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mircea_popescu: you're doing the same thing in two different ways -- one place you ask for an empty type, the other for a "comment" type
mircea_popescu: it's really the same conditional, shouldn't it rather be and comment_type = comment' ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally -- there's a divergence in your patch. on the first heading you say and comment_type = '' but on the second heading you say
mircea_popescu: as the man said, "you wanted me to design a typeface, it takes 10 minutes + a lifetime dedicated to preparing for those 10 minutes"
mircea_popescu: i guarantee you it'd have taken anyone else > 30 minutes to figure the shit out. just because you have the massiva advantage of perfect familiarity doesn't mean so much,
mircea_popescu: maybe the problem here is one of expectations management.
mircea_popescu: arguably a press + vdiff + test press + sign shouldn't be half an hour, but it seems to me by now we're trying to measure the measuring tool, it's not even clear the measurement tolerance is narrower than the width of that "shouldn't". by how much shouldn't it be half hour.
mircea_popescu: now, that time shouldn't be excessive ; but 20 minutes hardly strikes me as excessive, dunno, is the argument here ?
mircea_popescu: honestly it doesn't seem to me the breakdown you have is unreasonable. it will take some time to write things up. this time SHOULD be taken, there's no benefit from "oh, let me mention things vaguely and anti-usefully in the log", it's worse than nothing, it's a cost upon the future.
mircea_popescu: taylorism ftw, half the time the problem's one of "you know, if you set out the tools on the bench BEFORE you got the hot piece out of the oven, rather than run around the smithy holding a chunk of red iron while looking for things..."
mircea_popescu: then again, that was pushed through in a different context, maybe needs reexamination
mircea_popescu: well, ideologically the thing stood at "let development be painful-er than entirely painless, it'll produce better code in the end".
mircea_popescu: bvt, yes, but this was also deliberate -- i suspect current v toolset could well benefit from some hardcore usage to iron out inefficiencies, wrinkles and crumples.
mircea_popescu: this is lubby, at the root of it. look through the log for it, and then read the math. but it's not just math ; it's one of those places where philosophy masquerades as science.
mircea_popescu: jfw, after all, if q = a + b and p = a + c and r = b + c then q + p - r = 2a. if as are addresses and qs are wallets, one needn't ~declare~ his wallet to count his money.
mircea_popescu: at the rate of one trackback each death of a bishop's the bug was never observed.
mircea_popescu: in the original
idiot prototype trackbacks function as a sort of assonaut social interaction, the transcription online of the weird talking into the air eyes averted thing they do.
mircea_popescu: because in pre-trilema world articles ~never referenced anything, so nobody understood what a trackback even is.
mircea_popescu: dorion, it'd prolly be a good idea to take your own trackbacks out of the (independently --VERY SHORT) recent comments toolbar. i can't tell what's going on
mircea_popescu now off to read spyked 's "how and why systemd has won" 2014 piece, kinda curious how 5 years aged it.
mircea_popescu: this 2 really goes all the way back to the proposed portage supremacy i nixed back in 2018 or w/e it was. NO, portage is not special cuntlet, NO, portage may not be more important than any other turd. V rules, portage obeys or goes away.
mircea_popescu: and 2) really gotta genesis, both the script so people DO have a sane way to make edits, and the sources, so we don't depend on randotards keeping whatever software package online.
mircea_popescu: but in any case multi-gb things can not be called operating systems nomore than run of the mill
failboats can be called buttplugs. yes, even if you end up butt-impaled on one somehow ;
mircea_popescu: aaaanyways. my chief takeaways from spyked 's article are that 1) a multi-gb os is a joke, no matter how you turn this. it is deeply unclear to me 1mb is a defensible amt of space for the os to occupy,
mircea_popescu: from what I understand, it's not possible to compile Emacs using Musl << bwahahaha what the fuck
mircea_popescu: lobbes, except if you do that, i'd rather do it on trilema.com first
mircea_popescu: lobbes, thinking about it, this is actually just about mature enough i should forward sql dump and filesystem huh ?
mircea_popescu: !!v 23B8488ED44C6D0D47B409A7540E6E5CB02700AF0157F03AEABC3FA1DC835C09
mircea_popescu: as they say, the one common element of all your relationships is...
mircea_popescu: also, EVERY woman looked derpier when she just met me vs when she had known me for a while. EVERY ONE. and i don't mean a little derpier, arguably derpier etc.
mircea_popescu: nfi why they give them names anyway, i can usually recall on the basis of face-and-tits, but names ?!
mircea_popescu: it's a constant "um, roxana... who the fuck's roxana. oh." "monica ?" "ah" and so on.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, i'm going through archvies, knee deep in 15yo hanbot pics over here and such things.
mircea_popescu: beats being hauled off to the execution squad, which'd be the usual course of business.
mircea_popescu: well yes it's a process, gotta build up all the "nobody could accuse" ofs.
mircea_popescu: i'm not about to pile up compatibility hell atop that already mountaineous task, you know ?
mircea_popescu: jfw, moreover, whoever makes the compiler probably has first choice.
mircea_popescu: so in practice it's like... "hey, now you're old enough to be forbidden this great palace where all the cool shit is"
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in "stupid old women with no sense of humour" news, it turns out the uppity old women lobby in our failed new world colonies change what there passes for "laws" so that nobody under 21 can buy tobacco (used to be 18), and that there's dedicated tobacco-alcohol shops. which are these places wherein nobody under 21 AND OVER 12 can go in. even if accompanied.
mircea_popescu: update mpwp_comments set comment_author_url = whatever where comment_author_url = whatever else.
mircea_popescu keeps sitting down to write trilema articles, ends up producing full featured articles for people's blogs' comments sections.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, sounds like a plan. also don't get oneitis.
mircea_popescu: lobbes, if you refrain you'll never know what's wrong with them eh
mircea_popescu: a project's in some trouble when management's technically above the actual engineers for chrissakes. and yes, the whole point of even having a republic is fine high escalation, so as to be able to deal well with insanely difficult rare problems.
mircea_popescu: but anyways, a lot of this "it's just numbers" attitude since the innumerate have been "no kid left behind"'d into everyone's processes. then once cats finally join the fray as fully franchised theirdemocracy voters &c, it'll be "whatever, it's just calendars" and so on.
mircea_popescu: (among teh great advantages of ye log import : sql search for "power" "rangers" now yields 94 rows in set, all of the Forum logs for X format. yippee! i kinda do vaguely regret however not bothering to immortalize the original gushing fan on tardstalk, "oh, you guys are like power rangers!!!" in excited response to the perceived great acumen displayed by hearn fucking up bitcoin while everyone else was watching manga)
mircea_popescu: whereas for the generation ingoing with the sept that never ended, their exactly just as deeply rooted precisely equal fear of its own inconsequence and inadequacy manifested as version number inflation, with which printing press to pay off on the hopes&dreams of a team of retards. simple monetization of the sacred cows of the previous generation, really, which is how neoprotestantism ever works.
mircea_popescu: ore over two decades and nobody was ever gonna make a 3 again.
mircea_popescu:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2019-11-26#1953553 << countervailingly, the way i see it is that insecurity flipped once the generations changed ; the generation outgoing with the sept that never ended had a deeply rooted fear of its own inconsequence and inadequacy that manifested in a version of neoprotestant modesty whereby by the time a program reached version 2 something it had passed through three hands or m