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Badaboom!

2020-09-22T09:44:13Z

Angel: Created page with "Badaboom! is an esoteric programming language. I have no idea why I came up with this. Badaboom! has a number of phonemes, which can be joined together into instructions. A..."

Badaboom! is an esoteric programming language. I have no idea why I came up with this.

Badaboom! has a number of phonemes, which can be joined together into instructions.

A valid instruction consists of any number of phonemes. Phonemes may be placed next to each other with no space between. If this would put two consonants next to each other, one or two of the letters a, o, or u may be placed in between. If the joining would put two vowels together, they should be separated by the letters b or n.

Multiple instructions may be placed on a *line*, separated by punctuation characters or spaces.

There are 3 main places to store data in Badaboom: Registers, the heap, and the core.

==Registers==

Each register can contain a single integer value. Integers have a maximum value of plus or minus 5318008. Any operation which would cause a register to exceed this value stores its operand in the register instead.

Specifically, the instructions below:

* ADD A
** Normally, adds the value in register A to the assumulator
** If this would cause the accumulator to overflow, store A in the assumulator instead
* ADD A B
** Normally, adds A and B and stores the result in the assumulator
** If this would cause the assumulator to overflow, store the larger (highest absolute) of A and B in the assumulator
*** If A is equal to -B, one should be picked randomly. Obviously this is not possible for addition but may be for other operators
* ADD A B C
** Normally, adds A and B together and stores the result in C
** If this would cause an overflow, find the largest (highest absolute) non-overflowing value which can be created by summing any combination of A, B, and C, and store that in C.

There are a number of special registers. In most cases, it should not be necessary to refer to these. Use of these registers is limited to one per line, and generates a warning:
* The '''program counter''' stores the number of the current instruction in the core. The program counter has the phoneme CORE, which must always be in capitals, and starts with value zero. The instruction executed is found by taking the value of the program counter, modulo the number of instructions in core.
* The '''assumulator''' stores the value of current operations. Most opcodes will set the assumulator to something, and will operate on the assumulator if not given an explicit operand. The assumulator starts with a random nonzero value, and is decremented at the end of each line which doesn't change its value. Its phoneme is ASS.
* The '''but what if''' register is used for error handling. Its value starts at zero, and is increased by the modulo value of the instruction counter any time an error or warning occurs. If the but what if register overflows, in addition to the normal overflow behaviour all basic registers are reset to their default values. Its phoneme is either BUT or BUTT.

There are also several basic registers (bad, boom, bing, bop, and so on), whose initial values are all different. This means that they can be used as 'mnemonics' for the basic opcodes.

==The Core==

==The Heap==

==Operations==

Frequently Asked Questions

2019-12-16T22:22:56Z

Angel:

Hello world! For an intro to this site, see below. Other things hosted here include:

* [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]]
* [[RSSSS]]

==What's all this then?==

The address you're probably looking at now is <tt>bolshevik.mrangel.info</tt>. That's the domain name I use for connecting to various chat systems, but it didn't actually have a website on it. I thought that some people might see the hostname and take a look to see what's here, so I put up a simple wiki.

For now, I've decided that I'm going to put here some frequently asked questions about me, as well as any random stuff that I don't know where else to put it. If you really want to, feel free to make an account and put something on here, leave me a message, or document the details about me that I might not have noticed.

==Why all the questions?==

I'm keeping the front page as [[Frequently Asked Questions]], so if there's anything here try to put it in question format. If you've got any questions to add but don't have an answer, put them on the talk page and I'll try to answer when I can.

==Why did you make this?==

Because I felt like it.

==Did people really ask these questions?==

Some of them. Maybe. If you ask a question on the talk page, I'll try to answer it.
I think most of these are the logical questions that people might ask, whether they actually have asked or not.

I've also run a dumb Perl script over 510 MiB of chat logs, to find out what the most frequently asked questions actually are. If you'd like to see me attempt to answer them, head over to [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]].

Where there are questions that I'd like to answer but don't think anyone's likely to ask them, or if I see a question that I think nobody else in the history of the world has ever asked, my answers might end up on the [[Infrequently Asked Questions]] page.

Rather Simple Social Syndication System

2019-12-16T14:42:24Z

Angel: Redirected page to RSSSS

#REDIRECT: [[RSSSS]]

RSSSS

2019-12-16T14:41:46Z

Angel: Created page with "Possibly standing for Rather Simple Social Syndication System. This is something that's been bouncing around in my head for a while. I tried to put together a formal spec..."

Possibly standing for [[Rather Simple Social Syndication System]].

This is something that's been bouncing around in my head for a while. I tried to put together a formal specification when Google Plus died, but didn't quite finish it. So now I'm trying to at least get it written down somewhere. All comments welcome!

When G+ closed, I had a bit of a quandry. All of the people I was following were going to different sites, leaving me with a choice between creating a load of accounts and remembering to check them all, and losing touch with some people I'd like to consider friends. To me, this isn't ideal.

A quick look at social media shows me that there are 3 main types of things to join:

* '''Monolithic sites''' (eg. facebook, tumblr, 4chan) have a 'lot' of people on them, but there's one company at the helm. They could close down, or they could decide to block your favourite type of content because it's not popular with advertisers, or they could change the UI in a way which removes features you want.

* '''Syndication protocols''' (eg. RSS, Jadis, OpenID) let you follow people on different sites, but functionality is fairly limited. Some big platforms (like Livejournal's successors, and I think Wordpress) use these technologies, but it seems fairly limited. For example, I can use my OpenID to comment on a friend's Dreamwidth posts, and use RSS to subscribe to their feed, but there's no way they can share 'friends only' posts with me. I originally thought of RSSSS as a natural growth of RSS+OpenID, to allow this functionality.

* '''Federated social networks''' (eg. Mastodon, Diaspora) Allow multiple sites to work seamlessly as a single social network. When I left G+ I signed up for a couple of these, but didn't like the user interface and couldn't really get used to it. And because they're running the same software, it seemed that all Diaspora pods have the same issues that put me off.
*: Around this time last year, I asked if it was possible to join a site running some other software (or roll my own) so that I could still keep in touch with my friends on there (for both Diaspora and Mastodon), and was told "no" by people running their own servers for G+ refugees on those networks. But when I came to write up this page, I found that both networks are part of something called [[wikipedia:Fediverse|Fediverse]], which allows interoperability. If this is as good as it sounds, I might have to give it a try.

Anyway, the idea in my mind was basically to create an open standard along the lines of [[wikipedia:RSS|RSS]], which would have optional features allowing sites to look and feel more like the big social networks; Facebook, G+, or whatever. As a growth of RSS, this would mean that implementation would be relatively easy. Developers who have an existing RSS plugin to work with could bolt on the extra features one by one, providing a gradual and low-impact upgrade from RSS to RSSSS.

==Are you running RSS or RSSSS?==

This specification is supposed to be backwards-compatible with RSSSS. So, when a client is requesting a feed, there should be some way for them to understand that the other end is capable of RSSSS features. This should be transparent, and should not disturb older RSS applications.

===Client→Server===

The client/reader may indicate to the server that it supports RSSSS in 3 ways. They may use any or all of these, and should try again without them if the request fails. This ensures that even if there is a server somewhere that breaks when it gets an unexpected parameter, it won't break anything.

