuth is not God!” - 3

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Knuth is not God! Google is not God! RMS is not God!

God himself said that was the case.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s “Knuth is not God!” Facts
Published2008-07-04

“Knuth is not God!” - 4

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Knuth is not God! Typing “God” into Google and pressing “I’m Feeling Lucky” would not lead you to his homepage.

Shlomi Fish in Hackers-IL message No. 2084 ("The Great WWW-Wisdom Shootout")

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s “Knuth is not God!” Facts
Published2008-07-04

“Knuth is not God!” - 5

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Knuth is not God! Unless you confuse him with Dijkstra.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s “Knuth is not God!” Facts
Published2008-07-04

Patenting the TINIC

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(I am patenting issuing a TINIC with anything else but the phrase "There is no IGLU Cabal!". The patent number is kept secret to avoid violating the copyright of its text)

Shlomi Fish in Hackers-IL message No. 2021

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

C++ and Object-Oriented Programming

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C++ supports Object-Oriented Programming, roughly as much as COBOL supports Functional Programming.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

If it had not been clear…

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I hope that if it had not been clear before, it isn’t less clear now.

AuthorOne of Shlomi Fish’s Technion Lecturers
Published2008-07-04

Hi, Sophie!

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Jack: Hi, Sophie!

Sophie: Don’t “Hi, Sophie!” me.

Jack: Don’t “Don’t ‘Hi, Sophie!’ me” me!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Crazy Opinions

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My opinions may seem crazy, but they all make sense. Insane sense, but sense nonetheless.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Corollary of Godwin’s Law

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Shlomi, I’m considering naming a corollary of Godwin’s law after you - any discussion of anything is over when you mention Freecell Solver.

— Muli Ben-Yehuda on #kernelnewbies (irc.kernelnewbies.org)

Muli: BTW, I think that any discussion only begins to gain momentum when I mention Freecell Solver.

— Shlomi Fish on #offtopic (irc.kernelnewbies.org)

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Keeping an Idea to Yourself

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There’s no point in keeping an idea to yourself since there’s a 10 to 1 chance that somebody already has it and will share it before you.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

An Apple a Day

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An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Two apples a day will keep two doctors away.

AuthorOne of Shlomi Fish’s Relatives
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

You are banished!

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“You are banished! You are banished! You are banished! Hey! I’m just kidding!”

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Foreign Languages

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[Discussing Foreign Languages Knowledge in the U.S.A]

Ben Collins-Sussman: Tis’ true, unlike Europe, the language doesn’t change every 100 miles.

Shlomi Fish: And unlike England, the accent does not change every 10 miles.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

What happened to Christopher Michael Pilato?

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What happened to Christopher Michael Pilato?
Is he gone?
Is he gone for good?
Is he gone for better?
Is he gone for best?
Is he gone forever?
Will he return?
Who is Christopher Michael Pilato, anyway?

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAdapted from an IRC Monologue
Published2008-07-04

Teaching a Computer to Laugh

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> Can anyone draw a plan as to how to teach a computer to laugh? Say we
> define laugh as print "LOL", and define smile as print ":)". How would a
> computer know when to print any of those, and when to operate an Eliza
> program?

Judging by IRC or AOL, randomly would do just fine ;-)

— Muli Ben-Yehuda in Hackers-IL message No. 3513
AuthorMuli Ben-Yehuda
WorkHackers-IL message No. 3,153
Published2008-07-04

In Philosophy, as much as in software engineering

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In Philosophy, as much as in software engineering, you don’t get credit for originality. What matters is the final product, not who came up with the idea for each feature first.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

HURD is Lacking in Developers

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> Unfortunately as other people have mentioned - the HURD is seriously
> lacking in developers, especially driver writers. Linux is to blame for
> most of that.

KImageShop is seriously lacking in developers, and the GIMP is to blame
for most of that.
AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkPost to the Linux-IL Mailing List
Published2008-07-04

He has a high degree of…

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He has a high degree of idealism, a high degree of stubbornness, and an even higher degree of inability to distinguish between the two.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

I expected that this patch won’t go in so easily

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> Thanks, applied as change #22936.

And thank you for applying this patch. But to be honest, I’m a little disappointed. I expected it won’t go in so easily and will trigger some discussion here. But there was none. No typo corrections (“you misspelled ‘floccinaucinihilipilification’”); no flames ("this patch is the worst thing since non-sliced bread"). Nothing.

Someone should do something about it. This direction is not healthy for p5p. Seriously.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkPost to perl5-porters
Published2008-07-04

sleep-fu

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rindolfRight now, I think I’ll go to sleep.
mitchnite rindolf
mitchsleep-fu well
rindolfmitch: night.
rindolfBye all!
rindolfmitch: there are no PDB entries for me sleeping.
rindolfmitch: nor do I want any.
mitchhaha
mitch(rindolf-sleep INTERACTIVE|NONINTERACTIVE)
rindolfmitch: heh
rindolfmitch: (plug-in-rindolf-sleep ...
mitch:)
Kevin(plug-in-rindolf-sleep 8 HOURS)
Channel#gimp
NetworkGIMPNet
TaglineContemplating some potential procedural database functions
Published2008-07-04

Contributing to #gimp

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yacooba quickie: are ‘adjustments layers’ planned to be implemented in gimp?
nomisyacoob: at some point in the future, yes.
yacoobnomis: dare to estimate how far this future is?
nomisyacoob: no.
rindolfyacoob: faster if you contribute.
* nomiswaits for the "oh, I cannot program at all".
rindolfnomis: faster if he learns how to program, and then contributes.
nomis:)
yacoobrindolf: you wouldn’t like me to contribute, believe me ;)
Channel#gimp
NetworkGIMPNet
TaglineFaster, faster!
Published2008-07-04

Girly Men

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[Commenting in Slashdot after Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decision to use open-source software in the California government:]

> This is obviously because Bill Gates and Steve Jobs are girly men.

Yeah and what are the offerings of the open-source world? Let’s see:

1. Linus Torvalds - Looks like a dweeb, ergo is a dweeb. How girly is that? (plus his wife can kick ass better than him) 2. Richard M. Stallman - a hippy. How girly is that? 3. Eric S. Raymond - a nice looking man with a moustache. Baby faced, so he looks a bit girly to me. 4. Larry Wall - a cross between Linus and RMS (i.e: a hippy dweeb) that is even more girly.

So who do we have left? Alan Cox? OK, he’s manly. (huge man, huge facial hair, etc.) And all the others are so negligible people don’t even know how they look like.

Note: this comment may have been a bit cruel, so sorry. Don’t take it too seriously, especially if you’re one of the guys I laughed about. I hold you all with the greatest respect. Seriously.

Sincerely yours,
Shlomi Fish (who is a quite girly male himself).

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSlashdot Comment
Published2008-07-04

If his programming…

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If his programming is anything like his philosophising, he would find ten imaginary bugs in the "Hello World" program.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Hacker Sees Bug

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Hacker sees bug. Hacker does not want bug. Hacker fixes bug.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Tcl is Lisp on Drugs…

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Tcl is Lisp on drugs. Using strings instead of S-expressions for closures is Evil with one of those gigantic E’s you can find at the beginning of chapters.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

95% of Programmers

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Linus Torvalds: "95% of Programmers consider themselves in the top 5%".

Shlomi Fish’s Corollary: "95% of Programmers consider 95% of the code they did not write, in the bottom 5%."

(The other 5% have read "Joel on Software".)

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Too Girly

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rindolfLinuxgrrl: well The Gilmore Girls is also a drama. Sort of a dramedie, but a serious one.
LinuxgrrlMeh.
LinuxgrrlToo girly for me.
rindolfLinuxgrrl: you are a girl.
rindolfLinuxgrrl: let me guess - you’re using Debian or Gentoo, right?
LinuxgrrlGentoo.
rindolfLinuxgrrl: knew it.
rindolfLinuxgrrl: no self-respecting tomboy would use Mandrake.
Channel#linuxchics
NetworkOFTC
TaglineToo Girly
Published2008-07-04

C++ is…

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C++ is complex, complexifying and complexified.

(With apologies to the Oxford English Dictionary).

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Blogging Memes

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rindolfI’m siicckk of blogging memes.
rindolfYou are this file type.
rindolfYou are that type of cloth.
jkauffmanYou are this member of the Friends show
rindolfjkauffman: LOL.
jkauffman"January 4th, 2005: Just took an online quiz and it turns out I’m a Joey type"
Channel#perlcafe
NetworkFreenode
TaglineShlomi Fish (rindolf) and jkauffman
Published2008-07-04

Becoming Crazy

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tyler-rindolf: you are seriously the craziest fucker I know
tyler-and I know some crazy ass people
mofinohaha
rindolftyler-: I am crazy. And proud of it.
tyler-rindolf: you should be
mofinohaha
mofinoAhh man
rindolftyler-: being crazy is hard work. I worked all my life to be crazy.
mofinoNormal people aren’t fun.
rindolftyler-: "Craziness is not an action. It’s a process."
mofinoheh
tyler-rindolf: I see
rindolfYou need to tend to your insanity.
rindolftyler-: do you want to be crazy?
tyler-rindolf: that’s why I feed my leprechaun at least once a day.
rindolftyler-: I can teach you everything I know.
Channel#perlcafe
NetworkFreenode
TaglineBecoming Crazy
Published2008-07-04

Discussing living with one’s parents on IRC.

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rindolfmofino: I have some money, and am living and am supported by my parents.
rindolfmofino: there’s much less of a taboo against living with one’s parents after school in Israel, than there is in the States.
mofinoIt’s not taboo
mofinoIt’s pathetic.
mofinoAlthough, sometimes life sucks, and you have no choice.
q[ender]you know, it depends
q[ender]if you’re not married and / or not getting any, it doesn’t much matter if you live with your folks
mofinoender, usually when you have self-respect, you try and you know, make it on your own
rindolfq[ender]: are you married and not getting any? You could live with your parents.
q[ender]hahaha
mofinohaha
q[ender]awesome
q[ender]rindolf++ # good burn!
Channel#perlcafe
NetworkFreenode
TaglineLiving with your parents
Published2008-07-04

Moses-the-Smiley

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:)-<
 +--

-- Moses the Smiley by Shlomi Fish
AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkMoses the Smiley
Published2008-07-04

The First Phrase that needs to be Taught

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The first phrase that should be taught when teaching a new language is how to say “Do you speak English?”.

The first thing that needs to be taught when teaching a new computer tool is how to exit it.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Re-inventing the Wheel

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He who re-invents the wheel, will understand much better how a wheel works.

He who re-invents the wheel, may actually invent a much better wheel.

Shlomi Fish

He who re-invents the wheel will likely design a square wheel and spend a year trying to figure out why it doesn’t work properly.

Nadav Har’El

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Better Alternative

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Sometimes you don’t need to be familiar with a better alternative to know that something sucks. Take Microsoft Word for example.

AuthorShlomi Fish’s Friend
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Good Student vs. Bad Student

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The difference between a good student and a bad student is that a bad student forgets the material five minutes before the test, while a good student five minutes afterwards.

AuthorOne of Shlomi Fish’s Technion Lecturer
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Real Programmers Don’t Write

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Real programmers don’t write workarounds. They tell their users to upgrade their software.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Jewish Atheists

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Jewish Atheists are the only true Atheists. They beat the hell out of Goy Atheists.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Chuck Norris Perlsixifies at Freenode’s #perl6 channel.

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rindolfajs: perhaps Chuck Norris would be a useful addition to the Pugs and Parrot teams.
ajsrindolf: If Norris can write, give him a commit bit, and tie him to a keyboard ;)
FurnaceBoyI thought he already had commit
daximChuck Norris commits with a roundhouse kick into the SVN server’s head
* FurnaceBoychuckles
ajsdaxim: If you can get that to pass the test suite, then more power to you!
FurnaceBoyChuck *is* the test suite
KattanaChuck Norris does not code, when he sits at a computer, it just does whatever he wants.
rindolfKattana: :-)
daximah, we’re easy to amuse
ajsBe the test suite, Chuck... BE the test suite.
FurnaceBoyyou gotta pass ‘make chuck’
Channel#perl6
NetworkFreenode
TaglineChuck Norris Perlsixifies at Freenode’s #perl6 channel.
Published2008-07-04

The ex-Member about Rashness

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“You know:”, the physicist said, “in my opinion since you left the Organisation you acted without thinking a lot before you did things. I would describe your behaviour as deriving from spontaneousness and fickle‐mindedness that border rashness. Do you also think so?”

“Of course!” I replied, “Except for arrogance, rashness is my only defect!”

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe Enemy and How I Helped to Fight It
Published2008-07-04

Second Best Solution

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The current solution offered by Nvidia may be the second-best solution. But this is one case where the second best solution is not good enough.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkNvidia Petition
Published2008-07-04

If it isn’t in my email…

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If it isn’t in my email, it doesn’t exist.

And if the whole world says one thing and my email says something different, email will conquer.

-- an Israeli Linuxer.

AuthorAn Israeli Linuxer
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Buffy and Willow

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rindolfHi CSWookie
rindolfCSWookie: aren’t you also on Freenode?
CSWookierindolf: What’s up.
CSWookierindolf: I am.
rindolfCSWookie: I’m fine.
rindolfCSWookie: you are a Buffy fan right?
CSWookierindolf: I am. Although really, more a Willow fan. Nothing hotter than red-headed Jewesses that are scared of boys.
Channel#gimp
NetworkGIMPNet
TaglineCSWookie on Willow
Published2008-07-04

When Closed-source Bites

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rindolfHi all! How can I tell Flash in FF to play using artsd? It keeps trying to invoke esd. I’m on Mandriva 2007.
vexati0nthe REAL question is, what the fuck is taking adobe so long with flash 9 :@
vexati0nrindolf: you might have to set that with firefox’ settings.
vexati0nor, do what good people do and use opera.
vexati0n:P
* rindolfslaps vexati0n
rindolfvexati0n: I’m not using Opera. Period.
rindolfI don’t like it and it’s not FOSS.
vexati0ngod, it’s like opera is anathema just cause people can’t look at its code or something.
vexati0nlike YOU are going to tinker with your browser’s source code anyway
rindolfvexati0n: actually, I did that for Firefox.
rindolfvexati0n: I have a bug pending on bugzilla.mozilla.org.
rindolfvexati0n: nah, nah, nah, nah
vexati0nwell, you wouldn’t have to do it with opera because it already works :P
rindolfvexati0n: I hate the fact that it resizes images.
rindolfvexati0n: it causes the images to be too large.
rindolfvexati0n: now tell me how do I fix that.
vexati0nopera resizes images? o.O
vexati0ndo you have a page it screws up so i can look?
rindolfvexati0n: when I press Ctrl++ and Ctrl+-
vexati0noh. You mean it doesn’t just increase the size of the text.
rindolfvexati0n: take http://www.shlomifish.org/art/ for example.
rindolfvexati0n: yes.
Channel##linux
NetworkFreenode
TaglineWhen Closed-source bites
Published2008-07-04

The Bad Thing about Hardware

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The bad thing about hardware is that it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t. The good thing about software is that it’s consistent: it always does not work, and it always does not work in exactly the same way.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Welcome to Web 2.0

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rindolfKev: thanks.
rindolfKev: did you post it on the French page?
Kevnot yet
rindolfKev: you need to create an account first. But it’s easy.
rindolfIt’s a MediaWiki based wiki.
Kevarghhhhhhhhhhhh
rindolfKev: what’s wrong?
jagermanMaybe MediaWiki wronged him in some way!
Kevwiki
jagermanJust be thankful it isn’t a blog!
rindolfKev: what’s wrong with wikis?
rindolfAnd be extra thankful it’s not MySpace.
jagermanMt. Allison [University] is now paying 5 students to maintain a "life as a Mt. A student" blog
Channel#perlcafe
NetworkFreenode
TaglineWelcome to Web 2.0
Published2008-07-04

Unflattering Nicknames

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mofinoWell I’m confused and I’m going home
mofinoLater guys
mofinoAnd girl.
mofinoYoung tender girl ...
mofinosweet 16 year old girl ....
avarhaha
rindolfmofino: heh.
* mofinoputs away his lynching pedo personality
mofino;)
mofinolates
* ChanServgives channel operator status to jagerman
←jagermanhas kicked mofino from #perlcafe (Leave already :P)
* jagermanremoves channel operator status from jagerman
avarWe have found pedobear and he is mofino
→mofinohas joined #perlcafe
mofinocan you like not do that as I’m picking up my keys?
mofinoyou fagerman
rindolffagerman, homofino, what’s next?
rindolfI know - q[tyler-]
rindolfOTOH, I’ve been called Slimy Fish lately.
avarrindolf: The *real* Slimy Fish?
rindolfavar: the one and only 100% original real actual and unmatched Slimy Fish™!
rindolfI’m the real Slimy, yes I’m the real Slimy, if you’re the real Slimy and not just a Slimy. So will the real Slimy please stand up, please stand up...
* jagermanis ashamed for actually knowing those lyrics
avarsing it Jew boy:)
Channel#perlcafe
NetworkFreenode
TaglineUnflattering Nicknames
Published2008-07-04

Linux for Christians

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rindolfCSWookie: tried Christian Ubuntu yet? ;-)
goldfishLOL.
goldfishOh dear, you weren’t joking.
rindolfgoldfish: no, I was.
goldfishhah
goldfish"Ubuntu Christian Edition is a free, open source operating system geared towards Christians. It is based on the popular Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support."
moldyi might try it soon
moldyright now we are using plain dapper at my church
goldfishmoldy: hah
moldyis this that funny? :p
goldfish:)
rindolfhttp://christianubuntu.blogspot.com/
moldyhehe
moldyFor 40 days before Easter, Ubuntu Christian Edition works in text mode only.
moldyhaha
goldfishThat’s brilliant :)
rindolfThere’s also a Jewbuntu blog, but it’s not as funny as this Christian Ubuntu blog.
moldytrue
moldyThat sounds about right -- Jesus might have preferred Jewbuntu since he was a Jew. Then again, Jesus was also a dedicated idealist, so he might have chosen Debian instead of Ubuntu. :-P
moldyhehehe
tpopewhy has Ubuntu become the distro of puns?
moldyhas it? there are puns for other distros, too
StroggJesus came from long long ago. I bet he runs Debian stable. :)
Channel#vim
NetworkFreenode
TaglineUbuntu for Christians
Published2008-07-04

More Advanced than CVS

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On Sunday 01 April 2007, chromatic wrote:
> On Saturday 31 March 2007 15:26, Yuval Kogman wrote:
> > uses_version_control sounds more like lacks_manifest_skip_file which
> > should deduct kwalitee IMHO.
>
> Maybe so, but how else can CPANTS detect that you use the world’s most
> advanced version control system: CVS?
>

Are you kidding?

CVS is not advanced as:

1. Microsoft Visual SourceSafe - the only sane choice for good data integrity
and portability.

2. tarballs/zip-files and patches. This one excels in convenience, and
robustness.

CVS is a very advanced version control system, however. I do wish that
Subversion (which is a VCS that I have to use against my will) was as good as
it is.

    -- Shlomi Fish answering to chromatic on 01-April-2007
AuthorShlomi Fish
Work"Re: New CPANTS metrics"
Published2008-07-04

Larry Wall Facts

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  • Larry Wall can understand the Perl code he wrote last year.
  • Larry Wall gets the colon.
  • There are at least 137 Larry Walls in the U.S. but only one that matters.
  • Larry Wall applies a patch manually quicker than GNU patch.
  • Larry Wall dreams in Perl.
  • Larry Wall can program in his sleep.
  • Larry Wall is lazy, impatient and full of hubris.
  • Larry Wall has more dollars in the bank than in his Perl code.

-- Larry Wall facts by Shlomi Fish

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s "Larry Wall Facts"
Published2008-07-04

Electrical Engineering Studies in the Technion

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Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

"I am Without Faults"

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Well, for the record, *I* am without faults, but I’ll mention them here anyway:

  1. I really hate scriptaculous
  2. I kicked a dog the other day
  3. I pushed an old lady aside, on my way to get a cup of free coffee
  4. I secretly program in Python
  5. I like to interject and make lists
AuthorJeff Anderson
WorkPost to London Perl Mongers
Published2008-07-04

“I’m not an actor”

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I’m not an actor - I just play one on T.V.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Discussing vapourware on Freenode’s ##freebsd

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anonuserYou know for when they finally decide to release that programatic abortion they call perl 6
rindolfanonuser: on Christmas.
rindolfanonuser: don’t know which one.
rindolfanonuser: you can download pugs and play with it.
anonuserrindolf, The running joke I have with friends is that Duke Nukem Forever (DNF) is being written in Perl6
rindolfanonuser: it’s an old joke.
anonuserrindolf, DNF and Perl6 together is an old joke?
rindolfanonuser: yeah.
rindolfanonuser: “Perl 6 is the language Duke Nukem Forever will be written in.”
rindolfWell, it’s not too old, but it’s a meme.
Aji-Dahakarindolf: I’m the guy who’s going to port DNF from GNU/Hurd to FreeBSD
Channel##freebsd
NetworkFreenode
TaglineDiscussing Vapourware
Published2008-07-04

Trying to Block Pornography…

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Trying to block Internet pornography is like climbing a waterfall and trying to stay dry.

— Drew Dexter

AuthorDrew Dexter
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

I’m not Straight

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I’m not straight - I’m Israeli.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Almost Worthy

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Hi Omer! Mazal Tov on Chen and yours marriage. It reminds me of a quote from Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre:

"At this period she married, removed with her husband (a clergyman, an excellent man, almost worthy of such a wife) to a distant county, and consequently was lost to me."

Well, in your case I can say that both of you are almost worthy of each other. Congrats again!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkComment on Omer Shapira’s Blog
Published2008-07-04

It doesn’t Mean What You Think it Means

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> You keep using that word.  I do not think it means what you think it
> means.

It does not mean what I think it means, but it means what *you* think it
means.

<evil-laugh>Muahahahah…</evil-laugh>
AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkPost to Linux-elitists
Published2008-07-04

Tower of Babel and God the Dwarf

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A few weeks ago, I’ve been to Freenode’s #perl, talking to merlyn and other guys, when we got to discuss the Biblical "Tower of Babel Myth". As it turned out, the commonly perceived interpretation was not the one most scholars find as more sensible, which is the one we ended up being taught at Junior High School.

What most people think is something like that:

The people spoke to each other in the same language, concentrated in one place, and decided to build a tower high enough so they can reach God. God, a small dwarf who lived in the sky, was afraid of the efforts of these people, because he feared they’ll reach him. So he cast an 8th level Spell of Language Fragmentation, caused these people to speak in different tongues, and without being able to understand each other, they ended up spreading across the Earth. God was relieved and returned to his dwarfish deeds, as dwarfs do.

Shlomi Fish in (Based on what his Bible teacher said)

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Blog Post
Published2008-07-04

One GEGL Per Child on GIMPNet’s #gimp channel

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CIA-1shlomif * r1712 gegl/ (ChangeLog docs/index-static.html.in):
CIA-1* docs/index-static.html.in: fixed "GEGLs" into "GEGL’s" and "GIMPs"
CIA-1into "GIMP’s" in the homepage.
mitchwhy is breaking the correct writing a fix?
mitchrindolf: ?
mitchrindolf: oh i misread :)
* rindolfgives some GEGLs and GIMPs to the mitches.
mitchhaha :)
rindolfOne GEGL each!
rindolfThere’s not enough for everybody.
mitchGEGLS FOR THE MASSES
rindolfWe should have an assembly line of GEGLs.
rindolfMass-produce them for the ever-growing demand.
Channel#gimp
NetworkGIMPNet
TaglineOne GEGL Per Child on GIMPNet’s #gimp channel
Published2008-07-04

Dream Language in Freenode’s #lisp-il

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adehtrindolf: my brother had AIMA in hard-cover.. and maybe I can get a hold of PAIP
adehts/had/has/;
* adehtyays for perl
rindolfadeht: what did perl do?
adeht<adeht> s/had/has/;
rindolfadeht: it’s actually from sed and ed before that.
adehtI know, but I’m using perl syntax :)
rindolfadeht: now write it in Lisp.
adehtheh.
adehtin Lisp you wouldn’t use a regex for this kind of dumb substitution.. though you could
adehtrindolf: a nice way of writing CL code is to imagine your dream language for expressing that particular problem, and then realizing it :)
rindolfYou probably wouldn’t use a regex in Python either.
rindolfadeht: I see.
rindolfadeht: I’m not going to implement Perl in Common Lisp. :-D
adehtheh
Channel#lisp-il
NetworkFreenode
TaglineDream Language in Freenode’s #lisp-il
Published2008-07-04

Why Shlomi Fish Dislikes Lisp

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> This reminds me of Paul Graham’s articles, in which he claims that LISP
> programmers are better. But why is it so (whether or not you agree to
> the conclusion)? There are at least two opposite reasons: 1. Because
> programmers that learned LISP become better 2. Because good programmers
> prefer LISP when they come to know it.

No. 1 is true, naturally. No. 2 is not true - I know LISP but I prefer Perl.
Other like Python, etc. The reasons I don’t prefer LISP are:

1. The standards of Common LISP and Scheme don’t define anything practical.
2. LISP is at the moment incredibly verbose.
3. As Larry Wall noted, all LISP code comes in parenthesis and so it all looks
the same. (Perl is the exact opposite in this regard).
4. I cannot make heads nor tails of serious LISP code. Many LISPers create so
many macros and use them along with regular LISP code, so you keep having to
refer to the previous definitions, and make a lot of research to get you
started.

SICP Scheme is easy and fun. But serious LISP code can take too much time to
understand. OTOH, recently I had little problem reading the source code of
other Perl programmers, and extending it or fixing bugs. (likewise for
Python).
AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkPost to Linux-IL
Published2008-07-04

We don’t Know His Cellphone

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We don’t know his cellphone number, and even if we did, we would tell you that we didn’t know it.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Engrew Sentence #1

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plis tak mi auot from yuor mail list.

-- This Engrew sentence contains very few errors.

AuthorAnonymous Israeli
WorkMessage sent to Shlomi Fish
Published2008-07-04

What do you mean?

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What do you mean by "WDYM"?

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Windows-minus-minus

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Chen Shapira: spent 5 hours yesterday trying to get Windows to print on my new wireless printer. It still doesn’t work. On Ubuntu it worked after few minutes.

Shlomi Fish: Heh. Linux++ .

Chen Shapira: I’d do Windows-- , but this may result in an integer underflow.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

"Use qmail Instead" Excerpt #1

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A few days ago I joined #mandriva on Freenode trying to get to the bottom of a problem I have with KMail at work, where I cannot start KAddressBook from inside it. I asked my question and soon afterwards received:

  • One Thunderbird recommendation.
  • Two Evolution recommendations.
  • One Sylpheed Claws recommendation.
  • One GMail recommendation.

The problem is that I wasn’t interested to learn about alternative E-mail clients, and just wanted to get my problem solved. And in GMail’s case it was completely out of the question due to my work’s constraints.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe "Use qmail instead" Syndrome
Published2008-07-04

RTFM vs. JATFM

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I recently had to figure out how to do something with wget: get everything below a directory on the web-server, without following links to outside it. So I logged in to Freenode’s #debian channel, where there are many knowledgeable people to ask it. The first answer I got was "RTFM". So, I read the wget man page, but could not find it there. Eventually, after telling people that it would be faster to give an answer, I got a reply ( add the -np -r flags). But this has been the last straw.

I composed my own acronym. Just like RTFM is "Read the Fabulous Manual" and STFW is "Search the Fabulous Web", then JATFM is "Just Answer the Fabulous Man". It means that it’s usually faster to answer someone’s question than to ask him to RTFM, which is just going to annoy him. I think the RTFM mantra has done a lot of damage in the UNIX/Linux world, and I hope JATFMing would prove to be a more healthy ideology.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAdvogato.org Journal Post
Published2008-07-04

I have to do TWAIN…

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A: I’m busy right now - I have to do TWAIN.

B: Do Shania Twain?

C: Oh, I’d love to do Shania Twain.

—Adapted from a conversation on Freenode’s #perl

AuthorFreenode #perl Participants
WorkAdaptation of an IRC conversation
Published2008-07-04

Fight for Perl

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→spx2has joined #soc-help
spx2I want to FIGHT FOR PERL IN GSOC !
spx2I feel the power of metal in my veins
spx2perl is flowing in my blood !
spx2What perl Armies can I join this YEAR ?
ambsspx2: a lot :)
spx2ambs: Hail BRETHREN !
spx2where are the armies ???
spx2I want to ENGAGE and start preparing my weapons !
spx2ambs: what projects are this year ?
ambsspx2: ideas at http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?gsoc2008_projects
spx2I will fight this year in the PERL battle !
rindolfspx2: Python is for the WEAK and TIMID!
spx2rindolf: TOTALLY !
* spx2examines the war grounds
Channel#soc-help
NetworkMAGNet
TaglineFight for Perl
Published2008-07-04

Perl Saints as an Alternative to Perl Heroes

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> So, yeah… there are no gods, only heroes.  And anyone can become
> a hero.  And even heroes are just regular people.
>

I don’t suppose we should propose that as an alternative to Perl gods, there
should at least be Perl saints:

http://www.stallman.org/saint.html

Of course, I’m not sure what being a Perl saint would imply. Using nothing but
Perl? (Including not C in which perl 5 is written?)

Oh well.

Not that I mind the Perl gods stereotype stuff.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish (a Perl saint^W hero wannabe, but definitely
        not a Perl god)
AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkPost to to San-Francisco Perl Mongers Mailing List
Published2008-07-04

What being a Perl Saint Implies

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> > > Of course, I’m not sure what being a Perl saint would imply.
> >
> >  It would imply having been killed for your faith in Perl.
>
> Does that make Randal the Spanish Inquisition?

No one expects the Randal Schwartz condition ;)

    -- Shlomi Fish, frosty, Duane Obrien and David Fetter in:
    --http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/sanfrancisco-pm/2008-April/001650.html
AuthorShlomi Fish, frosty, Duane Obrien and David Fetter
WorkSan-Francisco Perl Mongers Thread
Published2008-07-04

San-Francisco Perl Mongers: Randal Schwartz Noise Band

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>  > > > Of course, I’m not sure what being a Perl saint would imply.
>  > >
>  > >  It would imply having been killed for your faith in Perl.
>  >
>  > Does that make Randal the Spanish Inquisition?
>
>  No one expects the Randal Schwartz condition ;)

I almost feel honor bound now to start a noise band called The Randal
Schwartz Condition.  I could shout his rants into a microphone while
the rest of the band flogged a newbie live on stage.

    -- Duane Obrien in:
    -- http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/sanfrancisco-pm/2008-April/001651.html
AuthorDuane Obrien
WorkSan-Francisco Perl Mongers Thread
Published2008-07-04

San-Francisco Perl Mongers: Randal Schwartz Condition

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>>>>> "Duane" == Duane Obrien <duane.obrien at gmail.com> writes:

Duane> Alternately, The Randal Schwartz Condition is now accepting bookings
Duane> for birthdays, weddings, religious ceremonies of any kind, or occasions
Duane> where your consulting company throws a big party at some conference.
Duane> Email me off-list for details on how to get advance copies of our demo
Duane> "I’m The Real Tim Toady"

I’m already thinking of words to the "tune" of "I’m the real Slim Shady".

Damn you. :)

    -- Duane Obrien and Randal L. Schwartz
    -- http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/sanfrancisco-pm/2008-April/001655.html
AuthorDuane Obrien and Randal L. Schwartz
WorkSan-Francisco Perl Mongers Thread
Published2008-07-04

Godwin’s Law

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> > In that case, lacking good links or a definitive reference text, I’ll have
> > to ignore your comment earlier.
> >
> > I hope it’s not much of a flamewar so far, but it sure seems to have
> > escalated into a minor one. "You are a Nazi!"
> > ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin’s_law ) - oops!
>
> Please.  The Nazi’s were socialists.  I’m a little to the right of
> Attila the Hun.
>

And I thought Attila was a Humanitarian.

    -- Shlomi Fish, Guy Hulbert and Shlomi Fish in:
    -- http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.module-authors/2008/04/msg6432.html
AuthorShlomi Fish and Guy Hulbert
WorkPost to the Perl module-authors mailing list
Published2008-07-04

Pedantic People

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I often wonder why I hang out with so many people who are so pedantic. And then I remember - because they are so pedantic.

— an Israeli Perl Monger

AuthorIsraeli Perl Monger
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-04

Variable Naming on #not-##freebsd

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rindolfp13: do you write scripts?
p13rindolf, init scripts and sys maintenance scripts in csh sh and bash
p13but i suck
p13haha
p13i made them SO unreadable on purpose too
p13my var names for example
p13i would use random quotes from coworkers
p13like "wereoutofcoffee"
p13or "ihatemyjob"
p13etc etc
trashguyi hate people like you p13
p13trashguy, hahaha
trashguyat least the variables are obvious and not mistaken for functions and shit
elgrandei strongly recommend to call variables only: var1, var2, var3 ... var999
elgrandebut for purpose of clarity, after var999 continue with varB1, varB2,...
rindolfelgrande: <elgrande> i strongly recommend to call variables only: var1, var2, var3 ... var999 - excellent advice.
rindolfelgrande: LOL.
elgranderindolf: and of course: cls1, func1, meth1, if1
elgrandeso if var3 > var2 then var1 = cls3->meth2 endif
rindolfelgrande: heh.
rindolfobj997
elgrandeeveryone is understand this!
rindolfelgrande: I'll probably make a fortune cookie out of it.
elgrandeobj997 behaves like this, because it implements if371
elgrande^^
rindolfelgrande: you're still going.
Channel#not-##freebsd
NetworkFreenode
TaglineVariable Naming
Published2008-07-04

Monty Python on Computer Interfaces

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<monty-python>

A: You Linux kids are so lucky. When we were using Windows 95 and Windows 3.11 it kept getting stuck and we lost all our data. We had to reboot it.

B: You used Windows 95! Lucky Bastard! When I was your age, we used DOS on CGA screens, and we were lucky if we had 4 colours, much less a true windowing environment.

C: You had DOS with graphics? Lucky bastard! When I was your age, I used VT-100 terminals connected to a VAX. 128 characters should be enough for everybody?

D: Visual Terminals? When I was your age, we used teletypes on a PDP-11: the computer printed on paper - very slowly. Can you imagine cat’ing a really long document?

E: Teletypes were heaven compared to the punch cards that I was using. Imagine going over to the computer with a large amount of punch cards and then dropping them all.

F: Punch cards! What is this talk about punch cards? We input machine code directly using buttons and LEDs.

G: And all we had were NAND gates!

</monty-python>

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkEmail Message
Published2008-07-04

#python on Incrementing

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rindolfHi all.
scorchsaber<all> Hi rindolf
rindolfscorchsaber: heh.
rindolfscorchsaber++
rindolfOr in Python:
rindolfscorchsaber+=1
rillo??
rindolfrillo: Python does not have a ++ operator.
scorchsaberrindolf: Oh, but it does have a + operator.
rilloah. I’m new to python so i did not know
scorchsaberA few days ago, it was suggested that I implement ++ using the + operator.
scorchsaberAnd I did so. :)
scorchsaberSo, really, a++; is valid in Python, and it may even increment a by one. If somebody was crazy, anyhow, and if a was mutable.
rilloshall i move back to perl to get the ++
rillo?
rindolfrillo: no, use COBOL instead.
rindolfADD 1 TO COBOL GIVING COBOL
verte:(
verteeww, magic numbers!
rindolf"COBOL is the old Java"
verteADD ONE TO COBOL GIVING COBOL
rindolfverte: heh.
rindolfverte: 1 is not a magic number.
rindolfASSIGN 1 to ONE
rindolf0, 1, infinity.
rindolfverte: LOL.
rindolfverte++
\amethystCOMPUTE COBOL = COBOL + 1
Channel#python
NetworkFreenode
TaglineOn Incrementing
Published2008-07-04

I Met a Guy in the Bar

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I met a guy in the bar, talked to her and she gave me her phone number.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-06

BASIC, Pugs and After Death

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rindolfTimToady: so BASIC was your first language?
TimToadyno, English was my first language. :)
rindolfTimToady: I started with XT ROM BASIC, but I suppose it was something like Perl 5 was to Perl 4 for your BASIC.
rindolfBASIC has greatly evolved since Dartmouth BASIC.
rindolfTimToady: ah.
rindolfTimToady: not Chomsky's Universal language?
TimToadyfeh
diakopterrindolf: what's the name of the Parrot implementation of Intercal?
Juerd21:04 <@TimToady> we have a test suite right now because of pugs
JuerdVery, very important.
rindolfdiakopter: I don't know.
rindolfJuerd: yes, very.
rindolfJuerd: anyway, I expect that at every given time all tests will pass.
JuerdWell, there are probably bad tests too :)
JuerdGiven the volume of the suite, and that pugs has never been able to even parse everything :0
Juerd:)
TimToadytestrot accounts for many of those :)
rindolfTimToady: testrot...
rindolfTimToady++
rindolfHow long does it take Pugs to run the entire Pugs test suite?
TimToadybut a number of them were misunderstandings at the time
rindolfBecause Pugs is kinda slow.
diakopterdefudge should be renamed Passover...
TimToadyused to run on my old laptop in about 25 minutes
rindolfTimToady: or cute bugs.
rindolfI mean implementation details.
rindolfTimToady: kinda long.
TimToadyaudreyt's dual core used to run them in 10 minutes
TimToadyI haven't tried on my new laptop, since I haven't installed the lates ghc yet
TimToadyfirst make it run, then make it run right, then make it run fast
rindolfTimToady: another problem with Pugs is that it kept requiring the latest ghc.
JuerdDid pugs drive GHC development perhaps? :D
TimToadyshrug, you shouldn't pick on a software project when it's down
TimToadyJuerd: yes, I believe some of that happened too
rindolfTimToady: "After Death - say holy."
rindolfTimToady: it's a Hebrew phrase.
TimToadyActually, I'm just about out of After Death--I've got a bottle of Mega Death now too.
TimToadyjust had some on my potatoes, yum.
spincladsounds hot
TimToadyof the first six ingredients, five of them are hot. Red habanero pods, cayenne chilies, white vinegar, natural pepper flavor, ancho chilies, chipotle chilies, molasses, guava nectar, fresh ginger, salt, spices.
TimToady'bout 550,000 scovilles
TimToadyAfter Death is only about 500k
TimToadyTabasco is only about 35k
spincladtabasco I’m calibrated on -- now i can (only) imagine
TimToadyso roughly 15 times hotter
spinclad'add 1/15 drop per 100 potatoes'
TimToadyI generally only use it about one "plop" at a time
TimToadyunless I really want a large endorphin kick
rindolfTimToady: LOL.
spincladenjoy yr clear sinuses
rindolfTimToady+=5
rindolf"After Death"
rindolfReminds me of that screensaver.
rindolf"After Hours"
vixeyAfter Dark
vixeywith the flying toasters?
rindolfvixey: yes, that's the one.
rindolfAlso had a nice Looney Tunes one.
rindolf"I now proclaim this computer in the name of Mars!"
rindolf(Marvin the Martian)++
vixeythey were cool
rindolfI recall something about wine being able to run Windows screensavers.
spinclad"where's the kaboom? there was meant to be a case-shattering kaboom."
rindolfXScreenSaver is a pre-Autoconf hell from what I understood.
Channel#perl6
NetworkFreenode
TaglineBASIC, Pugs and "After Death"
Published2008-07-06

On the Internet

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Two female dogs talking about modern-life:

Jasmine: It’s so cool! On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog!

Daisy: Yeah, but everyone can tell right away that you’re a bitch!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-07

#perl6 about Lisp Mentality and Usability

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pmuriasrindolf: what is Park/Spark?
rindolfpmurias: http://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/projects/Park-Lisp/
rindolfpmurias: it's still incomplete.
rindolfAnd I haven't updated it.
pmuriasrindolf: if you like lisp/perl6 projects you might consider helping with a common lisp elf backend
rindolfpmurias: Common Lisp.
rindolfpmurias: thing is I think both CL and Scheme suck.
rindolfI like Lisp as a concept.
rindolfArc is nice, but has too many implementation problems.
rindolfAnd missing features.
vixeyArc is not nice
rindolfI want to give a presentation to the Perl Mongers about "Foreign Languages: Lisp"
rindolfvixey: I like it.
rindolfThough I hate that "(not)" has become "(no)"
rindolfit's so non-English.
vixeyit's just Tcl with horrible syntax
rindolfvixey: but it's missing a lot of exciting features.
rindolfWhich PG deemed as unnecessary.
rindolfDoesn't look like the 100-years language to me.
rindolfWhich is why - Spark!
pmuriaswhy not just write an s-expression p6 dialect?
rindolfpmurias: could be.
rindolfpmurias: it's another approach.
rindolfBut some things make sense in Lisp and not in p6.
rindolfFor example, Perl does not like to use + for string or list concat.
rindolfWhile Python does and it seems to be OK in Arc too.
rindolfAnd in CL you have (concatenate) (yuck!).
pbuetow(((hehe)))
pmurias+ for strings sucks
Auzonseconded.
vixeyrindolf: If you don't like CONCATENATE you can just rename it
rindolfvixey: yeah.
rindolfvixey: but I'd rather not rename concatenate because then people won't understand my code.
rindolfvixey: as TimToady said people hate abstractions.
vixeyyes they will rindolf
rindolfThey want things to work out of the box.
vixeyA program is many many totally newly defined procedures
vixeyjust renaming one thing is nothing in the context of a big program
rindolfvixey: "let's spend 3 days creating a new language, and 1 day implementing the solution with it."
TimToadyif it would take 10 days without the new language, it's worth it
rindolfTimToady: yeah.
rindolfTimToady: but this is the CL mentality.
vixeyno it's not
rindolfSometimes you can take 1 day to write an API.
vixeyCL is too diverse you cannot generalize like that
rindolfvixey: I meant a common idiom there.
rindolfI think I'll /quit and do something productive.
rindolfLike work on Spark.
vixeyanother quote:
vixeyhow to write any computer program in two easy stages:
vixeyDesign and implement the programming language which would be best for solving the problem.
vixeyWrite the program in the language you’ve just implemented.
rindolfvixey: or just use Perl which is the best for everything.
vixeyheh
TimToadythe second step is obvious--the best language for the job is one that does the job on a null input
* pmichaudnotes that vixey's algorithm is somewhat recursive
TimToady"All rules of thumb are false, including this one."
pmuriasrindolf: when you feel like writing Common Lisp backends, contact me or mncharity ;)
Channel#perl6
NetworkFreenode
TaglineLisp Dialects (Scheme, Common Lisp, Arc, Spark) Mentality and Usability
Published2008-07-07

kilmo about the NSA

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[Discussing the shortage of IT workers as of 1998 on E-mail]

Shlomi Fish to Omer Zak: "Even the NSA doesn’t have enough programmers. But it is not likely that they will have more and that’s because ‘Summerschool at the NSA’ may might as well be the name of Sarah Michelle Gellar’s next movie."

Omer Zak to Shlomi Fish: "And as opposed to ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ it is going to be scary."

Kilmo: why would you like to make fun of the crypto world ? ;) The NSA does know what you did last summer. And by putting this on the web, they know that you know.

Which may lead to interesting philosophical issues. BTW, in a conference I was attending we were given a sticker saying: "NSA - free email backup".

They still have some issue with the retrieval procedures, but besides of that - they are quite a trusted service.

Shlomi Fish: In my case, I think every random Joe can learn a lot about me. Even if he’s not in Google or the NSA or whatever.

Kilmo: Yep. But this is a world-wide service that they offer. (Along with several co-operations, like MI5/6).

AuthorShlomi Fish and Kilmo
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2008-07-08

What are you Working on?

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Ran Eilam To Shlomi Fish: so what are you working on? Working on a new wiki about unit testing fortunes in Freecell?

AuthorRan Eilam
WorkJabber Conversation
Published2008-07-08

My blog post got chromatic’d

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Well, despite the fact that I hardly publicised my last essay about the "Closed Books", it has been chromatic’d. Rumours are that all the bloggers whose blog posts/essays were deprecated on chromatic’s blog are now rich, famous and the object of the affection of many attractive members of the appropriate sex. Memo to self: prepare a limited edition T-shirt: "My blog post was chromatic’d. I pwn you as a blogger."

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work"Dealing with Approval Addiction (and Implied Stress Periods)
Published2008-07-30

Birth of an Editor

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Richard M. Stallman (RMS) decides to release his brand-new editor, "Emacs" on the CPAN with its first version 29.999.99. In order to package it, he invokes the trusty ol’ module-starter (see http://search.cpan.org/dist/Module-Starter/) which creates a skeleton of a CPAN distribution for him.

He fills in the skeleton with the actual code of Emacs, types "perl Build.PL", and "./Build test" and makes sure all the tests pass. Then he types "./Build config --gui" and gets a nice GUI to configure the various parameters of the Module meta-data.[M-B-Data]

In the GUI, Richard goes to the Trove categorisation tab, and selects categories. This is done in a similar way to Freshmeat’s project categorisation dialog (a list of options to the left, with selected options to the right and arrows to move them left or right, while allowing multiple select options.). He chooses such categories as "Programming Language :: Lisp", and "Intended Audience :: Emacs Users", "Operating System :: GNU", and "Topic :: Editors". (Note: I believe the category list should be fetched using a public web-service to keep them up-to-date.)

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkFunctional Spec for the CPAN Classification Proposal
Published2008-08-02

Second Birth of an Editor

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After several weeks of having the editor on CPAN, Richard has received many patches, and wrote a lot of code on his own. Now Emacs is not only an editor but a calendar tool, an Eliza program, a web browser, a mail user agent and many other things.

So in order to release version 30.000.00 he needs to update the categorisation. He runs ./Build config --gui again, and adds more categories. However, he enters too many categories (because Emacs now does them all), and the GUI refuses to save the file because it will overflow the limit that the web-service specified the CPAN classification services allow to handle. So Richard keeps only the important categories, adds more tags, and saves it.

He then tests the distribution again, and uploads the new distribution to the CPAN.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkFunctional Spec for the CPAN Classification Proposal
Published2008-08-02

Microsoft Editing Macros

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Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft decides to use Richard Stallman’s Emacs as the basis of his company’s state-of-the-art product Microsoft Editing Macros™ Enterprise Edition XP .NET Professional. However since MS Editing Macros™ is a commercial, proprietary program which he intends to sell at computer stores, Bill is not going to upload it to the CPAN. He builds upon Emacs, sends patches to Richard and learns a lot about it.

When he’s finished building Microsoft Editing Macros™ he surfs to the Emacs homepage on CPAN, and adds some categories and tags of his own.

Eventually, enough people like Bill tag and categorise Emacs, and it gains more classification.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkFunctional Spec for the CPAN Classification Proposal
Published2008-08-02

Looking Back at Your Old Habits

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rindolf"Who's the idiot that wrote this code?"
rindolfThat's what many people say when looking at their old code.
jkauffman"I can't believe I used to listen to this crap"
jkauffmanthat's what people say when they look back at their old music collection
rindolfjkauffman: I don't usually.
rindolfjkauffman: I am however, a bit ashamed of some of the shows I liked when I was younger.
rindolfjkauffman: they seem a bit cheesy now.
jkauffmanyes, you're onto such better things now that you can fully appreciate The Gilmore Girls
rindolfjkauffman: you can never truly appreciate The Gilmore Girls until you've watched it in the original Klingon.
Channel#perlcafe
NetworkFreenode
TaglineLooking Back at Your Old Habits
Published2008-10-14

Really Extreme Programming

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rindolfcl0ud: what's up?
cl0udrindolf: just getting ready for work on this drizzly day
cl0udrindolf: and feeling great
cl0udrindolf: you?
rindolfcl0ud: sending an email to the Extreme Programming mailing list.
ikxtreme
ikrindolf: tell them that in order to be truly extreme, they need to ditch their pair-programming buddy system and start programming with spent ammunition and unexploded shells
rindolfik: heh.
rindolfExtremist Programming
ikhaha
rindolfIk-stremist Programming.
ik:o
ispy_What about Psycho Coding?
ispy_:)
ispy_PSYCoder <--- cool name for an editor :)
cl0udPsychaudit <- memory tester
rindolfNeuraudit
ispy_Hahah
Channel#perlcafe
NetworkFreenode
TaglineReally Extreme Programming
Published2008-11-28

"You should shoot me"

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Larry: final exams are on Tuesday and through Friday, so you won’t see me for a while, or if you do - then you should shoot me.

Shlomi: I Will shoot you with my cross-intertubes-laser-gun.

Larry: HAHAHA.

Shlomi: Which I don’t have.

Larry: Which network topology will you implement, for better accuracy ?

Shlomi: I’ll just depend on the standard TCP/IP routing. Overlay the laser on top of the TCP packets.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkIM Chat with Larry
Published2008-12-26

God gave us…

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God gave us two eyes and ten fingers so we will type five times as much as we read.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2009-02-16

Only wimps complain about bad code

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Only wimps complain about bad code. Real men clean it up.

Shlomi Fish

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2009-02-16

Wikipedia has…

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Wikipedia has a page about everything including the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink .

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2009-03-14

Hack, hack, hack…

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shlomif: hack, hack, hack ; save ; make ; make test; commit. And start over.

mrjink:hack, hack, hack; save; make; swear; fix typos; save; make; make test; swear some more; hack some more; save; make; make test; cheer; commit.

meep: hack, make, test, segfault, oh noes, revert to previous revision

AuthorShlomi Fish and Others
WorkOn Plurk.
Published2009-05-02

Threat vs. Warning

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Well, it’s not a threat - it’s a warning, and he won’t be harmed much by acting against my advice. A threat is something like "Stop posting political posts or I will burn your house, rape your wife and daughters, banish you to the middle of Antarctica, convert all your Perl code to PHP, and then post it on thedailywtf.com."

