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mircea_popescu: asciilifeform im pretty sure 16x16 "is not enough" because, for instance, "you can not
tell if
the strokes were made in
the correct order"
a111: Logged on 2017-07-15 16:48 asciilifeform:
they wanna say 妓 -- let'em be stuck saying 32 bytes (16x16 bit matrix, more
than enough for any hierohorror) rather
than 2 bytes !!!
phf: well, i have
to conveniently go afk at
this point :)
mircea_popescu: and
this is not
to count
the various jokes, and puns, and
that in
turn is
to not count all
the cases where i'm fucking with
the fucking with it deliberately.
mircea_popescu: for one
thing, sometimes my a is /a/ and sometimes /ə/. and even some other
times /ɨ/.
phf: but
that's an alternative solution, since unicode claims
taxonomy of symbols. "A" as written by mp in 2017 is not necessarily different from "A" written by mp during other
times (but it might map
to different A's within
taxonomy, e.g. latin or cyrillic one). in case of japs
they claim
that
the new symbol actually carries additional meaning
a111: Logged on 2016-08-03 15:40 phf:
the whole font changes meaning
take
two is coming from
the japanese.
they were actively promoting
this idea back during early unicode standardization days, where
there was a strong drive
to include every idiosyncratic version of kanji in
the standard, because "that's how my family writes it in our last name".
mircea_popescu: the only correct unicode, is, obviously, dated font
tables. whereby i write in
the year-specified letter a. and
to read my modern story
typeset in fraktur you have
to set your computer clock
to year 1199 or else
the machine will refuse
to print ("error!
temproally-unavailable fonts detected!") much like gedit refuses
to open files in gnome.
mircea_popescu: (and since on it : prince csaba was
the youngest son of atilla, king of
the huns).
phf: and have
the other half unified with greek
mircea_popescu: the reason
they did not wish
to do
this is plain racism :
they were afraid of me, and all
the humour i was about
to heap on
them (the above x is not h but p is r very much apropos), and
they understood (correctly)
that no such scholarsip is available
to yellow men.
phf: vaguely relatedly: if you drink unicode cool aid, shouldn't cyrillic latin subset like "a" be unified with
the latin equivalent, along
the lines of han unification? and
then you introduce "linguist context surrogate" or whatever
to actually give
the glyph proper i18n aware shape? or perhaps
that information should be contained purely in font, i.e. "russian" font has latin A rendered with russian
typographic conventions. #makeunicodegreatagain
mircea_popescu: csaba
the csaker could be a grandiose character,
though.
phf: yeah, scratch
the second part, i confused myself
phf: come
to
think of it, for non cyrillic readers, xakep is how you spell "hacker" in ru, written in
this case with latin alphabet, because it just happens
that
the subset of cyrillic required
to write
the word "hacker" in ru is also latin
mircea_popescu: but most go around with
this puta, neither cock nor cunt imature device.
mircea_popescu: wouldn't you like
to have your wine surrepetitiously drunk by such rather
than
the melanogaster ?
mircea_popescu: adding a "well,
the detector pointed
this way" answer
to
the repertoir wouldn't hurt jack.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i do all sorts of weird shit.
there's iirc
trilema
telling
the story of me calling chick out of
the blue. "how did you get
thsi number ?" "i had you followed".
mircea_popescu: otherwise moth's have huge ears instead of
those fuzzy chemcapture devices we call antennae.
mircea_popescu: fun fact : it should be able
to detect A PARTY (say, mingled perfumes in
trace amts) from a reasonable distance away.
mircea_popescu: i't put it on
the car in preference of "radar detector". who fucks radars.
mircea_popescu: rather
than deeply dubious "disease scanning arrays" from whatever stupid ho, how about
the equally dubious but deeply fun "go
this way" aerosol evaluator.
mircea_popescu: fucking moths have it built in ; and rats. what's kids
to do in
town.
mircea_popescu: phf no but i mean, directional. like
the metal detectors.
phf: mircea_popescu: you missed asciilifeform's "page 2: how
to get a girl from irc chat?"
mircea_popescu: you would expect
the one useful
tech could do for 15yo neh ? "left, right, left, left,
there she is"
mircea_popescu: laugh, but from
the
trouble it gives randos i would expect "how
to
trilema" is like sitting on a warez pedestal somewhere.
phf: yeah, pretty much. but 2600 has
the whole "fight
the powa!!1" vibe
to it,
this is more of a
trashy 16 y/o internet club rats learning how
to deface websites.
a111: Logged on 2017-07-20 00:47 asciilifeform:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-07-19#1686933 << when phf first described subj, asciilifeform
thought 'what if i saw it
then, would it have made sense, appealed?' but now i know -- no
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the game has no actual use for cards, it just uses cards
to generate some random numbers. it's not a card game, properly speaking, not anymore
than using your car engine for powering your laptop makes
the assemblage "it"
a111: Logged on 2017-07-22 17:57 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform reason why extinct is
that no longer need deck for rng. which is ~all
that was.
mircea_popescu: her eyes are kohl'd,
there's powder on
the cheek, and well chosen rouge on
the lip... what more, really ?
mircea_popescu: but
the point :
there's always winds. whether men blow
the winds against
the mechanisms, and create
the prison card playing world ; or whether mechanisms blow
the winds against people, and create
the "company policy" and us office,
there'll still be wind, and
there'll still be some
towers, and some ground down mounds were other
towers could have stood.
mircea_popescu: a sort of fairness-and-equality-through-simplicity-and-poverty is required for such
things. kinda why orange revolutions work, when
they do.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the discussion of card cheating brings us
to an inverse of
that ancient
towers point (
http://btcbase.org/log/2015-10-31#1312420 ) : it is only in prison
that
technology is sufficiently limited for
the "cheating -- allowed" approach
to work. yes, it does work well, and yes it is very warmly human. but it is also a strong part of
the rural vs urban dispute, in
that it is strictly a matter of rurality, and can not live
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform reason why extinct is
that no longer need deck for rng. which is ~all
that was.
☟︎ phf: apparently
terza is a pure sakhalin invention, stos is known in u.s. as faro or pharaoh and bura while also a custom prison game is essentially
thirty-one
phf: atch your opponnent, it's your right, know how
to cheat yourself, know how
to dispute a questionable win. a game is always between
two people -- one on one. none of
the pros would degrade
themselves by participating in a group game like ochko. none would be scared
to play against a strong “performer” either -- like in chess a real pro looks for a strong oponnent."
phf: (a rather butchered
translation) "it was sevochka, a famous expert at
terza, stos and bura,
the
three
traditional card games. he was a master of
the extensive ruleset, strict adherence
to which was mandatory in any real confrontation.
they said about sevochka
that he is an “excellent performer”
that is he shows
the skill and
the agility of a card sharp. of course he actually was a card sharp; an honest
theifs game is a game of deceit: observe and c