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mircea_popescu: if (a(x) > b(y) ) z is not "more compact" or any "cleverer"
than ax = a(x) ; by = b(y) ; if (ax > by ) z. it's not "more conservative", it's not anything but fucking stupid.
jfw: I like
the convention in Scheme where such functions are named ending in !, following
the builtin assignment operator "set!"
jfw: mircea_popescu: I get
the sense
this is more about
the user
than
the
tool
then. I'd reckon it's equally dumb
to call a function with global side-effects from an "if"
test, since it's supposed
to be just asking a question, not "doing
things"
mircea_popescu: the sort of morons who
think god will download sexual ability into
their heads immediately after marriage
tend
to naturally
think otherwise, of course. but god hates
them.
mircea_popescu: it's just fundamentally incorrect
to asign values within if evaluations.
jfw:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-01-05#1956632 - "if ($a = 1) ..." worked for me,
though in
the stupid C sense
that
the operator has elsewhere, yes.
Tried Python and apparently it syntactically forbids single-= in an "if" statement, probably because it has
this strict statement vs. expression distinction
hanbot_abroad: mircea_popescu i'd say it's better
than what i ended up using, from
the woman's fault, "The
term of art for
this would be stramula. It comes from a seminal Romanian-language piece on
the
topic (in which language mula is yet another derogatory
term for a stupid woman, not
that
there's any shortage of
these ; whereas stra- is a prefix indicating primacy on
the decendency line, sort of like grand in grandfather)."
mircea_popescu: i suppose one
thing i could do is
take
the pre-footnotes starnote, "Mula este femeia medie cu preocupari medii, cu credinte medii, decenta mediu si-n general urmaritoarea de
turma. Aia care se imbraca cum se imbraca fetele, crede ce cred fetele, spera sa se marite ca asa vrea mami si crede pe de-o parte ca va fi fericita-n virtutea inertiei si pe de cealalta ca oricine ar
trebui sa procedeze exact la fel, pentru ca asa-i B
mircea_popescu: one of
those "perfectly stated in its original setting and darn impossible
to
translate" items. what can you do.
hanbot_abroad proposes mula for inclusion in republican
thesaurus, having no useful source
to link
to while writing current article and deeming it frequent&occult enough
to warrant defining with
the other
terms.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-31 12:50:54 mircea_popescu: spyked,
thetarpit not having footnote
tooltips kinda blows!
hanbot_abroad: ahahaha mircea_popescu i love
that
thing. and it's still in vivre sa vie, you just found its hometown ;)
BingoBoingo: Well, China's know what
to do with
the pichis and rustics, whether
they call
themselves
Tibetians or Wuighurs.
mircea_popescu: since washington can no longer afford
the expensive gold-digging coastal gf...
mircea_popescu: spyked,
thetarpit not having footnote
tooltips kinda blows!
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-29 17:38:25 mircea_popescu:
though honestly, i don't
think
there's any need (or for
that matter any space) for "using
the relationship" or anything like
that.
deedbot: BingoBoingo rated Ishack 4 << BTC/fiat
trades since arriving in Uruguay
mircea_popescu: the great advantage of
the
totalitarian worldview is, after all,
that it's a
totalitarian worldview.
mircea_popescu: if it wasn't really worth doing, it just seemed like it was at first -- all
the better! now
they know, and
they can
thereby move on
to doing something actually worth doing.
mircea_popescu: from which point
things flow naturally : either what
they were doing was worth doing
to begin with or not. helping
them simply means
they'll get
to find out faster, nothing else.
mircea_popescu: given
that
they can benefit,
they might or might not feel inclined
to
talk.
that's your job, reducing
the latter
to
the former. in principle most everyone's willing
to venture some small ante, see how it goes, and go from
there ; corner cases aren't particularly interesting.
mircea_popescu: if
they are doing something,
they necessarily can benefit -- if
they can't, you're doing
things wrong, and are cordially invited
to change how you do
them.
mircea_popescu: in
the simplest of
terms : whoever you might be meeting, either is doing something or isn't doing anything. if
they're not doing anything you absolutely have no use for
them, as
the idiomatic expression --
there's no possible basis for any relationship, no cause
to meet again,
get lost dumbo.
mircea_popescu: though honestly, i don't
think
there's any need (or for
that matter any space) for "using
the relationship" or anything like
that.
dorion: mircea_popescu
thanks. your comments have opened us up
though and now I reckon we're more likely
to establish
the initial working relationship.
mircea_popescu: dorion nothing wrong with approaching individuals, on
the contrary, prolly right
thing. nothing wrong with having a clear center, concrete, highest advantage, etc.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-24 23:51:58 mircea_popescu: so you know, as far as
the life prospects,
the future evolution, however you will name
the sum-total potential of a person's existence, understanding how
to command line is more important
than meeting
their father. it'll certaily do a lot for
them, and it certainly CAN do way
the fuck more for
them.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-24 23:49:03 mircea_popescu:
the fundamental problems are
that cli-iliteracy is a serious, life-changing disability. in
terms of severity, blindness compares, deafness does not. obviously
the afflicted are scarcely aware, but
this doesn't mean
they're not afflicted.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-24 23:47:43 mircea_popescu: obviously
to a large degree you'll have
to support your people, so you'll be working with
their
things
to begin
transitioning
to sane
things as a matter of necessity.