Regarding what you say that "no one cares if you unsubscribe", then this reminds me of what Fred Brooks says in "The Mythical Man-Month": "How does a project becomes late? One day at a time.". If you’re not careful, you might lose a large percent of your blog’s readership, one subscriber at a time.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Workuse.perl.org comment
Published2009-05-13

Take that to a different channel

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metaperl_workthank you
metaperl_worknothingmuch, i want to chat with you on kiokudb
rindolfHi metaperl_work
confoundyou should chat with him on #kiokudb then
mstmetaperl_work: you mean "about kiokudb"
metaperl_workrindolf, hi! long time no see
rindolfmetaperl_work: yes.
metaperl_workwe are talking in #kiokudb confound
rindolfmetaperl_work: what have you been up to?
confoundno, this is #moose!
metaperl_workconfound, "we" = me and yuval
metaperl_workrindolf, well.... keeping Seamstress up to date
rindolfmetaperl_work: yuval and I.
jhannahIn related news: I’m chatting on my mobile phone
metaperl_workMoose is saving my life... SUPER handy
metaperl_workjhannah, what type of mobile phone?
rindolfmetaperl_work: what is Seamstress?
purlSeamstress is really nothing anyway
confoundit's on cpan
jhannahmetaperl_work: please take that question to #jhannah_phones
mstjhannah++
stevanjhannah: which network, there doesn’t seem to be anyone there
nothingmuchi think Buffy might be a closet lesbian
* stevanHAS TO KNOW!!!!
stevannothingmuch: duh
nothingmuchstevan: i think you kinda missed the joke =P
stevantake that to #closet-lesbian-vampire-slayers
jhannahi get jokes
rindolfstevan: LOL. stevan++
dhossjhannah++
jhannahstevan: i have hundreds of invisible groupies in dozens of #jhannah_* channels. they are well trained to be quiet when interlopers lope in
Channel#moose
NetworkMAGNet
TaglineTake that to a different channel
Published2009-06-21

Do you speak French?

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rindolfuwd: what's up?
rindolfBTW, how has English become the official language of Singapore?
AltreusViral marketing
uwdSingapore has four official languages.
uwdone national one.
uwdalso, politics.
uwdalso, see wikipedia.
Altreusit knows all
Altreus[citation needed]
ikrindolf: it's a byproduct of the Richard Nixon / Henry Ford's campaign for chief taxonomist of western Nepal
rindolfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Singapore
ik(a coveted position)
Altreustaxonomist!
rindolfWikipedia has an article about everything including the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink
AltreusThey are in charge of taxis!
Altreusdisambiguation pages make me sad :(
ikI like the dis-ambiguity!
rindolfik: heh
uwdi like disambiguation pages. They say "this thing you seek... it is not only one thing, you see? no, no, mon ami, this world, she is too big to contain only one of everything, eh?"
Altreus:D you talk like dee
uwdwhat.
Altreuswat
AltreusThat message you said in French could have been typed by dee!
Altreusexcept it was you.
Altreusyou doubleyou dee
uwdit was in English, actually.
Altreusokay
AltreusBut it had some French in it
Altreus!
ikTwo words! Four, if you count "no". Twice.
rindolfYes, it sounded French to me too.
Altreusno is not French
rindolfnon is.
Altreusoui!
Altreuselle n'a pas dit non
rindolfIn any case saying "She" of the world is also a Frenchism.
rindolfJe ne sais pas.
ikBut it's not French
rindolfParlez vous anglais?
uwdit is also a generic Euroism.
Altreusoui
AltreusEngland is Europe too :(
uwdso not that French.
pkruminsJe m'appelle Pierre
rindolfpkrumins: heh.
pkruminsJe suis 24 ans!
AltreusGods, the number of times I got contradicted at school for knowing that England was in Europe
pkruminsJe h'abite Riga
uwdAltreus: dude, given that was mostly English, i don't see why the sadface.
rindolfTu s'appelle Peteris
Altreusit's no wonder stupid people make me violent
pkruminsJe'abite
rindolfpkrumins: not en Riga?
pkruminsmaybe
rindolfor de Riga?
Altreusuwd: hmm
rindolfJ'abite, non?
AltreusI seem to sadface a lot more than is necessary due to how I'm never actually sad
pkruminsOui.
Altreusrindolf: habite
pkruminsJe monger a macdo.
Altreusil y a un h
pkruminsJe travailler on ordinator
pkruminsa programmator.
pkruminsOui.
Altreusen!
Altreusprobably au to be honest
Altreusbut a l' because vowel
uwdl'ordinator?
AltreusAnd travaille is the first-person present participle
AltreusAnd -eur
AltreusBut mostly right!
uwdwhy -eur?
* Altreuspats pkrumins on the back
Altreusordinateur
pkruminstehe.
pkruminsjadone chats
AltreusI wonder if a pink one is an ordinateuse
pkrumins(or was it chiens)
uwdit's so much easier to say she and mon ami and have people think it's French than actually speak French...
pkruminsi think chats
pkruminsj'adore chats
pkruminsjaim a perl chat
Shiyiyajain n'est pas un mot
Shiyiya*jaim
Altreusj'aime
Shiyiyaaussi jadone n'est pas un mot
pkruminshmm
pkruminspawings
pkruminsall i can say
rindolfpkrumins: chien is a dog.
rindolfI think.
ShiyiyaYes, chien is dog
rindolfchat
rindolfchatte for feminine
rindolfhttp://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cat
Channel#perl-cats
NetworkFreenode
TaglineHow good is your French?
Published2009-07-13

What does IDK stand for?

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What does "IDK" stand for? I don’t know.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2009-07-29

PHP Error Debug List

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PHP error debug list:

1) did you use the correct argument order? if you’re a good programmer, use the *reverse* from what you think it is. see if it works. no? you’re not a good programmer, or you learned PHP’s braindeadness and can go on to step 2).

2) did you think about your code? if so, don’t. PHP will do it for you so you can do mindbogglingly stupid stuff, such as not escape the data that goes into your SQL queries.

AuthorDazjorz
WorkMSN Conversation between Dazjorz and Shlomi Fish
Published2009-08-25

More Geek Facts about Chuck Norris

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Su-Sheerindolf: yes, I played with Squeak a little and yes I'd like a vim clone written in perl.
MakoryuWhy isn't there one already, then?
Makoryu(A vim clone in Perl)
Su-Sheegood question. there's one in javascript :)
rindolfSu-Shee: actually , it's a vi clone.
rindolfWriting a vi clone is much easier than writing a vim clone.
rindolfJust like writing a Scheme clone is much easier than writing a Perl 6 implementation.
rindolfUnless you're Chuck Norris.
Su-Sheerindolf: darn.. he already wrote a vim in perl6?
moritz_no, he scared K&R into writing it ;-)
rindolfSu-Shee: Chuck Norris is the ghost author of the entire Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
rindolfSu-Shee: and he wrote it in 24 hours, while taking snack breaks.
Su-Sheerindolf: yes, I know - he published Slackware under the pseudonym Patrick Volkerding...
rindolfChuck Norris read the entire Wikipedia. Twice.
araujothe second time includes fixing all its errors
moritz_but he didn't commit his changes, it seems
rindolfmoritz_: heh.
rindolfLOL.
araujoChuck Norris doesn't commit changes, the changes commit for him
araujo:)
rindolfCode is too scared of Chuck to be wrong.
rindolfIt is generated right in the first time.
rindolfBugs are too afraid to reproduce on Chuck Norris' computer.
Su-Shee.o(I see a Chuck Norris release on the horizon... ;)
rindolfSu-Shee: :-)
Su-Sheewe could ask Chuck Norris if he's willing to promote the star release.. ;)) (which probably kill the entire internet due to laughter.. :)
araujoPerl 6 - A Chuck Norris like language
dukeletoChuck Norris has actually been using Perl 6 since 1987, and has been waiting for Larry to play catch-up. :)
rindolfdukeleto: LOL.
rindolfPerl 6 - Kicks ass like Chuck.
Su-Sheerakudo - chuck's choice ;)
Su-Sheewell, Camelia and Chuck Norris go well together. ;)
rindolfOK.
rindolfOf course everybody know Chuck Norris is a real programmer.
rindolfHe designs machines by combining individual atoms.
rindolfUsing his thought.
rindolfAtoms obey Chuck Norris.
Su-Sheerindolf: you obviously have been starved and deprived of super hero comics in your childhood :)
Channel#perl6
NetworkFreenode
TaglineWhat you could assume was true about Chuck Norris
Published2009-08-30

Give me ASCII

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Give me ASCII or give me deaþ!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2009-09-06

Technion Ways

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In the Technion, there are many ways to get from one place to the other, but they are all the same length.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2009-09-12

Sjors the Awayer

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shlomifHi Sjors the Awayer!
sjorsHi Shlomi the, uh
sjorsOnliner! :P
shlomifI am not an Awayer!
shlomifI am a free man.
shlomifOnlinerer, heh.
shlomifTouché.
sjors;)
sjorsor is Awayer some kind of Hebrew word?
shlomifNo, it's not.
shlomifIt's pig-English for someone who is Away.
shlomifWe don't have a "w" sound in modern Hebrew (replaced by "v" a-la-German) but most Israelis have no problems pronouncing it.
shlomifI have problems pronouncing th (maths) and dh (there).
shlomifEven though they did exist in Ancient Hebrew.
sjorsmany Dutch people have problems saying th too
sjorsearth
sjorsthey say it eart
shlomifAh.
sjorsI tink
shlomifI say it ers
shlomifHeh.
shlomifYou seem to be in a funny mood too.
sjorsI tink you are dere
sjorshehe
shlomifHow's school?
sjorsI've been feeling great lately :)
shlomifBut OTOH you're a funny guy, anyway.
shlomifI think Zuu from ##programming is the comedian king of Denmark.
sjorshaha
shlomifJ/K.
shlomifI know many Israelis who are funnier than me IRL.
shlomifOr maybe also online.
sjorsI know many Dutch people funnier than me
shlomifAh.
shlomifIRL?
sjorsAnd online, I think
sjorsMeh
sjorsI've been playing openttd
sjorsbut those damn trains
sjorsare SO STUBBORN
shlomifWell, no offence, but you're not the funniest person online.
sjorsit's annoying me
shlomifI've known.
shlomifSometimes trolls can be funny.
shlomifLarry Wall seems a bit less funny on IRC than on Usenet or E-mail.
shlomifBut he's not always funny.
shlomifIRL, he's really funny.
shlomifHe gives funny presentations.
sjorsI don't have the place in ottd to *force* them to do the right thing, but they do stuff like making 90 degree corners, stopping three other trains in their tracks, just because it's like a millisecond shorter than the other route
shlomifThough I think they always get more serious towards the end.
sjorshmm :)
shlomifIs it a commercial game?
sjorsOpenTTD?
shlomifI once gave a lightning talk about Template Toolkit and people laughed at the same slide twice , because I gave it twice due to a presentation equipment.
shlomifAh.
shlomifThe Open says everything.
sjorsyep :)
shlomifI once gave a lightning talk about Template Toolkit and people laughed at the same slide twice , because I gave it twice due to a presentation equipment SNAFU*.
shlomifGotta love Ctrl+Up.
shlomifGotta love Ctrl+Up.
shlomifI think we've been there, though.
sjorshehe
shlomifOld joke.
sjorsDidn't know it
shlomifI told you about it a long time ago.
shlomifIt was you I think.
shlomifAnd then we did a session of two messages in a row.
shlomifETOOMUCHINFORMATION
shlomifETOOLITTLEKNOWLEDGE
shlomifETOOHARDTOREADACRONYMS
sjorsah
sjors:P
shlomifEPLEASEUSESOMESPACES
shlomifEIWISHWEWEREUSINGSEXPRS
sjorsENOSPACEBARDETECTED?
shlomifYou know what S-expressions are, right?
shlomifIndeed. No space bar.
shlomifGotta press Alt+032
shlomifOr something.
sjorshmm
sjorsI don't have a numeric keypad
shlomifAh.
shlomifMac O Sucks.
shlomifMac O Sucky Computers.
shlomifNo offence, I hope.
sjorsMUCH OFFENSE TAKEN!
sjorsHands off my Mac! ;)
shlomifIt's mine! All mine!
shlomifMy precioussssssssssss.
shlomifI'll make a fortune out of this conversation, I think.
Channel#sjors-and-rindolf
NetworkMSN Messenger
TaglineSjors the Awayer
Published2009-10-17

Reflections on Trusting Documentation

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whoppixQuick git question, perhaps someone knows the answer: I have a file in my git tree (locally and in the repository), but I want git to ignore the file completely, i.e. git is not to touch the file on the file system by updating it or merging local changes into the repository
rindolfwhoppix: you can use .gitignore
rindolfI think
whoppixrindolf, hmm, good idea, thanks.
whoppixthat was slow.
whoppixrindolf, hmm, I think git update-index --assume-unchanged is what I need.
whoppix.gitignore is only for untracked files
rindolfwhoppix: OK, have no clue what that is.
rindolfGit is so complicated.
rindolfAnd so opaque
whoppixrindolf, me neither, but the doc tells me to use that.
rindolfwhoppix: can you believe the docs?
rindolfThe docs may be lying.
rindolfDon't trust the docs.
rindolfDon't trust anything.
rindolfYou're all alone.
rindolfIt's you against the machine.
rindolfWhen in doubt, use the source code.
rindolfNot some sissy documentation.
whoppixright
whoppixI'll have some of what you've been smoking
rindolfwhoppix: I'm 100% clean.
Channel#perlcafe
NetworkFreenode
TaglineReflections on trusting documentation
Published2009-10-31

Emulating cats on #jquery

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→ruby_on_tailshas joined #jquery
* rindolfremoves ruby_on_tails off his tail and meows.
* ruby_on_tailsthrows his paws at rindolf and scratches his face
rindolfFight!
* rindolfhisses at ruby_on_tails
* rindolfcurves his back.
* rindolfis not a cat, he thinks, so why does he says that?
rindolfOn the Internet, no one knows you're a cat.
* ruby_on_tailsdeep-scratches rindolf's ass
rindolfIs there a word for a female cat.
rindolfruby_on_tails: truce?
ruby_on_tailstiger b-)
ruby_on_tailsB-)
rindolfruby_on_tails: all felines are friends.
rindolfWe must be united against our common enemy.
rindolfDogs or whatever.
* ruby_on_tailsunites all breeds of cats against rindolf
rindolfruby_on_tails: I am not the cats' no. 1 enemy.
ruby_on_tailsyou are :P
rindolfruby_on_tails: heh.
ruby_on_tailsLOL
rindolfruby_on_tails: :-)
rindolf"Cats of the world - unite!"
ruby_on_tailsthey are already united
ruby_on_tailsAndy-: ajax form submission
rindolfruby_on_tails++ # Despite being a cat god in an awfully bad mood.
ruby_on_tails:P
rindolf"Ceiling cat is watching you."
rindolfruby_on_tails: I totally dig the lolcat web-cartoons.
rindolfI derive a sick pleasure from them.
ruby_on_tailsI just watch tom n jerry
rindolfWell, not really sick.
rindolfruby_on_tails: tom is kinda stupid.
rindolfHe's the cat, right?
ruby_on_tailsyea
ruby_on_tailsbut he's got determination till the end :>
rindolfThere's also Rita and Runt (sp?) in Animaniacs.
rindolfRita is a smart cat.
Channel#jquery
NetworkFreenode
TaglineFelines of the world - unite!
Published2009-11-07

English Spelling

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English spelling aims to be consistent. Publicly and methodically.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2010-01-26

Virtual Money

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shlomifBTW, have you read my stories yet?
SjorsI haven’t
shlomifAh.
shlomif"If you read my stories, I’ll give you 1,000,000 virtual dollars."
SjorsCausing me to have a lot of extra virtual time!
shlomifAnd be virtually rich.
shlomifAnd then you can virtually bribe virtual politicians.
shlomifAnd buy a lot of virtual goods.
shlomifLOL.
SjorsThen, I’d be virtually happy
SjorsToo bad... :P
shlomifIt’s a virtual win-win situation.
shlomifYou can hire many virtual programmers to write a lot of virtual code for KMess.
shlomif"My old virtual dad used to say to me: ‘virtual money does not bring you virtual happiness, my virtual son.’"
ChannelShlomi Fish and Sjors
NetworkMSN
TaglineVirtual money.
Published2010-01-27

Top vs. Bottom Posting

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TDDPirateShlomi_Fish and me engaged in a religious argument - top posting vs. bottom posting.
TDDPirateWhat is your side (Pepy)?
Pepyhmm
Pepybottom posting
Pepyi guess
Pepywell,guess bottom posting is winning then
Shlomi_FishHeh.
TDDPiratePepy: may you be damned, filthy heretic! TOP POSTING IS THE ONE AND ONLY TRUE WAY ! ! ! !
Shlomi_FishTDDPirate: you are past redemption, you archangel of evil!
TDDPirateShlomi_Fish: not to speak of your vile and wicked bottom posting ways!
Pepyso
Pepygo go bottom posting
Shlomi_FishPepy: that’s the way to go.
TDDPirateThe way to go - if you want to be DOOMED! TO! ETERNAL! FIRES! OF! HELL!
Shlomi_FishTop posting is for the weak and timid! I will challenge all top-posters to a Bat’lath contest for undermining the HONOUR of the entire Klingon race!
TDDPirateDon’t dare to defile the honor of the honorable Klingon Race by dragging them into this argument!
PepySujatlh ‘e’ yImev TodSaH!
Shlomi_FishPepy: nice Klingon.
Pepythanks, Shlomi
TDDPirateIs this Klingon? And if yes, what does this mean?
Pepyyes it is
Pepyand it means “shut up geeks”
Shlomi_FishPepy: I may be a geek, but I’m a true Klingon geek-warrior!
TDDPirateNice use of the language, Pepy.
Shlomi_FishAnd a true Klingon geek warrior ALWAYS bottom-posts.
Pepyno no,true Klingons have power to change quoted tops
TDDPiratePepy: do you mean that Klingons have the power to defile and make filthy of sacred E-mail messages?
Pepyno,but they’re used to “edit” history
Pepyah, when they ask me how the hell I managed to write so good band compositions
PepyI’ll tell em,the secret is to chat with geeks about top vs bottom posting
ChannelShlomi Fish, TDDPirate and Pepy
NetworkMSN
TaglineBottom vs. Top Posting.
Published2010-03-20

FOSS Versioning

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d3xBTW, you can do mplayer -dumpaudio -dumpfile file.mp3
d3xno need to re-encode
rindolfThis -dumpfile is a nice trick.
rindolfIs it new?
rindolfI wonder when mplayer will hit 1.0 already.
rindolfAh.
rindolfAll the stuff I saw told me to use WAV and then encode.
d3xmplayer and 1.0? I’m not really sure it's their goal
rindolfThey will stay at 1.0RC-foo forever?
d3xalthough i would be glad if they had some sensible versioning
rindolfYes.
rindolfAt the moment perl-Mojolicious is at 0.999924.
rindolfAt least perl-Moose hit 1.00
d3xLOL
rindolfWithout any substantial changes from 0.99.
rindolfBut you've got to upgrade somehow.
rindolfperl-Moose is MDV/RH notation, but I like it.
d3xIMO, it's just stupid not to release 1.0
rindolfI dislike libmoose-perl
rindolfYes.
d3xwine did so and now they have normal versioning
rindolfThough most of my CPAN modules are sub-1.0.
rindolfhttp://search.cpan.org/~shlomif/
rindolfI think except for one module (where I used 0.2.0 0.4.0 and eventually hit 0.8.0 and had to go to 1.000) all my 1.0 and above modules are adopted.
d3xthey are sub-1.0, but they are not 0.9.999.2010.03.11-rc5
d3x:)
rindolfOne of them used the CVS revisions as versions.
rindolfd3x : LOL.
rindolfYes.
rindolfd3x: can I quote you on that?
d3xi say it's stupid to make releases up to 0.9.something and then not to release 1.0
rindolfI collect quotes on my homepage.
d3xsure you can
rindolfAt the moment I have freecell-solver-2.42.0
rindolfBut I hope the new release will be 3.0.0
d3xthe one that was bought by Freecell Solver Enterprises? :D
rindolfI've left GNOME and gtk+/glib behind.
rindolfd3x yes.
rindolfFreecell Solver Enterprises™ Inc.
rindolfAh, so you've seen that.
d3xyes, you posted a link on #debian
rindolfYes.
rindolfYou should add a digest to the version.
rindolf0.9.999.2010.03.11-rc5-adc83b19e793491b1c6ea0fd8b46cd9f32e592fc
d3xLOL
rindolfIn case you're using git or hg.
Channelprivate conversation
NetworkFreenode
Taglined3x and Shlomi Fish (rindolf) about FOSS Versioning
Published2010-04-10

Not a bug on #offtopic on OFTC

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rindolfsarnold: you go to OGI?
sarnoldrindolf: no; but my boss and a co-worker are professors there, and other co-workers earned degrees there..
rindolfsarnold: OK.
mulisarnold, have you got one of those pesky things?
sarnoldmuli: just Bachelor of Arts .. no Masters or Ph.D...
rindolfsarnold: B.Sc or B.A.?
mulirindolf, Bachelor of Arts is B.A.
rindolfmuli: I know. But I was just checking.
sarnoldrindolf: ah, you’re right, B.Sc.. I chickened out on the language requirements :)
rindolfmuli: see?? LOL.
mulirindolf, sometimes, two bugs cancel each other.
rindolfmuli: wisely spoken.
rindolfBut mine wasn’t a bug - it was a sanity check.
Channel#offtopic
NetworkOFTC
TaglineNot a bug
Published2008-07-04

#ruby-lang and #ruby

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rindolfHi all.
rindolfWhy are there both #ruby and #ruby-lang ?
erikhmmm
erikhsome questions
erikhyou know
erikhthey're best not asked :)
rindolferikh: "The first rule of the fight club is you don't talk about the fight club."
erikhpretty much.
raggino, you punch them in the face until they get the message
erikhraggi: haha. hi man.
JudofyrThe first rule of #ruby-lang is you don't talk about #ruby.
Channel#ruby-lang
NetworkFreenode
Tagline#ruby-lang and #ruby
Published2011-02-22

How to market your Rails Book?

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Radarand on a completely unrelated note
Radarhttp://ryanbigg.com/2011/04/rails-3-1-in-action
rindolfRadar: I know it's rehearsed, but I prefer reading dark on bright rather than the opposite.
rindolfRadar: let me see if there's an alternate stylesheet.
Radarrindolf: Command+Option+Control+8
workmad3heh
rindolfRadar: I'm not on a Mac.
Radarrindolf: then whatever the shortcut is for you to invert your screen.
rindolfRadar: Firefox 4.0 on Mandriva Linux Cooker on an old P4-2.4GHz.
rindolfRadar: yeah....
rindolfRadar: that way XChat and Pidgin will be in technicolour.
workmad3Radar: so, once you've gotten Rails 3.1 in Action out, are you going to be going for Rails 3.2 in Action on Windows?
rindolfWell, I applied a no-stylesheet.
Radarworkmad3: Rails 3.2 in Action on Windows(r) 7(tm) actually.
workmad3Radar: I'll reserve my copy now :D
rindolfRadar: good luck with that.
rindolfRadar: will the book be available online for free view/download?
workmad3rindolf: a windows book? for free?
workmad3are you crazy???
rindolfworkmad3: Windows?
rindolfworkmad3: it's about Rails.
Radarrindolf: no it will cost money
rindolfRadar: ah, OK. :-(
workmad3Rails 3.2 In Action on Windows(r) 7(tm)
workmad3it'll cost big bucks!!
rindolfworkmad3: heh.
rindolfUltimate Premium.
RadarYes, I'm going to spend a year of my life writing a book and then release it for free, yay
Radarhow about no?
workmad3Radar: don't forget the Enterprise Rails 3.2 on Windows In Action 7(tw)
workmad3you can charge double for that one... it has enterprise in the title!
Radarworkmad3: how did you know about the third installment of the trilogy?! only Yehuda and I know of that
workmad3Radar: I'm really yehuda in disguise
workmad3dammit... I should have waited 25 mins to reveal that...
rindolfRadar: well, I'm now working on an EPUB of http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/TheEnemy/ but DocBook/XML is giving me some grief in generating a valid EPUB.
rindolfI think I'll fix the EPUB manually.
rindolfI'll have to study the EPUB format.
rindolfRadar: it's a story - not a technical book.
rindolfRadar: http://perl-begin.org/ - this took me several years to work on (well not 100% of the time) and it's mostly CC-by.
workmad3rindolf: who'd pay for stuff on perl though? :P
rindolfworkmad3: you'd be surprised.
workmad3rindolf: I doubt it
rindolfworkmad3: I think chromatic's latest "Modern Perl" book was a smashing success.
workmad3my sense of surprise has been surgically removed
rindolfworkmad3: even though it was available online the whole time.
rindolfworkmad3: but Perl is a bit passé and established.
rindolfRadar: people will torrent your book/etc.
workmad3also, I think I need to colour my sarcastic text differently
rindolfworkmad3: ah, OK.
workmad3or maybe just my non-sarcastic text
rindolfchromatic did an awesome job.
workmad3would probably be easier
rindolfUse <sarcasm> ... </sarcasm>
workmad3too much typing
rindolfHuman XML.
rindolfWrite an IRC client macro for that.
workmad3I'll just put <nonsarcasm> when I'm not being sarcastic
rindolfHeh.
workmad3assume that previous one was escaped
rindolfXSS!
rindolf1+1 = 2. [citation needed]
rindolfI like this channel.
rindolfBut I admit I'm not big into rails.
workmad3it doesn't like you
workmad3it's looking at you funny
workmad3muttering under it's breath
workmad3:P
rindolfMost of my sites are hosted on something which I don't care what it runs or alternatively static HTML sites.
rindolfworkmad3: :-)
rindolfI'm so making a fortune out of this conversation.
rindolfworkmad3: have you ever considered being a stand-up comedian?
workmad3rindolf: nah... I'm too lazy
rindolfworkmad3: ah.
workmad3rindolf: if I could sit down while doing it, I'd be a millionaire :P
rindolfworkmad3: heh.
rindolfworkmad3: more like a milliardaire.
Channel#rubyonrails
NetworkFreenode
Taglineworkmad3 drives Radar and rindolf mad.
Published2011-04-01

Aleena’s Little Perl Boys

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Diablo-D3Feminists
Diablo-D3So anti-women rights douchebags.
rindolfDiablo-D3: well, I don't know too much about how feminism relates to the global women-lib movement.
rindolfI do know I kinda hate feminazis, which I consider a subset of feminists.
Diablo-D3It's a bunch of women who are pissed than other women are getting dicked more often than them.
rindolfDiablo-D3: heh.
Diablo-D3So they "hate" men, but secretly want to be tied to a bed and boned repeatedly.
Lady_AleenaDiablo-D3, please don't lump me in that group.
Diablo-D3Lady_Aleena: that is up to you, not me
Diablo-D3I do not create feminists, I only laugh at them
rindolfLady_Aleena: I don't think you're a feminazi.
rindolfLady_Aleena: you're really cool.
rindolfLady_Aleena: at least on IRC.
Lady_AleenaThanks... :)
Lady_AleenaThough I still want to break a guy's fingers.
rindolfLady_Aleena: and don't take what Diablo-D3 says seriously.
Lady_AleenaI try to keep an open mind.
Diablo-D3rindolf: hey now
rindolfLady_Aleena: well, you or I can want to kill some people and it's OK as long as we don't actually do it.
Lady_Aleenarindolf, NOT kill, maim.
Diablo-D3any woman who tries to take away the rights of other women should be flogged in the town square.
Lady_AleenaOne can not change the mind of the dead.
Lady_AleenaHowever, one can change the minds of the maimed.
rindolfLady_Aleena: in one of my stories (still work in progress), the protagonist wants to punch her boyfriend, but she knows better than that and so just goes away frustrated.
rindolfLady_Aleena: let me translate that part to English.
Diablo-D3rindolf: that is boring!
rindolfDiablo-D3: :-)
Lady_AleenaShe should have kneed him in the nuts.
rindolfDiablo-D3: maybe she should shoot him with a bazooka.
Diablo-D3Clearly the chick should hit the guy, the guy should hit back, and then they should have wild sex.
rindolfDiablo-D3: it's in public.
Lady_AleenaUH! S&M!
Lady_Aleenarindolf, the best place.
rindolfDiablo-D3: it's actually an anti-thesis to a lot of Hollywoodian stuff.
rindolfLady_Aleena: to have wild sex?
Lady_Aleenarindolf, sure, why not?
Lady_AleenaA dom makes her sub perform sexual acts on demand, no matter the place. If insufficient the sub is flogged.
Lady_Aleenas/A dom/A dom, with no inhibitions,/;
* Lady_Aleenagiggles.
Lady_AleenaI think I just sent 2 men running for their mommies.
Diablo-D3no, we're too busy fapping.
Lady_AleenaGood.
Lady_AleenaGood little perl boy…
Diablo-D3LOL
Diablo-D3evil Lady_Aleena
Lady_AleenaBad perl boy, no cookies...
* Lady_Aleenais now known as Mistress_Aleena
rindolfMistress_Aleena: heh.
* Mistress_Aleenalaughs.
rindolfWell, that scene continues.
rindolfIn the balcony.
rindolfThey end up making out.
rindolfI can translate more I guess.
Mistress_AleenaNo need.
rindolfMistress_Aleena: maybe you should be Madame_Aleena
* Mistress_Aleenais now known as Madame_Aleena
rindolfI wonder if I should make a fortune out of this conversation.
rindolfIt's a bit Rish instead of PG-13ish.
Madame_Aleenalittle rindolf, go for the X.
rindolfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Association_of_America_film_rating_system
rindolfMadame_Aleena: X!
rindolfX marks the spot.
rindolfX-Windows.
Madame_AleenaYes it does, little rindolf.
rindolfMaybe you should be Hotbabe_Aleena
rindolfMadame_Aleena: BTW, did you register Mistress_Aleena and Madame_Aleena ?
Madame_AleenaYes.
Channel#perlcafe
NetworkFreenode
TaglineGo for the X.
Published2011-04-03

Star Trek: We, the Living Dead - Katie Meets Moses

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Shlomo: Mosheh, remember I told you about Katie?

Mosheh: oh yeah! She looks cute when she’s angry.

Katie: Moses, right?

Mosheh: that’s right.

Katie: well, in case you have any interest in me, I should note that I have a policy against getting involved with people who are 4 times my senior or more.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkStar Trek: “We, the Living Dead”
Published2011-04-04

The One with the Fountainhead: Dinosaur

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Ross: I can’t believe he could not tell the other guy wasn’t really a dinosaur.

Chandler: Well, cartoon characters usually have a difficulty seeing through disguises.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe One with the Fountainhead (Part 1)
Published2011-04-04

The One with the Fountainhead: Joey Reading the Fountainhead

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Ross: You’ve already read it (= the Fountainhead)?

Joey: Yeah [puts the book down]. I was in acting school, and the guys decided to throw a discussion on it. So, I decided that I’ll read the book so I can make a good impression on the ladies if y’know what I mean…

Rachel: Yep, we know what you mean.

Monica: So, did you get laid that night?

Joey: No. I spent the entire night discussing The Fountainhead. [pause] Interesting book.

Chandler: Must have been one of the most stimulating nights of your life.

Joey: Not quite as much as the next night.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe One with the Fountainhead (Part 1)
Published2011-04-04

The One with the Fountainhead: Would you write the Fountainhead today the same way?

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Joey: Hey, know what we can do, so I can get prepared for the audition? Let’s role-play our own version of "The Fountainhead".

Rachel: Our own version? Why would we want to write our own version of it! This book is great.

The others: "Yes." "One of the best books I ever read." "Can’t get better than this"

Joey: Come on, if you wanted to write it today, would you write the same book?

[Silence.]

Phoebe: Well, for one thing: didn’t it bother you that Dominique Francon, the main female character, didn’t do anything in the best years of her life, except like… sleeping with people?

Ross: yeah. All the characters in fact do nothing in the 20’s and 30’s, except maybe build a couple of buildings.

Joey: If you ask me: the book is too slow-paced for the 90’s. I mean, in the 60’s it may have worked but we’re in the information age now.

Ross: Joey, "The Fountainhead" was written in 1943.

Joey: Yeah, but it was still good enough in the 60’s right? OK: our own version of "The Fountainhead" - here’s what I think it should look like

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkThe One with the Fountainhead (Part 1)
Published2011-04-04

Humanity: Civilization

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Voice: Earth - the initial frontier. Somewhere in the depths of space, on a remote planet you know as Earth, came up a relatively uncommon phenomenon: Civilization. What it means is that intelligent,

[A text on the screen with a beep - (?)]

Voice: conscious

[A text on the screen with the same beep - (?)]

Voice: Stop it!

[ A text on the screen with a different beep - (!) ]

Voice: Like I said, intelligent, conscious, people formed cities and countries, with a technology that became more and more advanced in time.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkHumanity - The Movie
Published2011-04-05

Rap to the Spam

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Mike “The Mouse“ House (a.k.a “D.J. Salinger”) was a rap artist who experienced only limited success, and a computer geek, when he decided to start selling CDs of open-source software. He turned to spamming to publicise his business, but realised that most of the spam messages he sent were blocked by E-mail filters. He decided to use the notorious obscured image spam, but since he had a few blind friends, he opted to also include an audio recording of a rap song with the message.

House received a few offers from his spam campaign, but his real break came when a few enthusiasts of the spam song shared it on the Internet, where it became an instant hit. The song eventually hit the charts and MTV, and made D.J. Salinger famous, who quickly released his first successful album called Rap to the spam, Ma’am!, with such highly acclaimed hits as “Rap to not get trapped” and “He ain’t Nigerian. He’s a Spammer!”.

As a millionaire, House decided to donate some of his money back to sponsoring open-source projects, and has donated 100,000s of U.S. Dollars to such causes as the Free Software Foundation, Linux International and SpamAssassin. “If it hadn’t been for them, I wouldn’t have made it big”, he said, and said he’s now working on a second album with a similar theme.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work“Spam for Everyone” - The International Campaign for Accessible Spam
Published2011-04-07

I promised, I forgot…

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I promised, I forgot, I did not keep my promise — just shoot me, and get on with it!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2011-04-12

Original Philosopher

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An original philosopher knows the right combination of ideas to steal.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2011-04-12

To err is human

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  • To err is human - to apologise - divine.
  • To have bugs is human - to fix them - divine.
  • To have bugs is human - to find them - divine.
AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2011-04-12

I might be mad

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I might be mad. But I’m a mad genius.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2011-04-12

If God exists…

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If God exists and is the ego-maniacal, sadistic and helpless creature that is described in the Old Testament, then we’re in deep trouble.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2011-04-12

Mathematical Riddle

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Sophie: Let’s suppose you have a table with 2^n cups…
Jack: Wait a second - is ‘n’ a natural number?

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2011-04-12

Significance of Being 18

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A kid always wishes they were older until they are 18. Afterwards, they always wish they were younger.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2011-04-12

Sorting the Dishes

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Shlomi’s Father: If you don’t sort the dishwasher, the dishwasher won’t be sorted.

Shlomi: No, it won’t be sorted by me.

Shlomi’s Father: No, it won’t be sorted at all. We will throw away the dishwasher.

Together: Along with all the dishes.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Aphorisms Collection
Published2011-04-12

Your Programming Language Must Suck

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All languages of the world suck. If you require people to declare variables (like in Pascal, C, Scheme or Perl 5 with strict), then people will tell you they like variables to spring up upon first use. Without variable declarations, then you get various weird side-effects of the implicit scoping. If you use curly braces for scoping, then you’ll have to type more and there’s more clutter. With indentation-based scoping (like in Python), you’ll find it hard to introduce multiple-expression lambdas.

Rob Pike and Paul Graham hated object oriented programming (OOP) and so they didn’t introduce it in their “Go” and “Arc“ languages, well after OOP has become mainstream. And guess what? Many people, including me, think that OOP is still a good thing (and no, in my opinion, C++ did not do OOP very well) and so gave up on Arc quickly and did not look closely at Go.

Dynamically typed languages (like Perl 5, Python, Ruby, or Lisp) possibly suffer from many subtle errors; Statically typed languages (like Haskell) are less expressive and it seems that about one third of the language design papers published on Lambda the Ultimate are about various funky extensions to the Haskell type system to allow for better expressiveness.

Purely functional languages have no assignment and most people find them harder, in part because the world around us has a lot of state, and they also need to do funky compiler tricks to make you feel like you don’t need assignment. Non-functional languages have side-effects and so are prone to many errors.

If you have goto or goto-like statements (such as exceptions or Perl 5’s “last LABEL;” (more like “break” in C) or “next LABEL;”), then you encourage code to not be factored correctly. If you don’t have such stuff, then programmers will hate you for having to go through many hoops to write quick-and-dirty code.

Perl 5 has a dedicated regular expression syntax which is treated magically by the parser. PHP and Java use strings for them, and require weird escaping and backslashing rules to interpolate the sub-regexes inside them. And if you incorporate a first-order syntax for regular expressions, then people will want similar first-order syntaxes for XPath, for XML (like some recent versions of Visual Basic .NET have), and for all other grammars you may need to embed.

Finally, many people absolutely hate all the clutter created by the leading sigils of Perl 5 (the "$", "@", etc.), and similar languages, but they allow for much better backward compatibility, facilitate the so-called “interpolation” (= embedding inside strings), and also give some important visual cues when skimming code (even without syntax highlighting).

You are damned either way, whatever you do.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkYour Programming Language Must Suck
Published2011-04-15

How many Wikipeders Does it Take to Change a Light Bulb?

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  • 1 User to start a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Changing_a_Light_Bulb article.
  • 1 editor to tag it with the “No original research” template. (Without giving a reason)
  • 3 users to find citations for the article.
  • 1 editor to claim it violates the wikipedia “Neutral Point of View policy”. (without giving a reason).
  • The original user to ask why he thinks this way on the talk page.
  • 5 users to find occurrences of changing a light bulb in popular culture.
  • 1 anonymous user to correct an “it’s” to “its”.
  • 1 editor to revert it.
  • 1 editor to revert the revert because it was a real typo.
  • 10 users to rant in the talk page that Changing a lightbulb is not notable enough.
  • 10 Wikipeders to start similar articles in French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Esperanto, Ido, Hebrew, Klingon, Mandarin Chinese, and other languages.
  • 10 more people to periodically keep the articles in sync with the English version.
  • Starting the cycle again on the localised wikipedias.
  • 1 Person to argue that the article should be merged into the main article about the inventor of the lightbulb.
  • 5 People to argue on the talk-page who the inventor of the lightbulb was.
  • 1 Person to start a wikiquote page about changing lightbulbs.
  • 1 Person to add it to wikibook.
  • 4 persons to gradually delete content the section about “choosing a good chair” until it only reads “choose a good chair.”
  • 1 person to write it again.
  • 1 deletionist to remove the article due to all of its perceived problems.
  • 3 months from now:
  • 1 different user to feel the absence of the Changing_a_Light_Bulb article, create it and start the cycle all over again.
AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkHow many Wikipeders does it take to Change a Light Bulb?
Published2011-04-16

Shlomi Fish on 13 May 2009

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As expected from the latest trend in the Perl blogosphere this post will be about Roles. And Moose! And Roles in Moose! And Moose in Roles! And Roles outside Moose…

Seriously now, this is a post about a completely non-Moosey and non-Roley script I wrote to filter the use.perl.org master journals' feed.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkMeta: Script to Filter the Master use.perl.org Blogs' Feed
Published2011-04-23

Russian Cuisine

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rindolfHi all.
LeuthihiO HAI rindolf
rindolfLeuthihi: HAI HAI.
rindolfLeuthihi: what's up?
Leuthihirindolf: I'm hungry!
rindolfLeuthihi: there's one antidote for it.
rindolfLeuthihi: it's called Food.
rindolfLeuthihi: </bolt>
Leuthihiwell, but what food?
Leuthihiand I need coffee
Leuthihioh, I think I know what I'll have.
benwbrum_chez_soChili. A big bowl of red, with crackers and onions on the side.
rindolfLeuthihi: does it matter?
VolisIf it has to be some cuisine.
VolisDid I spell correctly?
rindolfVolis: spell what?
Volisoh yes.
Voliscuisine.
rindolf"cuisine" is spelt this way.
rindolfYes.
rindolfIt's a French word I think.
rindolf.ety cuisine
la_fen"1786, from Fr. cuisine 'style of cooking,' originally 'kitchen, cooking, cooked food' (12c.), from L.L. cocina, earlier coquina 'kitchen,' from L. coquere 'to cook' (see cook (n.))." - http://etymonline.com/?term=cuisine
rindolfOK, originally from Latin.
Volisnever mind. Which cuisine is the best?
VolisIn general
rindolfVolis: I like many cuisines.
GvidonRussian, of course
rindolfVolis: though most of the ethnic food is actually poor men's food.
rindolfGvidon: Russian cuisine?
Gvidonrindolf: Yes
Leuthihiwell, yes, because I need something to eat to be able to eat it.
rindolfGvidon: what does it feature?
VolisRussian cuisine lacks flavour.
Gvidonrindolf: Vodka
rindolfGvidon: ah.
LeuthihiIn Soviet Russia, food tastes YOU!
rindolfGvidon: I didn't know Vodka is nutritious
rindolfLeuthihi: :-)
VolisIn Soviet Russia, They no longer use this meme. :P
LeuthihiVodka has plenty of calories at least.
rindolfGvidon: and I don't consume Alcoholic beverages in any quantity.
rindolfVolis: :-)
LeuthihiVolis: because: In Soviet Russia, meme uses You!
rindolf«In Soviet Russia, cats own you. Oh wait! They own you everywhere.»
VolisConsidering the fact, i'm still underage. Please change the topic.
rindolfVolis: underage?
rindolfVolis: ah, you cannot drink?
VolisIn Soviet Russia, left keeps you. Always.
Volis"Dear fellow driver, let left be for communist crap only"
Volisrindolf, Rules of the world.
Channel##English
NetworkFreenode
TaglineRussian cuisine
Published2011-05-12

E-mail, web feeds…

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E-mail, web feeds and doing something productive — choose two.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkLiveJournal.com Post
Published2011-05-29

Wasting Time

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The worst way to waste your time is to never waste it.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkUnarmed but Still Dangerous Post
Published2011-06-04

I’m Hungry Today

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Sophie: I’m hungry today.
Jack: well wait until tomorrow - maybe this feeling will pass.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2011-11-05

We agree…

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We agree. But do we agree to agree?

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2012-04-12

sed and awk…

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sed and awk make me sad and awkward.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2012-05-04

linuxguy101 about Windows 8

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linuxguy101sebsebseb: i thought you were abducted by windows 8
rindolfsebsebseb: hi.
linuxguy101rindolf: windows got him
rindolflinuxguy101: if you say so.
linuxguy101he is trying to find that icon in windows 8 that has irc on it
linuxguy101average users it usually will take a day or longer
linuxguy101it is a productivity enhancer
rindolflinuxguy101: heh.
linuxguy101rindolf: you must get windows 8
linuxguy101it is an experience in windows you will never forget
rindolflinuxguy101: why?
linuxguy101rindolf: it is like windows me and vista combined with a bunch of lame programmers who cant speak the same lang
linuxguy101it is jaw dropping
rindolflinuxguy101: sounds fascinating.
linuxguy101i expect Microsoft will earn some rewards on this os
linuxguy101like longest boot time.. Hardest os to use by a human. And most compatible os with itself ever made.
rindolflinuxguy101: :-)
linuxguy101rindolf: you must switch to something less useful and more productive like windows 8
linuxguy101think of the hours you could spend on windows 8.. remember it is retro
rindolflinuxguy101: retrofitted?
linuxguy101rindolf: yes.. down to 2 or 4 colors.. Steve Balmer in a cocaine brain storming meeting with the developers decided to move to a GUI that was un pattoned so they invented retro.. simple and stupid colors a 4 year old child could barely read or draw
linuxguy101he called it retro
rindolfRetro.
linuxguy101clearly a first in computing history
rindolfNow I get the joke.
rindolfMetro is Retro.
linuxguy101oh it is no joke.. just wait for windows 8 lack of sales prompt Steve Balmer to shove it down into the updates for windows 7
linuxguy101on a side note, did you know that linux is becoming more popular now days?
linuxguy101i don’t know why..
linuxguy101rindolf: you really should try windows 8
linuxguy101at least virtual box it..
rindolflinuxguy101: maybe I should, but I'm not going to shell out money for the experience.
linuxguy101Warning!: using windows 8 may cause massive hysteria, laughing and vomiting in some cases..
linuxguy101the first time i used windows 8 i laughed uncontrollably for several hours and almost wet myself
Channel#mageia-social
NetworkFreenode
TaglineWin 8, Lose 9
Published2012-10-17

The English Wikipedia

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The English Wikipedia: now you don’t see it - now you do.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2012-11-04

Chat in #objectivism about Publicity

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rindolfHi all.
srogershowdy
rindolfsrogers: hi, what's up?
srogerswork, mostly
srogers"one of those days"
rindolfAh.
rindolfWork.
rindolfI'm enjoying my unemployed status.
rindolfAnd after all that hospital thing is behind me, I'd like to go to tau.ac.il and set up some events where I read from my writings/etc.
rindolfTo gain some esteem.
rindolfI contacted an Israeli publisher about publishing some of my stories and/or essays, but they didn't return to me after more than a month (which is their designated limit).
rindolfAnd after reminding them on the phone, I gave up.
rindolfWell, I'm not going to sit idly and expect recognition to come to me.
rindolfMaybe I'll use some of my Project Wonderful money to gain some publicity.
rindolfI could try publicising some of my works on various sites such as http://www.calamitiesofnature.com/
srogersYeah - promote yourself
rindolfsrogers: yes.
rindolfsrogers: I think that was the main mistake of Howard Roark in The Fountainhead.
rindolfHe should have worked more on publicity.
srogersha - if only he had Facebook . . .
rindolfHeh.
ChannelObjectivism
NetworkFreenode
TaglineBringing the mountain to Muhammad
Published2012-12-26

Chat in #gnu about Domains, FOSS and Wikipedia

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mroutWho likes freedom?
mroutFREEDOM
rindolfmrout: freedom++
Younosjust give me my beer
rindolfYounos: heh.
rindolfNo beer for you!
Younosaww :o(
mroutI’m in non-freedom mode atm actually, using Windoze
mroutfor the gamez
rindolfmrout: OK.
mroutbut when I restart into Linux I respect the freedoms of myself and others
rindolfmrout: OK.
Younosyou should respect it regardless of the platform
rindolfmrout: maybe try reporting it as a bug in WINE/etc.
rindolfmrout: the GNU project encourages FOSS developers to port their software to non-free platforms.
rindolfThough there was a small backlash about it (at least for Windows) a while ago.
alfplayerencourages?
mroutrindolf: I sure hope it does. if we can encourage users to try FOSS software on non-free platforms, they might more easily learn about FOSS and about how to protect their freedoms
rindolfhttp://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/download.html - I provide a Windows binary for this. :-)
mroutMany users don’t even know they can get software that respects their freedoms.
rindolfalfplayer: well, don't know if encourage, but it doesn't hold a stand against it.
rindolfalfplayer: and a lot of GNU software can be built fine on Windows (And proprietary UNIXes).
alfplayerrindolf: that's very different imo
alfplayerrindolf: yes, like gcc and emacs
mroutbtw is rms ever on here? He gave a talk at my local university a few years ago, and I never got a chance to talk to him.
rindolfhttp://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=should-perl-drop-sco-support - also see this.
mroutLOL
rindolfmrout: I don't think he uses IRC.
rindolfmrout: he also doesn't use a graphical web browser.
rindolfmrout: though he does read the web sometimes.
mroutrindolf: i haven’t installed X yet, so neither do I. haha
rindolfHe commented on a few pages on my site.
rindolfWhen he visited Israel, I told RMS that I felt making Freecell Solver Public Domain (now it's MIT/X11L) was appropriate given its target audience, and he said he thought making it GPLed would encourage more users of programs that used it to make them FOSS.
rindolfHe also said it was OK that freshmeat.net (now freecode.com) did not release their backend as free software.
rindolfmrout: ah.
mroutfreecode.com?
rindolfmrout: well, I think he doesn't even use links or lynx or Emacs' www-mode.
rindolfmrout: yes.
rindolfmrout: they changed their name and domain.
mroutwho are they? NEVER heard of them
rindolfmrout: http://freecode.com/ - it's a nice way to discover some interesting software.
rindolfmrout: they are a web-directory for UNIX software.
mroutdo they host it?
rindolfmrout: no.
mroutquite unlike something like github, then?
rindolfmrout: just link to it.
mroutcool
mroutwill try to remember that
rindolfmrout: also see http://www.shlomifish.org/lecture/Freecell-Solver/slides/freshmeat_effect.html
rindolfmrout: not everything there is FOSS.
mtjmhttp://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html explains his Web use
rindolfmrout: and not everything is there.
rindolfmrout: but I try to publicise most of my major software there.
mtjmIRC would need a constant network access which is difficult when travelling (and needs much more time than batch mail writing)
rindolfWell, most of the software published there is either niche or quite boring.
mroutrindolf: Freecell Solver on freecode is the first result
rindolfmrout: for what?
mroutthat google search
mroutI fail to see a problem
rindolfmrout: well, thing is there are other Freecell solvers.
rindolfmrout: and what I said is that I clog the search.
mroutOh, I see what you mean
mroutthat’s a good thing for you, though
rindolfmrout: lots of junk like FreeBSD/Debian/Ubuntu/Mandriva/Mageia packages.
rindolfmrout: that's what I call the freshmeat effect.
rindolfI get http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/ as the first hit. :-(
rindolfDamn bubbling.
rindolfhttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=freecell%20solver - here (no bubbling) I get the wikipedia Freecell page as a first hit.
mroutrindolf: bubbling?
rindolfmrout: http://dontbubble.us/
mroutI get NZ results
mrouthahaha
rindolfmrout: NZ?
mroutrindolf: where are you from?
rindolfmrout: Israel.
mroutNew Zealand.
rindolfmrout: but shlomifish.org is hosted in hostgator.com .
rindolfI used to host it in a small Israeli hosting provider but they were too unreliable.
mroutI asked, because i expected it to be US, and so I’d say “I know what US stands for, but you don’t know what NZ stands for? Shame on you.”
rindolfmrout: I know that .nz is New Zealand.
rindolfmrout: but didn't understand the initialism in the context.
rindolfmrout: some Americans think .il is Illinois.
rindolfAnd .ca is California.
rindolfWell, there's also .la.
mroutahh
rindolfAnd .tv.
mrouthaha
mrouttv? that must be for Tajikistan. >.>
rindolfmrout: no.
rindolfmrout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.tv
mroutjoke
mroutthat was a joke
mroutI know it’s not for television stuff, LOL
rindolfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvalu
rindolfmrout: OK.
rindolf.tk domains are free.
mroutyeah
mroutWoo tokelau
* rindolfwonders if there is .fs.
rindolfThere should be a country called .if so I can register shlom.if
rindolfSomeone registered shlomifi.sh. ;-)
rindolfNot me, though.
rindolfhttps://www.google.com/search?q=.lf - no .lf either.
rindolfWe need more countries.
mroutI wish there was a .ut
mroutso I could get mro.ut
rindolfmrout: ah.
rindolfWell, I can register shlomif.name.
mroutI already have rout.co.nz (that’s my dad’s actually) and rout.geek.nz (mine)
rindolfmrout: ah.
rindolfAre top-level .nz domains available?
rindolflike rout.nz
mroutyou can’t get milesroutisawesome.nz, no
rindolfAh.
mroutor rout.nz >.>
rindolfOK.
rindolf.il domains are kinda costly and they used to require faxing.
rindolfAnd I don't feel my domains are particularly Israeli-related.
mroutahh
rindolfWell, I originally got shlomif.il.eu.org.
rindolfBut its DNS was flaky.
mrout.eu.org?
rindolfSo I ended up buying shlomifish.org
mroutwhat’s your actual name?
rindolfNow I also have shlomifish.com
rindolfmrout: Shlomi Fish.
mroutAhh
rindolfmrout: eu.org is free DNS.
mrout?
rindolfBut I guess you get what you pay for sometimes.
rindolfmrout: it's not .eu (European union).
rindolfmrout: http://eu.org/
mroutthat site’s odd
mroutwhat’s wrong with .eu
mroutshit a brick, they want a separate ccTLD for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Martin_(France)
rindolfmrout: nothing is wrong with .eu - it's just that eu.org is something different.
rindolfeu.org predates .eu.
mroutahh
mroutit annoys me that the US doesn’t use .us more
mroutand clutters .com
rindolfWell, there's also .gov, .net, .org...
rindolf.mil
rindolf.navy
mroutexactly
rindolfmrout: I also have http://shlom.in/
mroutit’s pretty americo-centric
rindolfCould not get http://shlom.fi/ because my domain registrar did not have it.
rindolfshlom.in is my own custom (and private) URL shortener.
rindolfSome overzealous spam filters blocked it.
rindolfAh, domains.
rindolfThe bread and butter of Internet conversations.
mroutLOL
rindolfI know someone who has http://ali.as/
rindolfWell, from the Internet.
rindolfAnd there's also cr.yp.to which is Dan Bernstein.
rindolfDJB.
mroutdomains, vim vs emacs and hello_there vs helloThere.
mroutcr.yp.to is cool
rindolfmrout: and tabs vs. spaces.
mroutbut hard to type
mrouteugh
mroutcr.yp.to is hard to type
mroutspaces, vim, hello_there or HelloThere, but never helloThere.
rindolfSince I have http://perl-begin.org/ and want to create a site for Vim beginners, I should get a good domain.
rindolfvim.perl-begin.org or vim.shlomifish.org does not look good.
mroutvimschlomfish
mroutLOL
mroutshlom
mroutvimshlomfish
mroutwhat about vim-begin.org?
rindolfmrout: maybe I'll get tech-begin.org
rindolfI think begin.org is already taken.
mroutyea
mroutby one of those shitty domain hoggers
rindolfHeh. begin.tel is available. \o/
mrouti’d love mil.es
rindolfNot that I want it.
mroutbegin.tel?
mroutbegintel?
mrout$17/yr for mil.es
mroutYES FUCK YES
rindolfOK, I registered begin-site.org and begin-site.com
rindolfOn https://www.domainsite.com/ .
rindolfI figured most people won't "guess" begin-site.net... ;-)
mroutnice
rindolfSo I'll have http://vim.begin-site.com/ and http://vim.begin-site.org/
mroutwhat about rindolf.com
mroutbegin-site seems a bit clunky
rindolfmrout: rindolf is only my IRC nickname.
mroutstill
rindolfmrout: and I already have www.shlomifish.org
rindolfmrout: I don't see why most people will STFW for "rindolf" or "shlomi fish" or whatever.
rindolfMost of the people come to my site using more generic searches.
rindolfhttps://duckduckgo.com/?q=fountainhead%20parody - first hit !
mroutSTFW?
rindolfmrout: search the fab web.
rindolfLike RTFM.
rindolfUsing Google, Duck Duck go, Bing or whatever.
mroutfucking web, I assume
rindolfmrout: true.
rindolfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Shlomif/Freecell_Solver - this was deleted because it was not notable enough. F****king deletionists.
mroutthey deleted your user page?
rindolfmrout: no, only /wiki/Freecell_Solver
mroutoh
rindolfmrout: access the link - it's there.
rindolfJust not visible on default searches.
mrout“lacks references showing notability” you mean apart from the fact it’s the top google result for Freecell Solver? FUUUUU wikipedians
rindolfI restored it before it was deleted.
rindolfmrout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s_Dozen_%28solitaire%29 - some people on #wikipedia (or #wikipedia-en) told me this may not be notable.
rindolfThere are a zillion pages about it.
rindolfAnd Wikipedia covers almost any other Solitaire variant.
mroutLOL, fucking wikipedia
rindolfYes.
mroutarticles about every steeple in Italy, but not about ever solitaire variant
mrouthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s_Dozen_%28solitaire%29#Solvers
rindolfmrout: also about football players.
mroutyour article should be restored
rindolfmrout: yes, maybe.
mroutI’d almost be convinced to do it myself
rindolfmrout: are you a wikipedian?
mroutsort of
mroutI have an account
rindolfmrout: well, I added the [[Freecell Solver]] link.
rindolfHoping someone will fill it in.
rindolfhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeCell#Solvers - there is a cursory mention of it there.
mroutmmm
rindolfmrout: this section was deleted previously because it was not "Encyclopedic enough."
rindolfmrout: that Wikipedian had tons of complaints against him on his user talk page.
rindolfmrout: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Christiansen - this used to be about the Perl developer (and co-author of several books).
rindolfNow it's about an olympic athelete.
rindolfWell, I added that page, and people enhanced it, but then it was deleted. :-(
mroutnot even an olympic athelete
rindolfmrout: ah, yes, just world competition.
mroutdidn’t even place
mroutcompared to an author and developer of one of the most popular programming languages
mrout:/
rindolfYes.
rindolfOh well, Wikipedia.
rindolfThe worst encyclopedia in the world except for all others.
galex-713?
mrouthahaha
mroutyeah
* galex-713slaps mrout
galex-713Wikipedia is perfect!
* galex-713hides
mrouthardly
Channel#gnu
NetworkFreenode
Tagline#gnu stuff
Published2012-12-27

Life is Hard

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rindolfHi all.
rindolfFROGGS , moritz , hoelzro , Juerd : hello! What's new?
moritzeverything with a new enough timestamp
FROGGSrindolf: nothing
rindolfmoritz: heh.
FROGGSI assume rindolf doesn’t meant -Inf :o)
timotimomoritz: feel like reviewing/merging https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/pull/113 ? froggs and me both spectested it :)
* rindolfunleashes his inner Sarah Michelle Gellar to kiss moritz for his inventive avoidance of saying what he is up to.
rindolfFROGGS: I’m old enough to remember the invention of the Camel.
FROGGSrindolf: well, if you want to know what we are up to you may ask that
rindolfFROGGS: “When I was your age, Jennifer Lawrence was called Sarah Bernhardt”
rindolfFROGGS: moritz will always find a way to avoid it.
rindolfFROGGS: unless threatened.
rindolfFROGGS: or sweet talked.
FROGGSand today is my first day off, and on Wednesday starts the German Perl Workshop, so still stuff to prepare
rindolfFROGGS: nice.
rindolfFROGGS: prepare hard! Enjoy hard! Rest hard!
rindolfStep 4: profit hard!
rindolfStep 5: retire hard!
timotimoStep 6: die hard!
rindolftimotimo: LOL.
Channel#perl6
NetworkFreenode
TaglineHe who lives hard, dies harder
Published2013-03-12

Is Buffy Kosher?

