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mircea_popescu: i can;t fucking believe jwz and daveg are seriously discussing doubleclicking wiuth
the spacebar
a111: Logged on 2016-11-30 23:08 asciilifeform: incidentally 'scalable font'
technology was imho a failure:
a111: Logged on 2016-11-30 23:06 asciilifeform: of all
the plagues discussed in
this
thread, i'd say fonts are
the mildest, it is at
this very minute quite
trivial
to operate a machine with 2-3 fonts installed , with ~0 surgery
mircea_popescu: there's a screencap of my yahoo messenger config in
this vein floating about somewhere even
mircea_popescu: i generally set up everything
to more or less correct proportions, at
terrible cost
mircea_popescu: in fact, i'm generally unhappy with
the
thin fonts everywhere.
terms and borland back in
the day had
touched greatness wrt glyph
thickness
mircea_popescu: the original discussion cca 1993 was centered around
this\
mircea_popescu: what does he imagine
that he gains brownie points with someone somewhere for "cooperate" ? ffs.
mircea_popescu: basically, a principled "emacs does not want or need window-decorations gtfo" out of rms would have been a lot better
than his inept dithering
mircea_popescu: this "emacs / xemacs reconciliation" is a
tiresome painful fucking read. why
the fuck would anyone consider merging xt in emacs ?! what is wrong with
these people.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: do you remember
the article where you said something like "or
the entrepreneurs will win and
then
there will be a decade of hedge funds making a killing on
the opaque altcorn market before we kill
them all slowly"?
mircea_popescu: hard
to fix anything by copy-pasting ancient windows ware.
ben_vulpes: it's what, 2018, and
the people pushing altcoins are still struggling with arithmetic.
ben_vulpes: shoulda been
the simplest possible
transaction in
the world, one output summing
to
the value of all wallet inputs less explicityly set miner fee.
ben_vulpes: unrelated
to anything, i recently had
the most amusing experience with a "bitcoin cash" wallet where it *insisted* on creating a zero-satoshi output.
mircea_popescu: distinction without a difference ; do children believe in nightmares or merely pretend
to, or merely
the misfunctioning of
their undeveloped brain conflates
two
things ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, more generally,
the idea
that "the people" are some sort of
thing, and
to be catered
to, IS
the fungus.
shinohai: Most of
the dumb Indian hispanics from Central America around here go
to evangelical churches, Mexis
the majority Catholic here.
mircea_popescu: the catholocism-in-orclang IS
the fungus
to begin with.
trinque: that's what
the nightly sorries are about
mircea_popescu: hence all
the "revolution" bs. o really, revolution in programming ?
trinque: the "born again in cheesus christ"
thing points right
to it
mircea_popescu: indeed
the zek paradise is very much
that "loose shoes and warm place
to shit in" historical african's paradise : if
they could pick up a new woman every night and she'd be gone after cooking lunch every day ; if
they had
to drive
to a new place
to start work every monday ; if
there was always a new beer in
the cafeteria and a new show on
tv with a new identical blondy lead... scl
a111: Logged on 2016-08-04 19:59 mircea_popescu: but it's certainly quite deep.
the vermin doesn't merely aim
to a comfortable existence, but more importantly
to a memory-less situation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the fundamental problem is
that only
the elite have any use for history ;
the plebs generally want a "start over
tomorrow" world.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the principal problem is
that he's not very good at arguing ; neither from a helping
the preopinent nor from a produce useful record perspective.
these are
the
two principal goals of conversation, i can scarcely imagine a
third.
mircea_popescu: wasn't he working on exactly
this not happening by his own account ?
mircea_popescu: minor lulz at
the perishable nature of
the hyper-tard-transfer-protocol ended up a major
topic. i just snickered en passant!
mircea_popescu: i did a bunch of
that
too, discovered
that out of 10k websites, ~0 remain
mircea_popescu: note
that it's not me saying
that ; for
that matter i dun much link
the vandalized mircea_popescu wikipedia page or any other such nonsense.
a111: Logged on 2018-01-07 22:18 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the whole lulz here is
that
the link
the man himself indicates fails
to deliver./
mircea_popescu: worse implemented
than SGML itself" << man spends six years
trying
to do useful work in non-#trilema world, discovers at
the end of it all
that no, his
toaster can not be used
to
toast his own breakfast,
thanks for playing, do come again.
mircea_popescu: "What can I say? I wasted 6 years of my life on SGML and related
technologies only
to find
that when I wanted
to
translate my experience and knowledge and significant grasp of
this
technology into a book
that would
teach what I had found
to others, I had
to look real hard at all
the braindamaged
things
that I had been willing
to sweep under
the carpet and found,
to my horror,
that SGML, once understood, could not possibly be
mircea_popescu: and holy shit
the broken, innumerable ways
to protect character from parsing...
mircea_popescu: i know why
this is, obviously, but
the important point is
that
this is a miserable, second hand knowledge, of ENTIRELY
the same substrance as shilbert's.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the whole lulz here is
that
the link
the man himself indicates fails
to deliver./
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but note
that i don't give anyone
the address
to said bookshop if
they seem confused as
to who
they're
talking
to.
mircea_popescu: (this, for
the record, was a 60yo at
the
time stanford guy. "You clearly are clueless and are not at all ashamed
to demonstrate it." wrong putdown, seriously now.)
mircea_popescu: from naggum's own self-characterization, he was a not-particularily-wanted epicycle in
the whole sgml
thing. am i missing something ?
mircea_popescu: ahaha
this is epic. josling : " Searching
the sgml bib for your name produces 0 hits..." ; naggum : "Why make such a fool of yourself annoying people on purpose? What is /wrong/ with you?
http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/biblio.html" ; we dutifully go check and indeed, grep of
that page returns 0 naggums.
mircea_popescu: anyway, but as
to
the matter at hand,
they had a falling out over holocaust social game proper rules!!1