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The Cabal has arrived.
Monday, 04-Apr-11 23:23:56 UTC from web-
@snowcone The trick is to find yourself a project to do. If you keep using the language and having to find out more of it to do the next thing you want, you'll soon find the language is second nature to you.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:46:07 UTC from web -
@snowcone I dunno, after awhile the C family of syntaxes just stuck to me. All I really need to do every now and then is look up function names.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:46:19 UTC from web -
@snowcone It's a PHP script running on the Amazon cloud. So yeah, it's a program that fetches new notices and acts accordingly, and it's been running for a good month straight without being turned off.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:50:14 UTC from web -
@snowcone !Eeyup. The only real problem I could see occurring (beyond the need to actually code it in the first place) is that I'm pretty sure @minti is running it on Amazon's free tier, so space to store the bank of message/response pairs may be more limited than is ideal.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:53:57 UTC from web -
@snowcone Yeah it's totally possible. But, spam.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:54:56 UTC from web -
@snowcone Yeah it's called pipe it to another bot.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:55:29 UTC from web-
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:55:59 UTC from web
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@minti ...actually, if I could get one of the mods to sandbox it so it doesn't spam up the regular timeline, I think that would be a pretty fun mini-project. :O
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:56:52 UTC from web-
Oh wait, but people talking to it would still be on the public timeline, so only the nonsense itself would be kept out. Bother.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:58:07 UTC from web -
@bitshift Do it, it would be a neat project. What language? DO IT IN ASSEMBLY.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:58:22 UTC from web
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Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:58:59 UTC from web
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@snowcone I prefer assembly cause it actually makes sense. :C And assembly is like a more complicated brainmurdock.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 13:59:36 UTC from web-
@minti Braindole effectively is assembly, just for a CPU that doesn't exist in a physical form (yet; I wouldn't put it past some people), and which only has the bare minimum of instructions for turing completeness (plus input/output, since a closed system would be kinda useless).
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:02:24 UTC from web
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@snowcone Trinary logic is theoretically possible, if you had components that differentiated between voltages that were high, low, and some in-between state. But it's both easier, and simpler, for electronic components to operate in a binary (high/low, on/off) fashion, so that's what we have.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:05:06 UTC from web -
@snowcone Not in those terms, no. Hz is cycles/second, which is how many instructions can be executed in one second by that processor (sort of - various newer changes, such as multiple cores, complicate it a little). If anything, the added complexity would probably push the raw Hz number down, even if it could maybe do more in that same number of cycles.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:09:55 UTC from web -
@snowcone I have no idea. It'd definitely work differently, but I don't know enough to say whether the differences would make it a better or worse (or equal) option than binary.
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:12:58 UTC from web -
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:20:41 UTC from web
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@snowcone better yet: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InfiniteStateMachine
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:22:22 UTC from web -
@snowcone I figure if we really want to make a breakthrough we should research biocomputers or something like that
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:25:40 UTC from web -
@snowcone >Discover the meaning of life, the universe, and everything >Proceed to use it to make money >Why am I not surprised
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:26:24 UTC from web -
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:30:12 UTC from web
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@snowcone What's awesome is this: http://us.akinator.com/
Wednesday, 18-Jul-12 14:34:02 UTC from web -
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