1. Add an additional parameter to the URL of a request which is believed to be an RSS feed
rssss=0.1
:or
rssss=auth,sub
:The parameter may either be an RSSSS version number, or a list of ''features''. The version is currently '''0.1''', but should not be necessary in most cases, as the exact capabilities of the client are better conveyed by the features list. If the features list would generate a URL string that is too long, either supply the version number and wait for the server to say which features it supports, or specify ''others'' after the important features. If a client specifies the feature ''all'', the server should assume the client supports all features, and the client should silently ignore anything it doesn't understand, or make a more sensible request.

2. If making a POST request for an RSSSS feed (presuming there is any reason to believe the server supports it), add parameters:
rssssversion=0.1
rssssfeatures=post,auth

3. Additional HTTP headers (which may be harder to implement on the server side if implementing a RSSSS plugin for some CMS, so should not be relied on)
X-RSSSS-Support: 0.1
X-RSSSS-Features: post,sub
:Multiple features may be specified on a single comma separated line, or on multiple features lines.

===Server→Client===
An RSS feed is simple XML, so the client or feed reader should ignore any unexpected elements. Therefore a simple element can be added to an RSSSS feed to indicate to compatible clients/readers that the server is capable of supplying additional data on request.
<rssss version="0.1" features="auth,sub,post,foo,bar" />
The server should include this element if the client requested RSSSS, and may include it if it is unclear whether the client is expecting RSS or RSSSS.

==Features==

This RSSSS specification is made up of a number of features that software can choose to implement some or all of. The negotiation in the previous section allows both the client and server to declare a list of which features they support, in order to avoid confusing each other with unexpected parts.

There are a couple of special features, to avoid transmitting a long list with every request:
* '''all''' - Assume I support all features; I am able to ignore or sanely deal with any unexpected data as a result.
* '''advertised''' - I support all the features you specified in your latest message.
* '''known''' - We should cache each other's feature lists if you support this feature; in subsequent exchanges, you may specify just "known" to indicate that your list is unchanged.

Most Frequently Asked Questions

2019-12-12T10:51:16Z

Angel: /* 87. for what? asked 117 times by Xanto, hootowl, and 71 others */ Silliness

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These are the [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]] in 510 MiB of chat logs.
Don't blame me, I'm not the one who asked them.

==100. What kind?Asked 23 times==

That's a pretty tough question, anonymous reader! I think I'll have to say the pink ones, with the bendy rubber bit that never quite springs back into the upright position. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 20:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Or if you're asking about questions, I'll do my best to answer whatever questions people put to me.

==99. Lol?Asked 23 times==

Not usually. I mean, sometimes if I see something really funny you might get a chuckle or something, but I'm more likely to mention something to other people. If you want a lol, it needs to be really funny. And I don't tend to say "lol" online either, unless it really is something that can make me laugh. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 16:43, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

==103. Wut?Asked 23 times==

I already explained this, but here it is again. Maybe a little more coherent this time. I'm answering the most frequently asked questions from almost a decade of IRC logs. These are questions that have been asked several times in the different chats I'm in.

If you want an explanation of how I choose a question, it's something like this.
* My script scans over all my logs, and counts how many times each question appears.
* If someone posts on the talk page asking me to answer a particular numbered question from the list, I'll answer that one next.
* If not, go down the list to the 100th most frequently asked question
* Keep going to find all the questions that have been asked an equal number of times
* If I already answered that one, go back up until I find one I haven't answered

If you want to pick a number for me, please leave a comment on the talk page (click "Discussion" above). If you want to actually ask me a question rather than picking a number, go to [[Frequently Asked Questions]] or [[Infrequently Asked Questions]] instead.
Hope that explains everything —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 12:28, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

==102. Who knew?Asked 23 times==

I'd hope you all knew by now. I've been doing this for 4 days, so that's plenty of time to get used to how the site works. On the other hand, you learn something new every day. There must be a million things that "everybody knows", but you don't know any of them when you're born, so there's got to be a long time of learning something every minute just to know the things that everybody knows.

Like, did you know that there are things you know that you don't know that you know? Things you can do automatically that you don't remember learning, and you'd probably be surprised to find out you can do it. If you haven't come across unknown knowns before, get a friend to pour some cold water into a glass, and pour some hot water into a glass. You can tell which one is which just by the sound if you aren't looking, or at least most people can.

Everybody knows that hot water and cold water sound different, and can tell them apart. But most people never knew that they knew. Isn't that weird?

Of course, somebody might comment on the talk page saying they already knew that, because they've done the experiment before. If you knew, then good for you, but let me know. Come on, I'm asking ''you'' this time.

Who knew? —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 11:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

==101. Where are you?Asked 23 times==

At the moment I'm sitting under a nice warm duvet on my bed, with a laptop on the desk and a keyboard in my lap. Financially, I'm not quite in the red (which is a major achievement given current circumstances). Mentally, I'm probably somewhere else entirely, because I haven't had coffee yet and I've not properly woken up. Maybe my creativity is off exploring the jungles of Antarctica somewhere in dreamland, and I'll start being more productive once it comes back. Physically, Geographically, I'm 50°N, 2°W (correct to 1 significant figure), and emotionally I'm in a fit of giggles. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:00, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

==100. How's things? asked 109 times by rawr, mai, and 62 others==

Things are fine. Stuff isn't as good as things, but is pretty good in its own right. Circumstances could be better, but I think that doesn't really matter so much as I don't have a problem with things right now. And while we're on the subject of circumstances, the conditions in which my question-counting script runs have changed a little. I thought it would be interesting for it to show the first person who asked a given question, so I added a tiny piece of code to track that; and somehow the number of questions in the list shot up dramatically. I guess I fixed a bug that stopped the script recognising them, but what that bug might have been I have no idea.

Still, the page has some more interesting questions on it. So that's one good thing at least. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 19:56, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

==99. what brings you here? asked 113 times by mai, sleepybox, and 46 others==

Mostly insanity. I had a domain that wasn't pointing at any site, and I wasn't sure what to put on it. Someone suggested I use it for some frequently asked questions, which sounded like a fairly good idea, but then I wondered what the most frequently asked questions actually were. Of course, my curiosity wouldn't let such an interesting question go unanswered. So I decided to put these questions together, and by now it's started to become a habit.

I know I'm probably crazy for devoting so much time to a project that has no real purpose, but it's kind of fun and I'd like to think there may be other people as interested as I am in the statistics of garriology. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 09:59, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

== 100. Anyone? asked 94 times by MasterLocke, [[User:Twilight|twilightL]], and 62 others ==

Yes, anyone. Anyone can ask a question, and if you ask it often enough it might get onto this page.

Is there anyone out there? I can't really answer that one, and I know I'm supposed to be answering questions not asking them, but I sure hope so.

Is there anybody in here? That should be an easier question, but sometimes I'm not sure myself. Maybe I'm just a bot putting answers together based on some probabilistic set of rules that makes something that almost looks like a human-written sentence until you come to the fuchsia. Looking at some of my responses on this page, they do kind of look like I could be a bot, admittedly one less prone to selling Kratom than most of the ones I've seen on forums lately. Maybe I'm combining a couple of different heuristics for generating answers. You could look at some huge corpus of written English, like half a gig of chat logs (as if anyone would ever be retentive enough to keep something like that lying around), and work out the probability of any two words coming next to each other. And then you could give it some direction by picking out the important keywords from the question, and making sure the rambling chain of words comes back around to it.