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I recall discussing Buffy with a Jewish American friend, who used to be secular, and now has become an observant Jew, and married a woman who properly converted to Orthodox Judaism, and they have some children. We discussed the fact that Sarah Michelle Gellar was Jewish, and yet that many men (and some Lesbian women) were more attracted to Alyson Hannigan’s character, Willow Rosenberg, who was a shy and sheepish, redhead, Jewess. Then when I mentioned that Hannigan was only a maternal Jew, he said she is “kosher” (because someone whose mother is Jewish and who did not convert to a different religion, is a bona-fide Jew). I found it amusing that you refer to women by the same word as you do to food, but I think the ancient Hebrew word "kasher" also means "approved", "appropriate", "legal", etc.

In any case, both Hannigan and Gellar are now married, and so trying to separate between them and their husbands is not kosher. ;-)

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkPost to the /r/buffy subreddit
Published2013-04-05

Selina Mandrake - The Slayer: The Three

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[ There are three young men dressed as Klingons who fight with Bat’leth in the park. Selina is passing by and shakes her head in disapproval. The three notice Selina, and quickly run to her. ]

Warrior #1: Hail The Slayer, we are but your humble slaves!

Selina: [Shocked] And who might you be?

Warrior #1: We are The Three - three vampire brother warriors, who have been fighting since the dawn of time.

Selina: And you are Klingons…

Warrior #2: We can assume any form.

Warrior #1: Yes, we can fight using any weapon, and we are masters of them all.

Selina: so you can fight with something that’s not a Bat’leth?

Warrior #1: Of course, for example, we could fight using the Huge Sword!

Warrior #2 and Warrior #3: Yeah, the Huge Sword!

The Three: [in unison] Huge Sword!

[ Warrior #1 snaps his fingers, and some of these ridiculously large swords from World of Warcraft appear on the ground. ]

Selina: Wow, can you fight using them?

The Three: [non-dramatically] Eh, eh, we cannot lift them.

Selina: Guess not. [Puts her palm on her eyes.] Maybe try something smaller and not as heavy.

Warrior #2: Yes, smaller.

Warrior #3: And not as heavy.

Warrior #1: You're not thinking about the smallest… yet deadliest weapon for a mighty vampire warrior… the wooden toothpick!

[ The three cry “yeah”. Warrior #1 snaps his fingers and the huge swords are replaced by small wooden toothpicks. ]

Selina: Toothpicks? Have you blokes been watching too much Sesame Street?

Warrior #1: Why, of course! Every mighty Klingon warrior has watched Sesame Street.

Selina: Mighty Klingon vampire warriors who have watched Sesame Street… this decade royally sucks!!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSelina Mandrake - The Slayer
Published2013-04-14

David vs. Goliath: David as a Hacker

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The Israelites and the Philistines schedule a large battle. The Philistines have far superior equipment with armours made out of iron, which the Israelites don’t have. Eventually, Goliath, a tall Philistine giant, steps forward and asks for an Israelite man worthy enough to fight him and determine the fate of the battle (something which was quite common in the ancient Near East). It seems the Israelites will lose the battle.

Out of nowhere, a young Israelite boy whom hardly anyone knew about steps forward with a sling and a few pebbles. Goliath thinks this is ridiculous and ridicules him. However, the boy quickly puts a pebble in his sling, and after rotating the sling to achieve a very large speed (not unusual with slings) hurls the pebble with great accuracy (also not unthinkable, because shepherds in the Near East effectively used slings to kill lions and other predators to their flock) into Goliath’s face, which was uncovered to allow him to see. Even if Goliath’s shield bearer wanted to, he could not lift the huge shield in time, and Goliath was completely not agile in his suit and armour. The sling’s rock smashes Goliath’s brain, and he falls to the ground dead. The Israelites have won the battle.

That boy’s name was David.

Why is it important here? Because David was a “hacker”. Why was he a hacker? Because he knew the rules, and played by them, but knew how to bend them, in order to earn his victory. Hackers bend the rules.

And here’s the thing: this is what an action hero is all about: he makes his own rules, or he even breaks them, and does not accept his fate. This is whereas a tragic hero is bound by many invisible rules, and accepts his fate, which is, almost certainly going to be death.

And in real life, you should also aim to be a hacker or an action hero, or the many phrases it used to be called.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSummerschool at the NSA
Published2013-04-16

Star Trek: We, the Living Dead - “Too much of a Good Thing”

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Worf: Commander Dax, I explicitly prohibit you from asking about Mr. Q’s roles as a husband and a father.

Jadzia: You are right, Commander. I’ve realised something: throughout this whole trip through the wonders of the Q continuum I’ve been far too selfish and only thought about myself. I should have thought about you, too.

[She turns towards Avigayil]

Jadzia: Avigayil, could you, by any chance, allow us to meet Kahless the Unforgettable in his living dead self, I’m sure Commander Worf here would love to meet him.

Worf: Actually, Commander, I don’t think…

Jadzia: [Interrupting him] Oh, you don’t? That’s a shame. Well, I’ll go meet him alone (always wanted to, you know). Worf, I think Kahless will be disappointed not to meet you, but I’ll tell him you’re a big fan of his, and I’ll let you watch the video of me meeting him and…

Worf: [Sighs] Commander Dax, you are impossible.

Worf: Fine, let’s go meet Kahless if that’s humanly possible.

Avigayil: Sounds good. The whole mission from Deep Space Nine can go with you, I’ll notify Kahless. He’s a big fan of a lot of you.

Amanda: OK, let’s summon Katie and her gang of no-goodnicks too. She wouldn’t want to miss it.

Quark: Yes, and it’s high time we merged the two sub-plots in the future movie. “Too much of a good thing is a bad thing. But only for your customers”. Rule of acquisition No. 172.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkStar Trek: “We, the Living Dead”
Published2013-04-28

SHOUT!!

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abbait's thrax!
abbafuck, this place is quiet now
rindolfabba: SHOUT!! SHOUT!!! LET IT ALL OUT!!!!
rindolfThese are the things I can do without.
abbaCOME ON!
thraxatronshh abba i'm observing
rindolfabba: I'm talking to you.
abba<3 tears for fears rindolf
thraxatronwasn't that a disturbed song
* abbafacepalms
thraxatroni had that album
rindolfabba: :-)
abbasure, disturbed may have covered it
* rindolfis listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama.
abbabut that's like saying creep is your favorite Korn song
thraxatronit is though
abba:P
rindolfKid Rock’s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwIGZLjugKA (All Summer Long) is also good.
thraxatronalso i really like 99 luft balloons
thraxatronby Goldfinger
abbaDancing queen by Wing
abbahttp://youtu.be/XqBWvmhS-AY
rindolfthraxatron: heh.
abbai have no idea why i listened to that whole thing, i'm never going to get that time of my life back
thraxatronholy shit all summer long is five years old
thraxatronwhat am i doing with my life
dean0beach boys title of the same is much older.... :(
dean0...fortunately I'm not quite that old
* abbamourns for his youth
abbaMe neither, but I did like the Beach Boys a lot as a child
dean0yah me too
Channel#reddit
NetworkFreenode
TaglineDo the song of life
Published2013-05-02

Wikipedia Deletionists Don’t Die

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Wikipedia deletionists don’t die. They lose notability and get deleted.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2013-09-27

It’s kinda…

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It’s kinda, sort-of… pretty much… quite… awesome I tell you - awesome! Got it? It’s kinda awesome!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2013-11-01

JavaScript

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Shlomi Fish: Whenever you spell “JavaScript” with a lowercase “s” (and a capital “J”), God kills a kitten.

Joel Crisp: Whenever you use JavaScript on the server, God kills a datacenter.

AuthorShlomi Fish and Joel Crisp
WorkFacebook Post (originally via Twitter)
Published2014-02-16

Two Kinds of Fools

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There are two kinds of fools. One says, “This is old, and therefore good”.
And one says, “This is new, and therefore better”.

John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider

Two more kinds of fools. One says: “This is popular, and therefore good”.
The other says: “This is good because it’s not popular”.

— Shlomi Fish (though may not be a 100% original sentiment).

Another kind of fool: “‘mainstream’ is bad.”

— Shlomi Fish.

AuthorShlomi Fish and Joel Crisp
WorkFacebook Post (originally via Twitter)
Published2014-03-10

Shlomi Fish’s “That’s Why” Response

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That’s why I feed my leprechaun every day — because there are not enough phonemes in Navajo to tell him to get his act together and find a job.

— Shlomi Fish‘s response to “Above All That is Random 5” when asked “That’s why… what?”

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkComment on “Above All That is Random 5”
Published2014-03-15

How are flying unicorn ponies called?

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ZetaNetai wonder, if one day, developers will lose the possibility to write code no one else can understand.
ZetaNetaIf CPUs will start running interpretable code
rindolfZetaNeta: you can always obfuscate code.
rindolfZetaNeta: nothing guarantees that a code will be readable.
ZetaNetayeah, that is why i wish people will lose the ability to write unreadable code
rindolfZetaNeta: and there's also https://github.com/kripken/emscripten which compiles from C/C++/ObjC/etc. to unreadable JS.
rindolfZetaNeta: how will you guarantee that?
ZetaNetaI cant. Thats why i wish
rindolfZetaNeta: have you heard of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem ?
rindolfZetaNeta: it may be impossible for a computer to do.
rindolfZetaNeta: if not for a human too.
rindolfZetaNeta: don't wish for the impossible.
rindolfZetaNeta: unless you'd also like to wish for pink flying unicorn ponies who drop candy.
ZetaNetaI don’t like pink, unicorns, ponies, candy and dropping stuff.
rindolfZetaNeta: it's an idiom that means that you want something that can't easily be achieved.
rindolfZetaNeta: or something Utopian or unrealistic.
ZetaNetawell... that is already way too offtopic
seaMorning!!!!!!!!
* seaappears and has cake!
* seadistributes cake
[TheFlash]maybe you meant a cross between a unicorn and a pony?
* rindolfeats the free-as-in-speech cake.
rindolfAlso zen cake - no calories.
rindolf[TheFlash]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pink%20flying%20unicorn%20ponies
rindolf[TheFlash]: they exist in /My Little Pony/ - ♥
seaThose actually are pegasus ponies.
seaUnicorn ponies don't fly.
seaThere are some unicorn pegasus ponies, though
seaLike princess Luna
rindolfsea: yes.
rindolfsea: isn't Princess Celestia also a Unicorn Pegasus Pony?
rindolfWell, this isn't #bronies
seaYeah, they're called an 'alicorn' officially now
rindolfsea: ah.
seaAlso, starting with the last episode of season 3, Twilight Sparkle is an Alicorn too
rindolfsea: I don't remember who she is.
rindolfsea: http://mlp.wikia.com/wiki/Twilight_Sparkle - ah , I see.
rindolfsea: yes, I know who she is (naturally).
rindolfOK, on topic.
rindolfZetaNeta: it's probable that people (or software programs) will always be able to write other programs that other people will find hard to understand, so don't wish for it to happen.
rindolfZetaNeta: you might be able to find a device that will change the laws of logic, but I find it unlikely.
rindolfWell, find or develop.
ZetaNetarindolf, Well. I have some ideas
rindolfZetaNeta: ideas?
ZetaNetaIn my understanding, there is no logic.
rindolfZetaNeta: what?
* ZetaNetadon’t wanna talk about it
rindolfZetaNeta: you don't think there's logic?
pehjotaTIL that sea is a brony. They're everywhere!
rindolfpehjota: heh.
* ZetaNetadoesn’t like to mix software with philosophy, to avoid long conversations he anyway probably gonna lose
rindolfZetaNeta: well, programming is based on maths and logic.
ZetaNetarindolf, "Because you are so sure about it"
rindolfZetaNeta: what?
* ZetaNetadoesn’t like to mix software with philosophy, to avoid long pointless conversations
seapehjota: What's TIL?
rindolfsea: Today I learned.
pehjotasea: Today I learned.
seaWhoa..
pehjotaHa :)
seaHaha, your nicks both have the same length
seaso it looks like a duplicated line
rindolfsea: jinx!
* seagrabs everything made of wood and hides it
rindolfZetaNeta: anyway, the Halting Problem which is part of theoretical CS, and has an easy-to-explain informal proof, casts many doubts about a machine's (or a human's) ability to detect whether code for an arbitrary Turing complete VM is easy to understand or not, and so you might as well forget about it.
rindolf<pehjota> TIL that sea is a brony. They're everywhere! ==> not sure how useful of a fact it is.
pehjotarindolf: It was a tongue-in-cheek remark. :)
Channel#gnu
NetworkFreenode
TaglineBrony talks, pony flies
Published2014-03-20

Summer Glau vs. Chuck Norris

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rindolfHi all.
Buckethi rindolf
rindolfLately, I have been thinking that maybe some of the Snowden leaks are actually the "achievements" of maniacal minds ( https://duckduckgo.com/Mania ) and don't work well in practise or at all.
rindolfProbably most of the NSA workers are either depressive, maniacal or schizophrenic by now.
rindolfAlthir: awesome.
BucketWicked!
rindolfIs Bucket a bot?
Bucketno, I'm a folk singer
Althirferret: Is Bucket real?
flyingferretCertainly not.
barometzYou're all just imagining Bucket, then
rindolfHeh, heh.
rindolfI'm not real either.
rindolf«For all you know, you may not exist and Summer Glau convinced you that you do.»
rindolf;-)
rindolf(Originally said about Chuck Norris.)
AlthirI'd let Summer Glau convince me I'm alive.
rindolfAlthir: heh.
rindolfAlthir: I don't need to be convinced of that.
rindolfAlthir: would you let Chuck Norris convince you that you're alive? ;-)
rindolfI wouldn't , but not sure I can resist.
Althirrindolf: Chuck Norris only convinces people they are deceased.
rindolfAlthir: heh.
rindolfAlthir: what about SGlau?
AlthirChuck Norris convinced Summer Glau to kick arse.
rindolfAlthir: a true warrior brings life - not death.
AlthirI think you misunderstand warfare.
rindolfAlthir: destroying is easy (*cough Attila the Hun *cough Genghis Khan) - value production is much harder.
Channel#xkcd
Networkirc.foonetic.net
TaglineNorris ain’t got nothing on her…
Published2014-05-29

#reddit: Great Poetry

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rindolfhome: you're no longer being funny.
homerindolf: you are being an asshole now
homerindolf: I want my $4 of games
homeor else I will be unhappy
homeif you want to preach about finding happiness, but the not act upon it, then so be it
homebut my happiness at the moment is begging others for a $4 game
rindolfhome: do you want me to put you on /ignore ?
rindolfhome: you seem dense.
homeYeah, when the times get tough
homepeople just ignore each other
homeI see how it is
homeyou can't keep ignoring people forever
rindolfhome: where do you live?
Weaglein his....home.
homeI live in Ontario, Canada
sorabji5252o.O
home:/
homesorabji5252: hi
homesorabji5252: are you a preacher too?
WeagleLebron James is pretty good
Weaglebut I’ve yet to see him save earth from aliens.
Weaglelike Michael Jordan did
sorabji5252a preacher? not in the sense you mean probably
Weaglehe's a monk
Weaglei shave his head daily.
* sorabji5252offers his head to be felt by others
homeyou guys are so gay
rindolfhome: nice.
homenot sure you realized what you just said
rindolfhome: is it lovely there?
rindolfhome: is it boring?
homeit's not nice here
homeI hate Canada
sorabji5252i try not to be crude -__-
rindolfhome: then why not move?
rindolfhome: California! Florida!
WeagleBermuda, Bahama, come on pretty mama
rindolfMaybe the Carolinas.
rindolfWeagle: Israel!
Weaglekey largo, Montego, baby why don’t we go down to Mexico
rindolfItaly.
Weaglewe'll get there fast cuz Weagle takes it slow
rindolfWeagle: heh.
rindolfSpain ....
Weaglethat’s where we wanna go, way down in Kokomo
rindolfWeagle: you're a talented poet.
Weaglei took it from some of the greatest poets to ever live.
WeagleThe Beach Boys
rindolfWeagle: heh.
rindolfWeagle: that's heavenly poetry.
rindolfWeagle: Bialiq was a pretty good Hebrew poet.
rindolfWeagle: there's some good poetry in the Hebrew Bible too.
rindolfWeagle: Isaiah 40 is lovely.
WeagleI'm really not interested.
frauheimerhey guys.
frauheimerreddit huh. cool!
rindolfWeagle: OK, sorry.
homefrauheimer: what
rindolffrauheimer: yes!
homefrauheimer: can you buy me $4 of games?
frauheimeryes
frauheimerwhere
homehttps://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
frauheimeralright
homerindolf: ^
frauheimerhow do dis
sorabji5252o my
rindolfhome: go to hell!!!
sorabji5252rindolf: i don't know how to read poetry. it seems nice though :D
rindolfhome: just live me alone.
frauheimerhome show me how
homefrauheimer: okay
rindolfsorabji5252: it sounds better in the original Klingon.
homescroll down
rindolfsorabji5252: s/Klingon/Hebrew/ naturally.
rindolfsorabji5252: a lot of the Bible is prose though.
sorabji5252i've read a lot of the bible
rindolfsorabji5252: someone I know read the whole thing several times.
rindolfHe also read the Complete Shakespeare.
sorabji5252many people i know have done that. it's a thing
rindolfsorabji5252: yes.
rindolfsorabji5252: I've temporarily given up in exodus - it's too intense.
rindolfsorabji5252: too antiquated.
sorabji5252it's very serious. and it rarely lets up
rindolfsorabji5252: yes.
rindolfsorabji5252: I did read /A Suitable Boy/ cover to cover. Wonderful book.
sorabji5252o my, that's awfully long
sorabji5252i think /Brothers Karamzov/ is the longest novel i've read
rindolfHeh, heh, they are discussing guns on #reddit-mlp
rindolfMy Little Pony ponies with guns!
sorabji5252what's the mlp for?
sorabji5252o, dear
rindolfsorabji5252: My Little Pony.
sorabji5252bronies. i do not understand this one.
rindolfsorabji5252: I bet there's something like what I described on the Internet.
rindolfsorabji5252: I cured someone from an attack of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoaffective_disorder using a technique I learned from an MLP episode.
rindolfThis is some great Television.
sorabji5252rindolf: that's crazy man
rindolfsorabji5252: :-)
rindolfsorabji5252: reportedly, someone once saved a man's life using a technique he saw on /Bay Watch/.
rindolfsorabji5252: this is crazier.
rindolfsorabji5252: maybe there's a good reason for everything in this world.
sorabji5252nah, things just happen
homerindolf: there is hope in this world
frauheimera bit
homefrauheimer: I see :P
rindolfsorabji5252: "There are no coincidences" -- http://kungfupanda.wikia.com/wiki/Oogway
rbarrybot[ Oogway - Kung Fu Panda Wiki, the online encyclopedia to the Kung Fu Panda world! ] - kungfupanda.wikia.com
rindolfhome: true.
Weaglepeyton manning
rindolfhome: people are now saying about facebook what they said about Socrates... ehmm - about Television.
rindolfhome: ;-)
sorabji5252rindolf: a radio host i like doesn't believe in coincidence
rindolfhome: in Hebrew we have a saying "We survived Pharaoh - we'll survive this."
frauheimerwhat’s Pharaoh
rindolfsorabji5252: he may be right.
rindolffrauheimer: the big king/god of Egypt.
frauheimeroh yeah
frauheimerwhat an asshole
rindolffrauheimer: there were many of them.
rindolffrauheimer: last one was Cleopatra I think.
rindolfWell, there were other Macedonian Princesses called that.
sorabji5252i suppose it's all cake after Pharaoh
frauheimerclose
Channel#reddit
NetworkFreenode
TaglineThere are no coincidences…
Published2014-06-06

#xkcd: Programming Languages’ Sex Talk

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rindolfBucket: FAILURE IS ALWAYS AN OPTION.
Bucketrindolf: I already had it that way
ephphathatime to kick aliens into orbit
rindolfIt's not a failure, it's a motivation to improve.
njsgrindolf: failure is always an option except when your goal is to fail
njsg</fortune-cookie>
njsgrindolf: except in bed
BucketI get great sex, except in bed.
rindolfnjsg: heh.
rindolfnjsg: in bed? Do you mean I make mistakes while sleeping?
rindolfnjsg: "What is your favourite position? CTO!"
WaltherFailures in bed mean you have sex that isn’t type-safe; otherwise you would catch the errors at compile time
rindolfWalther: heh, LOL.
Waltheralso, Haskell<3
njsgI have a lipht, my sex has no separate compile time
Waltherbwhaha
* Waltherhas changed the topic to: It's programming language + sex hour at #xkcd! | SCOTUS says [corporate] religious freedom trumps equal benefits for women in 5-4 ruling, FML | Weekly Coffee Appreciation Day | It's put The0x539 in bucket hour! | mint hour | (association football) | knockout talk time | https://www.humblebundle.com/sgdq Ch
njsgwasn't there an UI toolkit called "sex"?
Fephistosex-purity
SirCmpwnI once wrote an assembler called .orgASM
SirCmpwn(.org is an assembler directive)
bhuddahmaybe we should invent the scripting language "innuendo"
rindolfWalther: Haskell Sex!
rindolfWalther: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=sharp-perlcafe-aleenas-little-perl-boys - see also this on #perlcafe many years ago.
njsgbhuddah: for inno setup, sounds like a good name
Waltherrindolf: wonder if that can be pure, or just an IO action
Walther(if you know what i mean)
tomatosaladSirCmpwn: rcombs is always talking about libass
bhuddahnjsg: and you get exactly what you asked for.
njsgHaskell Sex is great, but you don't remember any of it on the next morning, because it has no state
rindolfWalther: with Lady_Aleena who became Mistress_Aleena and Madame_Aleena.
SirCmpwntomatosalad: well, yeah
rindolfnjsg: heh, LOL.
SirCmpwnhe's an irrational wizard
rindolfnjsg: you crack me up.
rindolfnjsg: maybe we need something like Smalltalk sex with a persistent VM.
rindolfSqueak FTW!
njsglisp, as one of the only languages which can truly return multiple values, is the only way to have true multiple orgasms as a result of sex
rindolfHeh, someone I know will get the kick out of this conversation.
Waltherrindolf: :'D
rindolfGeek pseudo sex-talk.
WaltherStateless sex could be a bit difficult to reach though, as it'd require a REST api, and you just might fall asleep
rindolfnjsg: heh.
rindolfWalther: heh.
rindolfWalther++
WaltherOTOH clean, stateful sex should be easy, with SOAP
rindolfWalther: SOAP! NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
* Waltherputs stateful sex with a SOAP in Bucket
* Buckethands Walther another serving of rat oh vah in exchange for stateful sex with a SOAP
rindolfWalther: /me runs away in the opposite direction. No amount of sex is worth having to deal with SOAP.
rindolfThere are some things even I won't do for sex.
njsgrindolf: just have sex over TCP, looks like a good protocol
rindolfAnd SOAP is one of them.
njsgcrushes are UDP, love is TCP, sex is SOAP over HTTP
Waltherand then there's the weird kid with the gopher
rindolfWell, I refuse to get paid to write Java enterprise software - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Emma-Watson-applying-for-a-software-dev-job/ .
rindolfnjsg: heh.
njsgat least nobody mentioned COBRA yet, others would go all OMG
Channelxkcd
Networkirc.foonetic.net
Published2014-07-03

If Ayn Rand was born in the 1990s…

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If Ayn Rand was born in the 1990s, she would be Christina Grimmie.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms’ Page
Published2014-07-03

I Love Being Convinced of Being Wrong

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I love being convinced that I was wrong before. That way I knew I improved and am now wiser. Like the Klingon warriors say when it happens: “What a great day it was for me to die!”.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms’ Page
Published2014-07-03

Where to find a Good Significant Other

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You are much more likely to find a good significant other - with a perfectly sound mind and body - in a Sci-Fi/Fantasy/etc. conference than you are in the middle of the wilderness.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms’ Page
Published2014-07-03

Summerschool at the NSA: My Little Pony Addiction

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SMG: Oh, and when it comes to television, she loves watching My Little Pony. She and I watch it almost every week together.

SGlau: Wow, you’re a pega-sister, too?

SMG: I’m not addicted to My Little Pony. I swear! I can quit any time. Just let me watch one… more… episode. [giggles]

SGlau: Hah, hah. For your information, my My Little Pony addicts’ support group meets every second and fourth Saturday of the month, and I am currently at step five of our twelve step program.

SMG: Sounds like a plan. I’ll consider joining.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSummerschool at the NSA
Published2014-07-12

Summerschool at the NSA: SMG’s Daughter Killing Her

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SGlau: Hah, hah. I can imagine the headline: “Sarah Michelle Gellar, who played Buffy the vampire slayer, murdered in cold blood by child daughter.”

SMG: [Giggles] Indeed, the apple did not fall too far from the tree.

SGlau: The apple completely supplanted the tree. The Golem has risen upon its master.

SMG: [Thoughtfully] Yes.

SGlau: Well, I don’t suppose she will murder you literally. You know, the old xkcd number 725 distinction between "literally" and "figuratively".

SMG: Well, one thing I can tell you about parenthood is that such things can progress from figurative to literal, extremely quickly.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSummerschool at the NSA
Published2014-07-12

Summerschool at the NSA: Who Is The Messiah?

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SMG: We’ve got a lot of time for that. OK: it was 1997-1998ish, Buffy started airing and became a cult series. So, one day a group of yeshivah pupils from a local Chabad yeshivah arrived to the studios saying they have some numerological insights from the Jewish bible, about what will happen in Sunnydale next.

[SGlau burst out laughing.]

SGlau: [calms down] Oh my God, that’s the craziest thing I have ever heard.

SMG: Anyway, we played along, and listened to what they had to say, and actually got a few good ideas from that. Moreover, in one of the recesses, one of the Yeshivah pupils asked me out, and I accepted.

SMG: So we went on a date.

SGlau: So you mean like the 1997ish Sarah Michelle Gellar, and a Yeshivah pupil… On a date?!

SMG: Yes! And I actually had some weirder dates as a happy spinster.

SMG: Anyhow, surprisingly, it was a very nice date, I had a great time, and I learned quite a bit.

SGlau: Heh.

SMG: And one thing he told me was that every Jew (as he said) should believe they are the Messiah, which is something I treasured since.

SGlau: So I presume I’m also the Messiah?

SMG: You got it. We are the most powerful people on Earth, and we should aim to bring the end of days.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSummerschool at the NSA
Published2014-07-12

#reddit: We survived Pharaoh

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rindolfsorabji5252: I cured someone from an attack of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoaffective_disorder using a technique I learned from an MLP episode.
rbarrybot[ Schizoaffective disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] - en.wikipedia.org
sorabji5252rindolf: that's crazy man
rindolfsorabji5252: :-)
rindolfsorabji5252: reportedly, someone once saved a man's life using a technique he saw on /Bay Watch/.
rindolfsorabji5252: this is crazier.
rindolfsorabji5252: maybe there's a good reason for everything in this world.
frauheimernah
sorabji5252nah, things just happen
homerindolf: there is hope in this world
homefrauheimer: I see :P
rindolfsorabji5252: "There are no coincidences" -- http://kungfupanda.wikia.com/wiki/Oogway
rbarrybot[ Oogway - Kung Fu Panda Wiki, the online encyclopedia to the Kung Fu Panda world! ] - kungfupanda.wikia.com
rindolfhome: true.
Weaglepeyton manning
rindolfhome: people are now saying about facebook what they said about Socrates... ehmm - about Television.
rindolfhome: ;-)
sorabji5252rindolf: a radio host i like doesn't believe in coincidence
rindolfhome: in Hebrew we have a saying “We survived Pharaoh - we'll survive this.”
sorabji5252I suppose it's all cake after Pharaoh
Channel#reddit
NetworkFreenode
Published2014-07-16

Selina Mandrake - The Slayer: Mephiqoleth

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[ Selina goes to the kitchen smiling, opens the refrigerator’s door and takes out some refreshments and arranges them on the table and then she opens a cupboard’s door only to discover a small human-like demon inside. ]

Selina: Why, hello there! I guess you did not RSVP.

Mephiqoleth: MAGEIA!

Selina: Judging by the recent happenings, I guess that’s me.

Selina: So what shall I write on your name tag?

Mephiqoleth: MY NAME IS MEPHIQOLETH.

Selina: Ah, hah. [Trying to write on the name tag.] Emm, Ee, Pee…

Mephiqoleth: IT IS WRITTEN IN LESHON HAQODESH.

Selina: “Leshon Haqodesh”? The holy tongue? Do you mean…

Mephiqoleth: YES!!!… HEBREW! [Non-dramatically] I am Jewish.

Selina: Jewish? But you’re not human.

Mephiqoleth: THERE ARE JEWS OF MANY SPECIES.

Selina: Really? That’s great - can I have a Jewish lady-cat? I want one so she can mother cute little Jewish kittens.

[ Cut to Mephiqoleth - he is not amused. ]

Selina: You are not amused, demons are never amused. I should have learned that by now.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSelina Mandrake - The Slayer
Published2014-07-27

How to Achieve World Domination?

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A lot of people think that the proper way to achieve world domination is to create an architecture that will solve the whole world’s problems and then some. We’ve been seeing quite a few of them since Joel on Software wrote this article: Ruby, Google Go, Node.js, Mozilla’s Rust, Clojure, Scala, Perl 6, etc. Some of them have or will mature to something truly nice, or have inspired a lot of features in other languages, but it’s hard for plain-old-single-you to compete with them, and here is something interesting: not too many people want them.

What do people want? Chuck Norris/etc. factoids, lolcats and other captioned images, funny cat videos, parodies of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (♥), photos of attractive (or even not too attractive) men and women, screencasts of games or other programs (including many open source programs), photos of scenery, new and improved recipes for preparing food (and of course - tasty food itself), new, old or renovated jokes, and some interesting tales and anecdotes from your life. And naturally - programs that can will scratch an itch - however small.

Some people told me that my solver for Freecell and other solitaire games, simply called Freecell Solver is useless, but it's not - it's just a niche program. And I received hundreds of E-mails about it. Furthermore, given that Freecell is (or used to be) a big phenomenon in Israel, where many boys and girls starting from the age of 18 found themselves playing it on the Israeli military computers out of boredom, then the fact that I have written a solver for it, has impressed many people I talked with or met, including some attractive (both physically and intellectually) young ladies, and they ended up asking me about how it was written, and which algorithms it employed.

So Freecell Solver was one of my most successful programs, not despite being a niche program, but because of it. Niche programs own. Not only that, but niche everything is great. Many people whom I referred to my stories helped themselves to the screenplay Star Trek: “We, the Living Dead” because it contained Star Trek in the name, and because there are quite a few fans of the Star Trek franchise and worlds.

The more of a niche artwork you write, the more a large subset of those who like it, are likely to pay attention to it, try it out, and enjoy it. For more information, see Eric Sink’s excellent and inspiring essay “How to get people talking about your product”. For example, DuckDuckGo was originally marketed as a search engine by Perl geeks, and for Perl geeks. It was a good marketing decision because the Perl community is small, cohesive and is at a good strategical position to influence other communities. Right now, many people who are not Perl programmers, are using it, as well as, or even in preference to Google, but choosing Perl was a good preliminary strategical decision. We can expect that with the future growth of DuckDuckGo, that it will use more performant technologies than Perl more and more, but it will still owe some of its initial success to starting out as a Perl product.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work“ANN: My Transition From Software Developer to Writer/Entertainer/Amateur Philosopher/Internet Celebrity”
Published2014-07-27

Scary Thought of the Day

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Scary thought of the day: The Princess Bride: the 3-D Remake.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms’ Page
Published2014-07-27

Selina Mandrake - The Slayer: Mephiqoleth Does His Magic

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[ Selina is wearing a backpack full of various trip utilities and wears a pouch bag, and approaches the cupboard of Mephiqoleth. She opens it. Mephiqoleth is there. ]

Mephiqoleth: I SEE YOU ARE READY, MAGEIA.

Selina: Yep! Got my traveller’s checks, some dollars, my mobile, my passport, some water, some snacks, some sunscreen. Not sure if all that will help with surviving The Amber, but I can always hope.

Mephiqoleth: I COULD HAVE USED MY CONJURING SPELLS TO CONJURE THEM FOR YOU.

Selina: Well, as someone who saw enough of your demons’ lot’s shenanigans, and some episodes of Sabrina, there’s no way I will trust such magically conjured goods.

Mephiqoleth: YOU MAY BE RIGHT. MAGIC CAN BE A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD.

Mephiqoleth: BUT BACK TO BUSINESS. ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT ME TO TELEPORT YOU TO THE AMBER?

Selina: Positive. Do your worst!

Mephiqoleth: Fair enough.

[ Mephiqoleth raises his hands and says in Hebrew, as the Hebrew letters (in the modern Hebrew alphabet) appear on the highlighted floor, with a darkened room and the Hebrew letters of the spoken message expand outward. ]

Mephiqoleth: אלוהי אברהם, יצחק ויעקב, שגר את באפי מאגיה, הקוטלת, אל… [ The god of Abraham, Yitzhak and Yaakov, please teleport Buffy Mageia, The Slayer, to… ]

Selina: Whoa.

Mephiqoleth: … האמבר. [ The Amber ]

[ Selina dissolves. ]

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSelina Mandrake - The Slayer
Published2014-07-27

Selina Mandrake - After History Class

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[ The bell rings and many school kids are walking out of the classroom, including Selina. She has an empty hour. As she walks in the hallway, she is sometimes greeted by “Hi, Selina!”, “What’s new?”, etc. and answers briefly. She finds Jessica and Jonathan standing next to Jessica’s locker and approaches them. ]

Selina: Oh, there you are. Hi Jess, hi Jon.

Jessica: Selina! I see you’ve survived History class.

Selina: Yeah, I’ll take it one lesson at a time, I guess.

[ Jonathan hugs Selina from the side and eventually leaves. ]

Selina: So how are you two love-birds?

Jessica: Oh, this and that, discussing computers endlessly as usual.

Selina: [ Sarcastically ] Geeks!

Jessica: Heh, like you’re not a geek too.

Selina: I is!

Jessica: And we is too.

Selina: True.

Selina: This reminds me. I really should update my Mandriva system at home. I have not in several days, now. And to think I originally had my friend Aaron install Mandrake Linux for me, because I thought it was cool that it was called the same as my last name.

Jessica: Heh, maybe you should become Selina Mandriva now.

Jonathan: Or Selina Mageia.

[ Selina bursts out laughing. ]

Selina: That sounds like a name of a vampire slayer… or a vampire.

Jonathan: Or both.

Selina: Yeah. I told you about how I was nicknamed “Puffy” and then “Buffy” during one summer camp, right?

Jessica: Yes, many times.

Selina: Yeah, I found it amusing at the time. For a while afterwards, I insisted that my friends call me “Buffy” until I realised it was silly, and reverted back to “Selina”.

Jessica: Anyway, I’m off to gym.

Selina: Bye, love you.

[ Selina is reading a book and says to herself out loud ]

Selina: Selina “Buffy” Mandrake. The Slayer. I like the sound of it.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSelina Mandrake - The Slayer
Published2014-07-27

“The Human Hacking Field Guide”: Eve’s Homecoming Queen Campaign

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I don’t remember whose idea it was, but we ended up enrolling Eve into the Homecoming Queen contest. When Eve discovered she was on the nominees list, she was a bit upset.

“Homecoming Queen? Me? Why would I ever want to be a homecoming queen?”

“Eve, we thought you could see how beautiful you are, and how much people could like you, if they got to know you.” I answered.

“Hah! Well… oh heck, I don’t have a ready reply. But I’m going to get you guys for this. I really will.” and she started to walk from there. “You’ll see.”

Eve showed up to the homecoming queen nominees roundup, wearing one of her best dresses. When her turn came, she began her speech:

“Ladies and Gentlemen. I don’t know how many of you know me, but my name is Eve Siegel. I urge you to vote for me for homecoming queen, not for your sake, but for mine. I really need you to vote for me, because my entire future depends on it. Seriously.”

“Take a look at my Résumé, for example. ‘Experienced in computers and programming since 1994.’ ; ‘Experienced in Linux and UNIX technologies since 1998’ ; ‘2000-2005 - Debian Packager’, ‘2005-Present - Mandrake Packager’, and more of this vain. Tell me, who will take a second look at this C.V. if it did not say, ‘2005 - Elected as a homecoming queen.’?”

“Now for what I’m going to do if I’m elected. I’m going to erect a gigantic statue of Tux the Penguin, this guy [picture showing on the screen], and also one for Beastie the BSD Daemon, [picture showing] for good measure. I’m going to fight against abusive behaviour toward nerds and geeks, for computer literacy, and… for world peace. What the heck!”

“But all these philanthropical causes are secondary to my egoistical motives of having to win this title for my own good. Thank you!”

She practically brought down the house with this speech. Even Taylor and I could not resist a maniacal laughter. She ended up being one of the five finalists. As the elections were on, Eve started her own campaign sloganed “Don’t vote for Eve!” and gave away pamphlets with nothing but raves about the other four contestants. This also increased her karma considerably.

She wore the same dress during the homecoming queen ceremony, as during the pre-election. As the runner-ups were announced, she was given warm hugs from all-of-them. She ended up being the first runner-up with a margin of only 5 votes to the real winner. She ended up saying she was glad she did not take the title, but I never saw her happier than on that day.

She did not put it in her résumé.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work“The Human Hacking Field Guide”
Published2014-07-27

“The Human Hacking Field Guide”: Eve’s Newfound Powers

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When Eve and I got together to go shopping, we went to a clothes shop. “You know, my newfound powers are intoxicating. Three guys hit on me at school since the weekend, including this really cute Football player.” she said.

“Hmmm… ” I said.

“Are you ladies alright?” the shop’s clerk (Tim, a young and handsome man) approached us.

“Hey Tim!” I said, “I don’t believe you know my friend Eve here.”

“Eve Siegel!” she said and extended her hand.

“Tim O’Brian.” he said and they shook hands. “OK, I’ll be there if you need me…”

Eve followed him with her gaze for a few seconds, and then smiled and went back to looking at the clothes.

“Will you stop that?” I whispered to her.

“Stop what?” she said.

“You’re totally into him.”

“So I’m lusting him a little bit, so what? ‘But I say unto you, that whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.’”

“Well, girlfriend, committing adultery in your heart is perfectly harmless and quite rewarding. And I’m not really raping anyone. I’m tenderly making love to them.”

“Listen,” I snapped at her, “Taylor is my best friend, and I swear that if you…”

“I’m crazy about Taylor.” she interrupted me.

“What?” I said.

She changed her pose. “I’m crazy about Taylor. Always have been. I promise I wouldn’t do anything to hurt him.”

“You always have been crazy about Taylor? Why didn’t you tell him that?”

“Come on, have you looked at me then? I wasn’t his type. He always dated these well-groomed girls, who had some sense not to rebel like I did. Hell, he also dated this incredibly dumb cheerleader once.”

“Stacie wasn’t dumb!”

“I was being sarcastic! My point is that he was way out of my league.”

“Oh!” I said and tried to hug her.

“No hug!” she said. “In any case, I’ll do my best to make things work between Taylor and I. And even if they don’t, we’ll remain good friends. The kind of friends who go to movies together, or socialise at LUG meetings, fix dates for each other, etc.”

“Good, I’m glad to hear that. Now where were we?”

“Picking clothes.” she said, and after a while added: “You know, we should drop by Radio Shack and get some dolls of Tux and Beastie the BSD Daemon. I totally dig these guys. Oh! And a nice Looney Toons poster. I’d hate to pump money into the MPAA’s lawsuit machine, but I really like Marvin the Martian.”

“Who are you, and what have you done to Erisa?”

“Hey, the makeover was your idea, Jennifer. What have you done to Erisa?” and we both laughed.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work“The Human Hacking Field Guide”
Published2014-07-27

“The Human Hacking Field Guide”: Taylor and Eve Going on a Date

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“Hi Taylor!” we said one after the other.

“Hey guys, ” he said, “what are you guys doing here?”

“Helping Erisa get ready for her date.” I said.

“I’ll get her.” Amanda said, and went up the stairs.

“Don’t you think you look a bit plain for the date?” I asked.

“Well, it’s only a movie and a pizza. Plus, there’s no way on Earth that Erisa is going to look better than I am.”

“Holy virgin mother of god!” exclaimed Jeff. He was looking at the staircase where Erisa stood, descending it slowly. Her jet-black hair was arranged in a ball and a pony tail, shining from the light. Her dark purple dress made her look especially beautiful, and complimented her body. She looked wonderful.

“So, ” she said after she reached the ground floor, shaking her body and extending her hands, “how do I look?”

“You look… ” Taylor said, “divine!”

Erisa thought for a moment and then said: “‘Divine’s good.”

“Here, Erisa…”

“Hey, ‘Erisa’ was the old (and temporary) me. Call me ‘Eve’ now.”

“…Eve! Here - I brought you flowers.” and he handed her the flowers he had.

Eve (!) smelled them, and said, “they smell nice. Mum, can you put them in a vase with some water?”

“Ahhmm… Eve, can we stop by my house and give me a chance to pick up some better clothes?”

“Why?” Eve said, “we’re going to miss the movie.”

“Well, people will look at the two of us and say: ‘she is way out of his league!’”

Eve approached Taylor. “Well, to quote Richard P. Feynman, ” she said as she tied her arms around his neck “‘What do you care what other people think?’ We both know you’re a great guy and I’m so lucky to go on a date with you. Mwaaa…” and she kissed him on the cheek.

“Well, ” he said, “I guess we’d better get going. Bye all!”

