ELLIOTTCABLE changed the topic of #elliottcable to: #ELLIOTTCABLE — “do something cool, shove it into throats, everyone thinks it's crap, then it's all amazing.” “everything else is just details.”
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<niggler>
any asians here?
<niggler>
*asians in asia
<prophile>
yes, if by asia you mean eurasia
<niggler>
I'm trying to resolve a mystery with some asian symbols
<purr>
<vil> elliottcable: do I have to scream at yellow paint to use vim? is that why I'm not an expert yet?
<niggler>
gkatsev i decided to just bite the bullet and actually find the codepages
<niggler>
which is trickier than it sounds, given that some of them are not available on the internet
<niggler>
ت
<gkatsev>
fun
<niggler>
the "arabic smiley"
<niggler>
when you zoom in enough, it looks like a smiley face
<joelteon>
it looks REALLY pleased with itself
<whitequark>
niggler: well duh, japanese use quite a bit of chinese characters
<whitequark>
however if you have not a single grapheme but a phrase it's easy
<whitequark>
look out for that kana :)
<whitequark>
also why the hell is korean conflated to CJK, don't they have a nice alphabet?
<niggler>
the next battle, of course, is the right-to-left languages (which google docs and open office really seem to have a hard time dealing with)
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<cuttle>
whitequark: probably because those countries/languages are associated in the committee-members' minds as being similar, even though korean's alphabet is totally different (although sometimes chinese characters *are* used in korean, in like scientific articles and stuff, so maybe grouping it with japanese and chinese isn't totally dumb)_
<cuttle>
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<yorickpeterse>
korean and japanese are two very different languages
<yorickpeterse>
both in writing and speaking
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<purr>
<alexgordon> a python script, to generate a grammar, to pass to a compiler compiler, to generate the C++ source for a compiler, to be compiled by a C++ compiler
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<purr>
<Willox> Is paws something metaphorical?
<purr>
<alexgordon> Judofyr: don't worry, micahjohnston is practically in kindergarten
<alexgordon>
almost in high school now
<whitequark>
hahaha, paws as a metaphorical journey
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Who the fuck were all those strange people?
<whitequark>
ELLIOTTCABLE: they're just like you <3
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
How so?
<whitequark>
sigh
<whitequark>
I was responding to 19:09 <@purr> <Willox> Is paws something metaphorical?
<whitequark>
guess it failed
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
No, I got that
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
I meant the people coming and going this morning, according to the logs
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<whitequark>
ahhh
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
kenina, rjvzit, rvthorne, julianic
<purr>
<ec> pulsating python of looooooove.
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
Perennially poised pole
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
This is harder to do on my phone, while crossing the street with dogs
<ELLIOTTCABLE>
It's rather like juggling while standing on your head; taking a quintessentially useless skill, and making it arbitrarily more difficult … without making it more purposeful
<cuttle>
yorickpeterse: yes I know, but sometimes korean does use chinese characters (rarely)
<cuttle>
ELLIOTTCABLE: hi
<joelteon>
there's something magical about setting up a brand new server
<joelteon>
it's almost therapeutic
<cuttle>
11:19 AM <•ELLIOTTCABLE> It's rather like juggling while standing on your head; taking a quintessentially useless skill, and making it arbitrarily more difficult … without making it more purposeful