#avr Logs

Sep 12 2019

02:16 AM polprog: [01:50] PoppaVic: To be fair, I've seen funcs and vars at least that shitwit over the decades - C is full of them and other langs can be at least as bad.
02:22 AM polprog: Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e."
02:22 AM polprog: https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ken_Thompson
02:52 AM Smidge204: nohit: Nah just a hobby for me. Working on a talking clock :p
02:52 AM nohit: nice
04:05 AM ThatDamnRanga: I love how almost every unix engineer I've met looks pretty much like Ken Thompson & co
04:05 AM ThatDamnRanga: (especially if they write perl)
04:13 AM day: ThatDamnRanga: we have a perl guy too. if i had to describe him with two adjectives, they would be "fat" & "nasty" :P
04:14 AM ThatDamnRanga: Ouch. I've never used the latter acronym
04:14 AM ThatDamnRanga: We also had one guy who was exceptionally skinny, chain smoker explains that
04:14 AM ThatDamnRanga: but still managed that look
04:14 AM ThatDamnRanga: Actually come to think of it make that two
04:16 AM day: we do these themed company parties once a year...that guy had the 'balls' to ask on of the orga girls for a "doctor/nurse" themed event
04:20 AM ThatDamnRanga: Jesus
04:20 AM ThatDamnRanga: incel?
04:21 AM day: i think he is married, but he literally gives zero fucks
04:21 AM ThatDamnRanga: and gets, probably
04:30 AM polprog: my beard showed up when i installed bsd so there must be something to it
04:30 AM djph: hmm, maybe I should install BSD then
04:32 AM polprog: dont install gentoo, you'll get fat and greasy
04:32 AM polprog: :^)
04:40 AM ThatDamnRanga: Ahhh... So that's where I gained my weight
04:40 AM ThatDamnRanga: I've deleted it now.... but it ain't fucked off
04:51 AM polprog: lol
08:08 AM Thrashbarg_ is now known as Thrashbarg
11:18 AM vmt: unix engineers? thompson? lol, more like rms
11:19 AM djph: vmt: eh?
11:19 AM vmt: there was something about the looks of said demographic
11:19 AM djph: ah
11:20 AM vmt: and i do understand he has his own cult, he's not one for the unix one
07:52 PM davor_ is now known as davor
11:50 PM day__ is now known as day