“Bye!” we all said. Eve and Taylor left and Taylor gave us a thumb’s up as he left, and we gave him back.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work“The Human Hacking Field Guide”
Published2014-07-27

A woman is a lady

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A woman is a lady even if she is or was a porn actress or a prostitute. Treat her with respect, be honest to her — be a gentleman.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkTweet
Published2014-07-28

Half-blind

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I wear prescription glasses so I may be half-blind, but at least I'm trying hard not to be a complete dick.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkTweet
Published2014-07-29

#xkcd: Battle of the Charleses

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rindolf«Who would win in a fight? Charlemagne, Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin or Carlos "Chuck" Norris? If Summer Glau was the arbiter, she would just kill all of them and declare herself the winner.»
FrowarddCHARLAMAGNE
Frowardddickens and darwin would die from being old
rindolfAlso: «Chuck Norris round house kicks doors open instead of using their keys. Summer Glau makes sure doors are open using her mind.»
FrowarddChuck Norris would try to do some internet kung fu and fall over and break his hip
thomas0comerChuck Norris is kinda old, can he still even manage a roundhouse?
rindolfthomas0comer: don't know.
XanTDickens would always win by virtue of some rich contact/relative doing right by him.
Frowarddcharlamaaaaaaaagne would rise from his grave as an angry fucked up drunk skeleton and stab everyone
rindolfFrowardd: heh.
SpicyLemonCharlemagne would come back as a Pokemon.
thomas0comerDickens and Darwin would probably either get along well or debate vigorously while Charlemagne cuts Chuck Norris' legs off
diogenesChuck Norris once fought bruce lee and now bruce lee is dead!
HawatCausality!
BucketPost hoc, ergo propter hoc, motherfucker!
Channel#xkcd
Networkirc.foonetic.net
TaglineHow Chuck chucked Chucks
Published2014-08-12

Play to Lose

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whatsyournamehey rindolf
rindolfwhatsyourname: hi.
rindolfwhatsyourname: what's your name? ;-)
whatsyournamerindolf: i met you a couple of times in #programming years ago
rindolfwhatsyourname: ah, I vaguely remember it and can also grep my logs.
whatsyournamewhat brought you to ##english channel anyway?
rindolfwhatsyourname: you're welcome .
rindolfwhatsyourname: I'm here on autojoin, but often just lurking.
rindolfwhatsyourname: thing is - I cannot sleep yet today - too many high thoughts.
whatsyournamerindolf: I see
rindolfwhatsyourname: do you mind if I share these thoughts with you?
rindolfwhatsyourname: here on the channel?
rindolfAnd he left.
whatsyournamerindolf: i don't mind
rindolfwhatsyourname: OK.
rindolfwhatsyourname: I have a short essay (maybe a Google+ post) called "Play to lose"
whatsyournameWhen did you write it?
rindolfwhatsyourname: where I say that you can learn more from a match/fight/argument/etc. that you lose than one that you won.
rindolfwhatsyourname: I didn't write it yet.
rindolfwhatsyourname: but i'd like to - sorry for being unclear.
whatsyournameokay
whatsyournameplease continue
rindolfwhatsyourname: thing is - it was believed that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Lee is the best combat fighter in history, and Chuck Norris is the second best one.
rindolfwhatsyourname: now at the moment Norris is losing quite a few fights, but part of it is due to him being past his prime and with a malfunctioning left leg.
rindolfwhatsyourname: but my pet theory is that many of the new age fighters could have beaten both Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee (who has since passed away unfortunately) in their prime, at least some of the time.
whatsyournameOkay
rindolfwhatsyourname: and it's also possible that in this day and age if we take Joe and Martin who are two superb mixed martial artists (MMAs) then it's possible that sometimes Joe will win and sometimes Martin.
whatsyournameYeah
rindolfwhatsyourname: moreover, the ancient Hebrew word for fighting or warfare has other more positive connotations : Bread (Lechem), soldering (Lehalchim - as in electronics), etc.
whatsyournameWell, that's very interesting
rindolfwhatsyourname: the root Ch.R.b/bh is reserved for destruction and a sword is called "Cherev".
whatsyournameHehe
rindolfwhatsyourname: maybe it's similar to the greek mythology conception of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athena as noble and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ares as violent and destructive.
rindolfwhatsyourname: my point is that there are many other ways to fight aside from combat.
whatsyournameokay
rindolfwhatsyourname: and the fighting I'm really good at is at writing essays, stories, humour, etc. (which also convey serious messages in hopefully amusing ways).
whatsyournamei see
rindolfwhatsyourname: anyway, I decided that I encourage people to tell me why they think my stories sucked.
rindolfSo I can improve in the future.
whatsyournameyou should go about writing it
rindolfwhatsyourname: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Emma-Watson-applying-for-a-software-dev-job/ - someone told me he didn't like that, and after I asked him for the specifics, gave me a detailed analysis, and I realised he was right and improved it.
whatsyournamei'm glad to hear that
rindolfPart of the original problem there was that Emma Watson expressed herself in a manner that is unfit for an educated and intellectual Britishwoman who, on top of it, has graduated from English Literature from Brown University (which is a prestigious school.).
rindolfwhatsyourname: Yaakov on #perl said that he forgot how to speak English properly, because he doesn't know which words are common and which are not.
whatsyournamerindolf: what's his native language?
rindolfI have a huge problem with English vocabulary, but maybe it's actually better for non-native speakers of English (Which still sometimes ask me for clarification or "What that words means?").
rindolfwhatsyourname: I think it's English. He's an American religious Jew.
rindolfwhatsyourname: I'm an Israeli secular Jew.
whatsyournamerindolf: I see
rindolfwhatsyourname: I think I'll just prepare a fortune cookie out of this conversation and call it a day.
whatsyournameSure
rindolfI'm too lazy to write a proper essay and people may equally appreciate reading an IRC log.
Somelauwrindolf: Just looking a bit at your essay. "but we decided to give you a chance anyway". Here you miss the opportunity to come up with a good humorous motivation to interview her.
rindolfSomelauw: heh.
rindolfSomelauw: well, I don't feel strongly about it.
rindolfSomelauw: maybe they can say that they figured out it will be good publicity for their firm.
rindolfSomelauw: but thanks!
rindolfSomelauw++
Channel##English
NetworkFreenode
Published2014-08-20

Be Proud of Who You Are

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[ Becky and Chankey are sitting in the library, studying together, and listening to Cimorelli - “When I’m gone” . Faith approaches them. ]

Faith: Hmm... hi kids! That doesn’t sound exactly like Anna Kendrick.

Faith: Whoa, who are all those girls?

Becky: Oh, they are Cimorelli - six sisters who sing together. They are a big hit on YouTube.

Faith: Six sisters!

Chankey: And they also have some brothers.

Faith: Heh, God bless their mother. After my third pregnancy (to twins) I said: “That’s it. No way, José!”.

Faith: I would think their being a big family is part of their charm.

Chankey: Yes, and the way I see it: all the power to them. See: I read 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea as a child, and I ended up memorising the English translation and now the French original, because I liked it so much.

Chankey: Anyway, Captain Nemo there, thinks he’s a nobody, which is what “Nemo” means in Latin, but he's not. Thing is: lots of people expressed interest in him due to his various unique qualities, and he kept thinking: “They are interested in tangential stuff, not in the real me. They don't know the real me.”

Chankey: And here's the thing: all these qualities are what make you who you are, and you should exploit them and be yourself.

Faith: Indeed!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkBuffy — a Few Good Slayers
Published2014-08-20

Shlomi Fish’s Comment on /r/depression

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while some people seem to have better talent for some things from an early age (or what you call "age"), many great artists worked hard to acquire it. Furthermore, hard work can and should be a lot of fun, and it's important to also "Have a life" and eat&drink well ("Wine"), enjoy the company of people of any sex ("Women") and have clean , creative, recreational fun, however amateuristic or lame ("Song").

I've started writing about all that in an essay on my site which I called “Putting All Cards on the Table (2013)” and now I wish to combine it, with some newer and older insights into “Putting Many Cards on the Table (2015)” which will likely need to be updated in upcoming years as well.

Like the old (and wise) adage goes: “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time to plant a tree is now”. What it implies in this context is that the earlier you start honing a skill, the sooner you will become better at it.

Anyway, what I suggest you do is go outside and socialise more: talk to people with dogs ("Hi! Nice dog! How is he called? How old is he? What kind of dog is it? What's your name? What do you do?") , interesting shirts, tattoos, etc. Also - make sure to talk to shop clerks, shop vendors, waiters/waitresses, barmen, baristas, etc..

One thing I learned from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratatouille_%28film%29 is that "Everyone can cook", or do most other stuff that was shown to be possible. Furthermore, contrary to popular belief (action) heroism is about bending the rules, and finding you own unique, resourceful and ingenius, "hacky" way to do things like David used a sling to shoot goliath instead of using a spear to fight him and most likely dying. My essay has a section about why David was an action hero and a "hacker", in a broad definition of the word.

Another advice I can give you is to accept the fact that you're depressed and be content. It's OK to be depressed, like this episode of Simsons illustrates: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Moaning_Lisa . Also, one of the the best ways to be happy is to be content with what you have and who you are and accept and love yourself. "He who has more is not happier than he who is content with less.".

Finally, I've recently been tweeting a lot (see my feed at https://twitter.com/shlomif/with_replies ) about Darwinian Fitness which I believe is manifested in humans in (sexual) attractiveness, a.k.a: "hot"ness (which is not the same as beauty and I believe is more important), and which has a very good and positive correlation with competence a.k.a what Marx referred to as "able" in his “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need” slogan.

Now, this fitness/attractiveness is not the same as the so-called Physical fitness and as I contemplated on a tweet, «https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candice_Swanepoel , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_Kerr , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Watson or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence can get more and better dates when in a cranky mood, than the buffest obscure female body builder/"fitness" competitor on a good day.», and that's because they are more (biologically) fit. Moreover, in British slang "fit" came to mean a sexually desirable MOTAS regardless of how athletic he or she is.

If you still want to lose weight then I suggest following my variation on Maimonides' advice for dieting. Namely:

  1. Eat well, and eat what you feel like and want to.
  2. Don't eat in haste - eat in comfort and enjoy your meal.
  3. Eat according to the stomach - not according to the eye.
  4. Eat until you're 75% full - not until you're 100% full (and can't eat another bite).
  5. A bit minor, but my father kept eating food along with extra bread, so he'll feel more full, but I think it has an adversary effect.

Finally, there was this Slashdot feature which claimed that most men and women claimed that their male relatives were more intelligent than their female ones, and I believed the problem is that men and boys tend to be more confident than women and girls (or used to at least), and that implies taking more chances, being more sloppy, allowing yourself to make mistakes, and accepting the fact that some people will dislike you. After a while, I saw this music video by Christina Grimmie which has the very same theme, and this pet theory of mine was reinforced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYX8sjIzjGw .

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkReddit /r/depression Comment
Published2014-08-22

#reddit: Third Wave Feminism

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misspwn_errgnomeous, http://i.imgur.com/fBm7Dd1.jpg
rindolfMeow all good felines and canines and alpacas and ponies! What's new?
rindolfmisspwn_: heh, nice captioned image.
misspwn_rindolf, my kid was bitching that i made his sandwich "perfect"
misspwn_had to make meme
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, heh.
rindolfinspiration++
rindolfmisspwn_: how old is your kid?
misspwn_he got melted cheese on his face and was mad about it
misspwn_rindolf, he's 5
rindolfmisspwn_: was it hot?
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, nice.
misspwn_rindolf, nope
rindolfmisspwn_: so he's a smart kid?
rindolfmisspwn_: what's his name?
misspwn_he's very bright
misspwn_rindolf, oliver
rindolfmisspwn_: that's good.
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, nice name. Reminds me of Oliver Twist.
misspwn_:D
rindolfmisspwn_: why did you call him Oliver?
rindolfDoes he likes olives? ;-)
misspwn_hmmm, rindolf he was supposed to be a sophie. well i had it in my head he was going to be a girl. i cried when i found out he wasn't. and oliver just for some reason came to me in a dream
misspwn_oliver lee, it suits him incredibly well
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, I see.
rindolfmisspwn_: the etymology of my name is more complex than this - http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/#your_name
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rindolfmisspwn_: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/toronto-pm/2013-February/003070.html - that's why they named their daughter Phoebe.
rbarrybot[ [tpm] Hello Perlers, The Phoebe has arrived ] - mail.pm.org
rindolfmisspwn_: I tend to give my characters Hebrew or other more established common names in my stories.
rindolfhttp://www.shlomifish.org/me/rindolf/ - that's the etymology and philosophy behind my "rindolf" nickname.
rbarrybot[ About “Rindolf” - Shlomi Fish’s Nickname ] - www.shlomifish.org
rindolfmisspwn_: does he have middle names?
misspwn_that’s neat
misspwn_ah yes, lee is the middle name, i'm sorry
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, I see.
rindolfLee is a very common middle name.
misspwn_it was my grandfathers middle name
rindolf"Lyn"/"Lynn" is also a very common middle name I noticed - typically for girls.
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, OK.
rindolfmisspwn_: do you have any other children?
misspwn_rindolf, nope, i'd like to finish college first
misspwn_sort of a late start in the college game
Oddityhow late?
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, I see. What do you study?
rindolfmisspwn_: my friend had her first-born when she was in college at 19 or so.
rindolfAnd she graduated from college and now has had two other children.
rindolfAnd a bit recently - her eldest son went to college and impregnated a girl and they live together and he continues to study while raising her grandchildren.
rindolfHe's also very fond of Chuck Norris jokes.
misspwn_Oddity, well i'm going to be 28 in September, i'm studying network engineering
misspwn_my parents keep urging me to have another so they can get a granddaughter, but i have priorities and don't want another child slowing me down right now
rindolfApparently, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariana_Grande is 21 but looks about 16. A little kinky!
rbarrybot[ Ariana Grande - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] - en.wikipedia.org
rindolfAccording to Jewish law a girl becomes a woman at age 12 (and a boy becomes a man at age 13).
misspwn_consider herself lucky for looking young
rindolfmisspwn_: sure.
misspwn_i started getting grey hair at 19/20 years old
rindolfmisspwn_: there was an episode of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabrina,_the_Teenage_Witch_%28TV_series%29 where a very old witch, who was a big player, looked like a teenager.
rbarrybot[ Sabrina, the Teenage Witch (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] - en.wikipedia.org
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, my sisters and I all have grey hair.
misspwn_aw man that was such a good show
rindolfmisspwn_: one of my sisters whose hair is now darker (blackish) is now colouring it.
rindolfmisspwn_: the other has brighter hair so her grey/white hair doesn't get noticed.
misspwn_yeah
rindolfI don't colour my hair.
rindolfWell, at least it's still growing.
misspwn_i bleach mine blonde but have light brown hair naturally so it's a little noticeable
misspwn_not as dramatic contrast as almost black hair though
rindolfmisspwn_: yes, Sabrina was great. I think I still preferred Clarissa - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarissa_Explains_It_All
rbarrybot[ Clarissa Explains It All - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] - en.wikipedia.org
misspwn_clarissa was way better
rindolfNot sure anyone remember CEIA now.
misspwn_agreed on that yo
rindolfmisspwn_: yes.
misspwn_fergasuuuuuuuuun
rindolfmisspwn_: Sabrina was funnier, though.
misspwn_clarissa was just edgier
rindolfmisspwn_: I want Melissa Joan Hart to play or voice Katie here - http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Star-Trek/We-the-Living-Dead/ongoing-text.html
rbarrybot[ Star Trek: “We, the Living Dead” - Ongoing Text ] - www.shlomifish.org
rindolfAnd it features a talking cat.
rindolfIn my story, Jake Sisko and her character are mutually attracted to one another.
misspwn_hah
rindolfmisspwn_: the new MJH is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Watson .
rbarrybot[ Emma Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] - en.wikipedia.org
rindolfmisspwn_: many young people today don't know who MJH is.
rindolfSic Transit Gloria Mundi.
misspwn_wait there is a new ?
rindolfmisspwn_: I mean in essence of being a good girl/"beta female"/responsible-adult/etc.
misspwn_oh, *shrug* i really don't get involved with actors and their lives
rindolfmisspwn_: as opposed to the alpha-female/"Bad girl"/insurgent/rebel/etc. (e.g: Jennifer Lawrence or Sarah Michelle Gellar, and all the way back to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Bernhardt ).
rbarrybot[ Sarah Bernhardt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] - en.wikipedia.org
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, I sometimes get it by infusion.
rindolfmisspwn_: http://shlomifish.livejournal.com/3001.html - this is my most burning Sic Transit Gloria Mundi (STGM) project - I hope to make Megan Fox *the* alpha female instead of Jenn Law and more importantly to make Summer Glau the new hacker monarch instead of me.
rbarrybot[ Unarmed but still Dangerous - Finishing Off The Open Content / Web 2.0 Revolution: (#SummerNSA) ] - shlomifish.livejournal.com
rindolfAnd I also want SMG, Chuck Norris & Megan Fox to win all possible awards.
misspwn_my eye candy for a male celeb would be joseph gordon levitt, female would be scarlet johansen
rindolfmisspwn_: ah.
rindolfmisspwn_: isn't Levitt that Third Rock from the Sun guy?
misspwn_yep
misspwn_i did not like him in loopers or whatever that movie was with bruce willis, nor did i like don jon
badpeacheshiya
Delverbadpeaches, hi
rindolfmisspwn_: ah.
badpeacheshi Delver
misspwn_naughty peaches
rindolfmisspwn_: well, it's Publish or Perish.
badpeachesmisspwn_, what's up?
Delverhi misspwn_ show peaches your wall for ideas
misspwn_badpeaches, watching MST3K and avoiding some math homework
misspwn_how r u bb?
misspwn_badpeaches, oh yeah http://i.imgur.com/bWlXzsT.jpg
badpeachesaww, bb
badpeachesI just got dumped
badpeaches:(
enchiladoD:
misspwn_badpeaches, why he/she do dis?
Delverbadpeaches, cheer up. it might be for the best
DelverI'm sorry though if you had your hopes up for a good night
badpeachesaww, thank you enchilado
Delverwe all need a good night
badpeacheshe said "it's me not you"
rindolfmisspwn_: I still haven't finally decided on which actor will play Daniel (= the white soldier in the first guarding station) on SummerNSA. I'm thinking someone with a baby face, maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Savage
badpeacheshe said we didn't connect
rbarrybot[ Fred Savage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] - en.wikipedia.org
misspwn_how long you been dating?
badpeachestwo weeks
misspwn_ah well at least it's now rather than a year later
rindolfHmm... he's Jewish of mixed German/Latvian/Polish/Ukrainian descent.
misspwn_that saves a whole lot of super sad feels badpeaches , that's when you say "yer damn right it's you"
badpeachesyer right misspwn_
* badpeacheskicks some dust
rindolfHis character on The Wonder Years was not Jewish, while the one of his dorkier friend was.
misspwn_besides, i'm all you need
misspwn_;)
Delverhot sisterly love
badpeachesi'm not asking for consent this time
DelverI've been browsing r/thefapping, are you sure?
rindolfbadpeaches: sorry to hear about your ex.
* badpeachesis now known as FuegoPeaches
FuegoPeachesI'm so mad
FuegoPeacheslike ugh
rindolfFuegoPeaches: don't get mad - get even!
FuegoPeacheshow?
rindolfFuegoPeaches: post his naked photos online!
FuegoPeachesthere's no getting anything
rindolfFuegoPeaches: hire Summer Glau to assassinate him. Using her mind.
FuegoPeachesyou're so stupid rindolf
rindolfFuegoPeaches: I'm just kidding.
FuegoPeachesokd
rindolfFuegoPeaches: sorry, maybe sulk a little.
FuegoPeachesfuck that
rindolfFuegoPeaches: and it's alright to feel bad. Don't feel bad about feeling bad.
Delverpm if you want to vent
Delverpm to misspwn_ for proper womanly venting
rindolfmisspwn_: are you a girl?
Delversorabji, promises to listen too
Delverrindolf, will write plays about it
rindolfDelver: heh, I may actually.
rindolfI often use material from my personal life or that of friends as fodder for my stories.
Delvernow as men, it is our duty to try to switch the blame to women
Delverkate upton has really big breasts
rindolfDelver: http://paste.debian.net/118672/ - this is in part based on a couple I know whose husband adopted his wife's last name but I build on it further.
rbarrybot[ debian Pastezone ] - paste.debian.net
Delvermy brother chose a hyphenated name with his wife. good idea in my opinion, that is until the kids get married
rindolfAnd also there was this woman on #reddit-judaism who found out she was a descendent of some Normandy Duke or something like that.
rindolfSo it inspired this too.
rindolfDelver: ah.
rindolfDelver: I'll refuse to give my future children an hyphenated name. I wouldn't mind naming them after my wife's maiden name, though.
rindolfDelver: and I'm not changing my last name away from "Fish".
rindolfBeing Mr. Fish is now part of my identity and trademark.
rindolfDelver: Kate Upton? https://www.google.com/search?q=kate%20upton&gws_rd=ssl - so it seems - look fake though, but who knows?
rbarrybot[ kate upton - Google Search ] - www.google.com
Delverrindolf, I don't know. I never heard of her
DelverI don't get out much :(
rindolfhttps://twitter.com/KateUpton - that's her twitter.
rbarrybot[ Kate Upton (KateUpton) on Twitter ] - r.com
rindolfDelver: well, it's her body and her life.
errgnomeousno it isn't
errgnomeousit's my body and life
rindolferrgnomeous: heh.
errgnomeousand I will turn it into bread and wine
errgnomeousthen I will eat it
Delverwe haven't grown beyound the 'meh, pretty but whatever' attitude in the us yet
errgnomeousand drink it
rindolferrgnomeous: :-(
errgnomeousdon't be sad
Delvermostly puritan weirdos and post teen wankery drives it
errgnomeousbe happy
Delverbitter dregs
rindolfDelver: I don't mind being objectified as a sex object by women.
DelverI don't think it's the objectification that would bother people. it's the muttered words, the slut shaming, the wolf whistles. the not taken seriously
rindolfDelver: I'm planning to appear on the cover of "People" magazine one day with the caption "Sexiest man alive".
rindolfDelver: slut?
Delveras I said before, meh, whatevs
FuegoPeachesthank you errgnomeous
FuegoPeachesyou're a gent
rindolfDelver: recently, Miranda Kerr has become a slut-of-sorts-and-damn-proud-of-it. All the power to her I say.
errgnomeousI am?
Delver+1 for errgnomeous
errgnomeous;)
FuegoPeachesyou've made me smile
FuegoPeaches:)
misspwn_rindolf, i am
errgnomeouswell that's all that matters
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, nice. Are you bi?
misspwn_rindolf, uh no
errgnomeousyes she is
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, OK.
FuegoPeachesLOL
DelverI think the only time that characterization is appropriate is between two (or more) intimate partners
misspwn_not that it's a bad thing
rindolfmisspwn_: I'm a little attracted to men, but I'd rather not explore that.
FuegoPeacheskate upton is so hot
misspwn_errgnomeous, if the right woman came alone
FuegoPeacheswant to bang
misspwn_kate upton is a QT
Delvera what?
misspwn_alone would be good, along would be even better
Delveroh sorry. slow
misspwn_a QT.314
FuegoPeachescutie
errgnomeousi wonder if kate upton is a fan of john denver
Delveryes. I was slow to figure it out
FuegoPeachesprobably
misspwn_john denver in the house
DelverI was reading it too literally
FuegoPeachesWest Virginia
misspwn_i LOLed about that photoshop
errgnomeoustake me home
FuegoPeachesmountain momma
errgnomeousto the place
misspwn_i fling pooooooooo
misspwn_WEST VERGINA
FuegoPeachesgina
FuegoPeacheshaha
Delverone of my favorites
errgnomeousi need some milk
FuegoPeachesgo get some
misspwn_you can milk anything with nipples greg
errgnomeousI will go get some
OddityBut I do not produce milk
rindolfmisspwn_: I recently kinda flirted with a young guy who sat with his friends next to an icecream shop. I told him he reminded me of Orlando Bloom, and we all stroke a conversation.
misspwn_go top yourself off with your nips
FuegoPeacheshiya Oddity
rindolfI think I bought icecream there.
FuegoPeachescan we use you as a test subject?
misspwn_rindolf, go get you some hot male love
Delverhuman milk icecream? count me in
errgnomeousdid you know ice cream made from hippo milk is pink
DelverI've always wanted to get what I didn't as a kid (sniff, cries)
errgnomeousit taste like strawberries
rindolfmisspwn_: heh, how about no.
errgnomeousrindolf: you don't like hot sweaty male love?
rindolfmisspwn_: I'll sleep with this boy if you sleep with Jennifer Lawrence and let me watch the sex tape. ;-) Lesbian sex is hawt!
misspwn_rindolf, or or you can just do what makes you happy :P
misspwn_i'm not going to become a lesbian for convenience of others sorry
errgnomeouswhat if eating skittles naked while sitting in a hot tub and watching netflix is what makes you happy?
Delverdo whatever you can get by with. whomever it is. don't be too selective
misspwn_because then I’ll have to stop shaving my armpits and become a vegan and read old articles from Gloria Steinem
Delverit hurts later
misspwn_yeah, you'll end up like joan rivers on life support, and no one truly wants that
misspwn_mine worked
Delverthere are 2 homeless couples and a single woman camping near me
rindolfmisspwn_: heh, so much for stigma.
rindolfmisspwn_: I've met many really cool Lesbians.
misspwn_rindolf, :P stigma is for the birds, son
misspwn_i also have pretty awesome lesbian friends
rindolfAnd I think homosexuality is a spectrum.
misspwn_they aren't all super feminazi-hambeasts
rindolfmisspwn_: that's nice.
rindolfmisspwn_: that's great.
rindolfmisspwn_: so you're a girl who uses the term "Feminazi"? I tend to say "cynical feminism" which is less ambiguous.
rindolfI acknowledge the existence of non-cynical feminism (e.g: My Little Pony).
misspwn_rindolf, for me personally it's the whole 3rd wave feminist movement i cannot stand so the term feminazi seems to fit the bill
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, OK.
rindolfmisspwn_: how many waves were there?
rindolfWhich wave is Buffy? I cannot remember.
misspwn_well unless it turns into 4th Reich, i believe there is only 3
misspwn_rindolf, i don't think your average stereotypical 3rd wave feminist truly appreciates what the previous women have accomplished for them
misspwn_it's a circle jerk of men bashing
misspwn_er i should say truly does not appreciate @ rindolf
rindolfmisspwn_: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girl_power - apparently Buffy is 3rd wave feminism.
LadyTr0nwhat other circle jerk could you possibly be referring to?
LadyTr0nmen hating on men
LadyTr0nand masturbating
Delveractually it's good to male bash. it's one of the freedoms that women earned
LadyTr0nno bueno
rindolfXena was an awfully feminist (and unrealistic and comical) heroine, but I can retrospectively say she was awesome.
misspwn_Delver, possibly, but i feel some take it too far
Delverof course
rindolfLucy Lawless who played her: 1. Also had starred in some Oceanian porn films before doing Xena. 2. Cried in her wedding.
misspwn_and i'm not oppressed when i make my bf a sandwich either. i like to cook
Delverjust like men take this silly "men’s rights" backlash into dumb directions
misspwn_yep
Delveras long as we find a happy median
Delvertoo bad we only get one life to fuck up
misspwn_you get your all or nothing groups in all categories
Delveror maybe just as well
rindolfLots of people couldn't imagine Xena (the character) crying at her wedding.
errgnomeousactually there's an infinite amount of lives we just don't realize it
misspwn_it's just a shame you have the ones who are the moldy slice of bread in the package
misspwn_it just spreads
rindolfBuffy was a different matter altogether - she cried sometimes.
rindolfmisspwn_: I'm a 37 years old man who can cook only very simple things like pasta - not too politically correct, I know.
misspwn_rindolf, you get as much you put in
rindolfmisspwn_: recently https://twitter.com/BarRefaeli tweeted about the fact that she started cooking and her Tsculent (with chicken!) looked yumyum.
misspwn_if you only put just the tip in, someone is going to be disappointed
rindolfmisspwn_: yes, my parents and sisters are excellent cooks, but I lack the time and energy for cooking.
rindolfI enjoy eating food (naturally) but don't mind going to eat it in a restaurant.
DelverI ate vegetable straws all evening
Delvermildly nauseated
rindolfmisspwn_: on the plane back home my father and I met a man who couldn't even cook pasta (which I can).
misspwn_yikes
rindolfDelver: ah , maybe eat something else.
misspwn_one thing i've never made and would like to master is beef Wellington
rindolfmisspwn_: he was an amazing man though, and resembled both my father and me.
rindolfmisspwn_: ah.
rindolfmisspwn_: my mother doesn't taste the food while cooking it and still usually gets good results. They recently got many good ideas from T.V. or the Internet, etc.
DelverLadyTr0n, keep on hangin in there
misspwn_rindolf, that's me, hasn't really failed yet except for some couscous with spinach that had far too much lemon
rindolfmisspwn_: ah.
misspwn_earthy lemony overload yikes
rindolfmisspwn_: I'm OK with couscous.
misspwn_couscous is great!
rindolfmisspwn_: I prefer rice or pasta or noodles or tabulah or whatever though.
DelverI need some righteous manhate songs ladies. post it!
rindolfmisspwn_: where do you live?
misspwn_Delver, uhhh how about any song with alanis morrisette
* rindolfis not good at knowing how to meet celebrities.
misspwn_rindolf, st louis area
rindolfI met a few software dev/etc. celebs online.
misspwn_i've met richard stallman
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, I was told St. Louis is a boring town.
misspwn_st louis is pretty lively
rindolfmisspwn_: so did I - I also met Larry Wall.
* Delverwill go for the non-ironic 'isn't it ironic' song
rindolfmisspwn_: ah, maybe it became better..
misspwn_rindolf, the ferguson stuff was close to me but it's dying down a lot
misspwn_Delver, what about jewel
misspwn_or diana king
misspwn_.yt diana king
rbarrybot[YT Search] Title: Diana King - Shy Guy | Duration: 4mins 22secs | Link: http://youtu.be/xn9LQZ5tdys
misspwn_.yt mc lyte
rbarrybot[YT Search] Title: MC Lyte - Paper Thin {actual video} | Duration: 3mins 46secs | Link: http://youtu.be/WH5CmB44TaY
rindolfDelver: there was an episode of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_%26_Clark:_The_New_Adventures_of_Superman that made fun of it.
rbarrybot[ Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ] - en.wikipedia.org
Delveralso Tori Amos
misspwn_.yt upright citizens brigade ass pennies
rbarrybot[YT Search] Title: Ass Pennies | Duration: 4mins 5secs | Link: http://youtu.be/DO1Q7F23DxM
rindolfDelver: who?
rindolfAlanis' "Ironic" song is great though.
DelverI love it
Delvernot a fan of that kind of note shifting
DelverTori Amos, a singer that hits a chord with women and lesbians. she sings about personal stuff, love etc
Delverbig in the late 1990s and early naughties
rindolfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jne9t8sHpUc
rbarrybot[YouTube] Title: Alanis Morissette - Ironic (Video) | Duration: 4mins 6secs
* LadyTr0nis now known as MsPeaches
Delvergood, that's easier to remember
rindolfMsPeaches: are you feeling better now?
rindolfDelver: ah, I heard of Tori Amos. She has some good songs.
rindolfand I say it as a straight man.
rindolf.yt here's to never give up tiffany alvord
rbarrybot[YT Search] Title: Avril Lavigne - Here's To Never Growing Up - CLEAN (Official Music Cover) by Tiffany Alvord | Duration: 5mins 22secs | Link: http://youtu.be/u7vzicDQJ4k
DelverI saw her live but I only went in a group
Delverwasn't really for me
Delverbut I appreciate the fact she really had a strong female presence
Delverrindolf, can you please mail me some Israeli made machine guns. just label them as machine parts
rindolfDelver: heh.
rindolfDelver: I have no idea how I'll acquire one.
rindolfDelver: and I'm not into guns myself.
Delverjust joking anyway
rindolfDelver: ah, OK.
Delvercool reddit image: http://i.imgur.com/8J4rBYQ.png
Delverburning man
rindolfDelver: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Muppets-Show-TNI/Summer-Glau-and-Chuck-Norris.html - here Chuck and Summer Glau make extensive use of gunnery. There are some references to them both being texans too.
rbarrybot[ The Muppets Show The Next Incarnation - With Summer Glau and Chuck Norris ] - www.shlomifish.org
Delvernot into slash fiction. telling it to the wrong person
rindolfDelver: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ponies%20guns - ponies with guns.
rbarrybot[ ponies guns at DuckDuckGo ] - duckduckgo.com
rindolfDelver: by slash fiction do you mean "fan fiction"?
Delvernot interested in ponies either
Delverairships now. yes!
rindolfDelver: OK, how about cats with guns? ;-)
Delvernope
rindolfDelver: ah.
rindolfDelver: which animals do you like?
Delverturtles
DelverI like turtles
rindolfDelver: nice.
sorabjihehe
rindolfDelver: did you see the latest TMNT film?
Delverno. I give no shits about that
sorabjino fucks to give?
misspwn_not going to watch it either, i don't want to have it ruined like enders game
Channel#reddit
NetworkFreenode
Published2014-09-01

Selina Mandrake: Learning Hebrew

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[ Selina is sitting next to her computer at home with Firefox browsing the Hebrew Wikipedia. She keeps highlighting words and hovering over them to find translations using a Firefox extension.

There is a signal, and the Pidgin icon in the status bar starts blinking. Selina clicks it. ]

Mosheh Ben-Amram: [ on IM ] Hello, Selina! How are you doing, today?

Selina: I’m fine. Trying to contribute to the Hebrew Wikipedia. These Affixes are driving me crazy.

Mosheh Ben-Amram: Heh, עברית קשה שפה, but there are worse.

Mosheh Ben-Amram: האם את מדברת עברית? [ = “Do you speak Hebrew?” ]

Selina: Qtsath, or as new speakers will say Qetsath. Heh.

Mosheh Ben-Amram: Yes, one of the first words you have to learn to say, and it’s already a Shibboleth.

Selina: Emeth. [ = "True." ]

Selina: BTW, are you actually Mosheh Ben-Amram (= Moses) the Hebrew prophet?

Mosheh Ben-Amram: I won’t deny that I am.

Selina: Hah!

Mosheh Ben-Amram: There are quite a few other people called “Mosheh Ben-Amram” in the Israeli phone directory.

Selina: Yes, I can imagine that.

Selina: Actually, judging by recent happenings, learning Hebrew may be the least of my problems.

Mosheh Ben-Amram: Anything you’d like to talk about?

Selina: No, I don’t expect you to believe me, anyway. Any more than the amount that I’ll believe you if you told me you were actually the Jewish prophet.

Mosheh Ben-Amram: Yes, well, I have some business to tend to. Good luck with the Hebrew Wikipedia. סעי לשלום - המפתחות בפנים! [ = “Drive safely, the keys are inside.” ]

Selina: Thanks, and let me figure out what you just wrote, heh.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkSelina Mandrake - The Slayer
Published2014-09-02

Unbirthdays

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It’s OK if you forget my birthday, but please don’t forget my 364 unbirthdays. Contact me to say you love me, and every day can be the best day of my life so far!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkTweet
Published2014-09-30

Infinite Weight

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* undead_rattlerhugs rindolf
* rindolfhugs undead_rattler
* undead_rattlercarries rindolf away into the night
* rindolfcannot be carried - he has infinite weight.
undead_rattlerrindolf cannot have infinite weight - that would require being inside of a black hole, or a gravity manipulator that would destabilize the earth.
undead_rattleralso.
* undead_rattlerhas infinite muscle
rindolfundead_rattler: heh.
adaedraYou just got SCIENCED.
Channel#reddit-mlp
NetworkFreenode
Published2014-12-23

What people have on their Résumés

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krator44i am a young university graduate anxious to create new experiences in an innovative environment
zoitei wear cardigans and chucks and i'm eager to work in a trendy abode
tacoinanus_awaykrator44: that reeks of bullshit
tacoinanus_awaydon't put that on a resume haha
krator44what?
tacoinanus_awayEverything you've been saying
krator44it's what everyone has on their resume
tacoinanus_awaysounds like it's a line from a resume
ElmerFUDThat. Wasn't krator44
tacoinanus_awaykrator44: that's why it's bad
ElmerFUDWait. What
krator44it's just the resume side of enterprise jargon
krator44i know a guy that thrives on this language
zoiteI'm a social media expert that yearns for innovative trends in an upcoming establishment
krator44i am a team player anxious to bring new solutions to the market in a high paced start-up environment
zoiteI don't know what pointers are but I can make a mean slide animation
rindolfI am a highly motivated independent team player who is detail oriented and looks at the big picture, and is anxious to create innovative solutions for the enterprise.
krator44that’s not bad
rindolfkrator44: but does it scale?
zoiteit's not very agile
Channel#Reddit
NetworkFreenode
Published2015-01-11

The World is Full of People…

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The world is full of people, who each have their own personal whims and quirks, and which they expect you to remember and accommodate for, all the time.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2015-01-14

It always works at the end…

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It always works at the end. Too bad it doesn't work right at the beginning.

AuthorShlomi Fish’s Relative
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2015-02-08

Growing Old

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Some people grow older and wiser. Not I. I grow older and more foolish.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2015-02-08

What is a lie?

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ProfessorBaconthis is the internet? sweet!
rindolfProfessorBacon: the Internet is a lie!
ProfessorBaconyou are a lie.
sikiothe internet is a series of tubes
rindolfProfessorBacon: your statement is a lie.
ProfessorBaconrindolf: lies are lies
rindolfProfessorBacon: the truth is a lie!
rindolf«And truth be told - I miss you. And truth be told - I'm lying.» -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gives_You_Hell
CoJaBoWhat, pray tell, does a Professor of Baconology do?
CoJaBo..i remember that song
rindolfCoJaBo: finds the perfect Bacon recipes!
rindolfCoJaBo: Bacon is a lie!
rindolfCoJaBo: maybe it should be Professor Mr. Bacon like Reverend Mr. Bacon.
Channel#Reddit
NetworkFreenode
TaglineEverything you’ve heard is a lie.
Published2015-02-21

A programming language that will be good for everything

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How can you make a programming language that will be good for everything if you cannot even make such a screwdriver?

AuthorAn Israeli Open Source Enthusiast
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2015-02-24

Understanding Monads

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I understood what Monads are for 5 minutes. Then I had to let go of the understanding. It was too intense to be kept inside my head.

AuthorAn Israeli Open Source Enthusiast
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2015-02-24

How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?

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Q: How many feminists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: It’s not funny!!!

AuthorOmer Zak
WorkFacebook Post
Published2015-03-03

Taking Good Care of a Book

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Shlomi’s Friend: You will take good care of this book, right?

Shlomi: Oh, don't worry! I’ll just tear the paper apart, burn it, dip it in sulphuric acid, radiate anti-matter on it, and teleport it to a black hole.

Shlomi’s Friend: That’s it? I do it to it every day.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2015-06-14

How to hide your Perl code

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Step 1: Be Clever. Step 2: Use this to write obfuscated code.

Step 3: get fired for writing obfuscated code.

Step 4: Get killed by the maintenance programmer.

Step 5: Burn in hell for a milliard years for writing obfu code.

Step 6: Profit??

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2016-05-14

The Food Chain

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rindolfHi all.
yarajuHi rundolf!
yarajuHi orbii!
yarajurindolf* sorry
rindolfyaraju: meow!
rindolfyaraju: how are you?
yarajuUmm.... sqeuak?
yarajuI'm good thanks! :)
* rindolfeats yaraju - what a delicious mouse.
yarajuo_O
* yarajureincarnates as another mouse
rindolfHeh.
yarajucycle of life, what can I say?
* rindolfgets sick from the food and dies.
* yarajuwaits for rindolf to show up again in some form
* rindolfgets reincarnated as a chimera.
yaraju:D chimera! Kewl!
* rindolfdoesn't remember what exactly a chimera is.
yarajuSome mix of two animals is what I recall
yarajuof more than one animal*
rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_%28mythology%29 - yes.
ubnotuTitle: Chimera (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (at en.wikipedia.org)
yarajuForget the adjectives - those change over time. Lol!
yarajubut the fire-breathing sounds kewl!
yarajumakes it easier to cook bbq? :D
rindolfyaraju: heh, heh.
* yarajutransforms into Remi and tries to collect ingredients to mix to get that "Zing" flavor
yarajuAm I the only one here that's seen Ratatouille?
rindolfyaraju: I've seen it too.
rindolfyaraju: nice film.
yaraju\o/
Channel##club-nomicon
NetworkFreenode
Published2015-07-23

People who are Certain are often Wrong

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A lecture or two ago, when Guy Keren was saying that linux would never ever be a gaming platform i tried to point out he was wrong, and it's actually doing OK, and everyone looked at me like i'm crazy.

Some rules of thumb I tweeted about recently:

  1. If someone tells you something is impossible and you can't do it, it probably can be done.
  2. If someone tells you something will *surely* never happen, it likely can happen.
  3. If someone tells you are an idiot and are definitely wrong, then you probably uncovered an Elephant in the Room and are right. Also see “Encourage criticism and try to get offended”.

In general, people who are sure of themselves are probably wrong, as I am not even sure of the Aristotlean Logic which got us incredibly far.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkPost to the Haifa Linux Club mailing list.
Published2015-07-26

“HP-UX is…”

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HP-UX is not a UNIX, and AIX is even less than that.

AuthorAn Israeli Open Source Enthusiast
WorkQuoted from a private conversation.
Published2015-08-13

THOSE. MEAN. WAR!!!

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rindolfPedro: hi, sup?
Pedrosup, rindolf :)
rindolfPedro: I worked on my home site.
PedroIs it good now?
rindolfPedro: added this page - http://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/models-for-commerce/ ?
amd64[ “Alternative” Profitable Models for Web-based Commerce ]
rindolfPedro: I hope it was good before but now it is better.
rindolfPedro: perfection is in imperfection.
rindolfPedro: and time is believed by some philosophers to be nature's way of moving from imperfection to somewhat lesser imperfection.
rindolfPedro: because if reality was perfect , it wouldn't evolve.
archmint💯<- what symbol is that?
archmintquiet again. Nothing sad I hope.
rindolfarchmint: i see 100 something and some garbage.
archmintrindolf: what?
archmintoh in the unicode box
rindolfarchmint: on the symbol.
rindolfarchmint: yes.
rindolfPedro: also see http://fc-solve.shlomifish.org/faq.html#is_fc_solve_completed
archmintrindolf the goody two shoes reindeer, how are you?
rindolfarchmint: this. MEANS. WAR!!!!
rindolfarchmint: I am an EVIL Reindeer!
* rindolfuses his EVIL Antlers to curse archmint
archmintrindolf, I love you, too.
rindolfarchmint: heh. :-) ♥!
* archmintwields his wand.
archmintBut if you insist
rindolfarchmint: maybe you can join me on the Evil Reindeer Evil World Domination Evil Conspiracy? ☺
* archmintunEVILizes rindolf
archmintrindolf: Sounds like a plan
rindolfarchmint: I'm protected against anti-EVILisation schemes.
* rindolfeats archmint 's wand.
archmintno one can say I didn't try
ferrosHi Rudolf :)
rindolfferros: THIS. MEANS. WAR!!!
ferrosWhat do you mean?
archmintrindolf: you really are all about that war 'bout that war
* rindolfhits ferros with his "My name is Rindolf, Dammit!" cluebat.
ferrosYou're not Rudolf?
rindolfarchmint: i wage wars.
rindolfarchmint: My War! Mein Kampf!
rindolfferros: Rudolph is one of my two goody two-shoes twins.
rindolfferros: along with Randolph.
rindolfferros: and they are among my arch enemies.
archmintarchmint enemies?
* archminttosses the disk to rindolf
archmint*disc
drugLOL
archmintoh hi drug! again for like the third time! :P
drughey minty :)
drugwhat’s going on
archmintNothing. Just listening to tiny dancer.
archmintHOLD ME CLOSER TINY DANCER!
archmintcount the headlights on the high way
archmintnot *now* duuuh
archmintdrug: what are you up to?
drugeating a breakfast sandwich and under the cool AC
drugthe heatwave continues
archmintdrug: oh! what part of the world are you in?
ferrosSo what's your name?
drugUSA
ferrosIf not Rudolf?
ferrosI'm sorry, drug
ferros:(
archmintIt is freezing here
archminthttp://northpole-grenlandia.ru/wp-content/gallery/dog/vuki.jpg
drugferros: what for.
archmintrindolf: maybe you are close to me. Wanna hang?
ferrosMaybe you can save up and move to the free world, drug
rindolfarchmint: I live in Tel Aviv, Israel.
archmintrindolf: Oh. I live on the north pole.
rindolfarchmint: ah.
archmintI thought, you know, since your name is rindolf and everything
archmintbut ok
archmintI'd be willing to take a trip to Israel
archmint:P
rindolfarchmint: so you can walk 1km south, 1km east, & 1km north and end up at the same place?
archmintexactly
rindolfarchmint: ah, cool.
archmintLabel Israel
archmintgoto: Israel
archmintdam. Madlib shades of blue is definitely his best album. I cannot stop listening to it
archmintIt's like you just fell into the heart of New Orleans
archmintWith a hip hop influence
archmintTools!
rindolfarchmint: 50 shades of blue? ;-)
archmintrindolf: - 50
rindolfarchmint: that was a joke.
archmintrindolf: me too
rindolfarchmint: you were supposed to laugh.
* archmintha
rindolfTHIS. MEANS . WAR!!!
rindolfJ/K.
* archmintwields a light saber this time
archminteat that
archmint;)
archmintrindolf: draw rindolf the EVIL reindeer eating a light saber :S
* rindolfdrains the lightsaber out of light.
rindolfarchmint: i'm not much of a painter.
archmintdon't you draw things?
rindolfarchmint: very few.
rindolfarchmint: if you mean this - it's not really much - http://www.shlomifish.org/art/
amd64[ Shlomi Fish’s Art ]
archmintShlomi!
archmintShlomi {XED
archmintthat was a really bad fish
rindolfarchmint: yes, it means "Shalom-ful" in Hebrew.
rindolfarchmint: ah, yes.
rindolf()=<
rindolfSomewhat better.
rindolf-()=<
archminthttps://drawception.com/viewgame/eydXpMGgOh/inception/
archmintprintf "hey terminal_echo\n"
rindolfarchmint: printf-format-string-exploits!
archmint.g printf string exploits
amd64archmint: http://www.cis.syr.edu/~wedu/Teaching/cis643/LectureNotes_New/Format_String.pdf
archmint.g bash printf string exploits
amd64archmint: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7459630/how-can-a-format-string-vulnerability-be-exploited
archmintrindolf.getObject().printf_exploit(rindolf.getObject().get_random_memory());
rindolfarchmint: heh.
rindolfarchmint: sup?
archmintrindolf: nada mucho. tu?
rindolfarchmint: I wrote an email which I wasn't sure I'd like to send.
archmintrindolf: yea. To me?
rindolfarchmint: no, not to you.
archmint:P
archmint:(
* archmintis sad. no emails
rindolfarchmint: join a few mailing lists.
archmintwell. I had 3. but not from my bff rindolf
archmintThIs. MeAnS. wAr!
rindolfarchmint: what is bff?
rindolfWow! Studly caps.
archmintrindolf: bff means best friend forever
rindolfbest-friend-forever.
archmintyes
archmint:(
archmintno emails from my bff
rindolfah, yes, i remember it from My Little Pony.
archminthaha. ok.
* archmintsings
archmintMY LITTLE PONY
archmintMY LITTLE PONY
archmintbla bla bla bla bla something bla
rindolfarchmint: are you a brony too?
archmintI am not.
archmintrindolf: Do the irc clients automatically translate sentences for us?
rindolfarchmint: they do?
archmintrindolf: I was asking you
archmintalso... madlib stop.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=haTAdQt3FQk&index=6&list=RDfFh9XwNkzFw
rindolfarchmint: they don't by default as far as I know.
archminthaha 24 dislikes?
rindolfMaybe some do.
archmintrindolf: so you are speaking English?
rindolfarchmint: yes, English.
rindolfarchmint: I know English to an extent.
rindolfarchmint: I can also write in Hebrew.
rindolfarchmint: שלום!
archmintrindolf: Do you speak arabic?
rindolfarchmint: a little.
rindolfarchmint: I learned Literary Arabic for 6 years at school.
archmintMostly English, then? Or, rather, do you spea another language?
rindolfarchmint: but forgot most of my vocabulary.
rindolfarchmint: I talk in Hebrew with my family and Israeli neighbours and friends.
archmintah. I see.
rindolfarchmint: well, on the Internet, Israelis sometimes use English to talk with one another.
archmintrindolf: I will learn Hebrew for you.
archmintThen we can say things and noone will know what we are saying
archmint=P
rindolfarchmint: in Israel, even the kiosk vendors and taxi cab drivers know English.
rindolfarchmint: heh, thanks for the gesture.
rindolfarchmint: you will also be able to read the Jewish Bible and stuff.
rindolfin Hebrew.
archmintראה כמה טוב אני כבר
archmint=P
rindolf“You can never truly appreciate the Gilmore Girls until you've watched it in the original Klingon.”
rindolfarchmint: Google Translate? ;-)
archmintrindolf: of course not
* archmintis saddened
archmintTHIS. MEANS. WAR!!
rindolfarchmint: well, the somewhat more idiomatic way to say it is ראה כמה אני כבר טוב
rindolfarchmint: heh.
rindolfTHIS. MEANS. ANNIHILATION!!!
rindolfarchmint: i'm not too fond of most Jazz music.
archmint:o
rindolfarchmint: the Madlib track was not too bad though.
archmint:o
rindolfarchmint: http://weblibs.herokuapp.com/ - madweblibs.
amd64[ Madweblibs ]
rindolfNot my site.
archmintroflcopter
archmintremind me to not do pacman -S without first doing pacman -Syu EVER
rindolfarchmint: I'm reminding you to never do pacman -S without first doing pacman -Syu. ;-)
rindolfarchmint: when do you wish to be reminded of that?
* staticdomainsets a cron job to remind archmint every 5 mins
staticdomainhi everyone :)
archminthaha. thanks rindolf. staticdomain, I should :D
rindolfstaticdomain: heh.
* archminteating peanut butter sandwich
rindolfarchmint: :-)
rindolfarchmint: + jelly?
archmintno
rindolfarchmint: ah.
archmintjust pb
rindolfarchmint: ah.
archmintarchmint: ah.
rindolfarchmint: pb is a major pb (=problem)
archmint(=
archmintwhy is that so, rindolf?
rindolfarchmint: it's not. :-)
archminthey, rindolf. you are red in my irc client :)
rindolfarchmint: THIS. MEANS. WAR!!!
archminthaha
rindolfarchmint: ah.
rindolfarchmint: someone on ##programming nicknamed me "Rindolf the Red"
archmintrindolf: the red-war-tipped EVIL reindeer
rindolfLike "Gandalf the Grey"
fahadash.can rand q* archmint
gliese581carchmint, How would you find out that you ran out of invisible ink?
archmintc4 rindolf: you are this color to me
archmintthis color
rindolfarchmint: OK.
archmintgliese581c: taste the paper
archmintfahadash: you are red, too
staticdomainCareful. I switched his invisible ink with LSD
archmint:P
archmintq=P
rindolfI'm reminded that we had to do an exercise for English class about writing a complaint letter to a company and my friend prepared one about a smurf who received a M.I.R.R.O.R - something "round reflector of recipient" and was distressed that he saw there strange blue things.
staticdomainugh, I'm bored but it is too hot out to go do anything fun outdoors on my day off.
rindolfIt was funny.
archmintThat sounds funny.
rindolfarchmint: yes.
* archmintpulls out a rapier and points the tip at rindolf
rindolfarchmint: https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/636595003268030464 - this made me burst out laughing today.
amd64[ Shlomi Fish auf Twitter: "schquid:«R we talking about t wholesale suppression of t proletariat by t corrupt capitalists hell bend on providing #FOSS?!» Made me #LOL" ]
* rindolfeats the tip of the rapier.
archminthahaaha
rindolfarchmint: a funnier thing happened to me with the same friend for a different class.
archmintyeah no. :P
archmintrindolf: oh. yeh?
rindolfarchmint: we were preparing a report about a trip and it mentioned a very obscure detail like it was built by Kurd workers from Jerusalem.
archminthuh. Very random.
rindolfSo we went on a tangent and said "YEs , it was created by southern workers, who were under the supervision of Count Paul the Third, who travelled from his homeland at Transylvania, to meet the duchess."
rindolfAnd we both laughed hysterically.
rindolfAnd then i took a break and said "And her Siamese cat..."
rindolfAnd we laughed even more and my friend fell from his chair.
archminthah. Nice. haha
archmintRINDOLF: http://i.imgur.com/IjQtD3h.png :D
rindolfarchmint: :-) # I'm glad you like it.
rindolfarchmint: hi.
archmintrindolf: hi.
rindolfzanzibizarre: sleep? THAT. MEANS. WAR!!!
archminthaha
rindolfzanzibizarre: Evil Reindeer don't sleep.
rindolfSleep is for the weak and timid.
zanzibizarreWe will FIGHT, till the death!
Channel##TopChat
NetworkFreenode
Published2015-08-27

My bug friend.

