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| 06:45 | | Kindamoody[zZz] is now known as Kindamoody|afk |
| 08:55 | | * McMartin rants/exults on Twitter about his coding adventures last night |
| 08:55 | <&McMartin> | Now that that mad program is actually working it's also super-great |
| 08:56 | <&McMartin> | It's abusing/not-even-really-abusing a bunch of features of that BASIC to get machine-code speed in conrolling hardware that the BASIC doesn't actually support. |
| 09:00 | <~Vorntastic> | Oh man |
| 09:01 | | * Vorntastic looks up on Twitter, discovers a French journalist |
| 09:07 | <~Vorntastic> | Ah found you |
| 09:27 | < Kizor> | How's this for a cheery premise? Humanity receives a message from outer space with the instructions to manufacture what it says is a vastly powerful chemical weapon against the sender's species. It exhorts us to stockpile vast amounts and widely distributed, hurry, there isn't much time. |
| 09:27 | < Kizor> | Augh miskey |
| 09:27 | < Kizor> | Wrong place sorry |
| 09:29 | <&McMartin> | Sounds a lot like the big reveal in [SPOILER DELETED] |
| 09:33 | <~Vorntastic> | I don't have any idea what the deleted spoiler could be at all |
| 09:33 | <&McMartin> | Sounds good~ |
| 09:34 | <&McMartin> | There's some wobble in the match |
| 09:34 | <&McMartin> | But the big reveal is in fact that the PC has PC powers because the (equivalent of what in Kizor's case would be the) alien courier bringing the message is who the player is *really* animating. |
| 09:35 | <&McMartin> | Kind of cute, but the game was excessively mediocre |
| 10:18 | <@abudhabi> | Kizor: Interesting premise. Gets me wondering whether it's a traitor or a clever scam to get us to produce something valuable they can pillage when they arrive. |
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| 11:54 | <&ToxicFrog> | abudhabi: my first thought was "they're having a war among themselves and one faction has hit on the idea of getting uninvolved nearby civilizations to produce munitions for them" |
| 11:56 | <&Reiver> | what's this? |
| 12:07 | <&ToxicFrog> | Reiver: scroll up a bit to Kizor's message |
| 12:09 | <&Reiver> | ho, I like it! |
| 13:22 | <@TheWatcher> | There, interior cleaned |
| 13:23 | | * TheWatcher has a dead |
| 13:59 | <@TheWatcher> | Gah, wrong window |
| 16:07 | <@Tamber> | Was it the one you just cleaned? |
| 18:53 | | Kindamoody|afk is now known as Kindamoody |
| 20:08 | < ErikMesoy> | Now there's an interesting growth curve. (log(x))^4. |
| 20:09 | | * ErikMesoy rolls his eyes at Wolfram|Alpha |
| 20:11 | < ErikMesoy> | No, I did not mean log^4 (x). And if that is equivalent notation I want WORDS with the notation designer. |
| 20:13 | < ErikMesoy> | Related Queries as suggested by WA: series log⁴(x), plot 1/log⁴(x), Pierre de Fermat, show histogram of image of log⁴(x), random MS Paint Adventures curve |
| 20:13 | < ErikMesoy> | What the hell is that last one doing there? |
| 20:14 | <@abudhabi> | https://www.desmos.com/calculator/oeb8v1fa6d |
| 20:14 | <@abudhabi> | What are you even doing? |
| 20:16 | < ErikMesoy> | Thank you. I am optimizing some gameplay. Although this plot suggests I shouldn't bother much. |
| 20:28 | < Kizor> | Actually I only saw the sequel. |
| 20:28 | < Kizor> | Augh mischan |
| 20:29 | < Kizor> | Here, an apology blue-footed booby: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Blue-footed-booby.jpg |
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| 20:57 | <~Vorntastic> | For some bonkers reason that is standard accepted notation yes |
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| 21:48 | <@Alek> | alternatively, the "poison" they want you to make is their equivalent of hard liquor. >_> |
| 21:48 | <@Alek> | or hot sauce. |
| 21:49 | <@Alek> | >spitballing |
| 21:49 | <~Vorntastic> | "mining Bitcoin on an apple ii: a highly impractical guide" |
| 21:50 | <@Alek> | the UFOs were smugglers smuggling out the precursor chemicals they don't have but we do, and the message is some clever marketer who wants to build a legit business. <_< |
| 21:50 | <@Alek> | or big business anyway |
| 22:08 | <@celticminstrel> | log^4(x) is ambiguous, it could mean log(log(log(log(x)))) or (log(x))^4. |
| 22:09 | <@celticminstrel> | For a general function it'd always be the former, for trig functions it's generally the latter... not sure on log. |
| 22:15 | <&McMartin> | I'd only ever interpret it as the latter |
| 22:16 | <&McMartin> | Repeated application is... not something I'm used to having shorthands |
| 22:17 | <&McMartin> | Alek: I'm mapping that back to the mediocre game I was thinking of earlier and am laughing incredibly hard |
| 22:21 | <@celticminstrel> | Well, repeated application is the standard meaning of that notation when applied to a general function (eg f) |
| 22:21 | <~Vorntastic> | In linear algebra, exponentiating the matrix is the same as repeated application |
| 22:47 | <@Alek> | what game was it anyway? |
| 22:49 | | * Alek is also reminded of Schlock Mercenary's maple syrup, also used in the unofficial, noncanon prequel series Troy Rising. |
| 22:52 | <&McMartin> | I'll take that to PM |
| 23:06 | | * Alek thumbsup |
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