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mircea_popescu: wet huh. here too. exactly same temp, but 100% humidity.
mircea_popescu: " I thought just moving your mouse or doing something on the computer already fills up /dev/random, and it's only a big problem on major servers. Is this not right?" << there's a SHOCKING amount of this. nsa's doing god's work with these people, absolutely.
mircea_popescu: "he's not really a monkey, he's just a sarin gas peddler"
mircea_popescu: "learn about seattle" ? this whole "educating" libertard bullshit. it's not a town see, it's a seattle, you gotta "learn about windows" lest you approach it with reasonable expectations and methodologies. o no, you gotta first fuck your head into a seattleshape.
mircea_popescu: in random fun facts : soviet military expenditure in the 30s was ~12% of gdp. it jumped to ~18% in early 1940. this is BEFORE germany invaded (1941). today "normal" military expenditure is 1.x%, from japan and australia to italy or germany. the us does ~3.x. of the rich countries, the saudis are the only ones being reasonable (ie, over10%). the jews are half that.
mircea_popescu: and dumb is by and large an apanage reserved to the "intelligent"
mircea_popescu: adlai it's not entirely evident to me that average intelligence person could not make excellent programmer. contrary to the "consensus" on the topic, programming is much more a matter of not being dumb than of being "creative"
mircea_popescu: jurov yes, the problem is not well solved and not evidently solvable, but this doesn't make it not a problem.
mircea_popescu: <gabriel_laddel> jurov: I'm open to advice, I just disagree with them. << lol!
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel any schedule you make that doesn't include a fixed time to get pubkey is for that reason unusable ; throw it out and re-do.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel then your schedule's no good, throw it out make another.
mircea_popescu has been having fun asking libtards "so why didn't YOU influence the elections then ?"
mircea_popescu: next i suppose they'll be "teaching the controversy" of whether shit or turd is the correct choice, and we'll continue ignoring them and they'll continue to pretend that we don't matter and their 5% is inexplicable at the same time. without any problem whatsoever in their absent minds, putin doesn't understand how the world works and influences the elections, sure, why not.
mircea_popescu: again and again and again the same stupidity it will do, because hey. all it got.
mircea_popescu: shinohai the response of the redditards is so amusing. "there's TWO DIFFERENT DOOMED FORKS NOW!!! for you to choose from! because fragmentation is so totally the winning strategy!"
mircea_popescu: well, every computer goes through two phases - first, programming, then execution.
mircea_popescu: this is like being "centimetre short of gravitational capture". ain't how things work.
mircea_popescu: nobody is ever a centimetre short of cracking anything.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel this applies to, eg, licking mains socket also ? or just some classes of things ?
mircea_popescu: political history of lua / petro-brazil is a worthy pit to dig for the amateur cyber-historian of republican perspective.
mircea_popescu: phf yes, lua was build in-house by the brazillians trying to you know, be independent state.
mircea_popescu: jurov amusingly, lua actually DID realise mns in savings for petrobras. the authors however failed to capture any of it.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i'd loot a lot more than 10s of mns if i found a way to reliably get people to do the things that need done rather than the sexy things they want to do BEFORE they are old enough for their active life to be mostly behind them.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and the kids see the discarded shoes and floating hats and decide THEY SHOULD DIG TOO
mircea_popescu: we are, intellectually speaking, in the bizarre situation of st. petersburg, a small town on the mississppi where for some bizarro enchantment reason all the boys decided the thing to do is dig up the river. and drowned there.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, the problem here isn't a discrete technological product, be it a font or a bridge ; nor the dysfunctional process that produced it, be it a broken cnc mill or lucent ; but altogether something more fundamental, where young man looking to "go west" decides the west is at the bottom of the lake and proceeds to dig.
mircea_popescu: yes mildest but very fucking illustrative. at least to my eyes, perhaps due to personal history.
mircea_popescu: it's not even that they're broken in tech terms. this shit is broken culturally.
mircea_popescu: this is not so different from the problem of, eg, emacs. or plan9. or any software. or any fucking shop in a town, or a mall. why the fuck are there FIFTY fast food offering the same crap in the food court ?
mircea_popescu: instead, those rapidly diminishing returns drive a diminishing of quality.
mircea_popescu: there is absoloutely no reason there should be more than maybe a dozen or so fonts. but there are, because "easy to make", and in spite of the rapidly diminishing returns of "making".
mircea_popescu: so you are essentially looking at a collection of ink spots, until you fall over.
mircea_popescu: a) you can not meaningfully say if you've found a "good" font, seeing how you can't say what portion of fonts youv'e actually seen ; b) the very notion of good font is impossible because in principle all possible fonts were made already in triplicate.
mircea_popescu: consider a simpler problem - you wish for whatever reason to "pick a good font". suppose your "good" is specified. you proceed to... look at fonts, selected by some criteria. eventually you are tired to the point your eyes blur, and haven't seen 5% of the available offerigs in "gothic medieval" from one place. there's more places. when are you done ?
mircea_popescu: phf even limiting the matter to ttfs (seriously, postcript is a whole extra layer of crazy) one quickly discovers some very serious conceptual problems. i don't even mean from a technological pov.
mircea_popescu: the undigested corn nibblets in used toilet are no sort of prize whatsoever ; except for bacteria.