"The president's defense has been «I don't read it». That's like a pilot telling you he doesn't read the instruments in the cockpit. That pilot is going to get you killed."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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heard: 8 July 2020
[edit] added: 2 April 2024
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[edit] added: 2 April 2024
(18:54:03) khannatanmai: I guess if we struggled with ambiguity in daily life, language would be pretty inefficient
(18:54:13) spectie: khannatanmai: welcome to firespeaker's world ;DDD
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heard: 18 June 2020
[edit] added: 2 April 2024
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[edit] added: 2 April 2024
"I feel like the Titanic has struck an iceberg, and the crew is being asked to put on a play while bailing water."
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heard: 30 April 2020
[edit] added: 2 April 2024
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[edit] added: 2 April 2024
(23:00:22) khannatanmai: "Another possibility is to allow the Assembly to amend the bylaws without involving the PMC, so we can handle abuse of power when and if it happens."
(23:00:33) khannatanmai: what kind of abuse of power does he have in mind?
(23:00:42) khannatanmai: we're a tiny group doing rule based MT :p
(23:29:13) popcorndude: power corrupts
(23:29:24) popcorndude: finite-state power corrupts finitely
(23:29:34) popcorndude: we should be fine
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heard: 24 February 2020
[edit] added: 2 April 2024
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[edit] added: 2 April 2024
movie: "And a happy new year!"
EJW: "That's not a happy new year. It's a bad one."
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heard: 21 June 2019
[edit] added: 2 April 2024
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[edit] added: 2 April 2024
"I forget if oygn is spelled with an ayin or not."
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heard: 18 June 2019
[edit] added: 7 February 2021
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[edit] added: 7 February 2021
"You know what they say—everyone has their own o-pinyin about how to transliterate Chinese."
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heard: 8 February 2019
[edit] added: 7 February 2021
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[edit] added: 7 February 2021
(12:56:11) jonathan: this rewording is very minor but does seem to get rid of one of the issues at least
(12:56:39) jonathan: I'm not positive, though; I have to force myself to misunderstand my own thoughts to even evaluate whether it's maybe fixed :(
(12:56:53) Фрэн: well, i can help with that
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heard: 9 December 2018
[edit] added: 7 February 2021
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[edit] added: 7 February 2021
(01:22:06) sushain: ah who needs grad students
(01:22:09) sushain: if you have 2TB of RAM
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heard: 16 August 2018
[edit] added: 7 February 2021
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[edit] added: 7 February 2021
(14:55:18) firespeaker: Khaytsus: I can't access your rigtool repo
(14:55:36) Khaytsus: firespeaker: you can't???? wtf? It should be public.
(14:55:51) firespeaker: Khaytsus: I had to log in, and then it gave me a 404 page
(14:55:59) Khaytsus: Let me check, It's supposed to be public
(14:56:39) Khaytsus: wtf, it is private! Damn it.
(14:56:51) firespeaker: way to make your code available
(14:56:52) firespeaker: :-P
(14:57:33) Khaytsus: ikr. COSS it's my new thing. Closed Open Source Software
