mth | I heard about an air traffic control system written in Ada | 00:06 |
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mth | but indeed very niche | 00:06 |
DocScrutinizer05 | yeah, just those projects that need maximum reliability and ideally methods to verify correctness of code | 02:16 |
DocScrutinizer05 | though I think the latter probably is still impossible | 02:17 |
kyak | wpwrak: what's that "attack" you've mentioned? | 08:00 |
kyak | can't seem to find any information about this | 08:01 |
wpwrak | kyak: that was a real gnat :) the insect, mosquito. they're supposed to be nocturnal, and let you in peace during the day. but this one was evidently exploring a new lifestyle. | 11:49 |
larsc | they are evolving! | 12:20 |
wpwrak | they are. they're getter damn good at hiding. a few years ago, i could just turn on the light and they'd just freeze in place. dark spots on a white wall. now they hide in crevices. | 12:28 |
wpwrak | i've already given up on hunting them down individually, and just gas the entire bedroom. of course that means that i'll have to sit on the computer for a while, waiting for the air there to become breathable again ... | 12:29 |
larsc | that's what you get for killing only those that are bad at hiding in the first place | 12:32 |
DocScrutinizer05 | well, tbh I've been biten by gnats at daytime several times already. And the by far worst gnat attack (literally a cloud to darken the sky) was in south of France next to a small runnel, during early dawn, while the night we slept relatively calm. Werner and me both same moment woke up and ran screaming, pulling our sleeping bags behind us | 13:16 |
DocScrutinizer05 | the bites are still visible on both sides of my neck | 13:18 |
DocScrutinizer05 | after almost 40 years | 13:18 |
wpwrak | larsc: yeah. i hope they'll appreciate my new non-discriminatory approach :) | 13:23 |
wpwrak | DocScrutinizer05: were you camping near a bioweapons research facility with lax containment practices ? :) | 13:25 |
DocScrutinizer05 | no idea :-) | 13:25 |
DocScrutinizer05 | the French, you know | 13:25 |
DocScrutinizer05 | was near Aix-en-Provence | 13:26 |
wpwrak | maybe that's where they breed the Le Pens, and there was some cross-species contamination | 13:27 |
DocScrutinizer05 | or maybe Arles | 13:28 |
DocScrutinizer05 | Carmargue known to breed gnats | 13:28 |
DocScrutinizer05 | I guess they had a weekend trip to next town | 13:29 |
DocScrutinizer05 | for whatever reason we planned to visit Saintes Maries de la Mer, but we found no way to arrive there alive ;-P | 13:31 |
wpwrak | on your next trip, you went to somalia, to relax from all the stress :) | 13:33 |
DocScrutinizer05 | hehe | 13:36 |
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