asciilifeform: it isn't about a fixed 10x or 100x, winblows-style, that would be fixable with iron
asciilifeform: if trinque made a gadget that actually benchmarks ui delays (i.e. injects keystroke via keyboard port and times reaction on display) it'd be quite spiffy and i'd even buy it.
asciilifeform: but i ain't paying for the privilege of testing alpha.
asciilifeform: or, satan forbid, a clickable list of 100,001 objects.
asciilifeform: and this is before writing code. now make a gui widget that, e.g., scrolls through 100kB of text (light work even for 486, normally) and see what happens.
asciilifeform: if d00d worked on, e.g., climacs, and ditched the pretense of 'os design', he could theoretically come up with something worthwhile imho
asciilifeform: about, e.g., impedance mismatches in a comp system, or the failure of massive abstraction towers, or any of what i consider to be the basic observations
asciilifeform: ftr i grunted through gabriel_laddel's www material and cringed, he quotes massive chunks from my www but shows no symptoms of having learned anything there
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what is even happening in there
asciilifeform: which is to say, any and all attempts at 'it OUTWARDLY worx!1111' without correspondingly aligned internals
asciilifeform: i gotta say that i am entirely uninterested in theatrical/hollywood imitations of lispm
asciilifeform: trinque: glass maker also ~finds~ sand, salt, etc
asciilifeform: 'Imagine a witch doctor in a society that doesn’t know how to make glass. A bottle washes up on the shore. It has amazing properties. He puts it on a stick and waves it around and convinces his fellows that he has got some of those amazing properties himself.'
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'best' case is if openssl is a heartbleeder
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'make america great again'
asciilifeform: 'The round of $4M was led by Union Square Ventures, with participation by Lux Capital, Naval Ravikant, Digital Currency Group, Compound, Version One, Kal Vepuri and Rising Tide.' << this buys, what, seven greyhound buses ?
asciilifeform: 'If the stories I'd heard were true, taking a tiny bit of it, a micro-dose, had the potential to make my workday more productive than ever.' << lulz
asciilifeform: e.g. the 'is somebody peeking at my display from behind my back' company
asciilifeform: ^ cia's own ycombinator, decades old, is equally a circus, but makes imho for much more entertaining reading material (they fund wunderwaffenists)
asciilifeform: 'Trump shows little respect for the Constitution, the Republic, or for human decency, and I fear for national security if he becomes our president.'
asciilifeform: ( i could be wrong about this, but yc seems to be quite the same chumpatron today as it was decade ago )
asciilifeform: this bulldozer doesn't really have controls, it just goes.
asciilifeform: it isn't clear imho that he is ~incompetent~, either. the outcome depends largely on the grade of cattle coming into the meat processor, and how would he affect this?
asciilifeform: what in this case means 'outperforms' ? i have difficulty picturing how anything short of sea piracy might beat pg's roi -- he invests pocket change in 1,001 disposable kidz, and pockets (iirc) half of anything they happen to bring in -- while carrying 0 risk
asciilifeform: not so young, iirc his catamite officially runs entire show for couplea years now
asciilifeform: how not ? d00d's never, sadly , so much as smelled jail
asciilifeform: i can already picture how october might have went: henchman: 'rumours that we are tards have been spreading for several years, what shall we do' mrmold: 'i know! let's MOVE THE FORUM'
asciilifeform: perhaps the wagner and cyanide can already be smelled in mr.mold-central.
asciilifeform: 'urbit is down tonight' 'curtis We were trying to subscribe urbit-meta to fora notifications, something very reasonable that we should have done a long time ago, and ended up producing a "presence storm." We'll fix it a little more carefully and methodically tomorrow -- or try, at least. :-) In the meantime, I've turned off all our major stars.'
