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mircea_popescu: reducing the problem to "if every dude ran this script and then picked multiple-choice options 5 times"
mircea_popescu: in principle this should be automatable tro a huge degree
mircea_popescu: muscle memory is the thinking man's worst enemy ; not least of all because it tends to win.
mircea_popescu: seems evident the correct solution is to get that proper lisp bootstrap i was discussing with phf and then re-write emacs in it.
mircea_popescu: "The number of people aboard who can matter-of-factly hack the Emacs internals on the C level is consistently going down, and is already so small they can be counted on one hand. We must make Emacs depend less on people from this small and diminishing group, if we want the development pace increased or even kept at its current level." << this is a very solid point.
mircea_popescu: it also makes 0 sense for it to be a c piece of code, but that's a discussion for another time
mircea_popescu: well, from a system design perspective. it makes 0 sense for emacs to actually save c machine state.
mircea_popescu: actually from what i can grok from that piece, the proposed solution (dump unexec, move on to saving elisp stack) is actually an improv meent
mircea_popescu: something something optimized something something whatever.
mircea_popescu: well,we had this thread (iirc you brought it up), came out it was fault of machine.
mircea_popescu: all this to see george monbiot try his best to sell the "our fake citizens groups are for real and everything else is fake" line.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile according to reddit, theguardian.com is a respectable source and qntra.net is the spamsite. because totally.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile the idiots at the guardian made a begging banner which has an X that is not connected to anything, just drawn on the banner itself.
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why. shipping for isntance takes 3mo + and apparently they prefer it that way.
mircea_popescu: re water pipe - the liquid is infrequently changed, certainly not often enough to maintain co2 solvency
mircea_popescu: ahahah warren called mnuchin the forrest gump of the financial crisis.
mircea_popescu: so it is vaguely possible hillary&friends actually have some sarin in say new york subway, not just at the bases of their jenissary in syria.
mircea_popescu: to be perfectly fair : the dems tried to set up bush the bomb in exactly the same manner in 2000 ; and then the democrat-alligned osama set bush the bomb fo reals.
mircea_popescu: the odds of the syrian situation blowing up into actual war ru+tk vs us+iran (but without nato) are actually non-trivial by now.
mircea_popescu: whatever his plans, desires, choices whatever, it seems absolutely certain trump will have a major depression on his hands ; to the tune of "70% of this country's wealth evaporated overnight ; wut do ?!?!"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not just inflation. yields are higher and growing rapidly ; the dollar is strengthening and stocks are going up. this is the classical desperation run-up to black tuesday.
mircea_popescu: srsly, the world is now a us-iran partnership trying to stand up to a russian-turkey alliance while a very horny europe is drooling cunt juice on one side and a rather geeky china is holding its distance on the other side.
mircea_popescu: (iran, the us's only apparently remaining ally in the world, decided not to participate)
mircea_popescu: basically now that obama's out, the saudis finally agreed to cut the flood ; oil jumped like 10% after they announced.
mircea_popescu: <BingoBoingo> Seriously not a single attempt to read any of the linked content to develop context on the venue << i dunno dood, "the serene republic of somalia" etc. they be trynna.
mircea_popescu: mailman rose up in arms against the very list it was supposed to return ?!
mircea_popescu: so the genocide of the future will be in the name of peace and ending tyranny ?
mircea_popescu: i keep doing these (7971 × 0.09 + 2011 × 4.26)÷(7971+2011) calculations
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the "doesn't matter cycles are cheap" happens to be exactly the gavin argument.
mircea_popescu: or more generally, can't have static solutions to process problems.
mircea_popescu: but the technical problems aren't at issue here - it's the sociocultural compact of the deliberately-ignorant that are the issue.
mircea_popescu: yes, this would be very close to the lisp model of variables anyway.
mircea_popescu: so then people will try and optimize that, and what people mean by "optimize" is always "here, i'll take the cream, you do the work for me".
mircea_popescu: in principle there is a strong argument to say "alphabet size = machine word size" even if this didn't hold on pre-8 bit machines. and consequently you ~could~ have a type string that always takes 4 bytes and represents whatever the fuck. the problem is that this gives you a 400% memory allocation bloat for that type of string.
mircea_popescu: but maybe time to make the point that this cleanliness is not coincidental.
mircea_popescu: as far as i know it's all clean to date, which is why this discussion didn't spring naturally
mircea_popescu: speaking of above article, can i get a commitment to never signing any V material which includes any non-ascii characters ? BingoBoingo diana_coman hanbot trinque mod6 danielpbarron mircea_popescu mike_c asciilifeform davout ben_vulpes phf jurov
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: this whole "trade will make social problems go away" is just another "we'll feed ourselves with our own plaque".
mircea_popescu: and it also goes re "trade". yes the brits experienced a period of "hey, trade creates wealth". guess what - it created out of burning china's empire. spain idem. and the portuguese too.