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asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'scripting language' has a meaning.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not to bytecode, not to forth-style threadedcode. had actual optimizing compiler, like gcc.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 15:28 mircea_popescu: there's no utility involved. suburban ustard wears item because of ~how it makes her feel~ to ~be seen~ as ~being one of the~ rather than any use.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i will also nitpick : 'erlang' does not belong in the list, it was a 1980s product that worked quite well in its industrial niche (large telco switches) but was later stolen and used as a totem by the folx from yesterday's thread ( http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1633873 ) ☝︎☟︎☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-03-30 14:04 mircea_popescu: i'm not saying "rust is bad mmkay". i couldn't care less, there's been tons of "new languages" fulfilling the need of people to "revolutionize". they all work, exactly in the way custom pliers work.
asciilifeform: also mircea_popescu the 'rust' link simply gotta be a parody
mircea_popescu: anyway, fucking tard. "my name is mircea_popescu ; i've been using chairs pretty much every day since the late 70s, and recently i started getting involved in this fantastic chair community"
trinque: ty mircea_popescu
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 06:33 mircea_popescu: "we represent the whole world*!!!" * as understood by whatever 3rd echelon bureaucrat in the us dept of our democracy that "handles" "canada".
a111: Logged on 2016-01-12 19:24 mircea_popescu: as someone once said, "their tricks work for them only a short distance of their run, and for us the whole run."
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 23:10 asciilifeform: lessee if mircea_popescu recalls, when he wakesup
a111: Logged on 2014-03-04 22:05 mircea_popescu: which means, concrete foundation, brick walls
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 22:15 asciilifeform: but there was that old mircea_popescu thread. where, approx, 'a dollar usg collects from mr.pleb in tax isn't so that usg can spend a dollar, it can spend $trillion, or ten, without collecting anything; it collects the dollar because otherwise mr.pleb will use it to bid up turkeys'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu was right, imho, tho, it wouldn't make good story, 0 element of 'future' in it
trinque: would fit nicely into mircea_popescu's future dystopia
asciilifeform: i can already picture mircea_popescu's barfometer redzoning, tho.
asciilifeform: lessee if mircea_popescu recalls, when he wakesup ☟︎
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: do you remember mircea_popescu's article about his friend who went to usa and tried to build a house of stone ?
asciilifeform: but there was that old mircea_popescu thread. where, approx, 'a dollar usg collects from mr.pleb in tax isn't so that usg can spend a dollar, it can spend $trillion, or ten, without collecting anything; it collects the dollar because otherwise mr.pleb will use it to bid up turkeys' ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 16:42 mircea_popescu: possibly we're talking of two things.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: possibly misbounded quoteblock in latest trilema
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i dunno, you implied the stink came from the synthetics alone!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: i don't follow the connection between the 'stinky' synthetic fabrics and the bacteria
phf: mircea_popescu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua1yKneI2Mw&t=12m10s
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 00:18 mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-28#1633429 << we did https://68.media.tumblr.com/fa9a2501411802f10f1ddcaf88a17b7f/tumblr_o218aqlfjI1sk3xdpo1_500.gif I take it ?
asciilifeform: but overall folx oughta remember mircea_popescu's observation from c3, that any attempt to reimplement ye olde grandfather's pistol from scratch, will almost certainly have at least one lethal 'accepts something the old -- would not' defect.
asciilifeform: see also mircea_popescu's 'magic numbers' article.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 00:47 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: presently it eats blocks and tx in a heapless and demonstrably nonoverflowable way, into a general-purpose fixed space (no tx can >1MB) representation that is operable in O(1)
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu is citing http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1633614 ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: https://cr.yp.to/contact.html
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: i thought he was being a bit satirical and snarky in that particular passage you quote (those two paras), from when i read it first. not that his general pose of presenting an excuse (if diligently detailed) of this kind of a good sign, of course. just that the tone is not *that* bad. (but, okay, perhaps bad enough when the piece is considered in whole.)
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: bernstein ?! has multi-MB www of unique and valuable work
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: trick q, geiger won't pick up alpha
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: could have brought your diesel!11
asciilifeform: hey mircea_popescu asciilifeform's family brought dishes, meat grinder, etc. to usa.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i did get that trunk of pogos through .ar customs. though it made for interesting conversation
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: actually tricky bit, say btc goes to 5k, then buyer may well be rather pissed, rather than 'oh i'll reorder'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i've had parcels marked 'gifts' disappear mysteriously
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: siemens turned out to be nsaware, recall.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc jp is not the only head on the chopping block;
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: usg will loot everyone who is still worth anything who has any vulnerable limbs in usgdom -- just as it looted 'olympus'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: or how 'create wealth' means 'drill into the printolade pipeline'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: atari, not amiga
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: jwz?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu must not have read the links in ^thread
asciilifeform: does mircea_popescu also disbelieve , e.g., http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-27#1632836 ? ☝︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the sad part is that d00d used to be ~sane
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the animal, imho, doesn't have a skin that anyone might care to wear. if you remove the safety, it simply becomes a muchly verbose cpp.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu has a thread a few days ago re sister-fucking, as example
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the term i usually use is 'ecological problem' -- and it is tricky, because how do you demonstrate that something is one, beyond dispute. this may be why various derps like to go straight to masquerading as ecologists...
