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mircea_popescu: ie, item X enters life signed by "doubful matter key Z" and then a year later is signed by "ok this is it key Z" and makes it to the stable press
mircea_popescu: you ~can~ after all rebase a patch ; not just because of the patch, but also because of the sig.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf you don't have to post a snippet of code as ~vpatch~. can just pastebin it also
mircea_popescu: software design as god intended. FIRST you do by hand ; THEN you automate the parts worth automating.
mircea_popescu: but yah, seems v was born principally out of a discussion on august 5th
mircea_popescu: phf ah, yes, but note that the item contemplated there is specifically not discussion ; but its results.
mircea_popescu: making us a sort of argentina with slightly better developed oil expoitation.
mircea_popescu: ah whatevs. dude what a fucking tabloid this nytimes is. no, us didn't "blacklist" anything.
mircea_popescu: the republic is undefeatable ; the empire is indefensible.
mircea_popescu: yeah. but it made me smile an ancient smile, because it is "who are you".
mircea_popescu: the boys are shockingly shy, it surprised me. 10 years ago used to be about 100x more virulent.
mircea_popescu: hahaha. this ~has not yet appeared~. no mention. 0. it simply does not occur.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, speaking of misfortunate subhumans : anyone care to guess the most frequent answer my bot gets ? it's "most frequent" in the sense that the next-frequent is like 2 std deviations rarer. hint : it's a question.
mircea_popescu: on the other hand i could readily notice the havoc this had wrought upon her poor brain.
mircea_popescu: but fwiw, serbian chick stands out in my mind, she was 19, her poor head had just come out of 12 years of which 6 were spent doing cyrilics and the other 6 doing ~BOTH~ latin and cyrillic and who genuinely thought that you know, this is BETTER EDUCATION!! because where other people got one, she got both!!1
mircea_popescu: well, india is a sort of china's africa. except the chinese were too lazy to properly fuck theirs.
mircea_popescu hasn't fucked that many indian womenz has not much clue as to their native barking system.
mircea_popescu: but w/e, maybe my very dim view of "scholarship" in the field is entirely unwarranted, i'm just a meadhater and library contains "a river of gold", to quote obama.
mircea_popescu: you have a better shot at finding well written c-s implementation in the library.
mircea_popescu: now this may well be a great use for one linguist-anthropologist's career. you wanna be it ?
mircea_popescu: wolf children of india also spoke "conlang" by this measure.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the problem is that for most people, language is the only thought-amplifier they have. once you teach them a non-language they're very severely fucked.
mircea_popescu: natural language dictionaries are usually in the 100k symbols range ; however natural languages altogether are very large graphs, and i'd venture in the yottabyte range.
mircea_popescu: it's just not clear if it has much substance on the jaguar's side. but clearly when ~you~ look into its eyes, ~you~ perceive a soul there.
mircea_popescu: this otherwise defensible stand (at least in general) is why computer languages may never become more than shopping lists ; but then again fashion-behaviour (as seen in both languages and github/reddit) may have the last word.
mircea_popescu: you will ~never provide a better solution to the waterflow via running equations than via running the fucking water.
mircea_popescu: yes, but they were idiots in another way : much like stalin's central planning committee (as implemented by the stuart court in london) can't beat the disorganised merchants of the low countries - just so five dorks with nary a clue can't compete with the combinatorial experimentation of the actual pigdin.
mircea_popescu: and your objection to "ukrainian" which is a lulz much like the "croatian" for instance doesn't come and isn't informed nor supported by "the poor quality of conventions employed". it's its lack of history that marks it, correctly, as nonsense.
mircea_popescu: but the historical matrix of language (on which for instance myth is merely encoding artefact of lived experience) is the key ingredient to language - which is why romanian, a language spoken by a people for many years is much more powerful than enlgish, a language spoken by much more mongrels, but not so long really.
mircea_popescu: yes, eventually, once v is so old to have been forgotten like the original calculations for the pyramids, robots will perhaps have enough linguistic history that you could pretend idiomatic-c is no less a language than latin.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform robots that speak natural languages ? where this, at mit ?
mircea_popescu: language ~is a convention~, yes, but it is ~made from~ experience ; not consensus. people don't say "people" to denote people because ~they~ agreed to, but because people in the past ~have~.
