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assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 12:48:07; mircea_popescu: "The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of
a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time."
mircea_popescu: i do not seem to remember any name associated in
a managerial capacity with any successful project ever.
mircea_popescu: what makes they believe they understand enough of anything to trust themselves to make
a decent model of the thing they purport to study, so as to measure something meaningful and construct conclusions worth considering.
mircea_popescu: "The more polite developers were, the less time it took to fix an issue. In the majority of the analysed cases, the more developers wanted to be part of
a project, the more they were willing to continue working on the project over time."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: he has
a certificate of unexpertise duly issued like last year.
punkman: "Potential for more efficient SPV output creation proofs (used by lightweight clients), as the signatures can be omitted from the transaction data without breaking the Merkle tree structure. Potential for nodes that do not wish to store or verify old transaction signatures, to remove the witness data from disk or not transfer it at all even, reducing blockchain storage/bandwidth amounts by
a large factor"
☟︎ Naphex: mircea_popescu: have
a nasty ass cold which turned into pneumonia, had to reboot my servers and take my keys out of the cold. had
a bit of downtime.
Naphex: mircea_popescu: i haven't disappeared anywhere.. got
a bad case of pneumonia; Working on setting things back on track
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 20-11-2015 01:27:23; asciilifeform: seems like reuters bought into some idiocy where
a huckster promised to distinguish one stream of bits, having the correct 'colour' (as in the essay, nothing to do with optics, but politics) from another, identical stream, having undesirable colour.
mircea_popescu: thye also have "higos con almendras",
a cube of fig guts with an almond on top
kakobrekla: iirc there was
a case or two when the payment went to both sies
mircea_popescu: this is the absolute requisite for men to live in
a world "as they wish it to be".
kakobrekla: apart from
a few cases where bb fucked up.
mircea_popescu: this incidentally is exactly how bitbet works : once
a bet has been resolved,
mircea_popescu: (for the curious minds reading logs : the reason innocence CAN NOT, in any system, no matter how devised, ever be
a bar to punishment is that innocence is
a metaphysical concept, whereas punishment is physical. no matter what happens, the former will have to be processed, which is the name for moving across realms. no matters what happens this process will be lossy.)
assbot: Logged on 05-03-2014 02:05:11; asciilifeform: 'american does not believe the man in the uniform to be
a bandit, with whom one can come to an understanding. he believes him to be
a robot, who must be feared. american law enforcers are able to, by pressing on the keyboard of
a multitude of laws and regulations, 'transmute' the most insignificant peccadillo into
a monstrous deed. FBI did not need to beat up Monica or toss into her purse heroin or am
assbot: Logged on 11-10-2015 20:16:50; asciilifeform: it was, iirc, 'innocence is not
a constitutional bar to punishment'
mircea_popescu: (as the processing is usally done in gimp on
a linux box)
mircea_popescu: or is this
a tacit admission that they don't have any valuable footage anyway.
mircea_popescu: it survives in romanian as
a flavourful reflexive verb. to belabour oneself.
shinohai: I have
a powered pepper grinder, just not of the drill attachment sort
BingoBoingo: shinohai: You've never seen
a powered pepper grinder?
mircea_popescu: this is like proposing to make
a book for "intelligent people that aren't necessarily literate" cca 1215. orly ?
mircea_popescu: the last time someone could be useful in
a professional capacity but not
a programmer was perhaps 1935 ?
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 21:26:05; gabriel_laddel: adlai: imagine for
a moment that you're writing
a program which abstracts over
a lab instrument's controls and does
a visualization of the information it reads. The requirement is that people who use it will be intelligent, but not necessarily programmers.
mircea_popescu: and somewhere in the horse, you can hear
a distance squeal.
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 21:05:11; asciilifeform: 'In smartparens, when you input
a pair-able character: the matching pair gets inserted, too, and point is positioned inside the pair:...' << FOR FUCKS SAKE WHY
mircea_popescu: phf except people on
a regular basis DO share others' castles in the sky. it's just that they don't happen to be the very castles people hold most dear.
phf: seems like conversation goes back to tomb raiding for books thread. can go and write code according to hyperspec, or vhdl
a lispmachine, or whatever, but from b-
a perspective the symbolics world of professional men deliberately solving problems with their lisp repl does not exist outside of the log, is superseded by the log. ultimately it's pretty pointless to point at
a handful of sources and specs and expect others to share your
mircea_popescu: now, js.1 is how it's sold to users ; but js.2 is why it's appealing to business. and for
a long time - really, as long as rsm seemed to have teeth - this appeared to them (understandably) as
a required pontoon bridge to have, jic.
assbot: Logged on 19-11-2015 20:55:55; gabriel_laddel: I sunk
a lot of time into it (and got it working) only to realize that I don't want to javascript no matter how s-expressiony it is.
shinohai: Shout out to btcdrak who was shilling for OP_HODL
a few days back
BingoBoingo: <trinque> aw come now, I go mad twice daily << Gotta up the duration and intensity. If you aren't spending at least
a week in an insane state you aren't doing it right
mircea_popescu: in the immortal words of that short, brunette scion of the wealthy dreyfuss fambly (hey, almost like the rothschilds, ok ?) "Ohh.. right. Cause if we're dating, what everyone saw was just
a beautiful moment between two lovers."
mircea_popescu: the problem is not what you call it, but the bizarre notion that there is
a switch somewhere.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me we accidentallied into
a public-private corssover where i was discussing public matters and you were recounting your sex life.
mircea_popescu: trinque that's why i say "it's as if he reads his own text with
a different part of the brain."
mircea_popescu: anyway, there's nothing wrong with taking pictures, as
a memory aid.
trinque: the standard existing for whatever value of existing doesn't put
a symbolics next to my desk
mircea_popescu: why THE FUCK do you suppose they throw
a fit ? "because towelheads" ?