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mircea_popescu: my objection inter alia is that this is not satisfied here ; makes us look like a bunch of retards.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental promise involved in the concept of number, as a scalar measure of something
mircea_popescu: right. and such a thing as typos in those comments is possible. this entire line is the result of your ineffectual sideswiping.
mircea_popescu: seems to me the unspoken heuristic is, "large enough so it's not meaningful [and therefore large enough to not bother] and small enough so it's not larger than some other number i thought about".
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: yet our ideal is literate code, as in, docs in the program.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's more than that : a) that there's such a thing as a correct program ; b) to which one can converge ; c) in a finite number of itemized steps ; d) the count therewhich can be known in advance.
mircea_popescu: the vpatch that adds a "except if number is 5577, math doesn't work for 5577" is a VERY different patch from the vpatch that adds "here's a sentence ended by a comma turned ended by a dot instead"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i know, but not all vpatches are created equal.
mircea_popescu: the larger problem is "what is meant by a patch". i doubt the item can survive ~even one~ major alterations. meanwhile "hey, you spelled theyre with an apostrophe" needn't be counted (but need be fixed)
mircea_popescu: turns out he doesn't know ; in context probably dunbar's number is the saner approach.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the discussion spawned from me going "wtf is the POINT of even counting to 255, nobody can fit such in head" that then merged into "how do you know ?" which resulted in the predictable "i wonder how the fuck does ~he~ know"
mircea_popescu: there's great cause to attack at dawn : morale superiority. there's also great cause to attack at night, note eg dracula's not famous for attacking the turkish camp at dawn and nearly making sultan run off.
mircea_popescu: looky, management is a rational activity. there's nothing wrong with hanging kids for having failed to master spanish in two weeks -- just as long as you can answer as to how you came up wih the two weeks.
mircea_popescu: so how did you pick 255 and he 10k and knuth whatever it was, 100
mircea_popescu: nature found 273.15 i suppose the same way it computed ocean level ; but we're not quite equal to nature.
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure how that kelvin thing's supposed to work ; notably bothj knuth and mod6 attempted it, but the problem with starting with a number is that you don't know what to pick.
mircea_popescu: imo putting an end to "software development" much greater achievement for human race than "decrypting bolix"
mircea_popescu: anyway, yes, we're here ending "computing", and good for you.
mircea_popescu: anyway, sorry if i inadvertently rained. tis indeed great news, and it being expected great news dun detract from greatness.
mircea_popescu: hence why original choice for full sized exponents, "why let enemy enjoy the fruits of his lies"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform in my mind the idea was that if you force non-republican software to use republican exponents it will either crash or take forever.
mircea_popescu: Turns out, Koch’s pile of shit, despite eschewing constant time arithmetic, and being implemented in Overflowandcrashlang… loses the footrace, when given a full-width modular exponentiation (i.e. one where it cannot cheat by skipping over leading zeroes.)
mircea_popescu: in other random not-news, 37.187.150.139 is "ddosing" trilema by loading random pages ; but with a few select "lurkmore.to" pages as referrer.
mircea_popescu: dude, the archive russki fellow utterly doesn't do this.
mircea_popescu: for crying out loud, a virtual machine running firefox just to do what lobbesbot does atm in case archive.is croaks ?!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: subset of turing test, if you will. if there exists means to mechanically distinguish browsering luser from bashing republican, the world is broken.
mircea_popescu: but it occurs to me we kinda HAVE TO maintain the browser===bash equivalency.
mircea_popescu: we have a hole in the process here, where bash existence is not === browser existence. phantomjs used to fill it, or at least mostly, or so i thought.
mircea_popescu: are you aware that curl will not in point of fact produce copies of shitty imperial websites, because those shitty imperial websides use javascript to fuck with the dom ?
mircea_popescu: well, if you're going to replicate archive.is, you're going to use ~something~ to go from webshitsoup to plain html.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin rly should come standard in cuntoo anyway. alongside proper rsatron and proper dbtron/webserver.
mircea_popescu: right, this comes from all that conversion stuff we did
mircea_popescu: yeah, sane db will be major boon to trb (also not news, discussed as such since original "devs are idiots" times)
mircea_popescu: speaking of penalties : i dusted off ancient trb (pre agression), just for curiosity. turns out it sucks ~1 block/minute in the 450k range (ie, catches up with a year's chain per month, sorta thing).
mircea_popescu: billymg nice! as it happens nicoleci 's been looking for a way to put her pic in the header, so maybe work together on a theme ?
mircea_popescu: come hell or high water, i'd rather manage my own household than whatever it is, nbc's movie arm, holcim's european sales, romania's only battleship or only central bank, WHATEVER it is -- if it comes with a "but must have some idiot" coda i'd rather fucking manage my household.
mircea_popescu: managing idiots is a game that can't be won, and ~ample experience~ is what informs my firm committment to tolerate no such thing.
mircea_popescu: i looked far and wide, among practically an ocean of more committed, seriouser etc folk. and so on.
mircea_popescu: you got me there, and while in these irons i guess i'll also confess it was my plan all along, back in 2012, to find some lukewarm half-invested dood to do bitcoin-assets.
mircea_popescu: and what you do out of sheer and unmitigated self hatred, is hire the one moron.
mircea_popescu: because that's what you do, there's like 500 sane, safe and consensual folks, cv in hand, to pick amongst
mircea_popescu: he;s not depicted ; but my years managing construction crews evidently left some trauma.
mircea_popescu: "hello girlies & morons, write me 500 words as to why sophocles isn't euripides" slash "hello dorky, you've got 30 seconds". what the hell's the difference.
mircea_popescu: i want to see some idiot "avoiding certain death in midget sub" throiugh the process of flailing around wildly and then dying mechanically about as much as i want a pile of sophomore history of philosophy extemporaneous essay-form papers to go through.
mircea_popescu: really, why do you care ? not like there's any possibility of empathizing with the derp.
mircea_popescu: anyway. canadians getting involved in things, the next step after women get involved in things. there's a spiral of decay, and comedy's not gonna do any better than the british commonwealth did.
mircea_popescu: (not played by anyone who played it originally ; but definitely meanwhile fouind by the hipstery 20yos looking to pose)