01:01:41 -!- crathman has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 01:32:47 -!- GreaseMonkey has joined. 01:40:36 -!- RodgerTheGreat has joined. 01:40:51 hi, guys 04:18:38 -!- calamari has joined. 04:29:33 -!- Figs has joined. 04:34:21 c++ is the most esoteric language of them all :/ 04:35:34 are you sure? :P 04:35:35 It stops being esoteric when knowledge of it is a normal requirement for a CS course. 04:35:38 C can be worse 04:35:49 (although it can still be fucking weird as hell) 04:36:11 O_o 04:36:11 http://static.flickr.com/120/304387877_3fb38f8156.jpg 04:36:24 "My God! It's full of cars!" 04:37:03 kudos if you know what webcomic that's used as side-joke in 04:37:15 and what language they were refering to. 04:37:17 ;) 04:37:19 spaghetti! :) 04:37:25 The *language* is Lisp. 04:37:26 hehe 04:37:35 pikhq gets half a kudo. 04:37:44 what's the comic? :) 04:37:47 Hmm. 04:37:53 *Could* be xkcd. . . 04:38:00 But I'm not sure 'bout that. 04:38:11 bingo 04:38:13 :) 04:38:31 http://xkcd.com/c224.html 04:38:34 http://xkcd.com/c224.html I'm right, indeed. 04:38:38 :) 04:38:50 * pikhq gets a full kudos 04:38:58 :D 04:40:16 True or False: "props" can be used as a verb. 04:40:25 True. 04:40:47 "He props up the sign" 04:40:59 What case/tense is that? 04:41:06 Good question. 04:41:11 Dunno. 04:41:24 I could tell you were it in one of my *non*native languages. :p 04:41:37 :P 04:41:54 ooh 04:42:03 Finnish apparently has ___ grammatical cases? 04:42:10 ;) 04:43:20 I think it's 15... 04:44:08 Don't speak Finnish; can't help you. 04:44:19 neither do I 04:44:23 :P 04:44:30 but some wikipedians apparently do 04:44:44 * pikhq does Japanese and Esperanto (to varying degrees of ability) 04:45:58 what is the past tense of 'eat' in esperanto? 04:48:44 La hundo vendis horlo^goj. 04:49:09 ^g --> g with ^ 04:49:48 If I ever go back to designing languages 04:50:15 I won't put those obnoxious extra characters into it :P 04:50:27 I'd either make my own alphabet 04:50:38 or use one of the already working ones :P 04:55:21 * Figs pokes pikhq 04:58:08 can anyone give me a list of 20 words in English that stay the same in the past participle? 04:58:21 *past tense 05:04:56 Figs: homework? :) 05:24:30 no 05:24:33 just bored 05:24:33 :P 05:24:44 sorry for the slow reply -- I left for dinner 05:24:50 just got back 05:24:56 any way, you can find a list here: 05:25:00 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_irregular_verbs 05:32:18 * pikhq returns for not very long. . . 05:32:32 pikhq: 05:32:35 If I could remember the infinitive of 'eat', I could tell you. 05:32:43 La hundo vendis horlogo. 05:32:48 Mi estas esperanta komencanto. . . 05:33:10 Kaj mia esperanto ne bonas. 05:34:31 * pikhq leaves 05:34:38 I barely even know any :P 05:34:51 so even if you are a newbie, it's ok :P 05:34:58 (that's the meaning, right?) 05:35:17 "I'm an esperanto newbie, and my esperanto isn't good."? 06:14:19 -!- Figs has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 06:25:58 -!- goban has joined. 06:27:16 -!- Figs has joined. 06:41:57 -!- GreaseMonkey has changed nick to GreazeMonkey. 06:42:55 -!- GreazeMonkey has changed nick to zannze. 06:54:38 -!- zannze has changed nick to GreaseMonkey. 06:58:01 -!- Figs_ has joined. 06:58:11 -!- Figs has quit (Nick collision from services.). 06:58:15 -!- Figs_ has changed nick to Figs. 06:58:37 -!- Figs has left (?). 06:58:44 -!- Figs has joined. 07:25:34 -!- jix__ has joined. 07:59:59 -!- clog has quit (ended). 08:00:00 -!- clog has joined. 08:21:56 -!- jix__ has changed nick to jix. 08:22:00 -!- jix has quit ("Bitte waehlen Sie eine Beerdigungnachricht"). 08:35:30 -!- Figs has left (?). 10:30:18 -!- goban has quit (Connection timed out). 10:32:39 -!- goban has joined. 11:13:00 gonna sleep, gnight 11:14:49 -!- GreaseMonkey has quit ("MITM attacks are so evil."). 12:56:37 -!- jix__ has joined. 13:00:10 -!- jix__ has changed nick to jix. 13:48:14 -!- calamari has quit ("Leaving"). 13:56:15 -!- RodgerTheGreat has quit. 14:34:28 -!- RodgerTheGreat has joined. 15:14:50 -!- crathman has joined. 