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mircea_popescu: the fucking point of having an alphabet is that no, it couldn't move.
mircea_popescu: i can also trivially define the new location of washington dc.
mircea_popescu: and i should not be surprised, lest the scribe gets her ass colored.
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, sorting lists of words is the most basic, primary, entrly level task for any scribe.
mircea_popescu: so if i sort a file containing a bunch of words, i do not know if i should look for ___stuff at the end or beginning or scattered anywhere.
mircea_popescu: "Of the standard characters, those which are alphanumeric obey the following partial ordering:"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so is there a special function to inquire which of two comes before in the alphabet ?
mircea_popescu: they aren't ordered ? so "a" > "b" returns undefined ?
mircea_popescu: no, in the sense that they are specifically labelled thus with a label specifically made to label numbers.
mircea_popescu: so apparently characters are introduced by ... an escape sequence (lol)... which happens to be... NUMBER SIGN ?
mircea_popescu: "As an example, table 13-1 shows the character labels, graphic symbols, and character descriptions for all of the characters in the repertoire standard-char except for #\Space and #\Newline."
mircea_popescu gives up in frustration. if anyone recalls the damned thing say.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: by jumping the index, smashing stacks and doing all sorts of shenanigans.
mircea_popescu: the idea was that it sacrificed outlier cases to get a better performance curve geared towards more common cases
mircea_popescu: the bit discussing the cheating involved in the asm translation of search in c was added to the log about a year ago
mircea_popescu: no, this is not how search works "anywhere" in the universe.
mircea_popescu: dude if you imagine it is acceptable for me to sit here looking at two strings AND NOT KNOW exactly what the machine will do if i tell it to search
mircea_popescu: "The implementation may choose to search sequence-2 in any order; there is no guarantee on the number of times the test is made."
mircea_popescu: may be false rather than true, if the value of z is a character."
mircea_popescu: "In general, characters in Common Lisp are not true objects; eq cannot be counted upon to operate on them reliably. In particular, it is possible that the expression
mircea_popescu: eh, life managed to extinguish itself on its very own well enough.
mircea_popescu: they did all sorts of stupid shit, but again, the whole "a wizard did it, to a vectorizer, logically" is enough to sink that ship.
mircea_popescu: it'd have failed even more miserably if god himself sat with budhha and fucked the actual shiva on that very table.
mircea_popescu: the secret to winning the war isn't to make the other motherfucker die for his country. it's to discourage this motherfucking from thinking he can walk up the wall.
mircea_popescu: they tried the same sleigh of hand, basically. "oh, driving a vectorizer in a logical way"
mircea_popescu: anyway, i'm not prepared for this matter to get a ruling.
mircea_popescu: for all you knwo your kid will come up with novel shit.
mircea_popescu: the reason we spend so much ink on this is that it is in fact the biggest problem we met yet.
mircea_popescu: nah, those are just idiots, the lacan troop were actual trolls.
mircea_popescu: and then you wonder why idiot anglos have "issues" with word problems.
mircea_popescu: i bet you they all grew up as kids among a herd of wolves worshipping the symbol, never once thinking to make them write it down in words.
mircea_popescu: the heresies of barbarians are not accidental, but driven by fundamental stupidities of their culture.)
mircea_popescu: (they focus on the domain and fail to comprehend the limit. it's how we neded up with the power rangers in the first place.
mircea_popescu: i couldn't care less you use sigma or the integral. what matters is the foreword
mircea_popescu: and for the record : NO THEOREM, no rule or function or anything in ALL OF MATH can survive without the [usually more important] limits and domain definition.
mircea_popescu: did you or did youi not type ABS(x dx) in derive until you dropped!
mircea_popescu: you know this is so. you know it distinguishes the pass from the cheat.
mircea_popescu: is to hold up a piece of exam paper and say "now explain to me what's in here".
mircea_popescu: let me put this another way : the first, the cheapest and most formidable weapon every science teacher has to ferret out the cheat
mircea_popescu: For any smooth, simple closed positively oriented curve in a plane, if two functions are defined on any open region containing the area bounded by that curve, should those functions have continuous derivatives in the region then the integral over their sum is the integral over the region's integration of their differential.
mircea_popescu: i don't see this emerging other than by piecemeal correction, honestly.