I'm sure there's some name for that kind of sentence generation, it seems like it should be one of the basic techniques in AI. I might even have heard of it before. I think I've heard mention of [[wikipedia:Markov chain|Chekho]][[wikipedia:Chekhov's gun|v chains]]?

Am I just some process running on the webserver, running for half a second every day and hallucinating a screen displaying [[wikipedia:FVWM|FVWM]] i an author's study packed with empty vodka bottles, books, unworn shirts, and luminescent cauliflowers? You've really got me wondering now.

Can someone please tell me I'm a human being?

Anyone? —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:11, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

== 98. like what? asked 90 times by [[User:Angel|MigrAngel]], misslucy, and 68 others ==

I guess so. I mean, "what" is one of the most fundamental questions in the English language, and I can't see any way it could be improved on. Using it as an interjection can be terriblly vague, but it's still a useful question. It's just hard at times to see if someone's asking for clarification or just expressing surprise. It's certainly better than "Huh?".

So, all in all, I think "What?" does the job it was designed for. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 09:48, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

<center>You may also have noticed that some of the questions are now appearing slightly out of order. This is because I changed it to sort the list by number of times asked, ''plus'' the number of nicks that asked the question. This pushes the questions that are asked repeatedly by certain channel bots further down the list, even though they are frequently asked. Do you think I should include them? Let me know!</center>

== 97. hi? asked 88 times by syrup, sarabeth, and 70 others ==

Hi! I'm [[User:Angel|Angel]], I don't think we've been introduced properly. I'm a self-employed author from [[wikipedia:Storm Desmond|Northwet]][[wikipedia:Lancashire| England]]. I'm answering these silly questions as a distraction from real work. It's a pleasure to meet you, but maybe a question with more than two letters might help me to provide an answer with more than two lines.
* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:33, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

== 95. how is everyone today? asked 94 times by redTwist, DMStewart, and 66 others ==

Happy, sad, energetic, sleepy, hot, cold, busy, bored, and confused.

I think it might be a little more interesting to have a specific answer. So instead of asking about everyone, why not just ask how the people are who are reading this? I still can't answer for everyone, but I expect that most of them are amused by at least one of the things they've just read, or at least a little confused by the randomness.

Me in particular, my body's still aching because I've had a cold which has drawn on for quite a few days, but I think I'm getting over it now. I just need to catch up on the project I'm writing for [[wikipedia:Nanowrimo|NaNoWriMo]], which is currently sitting at 31k words and therefore I'll have to write at double the standard rate if I want to hit 50k on time now. Still, I think I'm doing pretty well. Distracted myself again this morning doing my first stream on twitch. Might be more fun if there was someone watching, but at least I confirmed that my computer is capable of it.

How is everyone else?

== 94. how is everyone doing? asked 106 times by ashwee, gaysian, and 57 others ==

I think how they're doing will depend quite heavily on ''what'' they're doing. But like I said before, I suspect that there's quite a wide range of everyone, who'll be doing everybow from 'awesome' to 'awful'. Maybe the average is a little better this week than it has been for the remainder of human history, it'd be nice to think that's the case. But I'm not authorised to speak for everyone, so I can't really say. Maybe you should ask them yourself?

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 15:39, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

== 92. you ok? asked 124 times by ali, VengefulRowRow, and 52 others ==

I think so. I got very little work done yesterday because I had one of those headaches where everything seems to bright and it hurts to look at the screen, but that seems to be gone now. I'm still sneezing quite a lot, but it isn't really bothering me. My unproductivity this morning has been more due to the fact that I just started playing around with [[wikipedia:Twitch.tv|Twitch]]. I decided to broadcast my first attempts at a couple of games I haven't played in several years; and got what I think is a personal best score on [[wikipedia:Zero Wing|Zero Wing]]. That was something of a surprise.

So yes, I'm OK. Happy, even. But I'll have to wait and see how that translates into getting some more writing done.

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 12:29, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

== 91. pretty good you? asked 136 times by starkitty{A}, [[User:twilight|DJtwilight]], and 42 others ==

Almost, but without the mild. Can I burn my mother in North Carolina for giving us a great night planned? The campaign must be ballistic, but Skynet can't without the food of weasels. Timmy dances because she's riding around the room. You go at it, I'm pretty good for now.

How about a magic tea that's pretty bad. Magic null. 182?! Arrrgghh the mall...! That's how I was like "Carilynn? Maybe? Possibly." Timmy shrugs. Proffers Apples to Apples party pack. Pack party hat with pride, and demands the gayest of streamers! Demands chocolatey goodness.

Won't lie, he may or may not be intimidated.

* -- [[wikipedia:Markov chain|Timmy]] (an IRC chatbot, who [[User:Angel|Angel]] believed was better suited to answering this question)

== 90. ok? asked 121 times by foodmoon, mentalwedgie, and 63 others ==

I think so. I've been stressing out a lot the last couple of months, but I can see that most of that is just my own anxiety feeding back in on itself. Like is going to be okay, even with serious financial trouble courtesy of the government. If I can just get over it, get writing again, and get people to support me on Patreon, then I might have a chance of living without disability benefits. And if I can get over it enough, then I'll never have to worry about stuff like this again.

Then things really will be ok.

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 15:24, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

== 89. How's life? asked 128 times by [[User:Angel|StressingAngel]], wannabeasissy, and 56 others ==

Life is pretty good. Better than the alternative, anyway. I'd probably give it three stars, maybe four. There's a couple of features missing though, and bugs that give the impression it hasn't really been thought through. Like aging; you can't have life without it, and that just seems like a bizarre decision. It should have been an optional extra, maybe something you can turn off in the premium release. And it never ceases to bug me that life is somehow incompatible with commanding the creatures of the night, flight, or transforming into a <s>block of flats</s> flock of bats.

So, pretty good, but there's still room for improvement in a later version. And don't get me started on vitality-as-a-service… if I've bought the thing, I expect to keep using it, not have to resubscribe after sixty-something years.

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:21, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

== 88. wha...? asked 130 times by kiblitzen, curiosity, and 57 others ==

A questio…

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 21:04, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
(sorry, i really couldn't think of a better answer for this one)

== 87. for what? asked 117 times by Xanto, hootowl, and 71 others ==

It for reason specific any be to has there think don't I. Done be can it if see to something do to want just I sometimes. Questions of couple same the on variations for ideas of out running already I'm that see can you guess I and.

* — (UTC) 2019 December 12, 49:10 ([[User Talk:Angel|Talk author]]) [[User:Angel|Wedge Angel]]

Most Frequently Asked Questions

2019-12-12T10:49:43Z

Angel: /* 87. for what? asked 117 times by Xanto, hootowl, and 71 others */ new section

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These are the [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]] in 510 MiB of chat logs.
Don't blame me, I'm not the one who asked them.