mircea_popescu: viable conlang is impossible for the reason woman-cut-from-marble is impossible : the substance uses lacks the capacity for the intended usage.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway ; language reform sometimes works - but this because it was a language, not because it was reform. similarily to how cutting fruit trees works, but this is because they are trees, not because of the cutting. if you cut a broom whatever way it's not gonna make plums.
mircea_popescu: eh, hiding behind that to salvage your pretense to engineering power is exactly how and why engineer kids are always the ones who don't see any cunt at slut parties.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok so then if you know, what are you on aboot!
mircea_popescu: nor do the average old women who put forth their usual menopausal engineering pretense within my earshot and get treated to a large helping of stfu and make sandwiches.
mircea_popescu: the result was that 3rd generation girls reverted naturally to the coy behaviour, and the whole thing is today forgotten to the point you don't know about it
mircea_popescu: bear in mind that at the height of jewish idiocy (well, 2nd height, after being stupid in the 30s) manifested as israel socialism, uppity bitches pretended to "teach" their daughters to be naked in public because "no shame" because hey, old woman engineer thinks herself powerful enough to repress the male gaze.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform re the "taught their children" : engineer-parents are no fucking better than engineers generally. and again the dr moreau reference rules supreme.
mircea_popescu: much like serious theologians in the 1000s did to idiot shamans.
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea why the postmenopausal worldview is even tolerated by actual engineers ; if i thought myself one i'd actually spend half my time having people a la "we'll make a language" whipped at the public stake
mircea_popescu: and engineered languages are exactly an island of dr moreau, a place that a) can't exist and b) whose only conceptual function is to show how fucking unbearably tedious old women are.
mircea_popescu: anyway. an airplane is very strictly not a bird without feathers ; there's no relation to a bird whatsoever, an airplane is a sort of bus not a sort of bird.
mircea_popescu: this can be trivially verified at any party of models/sluts where we invite a few engineers.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform a language is not a car nor an aeroplane. also engineers are not nearly as important ; or powerful as they like to pretend.
mircea_popescu: the ignorance of random john smiths with "progressive" delusions of self importance is scarcely a basis for existence.
mircea_popescu: this is a stupid idea, not unlike "to make more compact human, without apendix, tonsils etc"
mircea_popescu: it's not a ~real~ language, but a very pathetic ersatz.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tbh, the reason a "constructed language" is readily forgotten is precisely the fact that it was constructed.
mircea_popescu: and in other argentine wtf, /me felt like putting some of the grandiose coffee available here to good use as coffee liqueur. sent girl to farmacy, where she bought 1 liter bottle of pure ethylic alcohol (98%). for like 6 bux. it's fabulous, tastes mildly of corn.
mircea_popescu: lol this is like cinderella on monkey island already ; they keep bringing her all sorts of offerings. "boogers ?" "how about some feces ?" "dried feces from yesterday ?" "how about this corn kernel" "ok how about dead molluscs"
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, it'd seem iris fs took over the disks meanwhile, who knew.
mircea_popescu: also the issue of performance discussed by dave chinner is worthy of consideration (in trinque 's link)
mircea_popescu: trinque ah, you can recompile with flag and it makes them 64 ?
mircea_popescu: whatever, i guess you also get some injection protection. hurr.
mircea_popescu: (for the record, in practice the utility of prepared statements is often nil, and can be mostly captured through saying eg insert in x values y, values z rather than insert in x values y, insert in x values z. literally the whole benefit is that it compiles the part prior to values just once.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-12-22#1588254 << can this be rewritten ? not that we're liable to have over 4bn txn at any point, but more of the principle of the thing "fuck you and your fucking magic numbers. if i run 64bit processors i'll run 64bit disks also motherfuckers!"
☝︎ mircea_popescu: shinohai chick's from like 2009, what do you want. she gets 2 or 3 btc for teh dollar.
mircea_popescu: (while the store-by-hash txn scheme promises at most 256 directories OR 65536 files however in practice finding 65536 contiguous hash txn seems rather unlikely for a while yet)
mircea_popescu: (this scheme guarantees you have at most 9999 files + 99 directories in any directory, which should hold even on windows.)