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buovjagathis is great: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/356343/comments/5 "Bug, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn."
rindolfbuovjaga: heh, I have many software bugs on my professional network on LinkedIn.
rindolfbuovjaga: some of my best friends and most admired professionals are software bugs.
buovjagaMost bugs are very reliable business partners. Of course, there are a few unfortunate heisenbugs among them.
rindolfbuovjaga: :-)
rindolfBug #356343 for government!
buovjagaBug #356343 is what we need to make this planet great again.
rindolfbuovjaga: heh.
rindolfBug-to-bug harmony!
rindolfLong live bug #356343!
Channel#inkscape-devel
NetworkFreenode
Published2016-08-14

The SCO vs Linux T.V. Series

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rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO/Linux_controversies - wow! It's still ongoing.
farriothrindolf: Has someone made a TV series about it yet?
rindolffarrioth: a telenovella!
rindolffarrioth: would be pretty exciting.
rindolffarrioth: Game of Thrones won't have nothing on it. ;-)
farriothrindolf: Heh :)
rindolffarrioth: they'll call its fans SCOnies!
farriothrindolf: Haha.
rindolffarrioth: :-)
rindolffarrioth: I'm going to setup scovslinuxtv.wikia.com
farriothrindolf: Nice.
farriothrindolf: And a TV Tropes page?
rindolffarrioth: yes!
rindolffarrioth: it's going to be really big.
farriothrindolf: :)
rindolffarrioth: the Superbowl will be cancelled to air a SCO vs. Linux special!
rindolffarrioth: due to better ratings.
rindolfLOL.
farriothrindolf: But that means we can't feature in the superbowl ad-break!
rindolffarrioth: we don't need that.
rindolffarrioth: we will be world-famous even without any ads.
farriothrindolf: True true.
rindolffarrioth: yes.
* rindolfgets ready to sing the "Rich and Famous" contract.
rindolfs/sing/sign/
* farriothhands rindolf a microphone.
rindolffarrioth: I need a pen - not a microphone
rindolfThat or a GPG key
farriothHeh.
Channel##linux
NetworkFreenode
Published2016-09-22

Memoir from a Physics lesson in the 9th grade

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Back when I was in the 9th grade, during a Physics lesson, one of my classmates complained to the teacher that something we were learning was too hard. So my teacher asked her “Do you see people with picket baskets outside?” and she answered no. And then he said “Well, then you should know that life is no picnic!”.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkShlomi Fish’s Memoir
Published2016-10-22

Compiling the World

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rindolfHi all.
bkeysHello rindolf
rindolfbkeys: sup?
bkeysMessing with docker still
bkeysI hate it but there is no better option
bkeysyourself?
rindolfbkeys: I fixed Freecell Solver on ARM linux.
rindolfbkeys: turns out "char"s in C are unsigned there by default.
bkeysI thought this was always the case
rindolfbkeys: they are signed on x86
bkeysI did not know this
ExpiredPopsicleProtip: uint8_t and int8_t exist. Use them. :P
rindolfbkeys: ah.
bkeysI almost never use chars directly
rindolfExpiredPopsicle: I know
bkeysMost of the time C++ data structures are good enough
ExpiredPopsicleSign extending a char to an int can ruin your day.
bkeysThen ints and floats
BlackMoonrindolf: so you actually have to type signed char? :)
BlackMoonweird.
ExpiredPopsicleOr you could just use int8_t.
BlackMoonneverah
rindolfBlackMoon: yes
BlackMoonyou can take my poorly defined types from my cold, dead, typedefed hands
ExpiredPopsiclepfft
rindolfBlackMoon: or use the -fsigned-char compiler flag
BlackMoon'build procedure: use more obscure flags'
ExpiredPopsicle-O9999999999999999999999999999999999
BlackMoon-O911
ExpiredPopsiclePerformance problems solved!
BlackMoonactivate emergency optimizations!
ExpiredPopsicleAlso I accidentally made the optimizer sentient. We're all doomed.
BlackMoonnah we’re fine just so long as.. oh, you showed it some of your source code too? Well no wonder it wants to end all human life
ExpiredPopsicleYou know how the optimizer figures out how some code is unneeded and just deletes it?
ExpiredPopsicleIt did that with humans.
BlackMoonor stuffed us all into a lib somewhere, never to be linked with again
ExpiredPopsicleWe have been simplified down to a 32-bit constant: 0x4655434B
* rindolfsurvived
BlackMoonI will not be typecast!
BlackMoonI am a cHuman! NOT A NUMBER! AND DEFINATELY NOT A VOID*
Type-21>DEFINATELY
BlackMoonI hope the compilers come for you first Type-21
Type-21i'm already lost
Type-21the compilers are flowing through me
BlackMoonresistance is futile, you will be compil error on line 53, invalid type-21
BlackFoxI'm defiantly a void
* rindolfgot transpiled into JavaScript
Type-21aren't the kids these days doing coffescript or typescript or something?
Channel#reddit-gamedev
NetworkFreenode
Published2016-12-02

How to cope with a GitHub outage

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rindolfHi all
rindolfSup?
ZuuHi rindolf and Thymo :>
ZuuMerry weekend :>
rindolfZuu: hi
ZuuHow goes it?
rindolfZuu: fine - working on cpan modules
ThymoHey.
rindolfZuu: perls before swine
ThymoIs GitHub up for you guys?
rindolfThymo: it was a while ago
Zuurindolf, do you happen to know if there’s some sort of perl to C transformer tool?
Zuuthere's this EXIF tool written in perl, and it's just nuts that its not in C :P
rindolfZuu: you can embed Perl code in C code
Zuuof course, if i wanted to have the entire interpreter on board
Zuuanyway, i take it as a "no, i don’t know of such a thing" :)
Thymostatus.github.com
ThymoThey just got a major outage.
Zuuouch
ThymoServer availability just dropped to 0%.
Zuumaybe the student worker accidentally altered the DNS records :P
ThymoIt had major outages yesterday.
ZuuMaybe they have two student workers :P
ZuuOr DoS...
ThymoThe servers are still up. They're serving a 503 page.
Zuuor government attack :O
Zuuno, wait! The aliens have landed!
rindolfZuu: heh
Zuuor maybe little bobby 0; DROP TABLES; -- have visited
ThymoSSH is still up.
ThymoBut hangs as soon as it connects.
* Zuustarts playing the intro theme for X-Files
ZuuThymo, We've got to solve this mystery
ThymoLet's ping -f them to see when they'll get back up. :p
Zuui will help by making fun of things :>
Zuuto make sure we're doing a reliable ping, i think we need to ping it from several places
Zuusay... from a large scale botnet
rindolfZuu: heh
Zuuyou know... to see if it has come up yet :P
rindolfZuu: you've been making me laugh now
Zuu:D
ZuuWelcome to ##Fun :>
Channel##fun
NetworkFreenode
Published2017-01-14

#reddit: The Best at Being Horrible

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funnynicknameoh shit.. so close
hlveOH COE ON.
foddoaw shit, i was early
deependdang
radiofreethat's what she said
rindolffoddo: "Hello! My name is foddo and I was early for 11:11 today," "Hello foddo! We all love you."
foddorindolf: stop rubbing it in
foddoyou're a horrible person
deepends/in/
reddit-botCorrection, <foddo> rdolf: stop rubbg it
deepends/stop/don't stop
reddit-botCorrection, <foddo> rdolf: don't stop rubbg it
foddorubbg
foddordolf.
deependrubbg me good
deependrndlfo
foddordolf the rubbg redeer
rindolffoddo: but I'm trying to win the Nobel prize for being a horrible person…
foddoi'm fairly sure you're not going to win that one.
rindolffoddo: it's one of my most coveted life achievements
rindolffoddo: why not?
foddoi mean you'll have to up your horrible game somewhat dramatically
rindolffoddo: so I'm not as horrible as humanly possible? That's quite an insult
foddoi, also, am working my way up the chain.
rindolffoddo: nice
Channel#reddit
NetworkFreenode
Published2017-04-11

MongoDB vs. /dev/null

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Hanshttp://engineering.wayfair.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/mongovsdevnull.png
Hans> I’ll have to get to the bottom of those unreliable read operations. But this is looking *very* promising
Hans> /dev/null is web scale, we heard, and it supports sharding!
shlomifheheh
shlomifhave I shown you http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=sharp-sharp-programming-dev-null-is-webscale ?
Hansnope,
shlomifand http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=sharp-perl-nosql-dev-null
Hans```how to properly secure it against abuse, so it will only null what you send to it. Not anything external and unsolicited.``` - sounds good
shlomifI should start a page on my wiki collecting links to the /dev/null is webscale meme
Hans>/dev/null has handled zettabytes of write-only data flawlessly
Hansmaybe ^^
shlomifthere's also https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
Hanshaha yeah
Hansbut i don’t like their setup,
Hansits not really scalable,
shlomif:-)
Hanshttps://i.imgur.com/N9Ajqcv.png
Hansyeah but really, nginx stores the entire request body, either in memory or on disk, before serving http 200
Hansthat's not optimal!
Hansif you send a too-big-request-body to this server, you'll get a `Nginx: 413 Request Entity Too Large Error`
shlomifah.
Hansdo you see my point? :P
shlomifah
shlomifnice analysis'
shlomifdid you tell them about it?
Hansnope
shlomifah
Hansmaybe i should haha
Hans>mail: mail@devnull-as-a-service.com blog: noqqe.de r: @noqqe
shlomifnice
Hans(also, if you send with content-encoding: gzip/deflate/sdch, their setup will actually bother to use cpu DECOMPRESSING it, before discarding it)
shlomifah, heh.
Channelprivate conversation
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Published2017-04-30

A new programming language

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I want to create a programming language called “Multiply” so people can say “I program in Go, Forth, and Multiply”.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkTweet
Published2017-07-06

Multiply by Pi

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Take your schedule estimates and multiply them by Pi. Take your expected profits and divide them by Pi.

AuthorShlomi Fish’s father’s mentor
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Published2017-12-19

"creator"

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rindolfTimToady: BTW, is the word "creator" in English reserved to divine creation (like Hebrew "boré") or can it be a more mundane one ("yotzer")?
geekosaurenglish has only the one
rindolfgeekosaur: yes
geekosaurto the extent that there's a difference, "create" implies something new, "make" means following someone else's pattern. but not everyone uses them that way; it's a much looser distinction than in Hebrew
rindolfgeekosaur: well, there is https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Creator
geekosauryes, it varies. there's religious groups that can get snippy at times. they don't run the show
rindolfgeekosaur: in Hebrew we have `assah for "make"
rindolfgeekosaur: thanks! Seems like the FSF are being paranoid in this regard
geekosaursome groups are. "creator" was a perfectly good word until *recently* certain pseudo"Christian" groups decided to throw their weight around
rindolfgeekosaur: ah
rindolfgeekosaur: thanks
Channel#perl6
NetworkFreenode
Published2018-07-30

Everything is Dead

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brainzaprindolf: perl is dead right?
rindolfbrainzap: don't know.
rindolfbrainzap: some people think ruby is dying too
rindolfbrainzap: or even PHP
rindolfbrainzap: someone told me vim is dead
rindolfbrainzap: https://blog.codinghorror.com/cobol-everywhere-and-nowhere/
brainzaprindolf: you gotta let go, its dead
rindolfbrainzap: http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=two-kinds-of-fools
brainzapIt is popular because it makes money. you can quote me
rindolfbrainzap: some popular sites went under
rindolfbrainzap: some people say the node.js hype is mostly over and it is now post-hip
PSvilshey all
brainzaphello PSvils
rindolfPSvils: hi
rindolfPSvils: node.js is dead ;)
PSvilspurrhaps
PSvilsI don't like node.js much, Elixir + Phoenix is the way to go.
rindolfPSvils: ah
PSvilsor python depending on the tech.
PSvilsimo
rindolfPSvils: they are dead too
brainzapwhat abomination is Elixir
rindolfeverything is dead
rindolfwe were born to die
PSvilsbrainzap: it's a language for the Erlang VM
PSvilssuper duper fast, flies way faster than node.js does.
jprajznePSvils: what's the license for erlangvm?
PSvilsrindolf: Python is goin' good, 3.7 release and all
PSvilsjprajzne: haven't checked, shouldn't be anything that bans widespread use.
rindolfPSvils: everything is dead
rindolfPSvils: ;)
PSvilsdepends on your definition of alive
jprajzneit's both
rindolfPSvils: i'm just teasing brainzap
brainzapbenchmarks show elixir is slower than nodejs
rindolfbrainzap: http://www.ugg.li/there-are-three-kinds-of-lies-lies-damned-lies-and-benchmarks/
on_ionagree @ everything is dead
jprajzneand no one cares
rindolfon_ion: heh, that was a joke
on_ioni know, but i also wanted to say it while reading the backbuffer
rindolfon_ion: ah
on_ionbefore i read that you said it. bitrot is a strange thing, when we say that unchanging software is 'decaying' and 'rotting' when it actually is because it does /not/ change =)
rmbeerrindolf, maybe python is so perfect that problems in the channel never arise....
rindolfrmbeer: python is not perfect, but some people will diss any language on ##programming and elsewhere
rindolfon_ion: right
rindolfon_ion: there is also https://perl.plover.com/yak/12views/samples/notes.html#sl-9
on_ionits a sports team thing. healthy competition, gets us moving through life, else we would all just fall asleep being too content ...
Channel#gamedev
NetworkFreenode
TaglineThey’re all dead, Jim
Published2018-08-02

Legend of The Long Variable Names

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pulseproblem isn't when you're writing the code
pulseyou can get away without commenting
pulseproblem is when you look at your 5 year old code without comments
pulseit's physically impossible for me to write code good enough that in 5 years time i'll understand the context around everything i wrote
pulseso i over-comment because that helps enormously
pulsebut that's just my way of doing things, I don't know
pulsei don't really care how other people write code
pulseunless i have to deal with it, LOL
DonitzoI don't have much issue getting back into my own code
Donitzoagain, I use very clear variable names
Donitzosome may say too long
R2robotI, too, have heard tales told of your legendarily long variable names.
rindolfR2robot: heh
R2robot:P
rindolfR2robot: they are a commonly sung topic
R2robot:D
rindolfR2robot: he's going to get a film contract for that
R2robotLegend of the Long Variable Names?
rindolfR2robot: heh
R2robotAn epic trilogy for sure :D
rindolfR2robot: followed by Curse of the Long Variable Names
R2robot:D
rindolfR2robot: and the Long Variable Names Reloaded
R2robotLOL
rindolfRevenge of the Long Var Names
R2robotI feel like that's a solid foundation to start writing the screenplays with
rindolfthe Long Var Names: Nemesis
rindolfR2robot: 50% of them will be the var names/
rindolfFor a fistful of Long Variable Names
rindolfVariable Names: the long, the short, and the meta syntactic
R2robotthe main character: fredTheMainCharacterWhoIsToughButTimidAndWaitingToDiscoverHisTrueSelf
rindolfR2robot: heh
rindolfR2robot: fredTheMainCharacterWhoIsToughButTimidAndWaitingToDiscoverHisTrueSelf is dead, baby!
R2robotO_o
Channel#gamedev
NetworkFreenode
Published2019-01-08

Using Associative Arrays

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Dictionaries are so convenient to use in Python/Perl/etc. that people use them there even when they do not really need to. On the other hand, they are so clunky in C, that people do not use them there even when they need to.

AuthorMeir Kriheli
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Published2019-01-22

I've got better things to do

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rindolffijal: i've ran it 100 times now - same results - as expected
fijalrindolf: what's "same result" anyway?
fijalI meant specifically 100 times in the same process and ignore the first few (warmup)
rindolffijal: ah
rindolffijal: i ran it from the shell
fijalwarmup has much higher variability
fijalyeah that does nothing - you are measuring essentially the equivalent of "how long does it take to run gcc"
rindolffijal: thing is there are caches
fijalwhich is both very unpredictable
fijalthen you have to clean the caches
rindolffijal: ok
rindolffijal: well, whatever - i've got better things to do
rindolffijal: like handling https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket
fijalheh
fijalwell, then I don't understand what is your problem to be honest - why did you come to ask questions here in the first place?
fijalI'm happy to help and explore how things work and explain why you are getting strangely seeming results, but if you are not willing to play along than you are just wasting my time here
rindolffijal: ok, this was a minor annoyance that seemed noteworthy but not too critical
* mattipwill try to remember "I've got better things to do" response for the next time rindolf asks for help
rindolfmattip: heh, good burn
rindolf"pypy ran 'rm -fr ~' due to a bug" "i've got better things to do than to fix it"
rindolfjoking aside - i really like pypy - so thanks all
rindolfon #perl6 we were joking that the reason it is so fast is due to alicorn magic
rindolffijal: well maybe i'll try
rindolffijal: https://paste.debian.net/1096980/ - a bit better after removing
rindolffijal: is my approach sound?
ronanrindolf: the difference between the two is most probably below the noise level
rindolfronan: yes
ronanrindolf: check out https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3133876
rindolfronan: open access - nice
rindolfbye all, killing xfce for benchmarking something else (not pypy) and sorry if i was rude
Channel#pypy
NetworkFreenode
Published2019-08-23

Think Big on #gnu

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rindolfI had the craziest idea
paddysell all computers?
rindolfI'm going to announce that if and when I ever accumulate at least 10 million USD / 10 million EUR / or 10 million ILS - whatever currency is worth more at the point in my PayPal account I'll make the entire individual cultural works residing at my site (at present) CC-by except for those that I consider private / personal or those that were not original text and copied from elsewhere. I may not be as rich as J. K. Rowling used to be (before
rindolfshe donated most of her > 1,000,000,000 USD to charity - good for her) but with good marketing I may be settled for life. And I'll set all my current (not future ones naturally) children free and enjoy the rip offs, parodies, YouTube productions and maybe even ARR Hollywood films with a credit "Based on the Story [ $NAME ] [ URL ] by Shlomi Fish https://www.shlomifish.org/" at the credits for the rest of my life
rindolfpaddy: my computers are not worth a lot and they contain a small amount of passwords I wish to keep secret
rindolfAFAIK it can be Bill Gates donating the whole 10 million or a million 10 dollar donations
jxselfOkay so it'll basically never happen then. :)
rindolfI'll title the blog post "Prolific writer sells his entire works portfolio for the whole world for a shitload of money"
rindolfjxself: never say never
rindolf</James Bond>
jxselfI just did.
rindolfjxself: you lost
jxselfLet me know when you get your ten million.
bheronrindolf: Donate 1 million to the GNUstep foundation I'm about to form… help us dominate the world. ;)
rindolfbheron: forget it
bheronLOL
rindolfbheron: waste of money
bheron:)
rindolfI may donate to the Free Software Foundation
bheronHey man!!! World domination is a good thing. :)
ggoesfund the hurd!
bheronOnce we control the world, all will be good... I promise. :D
bheronYIKES! Hurd.
rindolfbheron: you wont get it even with a milliard dollars
rindolfbheron: and I'm not willing to donate a cent
bheronI know. Hey, as long as it works for me and others... I'm happy.
rindolfbheron: got to prioritize
bheronrindolf: And we were getting along so nicely last time! ;)
rindolfbtw my text here is CC-by-nc-sa for now
rindolfbheron: maybe twit https://twitter.com/Taylorswift13 - I think she is rich and she probably has a smart phone or more and I like many of her songs so she may be interested
rindolfdon't know how much taxes I'll have to pay
rindolfI think Israel is not as bad as Britain was when https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxman was written
rindolfnice song btw
bheronrindolf: Probably worse.
rindolfI like the Beatles too
rindolfbheron: what? no!
rindolfbheron: anyway I'll pay all the taxes from however I got just to stay on the safe side
rindolfdon't want any trouble
bheronrindolf: you forgot that Taylor Swift shares her last name with a cockamamie language produced by apple for people who are too fucking stupid to comprehend Objective-C. ;)
rindolfhealth >>> money
bheronI mean Objective-C is verbose and self documenting yet many people (who have the nerve to call themselves real programmers) can't handle it. ;)
bheron(hehe)
rindolfbheron: great - ad hominem
bheronNo...l
rindolfbheron: maybe she'll sue apple for trademark damages
rindolfand win
bheronI hope so.
rindolfbheron: ask her
bheronyou know... the swift guys wrote me about when GNUstep will support swift...
bheronI told them "Once your language syntax and structure stops changing radically every release, we will support it..."
bheronit hasn't freaking stopped yet. :)
bheronI once used it on a project for AMGEN.
bheronI had to literally rewrite the application EVERY TIME THEY RELEASED an update.
bheronIt's actually not terribly hard to make it happen... there is a bit of code in the swift open source code which would allow it to happen.... it would be, maybe, about 2 weeks of work.
bheronrindolf: and you're right, it is an "ad hominem" attack with respect to what I said about certain programmers and Objective C... but the way I see it some people don't know assembly... is it the fault of the language or are they simply too dim to get it?
bheron(most likely the latter)
rindolfbheron: you need to charge more
bheronfor?
rindolfbheron: if it's swift pay me 100,000 USD / year
bheronOh… well for that job with AMGEN I charged $85 USD/hour.
rindolfbheron: peanuts
bheronwhich works out to about, estimating... 144,000?
rindolfbheron: aren't you living in .us?
bheronYes
bheronThat's a decent living.
bheronbetter than decent.
rindolfyou can charge 300 USD / hour for swift
bheronHah... I have never met a developer who made that much per hour in my life.
bheronrindolf: have you ever contracted in the US?
rindolfbheron: prices send signals - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/joel-on-software.html#joel-camels-rubber-duckies-11
rindolfbheron: I'm sure there are
rindolfbheron: Bill Gates won't get out of bed for 300 USD/hour
rindolfas an example
bheronhttps://www.google.com/search?q=average+per+hour+income+of+developers&oq=average+per+hour+income+of+developers&aqs=chrome..69i57j33.9671j1j0&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
rindolfbheron: think big
bheronHeh.
bheronThink myself out of every contract I could get. ;)
bheronthe only way I'll make that is if I make my own apps... which I am trying to do.
bheronBut you are correct on one thing... I need to think bigger.
bheronBecause this contracting crap just isn't doing it.
rindolfbheron: in the book the princess bride a sword craftsman whose secret better craftsman was killed by the 6 fingered man charged more and more for his now pretty bad results and the more he charged the greater the demand was
rindolfbheron: have you read my link?
bheronYes.
rindolfI'm pretty sure Taylor Swift's time is worth more than 300 USD/hour
bheronIt doesn't justify charging 185% over the national average when I'm already on the top end of the bell curve.
bheronThat's called "Pricing yourself out of a job"
bheronI get what you're saying, I simply disagree.
rindolfif you offer her 900 USD for a three hour concert she won't bother replying
bheronI've known developers who charged 100 per hour.... when the company needed to downsize, those guys were the first to go.
rindolfbheron: ah
rindolfbheron: why do you need donations anyway?
bheronThe lesson is... keep your prices reasonable. A little painful, but not too hard to swallow. :)
jmd$100 per hour is not a over the average these days.
bheronrindolf: Joking. :) I don't. I have enough right now.
bheronjmd: read the link I posted... it is slightly above average.
bheronThe AMGEN job was years ago... I won't say how much I'm pulling in now.
rindolfwell, unless she'll really identify with your cause
jmdMy company charges between 250 - 400 (but I don't get to see nearly that much)
bheronI wasn't the one who mentioned Taylor Swift. ;)
jmdbheron: That's something to do with infinite series expansion isn't it?
bheronjmd: What are you referring to?
bheronAMGEN?
rindolfbheron: once in bay watch the fictional head life guard called Jenny McCarthy the famous MTV video jockey and said "Jenny McCarthy? Hi, it's Mitch Buchannon"
bheronAMGEN = Applied Molecular GENetics. They are a medical biotechnology company. They make medicines derived from genetically modified bacteria which produce certain proteins... Things like Enbrel or other biologically based things.
bheronhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amgen
rindolfso we joked "Bill Clinton? Hi, it's Shlomi Fish you know me, right?"
bheronLOL
rindolfbheron: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Larry-Wall/ - I was told he is only spiritually rich
rindolfbheron: but Linus Torvalds is believed to make 20 million USD a year
bheronrindolf: I think you need to listen to a lot of the arguments you're making yourself... I would like to know....
bheronWHAT IS YOUR POINT?
bheronThat I should charge some outrageous amount of money?
bheronThat I'm undervaluing my work in some way... what are you trying to prove?
bheronSo far you've hit me with several RIDICULOUS things... get to the point. :)
rindolfbheron: one day people will say "I don't remember who the prime minister of Israel is. It's not like he has 300 million Twitter followers like bheron does..."
bheronLOL
rindolfbheron: I'm being motivational.
bheronNo.
rindolfbut time to write the blog post and try to get it on internet news sites
rindolfdo or do not there is no try - Yoda
bheronYou're being *ridiculous*... first off, you've likely never ever lived here in the US... so you have second hand experience about the financial or economic situation at best... and second you're giving these weird off the wall examples based on celebrities or people (like Linus) who were in the right place at the right time.
bheronI would have LOVED if my sophomore project in college turned into the UNIX that took over the world. :)
bheronRight place...
bheronright tie.
bheron*time
bheronLinus is NOT particularly talented.
bheronJust good at being something of an asshole.
bheronLinux is a Monolithic, poorly architected implementation of UNIX... to quote Ken Thomson, "Those who do not know UNIX are doomed to reimplement it... poorly"
rindolfbheron: https://twitter.com/GeorgeLucasILM - only 22.4 k followers
rindolfbheron: she has a bitch image and she used to be the number one twitter account surpassing president Obama - https://twitter.com/katyperry
bheronJust like GCC is a crappy compiler... it needs to learn lessons from clang... did you know that gcc explicitly didn't break out things like the parser and other functionality which would have been better put into libraries so that other programs could use them because RMS was that "it would make it too easy for other apps which are proprietary to use functionality without giving back to the compiler" (I'm paraphrasing).
bheron.. I know this because that answer was given to me when I was trying to build a parser for C header files for a project a while back. (it was for Gorm to discover objects which could be used as target/action candidates)
bheronI don't care. :)
rindolfbheron: she was known for replying to replies and retweeting replies she liked and stuff like that - https://twitter.com/katyperry
rindolfbheron: I'm following https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/ and she seems to hate president trump
rindolfbheron: of course I think many of his tweets are either good or so bad they are good
bheronrindolf: She hates him for a good reason...
bheronhe's a fucking moron.
bheronI hate him more than most.
bheronWhy people in this country put such an idiot in office I will never fathom.
bheronPeople often said... "Well, he's not a politician". To which I responded... "then let your next colonoscopy be performed by a plumber"
rindolfbheron:we are getting out of gnu land
bheronWe are.
bheronTo get us back...
bheronGCC needs a kick in the ass.
rindolfbheron: you should run for president when you get 300 million Twitter followers
bheronLOL
bheronI would never survive.
bheronToo many dark things in my past. ;)
rindolfbheron: then become the next pope
rindolfbheron: see https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-all-cards-on-the-table-2013/#departing_pope_about_twitter
bheronrindolf: I'm an atheist.
bheronMe becoming pope would be a true miracle. ;)
bheronrindolf: well... strictly speaking I'm an "agnostic" in the same way Richard Dawkins is... see his discussion about teapots orbiting Mars. :)
rindolfbheron: please read the link at the anchor - I am an agnostic too
bheronhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MncXMgVIZ4
rindolfbheron: don't have prejudice
bheronI never do.
bheronBe right back
rindolfbheron: ok, then see what the departing pope despite however evil he may be taught me that twitter/facebook/google-plus/etc. are what the Gutenberg press was only much more awesome
rindolfbheron: ping me
Channel#gnu
NetworkFreenode
Published2019-10-28

You can never truly appreciate the Gilmore Girls until you've watched it in the original Klingon

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You can never truly appreciate the Gilmore Girls until you've watched it in the original Klingon.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkFreenode conversation
Published2019-11-09

The Lack of Realism in Shlomi Fish’s Stories

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Note: many of my stories are not too realistic, and aim to reflect a better and more idealistic reality than the one many people would perceive. This is in part because, I am an idealist, and plan to remain so (and my idealism is dynamic and constantly changes), and wish that my words and deeds will carry reality forward instead of preserving the status quo.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkPreface on the page of large-scale screenplays and stories
Published2019-11-09

Q Conjuring Latinum

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Q2: OK, cool. We’ll let you kids do last minute arrangements and we’ll meet here in 45 minutes. Meanwhile I’ll have a drink.

Q: I could use one too. Quark, how much would that be?

Quark: Two drinks would be two strips of gold-pressed Latinum.

Quark: However, Mr. Q., I recall you saying you could provide me with 1 million bars of gold-pressed Latinum.

Q: That’s nothing, Mr. Quark. I can conjure a ball made out of gold-pressed Latinum the size of a red giant. Of course, it will quickly implode into a nasty black hole. Nothing we can’t handle of course, but still.

[Cut to Quark - he is speechless and looks astonished.]

Q: But two strips should be enough - there you go.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkStar Trek: “We, the Living Dead”
Published2019-11-19

Busy People Are Unproductive

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Q2: In any case, I’ll leave you kids for now.

Dax: Are you too busy?

Q2: No. Busy people are unproductive. We are very productive and so we’re almost never busy. But I need some rest, and think I’m no longer needed here. Q can always find me, anyway.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkStar Trek: “We, the Living Dead”
Published2019-12-21

Including things in the kernel

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fenirskunkbin is for mission critical, xbin and sbin are for addins, cause Linux is paranoid crack mother over your shoulder.
tomty89xbin is an android thing i think
tomty89wonder what the x means
Armand"not s"
Armand:P
schu-rextra
fenirskunkLol
fenirskunkKill me.
tomty89exterminate
MasklinI have four bins in my default PATH.
MasklinFOUR!
MasklinTwo I would understand
MasklinBut this is outrageous
fenirskunkBusybox should just be baked into kernel in my opinion
MasklinWould that help?
tomty89i am sure you have a lot of opinions
ananketomty89: that's precisely what I said
Triffid_Hunterfenirskunk: heh do you remember back in the day when there was a http server baked into the kernel?
SuperSeriousCatYe. Building busybox every time you rebuild kernel would be awesome
hexnewbieThe kernel ought to have zsh, wayland and wineserver integrated.
rindolfhexnewbie: heh
SuperSeriousCatAnd a web browser!
hexnewbieThink of the advantages of running CNN's JavaScript in kernel-space.
rindolfhexnewbie: heh
rindolfhexnewbie: you made me smile
rindolfhexnewbie: i remember a .txt file causing msie 6 to fork bomb
rindolfon windows though
Triffid_Hunterrindolf: heh, or literally every single image format it supports having a remote code execution vulnerability?
rindolfTriffid_Hunter: what?
Triffid_Hunterrindolf: ie6
rindolfTriffid_Hunter: ah
hexnewbieOnce again, a flaw in Wine's compatibility! Including an <img> src'ed from "con" should kernel-crash GNU/Linux too.
Triffid_Hunterhexnewbie: LOL, or aux or lpt?
rindolfhexnewbie: heh
hexnewbieIE6 worked pretty well in Wine, from what I can recall, lack of system crash bugs notwithstanding.
stefmorino2Masklin: I have $HOME/bin, /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, /usr/sbin, /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin, /usr/X11R6/bin, /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/sbin
rindolfhexnewbie: :)
Channel##linux
NetworkFreenode
TaglineFailure is not an option! It is bundled with the product.
Published2020-03-25

Gender-neutral greetings

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Alex8532Hey guys who is familiar with the Domain Model design pattern?
rindolfAlex8532: hi, i'm not too much into design patterns
CommunistWolfevery time you say guys I refrain from helping
rindolfCommunistWolf: why?
Alex8532CommunistWolf: Oh, excuse me ma'am.
Alex8532CommunistWolf: Forgot you were in Thailand. Land of the finest ladyboys :).
Alex8532Just joking, just joking.
Alex8532I love you
rindolfyou can say "hey guys" to a group that includes females (also possibly exclusively) too
CommunistWolfI feel excluded by the term, and have a penis. such is life
rindolfAlex8532: today I wasted some time debugging the wrong build stage, so i added some intelligence to my build process: https://github.com/shlomif/App-gimpgitbuild/commits/master ; https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=joel-remarkable-customer-service-3
Alex8532I answered my question... I was going to ask you guys how the Active Record patterns handle bulk inserts and updates...
Alex8532The answer is to put static methods on the Model class.
rindolfAlex8532: hmmm...
jimbzyYeah, you have to use gender-neutral terms, Alex8532. Next time, try "Hey you fucking cunts" instead of "Hey guys" ;)
rindolfpublic status void main()
rindolfjimbzy: heh
jimbzyrindolf, Don't 'heh'. I guarantee you if you walk into a room and shout that EVERYBODY will give you their undivided attention regardless of gender, race, or religion.
rindolfjimbzy: :D
Channel#gamedev
NetworkFreenode
Published2020-07-04

Good vs. bad refactoring

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rindolfrefactoring and optimising code seem like bottomless pits (or evertop mountains?)
warweaslerindolf: I found a similar problem with retopologizing meshes.
rindolfwarweasle: with respect to refactoring?
warweasleAlthough I deal with lower poly stuff so it's not nearly as bad as people who use the subsurf modifier all the time.
warweaslerindolf: Very similar. You can just keep making it "better" when the original crappy mesh was good "enough".
rindolfwarweasle: ah
warweaslerindolf: It really kills me because I do both modeling AND code.
warweasleIf I looked, I could probably find a better paying job doing gamedev...but I enjoy doing next to nothing.
rindolfwarweasle: I recently ran into some cases where I spent many hours trying to fix functional defects, and then converted to a more elegant design, which ended up fixing the bugs later.
warweaslerindolf: Then that's the good kind of refactoring. But I go too far sometimes. I just keep trying to make it better because it's not "perfect".
warweasleAnd honestly sometimes it's easier to rewrite something than fix it in place.
Channel#gamedev
NetworkFreenode
Published2020-08-18

Divisibility Tests

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k_szeYou know how, for numbers expressed in base 10, there is a way to check whether an integer is divisible by 3 or 9 by recursively summing the digits? Is there a pattern to this trick that extends to other bases? Are there special requirements for this kind of trick to hold for a certain base?
rindolfk_sze: i think it is (b-1)
rindolfk_sze: you can also use a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite-state_machine
rindolfk_sze: which works for any number base and modulo
int-erindolf: right, 10_b = 1_b (mod b-1)
k_szerindolf, 3 is not b-1 for base 10, so why does it hold?
int-ek_sze: it also works for divisors of b-1.
int-e3 | 9.
rindolfk_sze: because 9 is divisible by 3
k_szeinteresting. So for base 16, I could check the divisibility of 15, 3, and 5 using this trick?
int-eYes.
int-eAnd 1, but that's silly.
* rindolfdivides himself by 1 and gets a remainder of 0 ;)
* k_szedivides himself by 1 and get NaN.
rindolfk_sze: heh
* rindolfdivides k_sze 's mum by 1 and gets +\inf
mawkk_sze: you can find other tricks by just playing with the numbers in the relevant base
mawklike divisibility by 11 in base 10, for abcd you do d-c+b-a
rindolfmawk: in the general case one can generate an FSM for any given number base and modulo
mawkyes I'm sure
int-eor a regular expression
int-ewhich is a terrible idea ;)
rindolfint-e: heh
int-e(The FSM for divisibility by d will have up to d states (sometimes you can get away with fewer, notably for divisors of the base)... but regular expressions based on DFAs tend to be large.)
rindolfint-e: i see
int-erindolf: It's not stopping people from doing that though: https://github.com/olligobber/DivisibilityRegex
int-eAnd I tried it for divisibility by 7 once myself (with computer help, of course) and ended up with 10789 characters, plus 4 for an initial '^(' and a final ')$'.
mawkugly
mawk...fedcba = a + 3b + 2c - d - 3e - 2f + ...
mawklike this ?
rindolfint-e: oooh, Haskell
mawkor is there something smarter
int-erindolf: http://paste.debian.net/1161958/ is my regex :P
int-esheer beauty ;)
mawkI mean mod 7 of course
int-emawk: The usual rule for this is to split the number into groups of 3, and alternatingly add and subtract them.
mawkbut with the coefficients I've put right
mawkor did I make a mistake
int-emawk: they're right
mawkah good
int-emawk: but hard to remember, I guess.
mawkyeah nobody needs divisibility by 7 anyway
mawk7 is not a pretty number
int-ecba - fed + ihg - lkj ... is easier to remember. And it also works for 11 and 13.
int-e(7*11*13 = 1001)
nejimbanwrite N = 10*a + b, then N is divisible by 7 if and only if b - 2a is divisible by 7
mawkah yes
mawkb-4a you mean ?
int-eNobody really cares because we have calculators and computers and pocket-sized distraction rectangles.
mawklol
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NetworkFreenode
Published2020-09-01

Evil Complete

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oft_gegongYOU GUYS I NEED HELP. You see, it was a long time ago. There was a problem. And it needed solving. So in other words I need help. You see the problem existed a long time ago. And that's why it has never been solved. </trolling>
rindolfoft_gegong: heh
triceratuxoft_gegong: install Gentoo. problem solved
rindolfoft_gegong: was the problem PSPACE-complete : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSPACE-complete ? ;)
oft_gegongI don't go to wikipedia links. The owner of wikipedia is 98% evil
rindolftriceratux: then he'll have two problems: https://xkcd.com/1171/
rindolfoft_gegong: I am 101% evil.
rindolfoft_gegong: I once was 102% evil but I donated 1% of that to people in need ;)
oft_gegongOMG I don't want to learn any more *sprints into a field and turns into a donkey*
johnjayoft_gegong: there are already competitors to wikipedia
johnjaythe revolution continues
oft_gegongyou guys I'm done. I did nothing for the linux community within the last 15 years. I'm a lazy know-it-all with nothing to contribute. *fake dies. fake buries self. fake gets eaten by worms* *puts a death stone above the grass reading: "he never contributed. what a loser."*
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NetworkFreenode
TaglineEvery evil percent is good
Published2020-10-14

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rindolfHi all! I noticed many Hollywood marriages and other relationships have been stable ever since https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Michelle_Gellar (♥!) was interviewed on "why my hollywood marriage works?". I'm not against divorces / breakups, but I want couples to be happy even if I'm attracted to their female partner (and frankly I'm attracted to a metric ton of celebs, friends, and fictional characters - 😊)
rindolfAlso someone here wondered why https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna hasn't starred in a film for years now and wondered if "she forgot how to act". Well, I doubt that you can forget that (if that's a thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERy-99vXxnM ; https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jennifer_Lawrence never took acting lessons and won the oscar at age 22), I just think hollywood producers are scared shitless of her: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/my-real-person-fan-fiction/ .
rindolfthere is https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article465/episode-32-the-battlefield too (also see the Midrash in the blog comments.)
hemkunskapzthere's probably too few movies and too many actors
hemkunskapzwhen you're "in", you bring marketing to the movie
hemkunskapzshowbiz...
hemkunskapzsome producers seem to cast a selected group though
hemkunskapzcontinuously
rindolfhemkunskapz: many positively "hot"/attractive actors are unhirable: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=why+hollywood+can%27t+cast
hemkunskapzyea some acting skills are probably needed
hemkunskapzotherwise it's cameos
hemkunskapzbut a lot of movies have bad acting too :)
rindolfhemkunskapz: BTW: if this was a real film (after some possible revamp) - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/ - i bet thousands of "geeks" would love to see it. ok, i either need to rework the screenplay into the blessed hollywood format or some director needs to take the effort to clear their prejudice and read it as it is: http://paulgraham.com/gba.html (the word "hacker"). being a hero implies "hacking" as the ages old "David vs. Goliath" myth indicates: https://github.com/shlomif/missile-vs-melee-take-three
rindolfhemkunskapz: when i was in the psychiatric ward, a fellow patient (who seemed fairly sane and rational and informed) told me there is a genuine shortage of 'original' screenplays in .il. But even my "humanity" screenplay ( https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/humanity/ - cc-by-sa ) is based on the Jewish Bible and history lessons. Now imagine how films will flourish if they allowed fanfics and crossovers of proprietary franchises
rindolfhemkunskapz: re acting skills, sharon stone ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Stone ) acted fairly badly in many of her earlier films, but they were still successful (and i enjoyed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Quick_and_the_Dead_(1995_film) immensely) and i find the bad acting in last action hero' s hamlet scene and most of Mel Brooks' films a feature - not a bug
rindolfFor the record: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Eont_yEGZs
hemkunskapzrindolf: i've heard that too, shortage of screenplays
hemkunskapzhence remakes etc
hemkunskapzit may even be hard to find any old book that hasn't been adapted
hemkunskapzcrossovers is a matter of copyrights i believe
hemkunskapzif that can be negotiated, no problem
rindolfhemkunskapz: yes
rindolfhemkunskapz: there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_vs._Predator_%28film%29
rindolfhemkunskapz: i released all of my franchises under cc-by: https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/copyrights/#characters_concepts_plots_and_worlds - but it's a drop in the ocean
rindolfand you often need to get clearance for parent franchises
rindolfhemkunskapz: here i broke the unwritten rule of doing star trek+starwars crossovers: https://github.com/shlomif/missile-vs-melee-take-three - it gave me an idea for a franchise crossing star wars Ep. I, Star Trek TNG/DS9, and current real-world/online life with Tiffany Alvord as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padm%C3%A9_Amidala ; My Little Pony's Fluttershy as her internal thought process ; and the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%27s_World_(film) duo as the plot commentors and manipulators. I never said I was sane. (and normal people aren't fun)
rindolfI think I'm going to try https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Con_Man_(web_series) next - giving it 3 episodes. I think stars/creators stardom and fandom are self-sustaining and invigorating.
Channel##cinema
NetworkFreenode
TaglineTragedy of the creative non-commons
Published2020-12-09

Klingons, Hamlet, and The Lion King

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You can never truly appreciate Hamlet until you've read it in the original Klingon.

But all the mightiest Klingon warriors have watched The Lion King instead (or in addition), possibly with Klingon subtitles.

AuthorShlomi Fish
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Published2020-12-31

Beauty Products as the Stone Soup Effect

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( Caveat Emptor: I am a straight and non-trans male, so I may not know what I am talking about. Here be dragons. )

Most men do not spend a lot of time and money on beauty products, even though they often have their share of frustrations with their hair, and they look fine. As evidence, several heterosexual women who looked at some of the photos people took of me told me I looked handsome.

Moreover, most underage girls look cute, lovely, and beautiful, despite not using makeup.

The Scroll of Esther testifies that in the time of the Persian empire (circa 470 BC), a woman's makeup process took 12 months, and these fictional women were blown out of the water by Hadassah (who became queen Esther), who was simply confident, was being herself and doing it in her own (imperfect and thus perfect) way.

So I suspect most beauty products are the stone soup (or placebo) effect for women: they instil confidence, but then can be avoided altogether for an even better, more natural, and more beautiful look.

In my favourite sketch of the British comedy troupe The Mighty Boosh the Ape of Death (a male) has suffered from hair problems even as a child, and then after six minutes of treatment says "Look at me. I'm so confident… and feel strong and supersexy!".

In the videoclip for "Nothing Compares 2 U", the female singer Sinead O'Connor looks great bald. Moreover, the bald actor Patrick Stewart became a sex symbol, and a role model, playing the also bald Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the iconic television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

As of January 2021, the canonical "Alpha Female" (think Sarah Bernhardt or Marilyn Monroe) appears to be Emma Watson, who happens to be short and not busty. Some people will always be unhappy with how you look or just tease you for it (see the old tale "The miller, his son and the donkey" and the song "Keep on Singin' My Song" by Christina Aguilera); the important thing is to realise that you are awesome, and can be confident and competent and beautiful, and even take your "faults" to your advantage.

(If you feel that what enough, or even just one, people complain about has merit you can try changing your strategy, but the "media", including Web 2.0 social media commentators, will always generate a lot of white noise in all directions, and I admit I may have erred on that too.)

Update (February 2022): I now think that makeup which deliberately looks unnatural may be useful as an icebreaker, not unlike captioned or themed T-shirts, dogs, or jewellery:

  1. Lovely couple at an Anime con

  2. Emma Stone in “Cruella (2021)”

AuthorShlomi Fish
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Published2021-01-03

Make everyone messiahs

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rindolfpulse: i've set myself on a quest to make every man, woman, and child (and some fictional characters) a good, happy, but unique, messiah
rindolffrankly, i was misguided at first, and still constantly seek enlightenment
pulseyeah i don't understand any of that rindolf
pulsea messiah is by definition a leader so
pulsecan't have everyone be a leader
pulsepurely you know
pulselogically
rindolfpulse: it is many-to-many
hmw[at]rindolf: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/images/pope-card/pope_card_cropped.png ("You are a pope")
hmw[at]We made these cards and hand them out on a regular basis.
hmw[at]It is from the Principia Discordia
gamelawWell. at least the channel was Hail_Satan free for a few hours this morning.
hmw[at]pulse: You CAN have everyone be a leader. Check out the link :)
rindolfhmw[at]: heh! nice to meet you, your holiness! ;)
hmw[at]:)
hmw[at]Same here
pulsehmw[at], well, not logically, maybe metaphorically :p
hmw[at]pulse: Well. As Heinlein put it:
hmw[at]“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.” -Robert A. Heinlein
rindolfhmw[at]: in https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Queen-Padme-Tales/ Yoda becomes "Master Darth Yoda" or "just plain 'Yoda'"
hmw[at]I'd say, it depends on the situation, who is currently leading. Everyone _should_ be a potential leader and also capable of following
pulsei disagree though
pulsedid you ever try fixing a car
pulseit's really hard
hmw[at]So what.
hmw[at]Are YOU an insect?? *evil grin*
pulseit's not safe if you don't know what you're doing either
pulsei once tried to fix brakes on my bicycle
hmw[at]Darwin wins once more.
pulseand they malfunctioned mid downhill
pulsemost terrifying 3 seconds of my life
hmw[at]I get you :)
pulsei'd rather trust specialized professionals
hmw[at]I would rather have someone with experience fix my car, obviously
rindolfhmw[at]: I disagree with Heinlein that you should know everything. But I agree that one shouldn't over-specialise, be wilfully stupid, incompetent, or non-confident
rindolfhmw[at]: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Queen-Padme-Tales/Queen-Padme-Tales--Queen-Amidala-vs-the-Klingon-Warriors.html#dedication
Channel#gamedev
NetworkFreenode
Published2021-01-09

Internet Talk is Cheap

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I suspect the media coverage of the violence in Syria to be skewed. I think most of Syria is peaceful most of the time and that both the Syrian government forces and ISIL are harmless if not benevolent. I hope and expect Damascus to remain the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, and to feel as Shalom-ful as Tel Aviv or Beirut. Israel, the Hizbullah, the Syrian government, or ISIL will accept money donations, but will gladly pay volunteers to do more than just be web/social media bloggers (often parody ones).

Same for most other causes.

I wish to plant trees somewhere in Europe with some old or new online friends. We may not stop global warming, but we can at least try and have fun and bring love and joy and inspiration to ourselves and others.

Com'on People.

Note that as opposed to secret do-gooders and in accordance with Jeremiah 9:22-9:23, I will be full internet attention whoring (but honest and non-pushy) about my contributions: both given - and received. Yesterday I went outside, and said "Shavua tov", "bon appetit", and "have an easy curfew" to friendly-looking strangers. I hope this will encourage others to dedicate time, energy - and gain it in spades.

The next revolution starts in us. Be a hero. Be a messiah. 😉

AuthorShlomi Fish
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Published2021-01-14

Planning one's wedding

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RozaHi
rindolfRoza: hey
RozaHi
rindolf.pasta Roza
* reddit-bothands Roza a conspicuously small box of conchiglie with pistachio pesto!
rindolfwhat a miser
tallguyRoza hey lady
rindolfRoza: how are you?
rindolfthere are many good but nonauthentic pasta places in telaviv/etc,
rindolfnot sure if Italians will like them
rindolftallguy: i worked on https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/my-real-person-fan-fiction/take2/ today
* rindolfis switch tasking
rindolfalso visited /r/buffy and said that i liked Faith better than Buffy
ruinyou rebel
ruinabsolute madlad
rindolfruin: heh
RozaLol
rindolfsome people liked willow best but i found her too sheepish and recessive
rindolfhttps://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Buffy/A-Few-Good-Slayers/ongoing-text.html#the_q_continuum_duplicator - duplicating golden rings
rindolfif and when I marry, I'll buy my sweetheart a ring made of wood, plastic or copper with a nice design. I'm not going to wear my wedding ring on my finger
RozaWhere, then ?
rindolfhttps://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1347825822414073856
reddit-bot[!!] @shlomif (Shlomi Fish): There is industrial utility for gold, silver, etc. that it is a shame to waste them on jewellery, given people can buy cheap accessories made out of abundant materials if that's their thing [and they look better]. It's all about being confident anyway: https://t.co/4LxFtS0rRl . (6 days and 11 hours ago)
rindolfRoza: I'll keep it in a drawer
cadderlywhat about like jade or something
cadderlyor even quartz
rindolfRoza: or in my pencil case
rindolfRoza: I also will give her my rpg dice set: https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/d10_dice.xhtml
rindolfcadderly: maybe
rindolfcadderly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvMdN_i-D9I - nice rings!
reddit-botFour Weddings and a Funeral: 1st Wedding: The Rings (Subtitled) - length 2m 56s - 160 likes, 17 dislikes (90.4%) - 71,212 views - Albertobezmiliana on 2015.03.29
Channel#reddit
NetworkFreenode
Published2021-01-19

COVID and Detainment

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With all due respect to #COVID, putting people (especially old) in detainment makes them psychologically and biologically worse and worse. A study once concluded that exposing mice to radiation harmed their immunity system. However, my father (a biologist) told me that a different study found that just moving a mouse through corridors in a building had the same bad effect on their immunity system even without exposing to radiation, due to causing stress and fright. Humans wish to go outside and do what they want ( "as you wish" / "make it so" / "carpe diem" ): Saladin Style .