==100. What kind?Asked 23 times==

That's a pretty tough question, anonymous reader! I think I'll have to say the pink ones, with the bendy rubber bit that never quite springs back into the upright position. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 20:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Or if you're asking about questions, I'll do my best to answer whatever questions people put to me.

==99. Lol?Asked 23 times==

Not usually. I mean, sometimes if I see something really funny you might get a chuckle or something, but I'm more likely to mention something to other people. If you want a lol, it needs to be really funny. And I don't tend to say "lol" online either, unless it really is something that can make me laugh. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 16:43, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

==103. Wut?Asked 23 times==

I already explained this, but here it is again. Maybe a little more coherent this time. I'm answering the most frequently asked questions from almost a decade of IRC logs. These are questions that have been asked several times in the different chats I'm in.

If you want an explanation of how I choose a question, it's something like this.
* My script scans over all my logs, and counts how many times each question appears.
* If someone posts on the talk page asking me to answer a particular numbered question from the list, I'll answer that one next.
* If not, go down the list to the 100th most frequently asked question
* Keep going to find all the questions that have been asked an equal number of times
* If I already answered that one, go back up until I find one I haven't answered

If you want to pick a number for me, please leave a comment on the talk page (click "Discussion" above). If you want to actually ask me a question rather than picking a number, go to [[Frequently Asked Questions]] or [[Infrequently Asked Questions]] instead.
Hope that explains everything —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 12:28, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

==102. Who knew?Asked 23 times==

I'd hope you all knew by now. I've been doing this for 4 days, so that's plenty of time to get used to how the site works. On the other hand, you learn something new every day. There must be a million things that "everybody knows", but you don't know any of them when you're born, so there's got to be a long time of learning something every minute just to know the things that everybody knows.

Like, did you know that there are things you know that you don't know that you know? Things you can do automatically that you don't remember learning, and you'd probably be surprised to find out you can do it. If you haven't come across unknown knowns before, get a friend to pour some cold water into a glass, and pour some hot water into a glass. You can tell which one is which just by the sound if you aren't looking, or at least most people can.

Everybody knows that hot water and cold water sound different, and can tell them apart. But most people never knew that they knew. Isn't that weird?

Of course, somebody might comment on the talk page saying they already knew that, because they've done the experiment before. If you knew, then good for you, but let me know. Come on, I'm asking ''you'' this time.

Who knew? —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 11:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

==101. Where are you?Asked 23 times==

At the moment I'm sitting under a nice warm duvet on my bed, with a laptop on the desk and a keyboard in my lap. Financially, I'm not quite in the red (which is a major achievement given current circumstances). Mentally, I'm probably somewhere else entirely, because I haven't had coffee yet and I've not properly woken up. Maybe my creativity is off exploring the jungles of Antarctica somewhere in dreamland, and I'll start being more productive once it comes back. Physically, Geographically, I'm 50°N, 2°W (correct to 1 significant figure), and emotionally I'm in a fit of giggles. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:00, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

==100. How's things? asked 109 times by rawr, mai, and 62 others==

Things are fine. Stuff isn't as good as things, but is pretty good in its own right. Circumstances could be better, but I think that doesn't really matter so much as I don't have a problem with things right now. And while we're on the subject of circumstances, the conditions in which my question-counting script runs have changed a little. I thought it would be interesting for it to show the first person who asked a given question, so I added a tiny piece of code to track that; and somehow the number of questions in the list shot up dramatically. I guess I fixed a bug that stopped the script recognising them, but what that bug might have been I have no idea.

Still, the page has some more interesting questions on it. So that's one good thing at least. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 19:56, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

==99. what brings you here? asked 113 times by mai, sleepybox, and 46 others==

Mostly insanity. I had a domain that wasn't pointing at any site, and I wasn't sure what to put on it. Someone suggested I use it for some frequently asked questions, which sounded like a fairly good idea, but then I wondered what the most frequently asked questions actually were. Of course, my curiosity wouldn't let such an interesting question go unanswered. So I decided to put these questions together, and by now it's started to become a habit.

I know I'm probably crazy for devoting so much time to a project that has no real purpose, but it's kind of fun and I'd like to think there may be other people as interested as I am in the statistics of garriology. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 09:59, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

== 100. Anyone? asked 94 times by MasterLocke, [[User:Twilight|twilightL]], and 62 others ==

Yes, anyone. Anyone can ask a question, and if you ask it often enough it might get onto this page.

Is there anyone out there? I can't really answer that one, and I know I'm supposed to be answering questions not asking them, but I sure hope so.

Is there anybody in here? That should be an easier question, but sometimes I'm not sure myself. Maybe I'm just a bot putting answers together based on some probabilistic set of rules that makes something that almost looks like a human-written sentence until you come to the fuchsia. Looking at some of my responses on this page, they do kind of look like I could be a bot, admittedly one less prone to selling Kratom than most of the ones I've seen on forums lately. Maybe I'm combining a couple of different heuristics for generating answers. You could look at some huge corpus of written English, like half a gig of chat logs (as if anyone would ever be retentive enough to keep something like that lying around), and work out the probability of any two words coming next to each other. And then you could give it some direction by picking out the important keywords from the question, and making sure the rambling chain of words comes back around to it.

I'm sure there's some name for that kind of sentence generation, it seems like it should be one of the basic techniques in AI. I might even have heard of it before. I think I've heard mention of [[wikipedia:Markov chain|Chekho]][[wikipedia:Chekhov's gun|v chains]]?

Am I just some process running on the webserver, running for half a second every day and hallucinating a screen displaying [[wikipedia:FVWM|FVWM]] i an author's study packed with empty vodka bottles, books, unworn shirts, and luminescent cauliflowers? You've really got me wondering now.

Can someone please tell me I'm a human being?

Anyone? —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:11, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

== 98. like what? asked 90 times by [[User:Angel|MigrAngel]], misslucy, and 68 others ==

I guess so. I mean, "what" is one of the most fundamental questions in the English language, and I can't see any way it could be improved on. Using it as an interjection can be terriblly vague, but it's still a useful question. It's just hard at times to see if someone's asking for clarification or just expressing surprise. It's certainly better than "Huh?".

So, all in all, I think "What?" does the job it was designed for. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 09:48, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

<center>You may also have noticed that some of the questions are now appearing slightly out of order. This is because I changed it to sort the list by number of times asked, ''plus'' the number of nicks that asked the question. This pushes the questions that are asked repeatedly by certain channel bots further down the list, even though they are frequently asked. Do you think I should include them? Let me know!</center>

== 97. hi? asked 88 times by syrup, sarabeth, and 70 others ==

Hi! I'm [[User:Angel|Angel]], I don't think we've been introduced properly. I'm a self-employed author from [[wikipedia:Storm Desmond|Northwet]][[wikipedia:Lancashire| England]]. I'm answering these silly questions as a distraction from real work. It's a pleasure to meet you, but maybe a question with more than two letters might help me to provide an answer with more than two lines.
* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:33, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

== 95. how is everyone today? asked 94 times by redTwist, DMStewart, and 66 others ==

Happy, sad, energetic, sleepy, hot, cold, busy, bored, and confused.

