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mircea_popescu: this was reported (via
the entirely irrelevant "sources" of
talbot, beshloss & co) as "the agitation of stalinist
tirant" at warsaw, "unhappy with
the us-euro offensive
to liquidate communism".
mircea_popescu: he wrote bucharest a general letter about it, proposing
to explain what happened on
the 4th. ceausescu responded
that unless
they have a private meeting he's not coming altogether.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
there's a pile of disinfo and general crap surrounding
the events. as an example : on 2-3 dec gorbachev hung out with bush on a soviet ship. on 4th,
there was
the wasaw pact meeting. gorbachev was well excited of whatever,
the new bulgarian (mladenov, his college pal) and generally
the western press coverage.
mircea_popescu: (because of reasons discussed in
http://trilema.com/2014/the-problem-of-ideal-social-systems-reprint/ socialisms can't have categorical
terms, defined in
the normal manner, but must always include
the ethical color of all words in
the words. so "movement" becomes either provocation (bad) or progres (good) and so following for everything, stalin's cup is named by a different cupword
than hitler's self-same identical cup)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ("provocation", in ourdemocracy lingo of
the
time, is what you called enemy maneuvers.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, it's a great postmodern moment you know, failed mangod and his broken phoneline
to reality. "hello ? hello ? *mutters under breath*
this is a provocation"
shinohai: ^ I heard
the above was edited by sjw on Google
translate. It used
to be "Take a look at
the nigger"
shinohai: !~translate so
to en oogi boogi nigga nigger
mircea_popescu: still, how man faces death is a hard
to paper over factor.
mircea_popescu: he was, however, fundamentally brave, in
that what he
told
teh us style "judges" at his "trial" was
that he'd much rather be dead.
mircea_popescu: ceausescu was not a gallant sort of brave fellow. during a 1977 miners' revolt (they beat up
the commie locals etc) he went
there and very much shat it.
mircea_popescu: anyway. classical ceausescu regime "demonstrations" were organised very much on
the ddr bank model, where you could eventually find
the address of every single byte.
mircea_popescu: ating in most homes) a list of easements,
the chief buttress of which being an extra 100 lei allowed
to pregnant mothers (about 1 dollar in black market rates of
the
time).
then
the people were dismissed, and
they started
to leave, but for some entirely
to
this day unknown reason
they were called back. except,
they DIDNT go back in order, which means
the politruks didn't know who's who.
mircea_popescu: also fellow misrepresents
the failure of
the 1989 bucharest meeting.
the events flew more or less
thus :
timisoara rebelled, ceausescu verbally ordered armed repression, on
the basis of some discussion, but (most likely deliberately) omitted
to actually issue
the proper paperwork.
the war minister killed himself. ceausescu ordered a meeting organised in bucharest,
to announce (in
the dead of a bitter winter, without proper he
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ftr it was in plenum of
the parliament
thingee.
mircea_popescu: (cac in romanian being, obviously, off
the caco cacare latin root)
a111: Logged on 2015-11-21 18:55 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform btw ever
told you
the joke of
the muscovite
trying
to
take a shit in bucharest ?
mircea_popescu: why
the hell not,
the girls are worth
the
trouble. brb.
mircea_popescu: if you can read
the list so it sounds like a poem, your romanian pronounciation is probably acceptable.
mircea_popescu: phf hand mollifies in solitude.
to
toughen must expose.
phf: i've started writing blog posts
to "toughen my hand", but it's rough going, i'll add it
to
the list of
things
to write about
mircea_popescu: " “The Saudi’s will not be able
to link
the S-400 with Saudi’s current (US and Europe-sourced) infrastructure, nor will
they be able
to connect
the S-400 with US systems." << says who
the everloving fuck.
☟︎☟︎ spyked: phf
ty for lisp in small pieces reference. will look
through it.
mircea_popescu: phf if you had a blog and
time you could sit down
to do
the whole discussion of
that so as
to inform future policymaking above and beyond simple amoebic continuation.
phf: fwiw all our production lisp runs on sbcl, including btcbase. as much as i'm pimping cmucl, it's not "modern" enough
to host a website on unix. i still
think it's a better
target for a hypothetical on
the iron common lisp
phf: spyked: keep in mind
that all
the lispers here are common lisp programmers, so a ~practical~ scripting lisp would be LISP-family
themed, rather
than an explicit scheme.
that's my personal experience with
trying
to get useful
things out of shiva: having
to write a bunch of "missing" hyperspec functions. asciilifeform said something similar in
the past
spyked: anyway, I have much of Scheme in head. I'm looking at
tinyscheme mostly
to figure out what "subset of r5rs"
they've implemented.
though I'm expecting
tinyscheme subset isn't necessarily
the same as
tmsr-needed subset.
phf: spyked: i'd also recommend staying away from continuations,
they are a cute hack and flow out of some of
the classical scheme interpreter designs (i.e. CPS
transform), but
they are not very useful in production. instead i'd go for a
tagbody
that gets compiled
to a bunch of jmps. in practice
tagbody solves 99% of cont problems
spyked is going
through Kogge's book at
the moment, incidentally. much lower level, but it should help on Lisp internals.
phf: spyked: r5rs and
tinyscheme are not
the right places
to start on
the other, non-ada end, i'd recommend looking at lisp in small pieces. you can
tease out
the
theory out of
tinyscheme, but it's definitely easier not
to get bogged on accidentals if you start from
theory
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-05 02:17 asciilifeform: however it would very conspicuously rock , imho, if one of you folx did
this, instead of waiting.
