Forum logs for 05 Mar 2020
| mp_en_viaje: | what is such preprocessing ? | [00:03] |
| mp_en_viaje: | and yes, my bad, dyslexia made me put the */ in the wrong spot, sorry. | [00:03] |
| jfw: | The splitting of signatures from plaintext just described. | [00:03] |
| mp_en_viaje: | it was intended to be valid comment. i am annimated by the vague hope that there can be such a thing as "comment" in all languages | [00:04] |
| mp_en_viaje: | jfw, ah, yes. | [00:04] |
| jfw: | perhaps there is in any language of interest, but won't be the same comment | [00:04] |
| mp_en_viaje: | anyway, an extra line with ** is missing there to make it all right | [00:04] |
| mp_en_viaje: | jfw, how do you mean ? | [00:04] |
| jfw: | Different comment syntax in different languages. bash uses # while C has quite another meaning for that character for example. | [00:05] |
| mp_en_viaje: | myeah / | [00:08] |
| mp_en_viaje: | maybe is the right choice ? o, no, of course not, C semanticized that too | [00:10] |
| mp_en_viaje: | -- works in ada and there alojne, and so the fuck on. | [00:11] |
| mp_en_viaje: | actually mysql too | [00:11] |
| mp_en_viaje: | honestly i think my first guess is also correct, /* */ is the widest | [00:11] |
| mp_en_viaje: | i guess we'll have to patch bash to recognize it, and that's that. | [00:13] |
| jfw: | Um. And ada, sql, patch, lisp, python... ~everything not C-like ? | [00:16] |
| jfw: | heh, apparently mysql does do /* */ | [00:19] |
| mp_en_viaje: | mysql too. | [00:19] |
| mp_en_viaje: | a sorry lol. | [00:19] |
| mp_en_viaje: | jfw, what casn you do ? humanity requires a universal comment format, because there may not be computers before there's no literate code. | [00:20] |
| mp_en_viaje: | proposing to continue with "here, like this, there, like that" nonsense is much like proposing to continue with a formulation of arithmetic that has no 0 "because look at all these abacuses we made". | [00:21] |
| mp_en_viaje: | burn them. | [00:21] |
| jfw: | well then, seems we're solving a bigger problem than I realized | [00:25] |
| mp_en_viaje: | possibru | [00:25] |
| mp_en_viaje: | spyked, http://paste.deedbot.org/?id=nf53 | [12:33] |
| nicoleci: | whaack, id love to surf! | [15:39] |
| jfw: | also http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-03-04#1958852 occurred to me, and I figured "to irritate the kind of people who complain about such things". Looks like I should indeed ask more things. | [16:29] |
| ossabot: | Logged on 2020-03-04 10:38:48 mp_en_viaje: aaand in "other questions nobody [was smart enough to have] asked of me" : "hey mp, why do you always cat file | awk ? isn't it awkward ? don't you know awk can load its own file directly by itself ?" | [16:29] |
| jfw: | I tried a nearby "GNU Awk 4.1.3" on 1gb of `yes`. The direct reading was consistently slower than both input redirection and cat | , which is certainly suspicious in itself seemed to work though | [16:31] |
| jfw: | http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-02-21#1958424 - she declines for one thing, she translates into English only. | [17:11] |
| ossabot: | Logged on 2020-02-21 01:58:17 mircea_popescu: jfw, tell mom to come in sometime, i wouldn't mind commissioning ru versions of some trilema articles from ye 30year veteran editor of the executive intelligence review. | [17:11] |
| mp_en_viaje: | jfw, try on say 64gb | [19:24] |
| mp_en_viaje: | ah, okay. | [19:24] |
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