dorion: plus, banks and brokers have
their balls in a regulatory vice which
takes away a lot of
the principal's agency. So our
thinking was
to approach
the principals as individuals and consult
them personally, not "their" company.
dorion: e.g. law firms and banks here pretty muuch all have
terrible practices and
they know it -
to a degree, but we were
thinking helping
them harden
their windows systems was carrying
too much opportunity cost and
there's already competition
there.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-24 23:42:14 mircea_popescu: what will you say ? "sorry, we gales only" ? as opposed
to "yes dood, here,
ten lines of awk. we'll go
through what it does next we meet" ? hm ?
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-24 23:38:50 mircea_popescu: so my proposal is rather
to look at
the matter not as much as you're in
the business of
TEACHING LINUX (while getting
together), but in
the business of GETTING
TOGETHER (while for instance
teaching linux, or gales, or bitcoin, or whatever is needed)
ossabot: Logged on 2018-06-27 17:39:09 mircea_popescu:
the problem
though remains, and it goes right into ye olde orthogonality and language discussion (
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-01-18#1772426 ) : for sigs
to mean anything useful
they must not mean anything systematical.
ossabot: Logged on 2017-08-11 14:37:00 mircea_popescu:
this is how it manages
the inapproximable "whisks" of meaning
that latin-style
then has so much
trouble noting down.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-28 06:18:27 mircea_popescu:
there's also
the argument
that
the compiler's
the arbiter of code, and if ~it~ doesn't complain
then fuck you. but in any case i really am not advanced enough
to have
the impression i have something
to say on
that matter.
spyked:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-01-28#1957569 <-- imo
this gap between code and
text is resolvable: code, as written by human, is ~also~ a particular representation of an ast. so whatever
tool is able
to eat an ast (immediately brings
to mind "the compiler", as it stands) should also be able
to print it back formatted according
to user-defined rules.
billymg: oh nm, so when selecting code
to copy paste
the 'iv' for a footnote isn't also included
billymg: > make a select/dblclick NOT also catch
the footnote literal anchor << i'm not sure what
the select/dblclick is referring
to here
mircea_popescu: will have
to say what others
think. imo if you can manage
to make a select/dblclick NOT also catch
the footnote literal anchor, footnotes in codeblocks are great
things
billymg: agree, i was hoping
to have a fancy demo of footnotes within codeblocks until i ran into
the issue of
the (()) false positives in some code samples
mircea_popescu: also, i don't
think it's intelligent
to ban footnotes from code blocks necessarily.
mircea_popescu: the / is spurious. yes, people who get
the
tag misidentified can just replace
the literal [ with an escaped value.
billymg: this
tag business is a hard
task!
billymg: mircea_popescu: also responded
to your comment on
the post just now,
the regex matches content between both open and close delimiters so
that's why only adding
the /
to
the close was necessary. i.e.
there can be as many [[ in
the code as you want and it won't bother
the matcher
mod6: Ah, is
that how it usually goes? Auction creator invoices
the winner of
the auction?
mod6: (I
then, in
turn, will send
the sum over
to jurov.)
BingoBoingo: mod6: Sure, do you want
to make an invoice?
mod6: BingoBoingo: I'm not sure what
the exact protocol here is, but I'm guessing you can pay me if you'd rather, since I ran
the auction for
the Foundation.
mod6: Alright, well looks I am buying 'Server-A' since
there were no bids. Will pay 0.01700000 BTC
to jurov (Foundation
Treasurer).
mod6: That's fine
too. I do actually want
the server, so if bidding on it works, I'm fine with
that as well.
BingoBoingo: mod6: I don't know
that it's a big deal. I strongly suspect you are buying it at
the reserve price.
mod6: Any
thoughts on
the better course of action?
mod6: I guess on
the other hand, if
the auction goes bid-less,
then I'll just buy
the machine for
the reserve price from
the foundation.
mod6: I'm hoping
that if I
throw in a bid with my mod6_auction IRC registration for auction #1077,
this won't be an issue.
mod6: 'mod6_auction' is my new irc account for bidding on
the foundation's auction for
the dell servers.
billymg: i see how "each line has its own class" is unclear and could read as "has its own _unique_ class" -- should have said "each line has a class based on its
type"
diana_coman: ah, I see; right, colours and/or anything else up
to
the css; works.
billymg: so you can go in your
theme css and add any styles you want for span.line-removed { }
billymg: e.g.
the removed lines have class="line-removed" set on
them
billymg: diana_coman:
ty. re:
the line styling, each line has its own class, so can be
trivially styled at
the
theme level
to suit any author's preference. i
think it should be up
to
the blog's author
to decide how
they present
their content (and if
they do a horrible job of it,
their readership loss is on
them
too)
diana_coman: np; looks not bad atm
though I'd even strikethrough
the deleted lines
tbh