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mircea_popescu: at least that's how i saw it ; "i ~~~just want to~~~ work on these technical problems, and will ignore/hallucinate/otherwise cope with the political implications"
mircea_popescu: technically i suppose the word would be emotional debt.
mircea_popescu: it's one of those "i'll be a man and everything else will stay as it was when i was a child".
mircea_popescu: well... mno ; they're not bad people, just, married to a context.
mircea_popescu: funkenstein was doing something or the other (even more modestly) with some other coin, wood-something.
mircea_popescu: not really. main dev was in #b-a, invited twice to argue his thing, declined twice to do so.
mircea_popescu: and the "punishes adultery and encourages marriage" thing - exactly the same.
mircea_popescu: technology that works by itself and solves their problems, that sorta stuff.
mircea_popescu: they're the same people who think islam means they get a nice wife courtesy of allah, just like that.
mircea_popescu: it's not clear it's heresy in any sense ; but the core of web-shannonizers is always the same.
mircea_popescu: it's like the derps got kicked out of bitcoin, seamlessly moved to whatever.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the best part of that article is random derp frothing about how "monero'd have made it impossible for egypt to be a shithole"
mircea_popescu: well, pick different abstractions i guess, because the only response stavka has for "we don't have adequate tools" is coming down a gun barrel.
mircea_popescu: this isn't the case ; and that it isn't the case is proof archsufficient it knows EXACTLY what's what and OPTS to not do what i tell it to.
mircea_popescu: if you were right no sub could ever read anything back from memory.
mircea_popescu: if it dun feel like doing what you want, "it has nfi" ; otherwise, if there's a virus or something, it knows them like its own tits.
mircea_popescu: it's bullshit. of course the machine has fi. just... it likes to ambiguously pretend it does or doesn't, like a lazy bitch.
mircea_popescu: try the experiment : open temp-mail.org in a browser let it sit for a day, then profile it.
mircea_popescu: nothing can be more expensive than this "oops sorry firefox got lost in bootstrap.js".
mircea_popescu: there's ~no reason you couldn't allocate memory properly, c or no c.
mircea_popescu: DONT LOOK AT ME! I'm not the one who came up with that bright idea.
mircea_popescu: you didn't wipe the program scope ; you wiped the frame in question.
mircea_popescu: upon return, whatever was allocated for it on heap is free.
mircea_popescu: "every stack frame can at any time and for no reason return ; handle this."
mircea_popescu: that may be, but there's still absolutely no reason it can't IMMEDIATELY RETURN WHATEVER CURRENT PROCEDURE ITS IN
mircea_popescu: what, forcing program writer whores to procedurize sanely is too onerous ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, what's the big fucking whoop. when caught sigabort, return(6) or w/e.
mircea_popescu: no. i do not want to kill the program. i want to force it to drop what it's doing and pay attention.
mircea_popescu: this because interaction between firefox and javascript is nothing short of noxious
mircea_popescu: i want what used to be signal 6, ABRT ; indicating to the receiving item to immediately drop whatever subroutine is doing and continue above.
mircea_popescu: in fairness, it's the optimal use for "his idea" such as it was.
mircea_popescu: sometimes i wonder if i'm the only guy who ever had one blog.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform checked out "moron lab". didn't live long did it.
mircea_popescu: i honestly believe the item exists because you were bored one day ; and people couldn't distinguish between "social media signal" and actual need.
mircea_popescu: but that aside, as many people use a stick to wipe their own ass as died of fan-mediated asphyxia.
mircea_popescu: of course nonsensical hysteria can just as well be periodically rediscovered.
mircea_popescu: this confusion of meta for literal is its very own doom.
mircea_popescu: but that's nothing ; the case is still fresh in my mind when BingoBoingo made up some stupid shit about how a guy was so fat he used a stick to wipe his ass ; and other perverse defecation tales - which then became the ACCEPTED STANDARD of "what fat people do" according to "everyone" on social media.
mircea_popescu: there's an ancient ro joke/sf story whereby people moved into the past "limitedly" for "research purposes", and ended up discovering that most everyone there is... them, with the actual locals a tiny minority.
mircea_popescu: ridiculous with dingbats. and oh so poorly written, good lord.
mircea_popescu: unrelatedly : de niro's so obsexed with pacino, he had to have his very own scent of a woman (dirty granpa). you should see this thing. they manage to be so weird they spend half the movie apologizing, man-to-man-talking and etc for his eventual fucking (sort-of) this teenaged slut.
mircea_popescu: so far in any case it seems that the chinese are the people and the usians the insectoids.
mircea_popescu: there is no actual future for chinese culture is there.
mircea_popescu: hey, i'm new. i spent most of my life not giving a shit.
mircea_popescu: the whole "we spontaneously change keys for no reason" thing is as ridiculous as it always was.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: nope. i have nfi how they could possibly "bitrot" seeing how the sks updates are really supposed to pass hashes of files too
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (this, incidentally, is why it's so hard to get men to stop smoking. women - easy enough, show them sufficient pictures of children fucked by alligators or whatnot. men... dun care.)
mircea_popescu: so you're going to change careers for the extra weeks then ?
mircea_popescu: does it EVEN MAKE A FUCKING DIFFERENCE what comes after "and will" ?
mircea_popescu: however, if you pick employer B, you do cooking, and will be killed in a kitchen fire next month.
mircea_popescu: now, if you pick employer A, you do reversing, and will be killed in a car crash next week.
mircea_popescu: lemme ask you this. suppose for whatever reason tomorrow you gotta make a choice ; say of employer.
mircea_popescu: kinda why the whole "materialism", be it whichever socialist flavour is so lulzy. dude, srsly, "you've solved the problems of people" ? gee whiz, i wonder why they can't be arsed to pick up your calls.
mircea_popescu: the only true hero is solipsist. that much is sterling.