I think it might be a little more interesting to have a specific answer. So instead of asking about everyone, why not just ask how the people are who are reading this? I still can't answer for everyone, but I expect that most of them are amused by at least one of the things they've just read, or at least a little confused by the randomness.

Me in particular, my body's still aching because I've had a cold which has drawn on for quite a few days, but I think I'm getting over it now. I just need to catch up on the project I'm writing for [[wikipedia:Nanowrimo|NaNoWriMo]], which is currently sitting at 31k words and therefore I'll have to write at double the standard rate if I want to hit 50k on time now. Still, I think I'm doing pretty well. Distracted myself again this morning doing my first stream on twitch. Might be more fun if there was someone watching, but at least I confirmed that my computer is capable of it.

How is everyone else?

== 94. how is everyone doing? asked 106 times by ashwee, gaysian, and 57 others ==

I think how they're doing will depend quite heavily on ''what'' they're doing. But like I said before, I suspect that there's quite a wide range of everyone, who'll be doing everybow from 'awesome' to 'awful'. Maybe the average is a little better this week than it has been for the remainder of human history, it'd be nice to think that's the case. But I'm not authorised to speak for everyone, so I can't really say. Maybe you should ask them yourself?

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 15:39, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

== 92. you ok? asked 124 times by ali, VengefulRowRow, and 52 others ==

I think so. I got very little work done yesterday because I had one of those headaches where everything seems to bright and it hurts to look at the screen, but that seems to be gone now. I'm still sneezing quite a lot, but it isn't really bothering me. My unproductivity this morning has been more due to the fact that I just started playing around with [[wikipedia:Twitch.tv|Twitch]]. I decided to broadcast my first attempts at a couple of games I haven't played in several years; and got what I think is a personal best score on [[wikipedia:Zero Wing|Zero Wing]]. That was something of a surprise.

So yes, I'm OK. Happy, even. But I'll have to wait and see how that translates into getting some more writing done.

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 12:29, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

== 91. pretty good you? asked 136 times by starkitty{A}, [[User:twilight|DJtwilight]], and 42 others ==

Almost, but without the mild. Can I burn my mother in North Carolina for giving us a great night planned? The campaign must be ballistic, but Skynet can't without the food of weasels. Timmy dances because she's riding around the room. You go at it, I'm pretty good for now.

How about a magic tea that's pretty bad. Magic null. 182?! Arrrgghh the mall...! That's how I was like "Carilynn? Maybe? Possibly." Timmy shrugs. Proffers Apples to Apples party pack. Pack party hat with pride, and demands the gayest of streamers! Demands chocolatey goodness.

Won't lie, he may or may not be intimidated.

* -- [[wikipedia:Markov chain|Timmy]] (an IRC chatbot, who [[User:Angel|Angel]] believed was better suited to answering this question)

== 90. ok? asked 121 times by foodmoon, mentalwedgie, and 63 others ==

I think so. I've been stressing out a lot the last couple of months, but I can see that most of that is just my own anxiety feeding back in on itself. Like is going to be okay, even with serious financial trouble courtesy of the government. If I can just get over it, get writing again, and get people to support me on Patreon, then I might have a chance of living without disability benefits. And if I can get over it enough, then I'll never have to worry about stuff like this again.

Then things really will be ok.

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 15:24, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

== 89. How's life? asked 128 times by [[User:Angel|StressingAngel]], wannabeasissy, and 56 others ==

Life is pretty good. Better than the alternative, anyway. I'd probably give it three stars, maybe four. There's a couple of features missing though, and bugs that give the impression it hasn't really been thought through. Like aging; you can't have life without it, and that just seems like a bizarre decision. It should have been an optional extra, maybe something you can turn off in the premium release. And it never ceases to bug me that life is somehow incompatible with commanding the creatures of the night, flight, or transforming into a <s>block of flats</s> flock of bats.

So, pretty good, but there's still room for improvement in a later version. And don't get me started on vitality-as-a-service… if I've bought the thing, I expect to keep using it, not have to resubscribe after sixty-something years.

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:21, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

== 88. wha...? asked 130 times by kiblitzen, curiosity, and 57 others ==

A questio…

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 21:04, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
(sorry, i really couldn't think of a better answer for this one)

== 87. for what? asked 117 times by Xanto, hootowl, and 71 others ==

It for reason specific any be to has there think don't I. Done be can it if see to something do to want just I sometimes. Questions of couple same the on variations for ideas of out running already I'm that see can you guess I and.

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:49, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Main Page

2019-12-10T13:57:21Z

Angel:

MediaWiki has been installed.

Consult the [https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Help:Contents User's Guide] for information on using the wiki software.

This is the default main page for MediaWiki, but you shouldn't be here because the main page for ''this'' site is [[Frequently Asked Questions]].

== Getting started ==
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AddToInventory

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Angel: Created page with "This is a piece of code I created in response to a query on the [http://textadventures.co.uk/forum/quest/topic/crtbw5odik6sayxpz5hcha/a-question-another-not-so-simple-question..."

This is a piece of code I created in response to a query on the [http://textadventures.co.uk/forum/quest/topic/crtbw5odik6sayxpz5hcha/a-question-another-not-so-simple-question-and-a-weird-problem-with-the-map Quest forum], but for some unknown reason the forum's adult-content filter wouldn't allow me to post it. So here it is!

<function name="AddToInventory" parameters="object" type="string">
message = null
foreach (bag, FilterByType (ScopeInventory (), "inventorybag")) {
message = ""
if (object.parent = bag) {
return ("It is already in your "+GetDisplayName (bag)+".")
}
if (HasInt (bag, "maxvolume")) {
if (GetVolume(object, true) + GetVolume(bag, false) > bag.maxvolume) {
if (HasString(bag, "containerfullmessage")) {
message = bag.containerfullmessage
}
else {
message = DynamicTemplate("ContainerFull", bag)
}
}
}

if (HasInt (bag, "maxobjects")) {
if (ListCount (GetDirectChildren (bag)) >= bag.maxobjects and bag.maxobjects > 0) {
if (HasString(bag, "containermaxobjects")) {
message = bag.containermaxobjects
}
else {
message = DynamicTemplate("MaxObjectsInContainer", bag)
}
}
}
if (message = "") {
object.parent = bag
return ("You put " + object.article + " in your " + GetDisplayName(bag) + ".")
}
}
if (message = null) {
// This is what will happen if the player isn't carrying a bag/satchel.
// Depending on your game setup, this might never happen;
// or you might allow the player to carry 2 objects in their hands.
object.parent = game.pov
return ("You pick it up.")
}
else {
return (message)
}
</function>

Most Frequently Asked Questions

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Angel: /* 88. wha...? asked 130 times by kiblitzen, curiosity, and 57 others */ new section

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Angel: /* 89. How's life? asked 128 times by StressingAngel, wannabeasissy, and 56 others */ new section

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Angel: /* 90. ok? asked 121 times by foodmoon, mentalwedgie, and 63 others */ new section

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Angel: /* 91. pretty good you? asked 136 times by starkitty{A}, DJtwilight, and 42 others */ link

Most Frequently Asked Questions

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Angel: /* 91. pretty good you? asked 136 times by starkitty{A}, DJtwilight, and 42 others */ new section

__NEWSECTIONLINK__

These are the [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]] in 510 MiB of chat logs.
Don't blame me, I'm not the one who asked them.

