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PeterL: * <mircea_popescu> they need
a runway. << Why not both?
PeterL: <mircea_popescu> houses don't need
a fucking pool
mircea_popescu: "There is no reason that
a programmer should know that this rewrite is needed. On the other hand, finding that performance was not as expected should not have led the manager of the programmer in question to conclude, as he did, that Lisp was the wrong language." ahaha what ?!
mircea_popescu: This example is
a mistake that is easy to make. The programmer here did not declare his arrays as fully as he could have. Therefore, each array access was about as slow as
a function call when it should have been
a few instructions. The original declaration was as follows:
mircea_popescu: as someone once said, "their tricks work for them only
a short distance of their run, and for us the whole run."
☟︎ punkman: "
a flurry of various machine making machines." "houses don't need
a fucking pool, they need
a runway." << I love futuristic-mp
mircea_popescu: "C is therefore
a language for which it is easy to write
a decent compiler"
mircea_popescu: at least the usg, from the president to the last goon, knows they're sitting on
a prayer
mircea_popescu: whether the rat existed yet or not, they still aspired to be
a rat.
mircea_popescu: i'd have much preferred it if that quote read "had we done what mp said we shoudl do the first time he called us idiots back in 2013, we'd now be in
a position where we could almost pass for human"
mircea_popescu: "And outside the US there were major Lisp efforts, including Cambridge Lisp and Le-Lisp. The humble US grassroots effort did not seek membership from outside the US, and one can safely regard that as
a mistake. Frankly, it never occurred to the Common Lisp group that this purely American effort would be of interest outside the US, because very few of the group saw
a future in AI that would extend the needs for
a standa
BingoBoingo: NO gavin, you still can't see your penis without
a mirror!
BingoBoingo is just giving words away to qntra shareholders right now. Fucking footnoting inside
a blockquote.
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 17:58:22; mircea_popescu: it is also fundamentally why math "is hard". for every non-retarded young adult who believes math is hard you have
a case of
a child who developed his own, highly personal set of shitty symbols, and then never received
a good explanation as to what the difference between his and "everyone else"'s is, so got lost.
mircea_popescu: da fuck is embarassing about this ? i say "i'm sorry, who are you again ?"
a dozen times
a day, if it's
a day i mostly sleep.
mircea_popescu: "Any lecturer who serves his time will probably graduate hundreds, if not thousands of students. Mostly they merge into
a blur; like those paintings of crowd scenes where the leading faces are clearly picked out and the rest just have iconic representations. This anonymity can be embarrassing when some past student hails you by name and you really haven't got the foggiest idea of who he or she is. It's both nice to
mircea_popescu: "The right thing to do was to carefully implement one, common base mode for process interaction, and to carefully put in hooks for customising this base mode into language-specific modes" << and in today's installement of intelligence is no defense from stupidity news, "if you tried wrestling with
a wild pig in some mud you found in the forrest and got raped, the correct thing is to buy some earth from the supermarket,
mircea_popescu: such as
a backflow of "your shit is broken/down/fuck you"
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point oshivers' not aware of is that THE ONLY way to have 100% solutions is with the power of the wot as deployed by b-
a mircea_popescu: next guy that comes along and needs
a socket interface can't use this one.
adlai: ascii_butugychag: agreed, but for such
a mega-classic, it's unbearably un-googleable. anything about "80/100% solutions" (spelled however you like) turns up corporations priding themselves in the quick, dirty, and incomplete.
adlai: (might even be worth
a deeding?)
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag if we do force
a longer chain which breaks that softfork we HAVE to also steal all their money.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> anyway, if the toomims take thgeir fake hashpower to this thing it'll be
a perfect exit for that set of scammers and good riddance. << I alway thought the Toomims hashpower was real? Who claiming fake hashpower would claim so little?
mircea_popescu: anyway, if the toomims take thgeir fake hashpower to this thing it'll be
a perfect exit for that set of scammers and good riddance.
mircea_popescu: yes but i'm not
a bloodthirsty orc. not just yet at any rate.
mircea_popescu: certainly not against it enough to precipitate
a chainwar
mircea_popescu: so basically the renegade miners that got scammed into mining
a fork got all the mining competition and none of the benefits.
mircea_popescu: derps so fucking desperately need moar brandings and things. plox to make
a website. with the cssen
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:16:36; adlai: there's no
a-priori reason why fork proponents can't stake their reputation on pgp-signed contracts to buy up their alt after it's launch... reminscent of the $20 XPY floor
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:08:33; adlai: psztorc: out of curiosity, did anything ever come of plans to build
a market for exchanging such coins? rather than manually arbitraging between businesses on either side
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:57:11; psztorc: So, "bitcoin classic", with
a 2 MB blocksize limit, is likely to have >60% hashrate at this time tomorrow.
