Notices by Gadfly (-booq-) (gaditb@icosahedron.website), page 13

@elomatreb what about hypnosprays

Why `scp` why you can `ncat -v --ssl`?
:thyngking:

@gdkar Molly Malone!

XPath is good, actually.

@onethousandtwentyfour DAANG.

@varx You can make a newline-seperated list of currency symbols with

curl 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Currency_symbol' | sed 's/</\n</g' | xmllint --html --xpath "//table[contains(@class, 'wikitable')]/tbody/tr/td[1]//text()" - | grep --color=never '^.$'

(Note: that misses a few that Wikipedia decided to use images, not unicode, for, for some reason or other.)

@varx Set your PS1 to randomize it from a list!

*yoINK!*
*petpetpetpetpet*

Accidentally catted some binary data, as one does, and there was apparently SOME escape sequence in there but the only thing it did was change some keyboard type or something I dunno,
but made my prompt

user@machine:~£

.. and I just started giggling,

@SuricrasiaOnline I've never watched X-Files but my second-hand exposure/osmosis of it has given me the impression that that's just... lesbianism?

@xor Another color page:
https://archive.org/details/CAT31311057/page/84

.. okay I should probably stop poking you.

(The interesting thing is that, although "Shoutout to Mark" is quickly becoming the iconic referencepoint phrase of this incident,
it was arguably the flippancy implied by the phrase "The opportunity was here and we took it" that is actually close to the core of what was emotionally resonant.)

@onethousandtwentyfour (What document?)

@Freyaday Modern linguistics is a recent field -- Those were only formally defined after programming languages were already called as such.

The Chomsky Hierarchy was 1956 -- Burks's "Intermediate Programming Language" and Wilkes's "Regional Assembly Language", according to Wikipedia, were in 1951.