==100. What kind?Asked 23 times==

That's a pretty tough question, anonymous reader! I think I'll have to say the pink ones, with the bendy rubber bit that never quite springs back into the upright position. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 20:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Or if you're asking about questions, I'll do my best to answer whatever questions people put to me.

==99. Lol?Asked 23 times==

Not usually. I mean, sometimes if I see something really funny you might get a chuckle or something, but I'm more likely to mention something to other people. If you want a lol, it needs to be really funny. And I don't tend to say "lol" online either, unless it really is something that can make me laugh. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 16:43, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

==103. Wut?Asked 23 times==

I already explained this, but here it is again. Maybe a little more coherent this time. I'm answering the most frequently asked questions from almost a decade of IRC logs. These are questions that have been asked several times in the different chats I'm in.

If you want an explanation of how I choose a question, it's something like this.
* My script scans over all my logs, and counts how many times each question appears.
* If someone posts on the talk page asking me to answer a particular numbered question from the list, I'll answer that one next.
* If not, go down the list to the 100th most frequently asked question
* Keep going to find all the questions that have been asked an equal number of times
* If I already answered that one, go back up until I find one I haven't answered

If you want to pick a number for me, please leave a comment on the talk page (click "Discussion" above). If you want to actually ask me a question rather than picking a number, go to [[Frequently Asked Questions]] or [[Infrequently Asked Questions]] instead.
Hope that explains everything —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 12:28, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

==102. Who knew?Asked 23 times==

I'd hope you all knew by now. I've been doing this for 4 days, so that's plenty of time to get used to how the site works. On the other hand, you learn something new every day. There must be a million things that "everybody knows", but you don't know any of them when you're born, so there's got to be a long time of learning something every minute just to know the things that everybody knows.

Like, did you know that there are things you know that you don't know that you know? Things you can do automatically that you don't remember learning, and you'd probably be surprised to find out you can do it. If you haven't come across unknown knowns before, get a friend to pour some cold water into a glass, and pour some hot water into a glass. You can tell which one is which just by the sound if you aren't looking, or at least most people can.

Everybody knows that hot water and cold water sound different, and can tell them apart. But most people never knew that they knew. Isn't that weird?

Of course, somebody might comment on the talk page saying they already knew that, because they've done the experiment before. If you knew, then good for you, but let me know. Come on, I'm asking ''you'' this time.

Who knew? —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 11:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

==101. Where are you?Asked 23 times==

At the moment I'm sitting under a nice warm duvet on my bed, with a laptop on the desk and a keyboard in my lap. Financially, I'm not quite in the red (which is a major achievement given current circumstances). Mentally, I'm probably somewhere else entirely, because I haven't had coffee yet and I've not properly woken up. Maybe my creativity is off exploring the jungles of Antarctica somewhere in dreamland, and I'll start being more productive once it comes back. Physically, Geographically, I'm 50°N, 2°W (correct to 1 significant figure), and emotionally I'm in a fit of giggles. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:00, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

==100. How's things? asked 109 times by rawr, mai, and 62 others==

Things are fine. Stuff isn't as good as things, but is pretty good in its own right. Circumstances could be better, but I think that doesn't really matter so much as I don't have a problem with things right now. And while we're on the subject of circumstances, the conditions in which my question-counting script runs have changed a little. I thought it would be interesting for it to show the first person who asked a given question, so I added a tiny piece of code to track that; and somehow the number of questions in the list shot up dramatically. I guess I fixed a bug that stopped the script recognising them, but what that bug might have been I have no idea.

Still, the page has some more interesting questions on it. So that's one good thing at least. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 19:56, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

==99. what brings you here? asked 113 times by mai, sleepybox, and 46 others==

Mostly insanity. I had a domain that wasn't pointing at any site, and I wasn't sure what to put on it. Someone suggested I use it for some frequently asked questions, which sounded like a fairly good idea, but then I wondered what the most frequently asked questions actually were. Of course, my curiosity wouldn't let such an interesting question go unanswered. So I decided to put these questions together, and by now it's started to become a habit.

I know I'm probably crazy for devoting so much time to a project that has no real purpose, but it's kind of fun and I'd like to think there may be other people as interested as I am in the statistics of garriology. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 09:59, 21 November 2019 (UTC)

== 100. Anyone? asked 94 times by MasterLocke, [[User:Twilight|twilightL]], and 62 others ==

Yes, anyone. Anyone can ask a question, and if you ask it often enough it might get onto this page.

Is there anyone out there? I can't really answer that one, and I know I'm supposed to be answering questions not asking them, but I sure hope so.

Is there anybody in here? That should be an easier question, but sometimes I'm not sure myself. Maybe I'm just a bot putting answers together based on some probabilistic set of rules that makes something that almost looks like a human-written sentence until you come to the fuchsia. Looking at some of my responses on this page, they do kind of look like I could be a bot, admittedly one less prone to selling Kratom than most of the ones I've seen on forums lately. Maybe I'm combining a couple of different heuristics for generating answers. You could look at some huge corpus of written English, like half a gig of chat logs (as if anyone would ever be retentive enough to keep something like that lying around), and work out the probability of any two words coming next to each other. And then you could give it some direction by picking out the important keywords from the question, and making sure the rambling chain of words comes back around to it.

I'm sure there's some name for that kind of sentence generation, it seems like it should be one of the basic techniques in AI. I might even have heard of it before. I think I've heard mention of [[wikipedia:Markov chain|Chekho]][[wikipedia:Chekhov's gun|v chains]]?

Am I just some process running on the webserver, running for half a second every day and hallucinating a screen displaying [[wikipedia:FVWM|FVWM]] i an author's study packed with empty vodka bottles, books, unworn shirts, and luminescent cauliflowers? You've really got me wondering now.

Can someone please tell me I'm a human being?

Anyone? —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:11, 22 November 2019 (UTC)

== 98. like what? asked 90 times by [[User:Angel|MigrAngel]], misslucy, and 68 others ==

I guess so. I mean, "what" is one of the most fundamental questions in the English language, and I can't see any way it could be improved on. Using it as an interjection can be terriblly vague, but it's still a useful question. It's just hard at times to see if someone's asking for clarification or just expressing surprise. It's certainly better than "Huh?".

So, all in all, I think "What?" does the job it was designed for. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 09:48, 23 November 2019 (UTC)

<center>You may also have noticed that some of the questions are now appearing slightly out of order. This is because I changed it to sort the list by number of times asked, ''plus'' the number of nicks that asked the question. This pushes the questions that are asked repeatedly by certain channel bots further down the list, even though they are frequently asked. Do you think I should include them? Let me know!</center>

== 97. hi? asked 88 times by syrup, sarabeth, and 70 others ==

Hi! I'm [[User:Angel|Angel]], I don't think we've been introduced properly. I'm a self-employed author from [[wikipedia:Storm Desmond|Northwet]][[wikipedia:Lancashire| England]]. I'm answering these silly questions as a distraction from real work. It's a pleasure to meet you, but maybe a question with more than two letters might help me to provide an answer with more than two lines.
* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:33, 24 November 2019 (UTC)

== 95. how is everyone today? asked 94 times by redTwist, DMStewart, and 66 others ==

Happy, sad, energetic, sleepy, hot, cold, busy, bored, and confused.