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: it is interesting that programmers often lament 'we have no union', but in fact managed a 'confederacy of dunces' so strong and monolithic that they get away with crapola that'd get any other kind of artisan, mass-hanged
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha!
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: chile?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re camels, see also mega-poem, https://www.stihi.ru/2012/01/19/6202
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> this is gonna be more fun than i had thought. << Ecuador?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc vinylon (aka 'juche fiber', i shit thee not) not only feels slightly stiffer than nylon, but is undyable
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: on my home planet this was known as 'Докажи, что ты не верблюд'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: iirc there was a ban on 'red book' animals etc
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: don't these typically have leather inside ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: behind glass is not 'under sun', ~no uv
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: salvador.
asciilifeform: ohai mircea_popescu
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 06:55 mircea_popescu: there's a certain artisan's "i will touch all the items" vein in there.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-29 05:51 mircea_popescu: some of the new microfibers aren't bad.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-17 05:12 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the washing thing is a serious problem. turns out that if no women around, people stop seeing the point.
a111: Logged on 2015-07-02 21:36 phf: mircea_popescu: i'll keep that i mind. i'd like to give it a try, but i still have memories of tedium and despair from last time i tried building a crystal space project on mac
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: presently it eats blocks and tx in a heapless and demonstrably nonoverflowable way, into a general-purpose fixed space (no tx can >1MB) representation that is operable in O(1) ☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'not quite bitcoin'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: one mega-q is what to do with the knobs that never got turned, but could turn. e.g., sequence numbers.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-28 22:08 ben_vulpes: in re mircea_popescu's classic "girl bouncing around on all fours for a treat": http://68.media.tumblr.com/2dcd3ac18dfdbcd51fe376d5479591cc/tumblr_nratjy81nR1rs6a2oo1_400.gif
asciilifeform: aww, just when i thought mircea_popescu might have gone to help the basques nail the occupant scum
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu's 'tv raft'.
ben_vulpes: in re mircea_popescu's classic "girl bouncing around on all fours for a treat": http://68.media.tumblr.com/2dcd3ac18dfdbcd51fe376d5479591cc/tumblr_nratjy81nR1rs6a2oo1_400.gif ☟︎
trinque: mircea_popescu: long as they keep the californians they imported, I'm fine with it.
mthreat: mircea_popescu: austin's good, but i'm somewhere else at the moment. hint: i recently flew over butch cassidy's ranch house.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: coast of brazil
shinohai: mircea_popescu: ever visited Valparaiso ?
mthreat: mircea_popescu: en viaje - donde?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the truly mega-seekrit maps today are magnetometric, gravimetric, radio background, etc
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo goes well
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i haven't spotted a fudged coastline on google's map yet -- dun mean it ain't there.
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: p-panama?
jhvh1: mircea_popescu: Bitstamp BTCUSD last: 1064.02, vol: 8391.74520177 | BTC-E BTCUSD last: 1062.0, vol: 9709.32942 | Bitfinex BTCUSD last: 1058.5, vol: 23558.13526354 | BTCChina BTCUSD last: 1006.491647, vol: 5672.15140000 | Kraken BTCUSD last: 1060.051, vol: 3714.36133046 | Volume-weighted last average: 1054.40694027
mod6: mircea_popescu: ah, thanks for the tip!
shinohai: mircea_popescu: prolly
mod6: mircea_popescu: hah, sounds kinda familiar.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> i'm like... finally! people! doing commerce irl!~ << aha, nice.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: cuba ?!
mod6: hai mircea_popescu, wb!
mircea_popescu: perhaps in time that becomes a social game. "where-in-the-world-is-mircea_popescu ?" now from tabletop, inc.
asciilifeform: if not a mega-seekrit, where-in-the-world-is-mircea_popescu ?
shinohai: and Buenas dias Sr. mircea_popescu , wb o/
diana_coman: ha, wb mircea_popescu ; I left it on its own after I saw it was going ok, haven't quite timed it
a111: Logged on 2017-03-27 19:28 ben_vulpes: can also attempt a mircea_popescu, and go after the cps officer in question personally for making shit up
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: he didn't apologize
asciilifeform: ( maybe mircea_popescu knows ? )
ben_vulpes: can also attempt a mircea_popescu, and go after the cps officer in question personally for making shit up ☟︎
asciilifeform: iirc mircea_popescu's headache-inducing abolition of the short (!s etc) commands, was specifically about formally canceling there being such a thing as 'official log'
asciilifeform: in other lulz, somebody must've read mircea_popescu's story with the bus seats : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KakyqmG9XHs