freenode/#clasp - IRC Chatlog

12:01:45 DGASAU ** NICK ASau

12:03:19 Shinmera Day 3'596: The chat service still refuses to work in a stable manner. I can't find a way to reproduce the bugs in a reliable manner. It takes hours until something shows up, and when it does the information I get is practically nil. I'm beginning to question my sanity. What have I done to deserve such torment?

12:05:06 Shinmera Day 3'629: I've stopped leaving my room. All I can think about is the chat system. It's still broken. No matter what I try, things just keep slipping out of my grasp. Nothing works. I've changed the system around a hundred times, but the problems persist. I doubt I will ever be able to solve this.

12:06:07 Shinmera Day 3'680: I've run out of food, but it doesn't matter. All that's left is the chat system. It's that, or me, at this point. There's no going back.

12:08:06 Shinmera Day 3'682: The machines have won.

12:10:49 Shinmera [The journal ends here. The only light in the room is the flickering of a computer monitor. A rotten corpse is lying on the keyboard in front of it. The stench is unbearable. On the monitor you can make out a prompt, the cursor flashing in and out relentlessly.]

12:11:20 Shinmera >

12:39:12 beach Shinmera: Hey, you should convert from programming to writing short stories.

12:43:14 Shinmera I already do that from time to time.

12:43:23 beach Great!

12:43:30 Shinmera Haven't had any good ideas in the last few months though.

12:44:17 beach Shinmera: Oh, I meant to mention a trick of mine. It probably doesn't apply to your situation, but I thought I would mention it anyway. I feel the same about having a day go by without working, but the way I deal with days where I have no inspiration is that I always have some simple work lying around.

12:44:18 beach For instance, I can untabify some source code, or remove useless whitespace. In other cases, I might add a comment or a docstring to some entity that is lacking it. Yet another possibility is to write a section in some documentation. And I always have several books in progress, so I can write a few paragraphs in a book or two.

12:44:43 beach More sophisticated stuff involves changing the style of old code according to new thingking.

12:44:46 beach thinking.

12:45:22 beach ... or taking some non-modular old code and create a protocol for it. Small stuff, usually.

12:45:29 Shinmera Yeah, that's a good idea.

12:45:45 Shinmera Yesterday was bad because I really wanted to get started on a particular thing but just couldn't somehow.

12:45:51 beach The net effect is that, at the end of the day, I still feel like I have gotten something done. Might not work for you of course.

13:03:29 Shinmera beach: I guess I should clarify-- it's not like I got /absolutely nothing done/ yesterday. I read some papers, watched a GDC talk, and studied some slides for university. I just deem those things non-essential/trivial, so they don't seem to count when I beat myself up over stuff.

13:04:14 beach Yes, my suggestion won't necessarily fix those problems.

13:04:49 Shinmera But it can still help in retrospect as you'll have done something that you can respect once you're out of the foul mood.

13:09:09 beach Shinmera: I know precisely what you mean. It is not a perfect remedy. More like band-aid.

13:15:24 beach Bike: reg_ in #lisp wants to ask you how to "run Cleavir". Perhaps you can spare a few minutes to guide him. I think he wants to use the SBCL environment you created and evaluate expressions relative to some environment.

13:17:00 beach But I think he needs to work on his VM first. Some problem with a firewall or something.

13:18:14 Bike yeah, he's PMd me

13:28:12 beach Oh, OK.

13:28:27 beach It would be fine to have that conversation in #lisp though.

13:31:47 Bike probably.

13:32:16 Bike apparently he can't use quicklisp, so he can't get acclimation, so there's not much he can do right now.

13:32:26 Bike i'm not sure how that works, since i think quicklisp just uses HTTP

13:32:35 beach Yeah, strange.

14:58:27 meister` Hello everyone

14:58:43 meister` irccloud is acting up so I'm using ERC

14:58:58 Bike hello.

15:00:20 beach Hello meister`.

15:00:53 beach meister`: Up early? It's only 8am.

15:01:02 meister` I'm just checking in if anyone needs anything.

15:01:11 Bike i'm good

15:01:11 beach A new life?

15:01:16 Shinmera 8AM is my favourite time to get up at.

15:01:19 Bike i fixed it so that master builds

15:01:25 Shinmera meister`: I need my chat system to be fixed or I will go insane

15:01:57 beach Failing a new life, someone to help me with CST-to-AST.

15:02:22 meister` I have to get up on a sky light to patch a leak before it starts raining here.

15:02:36 beach Mundane stuff.

15:03:10 beach FZ: "but we don't get excited when it crumbles and breaks; we just get on the phone and call up some flakes"

15:03:13 meister` It involve ladders and roofs - it's exciting in its own way.

15:04:59 drmeister Ok irccloud is back