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mircea_popescu: "Sadly, that is not an undesirable result. Bloated code does not just keep programmers employed, but managers and whole companies, internationally. Compact code would be an economic disaster. Because of its savings in team size, development time, storage requirements and maintainance cost."
mircea_popescu: <jurov> so maybe we end up with malloc library, too... at least till mempool is completely redone <<< ahahahaha
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> pressing of cd was perhaps the ONE good idea in openbsd <<< certainly not a bad one.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> how to bridge the gap between 'v means i read and agree' vs. 'we need the source for these deps in the v-tree'? <<< " I signed this because we need the source for this shit. I didn't read it, I don't need to read it to tell you it's shit."
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell pete_dushenski yo start communicatin' before you get excommunicated!
mircea_popescu: you know we really need a lot better communication for these things.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> incidentally the de-glibc-ized trb WILL run on netbsd now! << o hey!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what, we only 0.01% of the engineers we need, why not make it 0.00001% ?
mircea_popescu: <ben_vulpes> only question in my mind is if we stick linus' kernel in there too. <<< eventually ;/
mircea_popescu: in other news, the oh in ohio is a pretty decent movie.
mircea_popescu: "you're a whore now anyway, baby, so why not suck this cock"
mircea_popescu: it would be so good if this "import" model of software died.
mircea_popescu: in other news, one inch of costa rica coffee, three inches of milk, a pinch of black sugar, three drops of vanilla oil (actual!), four ice-cubes and havana club anejo especial (genuine) qs makes the god-damnedest... bootleg kalhua let's call it/
mircea_popescu: probably will end up having to freeze a specified set.
mircea_popescu: above, simple weighted averaging. if you have any knowledge of the field there's prolly a better curve to use
mircea_popescu: obviously, HOW you reconcile the numbers is an open question.
mircea_popescu: if your dice is more-than-two sided exactly nothing changes.
mircea_popescu: for instance : if bet on tails is 50/40 btc and bet on heads is 42/49 btc, and they're both the same coin toss, then you could say it's (50+49)/(90+91) for tails.)
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes there's going to be disagreement so you hafta reconcile numbers somehow.
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> I'll tell all of you where I live and my name and then they can watch for the news << alright ?
mircea_popescu: in fact people routinely get poisoned with co and have not the slightest inkling.
mircea_popescu: well, if they do it's not co. you don't cough from that.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal honestly, this sounds a lot more like a psychotic episode than anything in phenomenology.
mircea_popescu: what else would you expect them to do with bitcoin ? send it to coinbase ?
mircea_popescu: in memory of that indigestible imbecileho from city hall who then got her just deserts in jackie brown
mircea_popescu: hey, maybe the english word for it should be "bridget fonda"
mircea_popescu: and hence the difference between software that's right, but buggy, and software that's simply wrong - and so can't even BE buggy.
mircea_popescu: normally this works by going A implies A', B implies non-A',
mircea_popescu: anyway. imo the english for lokalizatsiya provala would be "bug"
mircea_popescu: either that or the advantage of thinking in december vs august.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: the other thing a vtron needs to handle is orphans << heh.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> (you simply end up with a dead branch on the tree) << very much this
mircea_popescu: well, be all that as it may, i do hope that before i die i reach that enchanted nirvana where i don't have to deal with anyone other than mps.
mircea_popescu: but hey, they got a romanian too right ? must cunt for something.
mircea_popescu: that was the job, replacing the main sewage line. last done in the 60s.
mircea_popescu: anyway, my story with buying a coupla cartons of cigs for convicts digging street up ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if you think what's wrong with infrastructure neglected for a century is the clay, or the trees, or the roots or the gradients you're a very special fellow.