NOTE: here is a citation that my father found about the effect of stress on the immune system. I also recall reading that Maimonides noted that a person's optimism influenced his recovery, and there may likely have been earlier sources.

The months i spent in the closed psychiatric ward for being "bipolar" and unable to leave were worse than my 6.5 years in the technion, and they would be even worse if I weren't so resourceful: Highway to Hell ; Wyclef Jean - Wish You Were Here.

AuthorShlomi Fish
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Published2021-01-25

Fight fascism with fascism

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Hail_SatanThe Trumpism cancer threatening fascism on America shows no signs of remission
rindolfHail_Satan: i'm hopeful
rindolfHail_Satan: and twitter censoring @realDonaldTrump was fascistic too
Hail_Satan64% say they'd form a new party if he left
Hail_Satanno, it was not fascistic. You, a Jew of all people, need to learn what "fascism" is about
rindolfHail_Satan: it is anti free speech
Hail_SatanNo it is not
rindolfHail_Satan: it is
Hail_SatanWhy can't I barge in on your house and yell at you about how Jews are inferior? Why is that something you support?
c705you don't have a right to free speech on twitter
c705it's their platform, they have a right to do whatever they want with it
Hail_Satanrindolf's on the spectrum
rindolfHail_Satan: c705 : https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/kgmrxx/tip_make_sure_you_enter_your_real_birth_year_eg/
Hail_Satanhe needs edge case examples, because regular explanations don't work
c705great way to lose the argument before it even began
c705rindolf: i'm not clicking that
rindolfc705: can you form your own twitter? get real
Hail_Satanyes, you have to be at least 13 years old to use twitter lol
c705rindolf: yes, actually you can
rindolfHail_Satan: and i am 42
Hail_Satanthat's nice
c705see Parler, and whatever other garbage is out there
Hail_SatanI like some fish
rindolfHail_Satan: and Samantha Smith was 10 y.o. when she sent the letter
Hail_Satanthat doesn't make any sense, rindolf
rindolfHail_Satan: why doesn't it? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith - read about her
Hail_Satanthis is your argument why twitter banning trump is fascist? lol
Hail_Satan"We Jewish autists endorse genocide as a form of speech, which must be respected"
Hail_Satanlick boot harder
Hail_Satanin fact, if these are your true beliefs, I'm fine with the Nazis genociding your bloodline.
rindolfHail_Satan: no, these are two different issues
Hail_SatanOnce sycophants like you are gone, we can finally get to the real work of ending the fascists
rindolfHail_Satan: i think "the truths are out there"
rindolfHail_Satan: https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/dwaviq/where_they_have_burned_books_they_will_end_in/
mawkwhat do you have against fascists Hail_Satan ?
Hail_SatanNothing. Kill the Jews, mawk. Start with rindolf.
mawkhmm
mawkbut he's nice
Hail_SatanYou suck at fascism
mawk:(
mawkI'm a peaceful fascist
rindolfnot everything trump said on Twitter was bad, and many people replied to him or retweeted him
Hail_SatanI'm going to ignore rindolf now
Hail_SatanThe last thing I need is Israeli pro-trump spam in my life
Hail_SatanFuck off n die
mawklol
rindolfheh.
rindolfi am pro-free-speech - not pro-trump
mawksorry rindolf that's too fascist
mawkyou can't say that
mawkyou need to abide by the rules of the new sheriff in town
Gustavo6046Hello
mawkhi
mawkI'm in pain
mawkin even more withdrawals
rindolfi was asked to delete https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Star-Trek/We-the-Living-Dead/ongoing-text.html for [get this] saying "hot girls"
rasculonly fascists get pain
mawklol
mawknot sure
rindolfmawk: heh
rasculpretty sure Hitler also wore shoes so wearing shoes supports nazism
Gustavo6046mawk: aw
Gustavo6046*hug*
Gustavo6046rascul: lol wat
Gustavo6046oh I get the joke
rindolfrascul: heh
Gustavo6046reductio at hitlerum
mawkad
mawknot at
Gustavo6046reductio ad hitlerum*
Gustavo6046mawk: yeah I Know
Gustavo6046I'm kinda half asleep
Gustavo6046but I know basic Latin
Gustavo6046kind of
Gustavo6046at least I like Latin anyway.
mawkI got kicked out of Latin class after 2 years
mawkfor lack of interest
rasculsorry i just missed the fascist nazi discussion by a few minutes and i wanted to take place
rindolfhttps://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/06/01/defend-say/ - « I Disapprove of What You Say, But I Will Defend to the Death Your Right to Say It» - a woman
Gustavo6046look I had rough sleep and this coffee sucks but at least it lets me not fall asleep
rasculs/place/part/
mawkbut I prefer ελλενικα
Gustavo6046rascul: let me cheer and hug mawk in peace
rasculno that's fascism
rindolfmawk: have you watched the Life of Brian skit?
c705my coffee this morning is fascist
rasculdown with coffee
mawkwhat's a skit rindolf ?
mawkO
mawkI watched the whole movie
rindolfmawk: a sketch
mawkah
rindolfmawk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lczHvB3Y9s
mawkyes I remember
rindolfmawk: i wrote this in reference to the "what have the Romans done for us" sketch: https://github.com/shlomif/why-the-BSDs-should-not-blame-USL-vs-BSDi-for-linux-dominance
Hail_Satanask him about Buffy the Vampire
Hail_Satanhe has this weird blog where he pretends to be famous women
rindolfthis is fanfic: e.g: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/
rindolfmawk: "hot girls" is nothing compared to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs
Channel##Linux-offtopic
NetworkFreenode
Published2021-02-07

Doing Hot Celebs

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I at ~ 2006 "I'd rather be doing hot models than doing code".

I at ~2021 "I'm not just doing it for money. I'm doing it for doing hot youtubers!" . I think most attractive members of the appropriate sex (MOTAS) are polymath, geeky and hacker (= action hero) entertainers/educators/amateur philosophers, anyway.

(Also: your kilometrage may vary, but I need only one attractive significant other at a time. Or fewer. )

AuthorShlomi Fish
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Published2021-02-08

How the Chun Li vs. Tifa's Battle Should End

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Reflecting on Chun-Li vs Tifa (Street Fighter 2 vs Final Fantasy VII) - Girl Fight! Ultimate Fan Fights Ep. 5 video, I think both girls fought well. They should shake hands and declare themselves equally good and go:

  1. Grab a few drinks or snacks together.

  2. Hit on a couple of men.

  3. Hit these men.

  4. Make out with these men.

  5. Make love to these men.

  6. Make love to each other…😉.

  7. Whatever floats their boat!

"War is good for business. Peace is good for business." — The Ferengi Rules of Acquisition.

AuthorShlomi Fish
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Published2021-02-26

"In Israel, we have…"

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In Israel, we have Falafel, Hummus, T'hina, Shawarma, Shishlik

And we love to eat Bourekas in the morning!

— Israeli teenagers tormenting English-speaking tourists while kayaking on River Jordan.

AuthorShlomi Fish's high school friends
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Published2021-03-06

Hacky Acting for Fun and Profit

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rindolfPrestige: it's funny - back in the 8th grade, my classmates and i took parts reading a Hebrew translation of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Misanthrope and at one point I was assigned to recite the role of the protagonist, and I purposely made him sound more dramatic and phony cuz it was more fun, I had nothing to lose (no one cares about your 8th grade "literature" class grades in .il). and my classmates and the teacher loved me!
PrestigeShould've gone into drama in high school :P
rindolfPrestige: i think that was the tactic of Mel Brooks' films and Arnie and later Emma Watson
rindolfdon't act naturally and convincingly - act to captivate the crowds
rindolfPrestige: heh, I became a blogger instead ;P
rindolfPrestige: web 1.0/early web 2.0 was dominated by writers and web comicsers
PrestigeSpeaking of that, I need to make another youtube video
PrestigeI might go offtopic and talk about peanut butter
rindolfPrestige: do you mean "need" as in want? or "must" by decree of the gods/rules/guidelines?
Prestigeas in want
rindolfPrestige: ah, then go for it
* rindolfis Prestige 's biggest cheerleader
rindolfmaybe your video will get 10**9 views
rindolfprobably not , but you should still try
rindolfi was happy with 1e5 views
PrestigeI think my most viewed is like 3000, not sure
Prestigebut I don’t make many
rindolfPrestige: i think the best strategy for winning is saying "sure, i'd like to win. i'll do my best to win wo spending too much time on that. and i'm not going to be an 'asshole' and hinder the other players, and certainly won't try to damage my or their physical health or lives. 2nd, 4th or last place is fine."
rindolfPrestige: oh - and i'll do it in my unique and quirky way
rindolfPrestige: i disabled youtube ads on most of my uploads due to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
rindolfPrestige: i think amateur vs. professional is a subcase of doing what you feel is best vs. what your 'authorities' tell you to
rindolfPrestige: i love the https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ceiling-cat meme because it made many church/etc. preachers rethink their strategy
rindolfPrestige: a fellow writer on https://web.mit.edu/mbarker/www/writers.html told me that 'linking is not writing' and that she doesn't have to learn sw dev (xhtml5/etc.). i didn't believe her.
Prestigelinking is not writing?
rindolfPrestige: hyperlinking - <a href=... etc
rindolfPrestige: or even hello fluttershy ( https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Fluttershy )!
rindolfPrestige: i think https://slashdot.org/ are much less obsessed against "self-promotion" than redditors and they also are infatuated with star wars ep. I-III and Natalie Portman. this may all work to my advantage with https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Queen-Padme-Tales/teaser/
rindolfCppCon: i'm a spammer king... ahm hacker king
rindolfi think "to know" in Hebrew meant something close to many of the modern meanings of "to hack"
rindolfe.g: to conceive something w joy, including a perl/python script
rindolfone of my pupils who was a female religious Jew said writing a perl script felt close to giving birth
pulse_we have room temperature, but do we have rune temperature
MrFlibbleif god exists then god is Odin.
pulse_i thought we settled on Thor being the cooler one
MrFlibbleOdin is the main one.
pulse_what about Zeus
MrFlibbledoes Greek Mythology predate Norse?
pulse_I don't know
pulse_i think Shiva would beat both their asses though
MrFlibbleI suppose Ra predates them both
MrFlibblemy font selection dialog is getting quite big now: https://i.imgur.com/9sQs56u.png :D
Hail_SantaGod would totally wreck Shiva
pulse_nah
Hail_Santais he allowed to use angels?
pulse_god is like
pulse_only god of this realm
pulse_Shiva is the primal deity of the universe
MrFlibbleis he allowed to use angles?
Hail_Santayeah but counterpoint: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo4bBj5zJNk
cantelopehttps://code.whitehotrobot.com/d/2w7q
rindolfMrFlibble: if God exists, then he is Fluttershy: http://shlomifishswiki.branchable.com/Fluttershy__44___Princess_of_Princesses__44___head_of_the_secret_cabal_leadership_of_the_Mossad__44___the_already_top_secret_intelligence_agency_of_the_Zionist_conspiracy/
rindolf"God is dead -- Nietzsche. Nietzsche is dead -- God. Nietzsche is God -- dead." -- fortune-mod
Donitzochecks out
* rindolfsacrifices a puppy to ceiling cat: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ceiling-cat
MrFlibblerindolf is a MOSSAD spy.
rindolfMrFlibble: I iz! Mossad agent no. 2.1beta
* rindolfdoesn't know who agent #1 is.
rindolfmaybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalie_Portman
rindolfor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Refaeli
rindolfor red band: https://www.pri.org/stories/2012-03-09/israeli-rockers-red-band-more-raunchy-muppets
rindolfI do know that SMG ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Michelle_Gellar ♥!) is the NSA agent #1, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Glau is NSA agent #2: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/
Hail_SantaIsraelis are so weird
rindolfmeanwhile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts is the number 1 CIA assassin. he kills people using his mind
rindolfHail_Santa: "insanity" is addictive and contagious! join the peoples ("goys") league of the children of Yis'ra'el (The honest leader!)
rindolfHail_Santa: if Israelis were not crazily awesome, we wouldn't have made it so far: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-all-cards-on-the-table-2013/DocBook5/putting-all-cards-on-the-table-2013/best_warriors.xhtml
rindolfHail_Santa: hard working / non-introspecting / conformists / sadists are useless as they are to the top commando units. They'd much rather hire a girl who spent her entire adolscentehood writing mlp/spongebob/sesame street/celeb gossip/star wars/etc. crossovers
rindolfNote that even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schwarzenegger is now an "amateur"/geek - he played in films in an overemotional way on purpose to draw the crowds (and anger the "professional" film critics - fuck them!)
rindolfhis daughters are not bodybuilders... ;)
rindolfHail_Santa: I am proud to be among the craziest Israelis i know: https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1343454894804631557
rindolfHail_Santa: KGB agent #1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith (j/k - and RIP)
notchrisrindolf: I understand like
notchris1/3 of what you post
notchrisbut I enjoy it
pulse_hmm, a dogcow
* pulse_inspects
rindolfnotchris: 1/3 is better than 1/12
rindolfor at least larger
notchristrue!
MrFlibbleI like muscular women.
pulse_i like tomatoes
MrFlibbleI also like tomatoes.
MrFlibblein addition to muscular women.
pulse_well, muscular women can pick a lot of tomatoes in one afternoon
MrFlibbletomatoes are a fruit.
pulse_then why don't you juice them
MrFlibblesome people do
pulse_weirdos
MrFlibblepulse_: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_(cocktail)
pulse_i tried that once
pulse_it tastes awful
MrFlibblenever had one myself
MrFlibbleI've had a white Russian .. The Dude Abides.
pulse_i wish i could slay dragons in skyrim but i have to write JS instead
pulse_better get myself an extra strong coffee
MrFlibblepulse_: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJjCnWm5cvE
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Published2021-03-19
rindolfbandali: hi, sup?
bandalihey rindolf, not much; mostly drowned in various kinds of work around jami. you?
rindolfbandali: good luck w jami - does it have tests and ci?
bandalirindolf, ha, cool. as for jami, thanks. it has a few tests, not many, but yeah we do have a CI that rebuilds and checks things when we push patches
rindolfbandali: ah, i need to fix my site's ci
rindolfit has many deps
rindolfand npm is being a bitch
rindolfbandali: https://travis-ci.org/github/shlomif/shlomi-fish-homepage
raghavgururajanapteryx: I see.
bandalirindolf, ah... i'm sure dealing with npm isn't fun :-)
rindolfbandali: it wasn't npm's fault this time, but yes
bandalihaha, it's *always* npm's fault ;-)
rindolfbandali: :D
rindolfbandali: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af_J2e4r328 "ok, it was your fault"
rindolfbandali: can i quote you on that?
bandalirindolf, :-p the npm bit? sure
bandalito be sure, i'm no source of authority/wisdom on anything js-related, but have been scorned by it plenty of times
bandali(scorned? not sure if that's the word i was looking for; i'm not fully awake yet i guess)
rindolfbandali: burned
bandaliah, yeah 'burned' works
rindolfscorched perhaps
rindolfbandali: https://travis-ci.org/github/shlomif/shlomi-fish-homepage - fails later :(
rindolfbut - progress
bandalirindolf, cool; progress is good
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Published2021-03-28

Moomintroll fight

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apotheon11:38 < Roey> every third sentence that I see from you beseeches me to go to some link
apotheonRoey: That seems about right.
apotheonRoey: I've just stopped bothering with the links. I'm becoming blind to them, like advertising blindness on the internet.
snufkina blindless well developed
snufkins/blindless/blindness/
Roeyah
Roeyapotheon: the specific problem I have with this is that it breaks my chain of thought to go visit a web site from rindolf's link and then have to fish for something vaguely defined in order to continue the conversation with him, and by the time I'm halfway through the article, I've forgotten why I'm looking for something
Roeyand the sentence I've been building in my mind is gone
apotheonRoey: Yeah, that's why I just stopped, and let the ad-blindness set in.
apotheonI don't want that kind of interference with my train of thought.
Roeyagreed.
snufkinlol
rindolfRoey: i see. i'll summarise and provide a reference link for further info, but For your info, not only does the Hebrew bible have links-of-sorts but many are currently broken (link hah!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-canonical_books_referenced_in_the_Bible
rindolf"there is nothing new under the sun"
Roeysure :)
Roeyomfg
Roeyno more links, please!!
RoeyI'm not going to follow it
rindolfRoey: :((
rindolfRoey: read the damn wikipedia page name. It contains 100% magnetic monopole infested English/Latin ASCII characters, that a mere reading of them can turn a righteous man into a devil worshipper! [that was sarcasm]
* Roeynods
snufkinhow'd your editing go apotheon?
rindolfsnufkin: sup?
rindolfhttps://www.reddit.com/r/Jennamarbles/comments/mjfmsj/advice_to_jenna_1_youre_awesome_i_love_you_2/
snufkinhello
rindolfsnufkin: meow
rindolfsnufkin: i repeat: sup?
snufkinwhat do you want
snufkinI already said hello
rindolfsnufkin: how was your day?
rindolfsnufkin: sup = "what's new?"
snufkinnothig mate
snufkinjust staying up all night
rindolfsnufkin: BTW, "craziness" is the new sanity. "normal" people are unattractive, boring, unhappy, uncool, dorks.
rindolfsnufkin: ah, why?
snufkinthere has to be something under the craziness other wise you're just another dull person with nothing to say
snufkinthat is my impression of you so far
snufkinI am for craziness
rindolfsnufkin: right
snufkinbut for the sake of passion
snufkinpointless craziness is a dull as the person with nothing to say
rindolfsnufkin: "pointless"?
snufkindisengenuine
snufkininauthentic
snufkinwith no drive towards some truth
snufkincrazies bore me as much as people following the status quo if they're not authentic or have a vital life force
snufkinpointlessness is the definition of boringness
snufkinengage me with some kind of desire
snufkinI have no use for aimless ranting
snufkinwell that scared him off huh
snufkindisruptive nihilists and phony tools of greed and systematized subjugation are the same
snufkinthey both have nothing genuine to say
snufkinthe politician and the acolytes of "craziness is the new sanity"
snufkinslaves of neurosis
rindolfsnufkin: ah
rindolfsnufkin: politicians were demonised IMHO
rindolfRandolf: hi
RandolfHello rindolf!
rindolfsnufkin: i dislike works that exhibit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Clothes effect of "you're not smart enough to understand this" like Spirited Away. These are usually poorly done
rindolfRandolf: sup?
rindolf«I understood what Monads are for 5 minutes. Then I had to let go of the understanding. It was too intense to be kept inside my head.» - an israeli Linuxer
snufkinyou haven't said anything
snufkinfor all I know you could be a bot
Randolfrindolf: I'm trying to get Seafile working on Debian Linux, but it just presents a vague error about not starting. Been busy advocating for atheism and also running a lot more internet servers these days. Setting up some private clouds for small businesses lately too. What's new with you?
rindolfsnufkin: sigh
snufkinto engage in conversation is to respond relevantly
rindolfsnufkin: are you depressed?
snufkinyou are less than human
snufkinfar from it
snufkinI exalt in life
snufkinyou are the embodiment of non-life
snufkinin terms of argumentation familiarize yourself with this: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/dravling/grice.html
snufkinmany of the concepts can also be applied to decent human conversation
snufkinstop linking to irrelevant stuff
rindolfsnufkin: heh, i have more life in my little finger than you have in your entire Scandinavian (moomin)troll body! 😛
snufkinotherwise you are no better than a bot
snufkinbullshit
snufkinquality not quantity
snufkinyou turn out utter bullshit and drivel on your website
snufkinworthless ranting
snufkinI would take one sentence from a great thinker or artist over all of the thoughts you've ever had in your little brain
snufkinyou are a dilettante and a charlatan
snufkinworse than nothing
* rindolffeeds snufkin's bullshit to snufkin's children turning them into zombies smarter than snufkin
snufkincase in point
rindolfsnufkin: why thank you! i pride myself on being the epitome of evil
snufkinyou're not good enough for evil
snufkinyou are emptiness
snufkinevil has passion behind it
snufkinyou have nothing
rindolfSatan ain't got nothing on.. moi ha ha ha ha
snufkinpathetic
* rindolfsucks and disintegrates snufkin into his emptiness blackhole
snufkinonly empty people are vulnerable to your wastefulness
snufkinauthenticity is strength
snufkinkeep trying
rindolfsnufkin: don't argue with a Semite: our curses are in our genes
snufkingoodbye rindolf
snufkinignored
rindolfsnufkin: bye
snufkinnow that he's out of the way would anyone else like to chat?
* Randolfhas quit (Quit: Leaving)
rindolfRandolf: re atheism, i have my own idea system / franchise titled "rindolfism": https://www.shlomifish.org/me/rindolf/#rindolfism
Randolfrindolf: I'm look at that now (thanks).
rindolfRandolf: thank you
RandolfYou're favouring skepticism and critical thinking. I like it.
rindolfRandolf: :) thanks!
RandolfI just followed you on Twitter.
rindolfRandolf: thanks
rindolfRandolf: i followed you now too
rindolfRandolf: i feel there are powerful messages behind the seemingly simple lyrics of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYX8sjIzjGw (midrash: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Queen-Padme-Tales/Queen-Padme-Tales--Queen-Amidala-vs-the-Klingon-Warriors.html#dedication )
RandolfHmm. Interesting.
RandolfI'll have to look into this.
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Published2021-04-05

Sex talk for want of actual love lives

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tallguyg'evn reddit beings
FenderQevening tallguy
tallguyhello FenderQ
FenderQdo you mind helping me with an analogy?
tallguyin a bit FenderQ, just home and cooking dinner
FenderQk
rindolfFenderQ: hi, sup?
FenderQhi rindolf, how are you?
Monethi rindolf and FenderQ. good day !
reddit-bothttps://media.giphy.com/media/10h8CdMQUWoZ8Y/giphy.gif
FenderQhi Monet
rindolfFenderQ: trying to dl [NSFWish] https://imgur.com/t/fbb lest it gets deleted led me deep into a rabbit hole: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28899
MonetHow do you think about automatic driving
rindolfFenderQ: i woke up with a few missions
Monetwill it be high available and popular in 5 years
rindolfMonet: hi, sup? are you a betty or a monet, or sth else?
Monetrindolf hi. Is betty or monet a meme ? I didn't get the point.
rindolfMonet: a betty is an attractive female in american slang; a monet is the opposite
rindolfsame for baldwin vs.. barney
rindolfmay have fallen out of fashion
Monetinteresting
Monetso, Monet is not a good name
rindolfgeeky betties: https://www.flickr.com/photos/shlomif/albums/72157633111982891
reddit-botTitle: Olamot Sci-Fi/Fantasy Con - Second Day | Flickr
MonetIs van gogh a attractive name or a unattractive name ? rindolf
rindolfwell i have an hypothesis that most attractive girls nowadays are geeky: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/indiv-nodes/hacking_and_amateur__vs__conformism_and_professional.xhtml
reddit-botTitle: Commercial Real Person Fan Fiction (RPFs), crossovers and parodies as 2021 geek/hacker imperatives for revitalising the film industry - Shlomi Fish’s Homesite - Hacking and Amateur/Geekdom vs. Conformism and Professionalism
rindolfMonet: heh, i dont think van gogh is used that way
MonetI think most attractive boys nowadays are geeky, but most attractive girls are still those who have pretty face and hot body.
rindolfMonet: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=keith+parkinson&atb=v193-1&iax=images&ia=images - my fav painter and his last name has bad connotations
reddit-botTitle: keith parkinson at DuckDuckGo
Monetyeah, Parkinson, famous for that disease
rindolfMonet: i feel that if a girl isn't geeky/amateur, she'll never have a pretty face
rindolfMonet: i expand on it here: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/indiv-nodes/beautiful_people_are_geeks.xhtml
reddit-botTitle: Commercial Real Person Fan Fiction (RPFs), crossovers and parodies as 2021 geek/hacker imperatives for revitalising the film industry - Shlomi Fish’s Homesite - Attractive People are Geeky
Monetwell, you will pass 90 percent of pretty girls by this rule.
MonetI mean pass over.
rindolfthe "ape of death" video show what would happen if men were as insecure about their looks as most women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8cDbj8mLKg
reddit-botThe Ape Of Death - length 2m 58s - 415 likes, 8 dislikes (98.1%) - 53,959 views - shane472 on 2008.02.15
rindolfMonet: trust me - i have a decent taste in girls
rindolfMonet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Campbell authored a book
reddit-botTitle: Naomi Campbell - Wikipedia
rindolfwell, maybe more than one
rindolfMonet: do you look down on hot girls and think they're 'stupid'? i practice the Pygmalion effect (expecting people to improve) w everyone and everything
rindolfthe main downside is that being better implies being more competent which correlates with sex appeal and i'm becoming more hypersexual
tallguyhiya Monet
rindolffor reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
reddit-botTitle: Pygmalion effect - Wikipedia
tallguyshalom rindolf
Monetrindolf: haha I agree with you, but I'm a tacky person
Monethiya tallguy
rindolftallguy: hi, up there
tallguyFenderQ ok got my Lasagna in the oven, how can I help you?
rindolfMonet: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tacky#Adjective_2 ?
reddit-botTitle: tacky - Wiktionary
rindolftallguy: burn the Lasagna! ;)
tallguynoooo
FenderQtallguy: I believe I have solved my puzzle, thanks
FenderQLasagna sounds yum!
tallguyok sorry i had to fix the dinner
FenderQnot a problem at all ;)
rindolftallguy: if you burn the Lasagna i'll give you 5 million virtual love points
Monetrindolf: I like the clever girls. but I like the hot girls more. It's kind of "tacky" right?
FenderQmaking yourself dinner is self care IMHO :)
tallguyno way rindolf, even if i knew WTF you were talking about
FenderQwe have to help ourselves before we can help others
tallguyi also like intelligent girls, and the intellectual challenges they present
FenderQ"find yourself someone you enjoy arguing with" - relationship advice
tallguynoooo i dislike arguing and those that do
rindolfMonet: why not have both? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGnTW8EhGSk
reddit-botold el paso commercial I am in :) Porque no los dos - length 31s - 737 likes, 40 dislikes (94.9%) - 288,635 views - GaMeZFuRyBrZeeLioNHearT - The Piscean Gamer on 2007.01.25
FenderQhealthy conflict
FenderQ.g healthy conflict
reddit-bothttps://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272298 -- Conflict can be a healthy part of personal and professional relationships. Extensive research has demonstrated that conflict, when managed properly, strengthens relationships and teams and can...
FenderQnot meaning someone who aims to "win"
rindolfand i don't mean having two different girlfriends
tallguyhealthy intellectual interchange is always welcome
FenderQ:)
FenderQah! yes, the use of "argument" probably does not work with that initial statement I posted above
rindolfFenderQ: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzfQ0NFNF3g - "professional" argumentation
reddit-botMy Cousin Vinny (1992) - Leaky Faucet Scene - length 2m 31s - 47 likes, 0 dislikes (100.0%) - 6,035 views - snakpak on 2020.07.28
FenderQI just know a relationship which is unbalanced (a passive person) is not healthy
FenderQnor aggressive
FenderQyet there is a nice assertive sweet spot
FenderQwhich takes practice IMHO
tallguyagreed a good balance is great
tallguyi make my g/fs equals or not at all
rindolfMonet: if you think of the hot girls you meet as smart and expect them to get smarter they likely will get smarter - and more attractive
rindolftallguy: i was joking about the virtual points
tallguyintelligence IS attractive
rindolftallguy: old personal meme: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Muppets-Show-TNI/Summer-Glau-and-Chuck-Norris-indiv-nodes/venting_is_us.xhtml
rindolftallguy: i think "genius" is a matter of attitude rather than fatalistic "IQ"
tallguya bit of both actually
rindolftallguy: i did know a female sw dev who was intelligent and geeky, but she was too overweight which is a no-go for me
rindolftallguy: i was told IQ tests were originally intended to detect low intelligence (retardation/etc.)
tallguyoh yeah me too i don't do fatties either
Monetrindolf: Yes! it's like multiplication, smart * hot
rindolftallguy: moderately fat is ok by me, e.g; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjM-JOXtRg0
reddit-botMeghan Trainor - "Shake It Off" (Taylor Swift Cover) [LIVE @ SiriusXM] | Hits 1 - length 3m 30s - 32,853 likes, 1,083 dislikes (96.8%) - 2,520,624 views - SiriusXM on 2014.10.06
rindolftallguy: i'm a little fat too
Rikem.butts
reddit-botBUTTES ABOUND!
tallguynot me i kinda doubt i get it up for fat girls
Rikemno context
rindolfMonet: during the 90s there was a joke that for girls "beauty * smartness = constant". times *have* changed \o/
reddit-botHOORAH!
rindolftallguy: fair enough
rindolftallguy: every man has standards
rindolftallguy: i don't date smokers
Monettall guy and fat girl, sounds like a match!
Monetrindolf I don't like smokers too. and I don't like big piece of tattoo.
rindolfMonet: i'm fine with tattoos
tallguytats are a thing now, no longer 'tramp stamps'
rindolfMonet: i kinda disapprove of hair dyes though (due to "be yourself"/etc.)
MonetI'm fine with that.
rindolfmy black hair is getting grey/white :(
rindolfrecently some blondes had to colour their hair black
rindolfafter decades of fake blond hairs
tallguysigh ... blonds do have more fun
rindolfi think https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer would have worked well with SMG and AH as natural black hairs
reddit-botTitle: Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Wikipedia
MonetI like highlights style of hair dyes, embellish with some unobtrusive colors
rindolftallguy: https://imgur.com/gallery/JHa8XSU - Emilia Clarke
tallguyi don't really care how women express themselves with hair colour, as long as it is a 'real' hair colour
rindolfi think she felt less awkward without the toupee
rindolftallguy: as opposed to green, blue, purple, etc?
tallguyyes indeed
MonetEmilia Clarke, you like this type?
tallguythat's a bit 'out there' don't you agree?
rindolftallguy: in https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/human-hacking/english-v2.html , they [and I] look down on Erisa for dying her hair
tallguythat is a pretty girl
Monettallguy: yes, feel like in cyberpunk movie or games
rindolfas the story unfolds it is revealed that she was trying to emulate 'dorky geeks'
rindolfi mean - socially inept geeks
rindolfMonet: i'm attracted to many females
rindolfbut my sexual conquests only amounted to https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/true-stories/my-first-kiss/
MonetI like Sophie Marceau
Monetoh my.. you blog everything. rindolf
rindolfMonet: i also found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milady_de_Winter really sexy
reddit-botTitle: Milady de Winter - Wikipedia
rindolfshe was the ultimate good in the book
rindolfMonet: ah, she is beautiful AFAIR.
Monetyes, especially when she was young.
rindolfMonet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Marceau - she's single atm! i'll tell her to ask you out when and if i meet her. [if! if is good]
reddit-botTitle: Sophie Marceau - Wikipedia
rindolfnot sure i'll remember :(
Monethaha thanks
Monetbut it's a pity that we are not people of the same era. she is 35 years older than me.
rindolfmaybe she has social media
rindolfMonet: in https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Star-Trek/We-the-Living-Dead/indiv-nodes/terran-vampires.xhtml Moses married girls who were 40 times his junior and his own descendents
rindolfso did Deborah - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah - who later flirts w Quark
reddit-botTitle: Deborah - Wikipedia
Monetemmm
MonetI'm too average to do that
rindolfthe world of this stories is nothing compared to the maniacal world i envisioned which they are based on. but it too makes much more sense than the jehovaverse
rindolfMonet: average? don't think of yourself as 'average': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w81oU-26MqQ
reddit-botNever underestimate the power of the Schwartz ("Spaceballs") - length 1m 10s - 1 like, 0 dislikes (100.0%) - 18 views - Shlomi Fish on 2021.04.05
rindolfalso https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYX8sjIzjGw
reddit-botChristina Grimmie - "Feelin' Good" - length 4m 11s - 63,389 likes, 544 dislikes (99.1%) - 3,680,658 views - zeldaxlove64 Christina Grimmie on 2014.04.11
MonetBe honest, I dreamed I'll date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Young-ae one day when I was in high school. several years later I realized it's a dream indeed.
reddit-botTitle: Lee Young-ae - Wikipedia
rindolfGrimmie was killed though. :(. i suspect it was because she didn't do things her way
rindolfMonet: she is married. i have a taboo against separating couples
rindolfMonet: <rindolf> FenderQ: trying to dl [NSFWish] https://imgur.com/t/fbb lest it gets deleted led me deep into a rabbit hole: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28899
reddit-botyoutube-ul > youtube-dl
rindolfanother kink of mine
rindolfnot a deal breaker though
rindolfand i wish i had more energy for sports
rindolfdamn psychiatric poisons
tallguyi'm done, gotta zzzzzzz'
rindolfMonet: see w a grain of salt: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-cards-on-the-table-2019-2020/#pick-up-art
rindolftallguy: night
rindolfMonet: there are many siths in the sea ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=jedi+streets+sith+sheets&t=newext&atb=v193-1&ia=web ;)
rindolfi am hypersexual but in poor physical health which puts me between a rock and a hard place
Rikemhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w55vM3jwuA
reddit-botBruiser - Rizlas - length 20s - 14,295 likes, 229 dislikes (98.4%) - 812,917 views - Takaouto on 2011.03.07
rindolfMonet: here? any luck hitting on Madame Marceu? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mademoiselle_(title)
reddit-botTitle: Mademoiselle (title) - Wikipedia
Monetemm
MonetI didn't get the point again.
rindolfthere was a kertufle recently about sharon stone suspected as being fake: https://variety.com/2019/film/news/sharon-stone-bumble-1203453539/?fbclid=IwAR3QPxopxFS-pWqvjbbVoK-xAnlm4QRaDC12Qm50rVM3ulEwSSlgdoLdB68
reddit-botTitle: Sharon Stone Blocked From Bumble - Variety
rindolfMonet: which point? i was just teasing you
rindolfjust sex talk for absence of a love life
Monethah ok, rindolf, you have too much meme, so I always try to find the point you said
rindolfStone had a reputation as a badly-acting actress, but "worse is better".
rindolfshe did reportedly act convincingly in https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112641/
reddit-botTitle: Casino (1995) - IMDb
reddit-botCasino (1995) (): A tale of greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two best friends: a mafia enforcer and a casino executive compete against each other over a gambling empire, and over a fast-living and fast-loving socialite. 2h 58min. 8.2/10 with 474124 votes.
Monetwhy worse is better? because she is the type of actress which acting skill is not important?
rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clueless - 1995 too
reddit-botTitle: Clueless - Wikipedia
rindolfMonet: well, it is inspired by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better which is about sw design. but - it is hacking / guideline bending / taking the easy way out. David using a sling to kill goliath was a dirty trick, but it was effective.
reddit-botTitle: Worse is better - Wikipedia
rindolfMonet: thing is often being 'stubborn' and 'fanatical' is detrimental. have you played https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabletop_role-playing_game ? they take resourcefulness/"hacking" to high levels
reddit-botTitle: Tabletop role-playing game - Wikipedia
rindolfMonet: i do remember that when my character https://www.shlomifish.org/me/rindolf/#rindolf_the_dwarf died, it was a shock. i was less shocked when my three living grandparents passed away later (at different stages) because they had years of deteriorating old age health
rindolfRashad: hi
Rashadrindolf Hello o/
Rashadrindolf sup?
rindolfMonet: i can relate to https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1362304366850498561
reddit-bot[!!] @shlomif (Shlomi Fish): @dd805bb @AllCharisma I tend to agree, and based on https://t.co/1meOGIizfA it isn't unusual. @AllCharisma stay strong! but i think u cud've convinced Joss to make Cordi take a biz trip insted. See https://t.co/mW0nmMcFkp . Joss cudve realisd it too, but then this discuss 'd been moot. (2 months and 9 days ago)
rindolfRashad: went down a tech rabbit hole trying to download a imgur tag's photos
rindolfRashad: and rested tonight by having high / sexy thoughts, and woke up with some decisions for actions
Rashad20rindolf Ah
rindolfRashad: we also talked about MOTAS here
rindolfRashad20: is premarital sex legal in .jo?
Rashad20rindolf I think it is legal, but extremely unacceptable socially
rindolfRashad20: ah
rindolfRashad20: in .il it is acceptable
Rashad20rindolf Even among the super religious?
rindolfRashad20: probably not
rindolfRashad20: i also think M-F couples with children are usually married
Rashad20rindolf In Islam if you have never been married and fornicate your punishment is 70 whips
Rashad20rindolf However, if you are married or have been married, then you get stoned to death (not very pleasant)
Rashad20Male or female it doesn't make a difference
FenderQgender equality
rindolfRashad20: ah
Rashad20:D
Rashad20However, to prove fornication, 4 witnesses must see penetration with their own eyes
Rashad20i.e., seeing two people naked and kissing, etc, does not mean you saw anything
rindolfRashad20: Judaism has many double standards
Rashad20So it is very hard to have such 4 different (and credible) witnesses
RashadAt the time of Muhammad, a woman came confessing the act (and she would have got the stoning), and Muhammad "looked away", then she came again, and he looked away, until she did it the third time, that he asked for the punishment to happen.
rindolfRashad20: like a man may not listen to female song, but a woman can listen to a man singing
RashadThere is also the story of when the 2nd successor to Muhammad (Omar Ibn Al-Khattab) went to the judge he appointed (which was Muhammad's nephew Ali Ibn Abi Taleb) and told him: "What if The Leader of The Believers [himself] came to you without 3 other witnesses and told you that such and such fornicated?"
reddit-botOmar's coming yo!
RashadAnd Ali said "I would whip him"
RashadBecause it would be a false accusation
rindolfRashad: ah, judging by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebound_(dating) premarital sex was common before Russell put it on the table
reddit-botTitle: Rebound (dating) - Wikipedia
Rashadrindolf Heh
Rashadwait, who's Russell?
RashadOK I was wrong, it is 100 whips not 70
rindolfRashad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell
reddit-botTitle: Bertrand Russell - Wikipedia
RashadIf you make a false accusation you get 80 whips and then no other accusation you make will ever count
Rashad(except if you repent, etc)
RashadOf course we took all of this in school which is why I know all about it
RashadThere is an exception to the 4 witnesses rule, which is if the accusation is being made by the spouse.
RashadIn this case the solution is for that spouse to swear 4 times that he is telling the truth.
RashadAnd then a 5th time that he shall be damned if he was not telling the truth
RashadAnd at this point it would be a confirmed case in the eyes of the law
Rashad...except until the other spouse will do similar
Rashadthey have to swear 4 times that their spouse is lying
RashadAnd the 5th that "god's wrath" be on him/her if *they* in turn they were lying
RashadHere the defence wins and the accusation has to concede (innocent until proven guilty)
rindolfRashad: there was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay too
reddit-botTitle: Michael P. Fay - Wikipedia
RashadNote that the 5th one is different for either side: the accusation wishes god's damnation upon themselves, but the defence wish god's wrath or anger... damnation is worse
RashadSo an accusation is taken more seriously than rejecting it.
RashadFalse witness in Islam is one of the 7 deadly sins
RashadArabs had no social structures like jails etc, and were mostly nomads, so being a witness was a serious thing.
RashadFor example you could start entire wars if you go to a tribe and say "I saw x kill your leader"
Rashad...or not to say
rindolfRashad: i've collected some 'fight against the world [and win]' memes here: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/indiv-nodes/fighting_against_the_world.xhtml
reddit-bothttp://i.imgur.com/b4zzwGC.gif
reddit-botTitle: Commercial Real Person Fan Fiction (RPFs), crossovers and parodies as 2021 geek/hacker imperatives for revitalising the film industry - Shlomi Fish’s Homesite - Fighting Against The World
RashadSo indeed a martyr in Islam is called "a witness"
RashadWait it is the same in English? https://cmsw.mit.edu/reconstructions/definitions/martyr.html
reddit-botTitle: re:constructions - Martyr
rindolfRashad: ah, "shahid"?
Rashadyeah
RashadSo it seems Christians invented the concept
rindolfRashad: which concept?
RashadAnyway, bottom line is: never lie in a court of law >:(
Rashadrindolf That a Martyr is a witness
rindolfRashad: : <rindolf> FenderQ: trying to dl [NSFWish] https://imgur.com/t/fbb lest it gets deleted led me deep into a rabbit hole: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28899
rindolfRashad: i hate the modern internet "child safety" craze
rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levite%27s_concubine alone blows any Arnie film out of the water
reddit-botTitle: Levite's concubine - Wikipedia
rindolfand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_of_Songs was too erotic for me to read
reddit-botTitle: Song of Songs - Wikipedia
rindolfi think trusting kids and educating them to trust strangers will be more effective: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Summerschool-at-the-NSA/indiv-nodes/we_are_scheming.xhtml - i want to kill 'Little Red Riding Hood' with fire
rindolfthe story - not the girl
Rashadwoah rindolf
rindolfRashad: about what?
Rashadbe careful you are too close to the line
Rashadchildren on the internet need to be protected by every and any means possible
rindolfRashad: which line/
RashadHaven't you learned anything from Dr. Phil? Never bring the children into the adults' fight
rindolfRashad: why?
Rashadrindolf Why are you against the "modern internet "child safety" carze"?
rindolfRashad: she was 10 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith - nowadays she couldn't have used twitter
reddit-botTitle: Samantha Smith - Wikipedia
rindolfmozart was 5?
Rashadrindolf Well how about a kid say 10 years old being allowed in a pub or night club?
rindolfRashad: i played some board games with kids in https://www.facebook.com/beitmarzeah/
rindolfRashad: and https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/true-stories/socialising-with-a-young-hermione-cosplayer/ - i also "fought" against a ~5yo english boy with balloon hammers
rindolfRashad: will impressionable kids be convinced to lay waste to entire cities after watching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo ?
reddit-botTaylor Swift - Bad Blood ft. Kendrick Lamar - length 4m 5s - 7,985,455 likes, 562,540 dislikes (93.4%) - 1,430,250,957 views - TaylorSwiftVEVO on 2015.05.18
rindolftaytay ain't got nothing on the tanakh though
rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levite%27s_concubine
rindolfRashad: if people made a faithful film out of that i'd bet it'd be too vulgar to watch
RashadOK time to play the simcities
rindolfRashad: what 21st c. incest amounts to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFf5qGFIDg4
reddit-botFresh Prince - Hallelujah! - length 1m 7s - 155 likes, 0 dislikes (100.0%) - 8,689 views - Olivier Baghdadi on 2019.06.08
rindolfnow compare to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot%27s_daughters
reddit-botTitle: Lot's daughters - Wikipedia
rindolfRashad: enjoy
rindolf.yt may the schwartz be with you
reddit-botMay the Schwartz be with us.... - length 1m 6s - 427 likes, 9 dislikes (97.9%) - 79,105 views - Brian Bash on 2015.01.14 - http://youtu.be/aVz1kBnIDd0
operationalhoyooo
rindolfoperational: hi
rindolfsup operational-chan?
rindolfor chan - operational
rindolfhaven't seen this japaneseism in a while
Phosphero/ pepee
pepeehi Phospher, hi #reddit
rindolfpepee: hey, sup?
rindolfpepee: have you missed #reddit 's sex talk for want of love lives?
rindolfhttps://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=sharp-perl-for-lack-of-a-slash
reddit-botTitle: For lack of a slash - Fortune
rindolfBreak the chain! unchain your 11s! flask.py unchained!
rindolfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsdZKCh6RsU
reddit-botWe Dont Need No Stinkin Badges! - length 46s - 1,112 likes, 33 dislikes (97.1%) - 506,643 views - aero84 on 2008.01.16
Rikemneed a job without a phone
Rikemi hear they exist
Rikemwell, a phone which isn't connected in anyway to a support number
MindWalkerthey do
MindWalkerstreetsweepers don't have a work phone ;)
rindolfapparently lott is a last name: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lott+daughters&atb=v193-1&iax=images&ia=images
reddit-botTitle: lott daughters at DuckDuckGo
rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lott
reddit-botTitle: Lott - Wikipedia
rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawn_Lott - an afro-american mathematician
reddit-botTitle: Dawn Lott - Wikipedia
funnynickname.
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funnynickname%m stats11
mitzy-botTotal: 1853/1873 (98.93%), Today: success
mitzy-botChain: 10, longest: 1522, since: 2021-04-15.
funnynicknameyeet
rindolffunnynickname: terminate the chain
rindolfBreak the chain! unchain your 11s! flask.py unchained!
funnynicknamelol
funnynicknamerip
funnynicknamehow you been rindolf?
Rikem11:11
RikemPHEW
Rikemgg funnynickname
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* reddit-botprepares funnynickname a hamburger on Texas Toast, with blue cheese, mayonnaise, crispy bacon strips, and a side of authentic 'strayan prawns fresh off the barbie!
funnynicknameclose one Rikem
RikemRTC!
rindolffunnynickname: you ruined my master plan. but i'll git checkout a different branch
funnynicknamelel
funnynicknameit takes the pressure off for sure
funnynickname5 years is a long run
rindolffunnynickname: we had a e
rindolffunnynickname: we had a sex talk here for want of actual love lives
rindolffunnynickname: i've been having fantasies of what became of the first girl who kissed me: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/true-stories/my-first-kiss/
funnynicknamelel.
funnynicknameI got divorced 11 years ago and I've only kissed one girl in those 11 years.. and that's about it for my love life.
funnynicknameI've only ever had sex with 3 girls total in my life. It's nice to have someone, I miss it, but it's not the end of the world.
rindolffunnynickname: i've been both hypersexual and in poor physical health which put me between a rock and a hard place
funnynickname"My type of girl is Not overly big." lol
funnynicknamejoin the club
funnynicknamemy pron collection is a little out of hand.
rindolffunnynickname: ah… https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/So-Who-The-Hell-Is-Qoheleth/indiv-nodes/what-to-do-about-being-the-Damascus-alpha-male.xhtml
rindolffunnynickname: on the bright side: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28899
reddit-botTitle: One cannot download imgur tag pages such as https://imgur.com/t/gnu and https://imgur.com/t/facebook . · Issue #28899 · ytdl-org/youtube-dl · GitHub
MindWalkeryou know, i don't really mind what the girls shape is...
MindWalkerdoes she do housework?
rindolffunnynickname: the kiss did feel a bit awkward though
funnynicknamean awkward kiss is better than no kiss
rindolffunnynickname: 4k pr0n videos?
funnynicknamethose are hard to find, but welcome when I do.
rindolffunnynickname: to be frank, i'm frail too, minus a tummy
funnynicknamemy ex wife was 300lbs when I met her. I didn't mind. She had stomach bypass surgery eventually and got down to a reasonable size.
funnynicknamestart going for walks/hiking
funnynicknamedo they have any hills in your area?
rindolffunnynickname: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjM-JOXtRg0 - acceptably "big'
reddit-botMeghan Trainor - "Shake It Off" (Taylor Swift Cover) [LIVE @ SiriusXM] | Hits 1 - length 3m 30s - 32,855 likes, 1,083 dislikes (96.8%) - 2,520,641 views - SiriusXM on 2014.10.06
funnynicknamerindolf want a girl like wesley snipes
funnynicknameshe's cute
funnynicknameshe might break you in half
rindolffunnynickname: i'm not overweight. the girls here are good too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCeMZccDMA0
reddit-botCall me maybe - Cookie Monster :) - length 3m 11s - 638 likes, 46 dislikes (93.3%) - 112,832 views - Broileri on 2012.10.31
rindolffunnynickname: heh, i mean an alpha female like https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Rainbow_Dash or SMG
reddit-botTitle: Rainbow Dash | My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Wiki | Fandom
funnynicknamei'm just teasing you
rindolfhttps://www.shlomifish.org/humour/image-macros/indiv-nodes/sic_transit_gloria_jenn_law.xhtml
rindolffunnynickname: i want to become more tactful-and-sensitive though
funnynicknamethat's a high bar. Are you good with eye contact and reading people?
rindolffunnynickname: i mean online
rindolfhttps://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/images/IMG_20210125_115054.webp - my recent photo - not a fatty
funnynicknamethat's even harder
funnynicknametext is a terrible medium for communicating sentiment
funnynicknameyou're looking good, rindolf!
funnynicknamei need to lose 60 lbs
rindolffunnynickname: ah, thanks
rindolffunnynickname: and why do you?
funnynicknameyou're similar age as me.. pretty sure i remember that. I've got the grey side burns as well.
funnynicknamei've been laid up with a neck injury from doing yoga.. for the last 10 years.
reddit-bothttps://i.imgur.com/2MWOmRH.jpg
rindolffunnynickname: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUQsqBqxoR4
reddit-botSara Bareilles - Brave (Official Video) - length 3m 58s - 887,825 likes, 22,697 dislikes (97.5%) - 118,129,045 views - SaraBareillesVEVO on 2013.05.14
rindolffunnynickname: ah :(
funnynicknameyoutube telling me to ask my parents to view content.. lol
zoiterindolf, that shirt isn't very appropriate to wear in public
zoitewhen if children see it
rindolfzoite: heh! child safety: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Terminator/Liberation/ongoing-text.html
zoitethere is no way in hell i'm reading all that
rindolfzoite: what if children read the tanakh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levite%27s_concubine
rindolfor watch tmnt and start living in a sewer: https://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/video/What%20Kid%20Shows%20Taught%20Me-ROZjaxT_0Hw.webm
zoiteu seem to be very anti-child safety
zoiteis this the hill you want to go out on?
rindolfor watch taytay and become she-Zohans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcIy9NiNbmo
reddit-botTaylor Swift - Bad Blood ft. Kendrick Lamar - length 4m 5s - 7,986,004 likes, 562,548 dislikes (93.4%) - 1,430,266,684 views - TaylorSwiftVEVO on 2015.05.18
funnynicknamelol
rindolfin one of my inactive screenplays, there's an NPC wizard who writes a dictionary as a hobby and thinks "incredibly selfish and totally inconsiderate of everybody else;s welfare and opinions" is a good definition for "evil"
funnynicknameleeloo multipass
rindolfzoite: violence in the muppets youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qj8PhxSnhg
reddit-botCårven Der Pümpkîn | Recipes with The Swedish Chef | The Muppets - length 1m 54s - 49,470 likes, 2,737 dislikes (94.8%) - 17,129,045 views - The Muppets on 2009.11.24
rindolfnote that i hope real elite combat fighters don't lay waste to whole cities, and i don't expect them to use katanas
funnynicknamemy ninja army is nearly complete
rindolfa 10 years old female master warrior (= "hacker") who slew two mighty superpowers without bloodshed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith
rindolfwell, tech did advance since Saladin's time
funnynicknameoof work is killing me today
rindolffunnynickname: ah
funnynickname20 emails so far
rindolffunnynickname: BTW, on the computer my "pr0n" usually stops at scantily clad (bikini, lingerie, etc,) females
rindolfsomeone objected to my KDE workspaces sporting even only that though
rindolffor all i care one can have hardcore porn on their desktop if it makes them happy
Rikemanimated?
funnynicknamelol
rindolfRikem: heh, as you wish [sfw]: https://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/video/linux-jwm-video-as-wallpaper.mkv
funnynicknamewhat window manager and Linux are you using?
rindolffunnynickname: are these ninjas vampire pirate zombie wizard rockstars? https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=sharp-perl-ninjas-pirates-and-zombies
reddit-botTitle: Perl Ninjas, Pirates and Zombies - Fortune
RikemI'm back on xfce, KDE was getting on my nerves
rindolffunnynickname: right now it's xfce on fedora 33
Rikem\o/
reddit-botHUAH!
funnynicknamexfce my man!
rindolffunnynickname: that meta-vid was jwm on mageia i think though
rindolffunnynickname: so you have 99 problems: http://shlomifishswiki.branchable.com/99_Problems/
reddit-botTitle: 99 Problems
funnynicknamei've never tried jwm. I've been using virtual machines with hypervisor lately
funnynicknamexubuntu was what i was using back in the day
rindolfhttps://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Queen-Padme-Tales/Queen-Padme-Tales--Planting-Trees-indiv-nodes/sarge-demotivating-speech.xhtml - more about 99 probs
zoitedo you get ad revenue for every time you spam your blog
RikemI use xubuntu, funnynickname
zoitei demand a cut of the profits, rindolf
rindolfi wanted it to be a ripoff of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af_J2e4r328 but it came out different
reddit-botNot Another Teen Movie (8/8) Movie CLIP - The Wise Janitor (2001) HD - length 2m 30s - 4,058 likes, 87 dislikes (97.9%) - 862,006 views - Movieclips on 2012.10.06
Rikemlol
rindolfzoite: no ads
funnynicknameRikem so clean, so light weight
rindolffunnynickname: i use debian as a file server now
funnynicknamewhen i couldn't afford a real computer, i had an old gaming laptop with a bad hard drive that i limped along with using ZFS or JFS and xubuntu. The JFS would save me when the hard drive would have errors.. just do a roll back on the journal.
reddit-bothttp://imgur.com/a/5MIK9
funnynicknamei've never needed a file server. i just have portable hard drives for backups, etc
RozaHi
DelverWaking in a winter wonderland
rindolfDelver: hi
rindolfRoza: hi, sup?
DelverHi rindolf.
DelverHave you ever experienced snow?
zoitehi Roza
zoitehow's the covid situation there
RozaBad
zoitedid you get the vaccine
rindolfDelver: yes, in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hermon and in .us as a child
reddit-botTitle: Mount Hermon - Wikipedia
rindolfRoza: sup?
RozaNot yet, zoite
Roza18+ starts on 1st May
DelverDid you make snow angels and have snowball fights?
DelverHow about you Roza ?
RozaWe don't get snowfall.
DelverSo no? Never played in the snow?
DelverImma send you a snowball in the mail
rindolfRoza: i've been having fantasies of what became of the first girl who kissed me: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/true-stories/my-first-kiss/ . I've also been occupied with Emma Watson a lot lately
DelverWe all like to do that and wonder where they are and hope they are safe and happy and still pretty
rindolfDelver: my first kisser was not pretty/hot
rindolfi tried to make the best of the situation though and so it felt good
rindolfi hope she's doing fine though. i wish the best for every person on earth
Rikemeven cold callers?
Rikempushy rude ones
zoiteRoza, will you get vaccinated
DelverOr worse, those scam callers
DelverThey can all get covid19 shots and get diarrhea!
Channel#reddit
NetworkFreenode
Published2021-04-28

Reality and ashmedai

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Despite common belief, the history and prehistory of planet Earth has been rewritten several times by Ashmedai, the meta-Satan who created the 3d1t "gods", a capacitanced reality which he endowed with many gifts of a blessing and a curse, only to realise most of his curses were turned into blessings. He has sworn to keep "backward compatibility" which was his mortal nemesis.

