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mircea_popescu is fucking tempted to try and find one here. i bet you it exists.
mircea_popescu actually said "well obviously" in class when learning about teh space race from soviet perspective. "FIRST SATELLITE!111"
mircea_popescu: this buran item, made out of solid steel, huge noise. i said it scared the shit out of me and iirc you said the same
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform nah, that's where you teach them they're chickenshits. remember the vacuum ?
mircea_popescu: "It’s unacceptable when the Master of your college is dismissive of your experiences."
mircea_popescu: soviets ashamed of themselves ? sort-of like going to the strip club to watch a bunch of nude ladies bent like teens and protecting their pubenda.
mircea_popescu: im kinda miffed we don't get moar of the "precious indications at the xth congress" solemnity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform seems to be the plan for "continued economic growth"
mircea_popescu: "They have again and again shown that they are committed to an ideal of free speech, not to the Silliman community."
mircea_popescu: they do it everywhere, step 1 : replace food with synthetic condensate, which doesn't work as food ; 2 : go to doctor to cure your problems arising from the fact that you don't eat food, you eat tyres and wd40.
mircea_popescu: this fucking us insanity. step 1 : replace computer with phone, which does not work as computer ; step 2 : stop doing the things you used to do on compuer you can't now do on phone.
mircea_popescu: "error stanford computer science" is just abour righr.
mircea_popescu: whjat i mean by "best practices sorta thing" : nobody;'s going to hang you if you don't do it, but should seriously consider doing it.
mircea_popescu: obviously if you break the principle you break the principle.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, the only case where a "source is the spec" could be excused, is properly written knuth c.
mircea_popescu is rather partial to the concept of "god damned it source code should be written in essay form what is this machine serving bs"
mircea_popescu: if you end in this situation where you have a beautiful prototype and a buggy implementation people are going to hate you.
mircea_popescu: write it in lua if that's genuinely what works for you.
mircea_popescu: phf you're not required to agree to this inasmuch as you're using your own time & hands.
mircea_popescu: so gossipd is practically going to be lisp hand-compiled ot c ?
mircea_popescu: if we manage to avoid the insane state of importing openssl bondogle to do crypto we're so far ahead of the game...
mircea_popescu: so in this sense the design is sane, as he has it. callout to "gpg", to be replaced by p
mircea_popescu: but i want it to be one thing and everyone statically links IT
mircea_popescu: they'll, if nothing else, help us understand the api to it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform they're not a dead end for the following reason : the P must be a stand-alone building block anyway.
mircea_popescu: publish a prototype, im sure alf will be more than happy to look through it, plenty other people will test it etc.
mircea_popescu: re the meat : all of these are major projects, the expectation, imo reasonable, is that whoever decides to work on one starts by publishing code, which will vehehehery likely need refactoring perhaps even redesign. because we're here shooting in the dark. so rather than managerial idiocy, i much prefer somnething like how v worked out.
mircea_popescu: they better be spending half the day on knees praying mr toupe wins, because if he does there won't be power vacuum for young corporal/painter to take over.
mircea_popescu: "look at me masturbate! everything fits the pink box in retrospect!"
mircea_popescu: nfi what that "longreads" thing's supposed to be, but w/e.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform dossiers, dossiers, but once they start coming out you know there's at least a guard change afoot
mircea_popescu: anyway, iac certainly stands to gain the most should the general gullible public be persuaded that normal social interaction "could be" rape.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: they own zillions of spamsites, pretty much in every language iirc.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes match.com, plenty of fish, okcupid tinder and the rest of the lesser known implementations of the social media dating scam are all owned by iac.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: my grandfather used to use it. i never cared for the thing myself.
mircea_popescu: i dunno dude, it's insane. im gonna end up making jewish pickles with wasabi
mircea_popescu: these schmucks know nothing of anything. i can't pickle cabbage because in spite of not having proper picking barrels, yet i found something, and in spite of not having picking salt, except i found some (they use it for curing meat!) and in spite of not having etc etc,
mircea_popescu: i can't possibly have more champagne but i'm celebrating with milk.
mircea_popescu: the problem is they've lost control, the orcs are running amok, and as a result there's not going to be any donations, there's not going to be any electoral support and moreover the opposition can mop up the entire democrat tammany hall machine.
mircea_popescu: protection racked overheated, and i somehow doubt they'll manage to moderate it back to usable envelope. used to be hillary got donations and grassroot support from wolfe n1...1k on the promise of protection from the democrat footsoldiers and/or hitting the opposition.