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gribble: Error: Something in there wasn't
a valid number.
gribble: Error: "caulk" is not
a valid command.
mod6: i need to make one for
a d16
mod6: oooh, i get this decision table now. if r1=4, r2=6, r3=3, then i yield
a final value of 2.
shinohai: After Birthday celebrations tomorrow I shall drink no more for
a while.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: (message to proberz : probe that is visible to the motherfucking naked eye , regardless of how otherwise original, is an insult to the intelligence of
a shoe) << qntra was hit hard with
a comment spam cannon. Will take time to clean up approval que.
trinque: I learned recently that the "inventor" of ruby is
a japanese mormon
mod6: i'll just write one up tonight. i just tried to cheat
a bit by using this one.
trinque: sequences being
a global list
mod6: thought the program might help
a bit.
mircea_popescu: mod6 if you actually care enough, iirc the site had
a decent manual/tutorial
mod6: i was just pointing back to last weeks conversation about the nature of
a coin.
a float, 'tis not. :]
mircea_popescu: davout as
a liability to bitbet / owed to me you mean ?
davout: anything bet seeding that came after the january report should be accounted as
a liability to you
davout: if
a bet was seeded in december it's already paid for by shareholders, if
a bet's been seeded mid february you have been floating it
davout: in other words, yes, you have been floating this expense, but only until it was settled in
a monthly report by deducting it from the profits you distributed to shareholders
davout: so basically my point is that while i'm ok to add
a bitbet liability to you for every bet that was seeded after the january report, every house bet that came before that was already paid for by the shareholders
davout: working on this 'add
a house bets item on the liabilities side'
gribble: Error: "deed" is not
a valid command.
mircea_popescu: los inmensos gastos originados porque
a cuatro ambiciosos se les antoja por vía de la especulación, hacer una revolución y quedar impunes. ¡Libertad! ¡Libertad!...Maldita sea la libertad, ni será el hijo de mi madre el que vaya
a gozar de los beneficios que ella proporciona, hasta que no vea establecido un gobierno que los demagogos llamen tirano y me proteja contra los bienes que me brinda la actual libertad."
mircea_popescu: tará los resultados. ¡Libertad! Para que un hombre de honor se vea atacado por una prensa silenciosa, sin que haya leyes que lo protejan y si existen se hagan ilusorias. ¡Libertad! Para que si me dedico
a cualquier género de la industria, venga una revolución que me destruya el trabajo de muchos años y la esperanza de dejar un par de bocados
a mis hijos. ¡Libertad! Para que se me cargue de contribuciones
a fin de pagar
mircea_popescu: "Ya es tiempo de dejarnos de teorías, que 24 años de experiencia no han producido más que calamidades. Los hombres no viven de ilusiones, sino de hechos: ¿qué me importa que se me repita hasta la saciedad que vivo en un país de libertad si por el contrario se me oprime?... ¡Libertad! désela usted
a un niño de tres años para que se entretenga por vía de diversión con un estuche de navajas de afeitar, y usted me con
felipelalli: this contract is fine to him (my counterpart "Rhama Bonitao"). I do not run any risk because I get him service first. So, the worst scenario is if I do not pay him, and he has
a concrete proof that I promised to pay him. It works, I did it many times before.
mircea_popescu: this isn't
a question that needs an answer. if it works for him it works!
mircea_popescu: ah ah. felipelalli will have to wait
a little - trinque was updating the two bots to merge into one.
sbp: must dash for
a bit—in case I lack the +v upon my return, it has been
a pleasure. thanks for the chat
sbp: the only surviving copy of the biography that numbers her works has
a hole in it
sbp: potentially. but Emily Dickinson locked her poems into
a drawer, and they only got out again by chance
sbp: yeah, even if you took
a batch and decapped all of them but one, I suppose you wouldn't know for sure that that wasn't the exploited one. I don't know if it's possible to make
a chip that you can audit before it's running
sbp: so
a pure lisp chip like SCHEME-79 would still be cool
mircea_popescu: so you have
a fundamental objection to syntactical convention and
a syntactic convenience objection to
a fundamental solution.
mircea_popescu: sbp you got
a prototype of this fexpr compiler thing somewhere ?
sbp: I saw something recently where they gave people
a belt, and it buzzed in whichever direction was north, to give them haptic feedback as to cardinal directions. they seemed moderately annoyed to indifferent about the belt when wearing it, I recall
sbp: they did an experiment once where they took
a member of the tribe and flipped him around really fast
sbp: if I were
a member of the Guugu Yimithirr I could perform such cardinal sins more easily
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform (it was old norman,
a marginal dialect of french, disused in france due to paris ascendancy, that survived as
a very intricate technical language via oxford law uni.)
mircea_popescu: sbp the cardinal sin of writing is to not know why you chose
a style.
sbp: I don't know why I wrote it in the style of
a Klondike gold prospector era huckster salesman
sbp: oh, the spoilers refer to having solved the challenge set in the post. spoilers in the sense of spoiling the end of
a movie
sbp: I know he just meant alert reader generally, but he did
a previous post where one of our chatlogs was titled "the alert reader", and so I decided to take up the challenge anyway because I was curious as to what the encodings were—I wanted to understand how the seals were intended to be used
sbp: asciilifeform issued
a little trivial challenge in the post, directed to the "alert reader", to decode the seal examples that he gives from his single byte encodings into human readable form
mircea_popescu: sbp bot seems to be in
a smashed state. maybe can'\t get outbound connections, we'll see in
a bit.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform did you give him
a bunch of links or is he this lively by nature ?
mircea_popescu: sbp infrastructure just got re-built
a coupla weeks ago, ironing out bugs still.
phf: i would like to point out, that the log has been operational for whole two weeks, it's not quite up to standard of the incrementally constructed, 3 year tested, former b-
a phf: there's normally
a max half hour with no restarts delay between
phf: asciilifeform: it's
a fail
mircea_popescu: sbp if you do you'll be able to maintain
a presence here / participate in wot etc.
sbp: yeah, well the answer to that is in itself trivial.
a child could have come up with it
sbp: I also fixed macros, created
a previous unheard of macro system which is hygienic without being asinine like all current macro hygiene systems
sbp: this was all made
a lot easier by using de Bruijn notation internally for variables by the way
sbp: I'm not sure I care awfully about the runtime constraint. ("two speeds" of
a computer and all that)
sbp: what I realised was that when you couple scope to s-expressions in this way, it essentially becomes
a system of runtime assertions in which you can model not only lexical AND dynamic scope—by choice!—but other kinds of hitherto unexplored scopes too
sbp:
a bit like how the SCHEME-79 chip worked. that executed the cons cells directly, as you put it
sbp: there isn't much about it on the web now. I think I found
a single PDF describing it in detail!
sbp: also, I don't know if you remember, but the Interlisp-D machine had
a program called SEdit
sbp: have you heard of Reverse Polish Lisp? it was
a language for the HP-48 I think from 1987. the idea was that it was meant to combine some of the features of lisp, the high level stuff (as high level as they could squeeze into
a late 1980s calculator) and the low level Mooreishness of Forth
sbp: only that, and to enquire about Phuctor. I have not contacted you again for precisely that reason: I abhor tedum too. I did get
a copy of Kogge, and I did review it, and I did create various systems based on that. but none were to my liking so far
phf: so either cmucl or i have finally gone mad. (setq *connection* (irc-connect)) few lines later (error "~
a" *connection*). error comes back as "NIL"
sbp: I apologise for not having
a PGP presence, the baseline of citizenship
trinque: we've got the
A team on us, eh?