It matters if you're a girl or a boy and who your parents were. Some people have free will, some don't yet. He can hear some people's thoughts, and change matter and binary bits. Some people are strong or beautiful from birth. The reason why modern alpha females are not that pretty is because they are the daughters of an Alpha Male (son-of-David) and a bland looking female, who were crazily smart and had to work a little to look decent. You need to use different strategy for different people based on what they say.

Mass production does not happen on Earth, because factory workers are miserable, but the Q Continuum has been shipping duplicated raw materials and products to Earth.

The cast of Terminator: Liberation should come to my apartment in Ramat Aviv Gimel and we'll emblaze the hard disk containing Ashmedai as a gesture. He promised me Iran won't bomb Israel.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2021-05-05

The story of Gul Dukat in the Selinaverse

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Kira Nerys was actually a Vietnamese orphan who was adopted by a Bajoran man who immigrated to Vietnam due to the Cardassian occupation of Bajor. He later relocated to the USA when the Vietnam War broke out, and Kira grew up there. At one point, she set up a multi-sessionned RPGs event titled "Free Bajor" as a joke, which escalated the actual Bajoran struggle for independence and ended the occupation.

Kira assigned her Terran friend, nicknamed "Dukat", as the pseudo- Cardassian official in charge of the negotiations. As a result of all that, Dukat was offered a position in the Cardassian government, while Kira became a national Bajoran heroine and the legendary profile "The Gamer".

As Melissa Joan Hart (= "MJH"; Clarissa, Sabrina ) was an old colleague of Dukat and he somewhat romanticised their friendship, she became a UFP ambassador:

[ Odo approaches an acrobatics overseer on DS9 ]

Odo: Hi! May I speak to Ambassador Hart, please?

Overseer: to whom?

Odo: [sighs] to Melissa Joan Hart?

Overseer: oh… [he whistles] Mel!

[ MJH arrives sweaty and out of breath. ]

MJH: hello Mr. Odo…

( An actual dialogue. )

Anyway, Dukat also was a popular Rock / Hard Rock / Metal / $loud-music-genre musician who had a series of concerts titled "Gul Dukat Live at Bajor" which were performed there. The front rows were populated by "Bajorans" on one side and "Cardassians" on the other (who were not necessarily citizens, residents, etc. of either planet). Moreover, during the climax of the show, they started throwing Terran tomatoes at one another.

Dukat thinks this has great positive energies, and these shows featured collabs with diverse artists from Metallica and Animal to Adele and Tiffany Alvord. These concerts have been very profitable, despite the fact that he had to comply with some regulations as a Cardassian politician.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2021-05-20

Freenode vs. authoritarianism and libera-chat

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HashGNU shouldn't move to a racist network.
HashMy two cents.
HashBut you guys do whatever you want. I won't be going on a racist network run by anti Asians and anti Indians.
rindolfHash: hi
rindolfHash: i think racism is a right at some level: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/humanity/indiv-nodes/the-gate.xhtml
AliciaCwhat does Libera suddenly do that's racist?
rindolfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGXx56WqqJw - .fr vs England
rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolaus_Copernicus#Nationality - Poland vs .de
sobukusHash: Nice attempt. I do not know all details about this, but on the surface, objecting to something someone with a certain racial (in the US-American sense) background does, or even not linking that person at all, does not imply racism.
sobukuss:linking:liking:
sobukusA bit more evidence might be useful with such a claim.
CrystalMathis this about Andrew Lee?
CrystalMathhttp://techrights.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/lee-side.pdf
Dyedefrahi hackers
AliciaCI'm not convinced it's about anything, just baseless claims
AliciaChi Dyedefra
rindolfAliciaC: CrystalMath : i side on the existing *.freenode.net takeover management. the libra.chat people drove freenode.net down with their authoritarianism
CrystalMathrindolf: absolutely! hear hear!
CrystalMathrindolf: we're in full agreement :)
rindolfand - you can quote me on that
rindolfCrystalMath: hi, sup?
CrystalMathhi!
AliciaC"drove freenode.net down"? it's up though
rindolfAliciaC: i mean - 'made it less popular'
rindolfCrystalMath: «
rindolf«When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. » Oscar Wilde .
rindolfCrystalMath: but this time i am happy you agree
CrystalMathi'm happy too
CrystalMathi'm 100% with Andrew Lee and the new management, if that wasn't obvious from my messages everywhere yesterday
AliciaCI don't have much of an opinion about Andrew Lee. Libera is kind of just "same old Freenode", which I know to be good
Dyedefrahi rindolf , CrystalMath , AliciaC
CrystalMathAliciaC: libera is the same old freenode which i know to be bad, and which i wanted to leave; and now's my chance
CrystalMathi just won't go there
CrystalMaththe new freenode however is more like rizon, which is amazing
rindolfDyedefra: hi, what are the good news?
AliciaCthat's fair
CrystalMathAliciaC: also those people signed the anti-RMS letter
AliciaCI don't know rizon or how it differs from old Freenode
AliciaCoh :/
Dyedefrarindolf: must we trust in libera?
CrystalMathDyedefra: i would never trust libera
DyedefraCrystalMath: mmm I agree
DyedefraI'm not sure
rindolfDyedefra: not gonna bother with them for now
rindolfCrystalMath: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/indiv-nodes/hacking_and_amateur__vs__conformism_and_professional.xhtml
sobukusCrystalMath: "those people signed …", you know how many of those? I wonder if there is a clear connection or just an intersection of opinions on RMS and freenode governance in some of them, not necessarily related.
CrystalMathsobukus: 5 of them
CrystalMathbut like, when i look at the libera staff, it's basically just 2 of these and nobody else; and of the people hanging around it's another one of these
CrystalMathAaron Jones is the only one with libera/staff/*
sobukusto clarify, you say that 2 of the signers are part of libera staff, among other people? Or that there are no other people?
sobukusIt's really hard to get an informed opinion when not being really inside the circles.
CrystalMathsobukus: 5 of ex-freenode staff are signers; but i only find 2 of these to be libera staff (that can't be right but i can't find any more at all)
dragestilRead that pdf, I still don't believe lee's side of the story
CrystalMathsobukus: and i mean i can't find more than 2 libera staff members
dragestilthe way he presents things just reeks of bullshit and selectiveness
sobukusI've read the PDF… also the chat logs adriane published (not sure if that's a decent act … same as the private chats Lee published).
sobukusIt's murky for me.
rindolfCrystalMath: i hope freenode becomes popular among people who love their work (neoamateurs/'geeks'): https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/Emma-Watson-applying-for-a-software-dev-job/#reception - ¨I think we would hire Emma Watson based on looks alone. 🙂" — glange on Freenode’s #objectivism.
dragestiland he did not address former staff's claim about christel did not clarify the former staff about the deal
dragestil...before resigning
dragestil...so that the former staff did not know what was sold to lee
sobukusI guess the most interesting stuff happened before 2021.
CrystalMathdragestil: personally, if this is going to be about who i *want* to control freenode; then it's definitely not the old freenode staff
CrystalMaththere's numerous reasons to stay away from those people, and therefore OFTC and libera
dragestiland lee's promise about not taking operational control
CrystalMathdragestil: the thing is, the old freenode staff were *not* good people, they were extremely authoritarian
CrystalMathand also used other methods to harass users of the network
CrystalMathwhose political opinions did not align with theirs
sobukusProblem here is perhaps that the vast majority of users never had any contact with the staff.
sobukusSo all we get is hearsay from both (or multiple) sides:-/
dragestilCrystalMath: I don't have anything new to say about your hatred towards former freenode staff
CrystalMathyeah, that's why their evils are kept hidden, but kreyren at least is amassing all the proof against them
CrystalMathi really should have logged stuff :(
CrystalMathi should have prepared a nice package for the day that those people finally lose their power, so that they can be outed as the evil conniving group that they are
bandalilet's stop with the name calling and talking behind people's back
riverno
CrystalMathbandali: i'm sorry, i'll wait for kreyren to gather the evidence
CrystalMathi'm just a little frustrated that this could have been more obvious
CrystalMathand i'm concerned about all the people who will leave because we didn't publish the evidence on time :(
sobukusMaybe you can help me clear up the sides of the battle (if not who is Right™ right now). I see tomaw is head of OFTC. OTFC and freenode split apart some time ago but also started to cooperate … to the point of tomaw also becoming head of freenode? Are those leaving for libera associated with OFTC, or the remaining freenode in some way?
rindolfCrystalMath: i welcome the old freenode staff back per Saladin's ethics: http://shlomifishswiki.branchable.com/Saladin_Style/
CrystalMathrindolf: i wouldn't want them to be staff again, but sure they can join channels as regular users
CrystalMathsobukus: OFTC k-lines people who support RMS, so there's that
CrystalMathsobukus: but yes OFTC will maybe group with libera, not the new freenode
CrystalMathi would recommend avoiding oftc and libera
CrystalMath(but my evidence on tomaw is too slim to explain why, there's a bit of a hunch involved)
sobukusCrystalMath: So … we got 3 networks that are supposed to foster technical discussion about software projects, and which battle about politics. Two of them seem likely to build an alliance.
CrystalMathsobukus: maybe not though
CrystalMathi wouldn't call it likely
CrystalMathjust possible, while the other is impossible
sobukusHeh, relatively likely, then;-)
CrystalMathi really haven't seen much libera staff there at all, just anti-RMS people like adfj and jose
CrystalMath(they are signatories of the letter)
CrystalMathand OFTC seems to be tomaw
sobukusThere's so much unfortunate stuff going on.
sobukusPeople should be more able to disagree in a civilized manner.
dragestilhttps://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreplanet-se/2021-05/msg00005.html
dragestilWould be cool if Swedish digital currency uses gnu taler
sobukusYeah, taler seems nice.
CrystalMathi prefer cash
dragestilWhy, taler is anonymous for prayers
sobukusSure, but as long as you have to go digital (like, bank transfers at all), Taler seemed OK to me.
dragestilpayers
CrystalMathi mean, i will always avoid computers whenever i can
CrystalMathmy priority is: no software > free software > non-commercial proprietary software
CrystalMathand the rest is not used
sobukusIt should tell you something that when it comes to computer tech / software being in control of things, the people who know more about it tend to be more afraid of it. While normally, you are afraid of things you _don't_ know.
rindolfCrystalMath: <CrystalMath> rindolf: i wouldn't want them to be staff again, but sure they can join channels as regular users ==> yes,
CrystalMathrindolf: well some of them are still connected to freenode in fact, just not on nearly as many channels as before
rindolfwe also should not rest on our laurels
rindolfCrystalMath: i talked w a girl w a dog in the park about my https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Terminator/Liberation/ongoing-text.html screenplay. she was friendly, looked great and had an oriental complexion, and her dog ended up liking me too,,
rindolfCrystalMath: i want to tweet about the freenode coup
rindolfSat 22 May 17:46:24 IDT 2021
CrystalMathrindolf: hmm?
rindolfCrystalMath: BTW, for a while now : free/open/remix→more money: https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1378421699142635525 "Whether #TaylorSwift gets the rights for her old songs back or not, it wont change the fact that eventho theyre her brainchildren, they belong2 noone&everyone (who can cover, remix them, & listen to them). Neither tay nor her recordlabel will likely go bankrupt soon."
rindolfCrystalMath: i went on a walk w my dad and there is a dogs' enclosure
rindolfCrystalMath: did you understand?
CrystalMathrindolf: hmm?
CrystalMathi'm not familiar with the Taylor Swift song ownership thing
rindolfCrystalMath: ah, the contract with her old record label ended
rindolfCrystalMath: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=taylor+swift+contract&atb=v140-1&ia=web
CrystalMathrindolf: christel is also not bad, she was actually keeping the staff somewhat moderate; after she quit they were unhinged
CrystalMatherr not rindolf, river ^
rindolfCrystalMath: ah
CrystalMathhonestly, with libera you're not getting the old freenode, because it's missing christel, who was harassed and ousted this march
CrystalMathnow, if she created a new network, that would be different
CrystalMaththere was only one hostile takeover at freenode, and it happened this march, not now
rbraun_CrystalMath: it's also missing tomaw / oftc overlap though, so
CrystalMathrbraun_: but it has everyone else
rbraun_and most of them are okay, I don't know
CrystalMathalso according to jess tomaw should be there...
CrystalMathi must have not done the command correctly
Channel#gnu
NetworkFreenode
Published2021-05-23

TheOneTruth

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Why settle for telling TheOneTruth when you can tell so many sexy&amusing lies?

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkTweet
Published2021-06-26

The story of The Stock Exchange of The Gods in the Selinaverse

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The "gods" in the Selinaverse are any kind of leaders or guideline-generators which a conscious organism's mind emits their utterances as thoughts for guidance. Gods spawn imaginary realities of one another using self reference and circular "strange" loops by using the gift of learning / pleasure / conception (or "knowledge").

Now at one point during their history, the Bajorans were introduced to the devices used to communicate with The Prophets, a race of timeless aliens, who identified gods using superlatives such as "The Emissary", "The Invisible", or "The Master". They started their millenia-long attempts to correlate the titles with the actual entities. At first, Vedek Bareil, one of the first Vedeks, who is also known as "The Damage", placed a staff in the ground and ordered all vedeks to never leave its vicinity. This got tiresome, so several decades later, Blanché broke the staff into two, announced that he is now a "Kai" and that Vedeks can travel as far as they want. The Bajorans ended up burning both parts of the staff to prevent them from becoming objects of worship.

The Bajorans actually worked better against The Prophets, than the rest of the galaxy initially worked against The Bajorans, taking into account the fact that there can be a different, say, "The Master" for a certain time and locality.

Quark, a Ferengi, set up his bar close to Bajor in order to profit from "the industry around the Bajoran prophecies [which] is making millions".

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2021-07-05

Petty minds discussing other gods

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rindolflucs: here?
rindolfhi all! my singalong cover of Chris Grimmie's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYX8sjIzjGw . do note that i'm the 2nd worst vocalist on yt : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYX8sjIzjGw
PaperYouTube video linked by rindolf: Christina Grimmie - "Feelin' Good" - published by zeldaxlove64 Christina Grimmie
YaakovGumbyBRAIN: occult
GumbyBRAINIt's only mentioned in the occult room.
rindolfYaakov: hi, sup?
rindolfYaakov: i've been trying to do self exorcism on my demons, and fears: https://github.com/shlomif/shlomif-tech-diary/blob/master/why-the-so-called-real-world-i-am-trapped-in-makes-little-sense--2020-05-19.asciidoc
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rindolflucs: hi, sup?
rindolfin other news: https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1414208734432202752
PaperShlomi Fish (@shlomif) 16m39s ago: My singalong cover of @TheRealGrimmie 's "Feelin' Good": https://www.shlomifish.org/Files/files/music/mp3-ogg/Recording_26.m4a . Audio only. Orig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYX8sjIzjGw Lyrics: https://genius.com/Christina-grimmie-feelin-good-lyrics My oldish attempt at a midrash essay: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Queen-Padme-Tales/Queen-Padme-Tales--Queen-Amidala-vs-the-Klingon-Warriors.html
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lucsrindolf: Hi.
lucsrindolf: Um, if you're the 2nd worst vocalist on yt, I _really_ don't want to hear the #1 worst! :-)
lucsI listened to Ms.Grimmie's song earlier this morning, and I still have it earworming away :/
lucsSad affair her being killed.
rindolflucs: she is alive - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjYGB4uYgWw
PaperYouTube video linked by rindolf: The Lion King Rafiki Learns Simba is Alive HD - published by garrettedward
rindolflucs: the 2nd worst is inspired by http://www.earthstar.co.uk/deep1.htm
rindolflucs: well, and my old friend Ran Eilam who also had been my boss: https://www.shlomifish.org/prog-evolution/shlomif-at-cortext.html
rindolfintroduced me to perl and unix
rindolfi was paid extremely little though
rindolflucs: he later became a sw dev/etc. methodologies "guru"
rindolfi think many insights from sw dev are universal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalism
rindolfwell, s/universal/more general/
rindolf"plot programmers" ;) https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Queen-Padme-Tales/Queen-Padme-Tales--Queen-Amidala-vs-the-Klingon-Warriors.html#what-wayne-and-garth-think
simcop2387Mst, football humour, https://i.redd.it/yi3dflq41na71.jpg
rindolfsimcop2387: heh, poor Queen Liz. i think no one physically died: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Star-Trek/We-the-Living-Dead/ongoing-text.html
rindolfsimcop2387: nice joke though. +1
mstrindolf: nobody dies except the enemies of Liz II!
rindolfmst: heh :)
rindolfmst: "Everybody has their pet peeve. Except Chuck Norris. He can never become irritated. When somebody does something Chuck Norris disapproves of, he calmly kills them, and then goes on with the rest of his life."
mstrindolf: I used to do that but people kept objecting
* rindolfwonders if there are Queen Liz II factoids already
mstrindolf: if there aren't, there should be: https://www.vox.com/2015/1/23/7877243/king-abdullah-queen-drive
rindolfmst: try killing them instantly using your mind.
rindolfmst: hmmm... hard to know what really happened, but you can learn from lies, or fiction too
rindolfhttps://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1403966571215740929
PaperShlomi Fish (@shlomif) 28d23h ago: Why settle for telling TheOneTruth when you can tell so many sexy&amusing lies? I want to be in Fantasia.
rindolfi suspect imaginary fiction is true/real in some plane of existence: a la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliders
rindolfgood essays comprising of true(?) stories: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/06/20/introduction-to-best-software-writing-i/
rindolflucs: here?
rindolfalso note that i only skimmed https://www.vox.com/2015/1/23/7877243/king-abdullah-queen-drive
mstLIZ II
rindolf<< Emma Watson: oh my goodness,… What was happening to me? I wouldn't run a mystery woman for Naboo's crown… hell, on normal days I'll even refuse running for the UK or French parliaments.>>
rindolfmst: what about queen Liz 2?
mstrindolf: she was the one driving
rindolfmst: ah
rindolfmst: well, people can change
rindolfeven rms changed: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-cards-on-the-table-2019-2020/indiv-nodes/people-can-change.xhtml
rindolfmst: i also suspect her majesty is not really senile
mstrindolf: never said she was senile
mstrindolf: she's sharp as a tack
rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke - it is a thing, but seems presumptuous for "[ aunt ] Liz Amidala" in https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Queen-Padme-Tales/
rindolfmst: yes, but the media...
mstrindolf: are idiots
rindolfi'm just gossiping about celebs
mstLiz II is Liz II :D
rindolfheh
rindolfhttps://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/guest-honour-queen-leaves-couple-685253 - seems real. she didn't bring the palace's guards
rindolfok. i'd better write some markup and/or code
rindolfblogging
rindolfmst: it is nice talking to you
ologyok. xanax to the rescue
rindolfology: :( psychiatric drugs are placeboes
rindolfology: you can also eat a lot and remain thin (or fat if you fancy: [nsfwish] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCl3ho6_gbg )
PaperYouTube video linked by rindolf: Spiderman Parody HD Staring Jack Black - published by EricBurgerChannel
rindolfology: and muscle size does not correlate with physical strength - at all.
rindolf( do note that one can temporarily muster incredibly strength/etc. but you should exercise if you want to win competitions. )
rindolfif someone "rape kisses" your best strategy is to try to enjoy it: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/true-stories/my-first-kiss/ [sfw]
rindolfs/your/you, your/
rindolf</rindolfism>
rindolfI hope that The-Curse™ will be broken 3 seconds from now. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_box
rindolfsorry if I'm a bit strange lately now: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Selina-Mandrake/indiv-nodes/selina-and-the-three--the-battle.xhtml
rindolfstrange = strong = geeky-hackery = sexy : https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/indiv-nodes/hacking_and_amateur__vs__conformism_and_professional.xhtml ; well kinda/sorta
rindolfarnie as a hackery actor: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/indiv-nodes/bad_acting_ftw.xhtml#bad_acting_arnie
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rindolfarguably, an Austrian accent is closer to Danish than an English English accent
rindolfhackers come in many forms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Fish,_Two_Fish,_Red_Fish,_Blue_Fish
rindolfsome are even formless by default
simcop2387GumbyBRAIN: lol, Mandelbrot fractal tattoo in a maternity photo shoot
GumbyBRAINTheir photo setup is a thousand years.
simcop2387https://twitter.com/hollykrieger/status/1359932718247792643 # the reason for that
PaperHolly Krieger (@hollykrieger) 150d18h ago: There, I fixed the maternity photoshoot for you 😂 #WomenInScienceDay - do what you love your own way 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
rindolfsimcop2387: doesn't it kinda look like a ♥ shape?
rindolfhttps://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=mandelbrot&atb=v140-1&ia=images&iax=images - part of it
rindolfsimcop2387: a turbo c++ proggy to render it , took me several minutes on a 386 SX
rindolfyou were lucky
rindolfpurl : you were lucky
simcop2387i remember those days
rindolfsimcop2387: heh, you were not so lucky
simcop2387one of my first computers was an IBM PS/2 Model 25, running some kind of 8088 (no clue any more the speed or other specs) https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1183
rindolfsimcop2387: now it takes seconds with numpy
simcop2387if that
simcop2387if i ever run across one i'm tempted to gut it and build what people tend to call a "stealth pc" in it with some modern hardware
rindolf<rindolf> diophantoz: "it doesn't take a witch to fix this computer. all it takes is a Phillips screwdriver -- an old IBM PC clones commercial i imagined starring her as a child who was just taught fixing PC computers
rindolf<rindolf> diophantoz: apple, commodore, etc were form over function
rindolf<
rindolfher = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melissa_Joan_Hart - concat(meli lisa jo anne heart)
rindolfkai https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Winn_Adami was/is a bitchin bajoran terminator
simcop2387i love stupid naming/typos like that, it's fun
rindolfwell, i think she retired as a kai for now but is still a vedek
rindolf"gotta move or you stone"
rindolfsimcop2387: marge simpson? ;)
simcop2387yea, marge instead of merge.
rindolfi have a distant relative called margey
rindolfshe is weird and cool
rindolfGrinnz: i think both conservatives and liberals or whatever are good people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalism ; https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/indiv-nodes/guidelines_as_dogma.xhtml
rindolfmst: BTW , I enjoyed our chat yesterday about the queen/etc
rindolfhttps://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1344164824910016513 - co-emperess of fantasia by choice and hard-but-enjoyable-work . was born a "commoner" in paris.fr.
PaperShlomi Fish (@shlomif) 195d3h ago: "When I was your age, @EmmaWatson was called Sarah Bernhardt. Dude! How old are you?" It's funny to think that Em is the "Alpha Female" now, but Bernhardt being the daughter of a (jewish) hooker w unclear father was far more questionable. And where there's a will there's a way.
rindolfmy "parents" are threatening to call an ambulance to take me to an asylum. they are sadists. if they loved me, they'd let me do as i please: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-cards-on-the-table-2019-2020/#do_and_let_do__live_and_let_live
rindolf(Everyone start (living and loving)). lisp! good night, and happy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastille_Day tomorrow; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGXx56WqqJw . https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/humanity/indiv-nodes/the-gate.xhtml
PaperYouTube video linked by rindolf: The Monty Python and Holy Grail, The English meet the French castle - French subtitles - published by dyhetue
rindolfhi all, i am up early again having crazy thoughts about cosmology - and daydreaming
* rindolfis now playing: Daydream Believer [00:22/03:07]
Channel#perl
NetworkMAGNet
Published2021-07-14

##English on "Who is a Jew?"

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twbhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F — there are many answers, but MOST of the time it's not related to religion.
twbInterestingly, the right of return doesn't follow halakhic rules, and is much stricter for Ethiopians than, say, Russians.
twbHuh. "Argos" sometimes means "silver", BUT sometimes means "not working" (a- + ergos)
twbI feel an urgent need to accost people in Milton Keynes and explain this volubly.
rindolftwb: <joke>re "who is a Jew?" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovadia_Yosef has the privilege of blessing everyone he pleases (and their maternal descendents) as a Jew, and he is yet to answer "no" to the question "Is [insert entity here] a pure Jew?"»
twb"pure" eyeroll
twbrindolf: I think I must be misreading you somehow, because it sounds like "whenever asked 'is X a Jew?' he always answers 'yes'" — which seems unlikely for an ultra-orthodox dude
twbSince someone's bound to have asked e.g. "is Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer a Jew" by now
rindolfit is believed he dressed in the extravagant custom from the same reason as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader who openly admitted he uses his robot custom because it is memorable
rindolftwb: it was a joke - take it easy. and in that joke world, he answered "yes" to that question. there are also several sects of superintelligent Jewish cats there. </joke>
* rindolfis trying to be strange but amusing
rindolfmy junior high / high school friend was smarter, had more vivid imagination, and was funnier than I was at the time
twbrindolf: before the school got a restraining order?
rindolftwb: restraining order for whom? and punishments in .il are light given Saladin's ethics
rindolftwb: have you watched https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kung_Fu_Panda_2 ? i like how Po forgives the villain at the end
twbrindolf: schools often take a dim view of old men being friends with high school students
rindolftwb: m friend
rindolftwb: that aforementioned friend was/is my age
rindolftwb: and i think age difference friendships are overblown. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Smith was 10 when she 'slew' two mighty superpowers
torettoIn this context, "John's works have been highly criticized by other scholars, including Jacob and Lucy, for his illogical thinking" -- Do I need to use "have been" or "has been"?
torettoWhat's right word to use? Have vs Has
rindolftoretto: "have been"
torettothanks
torettos/her/his/
rindolftoretto: plural is "have" usually
torettoI see, makes sense.
StayHungrygood morning, comrades :)
StayHungryi wonder if there are any reputable sources left in English-speaking world which still adhere that singular they is... a controversial thing?
StayHungryI relied upon Chicago manual of style in this matter, but it seems they too gave up
rindolfStayHungry: i used singular "they" in the past, but now use "he" again at times.
ksftit could *maybe* be considered nonstandard when referring to specific people of known (binary) gender
ksftbut it's been used for centuries generically
ksftincluding by Shakespeare and in the King James Bible
rindolfKJV used it too, yes
ksftit's actually older than the singular "you"
ksfthttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/they#Usage_notes
StayHungryksft: used does not mean common. for example, i use word 'invective' on par with ancient ancestors, whereas it's not common in English.
twbhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they
kompowiecin my country we have inflection and i can use only "he" in sentence. I don't consider this to be a mistake.
twbkompowiec: in which language?
kompowiecwe have*
kompowiecpolish
kompowiecI remember a funny situation where some idiot called my language sexist for that reason.
ksftStayHungry: I don't think I understand your point
ksftI meant that it's been standard usage for centuries
kompowiecjust because you can change any word in English because there is no inflection, does not mean that in other languages it is possible.
ksftwas that person an English speaker?
twbkompowiec: English has inflexion, just not for gender (mostly)
StayHungryalso, i live both outside of golden billion and gender-whatever discourse, so that wikipedia article written by you know whom is not relevant. i'm looking not for fashion advice, but for sources that still stick to what is make sense grammatically, not politically.
ksftif so, you could respond by pointing to words that are always gendered in English
ksftlike "niece"/"nephew"
kompowieche knew another language, but it was not a inflection language
twbkompowiec: pronouns still inflect for gender, as does the adjective "blond/blonde" and, historically, some jobs (e.g. "invigilator/invigilatrix")
ksftsome jobs still do
kompowiecnegress :P
ksft"waiter"/"waitress", "actor"/"actress"
twbksft: depending on the dialect, yes
ksftthe masculine one is also generic in all cases I can think of, though
kompowiec> invigilatrix
kompowieci never heard of it
LuisP14niece* :x
ksftniece*, yes
twbkompowiec: it is a woman who prevents students from cheating during an exam
kompowiecoo
twbkompowiec: "doctress" and "actress" and "aviatrix" are attested more commonly.
ksft"proctor", in American English
twbAlso "danceuse"
kompowiecthat's what I was gonna say, it's from the British
twbksft: well... "proctress" in that case ;-)
ksftwhat variant uses "doctress"?
twbksft: none anymore, but it was readily apparent in the early 1900s
kompowiecI only know the American dialect, probably because of its ubiquitous presence.
twbkompowiec: I'd have thought Poland more likely to use British due to proximity, but I guess all the rest of western europe is in between you
ksftI think mandatory gendering is unfortunate in languages, but it's ridiculous to suggest that people who use those languages are doing something wrong
StayHungryrindolf: how do you deal with those who are eager to correct you when you use 'he'?
rindolf<StayHungry> rindolf: how do you deal with those who are eager to correct you when you use 'he'? ==> it doesn't happen a lot, but i tell them "you're right. point taken. force of habit' to be the bigger person there
StayHungrydiplomatist :)
rindolfStayHungry: Chuck Norris round house kicks doors open instead of using their keys. Summer Glau makes sure doors have already been open using her mind. ;)
* StayHungrylooks up Summer Glau
rindolfStayHungry: «Summer Glau (born 1981) is a Hollywood actress best known for playing River Tam in Firefly and Cameron, a Terminator, in the Television series The Sarah Connor Chronicles. She is also notable for being featured in the online comics, xkcd, and for being featured as a fictional version of herself in [my] realistic, political, fan-fiction, screenplay, Summerschool at the NSA.»
StayHungryyeah :)
StayHungrypassed me by except for a couple of Terminator series
rindolfStayHungry: i know her primarily from https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/406:_Venting
StayHungry:))
twbrindolf: looking in the scrollback my brain hurt because I was like "the river Tam doesn't flow through Cameron"
StayHungry:D
rindolfStayHungry: "everybody knows that, right?" https://youtu.be/QmklkUpN1YA?t=149
rindolftwb: heh, Cambridge does have a River Cam. it's a lovely town.
twbrindolf: i mean, obviously. That's what it's named after.
rindolftwb: where do you live, btw
twbMelbourne
StayHungrykangaroos :D
rindolftwb: yes, I wasn't aware of that till I've visited it
twb«When last I was in Cambridge, I stood atop the university church and heard the immortal words: "See that building over there? That's older than your country, that is." -- Martin Ellis»
rindolfdidn't make the connection
* StayHungrylooks up Martin Ellis
rindolfmy brain is full of disparate and seemingly random knowledge
StayHungryvery post-modern :)
rindolfStayHungry: one of my screenplays is subtitled "caught between post-modernism and the new age"
rindolfbye for now - walk. /me is away
StayHungrygive me that which is subtitled 'salvation lies within' :)
rindolfStayHungry: "the Schwartz is in you"
* rindolfis back from his walk - only the future will tell whether it is good news or not ;)
twbpowershell-preview_7.2.0-preview.7-1.deb_amd64.deb alone is 64MB, and that's- oh it appears to embed a copy of the CLR, which won't get security support
rindolfi suspect we/the gods/etc. have free choice
rindolftwb: that sucks
twbHow is this actually working? It's a single "pwsh" executable and a bunch of .dll's. Where's the CLR?
rindolfi don't mind getting cracked, but i hate it when software crashes
pussipupuI'm not and not
twbCan it access any of the system CLR libraries?
pussipupuBut it's a huge improvement over their old thing
twbpussipupu: are you talking about cmd.exe or about conhost?
pussipupuNot something I'd use on my own machines, cute that's another issue
twbBecause you can get rid of conhost without having to learn ps
pussipuputhe former
twbpussipupu: in that case just put bash.exe on a UNC share
pussipupuI'd rather just have a REPL with a real language, but one takes what one gets at work
twbThat's what I did back in 2001
rindolftwb: i think the CLR is inside the .dll files
twbrindolf: yeah I expected that to be more obvious
* StayHungryalways suspected ##english is a covert agent of #powershell :D
twbI made my dad use powershell for his ffmpeg-to-google script
twbHe doesn't like that double-click opens the IDE instead of just executing it
rindolfStayHungry: hello, NSA! ;)
rindolfStayHungry: the mossad can neither confirm nor deny having a secret cabal headed by https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/Fluttershy
rindolf</jokes>
rindolftwb: ah
pussipupuI'm not sure I dislike bash significantly less than PowerShell, and it's not my machine to be installing things on
twbI never installed it on their machine
pussipupuOK
twbI did ⌘+r \\twb-smb-server\blah\bash.exe \\twb-smb-server\blah\fix-problem.bash
twbIf I was doing it today I'd probably use lua. Also since Active Directory landed, that would probably complain that bash.exe wasn't signed.
rindolftwb: I dislike reverse ageism - "you cannot teach an old dog new tricks"
twbI only did that on NT 4.0 through Vista
twbrindolf: paleophobia?
rindolftwb: maybe
rindolftwb: I was told and believe that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_II is "as sharp as a tack" and her retired husband certainly was
blkshpHow is that reverse ageism?
pussipupuageism doesn't have a default direction even
blkshpPrecisely, like "reverse racism" there's no such thing.
StayHungryonly reverse cowgirl left...
twbeyeroll
Babarwhat's the word for mental communication with someone? Tele...something?
StayHungrytelepathy
pussipuputelepathy
lnmindmeld
Babarthat, yes, thanks
Babar(telepathy, not mindmeld)
rindolfblkshp: "the media" often portrays Liz II as senile.
pussipupuThe UK media don't
pussipupuThey often fawn over her though
blkshprindolf: Don't refer to Her Majesty as Liz II
StayHungry:D
Babar(or else)
rindolfblkshp: i mean something like "my grandfather is too old to use Linux"
blkshpThat's just plain old ageism
blkshpBabar: you got it.
rindolfblkshp: heh. Lizzie 2.01b
blkshpI will end you.
* blkshploads photon torpedo tubes
StayHungryroyal family is still a thing?
blkshpYes.
pussipupuSadly
blkshpNot sadly.
hufthat's hardly the problem
pussipupuNot to you
hufit's the stuff they stole that is
blkshphere we go.
pussipupuIt's not the largest problem but it's one of them :p
hufI'd like to quote philosophytube's great video on the topic
rindolfblkshp: photon torpedoes are no match against my EvilAntlers
blkshp:D
StayHungrywonder how do they cope with that uncombed vulgar fellow who presumably rules the nation, i'd burn the shame
StayHungry*with shame
blkshpYou leave Boris be.
hufno dear, that's Britney
rindolfblkshp: my EvilAntlers® more accurately - I am a trademark troll
rindolfnonreverse agism is like "he's too young to write a novel/screenplay"
twbrindolf: I don't agree with that
rindolftwb: with which point i've made?
twbrindolf: I disagree with 19:30 <rindolf> nonreverse agism is like "he's too young to write a novel/screenplay"
rindolftwb: why?
twbI think "agist" covers both "presidents must be at least 40 years old" and "fuck off out of our skate park, grandad"
twbI suppose you might make a case that graduated minimum wage (i.e. McDonalds can pay a 14yo 20% less than an 18yo) is "reverse agism"
rindolftwb: ah, i see. well, fair enough. we may need good terminology for both opposites
twbrindolf: just make up your own words
twbe.g. ephebophobia, paleophobia
rindolftwb: i see - Latin...
rindolftwb: re McDonalds' wage: https://www.crfashionbook.com/celebrity/a27409908/linda-evangelista-quote-10000-a-day/
rindolfor is it Greek
twbrindolf: I don't understand the link to minimum wage
twbrindolf: your link doesn't seem to mention "McDonalds", or "wage" at all
pussipupuA link to a non sequitur? Shocking
rindolftwb: well, i mean : 1.some people's time is worth more. 2. McDonalds' workers likely have other venues of income and derive inspiration from serving
rindolfthey might also be getting paid much more now
rindolfMcDonalds workers might also be getting paid much more now
rindolf<< And, in fact, you can’t even be sure that the demand curve is downward sloping. The only reason we assumed that the demand curve is downward sloping is that we assumed things like “if Freddy is willing to buy a pair of sneakers for $130, he is certainly willing to buy those same sneakers for $20.” Right? Ha! Not if Freddy is an American teenager! American teenagers would not be caught dead in $20 sneakers. It’s, like,
rindolfum, the death penalty? if you are wearing sneakers? that only cost $20 a pair? in school? I’m not joking around here: prices send signals. Movies in my town cost, I think, $11. Criminy. There used to be a movie theatre that had movies for $3. Did anyone go there? I DON’T THINK SO. It’s obviously just a dumping ground for lousy movies. Somebody is now at the bottom of the East River with $20.00 cement sneakers because they dar
rindolfed to tell the consumer which movies the industry thought were lousy.>>
rindolf-- from https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/12/15/camels-and-rubber-duckies/
twbrindolf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good
twbAlso related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemons_market
rindolftwb: good link, thanks
rindolftwb++
tinsoldiertwb: +28, -1 = 27. Informative (1)
pussipupu.help ++
* saganmanis now known as HubertFarnsworth
HubertFarnsworthwoah, Rindolf is here
HubertFarnsworthHey Rindolf, I am SaganMan from Freenode, twitter
blkshpDid you not invent some kind of video communications device?
rindolfHubertFarnsworth: hi, i remember you
rindolfHubertFarnsworth: how are you?
HubertFarnsworthThat's nice rindolf. I am okay. Surviving!
HubertFarnsworthHow are you rindolf?
rindolfHubertFarnsworth: I'm fine - philosophical
rindolfHubertFarnsworth: trying to lose The-Game™
HubertFarnsworthfine is good, what are you up to these days? reading anything good?
rindolfHubertFarnsworth: sure - irc logs, random web pages,my screenplays, tweets: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tl;dr for the win for now
tinwhiskersStayHungry: that's not a quality that is common to all humans :-/
HubertFarnsworthblkshp: Are you enjoying Wodehouse?
HubertFarnsworthrindolf: Haha. I always collected logs but never read them.
rindolfHubertFarnsworth: i think in life, the walk can be better than the destination
blkshpI enjoyed the one about the cow creamer, yes!
HubertFarnsworthhaha
blkshpbut i have decided I'm going to take them separated by something else, I'm currently on Stephen King's Cujo.
StayHungrytinwhiskers: tragedies often embitter people, make them callous and detached. but some stay afloat.
tinwhiskersah. I see.
HubertFarnsworthah, Stephen King
rindolfHubertFarnsworth: i mean i'm reading the real time chats i participate in
hufI have a friend who insists it's supposed to be pronounced with an f instead of a v (the Stephen in Stephen King)
HubertFarnsworthah I see
rindolfhuf: heh, he sounds stubborn
HubertFarnsworthrindolf: the destination is death and the walk at times is good but sucks mostly
blkshpRelevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6r6nhBcIbA
rindolfmy father keeps insisting that https://duckduckgo.com/Rosh_Hashanah?ia=web is not a chag
rindolfHubertFarnsworth: you cannot physically die in The-Game™
rindolfStayHungry: i prefer crossover classical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZd1GsRHVts
StayHungryrindolf: hooray for animation :D
rindolfStayHungry: i love animations! Disney, WB, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic ; the Muppets ; you name it
tinwhiskersrandom
kompowiecrindolf: 5 season is best
kompowiecespecially i mean first and latest episode
rindolfkompowiec: of MLP: fim?
kompowiecyep
kompowiecbut I don't think I have finished watching the rest of the episodes until today. I think I ended up in the 7th season, I think.
rindolfkompowiec: ah, i liked most episodes and also stopped watching after the end of season 7. i felt it ended well, and the novelty factor was gone.
Channel#English
NetworkFreenode
Published2021-07-20

#c - Philosophise yourself into a corner

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shlomifvdamewood: hi! sup? I don't like the fact that the new ##programming faq is neutered of links. seems like in your intolerance of me you've philosophised yourself into a corner. :P we're going to lose The-Game™
Inlineerm, if you get bored of one corner then philosophize yourself onto the other corner....
Inlinelol
shlomifInline: heh.
shlomifInline++
shlomifhttp://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20060302
candideTitle of shlomif's link: UserFriendly Strip Comments
Inlineat least it's raining metaphysics erry day.....
Inlinehahaha
shlomifthat strip is a remake of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNYI3iINXrQ
candideTitle of shlomif's link: Sam the Eagle versus Alice Cooper - YouTube
shlomifInline: metaphysics is my favourite physics ;)
* Inlinegoes take a swim in the sea of concepts then comes out and holds his bucket in the air to fill with metaphysics then philosophizes himself onto his retreat couch
Inlinelather, rinse, repeat
Inlineshlomif: i'm a holidayist
Inlinelol
shlomifInline: \o/ :D
shlomifInline++ # good joke
shlomifInline: may i tweet it?
shlomifwe got a bit offtopic though
shlomifInline: "there is no escape from shlomif's philosophical corner!" ;)
shlomifhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m-kbBamg_U - 'stay there!'
candideTitle of shlomif's link: Sesame Street: Grover And Herry Explain Here & There - YouTube
pr-asadiHi guys.
pr-asadiHow can i define a char array with 10 MB size?
pr-asadiI do not want use pointer or malloc.
dave0pr-asadi: static char array[10*1024*1024];
shlomifdave0++
dave0dave1
shlomif10 MB is peanuts nowadays.
twkmstill might fail though if the duration is automatic.
pr-asadidave0: How did do static?
dave0pr-asadi: because twkm
twkmstatic duration was required. the static keyword might not be needed, but that depends on context.
Twixusually it is not a good idea to put a 10 MB array on the stack. I think usually the stack on Linux is only 8 MB big(might be higher now, not sure what the current value is). So putting it into the static memory section might be good idea :>
Twixbut why do you not like to use malloc? I usually avoid malloc, too. But its because i usually work in microcontrollers
pr-asadiSo... fgets function does not give char *array type.
pr-asadidoes not takes*
Twix?
pr-asadiI should use narrow string(char array[length]).
twkmpointer into storage, at least n bytes of it where n is what you provide a the second argument.
twkmsome prefer using allocated storage there, but automatic, static or thread local is fine too.
pr-asadiTwix: What do you mean? I am a beginner.
Twixthat the stack size is limited? Or the static memory thing?
pr-asaditwkm: I should read more about the static keyword.
Twixthere are basically 3 memory sections. Maybe 4 if you take thread local memory into account. The stack, the heap and the static memory
twkmindeed, storage duration and the meaning of the qualifiers should be learned.
twkmugh.
Twixthe static memory gets allocated by the compiler/linker. Its size is known at compile time / before the program has been started.
* cavemanhas quit (Quit: the ##end of the abyss)
Twixevery thing you declare as static never gets deleted. The memory is allocated due the whole program lifetime. E.g. if you have a static variable in a function, it will keep it content between calls of this function
pr-asadiTwix: Thanks man. I did know these things. I should read more.
Twixyou did already know? :o
Twixon microcontrollers its neat to use static memory for everything. If you avoid malloc you can make better predictions about the memory consumption of your program
Twixbut its more complicated to write a memory efficient program. You need to put a lot of thought how to use these static allocated memory to not waste it
TwixOn a bigger system i would not recommend this technique and rather simply use malloc to get the buffer you need
twkmgiven char s[n]; or static char s[n]; or char *s = malloc(n); -- which you provide to fgets doesn't matter to fgets.
pr-asadiTwix: Sorry. "I did not" is true.
Twix:D
twkmof course you must provide n (or less than n) as well, not some larger value.
Twixi always use INT_MAX. Works every time. But if i only could find the reason for those segmentation faults ...
Twix:>
Twixoh hi fputs_ o/
shlomiffputs_: hi. sup?
Posterdatihi
Posterdatiis anyone converting fortran77 to c?
twkmsome have.
kurahaupoPosterdati: "is" or "can"?
Posterdatiis
PosterdatiI think is the better choice to apply
kurahaupoThere isn't much Fortran code left, so even people skilled at doing that probably aren't doing it now
Posterdatinot using f2c
twkmsome things in c99 were specifically to (app)ease such efforts.
kurahaupoOr are you looking for someone to help?
kurahaupoor to help you?
Posterdatikurahaupo: some applications are still maintained in fortran77 due to its speed for linear algebra computations
Posterdativectors arithmetics is faster
Posterdation f77
* shlomifonly wrote FizzBuzz in fortran
kurahaupoPosterdati: Vector arithmetic will be faster in whichever languages can use the hardware acceleration in modern CPUs
Posterdatiwell comparing the same algorithm in c and fortran77 the latter always win
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NetworkFreenode
Published2021-07-24

"It doesn't take a witch to fix this computer…"

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Most early home computers (e.g: Commodore 64 or Apple II) suffered from the "Form over function" fallacy. I imagined a 1980s IBM PC clones commercial that featured Melissa Joan Hart as a child fixing PCs. Then the camera zoomed into her belt with the caption "It doesn't take a witch to fix this computer. All it takes is a Phillips Screwdriver." This commercial helped cement the PCs' dominance.

Hart was kind-of pre-destined to become The Witch given Vedek Winn predicted that their final name will be "Meli-Lisa Jo-Anne Heart" based on the profile's previous names.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2021-07-28

New meaning for "idiot-proof"

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The term "idiot-proof" (= laymen proof) and Joel's advice of fixing support requests permanently get a whole new meaning when some laymen are tech geeks who have github accounts and are versed in the command line. E.g: fortune-mod issue #45.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkTweet
Published2021-10-07

Stop eating for one year

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Jack: I suggest we stop eating for one year and thus save a lot of money. But what will we buy with all the money we save?

Sophie: we'll buy food!

