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mircea_popescu: henry 8 washed nothing evne close to that general area, ever.
mircea_popescu: now let's point out that the categorical differnce you apparently hallucinate midway through this single object ain't there.
mircea_popescu: (methods included "put on hot something for a while" and not much else.)
mircea_popescu: (yeah people kitchen-restored both of those! people tried to run the dacias on toluene, you can't imagine how industrious socialists get.)
mircea_popescu: i am proud to say i never to this day restored a battery ; and this includes the old days of communist romania, for both car batteries and the 4.5 volt zinc-manganese three-cell assembiles
mircea_popescu remembers the good old days when girls washed chemlab gear by hand. every day and every night.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, the authors are rather competent fellows, at least the footnote dude is still active etc, drop ~him~ a line.
mircea_popescu: anyway, /me was expecting this protest re "buy a tanker", but never heard it.
mircea_popescu: oil gets arbitrarily fine dust. hence the blue tinge of eg truck exhaust
mircea_popescu: that it may be ; but it's still a two stroke engine (total oil loss, for example)
mircea_popescu: oh by the way asciilifeform , TWO STROKE ship engine. because yes, when you have the space and need the efficiency, it beats 4stroke.
mircea_popescu: the only question remains, how long ago was thestringpuller actually replaced with the markov device.
mircea_popescu: wait, this was a "basics of hardware reverse engineering" class ?
mircea_popescu: you might as well apply basic grammar to myspace postings.
mircea_popescu: literally. there are more of these vomit kernels "published" on social media than there are readers.
mircea_popescu: the part you don't seem to at all grasp is that ~nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: if judged by effects, fire is more pedagogic than university.
mircea_popescu: how is it antipedagogic ? is fire antipedagogic also ?
mircea_popescu: meanwhile, to be a consumer means - you get comfortable X, and no possibility to scale it.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well. problem begins when consumer prefers to pretend everything scales liniarly.
mircea_popescu: so buyer is getting literally what was promised him : a small USB stick that allows you to spend Bitcoin like a dollar bill.
mircea_popescu: it's not worth it to third party to copy for one dollar ; and otherwise the supply floats at the pleasure of the issuer.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the protection here is that if indeed this item is to be used "like a dollar bill", then that's protection enough.
mircea_popescu: from which we find that, remarkably, by mid sept 2016 trilema had published 68.8k footnotes and 68.8k images.
mircea_popescu: this'd be the exactly counterpart to the very common "mp is in heaven and i am in hell, life is so unfair" ever-so-common approach. "oh look, i thought i too had a blog ; except check out what a proper one actually does!"
mircea_popescu: deliberately, too. some things should be painful to produce.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes footnotes in footnote i actually do by hand.
mircea_popescu: such pravoslavnic folk and they can't find themselves a stable situation.
mircea_popescu: "one day, orlov got indigestion from a pea dish, and died. krilov, hearing such, died too. spiridonov however died all by himself. and his wife fell from the cupboard and also died. and his children drowned in a pond. and his grandmother took to the bottle and started hitchhiking."
mircea_popescu: Framedragger there's this deep pastoral root of his specific flavour ; he sounds in a sense like twain, and like jerome k jerome, and like the arab absurdists.
mircea_popescu: phf the moral being that communities belong enslaved ; and not in control.
mircea_popescu: and if you CAN'T do this, then the solution is to go, read. i also can't speak maori, but this doesn't mean i sit around and make "maori sounding" noises.
mircea_popescu: in sanity, you are supposed to a) be acquainted with functions, objects, structures, etc by name ; and on the grounds of having read and wrote them until they revealed all their secrets, no "we got to second base" bullshit ; b) import them, and them only. which is why "require library" is so fucking idiotic.
mircea_popescu: the concept of "require" as "this particular primitive" is one thing ; but the way it's practiced and the way fucking galls me is as "this particular collection".
mircea_popescu: the concept of "library" as "this collection of primitives" is meta-syntactic, and strictly personal idiomatic. that a bunch of anglotards try this thing where they "all mean nigger in the same sense - and everyone always does!" is just you know, anglotards being anglotards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the main cause of all the turmoil whenever we discuss this particular thing is that you keep confusing syntax and meta-syntax. but it's finally clearing up, because eg. "where i could, e.g., (require "a591af34" is starting to sound like sanity, which is to say, that you import primitives rather than collations.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (the guy being impersonated is kinda interesting, a sort of rhodesia.fr)
mircea_popescu: in the way I can, because itЎЇs the world general business language which can simply understand in anywhere in the world, well I am the son of the former president of Cote D'Ivoire (ivory coast) in west Africa Mr. Laurent Gbagbo."
mircea_popescu: and in other jours de la francophonie news, "Please carefully read. Sorry for the inconveniences it might occur to you, maybe if youЎЇre not interested in this my proposal I will be offering to you now, and again also I will be very sorry if my English writings do not meet your expectationЎЇs, please try to understands my country is officially a French speaking country, but I have to use English language for writing you
mircea_popescu: <mod6> did you bother to read the extensive documentation that i wrote? <
mircea_popescu: and since you wash what you bring home, esp prior to use, well...
mircea_popescu: anyway, blessfully there exists this magic librarizing where "kernel" is split from "userland". which can be the border for a while.
mircea_popescu: which is what i mean : take that library apart, merge it into the bot, be happy, it'll be one project as god intended.
mircea_popescu: if someone comes up with a way to sort in linear time, you a) READ his way b) UNDERSTAND his way and c) IMPLEMENT it. yourself. that's the golden measure. and ideally you come up with what he came up verbatim. or else you have a discussion on the table!
mircea_popescu: you keep the thing you read, and paste it where you need it.
mircea_popescu: this is not a problem in the constraints presented. "create two copies of this "asdf" platonic solid, place them appropriately, they will be distinct items. and proceed."
mircea_popescu: libraries ; the modern coder's excuse for not reading code. "it's a LIBRARY!!11!!! dude. you don't read that!"
mircea_popescu: check him out, adept of fits in head, worried about not being able to find the broken code HE SHOULDNT HAVE HAD. pshhh
mircea_popescu: stop coding for bugs, and stop wearing condoms to your babysitting jig.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when he finds a bug he goes and hangs himself.
mircea_popescu: create two copies of this "asdf" platonic solid, place them appropriately, they will be distinct items. and proceed.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they are not mutually dependent on one thing. logbot depends on asdf-logbot ; ircbot depends on asdf-ircbot. these MAY be identical, but the fact that they are identical is a people-knowledge, not a machine knowledge.
mircea_popescu: there is no such thing as a "library" ; and there is no such thing as "code reuse". put everything in a directory and build it.
mircea_popescu: that's the thing that has to fucking die, "libraries" in the linux sense of the term.
mircea_popescu: because that's the fucking point : for a project to be one project. not two.
mircea_popescu: "they were trinque's logbot and the base lib it was built on" << this is what you said. it is different from what you are saying now.
mircea_popescu: again : do not fix the level. fix the god damned wall.
mircea_popescu: the fact that you tried to build a badly packaged project (spurious split in two) has ~nothing to do with mod6 's bootstrapping tie-in.
mircea_popescu: very useful for entryway as it is. the monk is welcome to purify his learning after.