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pete_dushenski: "Police made at least five arrests for charges including burglary and flourishing
a weapon." << flourishing! how poetic.
pete_dushenski: losing my account and losing 20% of your share price just
a month later? hmm, twitter, very hmm.
mod6: or select
a jpg from
a random pool of hotbutts
assbot: Make it
a positive integer.
assbot: Need
a number of lines.
assbot: Need
a number of lines.
assbot: Logged on 22-02-2015 19:30:55; asciilifeform: jurov: the zip tie and the effete executioner of the future are
a match made in heaven. no need to watch the victim struggle, dance. zip - next.
ascii_field: i also love how mircea_popescu put this box in
a war zone
ascii_field: if folks were to put
a million keys through this thing each day, every time
a new planet with intelligent pgp-using aliens is contacted, i would probably tweak
a few things, yes.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: if you read 'werker' - there is
a polling knob
ascii_field: considering that previously, this thing wasn't even on
a computer in the usual sense - this is
a major step forward.
ascii_field: ty mircea_popescu, for
a very palpably faster box.
mircea_popescu: the internet's not
a truck, where yo ucan just dump stuff you know!
cazalla: been running fine for
a while but now, same problems i had
a few months back :\
ascii_field: next when i get
a moment i'ma cook up
a proper jinxed keypair
gribble: Error: "ANSWER" is not
a valid command.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yes, as
a kind of torture test. anyone should be able to do this
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: it will churn if you submit
a new key or req retest of an existing key
jurov: not so long ago, i have found alf
a box, he declined. now he has to take whetever there is.
ascii_field: davout: just now i took
a moment to set up on that box, and ran into
a few boojums
ascii_field: found idiocy, will describe later if anyone gives
a shit
jurov: williamdunne: you mean w.b-
a.link/trust/some/else/json? yes that could return {} instead of "no data"
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 10:25:18; punkman: also, cab driver: "check out the hottie over there" *honks* "oh shit that was my cousin. damn she lost
a lot of weight"
williamdunne: ;;later tell kakobrekla would it be possible for w.b-
a.link/some/parameters to return valid JSON?
mircea_popescu: " When the "people" of earth finally get the message that brainpower is the limiting regent in life they'll soon start to change their tune - or find themselves living in
a ~leper colony/africa." << this is not how things work
mircea_popescu: "The studious will note that this is
a completely solved problem that no machine learning algorithm will be able to approximate anytime soon." i'm sorry...what ? solved how ?
☟︎ mats: euro debt having
a bad day
trinque: this is the guy working on
a distro?
mircea_popescu: he's sitting over there going "hmm.... i would need something like
a tube... but with fins on it... yeah that's right, two large fins..."
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 08:38:32; gabriel_laddel: "I need the ability to publish
a unit of research as an interactive program containing all information used to draw my conclusions. It shall be entirely and trivially modifiable, extensible, and if reproducing the research is possible on this machine, running the program shall be
a single click or procedure call away. WYSIWYG tools shall be included and fashioned from the precepts of geometry. Thus,
mod6: haha, is that
a reverse-stocks of somesort?
mircea_popescu: there's
a balance to be had between "shared context" and "mass hysteria".
a meeting of autonomous minds is one of the very best ways to achieve that balance.
mod6: Anyway, thanks guise. I think that helps me clear
a few things up.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> ~whether one even uses libnss or not~! << so even if we didn't even call "whatsMyIP()" or w/e it is, this would still be
a dingleberry attached to glibc.
mod6: <+ascii_field> the patch, note, did not remove all (there is
a 'what is my ip' thing in there ) << ah, i recall. ok and this is what initiated the conversation about SHA256 addy's as opposd to dotted quads right?
mod6: we were on track at that point to try to cut
a milestone. but just about that time is when we hit the tx validation problem in 168`000 ; I think your patch just got lost in the shuffle.
ascii_field: the patch, note, did not remove all (there is
a 'what is my ip' thing in there )
BingoBoingo: "The hardest part was often reaching Fernández and Castiglione. “I had to call Brenda four times today,” she said with
a smile." << lol
mircea_popescu: (this may be
a polichinelle's secret for which everyone here just happens to be polichinelle, but : the history of discussion, problems and criticism of languages as approached by IT types almost exactly mirrors
a very similar effort in teh humanities)
davout: from what I find it's
a neologism from jacques derrida
mircea_popescu: ie, "you go design
a better army and
a better war over there with your wooden horse, toy sword and military costume, while we're gonna beat these assholes over here"
mircea_popescu: at any rate, THIS is why i ask people "well, can you do it on
a cpanel box" well before.