I think it might be a little more interesting to have a specific answer. So instead of asking about everyone, why not just ask how the people are who are reading this? I still can't answer for everyone, but I expect that most of them are amused by at least one of the things they've just read, or at least a little confused by the randomness.

Me in particular, my body's still aching because I've had a cold which has drawn on for quite a few days, but I think I'm getting over it now. I just need to catch up on the project I'm writing for [[wikipedia:Nanowrimo|NaNoWriMo]], which is currently sitting at 31k words and therefore I'll have to write at double the standard rate if I want to hit 50k on time now. Still, I think I'm doing pretty well. Distracted myself again this morning doing my first stream on twitch. Might be more fun if there was someone watching, but at least I confirmed that my computer is capable of it.

How is everyone else?

== 94. how is everyone doing? asked 106 times by ashwee, gaysian, and 57 others ==

I think how they're doing will depend quite heavily on ''what'' they're doing. But like I said before, I suspect that there's quite a wide range of everyone, who'll be doing everybow from 'awesome' to 'awful'. Maybe the average is a little better this week than it has been for the remainder of human history, it'd be nice to think that's the case. But I'm not authorised to speak for everyone, so I can't really say. Maybe you should ask them yourself?

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 15:39, 26 November 2019 (UTC)

== 92. you ok? asked 124 times by ali, VengefulRowRow, and 52 others ==

I think so. I got very little work done yesterday because I had one of those headaches where everything seems to bright and it hurts to look at the screen, but that seems to be gone now. I'm still sneezing quite a lot, but it isn't really bothering me. My unproductivity this morning has been more due to the fact that I just started playing around with [[wikipedia:Twitch.tv|Twitch]]. I decided to broadcast my first attempts at a couple of games I haven't played in several years; and got what I think is a personal best score on [[wikipedia:Zero Wing|Zero Wing]]. That was something of a surprise.

So yes, I'm OK. Happy, even. But I'll have to wait and see how that translates into getting some more writing done.

* —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 12:29, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

== 91. pretty good you? asked 136 times by starkitty{A}, DJtwilight, and 42 others ==

Almost, but without the mild. Can I burn my mother in North Carolina for giving us a great night planned? The campaign must be ballistic, but Skynet can't without the food of weasels. Timmy dances because she's riding around the room. You go at it, I'm pretty good for now.

How about a magic tea that's pretty bad. Magic null. 182?! Arrrgghh the mall...! That's how I was like "Carilynn? Maybe? Possibly." Timmy shrugs. Proffers Apples to Apples party pack. Pack party hat with pride, and demands the gayest of streamers! Demands chocolatey goodness.

Won't lie, he may or may not be intimidated.

* -- [[wikipedia:Markov chain|Timmy]] (an IRC chatbot, who [[User:Angel|Angel]] believed was better suited to answering this question)

Most Frequently Asked Questions

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Angel: /* 92. you ok? asked 124 times by ali, VengefulRowRow, and 52 others */ new section

Most Frequently Asked Questions

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Angel: /* 94. how is everyone doing? asked 106 times by ashwee, gaysian, and 57 others */ new section

Most Frequently Asked Questions

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Angel: /* 95. how is everyone today? asked 94 times by redTwist, DMStewart, and 66 others */ new section

Most Frequently Asked Questions

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Angel: /* 97. hi? asked 88 times by syrup, sarabeth, and 70 others */ new section

Most Frequently Asked Questions

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Angel: /* 100. Anyone? asked 94 times by MasterLocke, twilightL, and 62 others */ Keep forgetting to include the | in interwiki links

Frequently Asked Questions

2019-11-23T13:20:59Z

Angel: /* Did people really ask these questions? */

Hello world!

==What's all this then?==

The address you're probably looking at now is <tt>bolshevik.mrangel.info</tt>. That's the domain name I use for connecting to various chat systems, but it didn't actually have a website on it. I thought that some people might see the hostname and take a look to see what's here, so I put up a simple wiki.

For now, I've decided that I'm going to put here some frequently asked questions about me, as well as any random stuff that I don't know where else to put it. If you really want to, feel free to make an account and put something on here, leave me a message, or document the details about me that I might not have noticed.

==Why all the questions?==

I'm keeping the front page as [[Frequently Asked Questions]], so if there's anything here try to put it in question format. If you've got any questions to add but don't have an answer, put them on the talk page and I'll try to answer when I can.

==Why did you make this?==

Because I felt like it.

==Did people really ask these questions?==

Some of them. Maybe. If you ask a question on the talk page, I'll try to answer it.
I think most of these are the logical questions that people might ask, whether they actually have asked or not.

I've also run a dumb Perl script over 510 MiB of chat logs, to find out what the most frequently asked questions actually are. If you'd like to see me attempt to answer them, head over to [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]].

Where there are questions that I'd like to answer but don't think anyone's likely to ask them, or if I see a question that I think nobody else in the history of the world has ever asked, my answers might end up on the [[Infrequently Asked Questions]] page.

Infrequently Asked Questions

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Angel: /* How many cucks could a woodchuck fuck if a woodchuck could chuck ducks? Asked once; by a wikipedia:dissociated press implementation */

==What's a dactyl? Nobody asked me this, but I think someone should==

A dactyl is a metrical foot consisting of one strong and two weak syllables. All my computers names follow this pattern, hence the almost-randomly-chosen canonical name of this server, [https://bolshevik.mrangel.info bolshevik].

==How many cucks could a woodchuck fuck if a woodchuck could chuck ducks? Asked once; by the [[wikipedia:dissociated press|dissociated press]]==

Three.

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==What's a dactyl? Nobody asked me this, but I think someone should==

A dactyl is a metrical foot consisting of one strong and two weak syllables. All my computers names follow this pattern, hence the almost-randomly-chosen canonical name of this server, [https://bolshevik.mrangel.info bolshevik].

==How many cucks could a woodchuck fuck if a woodchuck could chuck ducks? Asked once; by a [[wikipedia:dissociated press]] implementation==

Three.

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Angel:

These are the [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]] in 510 MiB of chat logs.
Don't blame me, I'm not the one who asked them.

==100. What kind?Asked 23 times==

That's a pretty tough question, anonymous reader! I think I'll have to say the pink ones, with the bendy rubber bit that never quite springs back into the upright position. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 20:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Or if you're asking about questions, I'll do my best to answer whatever questions people put to me.

==99. Lol?Asked 23 times==

Not usually. I mean, sometimes if I see something really funny you might get a chuckle or something, but I'm more likely to mention something to other people. If you want a lol, it needs to be really funny. And I don't tend to say "lol" online either, unless it really is something that can make me laugh. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 16:43, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

==103. Wut?Asked 23 times==

I already explained this, but here it is again. Maybe a little more coherent this time. I'm answering the most frequently asked questions from almost a decade of IRC logs. These are questions that have been asked several times in the different chats I'm in.

