13:05:51ColleenCommand Syntax: roll &OPTIONAL (SIZE 6) (TIMES 1)
Documentation: Roll some dice. Note that this is not provided with the intention of providing gambling means.
13:18:42ShinmeraNote that you can ask Colleen for the time as it should be for /users/, not /places/, but in order to do so the person needs a profile.
14:32:26Xofincidentally, on the question of "why would anyone want to subclass method combination anyway?", I'm not sure! But I do wonder whether a more declarative, less arbitrary-code thing might be able to allow compute-effective-method to do some kind of smart caching
14:32:51Xofor rather, the class of the method combination could inform compute-effective-method whether smart caching was allowed or not
14:34:17Bikecompute-effective-method already turns a second value of extra information, it could include a cachep specification
14:34:33Bikecacheablep. of course define-method-combination would have to be altered to allow specifying an em can't be cached
14:35:53Bikethat kind of ties into the question of how effective methods are actually used, which is sort of its own can of worms
15:37:56trnbeach: If you remember the Multics system ... https://ban.ai/multics/ ... I made an semi-official announcement (https://lobste.rs/s/4ktahz/ban_ai_s_public_access_multics_system) and yesterday hit about 100 simultaneous users online poking around and nothing broke, though it's a ghost town today.
15:38:15trnIf you want a real account I plan to have all sort of forums soon :b
15:40:15phoeKevslinger: wait, there is an actual town called Phoe?
15:52:25trnbeach: I'm working on a a web maintenance panel that will to the system with a WebSocket - so you can watch the blinkenlights of the actual system change the image on the panel that is the background of the web site. :)
16:03:34trnFor the panel, it uses a lot more bandwidth than I expected it to and it can get lagged, even with compression. So now I'm working on a UDP-based protocol.
16:10:25beachHmm, maybe I never saw it. I don't recognize it at all.
16:11:48trnI'm likely going to use a 6180 panel like that, because the newer the machines got, the less lights they had, and the more you were expected to look at an operator console.
16:19:47beachGot it. I should figure out what machine I was working on.
16:29:18trnIt's sort of interesting to me that Honeywell absolutely refused to the idea of a bus in their larger system, and the whole 'bus' was sort of a dirty word - they even abused the 'multiplexer' terminology to avoid 'bus' because they did everything point to point for latency and performance reasons.