mircea_popescu: assistence went "you don't remember esr ?" and i went "what would i remember him for ?" and
they went "is
this a bit ?"
a111: Logged on 2017-10-08 13:27 mircea_popescu sits here
trying
to remember
the name of
the irrelevant dork with
the guns. after a while
the best lead i have is "hacker lexicon" was it ? google produces nothing but wired crap ; if
treated with a -wired sprinking, suddenly catb.org "jargon file" is
top result.
spyked: ty for explanation, mircea_popescu. oddly, it seems
there's no strong etymological relation between
the
two. (ripe's related
to reap, rape; rife, just Germanic for abundancy?)
mircea_popescu: and for
that matter rife, as in "rife with fleas" is how english says "full of low hanging fruit".
mircea_popescu: oh,
to
try and parasitize google-reality ? just like any other zynga facebookism ? awww..
mircea_popescu sits here
trying
to remember
the name of
the irrelevant dork with
the guns. after a while
the best lead i have is "hacker lexicon" was it ? google produces nothing but wired crap ; if
treated with a -wired sprinking, suddenly catb.org "jargon file" is
top result.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-10-05 00:12 ben_vulpes: > Finally, we abuse Intel SGX
to hide
the attack entirely from
the user and
the operating system, making any inspection or detection of
the attack infeasible.
mircea_popescu: phf i dun
think
they got off cloudflare
tbh,
this looks like exactly
the sort of crap.
spyked: dig
through Google DNS: 91.235.136.108; dig
through romtelecom DNS: 91.228.152.189; so yeah, mircea_popescu might be on
to something here. spyed flushes dns caches.
phf: because
the ip address is russian, but registered
to a u.k hosting provider, redcentric
spyked: phf, nope. ro. so... let's
try some more dns servers.
phf: odd,
that last one is russian, "ooo fishnet" :)
spyked: in hosts,
the one you mentioned (195.123.218.180), while host archive.is returns 94.242.57.138
phf: my specific ip was a cloudflare ip 104.28.25.2. current dig for archive.is resolves
to 195.123.218.180, which is a netherlands "mobicom ltd" range. i suspect
that archive.is
took
themselves off cloudflare in
the last some months, so now i'm hitting cloudflare proxy servers and
they are complaining
that
the host: is no longer served
spyked: ftr, I have archive.is in hostsfile with a different IP
than
the one currently returned by DNS, and not getting a cloudflare page.
mircea_popescu: i don't get it. so you had a specific ip, which used
to work, but now
they changed it and instead of failing
they self-advertise ?
phf: it was confusing because i was getting legitimate cloudflare issues all
the while i was in russia. now i wonder if it's some dns "firewall" propagation issue
phf: well, i've been getting
that error for
the past
two months. while
there was still a heavy archive.is exchange in
the logs, os i
thought it's something
to do with russia. i'm still getting it in u.s.
though :o
phf: "You've requested a page on a website (archive.is)
that is on
the Cloudflare network. Cloudflare is currently not routing
the requested domain (archive.is).
There are
two potential causes of
this:"
phf: BingoBoingo: is
that archive.is link working for you? i've been getting routing resolution errors from cloudflare, pretty consistently part few months
spyked: mircea_popescu, I'm not sure how I would evaluate it other
than by looking at
the "boy has no aspirations of his own; boy meets girl; boy gets in
trouble; boy gets face stomped by boot"
trope
that's repeated
throughout dystopian novels;
there's probably more
to it
than
that, but if
there is, I'm not equipped with
the literary baggage
to see it. Orwell is fashionable nowadays because pantsuit equates
Trump with big brother, and... so
mircea_popescu: i would agree
that zamyatin is a brilliant pamphleteer and an interesting ethnological/"historical" source.
mircea_popescu: there's a petulent dork going about on
twitter about he "wrote about bitcoin before it was cool". i suspect
the whole "cypherpunk" group of kanzure s secretly hold
the same belief,
that
they're relevant
through
their failure.
mircea_popescu: i guess
the argument could be made, but what's it pay ?
mircea_popescu: and for
that matter how is pulp fiction part of literature now.
a111: Logged on 2017-10-03 13:34 mircea_popescu: even exists in early anglo stuff, christ resurrector, christ almighty etc.
though
the vein exhausted itself readily and apparently without leaving much
trace. i guess in
the same way "everyone" knows of bedwetter's 1984 but nobody read point counterpoint, notwithstanding
that huxley is
the important kid in
that class, not fucking blair.
mircea_popescu: spyked probably
the peak of his work huh ? see if you get
that gherman fellow
to read it once you
translate it!
a111: Logged on 2017-10-01 04:06 mircea_popescu: "If pet food companies used
the same business model as startups: Jim creates a dog food factory and gives away dog food for free. 450 million dogs line up for free dog food. Purina Dog Chow understands
that non-paying dog food consumers are currency, and buys Jim’s factory for $42 per dog." << in other historical elaineo lulz.
spyked: (read
through
the old newspapers at some point. I
think it was
through
Trilema piece?)
spyked: yeah,
thought
this is probably
the case
mircea_popescu: here's
the problem of ourdemocracy : if people are allowed
to misperceive
they "have choices" and feed
this hallucination out of
the field of choices
they do not have, you end up with
the sexy problem, whereby linear cost encounters unreasonably power-law distributed benefit.
a111: Logged on 2017-09-30 19:14 mircea_popescu: sorry asciilifeform . all i have are my own notes, which are as all hand notes useless without hte backing of
the library of origin (in
this case,
the universitary library of cluj).
teh interwebs dun seem
to have a "here's
the list of
trotsky letters".