15:39:49 -!- goban has quit (Connection timed out). 15:53:20 -!- goban has joined. 16:22:46 -!- pikhq has quit (Connection timed out). 16:48:00 -!- sebbu has joined. 17:54:44 -!- thorat has joined. 17:55:24 -!- thorat has left (?). 18:01:53 -!- goban has quit (Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)). 19:33:25 -!- goban has joined. 19:44:28 -!- goban has quit (SendQ exceeded). 19:50:47 -!- goban has joined. 20:41:33 -!- LeaLeaLea has joined. 20:46:11 -!- goban has quit (Read error: 54 (Connection reset by peer)). 20:53:05 -!- goban has joined. 21:17:36 -!- LeaLeaLea has changed nick to RainbowTrout. 21:27:18 -!- goban has quit (Connection timed out). 21:28:42 do de do de do 21:35:36 -!- Sgeo has joined. 21:36:55 -!- oerjan has joined. 21:42:02 -!- jix has quit ("Bitte waehlen Sie eine Beerdigungnachricht"). 21:43:09 -!- goban has joined. 21:53:22 -!- RainbowTrout has left (?). 22:00:22 -!- calamari has joined. 22:00:46 -!- goban has quit (Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)). 22:03:44 -!- goban has joined. 22:23:21 -!- ihope__ has joined. 22:23:28 -!- ihope__ has changed nick to ihope. 22:34:06 did I tell you I calculated the power density of the Sun? 0.27 W/m^3. No wonder the hot-fusion people are have such a hard time. 22:41:24 -!- ihope_ has quit (Connection timed out). 22:53:17 -!- sebbu2 has joined. 23:08:44 -!- sebbu has quit (Connection timed out). 23:16:48 Cool. 23:17:35 awt awt awt 23:18:16 that's not very dense 23:19:34 Q: what's a greek urn? 23:19:39 A: any one where the TLD is .gr ! 23:19:43 *rimshot* 23:19:45 (urn = Universal Resource Name .. a superset of URLs) 23:19:45 -!- SevenInchBread has joined. 23:19:47 (not the ususal punchline, eh?) 23:19:55 * SimonRC goes to bed 23:20:57 lessee, the sun is not optimized for producing the most possible effect. 23:21:21 rather, i assume it produces just enough to compensate for gravitation. 23:21:57 then, the fact that there exist much larger stars indicates that more effect is possible. 23:22:29 also, i think fusion only happens in the core. 23:23:39 oerjan: i suspect the larger ones have lower output per area. 23:24:34 you mean volume? 23:25:41 i doubt it. i understand blue giants live much shorter, which means they must burn faster. 23:47:10 -!- fax has joined. 23:47:11 Hello 23:47:26 * fax joins random IRC channels in the hope of finding somthing exciting happning 23:47:45 i thought i saw you here before in the logs? 23:47:52 well yeah ive been here a few times 23:48:04 but Im no good with esoteric languages so I feel bad 23:48:08 in fact you had some question. hm. 23:48:25 oh regarding tr? I gave up and used the less elegant sed commands.. 23:48:42 ah that was it. 23:48:53 tr can do what you want i think 23:49:00 well I was sleep deprived and manic 23:49:10 so I end up writing a one liner matrix screensaver 23:49:20 i was going to say that perl has a tr command too, but i don't know if it does Unicode any better. 23:49:22 & whats more thats the only line of code I wrote in a week :/ 23:49:32 if I used perl's tr, It would look stupid 23:49:39 like "Why doesnt he just do it all in perl" 23:49:51 aha... 23:49:52 I think anyway.. 23:49:59 tr "a" "b"? 23:50:14 that is one possible syntax. 23:50:19 bsmntbombdood: translate ASCII characters to unicode, it might be possible by setting local env vars or somthing.. 23:50:23 or wait... 23:50:24 I didnt bother 23:50:27 (to find ot) 23:50:41 another (ugly) solution is sed to replace each ASCII with 3 ASCII chars, then tr should work 23:50:45 but thats really.. stupid 23:50:53 a single sed expression or a sed & a tr 23:51:04 i guess tr/a/b/ is more usual. 23:52:11 on the other hand, why _don't_ you just do it all in perl. 23:52:52 -!- crathman has quit ("ChatZilla 0.9.78.1 [Firefox 2.0.0.3/2007030919]"). 23:53:56 oerjan: 'cos anyone could do it in perl :p 23:54:07 im just trying to accumulate lots of interesting "Bash one liners" 23:56:11 hm... you could use sed to build the sed command. 23:56:34 oo I like that 23:57:09 thats crafty :D 23:57:32 code generation ftw