Landon Curt Noll
0833c3e4f0
We set LC_ALL=C when sorting in a bin tool. This was done to make the result of using `sort(1)` consistent. Improved how the Primary files and Secondary files are sorted by `bin/output-index-inventory.sh` to sort with "-u -k 1n -k 3.2d". The above will change `index.html` files for all entries. Changed `bin/chk-entry.sh` VERSION from "1.1.2 2024-03-17" to "1.1.3 2024-03-18". Changed `bin/gen-authors.sh` VERSION from "1.3 2024-03-04" to "1.3.1 2024-03-18". Changed `bin/gen-location.sh` VERSION from "1.1 2024-03-04" to "1.1.1 2024-03-18". Changed `bin/gen-sitemap.sh` VERSION from "1.3 2024-03-16" to "1.3.1 2024-03-18". Changed `bin/output-index-inventory.sh` VERSION from "1.2 2024-02-27" to "1.2.1 2024-03-18". Changed `bin/pandoc-wrapper.sh` VERSION from "1.5 2024-03-18" to "1.5.1 2024-03-18". Changed `bin/sort.gitignore.sh` VERSION from "1.1.1 2024-02-23" to "1.1.2 2024-03-18". Changed `bin/tar-all.sh` VERSION from "1.1 2024-02-27" to "1.1.1 2024-03-18". Changed `bin/tar-year.sh` VERSION from "1.1 2024-02-27" to "1.1.1 2024-03-18". Performed `make www` to update all entry `index.html` files.
To build:
make
To use:
./briddlebane
Try:
For some fun every time you log in try running this from your .bashrc or
equivalent file!
You might also like to try:
./try.sh
INSULTS=15 ./try.sh
Judges' remarks:
One could argue that this program was a "diseased dumpster of tripe" but I suspect that would only result in the judges being heckled as a "scum-encrusted congress of obscurity" (but only if it was in the early evening of Dec 22, 2000).
Can you find out how it stores the insult strings? Can you then take an insult and figure out when it will be uttered?
Author's remarks:
This program was broadcast from deep within the Zarbonic Cluster and received at 9:03pm on March 21st, 2000 by Moxen N. Briddlebane. The original author, as designated by other components of the transmission, refers to himself simply as "Lord Zarbon", though offers no information in relation to the significance of that post. The sole purpose of this program appears to be to degrade and humiliate the people of this planet by calling them names. It takes no input, it only produces a single line of slanderous output.
The program appears to be rather confused, internally. It is
unclear whether or not "Lord Zarbon" truly understands the
mechanics of programming. What is particularly disturbing is
the curious method of insult-encoding employed by this program.
Furthermore, it is ambiguous how said data is arranged and why
it is necessary to resort to trigonometric functions to handle
it. One of the real mysteries involves the numbers 114 and
2, which are, according to Lord Zarbon, very deliberate.
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