mircea_popescu: i suspect though the earlier discussion of "what do we want for a scripting language" is deeply if unobviously related to "what is bootstrap done by"

mircea_popescu: moreover, i dunno of any well working bootstrappers for whatever embedded / mircro / whatever you take application that actually bootstraps on c

mircea_popescu: i dunno why don't they just put the "fuel economy magnets" people in congress directly. properly speaking, there's no other substance to "america".

mircea_popescu: so i dunno that there's a substantial difference, ideologically, between kennan and churchill.

mircea_popescu: i don;t have a very clear view of patton ; but churchill is exactly as much a socialist as the whole temperance movement. he was unequivocally identified as such by ~all contemporaries, what, just because dumb soviet kid never heard of churchill other than for one newspaper notice dated 1945 this means something ? by the time hitler came to power churchill had been an openly socialist politician for a decade+

mircea_popescu: "ignorant racism & homophobia" i suppose

mircea_popescu: meanwhile on topics of "usg, the latest socialism", i very warmly recommend kennan's 1947 sources of soviet conduct.

mircea_popescu: yeah, is what i was going for.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, this may even be, but i'd rather unearth the style than not.

mircea_popescu: i can't readily say what it is i actually want algorithmically, which is why i'm not even certain it can be had. but the scrolling hurts my precious inner child.

mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, even IF in fact whitespace is meaningful, i still want the lines interlaced rather than chunked blocks i have to scroll up and down for.

mircea_popescu: that;s exactly what i'm saying.

mircea_popescu: i'd like this narrowed if not entirely solved. ☟︎

mircea_popescu: i suspect working solvent more expensive than the solute in this case lol

mircea_popescu: phf, and since i'm doing whining : can there be an alternate mode where lines are always interleaved, like in this beauty ? eg, http://btcbase.org/patches/mp-wp_add-footnotes-and-textselectionjs#selection-5661.0-5158.160 and http://btcbase.org/patches/mp-wp_add-footnotes-and-textselectionjs#selection-5335.0-5158.58 needn't appear that far apart (leaving asi

mircea_popescu: i don't give a shit if it makes 50mb pages. for THIS, and i know of no other use (perhaps "full list of comments on blog article"), any length is legitimate use of the mbs.

mircea_popescu: phf, why does http://btcbase.org/patches/mp-wp_remove-tinymce-and-other-crud not look the same as http://btcbase.org/patches/mp-wp_html-comments-enabled ? i want ?inlinep=true FOREVAR!!!! ☟︎

mircea_popescu: i dunno how anyone continues on the old style. it's like.... jesus. it's inconceivable.

mircea_popescu: and need i say it is SUCH A FUCKING PLEASURE to read vpatchs.

mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/patches?patchset=mp-wp&search= << keks they ended up diverged. normally i'd ask hanbot to regrind, except this is a large patch that needs some reading, so would you mind regrinding it on top of hers billymg ?

mircea_popescu: but in any case, i don't know anyone who seriously believes "universities" are either important, noteworthy, or influential. for ~same money could discuss "canasta clubs" or w/e.

mircea_popescu: chonkin, i think that's very much wishful thinking, "only happening on humanities side". mit has been churning out strictly illiterate "graduates" for decades now.

mircea_popescu: i suppose running into the republic is quite the source of mental dissonance huh.

mircea_popescu: chonkin, the belief that "stalin learned dark arts from writing" is specifically why i mentioned roosh in the list earlier -- it's exactly like "ima learn how to get laid from writings", pure and simple http://btcbase.org/log/2019-03-24#1904458 nonsense. ☝︎

mircea_popescu: i mean, at some point there was this widespread belief that an island of warrior women exists somewhere.

mircea_popescu: and otherwise, what i'm saying that "the german economist karl marx" is not different from "the methodist minister john heyl vincent" or "the public woman simone farrow" or whatever. i guess if you're related you're interested in the epitaph, but otherwise the cemeteries are full of "names". these names do not bear any consequence, nor do they last all that long.

mircea_popescu: i suppose it works.

mircea_popescu: i suspect it is yea

mircea_popescu: chonkin, i expect deedbot will let you self-voice now, give it a try.

mircea_popescu: chonkin, most of that's your own read-in. i simply pointed out "marx" isn't somebody. you wanna carry a discussion with someone, you're stuck using mutual ground. you're more than welcome to think what you will, but to me marx is indistinguishable from any other blog spammer, for reasons explained. you're more than welcome to engage those or not, but that's about how far it goes.

mircea_popescu: nope ;/ still not the one i had in mind god damn it all to hell, im turning senile over here.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, nah. it was quite literal, i just don't recall the nouns so my search dun work

mircea_popescu: minor point i guess. anyways.

mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo, do you happen to recall which the hell trilema article is it where i say that the illusion of existence or identity randos cherish is merely the reflection of my interaction with the world, an interaction to which they're neither party nor necessary ?

mircea_popescu: i suppose in a sense marx is the original, one-man "social media platform" slash spammer attack on the conversation. ie, "here's some bits of text i culled from the net, and here's some links, publish my comment".

mircea_popescu: no, i'm saying that some random dork misspelling shakespeare isn't a "problem" or something shakespeare has to deal with.

mircea_popescu: i dunno i have to "deal" with it, beyond not giving a shit. again, some derp mouthing something or the other creates no point of interest.