asciilifeform: sorta why potus since bush-II or so spends maybe 1 day in 20 in there.
asciilifeform: general ripper: 'take this thing to the garage and hotwire it' grunt: 'i dunno how to make new detonator, the old one melted when i popped the cover with 3 wrong passwords'
asciilifeform: and i picture that it is largely against meatheads from... own side
asciilifeform: well yes, you win vs the mine, get pile of pu. which you now gotta machine (ever machine a pyrophoric ?), rebuild the explosive lenses, detonators, neutron source, get moar tritium somewhere (where?), etc.
asciilifeform: eh banks are full of fiatola, what's it cost to print moar.
asciilifeform: but i suspect that the acid will win in mircea_popescu's case. nuke builder does not want to make the booby overly sensitive, killing himself
asciilifeform: mines generally win the mine-vs-sapper game. which is why modern-day minefields are typically cleared by, one way or another, setting them off, rather than digging up ww2-style.
asciilifeform: recall the las vegas casino bomb thread ?
asciilifeform: and if the 'found' pu is in a boobytrapped chest that noncritically disassembles itself and poisons a square km of your own warehouse if you mis-guess a bit, you have not won, neh ?
asciilifeform: eh you already know how folx who refuse to buy into the idiocy-of-the-day and 'add value to the discussion' are welcomed in the ninjashogunnery.
asciilifeform: 'why japanese toilets never caught on in america' !111111
asciilifeform: s. If you don't like it, no one is forcing you to read it or asking for your opinion.'
asciilifeform: 'As someone that been on HN for 9 years, pushing back on these kinds of comments is my business. This is my opinion on the value of you coming to Hacker News to complain about the author's writing style, and secondarily aimed at other commenters here. Your style of just summarily shitting on how the author wrote this piece adds no value to the discussion. Clearly lots of other people like it, this has been the #1 piece on HN for hour
asciilifeform: 'How do you describe this flicker effect? I've never seen it.'
asciilifeform: 'You're the guy who hacked Dalvik on Android a few years back, aren't you? So that it would load your broken APKs that have millions of methods for unholy reasons, and break the app for your users when Dalvik updates and this predictably stops to work? Fitting that having created such horrors you would have to deal with other people's.' -- from the comments
asciilifeform: folks dun even fully grasp, 'whaddayamean, shaved yer head ??' 'no, have hair, but 0 lice' 'yer a liar'
asciilifeform: and even now, using it is somewhat like not having lice in 18th c
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it did, when i found it, i had been using various 'light' (e.g., 'flwm') wm, and the switchover felt quite like if you had lived with mice, rats, lice, all of your life, and then finally learned to kill'em
asciilifeform: trinque: not so hot on a box with 64M
asciilifeform: point; it has been a very long time since i ran into anyone else who used it.
asciilifeform: but abandoned, author went off to do something weird with commonlisp
asciilifeform notes, for the record, that he did not write 'ratpoison', it was made long ago
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: imho a correct gossipd simply emulates irc server on the user end.
asciilifeform: and in fact the reason the linked idiocy is so jaw-dropping is that the d00d broke the mightiest x11 proggy so as to fit his peculiar psychosis
asciilifeform: motherfucker, looks like this was the warning bell, as soon as this idiocy makes it into mainline emacs (and it will) i will have to maintain own fork.
asciilifeform: which does not take kindly to spawning shitwindows.
asciilifeform: that share screen space with the double-buffered region into independent X windows. Overall, it’s a giant hack.' << this is guaranteed to break it on all of my systems
asciilifeform: 'Emacs uses an X11 extension, DOUBLE-BUFFER, largely seen as an historical artifact. There are other hacks I didn’t describe, like putting scrollbars in their own X11 window, contrary to the intent and design of the GTK people. This extension allows us to reuse our existing drawing code and redirect it to an off-screen buffer. GTK+ or Lucid or Motif or whatever we’re using is oblivious. My diff turns scrollbars and other widgets
asciilifeform: (probably because it never shares a display with anything)
asciilifeform: it simply doesn't happen on any box of mine.
asciilifeform: and i don't use the terminal emacs either
asciilifeform: i've used emacs on pentium1 under bsd, on whatever, even on this year's crapple boxen, etc. and never saw this flicker.
asciilifeform: 'I am a sinner. Unrepentant. Damned. Thusly, for me, Emacs flickers constantly. I hate flicker. I love Emacs. Something has to change. I decided to hack Emacs to eliminate this antediluvian flickering.' << i am hearing about this flicker for the first time.
asciilifeform: well y axis limit sensor shits out 3.3 like normal people.
