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mircea_popescu: in that it's "turing complete in a purely theoretical sense and with none of the practical overhead a practical implementation would imply except in those cases where it is clearly and truly needed".
mircea_popescu: what [i believe] you have in mind when ytou say "tc" in thsi context is pointedly not what most anyone reading it would expect it to mean.
mircea_popescu: tied some ropes to it and pulling on them, technically yes "this pulls the earth the wrong way". practically, tis alpinism.
mircea_popescu: there's nothing wrong with treating your baby as a chunk of bedrock, you know.
mircea_popescu: eh it doesn't pull anything. think about it : it is a modest, quiet hope, specifically that shiva/b-a/trb is actually heavy enough that it may pull him.
mircea_popescu: won't be accepted in trb by any means, but i dun see anything wrong wiht the process.
mircea_popescu: so the guy is more familiar with cpp, naturally wants to isolate the weird he's taking in and take it in at controlled rate.
mircea_popescu: god help the man that takes a nap during republican times.
mircea_popescu: there's been this weirdo trend of (mostly anglo) girls getting worried about their labia minora being "wrong", mostly on account of thgere being a LOT of natural variation on that score, and anglo chicks being all weird and insecure and sexually inexperienced. plus of course the crazed marketing society, that feeds into all of the above.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform complete solutions are rarely best solutions tho. too heavy.
mircea_popescu: nor do we know the banal names of banal things until after we've made them, because unlike posterity, we don't have the advantage OF FUCKING SANE ANTECESSORS.
mircea_popescu: in truth the situation here is that we don't even know much of the stuff we need until we need it,
mircea_popescu: e old version directory before applying the patch. Then run those commands yourself in the scratch directory."
mircea_popescu: "The simplest way to generate a patch is to use ‘diff -Naur’ (see Tips for Patch Producers), but you might be able to reduce the size of the patch by renaming or removing some files before making the patch. If the older version of the package contains any files that the newer version does not, or if any files have been renamed between the two versions, make a list of rm and mv commands for the user to execute in th
mircea_popescu: why'd i guess like when talking to 16yos on saturday night ?
mircea_popescu: i for instance judged that since you DON'T say the obvious, you specifically do not mean the obvious.
mircea_popescu: listen, if you say "diff should parse scheme" instead of "diff should be turing complete" people'd follow a lot easier.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: you can't put a kernel in every single thing including the diff utility!
mircea_popescu: i just don't see the gap between "cleanly covers corner cases" and "is turing complete" bridged.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> nor was the thing in any sense designed at all, really. << quite very much this.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes> that bet is going to surprise some people << "overall" covers it imo
mircea_popescu: us-style retail banking is an abominable pile of nonsense the likes of which nightmares are made of.
mircea_popescu: i will be off to do things with slutty girls now, bbl.
mircea_popescu: and the one in the middle is all like "Shit, i really got the worst boobjob in the world"
mircea_popescu: damn we're not even a decade in can't find shit in the logs ;/
mircea_popescu: there's a depth acquired from "boring" narrowness of subject.
mircea_popescu: the one where new people see the same ravines and tend to build the same bridge long dead people saw and built ?
mircea_popescu: (and for the record i will point out that tlp is anglotard enough to miss most of the substance. there's perfecty good reason everyone painted the same god damned vase with two apples next to it, and this has little do to with "you're not boring son ok" and a lot of fucking things to do with ... damn, where's that thread about ther ancient battlefield ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: well now that we understand the positions in theory, a negotiation for functional practice may begin.
mircea_popescu: everything makes sense, my dear alf, as long as the cane doesn't cut into one's own buttocks.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so they did. and women beaten for cutting cabbage wrongly. and on it goes.
mircea_popescu: Texting and social media's slowness gives them their power for this purpose. You read a text, and it lingers, it keeps your attention because it's all there is; and then you respond with a piece of your real self, and wait for a response... what's happening is time travel-- while you are on pause, the rest of not-your life goes faster. It is far more efficient at killing time than a phone call.
mircea_popescu: hen the "natural" conversation stops being interesting-- and it will, even if most of you weren't bad at it-- it would be a judgment about your relationship, about you. And you'll beg St. Jobs to blink a path to safety because otherwise you have to sit there with no existential support.
mircea_popescu: opularity of Downton Abbey, not to mention alcohol and iphones at dinner. It is against this background of "phony" convention that teens can productively "rebel" and find their own individuality against a status quo; fighting against an emotionally illogical, arbitrary, unpredictable structure results in learning the opposite lesson, "whatever gets me through the day..." Without this structure to social activities, w
mircea_popescu: ity is freeing, it allows self-conscious physical bodies to get used to standing next to each other without having to be acting, this includes husbands and wives. When dinner is a controlled process with "manners" and expected topics of shared conversation and start and end times, as boring as it may get, it is boring, not you. Women are especially sensitive to this absence of convention, this is one reason for the p
mircea_popescu: But why do we need "the balance?" What does it replace, what went missing? The very thing Holden Caufield hated: "phoniness", protocol and ritual for seemingly no purpose. Politeness is fine, but why do I have to make small talk? Why do I have to pretend to care about the weather? Why, after a decade of marriage, should dinner be a regular review of the somewhat boring goings-ons of "the day"? Because that formal
mircea_popescu: hmmm where's that article about boring family life, and hating the boring structure but nevertheless benefitting from it
mircea_popescu: the deep secret here being that the potatoes are objectionable FOR BEING POTATOES, whereas their absence is objectionable universally.
mircea_popescu: you can't be a clinician without treating people, which yes, peeliong potatoes.
mircea_popescu: to this day the only way to become a carpenter is to carpent. the only way to become a whoremonger is to fuck.
mircea_popescu: what you get when you take toil out of psychologi is lacan. he is not a psychiatrist,
mircea_popescu: what you get when you take toil out of painting is warhol. he is not an artist
mircea_popescu: this is a fantasm. that you'd like it be true, i believe you. that it is, i do not believe you.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this is why the v is so important. does away with any exam.
mircea_popescu: which is why the same proteins make dog and dog vomit.
mircea_popescu: machine is not a pill against retardation. nevertheless, system is a method for limiting expression of retardation.