If you want an explanation of how I choose a question, it's something like this.
* My script scans over all my logs, and counts how many times each question appears.
* If someone posts on the talk page asking me to answer a particular numbered question from the list, I'll answer that one next.
* If not, go down the list to the 100th most frequently asked question
* Keep going to find all the questions that have been asked an equal number of times
* If I already answered that one, go back up until I find one I haven't answered

If you want to pick a number for me, please leave a comment on the talk page (click "Discussion" above). If you want to actually ask me a question rather than picking a number, go to [[Frequently Asked Questions]] or [[Infrequently Asked Questions]] instead.
Hope that explains everything —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 12:28, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

==102. Who knew?Asked 23 times==

I'd hope you all knew by now. I've been doing this for 4 days, so that's plenty of time to get used to how the site works. On the other hand, you learn something new every day. There must be a million things that "everybody knows", but you don't know any of them when you're born, so there's got to be a long time of learning something every minute just to know the things that everybody knows.

Like, did you know that there are things you know that you don't know that you know? Things you can do automatically that you don't remember learning, and you'd probably be surprised to find out you can do it. If you haven't come across unknown knowns before, get a friend to pour some cold water into a glass, and pour some hot water into a glass. You can tell which one is which just by the sound if you aren't looking, or at least most people can.

Everybody knows that hot water and cold water sound different, and can tell them apart. But most people never knew that they knew. Isn't that weird?

Of course, somebody might comment on the talk page saying they already knew that, because they've done the experiment before. If you knew, then good for you, but let me know. Come on, I'm asking ''you'' this time.

Who knew? —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 11:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

==101. Where are you?Asked 23 times==

At the moment I'm sitting under a nice warm duvet on my bed, with a laptop on the desk and a keyboard in my lap. Financially, I'm not quite in the red (which is a major achievement given current circumstances). Mentally, I'm probably somewhere else entirely, because I haven't had coffee yet and I've not properly woken up. Maybe my creativity is off exploring the jungles of Antarctica somewhere in dreamland, and I'll start being more productive once it comes back. Physically, Geographically, I'm 50°N, 2°W (correct to 1 significant figure), and emotionally I'm in a fit of giggles. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 10:00, 19 November 2019 (UTC)

==100. How's things? asked 109 times by rawr, mai, and 62 others==

Things are fine. Stuff isn't as good as things, but is pretty good in its own right. Circumstances could be better, but I think that doesn't really matter so much as I don't have a problem with things right now. And while we're on the subject of circumstances, the conditions in which my question-counting script runs have changed a little. I thought it would be interesting for it to show the first person who asked a given question, so I added a tiny piece of code to track that; and somehow the number of questions in the list shot up dramatically. I guess I fixed a bug that stopped the script recognising them, but what that bug might have been I have no idea.

Still, the page has some more interesting questions on it. So that's one good thing at least. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 19:56, 20 November 2019 (UTC)

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Angel:

These are the [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]] in 510 MiB of chat logs.
Don't blame me, I'm not the one who asked them.

==100. What kind?==
Asked 23 times

That's a pretty tough question, anonymous reader! I think I'll have to say the pink ones, with the bendy rubber bit that never quite springs back into the upright position. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 20:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Or if you're asking about questions, I'll do my best to answer whatever questions people put to me.

==99. Lol?==
Asked 23 times

Not usually. I mean, sometimes if I see something really funny you might get a chuckle or something, but I'm more likely to mention something to other people. If you want a lol, it needs to be really funny. And I don't tend to say "lol" online either, unless it really is something that can make me laugh. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 16:43, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

==103. Wut?==
Asked 23 times

I already explained this, but here it is again. Maybe a little more coherent this time. I'm answering the most frequently asked questions from almost a decade of IRC logs. These are questions that have been asked several times in the different chats I'm in.

If you want an explanation of how I choose a question, it's something like this.
* My script scans over all my logs, and counts how many times each question appears.
* If someone posts on the talk page asking me to answer a particular numbered question from the list, I'll answer that one next.
* If not, go down the list to the 100th most frequently asked question
* Keep going to find all the questions that have been asked an equal number of times
* If I already answered that one, go back up until I find one I haven't answered

If you want to pick a number for me, please leave a comment on the talk page (click "Discussion" above). If you want to actually ask me a question rather than picking a number, go to [[Frequently Asked Questions]] or [[Infrequently Asked Questions]] instead.
Hope that explains everything —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 12:28, 17 November 2019 (UTC)

==102. Who knew?==
Asked 23 times

I'd hope you all knew by now. I've been doing this for 4 days, so that's plenty of time to get used to how the site works. On the other hand, you learn something new every day. There must be a million things that "everybody knows", but you don't know any of them when you're born, so there's got to be a long time of learning something every minute just to know the things that everybody knows.

Like, did you know that there are things you know that you don't know that you know? Things you can do automatically that you don't remember learning, and you'd probably be surprised to find out you can do it. If you haven't come across unknown knowns before, get a friend to pour some cold water into a glass, and pour some hot water into a glass. You can tell which one is which just by the sound if you aren't looking, or at least most people can.

Everybody knows that hot water and cold water sound different, and can tell them apart. But most people never knew that they knew. Isn't that weird?

Of course, somebody might comment on the talk page saying they already knew that, because they've done the experiment before. If you knew, then good for you, but let me know. Come on, I'm asking ''you'' this time.

Who knew? —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 11:17, 18 November 2019 (UTC)

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Angel:

These are the [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]] in 510 MiB of chat logs.
Don't blame me, I'm not the one who asked them.

If you want to see more sensible answers here, you're welcome to join the site and ask a question. Until then, I'll just keep on answering the 100 most frequently asked questions, in ascending order.

==100. What kind?==
Asked 23 times

That's a pretty tough question, anonymous reader! I think I'll have to say the pink ones, with the bendy rubber bit that never quite springs back into the upright position. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 20:25, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

Or if you're asking about questions, I'll do my best to answer whatever questions people put to me.

==99. Lol?==
Asked 23 times

Not usually. I mean, sometimes if I see something really funny you might get a chuckle or something, but I'm more likely to mention something to other people. If you want a lol, it needs to be really funny. And I don't tend to say "lol" online either, unless it really is something that can make me laugh. —[[User:Angel|Angel Wedge]] ([[User Talk:Angel|Author talk]]) 16:43, 16 November 2019 (UTC)

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Hello world!

==What's all this then?==

The address you're probably looking at now is <tt>bolshevik.mrangel.info</tt>. That's the domain name I use for connecting to various chat systems, but it didn't actually have a website on it. I thought that some people might see the hostname and take a look to see what's here, so I put up a simple wiki.

For now, I've decided that I'm going to put here some frequently asked questions about me, as well as any random stuff that I don't know where else to put it. If you really want to, feel free to make an account and put something on here, leave me a message, or document the details about me that I might not have noticed.

==Why all the questions?==

I'm keeping the front page as [[Frequently Asked Questions]], so if there's anything here try to put it in question format. If you've got any questions to add but don't have an answer, put them on the talk page and I'll try to answer when I can.

==Why did you make this?==

Because I felt like it.

==Did people really ask these questions?==

Some of them. Maybe. If you ask a question, I'll answer it.

I've also run a dumb Perl script over 510 MiB of chat logs, to find out what the most frequently asked questions actually are. If you'd like to see me attempt to answer them, head over to [[Most Frequently Asked Questions]].

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