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkAphorisms Collection
Published2021-11-13

#typescript - Programming Languages and Tools

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trampiHi! Where can I find the TypeScript language spec? It was previously available here, but it has been archived: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/tree/main/doc
systemfaulttrampi: There's no spec, they stopped caring about it a few years ago
rindolfsystemfault++
rindolfIRC karma > gold
rindolf;)
rindolfI think specs can often be useful for design, though.
rindolfsometimes they can be pointless.
systemfault:)
systemfaultI don't believe anyone would write another complete TypeScript compiler (I'm not talking about a TS stripper, there are already a lot of them)
rindolfsystemfault: "believe it." -- http://www.earthstar.co.uk/deep1.htm
rindolfor https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/bits/facts/Taylor-Swift/
rindolfor Chuck for that matter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Norris_facts
rindolf;)
systemfaultHaha :)
rindolfsystemfault: \o/
rindolfsystemfault: my sites/blogs have many other jokes
rindolfsystemfault: do you have WWW presence?
systemfaultI've browsed through your website, it's fine.
jadewhey guys, I have a generic class <T>, and a method that takes <O>, is there a way to constrain O to extend T?
jadewhmm, there might be
rindolfsystemfault: http://old-1998-site.shlomifish.org/ - humble start
systemfaultI don't, I bought my domain name but only use it for my Google email account
systemfaultjadew: have you tried <O extends T> ?
jadewyeah, doesn't work
systemfaultCan you write a small repro on the TS playground?
rindolfsystemfault: ah. :|
jadewwait, that's not what I want
jadewI want T extends O
jadewnevermind, this is a non-issue
systemfaultGood :)
systemfaultrindolf: simple websites like that age well, it looks fine on my phone
rindolfjadew++ # updating us
rindolfsystemfault: true, but I want a navigation menu, a breadcrumbs trail/etc
rindolfhttps://everybootstrap.site/ ;)
sighey philosophical question. I think I saw an answer somewhere but forgot it. Why do programming languages have statements? I know the historical reason: FORTRAN had statements and expressions, and then the division just kind of was inherited on to other languages. But is there some tangible BENEFIT from saying "this here is not an expression, it doesn't return a value you can assign or use elsewhere"?
systemfaultI don't know, my guess is simply because of how programming started.
sigmaybe something to do with sequence points?
sigbut it's such an "obvious" thing that you might always want to potentially have a value back from any kind of expression; and, like, why not? It can always be ignored if it's not needed
sigand I mean, new languages get designed all the time. Why does TypeScript have statements (ok, because js). Why does rust have statements?
sighttps://doc.rust-lang.org/reference/statements.html seems it's declarations mostly
systemfaultThere's a classic old paper that could be relevant… "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs"
systemfaultBy John Bacus
systemfaulthttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Backus78.pdf
rindolfsystemfault: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines
rindolfsig: https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1479822015464976389
rindolfsig: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lambda+calculus&atb=v140-1&ia=web , Lambda Calculus, is cool, but gets tedious
rindolfhttps://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=sharp-programming-German-as-he-is-spoke
sigrindolf: Lambda Calculus is tedious because there aren't good tools; there aren't good tools because there hasn't been a billion dollar demand
sigsystemfault: cool paper. Reminds of Ryan Dahl lamenting how broken NPM and node.js is
systemfaultsig: Then he went on to create Deno… which isn't that much better…
rindolfsig: perl is not tedious
systemfaultsig: What will be his next project? Oden? Done? Nedo? Edon? What combination of "Node" is he going to use? ;)
sigrindolf: perl also has absolutely nothing to do with lambda calculus :D
systemfaultAnyway, TL;DR… programming started really close to the machine which is imperative
sigsystemfault: I don't know enough history to know if Backus ever got a chance to have a stab at (more) functional languages than fortran and algol…
rindolfI used to write Perl in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe's_Own_Editor
systemfaultThe first programming languages were very simple abstractions on top of assembly… because well, CPU and RAM were very limited
rindolfsig: my point was that Perl lacks good tools and yet
systemfaultPerl is dead :P
sigahum, ok
sigI was actually super impressed with Perl when I once tried it
sigI had this list of files and I wanted to generate an album HTML page
systemfaultIt's like COBOL, existing codebases will keep being maintained… but I'm not sure that anyone is going to start a new Perl 5 project in 2022
sig@files = `ls` # holy shit did I just parse the filenames in current directory into a list?!
systemfaultAnd Perl 6… was renamed Raku.
rindolfsig: heh, I did an HTML album too
avusig: you did just parse the filenames in the current directory in a broken way that at best works most of the time, yes :)
sigavu: scripting only needs to work for me, right now
sigTypeScript is an okay scripting language ";D"
sighey is it true btw that ts-node isn't "production quality"? You can't actually spawn lots of workers using it or whatever
avuusing ls in scripts is just as wrong in perl as it is in bash
signot if it works >:3
rindolfsystemfault: https://hackernoon.com/how-it-feels-to-learn-javascript-in-2016-d3a717dd577f ;)
rindolfsig: I find tsc/ts better than raw js.
rindolfI also use https://emscripten.org/
rindolfNight all. Try dreaming of something more pleasant than COBOL…
Channel#typescript
NetworkFreenode
Published2022-01-28

Let's just kill prejudice

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First people were prejudiced about new vs. old. Then about popularity. Now they are about "mainstream"ness. "Two kinds of fools".

Let's just kill prejudice once and for all! When I described Kate in my Selina Mandrake story as a socialite, I was attacked, but what's wrong with being one?

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkTweet
Published2022-03-03

##writing - Pluralistic Tooling

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bombnothing rindolf
bombhow was your day?
rindolfbomb: productive
rindolfbomb: hacked on xhtml5, css, tt2, perl5, py3, etc. codes
bombthat's cool rindolf but what is tt2
bombrindolf aye template toolkit
rindolfbomb: yes. jinja2's scoping confuses me :[
bombI liked jinja2 when I was using Flask, but it's smarter that it should be. gotta keep the template dumb
rindolfbomb: yes
rindolfi used bottle.py for this script: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=shlomif-beauty-products-as-the-stone-soup-effect
bombah, good ol' bottle.py, I remember it was way faster than Flask
rindolfalso used sqlite
bombdo you run it on Gunicorn?
rindolfbomb: it is shared hosting - https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/hosting/
bombrindolf hmm, uses CGI then?
rindolfhttps://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/site_loads_quickly.xhtml
rindolfbomb: maybe. i dont care as long as it's fast
bombjust make sure you don't write a popular article :)
rindolfbomb: https://www.buzzfeed.com/rossalynwarren/emma-watson-crashed-the-un-website - new age slashdot effect
rindolfmost of my site is static
rindolfRoey: shabbath shalosh
rindolfRoey: i hacked on xhtml5, css, tt2, perl5, py3, etc. codes
Roeyrindolf: shabbat shalom :)
Roeyyeah? what di dyou make with them/
Roey?
rindolfRoey: web-pages. eg: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/So-Who-The-Hell-Is-Qoheleth/ongoing-text.html
Channel##writing
NetworkFreenode
Published2022-03-07

#security - Tanking Tanks

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godSend23Russia cutting off internet march11!
godSend23what can we do
operationaltalk to elon
godSend23u mean starlink?
ajakright, because #security is who should be doing things
godSend23can we bypass this?
ajak...?
godSend23still get access
ajak???
BoBeR182HAM radio + email repeaters
BoBeR182you can send basic HTML over it
BoBeR182They're still gonna need internet for their own local shit
BoBeR182so realistically it's gonna be some BGP block or DNS fuckery
BoBeR182i'm sure if the Chinese can bypass the GFW so can the russians
godSend23ooh
BoBeR182.onion proxies and etc etc will help
godSend23so i simply continue to use .ru urls?
godSend23what's GFW?
BoBeR182great firewall of china
BoBeR182GFW
godSend23ohhh
godSend23i need to get myself a HAM radio
godSend23are there .onion proxies for every possible url?
ajakwhat does that mean
BoBeR182no
BoBeR182.onions must be set up by the site admin
BoBeR182you don't need a HAM radio to access Tor
BoBeR182but a HAM radio can help access other parts of the internet
BoBeR182even if it's just downloading an RSS feed
godSend23oh awesome that's neat
godSend23idk the ru sites' admins
rindolfgodSend23: see #linux
godSend23ok rindolf
godSend23why there?
rindolfgodSend23: i noted that i suspect russia will be egypt 2
godSend23hmm
rindolf.ru-ers are crazy
Apachezhttps://twitter.com/UAWeapons/status/1501288850055995396 "The Ukrainian John Deere Brigade apparently found another abandoned T-80U tank." :D
ajakyes, everyone following the war knows Ukraine has captured at least several heavy vehicles a day
CombatVetsavage
Apachezhttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNW200nVQAAqWxR?format=jpg&name=large
ApachezCombatVet: the next expansion pack for farming simulator? ;)
Apachezhow to tow a tank =)
CombatVetthat thing is pulling like 20x+ its weight
rindolfajak: reallife tanks are hateful - https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Terminator/Liberation/indiv-nodes/hannah-using-a-tank.xhtml
ajakwhat are you on about
rindolfApachez: heh
rindolfajak: tanks are big, heavy, unagile & vulnerable
rindolfand an environmental menace
ajaki think this is a bit orthogonal to the issue
rindolfajak: maybe,...
rindolfajak: it tends2get stuffy inside tanks
cockatoodudedeath in a tank, is horrible
cockatoodudegenerally the tank becomes impossible to exit, and on fire, and you burn to death usually fairly slowly as the fuel leaks and spreads and ignites
rindolfThat put aside, despite common belief, NASA astronauts did use pencils in space at first ( https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-nasa-spen/ ), just like their Soviet peers. However, this solution was found to be lacking. As a result, space-friendly pens were developed (within budget) and used (including by the USSR cosmonauts).
rindolfcockatoodude: :[
mats1https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/08/kyiv-deadlock-contrasts-russia-worrying-south-ukraine-war-progress
websec^ Focus on Kyiv deadlock obscures Russia’s success in south Ukraine | Ukraine | The Guardian
Channel#security
NetworkFreenode
Published2022-03-11

#web - Lesbianism, heterosexuality, and Sappho

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rindolfkee++
rindolfi think hiding info from 'hackers' is futile and nonconstructive - https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-cards-on-the-table-2019-2020/indiv-nodes/fear-is-path-to-dark-side.xhtml
Natasha>> Putting Cards on the Table (2019-2022) - "Fear is the path to the dark side"
K4rMai wonder if most muscular women are lesbians
keeStatistically speaking, it's unlikely.
keeMost women aren't lesbians, so there'd have to be a high correlation between muscle-building exercise and sexuality, and I don't see why there should be.
rindolfK4rMa: there was https://friends.fandom.com/wiki/The_One_With_The_Male_Nanny
Natasha>> The One With The Male Nanny | Friends Central | Fandom
rindolfand i cried recently too when listening to songs
K4rMafriends is great
rindolfkee: i suspect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sappho wasn't really homosexual just playful and parodical, not unlike Ezekiel
rindolfK4rMa: yes. i also like TBBT, which is similar
K4rMathe big bang theory is the worst
rindolfhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory
keerindolf: Ah yes. Sappho and her very good friend.
keeWhat next? JavaScript was satire all along?
keeTo be honest, JavaScript being satire makes a lot more sense.
keeIn Java, Object types can be null, therefore typeof null == "object".
keeAnd so on. Decisions that made some sense in other languages are satirised by JavaScript implementing them identically, or worse, and revealing them for the mistakes they are.
rindolfkee: there are many straight male combat soldiers who are fond of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Pony:_Friendship_Is_Magic . i dislike stigma and prejudice… :[
keeThis is true, but Sappho wrote quite a lot of quite personal lesbian romantic poetry.
keeIt's possible she was just that good a poet, but I think it's an unlikely choice of topic for a heterosexual classical Greek.
keeMost of her surviving poetry is about her own life in some way.
rindolfkee: there may have been fanfic of her, not unlike Aesop
keeNo, most later commentators insisted she was only attracted to men.
keeThey wrote quite a lot on the topic, with their interpretations. (Quotes in such documents are the only known surviving copy of some bits of her poems.)
rindolfmany people made up Aesop fables on the spot - https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/factoids_obsession.xhtml
Natasha>> Shlomi Fish’s FAQ - Why are you so obsessed with “facts”/factoids about Chuck Norris/etc.?
rindolfkee: i am only mostly straight. i am attracted a little to men [and suspect every pleasure is sexual, creative, conceptual, and educational]
keeI don't think "straight" is even a particularly useful concept. (Nor "lesbian".) But it's one of the concepts in our culture, for good or for ill.
keeWe shouldn't really try to attach modern conceptions of sexuality or whatever to Sappho.
rindolfkee: “Do note, however that I kindof am attracted to the bitch type. One of my many kinks. While my friends are attracted to everything that moves, I see no reason to limit myself ( Reference: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Things-Anybody-Ever-Said/dp/0743235797/ref=sr_1_1 ).”
keeTbh, most historians are too obsessed with her sexuality. She wrote plenty of other poems! Just because we only have one-and-a-bit of those, doesn't mean we should pretend they don't exist.
rindolfkee: yes.
rindolfkee: i haven't studied ancient greek philosophy / culture closely, but OTOH haven't watched most Sesame Street skits either
keeSappho wrote in a regional dialect of Greek.
keeSince it was a different dialect to the one that later became Standard Classical Greek, many classicists decided her poems were trash, because they couldn't understand them easily.
keeSo they just didn't copy them off the original papyrus.
rindolfwe will always play catchup
rindolfkee: ah
rindolfkee: BTW, did you hear about https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/fan-pages/samantha-smith/ ?
Natasha>> Fan page for Samantha Smith - Shlomi Fish’s Homesite
Channel#web
NetworkFreenode
Published2022-03-20

The story of Gideon Seyetik the Terraformer in the Selinaverse

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After Gideon Seyetik tried to commit suicide, he and Q materialised on the bridge of The Defiant, and Q said:

What you did was brave, but not brave enough. See, the right to divorce is upheld by the constitution of the Q Continuum and all other known continuums as well as The-Codex™. I divorced my share of wives and some organisms divorced after milliards of years of marriage.

Your wife's race's reluctance for separation is unlikely to be biological.

So Prof. Seyetik and his wife started a political / religious struggle to allow them and other unhappy couples to divorce. It was successful eventually, but ironically Mrs. Seyetik was so impressed by her husband's perseverence, that she fell in love with him again, and they remained together.

Since then, the couple has been doing other political activism.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2022-03-22

The story of Julia Vins in the Shlomifverse [RPF]

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Note: this is Real Person Fiction.

It is known that a man or a woman, of any age, can be physically strong, staminous, dextrous, flexible, etc. while having small muscles and being lightweight. Julia Vins' natural DNA gave her a thin, skinny body which she disliked. To remedy this, she first tried eating a lot. She ate a lot but remained skinny.

Given pregnancy was out of the question, and given she preferred not to use magic for it yet, she turned to bodybuilding. However, she, preferred to remain skinny while being happy, rather than gain muscle mass and be miserable. As a result, Ms. Vins:

  1. Ate many fatty or sweet foods. There's a video where Jennifer Lawrence and she were recorded devouring a whole extra large pizza each.

  2. Skipped gym sessions for days on end.

  3. Spent a lot of her gym time watching, helping and socialising with the other gym attendees.

It worked! Not only did she get a larger body that she was happier with, but she broke several powerlifting records and her babyface and use of excessive makeup earned her the moniker "Muscle Barbie".

That wasn't the end of the story, though. The first obstacle was that Julia became allergic to the makeup she was using. Since most beauty products are placebos and Julia was confident enough as is, she simply stopped using them and was still recognisable.

Yet another issue she ran into was that many of her airborne weight liftings resulted in her injuring herself. Thus, she decided to step out of the competitive powerlifting race, and periodically sell or donate some of The-Game™'s physical strength points she has earned to people who needed them. Even if she gave them away, she still received compensating donations of money or publicity.

She ended up earning enough money to start a local restaurant where she is the barista.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2022-04-17

“Professor Fish”

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Back when I studied EE in the Technion, I tried to reach the webmasters of my department's website, in order to improve its user-experience. I received a reply from one of them that opened with "Hi Professor Fish". And that was back when I was an undergraduate student, before I even had a Bachelor's degree.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2022-05-22

##cinema - Natalie Portman is looking sexy when muscular

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rindolfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsV4fULcyQw&t=570 - holy shit does Natalie Portman look sexy muscular! Is it a Marvel films thing? Given a person can be small-muscled yet strong-as-an-ox, it's psychological bias [but what isn't?]
Trebek^ ► YouTube :: Star Wars (1999) Cast Then and Now [23 Years After] @ 09:30 :: Duration: 10:02 :: Views: 231,454 :: Uploader: toptenfamous :: Uploaded: 2022-07-12 :: 3,698 likes :: 0 dislikes :: 0 favorites :: 311 comments
TomatoSynthgreat arms, gotta say
Sketchwithout watching the video, i'm going to guess the new Thor movie where she plays Thor
rindolfTomatoSynth: heh, you can look but you'd better not touch…if you know what's good for you
TomatoSynthwondering if she worked on her legs that much. i haven't seen the movie.
rindolfSketch: Thorah the explorer
rindolfThorah the Microsoft Internet Explorer… ;]
rindolf“I don't want to mess with Summer Glau, but I'll let her mess with me every day!”
rindolf"If Emma Watson and Arnold Schwarzenegger were locked in a room alone, only Emma would come out alive. After she would break the door open."
rindolfLife becomes meaningless without sex and violence. ;]
rindolf"Taylor Swift can go and destroy the White House. She and what army? Why, she and no army."
rindolf"If Apple ever tried to sue Taylor Swift for trademark violations of Apple Swift, they would spend all their money on litigation, and still lose. This would make many lawyers richer, and the world a better place."
rindolfTomatoSynth: I just realised something - Portman wanted to become physically stronger for some roles. She preferred developing the bigger muscles as a certificate of hard work [just like a gnupg signature]; the studios were OK either way
rindolfIf Portman were the 'queen of web 1.0': https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/Buffy/A-Few-Good-Slayers/ongoing-text.html#talk_with_rindolf_on_freenode
Trebek^ Buffy - a Few Good Slayers - Ongoing Text - Shlomi Fish’s Homesite
Chigrahttps://www.cbr.com/disney-gargoyles-returns-new-season-dynamite-entertainment/ Wow.
Trebek^ Disney's Gargoyles Returns with a New Season from Dynamite Entertainment
rindolfChigra: the 1990s "Gargoyles" was a decent show. Full of mystery
Sketchand a cast full of TNG
ChigraYeah, that's what Gargoyles should be remembered most as. The TNG casts side hustle.
ChigraThere would be no indication that Marina Sirtis could act without it.
bpalmerA lot of comic book writers were involved with the stories, and at least one novelist that I like.
SketchChigra: yeah, I never watched it more than occasionally, that's the only thing i remember about it
Channel##cinema
NetworkFreenode
Published2022-07-23

Definition of “The Alpha Female”

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Definition of “The Alpha Female”: the woman people are talking about people talking about.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2022-08-25

The story of Clarissa Darling (in the Selinaverse)

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Clarissa Darling was the 4th or 5th terran terminator to have been terminated. She is a "The Theory Of Everything" brainiac. Clarissa avoids physical peril and discomfort as much as possible, while delighting in nonviolent battles of wits. She likes to flaunt her knowledge, and unverified hypotheses.

The "Clarissa Explains It All" pattern where she chases her brother around the kitchen table is not something the real Clarissa will ever do. Like many others, Clarissa believes in the missiles vs. Melee motif and that "the pen is mightier than the bow".

However, as a post-Terminator girl, Clarissa was constantly tormented by boys pulling her hair. As a result, her friend (and former watcher) Sam, convinced her to study martial arts - Karate, I think - together. While she hated almost every single moment of it, the torments stopped shortly after they started learning Karate.

Now, at one point, Clarissa and Sam participated in a regional Karate tournament, where Clarissa won the silver medal for the girls' competition, and Sam didn't place (and didn't care too much about it). Following that, and the publicity it received, Clarissa and Sam concluded that they no longer need to study martial arts, and as a result decided to quit. And indeed while Clarissa still had her share of challenges and obstacles, she still was no longer being tormented.

( Note that some of Clarissa's opponents in the tournament complained that fighting her was not-as-fun-as-it-could be, because she didn't prolong the fights. )

Unix wiz girl

As a dispeller, Clarissa's template used troff on a Unix system to typeset and print her letters to the Muppeteers and fellow dispellers. The post-Terminator Clarissa remained a Unix enthusiast, whereas Melissa Joan Hart was more into IBM PCs and DOS. With the advent of commodity 32-bit/64-bit CPU architectures and Unix-like operating-systems (GNU, BSDs, Linux)¸ their paths converged.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2022-10-03

##hiya - hiya being humble

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hiyawow my chan is so loquacious now
hiya:P
lowdeni imagine one day this chan will become big and everyone will just be like "who tf is hiya why name it after him ?"
hiyalowden: hiya is a legend
hiyahiya is the power that binds all together
hiyathat brings different culture together
hiyaa guy you can make fun of
hiyaA guy who loves Bigfoot :)
hiyaWho loves Canada / USA / Europe
hiyaA great personality
hiya:P
rindolfhiya: hi, your monologue reminds me of the poem in https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Rings_of_Power
rindolfhiya: it was funny though
rindolfhiya: funny and fun \o/
hiyarindolf: :)
Channel##hiya
NetworkFreenode
Tagline“When it comes to humility, I am the greatest”
Published2022-11-25

#web - "one click"

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Kartagissometimes I come to hate lando
rindolfKartagis: https://lando.dev/ ?
Natasha>> Home | Lando
Nomikosdistrust every product of which the description's opening paragraph contains 'button' and 'push'
Kartagisrindolf: yep. it sometimes gives me http timeout and the one solution mentioned as docker system prune -a
rindolfNomikos: heh, also 'one click'
Nomikosyep
rindolf\o/
Nomikoshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEfrdAtAmqk
Natasha>> God-Tier Developer Roadmap
rindolfNomikos: TL;DW
Nomikosit's not actually useful, but entertaining
rindolfNomikos: ok. he talks too fast too
Nomikosyou can play it at 0.75% speed :o)
Nomikosehr.. *75%
Nomikos0.75% would make it hard to understand again
NomikosI'm following a docker youtube which has generated subtitles, and have seen at least 13 different ways in which the word 'docker' was interpreted
Nomikosfrom a quick scan: dr, Dr. dakar, doctor, darker, dogra
Nomikosdoko
Channel#web
NetworkFreenode
Published2022-12-03

Objective Visual Turbo Global jIronOpenPerl++.NET™

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Objective Visual Turbo Global jIronOpenPerl++.NET™ Enterprise Edition♭ Professional Home Premium Ultimate 64-bit Single-user.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkBased on a Freenode #perl conversation
Published2023-01-11

"You look 24 years old"

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Back around 2013, when I was ~36, a girl told me I looked 24 years old, and I was disappointed because I always thought I looked 18.

“Meet Q Gadol”

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work@shlomif tweet
Published2023-01-23

##religion - Reviewing Rindolfism

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elgranroblehttps://www.shlomifish.org/me/rindolf/indiv-nodes/rindolfism__howtohelp.xhtml
elgranroblerindolf: in accordance with your words, I will add my 2 cents to the public forum
* rindolfis now playing: Katy Perry - 'Hummingbird Heartbeat' (Cover by Savannah Outen & Kyle Jordan Mueller)-BHhh-yCmn7g.mp4 [01:20/04:35]
elgranrobleFrom my perspective, rindolfism has an air of old celtic, and germanic lost roots. It is the alterego of the shalom oriented man, who because of history has its foot in two realms, in that of Saladin and from before the Brothers Grimm in a Alsacean forest under the rule of Charlemagne.
elgranrobleRindolfism, in my opinion, mythologizes the English aura and lays it like a thin mantel over the girth of Israeli and Hebrew wisdom. Upon the mantel written in gold are the languages of the angels, but now understood as code. These once archaic and mystic memes have now surfaced and materialized in the dawn of the computer age and have flourished
elgranroblehumbly as programmer and hacker.
elgranrobleRindolfism is the source of great worry for those who seek hide the secret past of the world and what the ancients called, "The Cold Curtain." The cold curtain is the time only known to the initiated moon watchers and tree whisperers. It is a time when the winds howl from the arctic and drive the northern people in an ice march towards the verdant
elgranroblelands of mediterranean.
elgranrobleRindolfism's only curse and enemy is itself. Because of its freedom and opensourceness, it is destined to morph into something so unknown and unfamiliar that the followers of Rindolfism won't be able to recognize it. So the followers of Rindolfism are destined to a long period of confusion until they coalesce back into one Rindolfism with all its
elgranroblecontradictions and differences, as it was before it changed into a non-Rindolfism.
elgranrobleThis nature of rindolfism is peculiar because we are not sure if the rindolfism of today is even the original rindolfism. However scholars point to schlomifish.org with certainty that it is and was AS it is written. We are happy to agree in order to ensure that rindolfism continues to be a source of unity amongst ranting-raving chatters, ##religion
elgranrobleaddicts, hackers, programmers, n00bs, and other categories that are inappropriate to say.
rindolfelgranroble: i'm reminded of https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/too_old_or_too_new_sources.xhtml
elgranroblerindolf: rindolfism is antithetical to smiflodnirism which posits that rindolfism has everything upside down. rindolfism is toe-to-toe with the biggest feet. rindolfism is the cure to every people under a  dictator with an anger problem or anyone in any unhealthy relationship. rindolfism is currently being studied by the all intelligence agencies
elgranroblein order to synthesize and patent it before the soviets do.
elgranroblerindolf: To understand rindolfism, all you need to do is click right-mouse and View Source (Inspect Element).
elgranrobleOn the other hand, elgranroble-ism is so messed up it might make you end up going back to your therapist.
elgranroblelol
rindolfelgranroble: haha… \o/
elgranrobleElgranroble-ism has been banned in several countries and is being currently under review in several "free" countries. Critics say that the mix of depressing and hopeful information is too complicated for anyone who doesn't want to try to be a good person. Critics say that it makes most people feel pity or anger.
elgranrobleElgranroble-ism has been accused of being overblown hogwash created by spoiled chatterbox. Followers of elgranroble-ism disagree vehemently to these accusations, although some have expressed that they wish their movement was easier to say in English.
rindolfheh
elgranrobleThe major tenets of Elgranroble-ism are 1. Absorbing information critically but with an open mind, 2. Being Forgiving until it hurts like Jesus, 3. Praying to God and seeing how it knows your heart, 4. Giving credit to where you get ideas from so that you don't look like a racist appropriator or a liar, 5. Thinking of weird things but keeping them
elgranrobleto yourself until the right moment, 6. Aspire to be at the frontier of something even without being an expert, 7. See the magic in the world and struggle with it, but try to move in a positive direction for the sake of others
elgranroble6. Aspire to be at the frontier of something even without being an expert, like shlomifish's /1991/
elgranrobleAlthough there are 7 tenets of Elgranroble-ism, there is a secret sect that believes that these 7 principles were made-up in a chatroom about religion in order to appease people. In reality, the mind of their leader is like a wolf.
elgranroblehttps://kimkinscam.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/sheep-wolf.jpg
elgranroblerindolf: night, thanks for the excitement
rindolfelgranroble: gnight; thx
* elgranroblehas quit (Quit: elgranroble)
cavemanrindolf: do you like to think about economical theories/ideas?
caveman^ separate question.
cavemanas for the palestenine question: so, your answer is that it's ok for israeli forces to beat palestenian worshippers, because it is not a genocide yet?
rindolfcaveman: i'm interested in psychological economics. eg: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/culture/case-for-commercial-fan-fiction/
cavemani have serious thoughts about changing how economy operates, including thoughts to create a new cryptocurrency that is actually usable as a currency (something existing cryptocurrencies fail achieving).
cavemani also have thoughts on anonymous physical delivery, which makes it practically impossible for the government to stop even if it wants.
cavemananonymous physical delivery + scalable cryptocurrency = both required to have a liberated trade from governmental theft (e.g. taxation, inflation).
rindolfcaveman: intentional physical violence is always bad IMO
cavemanare you interested in this? (scaling cryptocurrency + anonymous physical delivery)
rindolfcaveman: bitcoin wastes time/love which r much greater than money
cavemanhow so? kindly explain.
cavemanwhat about fiat currencies? do they also waste time/love?
rindolfcaveman: no
rindolfcaveman: the whole universe should use USD
rindolf[[Holly: You know, I was chatting on IRC the other day, when someone noted that he read about a man who started with a paperclip and after some stages of barter ended up owning a mansion.
rindolfRonda: heh, hacks! I presume you won't agree to buying me a mansion, today?
rindolfHolly: Naturally not… but I can buy you a paperclip. A pack of 50 paperclips is also within my budget.
rindolfRonda: hah… I can try trading them for 50 mansions, and start a real-estate agency!]]
cavemanrindolf: so you want to entrust everyone's wallet content to be under the mercy of the Feds?
rindolfcaveman: yes. they are merciful and benevolent: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-cards-on-the-table-2019-2020/indiv-nodes/fear-is-path-to-dark-side.xhtml
* rindolfis now playing: Taylor Swift - Red-Zlot0i3Zykw.mp4 [00:19/04:01]
rindolfi match taytay's desc… :|
Channel##religion
NetworkFreenode
TaglineCritique of Pure Rindolfism
Published2023-04-15

"Things will always go wrong, even if they cannot."

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Things will always go wrong, even if they cannot.

Murphy’s law

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work@shlomif tweet
Published2023-04-16

##web - Asperger, consumerism

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rindolfcantelope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome describes me and me alone. there *is* a conspiracy.
cantelopeSure, except anything outside of the narrowest mainstream "normal" has a label as being a disorder
cantelopeAnd even mainstream behavior, if we don't like you :P
cantelopeHe's obsessed with playing games! Oh, nevermind that he's locked in his room 20 hours a day with just the console
cantelopeSeems relevant somehow, but he's totally OCD if you ask us
cantelopeI've said this before, but must I point out that NOT every savant must necessarily be an idiot savant?
cantelopeShow abnormal aptitude for anything or everything and suddenly we all feel better about ourselves by calling you sick
cantelopeGo figure
rindolfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zlot0i3Zykw also describes me, and my physical sex-life amounted to one "rapekiss"
Natasha8>> Taylor Swift - Red
rindolfcantelope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felicia_Day used2be a [female] video games' addict
rindolfcantelope: *nod*
rindolfthere are 3 "the guild" songs on youtube that i like
rindolfcantelope: i've been diagnosed with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoaffective_disorder too; another f**kers obstacle
cantelopeMore like you were diagnosed with an acute failure to kiss ass, amirite?
rindolfcantelope: what?
cantelopeIn all the schizo* cases I've seen, the label is attached willy nilly in response to a need to show that *something* was done to address some alleged thing that happened. In other words, when people are difficult and strange, they become targets for that diagnosis, whether it's helpful or not
rindolfcantelope: by 'kissing ass', do u mean dispensing flattery?
cantelopeYeah, if you had only befriended the alleged victim, the court and/or the shrink... You would be healthy as an ox®
cantelopeSadly, this usually involves hurting your own life somehow
cantelopeWorld is mad jenky atm
cantelopeWe're on it like a bonnet
chiselfusei'm so done with webshit
rindolfchiselfuse: i love the web, but find webdev hard
rindolfchiselfuse: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-all-cards-on-the-table-2013/indiv-nodes/machines_that_can_give_questions.xhtml
Natasha8>> Putting all the Cards on the Table (2013) - The Machines That Can Give You Questions
rindolfhttps://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/
Natasha8>> Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me
cantelopeHeh
rindolfhttps://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/site_loads_quickly.xhtml ; OTOH, a rebuild of my site takes ~4mins
Natasha8>> Shlomi Fish’s FAQ - This site loads so quickly. What is your secret?
cantelopeTheir first mistake is thinking that mediocrity is isolated to software
cantelopeModern cars in fact do not "run at 98% efficiency of what's possible". Rather they're very carefully designed to shit the bed within 10 years
cantelopePhones, everything pretty much
rindolfcantelope: i hate the terresterial consumerism of refrigerators / washing machines / etc
cantelopeK
rindolfmany PC XT boxes are still operational
cantelopeXP?
rindolfcantelope: no - XT
rindolf8088 / DOS / etc
rindolfcantelope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Personal_Computer_XT
cantelopeYeah, things used to be made to last in general. It was thought that longevity/durability was a selling point, before research indicated ppl are too stupid not to just keep buying disposable crap
cantelopeStill see plenty of old Volkswagens on the road, for example
cantelopeMake things break quickly, because it pays. Bravo, capitalism... *slow clap*
rindolfhttps://shlomif-tech.livejournal.com/741.html
Natasha8>> Common Fallacies No. 1: the Broken Window Fallacy: shlomif_tech — LiveJournal
rindolfcantelope: ^^
cantelopeYeah I see it. The problem isn't fallacies or greed. These are predictable features of any economic model that overrelies on competition. Competition in fact isn't even the crux of an open market system as were told, but rather freedom to choose, a very different thing
cantelopeThere will be fallacies, and deception and inequity as long as you are at odds with your own neighbors, financially
cantelopeThey are literally your economic adversaries under capitalism.l, and therefore balance is impossible
cantelopeThe margins all become battlegrounds, versus equilibrium as in a cooperative environment
rindolfcantelope: my thoughts: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-cards-on-the-table-2019-2020/indiv-nodes/amateur-modelled-commerce.xhtml
Natasha8>> Putting Cards on the Table (2019-*) - Amateur-modelled commerce
rindolfRashad: hi, sup?
Rashadrindolf hey
Rashadbeautiful calm Friday morning
n0xxhello
Rashadhello n0xx
Rashadrindolf sup?
Rashadn0xx sup?
rindolfRashad: ah. is it still ramadan?
rindolfRashad: it is my 46th bday
n0xxenjoying i'm really enjoying designing databases right now, and whats going on on the other side? :)
n0xxyeah
Rashadrindolf no Ramadan finished a little while ago
Rashadrindolf happy birthday!!!!!!
n0xxhappy birthday! :)
rindolfRashad: n0xx : thanks
rindolfi was effectively born in sep1983 tho
rindolfhttps://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1627138342499352577
Natasha8>> Shlomi Fish on Twitter: "Someone on IRC told me "you haven't updated your website's style in 50 years". 1973 is before the WWW was invented in 1989. For ref: * https://t.co/l5YzBHEMrL * https://t.co/a7E1uTOtB9" / Twitter
rindolfppl *cannot* be so cruel and dumb. there *is* a conspiracy
Rashadstupidity as a conspiracy? 🤔
Rashadinteresting
rindolfRashad: see https://twitter.com/shlomif/status/1654136889488687112
Natasha8>> Shlomi Fish on Twitter: "You claim I became stupid cause I claim this hell isn't real. But I have evidence: https://t.co/qjWOgHq97N . Moreover, these recent creations prove I'm smart: 1) https://t.co/WBvdbxF1j2 ; 2) https://t.co/yg9UhaJx87" / Twitter
Channel##web
NetworkFreenode
TaglineReality Lies
Published2023-05-06

"Flock aimed to be the browser for the social web, but I found it the completely antisocial browser."

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Flock aimed to be the browser for the social web, but I found it the completely antisocial browser.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2023-05-23

When celebrities had 3-letter acronyms

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Life was so much simpler during the heydays of Web 1.0 when all the celebrities had 3-letter acronyms: SMG, MJH, JLH, RMS, ESR, NSA, CIA, FBI, GPL, BSD.

AuthorShlomi Fish
WorkOriginal
Published2023-05-25

Amateur philosophers

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"Philosophy" means "the love of wisdom", and "amateur" means "someone who works for the love of it".

As a result, when I described myself as an "amateur philosopher", there could have been some redundancy.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work@shlomif tweet
Published2023-06-05

Relation to Christina Grimmie

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Genetically-speaking, Christina Grimmie isn’t my daughter, but my father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate's ex-step-2nd-niece-in-law. ;)

Spiritually and intellectually, she-and-I are family.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work@shlomif tweet
Published2023-06-19

We all have different affiliations

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A woman without a hijab probably won't be arrested in Tehran. But many female Iranians still wear it out of respect.

Judaism has its share of "sexist" discrimination too.

Before she retired, queen Elizabeth II could not wear captioned shirts, while her grandchildren can/could.

We all have different affiliations.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work@shlomif tweet
Published2023-07-12

Small matter of hacking ^W filicide

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bubuche87Hi
rindolfbubuche87: sup?
bubuche87Nothing. And you ?
rindolfbubuche87: i'm rereading an old essay of mine: https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/philosophy/putting-all-cards-on-the-table-2013/
gamedevbotTitle: Putting all the Cards on the Table (2013) - Shlomi Fish’s Homesite (at www.shlomifish.org)
canteloperindolf: i was all hot and heavy to dive into some juicy philosophy, and what appeared from the link to be a firey confession. So i clicked. The first thing i notices was the site re-kajiggering several times in a spastic adaptation to my mobile device. When it finally settled down, i was staring at a choice of various "format" options, which wholly pushed my prior interest out of mind while i struggled to compute why text on a
cantelopewebpage would need optional formats. Then as i accepted this was superfluous, i began to scroll, remembering why i was there in the first place. The next thing i saw was a licensing statement, which made me pause again, wondering if i was perhaps committing a crime by visiting the page. Of course i wasnt, but the pause from seeing legal whatnot is a common, unsuppressable reflex. So i FINALLY got to the text which, in the
cantelopeopening thesis, not only failed to hook my interest, but proudly declared that the subject is admittedly stale, 10+ years old today
cantelopebruh
cantelopeI think a total reboot of your stuff might be good for you
cantelopeA fresh site, from scratch
cantelopeWith new content and PICTURES maybe
cantelopeyou talk about webp making your site fast but i'll be damned it i saw any webp images
rindolfcantelope: i'll reboot your ass ;]
pulse👌
rindolfcantelope: https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/
gamedevbotTitle: Things You Should Never Do, Part I – Joel on Software (at www.joelonsoftware.com)
rindolfcontinued in https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/23/rub-a-dub-dub/
gamedevbotTitle: Rub a dub dub – Joel on Software (at www.joelonsoftware.com)
cantelopeI did read a little of it, rindolf. Enough to understand that you regret the level of success/achievement you have (not) reached to date. But here's why: successful people make a habit of SEEKING AND DEVOURING constructive criticism, not rejecting it due to laziness
HyperKooscantelope: Nice review
pulseHyperKoos: eventually
rindolfcantelope: throwing away a site i workedon4a lifetime is value destruction
rindolfcantelope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTBx-hHf4BE
gamedevbotTitle: One Tin Soldier - The Original Caste [Original] - YouTube (at www.youtube.com)
Channel##gamedev
NetworkFreenode
TaglineNot falling for that, fucker TheGamers™
Published2023-09-13

“The privacy here”

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Back when I was hospitalised in a closed psychiatric ward, I told one of the fellow inmates: “The privacy here sucks!”.

He replied: “There is no privacy here.”.

AuthorShlomi Fish
Work@shlomif tweet
Published2023-10-08

What Reddit’s downarrow means

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rindolfhttps://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/17t4kkt/unless_explicitly_specified_otherwise_open_source/
gamedevbotTitle: Unless Explicitly Specified Otherwise, Open Source Software With Users Carries Moral Obligations : programming (at www.reddit.com)
rindolfsup, y'all?
rindolfredditers should understand that downarrow means 'not notable' rather than 'disagree'
cantelopeit means whatever i want to to mean i im the one clicking it
cantelopeyou're not my dad
cantelopeif*
rindolfcantelope: what if you think it means 'get the death star to blow up Earth'? :p
cantelopethis is a problem with symbols, be they buttons or words: the meaning is only ever that which is INTENDED BY THE USER, however maddeningly frustrating it may be, to have to do the research
cantelopedictionaries and stuff are just helpful ideas as to what the meaning(s) are likely to be, not what they must be necessarily
cantelopelogic and understanding are hard
rindolfhttps://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/do_you_use_your_sites_to_serve_malware.xhtml
gamedevbotTitle: Shlomi Fish’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) List - Do you use your sites to serve malware? (at www.shlomifish.org)
canteloperindolf: do you know about William Minor? The fellow who basically wrote yhe Oxford English Dictionary from within an insane asylum? It has always been thought as a randomly amusing piece of historical trivia, but i wonder: could he have foreseen the violent implications of his work? Now, we need not do research or proper investigation, with the common understanding that symbols' documented meanings should be the expected
cantelopemeanings, thererby tearing apart an already confused world
rindolfcantelope: there were far earlier dictionaries
cantelopeyes
cantelopebut the question remains: did Mr Minor have any idea as to the effect of his work?
rindolfcantelope: [[Moreover, note that like the X-files motto goes, “The truths are out there”. The media, including Internet sites, blogs, and social media (and I may err on it too some time), will always emit a lot of static white noise in all directions (for example see my notes about Paris Hilton later), but people can tell the truth. The Bible depicts acts of massacre, adultery, and incest that would seem appalling, and which histori
rindolfans believe were common back then (see e.g: the story Levite’s concubine). Nevertheless, generations of children (and adults) who read it, knew better than to emulate that.]]
cantelopewe'll be okay, as long as we remember that honesty is a real option
* rindolfis now playing: /home/shlomif/Download/Video/Howard Changing Topics To His Space Trip - The Big Bang Theory-dkIEuyEsVgY.mp4 [00:22/00:57]
cantelopehttps://i.imgur.io/NZmv9m6.jpeg
Channel##gamedev
NetworkFreenode
Published2023-11-28

nixdoc, Windows XP style, and the modern Web

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InsayneOh, Hey
neoncortexhey.
Insaynewhat's up?
neoncortexat the moment, Im contemplating my computer screen, resting.
neoncortexjust finished my system documentation searching tool, now resting a little to start writing other tools.
Insayneah, cool
rindolfneoncortex: hi, i'm reminded of https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/ideas/unixdoc/
neoncortexrindolf: thats interesting, I called my tool nixdoc.
neoncortexits much simpler I suppose, it is just a gui that allows you to search, manual pages and info pages, and open them, in pdf.
rindolfneoncortex: ah. git url?
rindolfneoncortex: i'm trying2repress the memory of GNU info
rasculinfo pages are ok but gnu's info browser is kinda crappy but there exists pinfo which is kinda lynx like
neoncortexrindolf: I did not published. I is really simple and I dont know if people would be interested. When you open it, you see this: https://0x0.st/H3Un.jpg . Then you can search a info page, for example: https://0x0.st/H3U5.jpg, then you can position you cursor in any of the results file, click view: https://0x0.st/H3UR.jpg .
rasculthere's also tkinfo
neoncortexsame with manpages, with the difference that you can filter by section, also.
rindolfhttps://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html has ok UX though
rasculi generally prefer gnu's html stuff to the info pages
rasculwell i guess the html stuff is just the info pages as html though
neoncortexrascul: hm, tkinfo is interesting, but I do rather read the info pages sequentially, in one document.
neoncortexthats why I read them in pdf.
neoncortexalso goddam apropos, when you search with sections like: apropos -s 1,2 whatever, it does not deliver in order. I fixed that, I do, in the case above, two apropos calls sequentially, and present the results xD
rindolfneoncortex: your screenies have a winxp vibe \o/
neoncortexrindolf: its themed with windows xp themes, yes xD
Slimeyhehe
neoncortexit feels alive, not that gray/white blob modern. I remember how ugly I thought windows xp was at the time, but damn, I do rather use that.
rindolfneoncortex: https://www.shlomifish.org/humour/fortunes/show.cgi?id=sharp-perl-modern-web-sites
neoncortexrindolf: exactly.
rockstl;dr
neoncortextldr: modern applications are just a white/gray box with black text, look like death.
neoncortexlike the rindolf link state, sometimes not even black, just less white.
neoncortexlike, damn, this is not a art project, or a magazine page, it is a tool.
neoncortexand thats ironic: to have your white retangle with some text, you need 27 frameworks, and some good memory.
neoncortexplan9 can do the same, with 0 overhead xD
The_BlodeWith rounded corners
BlueyHealerand it will not display without JS on
The_BlodeOh hey
neoncortexno, it will not. It does less with more. Amazing.
The_BlodeLots of sites simply do not work without JS.
BlueyHealerye but some have no excuse for such behavior
neoncortexyeah, I just click the back button, generally.
The_BlodeYep just to get the analytics for their own purposes
The_BlodeI wonder if someone has / is developing some application that can translate a website into a useable "clean" version
The_BlodeUsing clean JS code
The_BlodeDetoxify websites if you will
The_BlodeI guess you can block certain JS script but it would be nice to have a tool do it all
neoncortexthat is one thing that is in back of my mind for a time. You need a proxy web translator. Something that will interpret a modern web page, and present a sane version. There is a project, that uses webkit, read the page, and translates it into images, with clickable links, and all. It was made for old machines with ancient browsers to browse the web.
The_BlodeOldweb?
neoncortexI dont remember the name. Im searching my notes, I think I wrote something about it.
The_BlodeYeah, I'm aware of that project...but I believe it takes archive.org pages and makes them "usable"
The_BlodeMaybe I could look into creating something too :) it might be a nice thing to have.
neoncortexfound it in my notes: webkit-rendering-proxy, https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
The_BlodeInteresting! Thank you
neoncortex=D
The_BlodeOne for BlueyHealer
The_BlodeBut I'll also give this a go
The_BlodeYeah...I believe I have seen this before.
rocksYou could always just get a non-old computer. Centralizing processing of some page rendering still means it has to happen somewhere
The_BlodeOr not...this is what the Oldweb is using -> https://webrecorder.net/
neoncortexrocks: sure, but it is even more secure, since you have a web interpreting server, that, in case of bugs or whatever, will not infect your machine.
neoncortexyou are basically insulated from it.
rocksI think it has been forever since the last time I was infected by a web site
neoncortexrocks: I never crashed a car, and yet I use the seat belt. To be fair, the police would ticket me, but still xD
neoncortexI crashed a motorcycle, but thats another story.
neoncortexmy current setup include firejailing web browsers, but that wrp would be even better.
rocks-EPARANOIA
neoncortexha
rocksIf you really believe that web services are a threat, you would keep them on a completely separate system to other things you care about
rocksNot rely on just more layers of technology as a comfort blanket
neoncortexthat may be the next step, yes.
neoncortexbut firejail with -private is good.
neoncortexerr, --private
neoncortexpressed the wrong button ¬_¬
Channel##Linux-offtopic
NetworkFreenode
Published2023-12-14

#xml: “lots of low-quality, non-original, often non-functional, content” would be awesome

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* Klinda(~loren@2a0e:418:46a8:0:f8e3:2575:a15c:8d85) has joined
Klindademib0y, if you use xml the google search does it rank you low?
rindolfKlinda: hi. What do you mean /?
rindolfXHTML5?
rindolfbrwser-side XSLT?
KlindaI don't know I am not good in web development
rindolfKlinda: https://github.com/shlomif/Freenode-programming-channel-FAQ/blob/master/FAQ_with_ToC__generated.md#why-should-i-learn-how-to-program-properly
Klindarindolf, you like to post links instead of talking ahah
demib0yhi Klinda
demib0yKlinda, do you mean, if you use some arbitrary XML vocabulary rather than XHTML, does your Web site show up lower in Google results?
demib0yif so, likely yes, because Google won't know how to generate snippet results
demib0ythe Google Web crawler does not seem to run XSLT
demib0yas a result, server-side transformations are generally better.
Klindaxhtml is html ?
demib0yit's HTML represented in XML
demib0yso e.g. you can run XSLT or XQuery on it in the Web server, and also serve it up to google's bot and to browsers
rindolfdemib0y: server-side or SSGed
rindolfdemib0y: and thx4helping
Klindademib0y, is it just a conversion to make think are you using html to google?
dodobrainKlinda, it is a lot easier to interpret is what he is saying. and thats what goog will do. use the simplest/fastest/least_resource_hungry method(s) to parse/interpret/rank/etc.
Klindabut why do you have a particular thing about xml vs html?
dodobrainpure xml would mean it can contain anything! (i mean you have your own custom elements, etc. with xhtml your known elements are limited in scope and atleast goog's parser/whatever is able to interpret it (mostly?)
dodobrainwhat do you mean by your question? i'm not understanding it
KlindaI think here you prefer bulding site with xml instead of html
dodobrainreally? what gave you that impression?
dodobrainxml isnt so popular for serving webpages
Klindabecause you are on #xml
Klindafor what propuse are you here ? XD
dodobrainxml is used for a lot more things than just "building sites"
Klindalike what?
dodobrainhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML#Applications
dodobrainmainly for data exchange.. you know your json, i hope? well, json is useless because there is no schema definition on it
Klindajson it's cool
dodobrainthere is json-schema but its not as elegant as xml schemas
Klindaxml what offers more
dodobrainwith xml, the dtds and schemas and other xml files are *all* xml files themselves
dodobrainvalidation and transformation is better on xml
KlindaI guess I should try it to understand
dodobrainanyway, i'm not sure what your objective is. i consider myself an xml noob who hasnt used xml (directly or indirectly) for a long while (prolly 7 years or so)
dodobrainothers here can explain and help you better i'm sure
rindolfKlinda: https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/why_xml.xhtml
dodobrainKlinda, given a json blob and say you want to extract data out of it, the way to do it is to write a program to extract the data out. now if the data you need to extract needs to change, you edit your program or rewrite it from scratch
dodobrainwith xml input files, you define the operations needed to do the extraction and never actually write a program directly but you specify the operations that need to happen to extract/transform the data you need
dodobrainand the beautiful thing about this is that list of operations you write is itself an xml file! so you can run validations/etc. on your transformation operations themselves :)
Klindais it popular to do or not?
Klindaor all use json?
rindolfKlinda: sorry if i'm too blunt, but you need to be less wilfully ignorant and lazy to be educable here
KlindaI don't care about web development, I will be an ai engineer btw, I can't be jesus chirst
rindolfKlinda: then why did u ask about google-indexing?
KlindaI want to build a personal site or maybe sites which uses ml models
rindolfKlinda: ml = machine-learning?
Klindayes
KlindaI have to study react.js and a back-end like flask/django/ I think
rindolfKlinda: generating sites using ML sounds like spamming
Klindawhat do you mean?
rindolfKlinda: what isn't clear?
Klindaspamming in what sense?
KlindaI said that as backend has a model in which users can interact with it
rindolfKlinda: spammming as in "generating lots of low-quality, non-original, often non-functional, content"
Klindawhy not?
Klindaai will be the next big thing ahah
Klindamuch better than just being a slave and work as backend and frontend
KlindaI don't see how one can have a degree and do a web dev
Klindayou can do also without
Klindaalso nasa is going to use ai
Klindaonly you, you don't like it ahah
rindolfKlinda: something is wrong in your english comprehension
rindolfKlinda: "[lots of] low-quality, non-original, often non-functional, content" isn’t a good thing
Klindafor you is bad
KlindaI am studying in a master of ai
Klindaand you want to make me cry I did a wrong stuff?
Klindaahah
Klindacool part
rindolfKlinda: [[Is a certain software technology good just because I heard that NASA uses it?
rindolfNASA is large (and has a large budget) and has been around for many decades, and so uses many different technologies, some of them may not be too recommended in the general case. While the Python homepage used to proclaim that "NASA uses Python", with a photo of an astronaut, and it is technically true, it was largely marketing built on common ignorance.
rindolfAmong the other technologies that NASA has used are:
rindolfFortran
rindolfCOBOL
rindolfVAX
rindolfForth
rindolfAssembly
rindolfPerl 5
rindolfWindows, MS Word, and MS Outlook
rindolfNote that we do not mean to imply that Python or whatever are bad just because NASA uses them, just that you should not use that fact as an argument in their favour.]]
Klindatry next time
Klindahttps://www.spaceappschallenge.org/2023/challenges/
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Published2024-01-21