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mircea_popescu: if it's public-newsworthy i'll read it on qntra ; if it's nonpublic i'll read it in reports. bout how it goes. i suppose you can say this is that.
mircea_popescu: i so deeply don't give a shit WHY some failure failed.
mircea_popescu: (i am proud to report i've deployed this long ago ; and it causes absolutely no inconvenience whatever, just in case the "killing god is impossibru!!!" emovibe is strong in the reader)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform real men ban dns traffic on their net machines.
mircea_popescu: "Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s)." i presume this is good for fiat.
mircea_popescu: i still remember the fucking lolz we had as kiddies when they introduced this penpal thing ; they religiously matched all boys with girls, and this guy got paired with... mercedes gonzales.
mircea_popescu: obviously. since his notion of fame doesn't match the common notion of fame, you'd expect his notion of richness doesn't either.
mircea_popescu: because we're all equally people and therefore all equally potent in richdom. just his time hasn't come yet to becoming in wealth-hood.
mircea_popescu: he's looking for help in the vast fields of literal representation. against this demon-beast strangling him.
mircea_popescu: from his country of africa which is ken ya ni ger ya ?
mircea_popescu: teh mentality of the poor idiot penning these things... so he's gonna tell me he's famous ? why, because he's more or less obama, and if he hadn't told me i'd have never known ?
mircea_popescu: "peter john I am giving a testimony of how i become rich and famous today... i was deeply strangled up by poverty and i had no body to help me, and also i search for help from different corners but to no avail. i see people around me getting rich but to me i was so ashamed of my self so i met a man on my way he was very rich and he was a doctor so he told me something and i think over"
mircea_popescu: any disparity between two items suffices ; everyone involved gets shot.
mircea_popescu: alternatively, a man may be whipped for one item he produced not meeting what his master told him to produce. this means the item was specified.
mircea_popescu: anyway, to put it in the harshest term : a man may be shot for one item he produced not being identical to another item someone else produced. this means the item was standardized.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform exactly. i did, and was impressed by apparently hermetic points like this, such as an understanding of the difference between standard and specification etc.
mircea_popescu: the "standard tank shell" is not "the standard shell" for this exact reason.
mircea_popescu: mno. EITHER "the standard library" is not the standard library ; or ELSE your mips is a chunk of charcoal and you've got down syndrome to be trying to program on it.
mircea_popescu: when standard lib (which dun belong on a microcontroller)
mircea_popescu: that phrase should immediately reduce to "your item is stupid and you're dumb for working on it"
mircea_popescu: in any fucking case, "here's the standard - it doesn't work for yout item" is rank nonsense, and the paragon of anti-utility.
mircea_popescu: perhaps forcing the point, as these are both industrial processes. anyway.
mircea_popescu: the latter makes some specific comments as to some points of interest - "the meat should be between some sort of bread". the former specifies every single aspect of the item, including a complete chemical composition etc.
mircea_popescu: if you say "bring me a mcburger" you are asking for a standard item. if you say "bring me a burger" you are asking for a specified item.
mircea_popescu: similarity, specificity, standardisation. 0, 1, infinity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform non-culture languages are necessarily kinda sucky, amateur affairs.
mircea_popescu: specification and standard are also different processes. a specified item is evidently different from a standardized item.
mircea_popescu: does not. french is specifically the one culture language which does not have a normative, academy-produced dictionary.,
mircea_popescu: this difference is important, and apparently not much understood through normal schooling.
mircea_popescu: still. when we discuss language - the alphabet is the only standard. the dictionary is not a standard ; nor aspires to be a standard.
mircea_popescu: seems your notion of a standard unduly includes both a and b
mircea_popescu: a standard for 1 inch nut does not a) specify material b) enter into considerations of what levers to push on what type of cnc mill
mircea_popescu: thinking the dictionary "a standard" is exactly the level of ignorance one displays thinking "the blue earth internet icon"
mircea_popescu: not so. the fucking alphabet is the only human lang standard.
mircea_popescu: "this text is non-compliant, dictionary translation makes no sense" - wrong
mircea_popescu: "this text is non-compliant, replace letter ? with a proper letter and resubmit" - right
mircea_popescu: do tell, how are you richer than your father, and his father, when his reservoir was full and yours is empty ?
mircea_popescu: yet modern idiot fancies himself much more intelligent than anyone who ever lived ; and better informed, and "progressed".
mircea_popescu: somehow the small alphabet in which one can actually write - is.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the much worse point of this is - WHAT THE FUCK is a "standard lib" supposed to be thaT DOESN'T fit on microcontroller. what the fuck standard is this standard, utf-standard, the antistandard.
mircea_popescu: it evolved. from frogs. how was the first human built!
mircea_popescu: answer h) yet there's a new team maintaining the item i) except it's unclear exactly who exactly how and to what exact purpose or standard"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform point being : "a) here is a package of open source software that b) worked great c) for a lengthy, unclear and unverifyable past interval d) maintained by an intelligent but dour and otherwise busy party that e) is well respected but no longer much involved f) yet you could ask q of them if only you could find out how to ask an intelligent one g) which is pointless anyway because you can't make much sense of the
mircea_popescu: check it out, we managed to replicate in vitro ALL OF FOSS
mircea_popescu: incidentally, anyone recall diablo 1 multiplayer mode ? which nobody ever played, because you could edit your client to send to the other "your player was hit by 1`000`000 dmg" and the idiot'd take it at face value and kill the other person ?
mircea_popescu: "The search for the reason behind the declining PCU in EVE Online continues." << how about "the game fucking sucks".