asciilifeform: now i've never actually met a chess-boxer. but it would not astonish me if i learned that they keep the company of other boxers and regard actual Großmeisters, who devoted their lives to chess, as effete lusers.

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: heinlein was... a story-teller.

asciilifeform: and one of the problems with 'free men' is that growing up as one tends to result in 'an aristotle' - aristocrat, who may be a very sharp fella but is not especially handy with 'slave crafts' and would normally not stoop to, e.g., programming a computer

asciilifeform: yes, there are folks who are serious chessboxers. but for some reason i've never heard of such a fella winning a world chess OR boxing title. ☟︎

asciilifeform: well, we already have a mircea_popescu

asciilifeform: and also don't wait for me to write a fits-in-head and provably non-misbehaving btc client, even though i would much like to, know exactly how, and even have bits'n'pieces sitting around. because instead of this i'm stuck doing pointless crud in шарашка, so as to eat.

asciilifeform: yes, odin could re-arrange the atoms and form a fine dinner fit for mircea_popescu's table.

asciilifeform: because the notion of using this thing, or anything directly derived from it, as a long-term anything, is lunacy.

asciilifeform: i did say, in the very beginning, 'i want this in a book, as a reference' etc

asciilifeform: '...neither Unix nor Windows _actually_ support either C or C++, but they manage to make them work, with downright incredible effort. if you look inside the libraries and see how a system call actually works and how much it differs from the C calling convention and usage, you'd be a fool not to revise your opinion. and _does_ an operating system that forces the programmer to check to see whether the operating system did what

asciilifeform: so folks init a var where result of system call is stored to the value of failure

asciilifeform: if trb is sleeping in a dumpster and picking old razors out of the rotting mcd 'meal' trays to eat, prb is drowning in a usg paper dump

asciilifeform: the current prb is a different kind of hell altogether

asciilifeform: and there is a variety of things you can coax a node into doing if you can corrupt the db; etc

asciilifeform: it is sort of like concept that once came to me in a dream, about some alt-world where all names are sexed, and hence nobody is named 'alice', but 'fmalice', no 'bob', but 'malbob'

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=21-01-2016#1379738 << that particular heathenry has a name, 'hungarian notation'. named after some chap at microshit who believed that it reduces bugs ☝︎

asciilifeform: https://www.bikeji.com/t/3144 << anybody want to attempt a reliable translation from heathen tongue ?

asciilifeform: the spaces thing is just one in 10,001 sad things in a jupiter-sized ball of sad that is trb.

asciilifeform: forgives, and forgives, until we have a bitcoind that wants a GB/week of ram

asciilifeform: a garage big enough for a boeing, so as to not hit the walls ?

asciilifeform: i worked with a fella like that

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this kind of thing is pestilentially common in 1) microshit 2) folks who grew up on it. 'i'll leave a massive space on the stack so not to overflow because i can't count and also can't trust myself to put it in heap and remember to free()'