asciilifeform: but folks ~capable~ of solving serious problemz.

asciilifeform: not speaking of the vermin here.

asciilifeform: phf: ~serious~ folks

asciilifeform: (what means 'wasted blood' ? see http://trilema.com/2014/what-interests-me-in-a-project for what i mean here. )

asciilifeform: i.e., that their blood will go to waste.

asciilifeform: phf: serious folks are avoiding the serious problems because they CORRECTLY intuit that there is not a stable foundation on which to solve them.

asciilifeform: fuck that.

asciilifeform: if they aren't on character level, what, i can't search, sort, etc. them ??

asciilifeform: (and if they dun have cyrillic, greek, etc. glyphs - no game.)

asciilifeform: as soon as somebody supplies these - game.

asciilifeform: by factor of FOUR

asciilifeform: i have 3 different dpi in my array

asciilifeform: the other thing is that we are unfortunately stuck with something like ttf, because displays DO vary in density

asciilifeform: but - no mouse wheel, no go.

asciilifeform: phf: i could live with this.

asciilifeform: motherfuckers.

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: ask him how it is acceptable to break everybody's box every six months.

asciilifeform: phf: it is important to determine what subset of the problem is even worth solving.

asciilifeform: likewise certain www sites i can't even load normally because they turn to soup given my screen geometry (i use strictly tall vertical displays)

asciilifeform: whereas on my battlestation, i use ratpoison and a wall of lcd, and anything that spawns windows will look like shit

asciilifeform: for instance, on mac, anything that doesn't DIRECTLY use the native api WILL look like shit

asciilifeform: phf: there are fundamental problems, of playing well with platform's foundational ui

asciilifeform: and makes my hands literally hurt (ignored mouse wheel, etc)

asciilifeform: all of it. slow and dog-ugly.

asciilifeform: it simply stinks.

asciilifeform: not negotiable.

asciilifeform: it is about how if i am cooking in a kitchen, there should be NO human shit in the sink

asciilifeform: it isn't even about 'pretty'

asciilifeform loathes few gui proggies more than clim

asciilifeform: instead of KILLING WITH FIRE the disgusting athena widgets

asciilifeform: phf: ah yes

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2015-12-01#1334724 << re the acquisition of franz ☝︎

asciilifeform: ~nobody wants to pay the runtime royalties.

asciilifeform: ita used clozure iirc

asciilifeform: and has been for ~decade.

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: iirc franz is 100% usg-powered now.

asciilifeform: phf: i dun recall anything franz released ever working properly with anything other than allegro

asciilifeform: ideally it would be over a crossover Gb ethernet cable.

asciilifeform: )

asciilifeform: (they imho had very much the right idea re separation of churc^H^H^H^H^Hcpu and sta^H^H^Hconsole

asciilifeform: symbolics-style.

asciilifeform: can ditch the gpu crapolade then

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: consider a headless x, where you have to connect from outside the box

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: what are you using for a framebuffer ?

asciilifeform: (a potentially useful thing, but quite certainly not the demolition spoken of earlier)

asciilifeform: iirc gabriel_laddel's project was a kind of improved gentoo ?

asciilifeform: all. of. it.

asciilifeform: gcc. c.

asciilifeform: initramfs, cpio, the idiot kernel, the whole thing.

asciilifeform: which is: that the whole shebang must burn.

asciilifeform: eventually gabriel_laddel will see the light.

asciilifeform: (they produce working initramfs, with bitcoin in it)

asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel: i suggest taking my buildroot configs as example

asciilifeform: how goes the lispificated gentoo gabriel_laddel ?

asciilifeform: $up gabriel_laddel

asciilifeform: what's a holiday programmer ?

asciilifeform: who might you be, yangwao ?

asciilifeform: $up yangwao

asciilifeform: oh hey! yes

asciilifeform: wat's this

asciilifeform: quite

asciilifeform: ^ actually well-written imho

asciilifeform: in other interesting finds, http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/book/metaheuristics

asciilifeform: l0l!!

asciilifeform: *poised

asciilifeform: so gossipd is posed to be the first live-fire open air rape of this usg directorate.

asciilifeform: (luby himself opened up a troll shop, it seems)

asciilifeform: if anyone wondered why fountain (e.g., luby's) algo is not widely used, answer is... mega-unsurprise... patent trollage

asciilifeform: to briefly pick up yesterday's thread,

asciilifeform: bottleship.

asciilifeform: and eventually - anchor!

asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2016-06-30#1493559 << now install openbsd so BOTH ports can die!111 ☝︎

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l what happened to 'dun post it on usgur!111'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: 'what three know, the pig knows'

asciilifeform: flooded with TBs of nonstandard tx.

asciilifeform: interesting method tho

asciilifeform: (this is not an all-time record but is noteworthy)

asciilifeform: in other nyooz, zoolag has been blackholed for almost a day.

asciilifeform: would be the logical time, anyway

asciilifeform: i thought it was supposed to coincide with the halfocalypse

asciilifeform: 'i didn't shoot him in the head to kill, just gave his brains CHOICE OF WHERE TO GO!111'

asciilifeform: choice!1111

asciilifeform: konseeeeensoooos!1111

asciilifeform: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-miners-hardfork-according-circulating-rumors << lel 'corexit'

asciilifeform has a good chunk of mircea_popescu's material loaded into head

asciilifeform: http://trilema.com/2014/the-all-american-asshole-in-his-own-words-with-my-own-notes/#selection-3735.0-3747.1

asciilifeform: sorta like the indian in mircea_popescu' skyscraper essay

asciilifeform: 'kinetics proposes, thermodynamics disposes' (tm) (r) (uncle al)

asciilifeform: perhaps better analogy here is the astronomical epicycle.

asciilifeform: rms is tragicomic precisely ~because~ he won't let go of fundamentally usgistic thinking ☟︎☟︎

asciilifeform: i disagree - they are excellent examples - along with, e.g., mr mold - of failed autoappendectomies

asciilifeform: see also http://btcbase.org/log/2014-10-21#885689 ☝︎

asciilifeform: aha, it.

asciilifeform: ^ it

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2015/a-new-software-licensing-paradigm

asciilifeform: it isn't simply about 'he's my chum, i will lend him my pistol, and i trust that he will only shoot coke cans'

asciilifeform: this is what means 'has a cost'

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: opposite, really

asciilifeform: trinque: and that it is not a reasonable thing to ask others to do without a good reason

asciilifeform: trinque: keep in mind that keeping secrets has a cost