mircea_popescu: musical notation is
a joke to pretty much every serrious musician. it is
a "pons asinorum" of sorts and not much else
thestringpuller: so we have to live in vaults because some fucker wants to launch
a nuke cause "hey this will fix the world!111"
mats: i think i would enjoy it, at least
a little bit
adlai: psztorc: have you considered asking fork proponents to help build such
a market? i think the antifork crowd are more content to take
a more patient role in this game of chicken, because the "burden of forking" is on the other camp
adlai: there's no
a-priori reason why fork proponents can't stake their reputation on pgp-signed contracts to buy up their alt after it's launch... reminscent of the $20 XPY floor
☟︎ BingoBoingo: psztorc: You have to understand
A-flat minor is best key, and this drama is all about Gavin's diminishing ability to see his penis
psztorc: I know, that's why I proposed rushing out
a very very simple version which outright relied on multisig for the 2-way-peg and the price-oracle input.
psztorc: The plan was to rush out
a tiny version of Truthcoin/Hivemind , now I'm just going to wait for the full thing to be done.
adlai: psztorc: out of curiosity, did anything ever come of plans to build
a market for exchanging such coins? rather than manually arbitraging between businesses on either side
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: folks who want to convert their btc into
a usg-alt that mircea_popescu will sell 1,000,000 of for
a penny each the day of the phork, can go ahead any time...
adlai should maybe have used Y for the soft limit example; these are different parameters, and until miners start wasting their own money to back up these claims, the claims might as well be plaintext on
a webpage for all Bitcoin cares
adlai: "hard limit" = MAX_BLOCK_SIZE === "I don't accept
a block larger than X", soft limit = relevant only for miners === "I produce blocks up to X"
adlai: psztorc: i'm more interested in measuring the seismic trembles as miners agonize over raising their soft limit past 1MB... ie, being the guinea pig that expends their own hashpower-hours to verify whether or not it's all
a fluffy bluff
psztorc: According to
a reliable friend, they already have 40% committed, and according to
a different friend, the Chinese miners will agree to join the 40%.
BingoBoingo: <psztorc> So, "bitcoin classic", with
a 2 MB blocksize limit, is likely to have >60% hashrate at this time tomorrow. << Where does this spz come from? I just woke up.
psztorc: I just expected something
a little more dramatic, I guess.
adlai: thestringpuller: compare to shakuhachi tradition, where
a song isn't "yours" until you've
a) tweaked out your own version, and b) taught it to your students
adlai has probably spent more hours playing music than writing lisp, although the trends seem headed for
a reversal in
a couple years
psztorc: So, "bitcoin classic", with
a 2 MB blocksize limit, is likely to have >60% hashrate at this time tomorrow.
☟︎☟︎ adlai: eg, ask
a trumpet player to transpose to G sharp
adlai: the highest per-minute income for
a serious 'session musician' is their sightreading ability
BingoBoingo: <ben_vulpes> in case its not clear BingoBoingo i'm
a fan of your work << ty ben_vulpes
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 14:01:05; mircea_popescu: "In connection with the offer of the above securities, the Stabilising Manager(s) may over-allot the securities or effect transactions with
a view to supporting the market price of the securities at
a level higher than that which might otherwise prevail. "
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 13:58:38; mircea_popescu: i have absolutely no idea what these bundy dudes must be thinking to elevate the usg charade into relevancy through participating. but then again... can't trust one to think that's not got
a pubkey, can you.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 13:32:43; mircea_popescu: "f course,
a full charge won't be that important most days," << god fucking help them once memory effects and other such things start taking
a toll. the full prospect should read " As previously announced, the Bolt's 288 cells will be able to go over 200 miles on
a full charge about 20 or so times. Good fucking luck with your new disposable car!"
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "women doing
a shitty job fucking are doing it in the bedroom"
mircea_popescu: "In connection with the offer of the above securities, the Stabilising Manager(s) may over-allot the securities or effect transactions with
a view to supporting the market price of the securities at
a level higher than that which might otherwise prevail. "
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 07:01:02; Tomiii: Hello, does anyone know how you make
a bunch of GPG private keys from
a single Seed? like you can do with bitcon wallet?
mircea_popescu: i have absolutely no idea what these bundy dudes must be thinking to elevate the usg charade into relevancy through participating. but then again... can't trust one to think that's not got
a pubkey, can you.
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 06:18:05; ben_vulpes: my personal phone goal is an engineering team that is on call so that i don't have to have
a phone
mircea_popescu: "i know... we'll offshore everything to china and live off
a '''service economy'''. then we won't bother getting off the couch. win-win!"
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 05:51:38; punkman: even if you hate the Unicode folks, they have actually codified
a lot of these things and it mostly seems to work
mircea_popescu: "f course,
a full charge won't be that important most days," << god fucking help them once memory effects and other such things start taking
a toll. the full prospect should read " As previously announced, the Bolt's 288 cells will be able to go over 200 miles on
a full charge about 20 or so times. Good fucking luck with your new disposable car!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the difference between
a thinking man and
a hack is that
a hack goes "hey, i can't explain this without
a blackboard"