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mircea_popescu: diana_coman it's no good because they'll then say void main {void}
mircea_popescu: if the same archbishop inquires as to why i poured cement the way i did i can answer without ado.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: god knows i can explain math in such a manner ; what the fuck is so special about algorithmics.
mircea_popescu: tis not an easy problem. moreover it's not even clear to me why it exists in the first place.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski that's the problem, right there. yes, maybe. why would someone want to talk t oyou when all you have to say are maybes.
mircea_popescu: and by "perfectly functioning brain" i don't mean they're qualified to work the cash register. suppose one day the bishop of vad comes to you and asks you that. the man knows plenty of things, what do you say to him SO THAT YOU DO NOT LIE.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman consider someone who has a perfectly functioning brain and no prior exposure to programming.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman consider - there isn't a general statement of "what is it exactly {} do". this is already a fine and complete statement.
mircea_popescu: that i can't answer for. but some kind of model as to why deleting inside curly braces works, but not outside they've formed.
mircea_popescu: understand - most of the convention is opaque in a proper sense. merely discovering that {} must be preserved, for instance, took time.
mircea_popescu: Te blestem pe tine, incepatorul rautatilor si al hulei, capetenia impotrivirii si urzitorul vicleniei. Te blestem pe tine, cel aruncat din lumina cea de sus si surpat pentru mandrie in intunericul adancului. Te blestem pe tine si pe toata puterea cea cazuta ce a urmat vointa ta. Te blestem pe tine, duh necurat, cu Dumnezeu Savaot si cu toata oastea ingerilor lui Dumnezeu, Adonai, Eloi, Dumnezeul cel atotputernic; iesi si te d
mircea_popescu: "i read about the types, none make any sense, they just keep declaring, what the fuck is it and how should you know!"
mircea_popescu: 90% of my audible output was "your question can not be answered in that general form". tears were shed, of rage and frustration. towards the third day i recited from the molieben of st naggum, the part where he says c makes people lie, and there was THANK YOU! GOOD GOD!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: all everyone ever sees are people 10+ years into the dementia. and the "sense" things make to them.
mircea_popescu: it's hard, C i mean, in that it is nonsensical. nobody appreciates truly just how nonsensical it is (except eg naggum, he wrote about it) because nobody actually keeps slaves, in the proper sense of the term, and thus nobody gets to see an actual, balanced human mind interact with the ball of insanity.
mircea_popescu: fwiw i personally "shoulder surfed" as i hear it's called two diff people who tried their fucking best to do it. in the end managed as much as to get a command registered and to say hi world! but that was all. well over 30 hours of brow sweat.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski eh i'd much rather discuss teh comments there!
mircea_popescu: and so "objective" and "subjective", solipsism and reality, eros and psyche, psychosis and neurosis bla bla bla.
mircea_popescu: somewhere it will occur to someone that in a model where men have the run of the land, hunting for beasts to eat and fuck, an amassing of domesticated cattle in the shape of symbolic "goats" (which you can both eat and fuck, and in practice would be mixes of women, cows, whatever) will result in a very divergent approach : men hunt across the land for resources and women hunt across their backs for fleas.
mircea_popescu: in proper terms, "we conclusively show that once reality is replaced by propaganda, nominal increase in food prices as well as nominal decreases in poverty may be claimed to have occured simultaneously. such is the power of rejecting the cold equations in favour of other views that are more nurturing of the mental processes that are most important to us."
mircea_popescu: mine are in ~/src/client/foxybot ; i expect unless specified otherwise you just put them in there
mircea_popescu: but i am well and truly at a loss, who owns it ? no idea. maybe lobbes ? i somehow du nthink it was mike_c-
mircea_popescu: it might be jurov ? tis a community run project, feel free to edit yourself.
mircea_popescu: this is why cpu has its cache and disk has its cache and STILL eg autocomplete keeps its own cache.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger in general the problem is present, caching on a different level than the application creates complex problems.
mircea_popescu: we don't have the prerequisites for useful miner discussion anyway.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-01#1595094 << wallet needs to be fixed, which yes reduces to not much reuse of the current item, but you can't have trb without a means to pay. the miner is iffier business, and really i can't conceive why it'd be a priority. let it be, do useful things besides.
☝︎ mircea_popescu imagines davout wantering into warzone, going "pfff do they ever stop with the fireworks'
mircea_popescu: reality diverges much more slowly thay representation. but this inequality offers no challenges to the validity of either reality or representation. they are what they are, they do what they do.
mircea_popescu: when you first expand your sex life to include a woman, you vividly remember her, and everyhing, minute detail. and once it further expands to include two, still. and three, and slightly dimmer four. by six its growing steadily dimmer, and maybe by the 7th is the first time you start losing track of them.
mircea_popescu: V5 contains 65536 elements. V6 contains 2*65536 elements.
mircea_popescu: fortunately, mathematics is simple. V is the set of all sets. by convention, the first index, V0, is the empty set.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and it just goes on from there, "the real number 4 is the root of polynomials in my daily life and so i believe in it ; but the number 4+i priviledges the properties of abstract spaces over things much more important to us and therefore...i do not consent to its existence." hurr.
mircea_popescu: and on the other hand, "the number four told me to headbutt a door!". really, it did ? i suppose, perhaps, if the number four is followed by a double-sifr and occurs on your blood test result sheet right where the locals wrote "glucemia" it may be said "the number four told me to stop eating icecream", but it is rather forcing the point.
mircea_popescu: and in this perspective, arguments as to the existence of gods become truly amusing. even in a world in which, through some strange workings of happenstance, no set of four items did in fact exist, nor ever had, and supposedly never will... there's also no number 4 ?
mircea_popescu: apollo the symbol strives to mark down the discovery of apollo the god, much like ٤ stives to mark down the number 4. you wouldn't know it to look at the poor thing, but it is what the ~actual~ arabic numeral for a set of four items looks like.
mircea_popescu: but to continue, is the number 4 like that, one man made, another perceived ? how about fire ? was fire invented, like "the united states of america", like any fine story ?