☟︎ ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [00:54] how the everliving fuck is cpanel used with anything other than php/static wwwtron << fwiw asciilifeform i went through
a very similar saga on
a very similar popescuian box. i just thought that "this was how things were supposed to be" and labored in silence.
ben_vulpes: finding tango partners online is like 1/1000000th as good
a use of time as finding bdsm partners
mircea_popescu: the string "tango" was for ununderstood reasons banned on
a very popular (among the females) chat application of the 80s, at
a time you'rew supposed to have been in kindergarten.
mircea_popescu: in any case, it is perfectly wrong to imagine scbl has the magical quality of magical quality (and then move on once the horde shows it trivially breaks). for one thing, c was
a very intellectually respectable thing, back when i was
a kid.
mircea_popescu:
a) idiot interacts with system ; b) idiot forms malformed internal representation of system ; c) sane person has no incentive to fix b) ; d) system evolves ~always~ to match its representations.
mircea_popescu: the incentives are badly alligned, and the habit of beating children (
a subcase of, oppressing the oppressed FOR THE REASON that they're already oppressed) went out
mircea_popescu: and if I write the dict, there isn't
a way to write
a program that can import it at all.
mircea_popescu: there isn't
a way to write
a program that can import
a dict and fix my grammar.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115422 << this, i will point out, is in no way related to any inherent property of either (unless you mean lisp is inherently going to fail), but simply
a function of context. had the linux kernel been implemented in sclb, and had the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy to the tune of > 10 mn lines
☝︎☟︎ assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 07:35:59; gabriel_laddel: Portage has
a USE flag (what is that? Idk, some nonsense abstraction) for docs so you can tell it to build all docs, but it gets caught in cyclic dependencies atm.
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 07:33:47; gabriel_laddel: I'll note that I wrote
a prototype for the RPC described above - ran into an issue with TCP or the library I was using it from. Messages were disappearing in flight.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? " << this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "
a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow, as
a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
☟︎ Adlai: seems parsimonious that in
a channel where
a bot announces link titles, there's no need to supply them yourself
davout: mircea_popescu: sounds like each would do
a small and simple job unix philosophy
Adlai isn't sure there was
a year prefix in those days
mircea_popescu: i want it to complain to the dev about every.single.problem. EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM. and it must be as
a fucking clickbox, in his face.
mircea_popescu: the computer's job is to be
a most humbly abject slave, perpetually and consumatedly on its knees following you around, with the dedication and unwavering insistence no dog can summon.
mircea_popescu: the computer's job is NOT to be the fucking master, and make its own decisions
a la windows. the computer's job is NOT to be
a solipsistic retarded geek and just do its own thing like anal children do.
mircea_popescu: ort what I can figure out about the context ? b) iterate you through all locations ? c) change it back ? d) run
a trace see what happens ?"
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "why are the holes not marked or filled?" << ftr this is not what i was contemplating. what I was contemplating is, why the fuck don't defaults pop up. bring back the fucking paperclip, put it the ONE place where it makes fucking sense. "hey john, I see you changed FuckOff() from bool to int. This function is called 82 places in 22 files. Would you like me to
a) check all places where it's called and rep
☟︎ assbot: The downtrodden are downtrodden for
a reason. Step on their faces! on Trilema -
A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1bekiPw )
Adlai: this is quite
a bizarre level of mischief
Adlai: "Taaki and his sister once broke into an old hotel, stole the bibles from every room, doused them with cleaning fluid, set them on fire, and threw them down
a well to see how deep it went. For that, their father never punished them."
HeySteve: mircea_popescu, do you have an opinion on Uruguay as
a place to live?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's not saboteurs, it's kids looking for
a special identity.