asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: to the logz! >> http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-08-2015#1239085 ☝︎

asciilifeform: d- also worx

asciilifeform: hence kansas is l-kansas.

asciilifeform always insisted that either kansas ought to be pronounced 'kensaw', or 'arkansas' ought to be r-kansas.

asciilifeform: l-kansas.

asciilifeform: max k-strategy

asciilifeform: was gonna say.

asciilifeform: ^ epic, still worth reading today for the lulz

asciilifeform: like 'ovdocs'

asciilifeform: ah!

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: was it also a spiffy tsr that could be invoked at any time and would look for ~changed bytes~ in ram ?

asciilifeform: and also fish!

asciilifeform: sure they do

asciilifeform: sop, even.

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: mats: this probably won't shock you, but it is possible to know how to do 10,001 useful and rare things, and still starve.

asciilifeform: ;;ud aztlan

asciilifeform: http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html << lulzy

asciilifeform: ~aztlan~

asciilifeform: aztlan.

asciilifeform: mno

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: if i had to guess, it's the desire to earn living with terminal rather than kalash

asciilifeform: wilbns: see thread: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=13-02-2014#499423 ☝︎

asciilifeform: mats: then at least you have the mega-superpower that folks can't tell immediately by face that you couldn't possibly have meatwot

asciilifeform: phf: ditto, also least favourite

asciilifeform: mats is originally from cn ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: if not - won't be in 5 years, or 55

asciilifeform: if you're cn-compatible, buy ticket, sail.

asciilifeform: why wait?

asciilifeform: mats: buying ticket yet ?

asciilifeform: mats: they're good... now

asciilifeform: (as a boy)

asciilifeform: mats: been there, done that, traded a shoebox full of toiletpaper money (printed on usg-donated presses during collapse!) for $1 usd.

asciilifeform: phf: girl digested it ?!!!

asciilifeform: like post-ww2

asciilifeform: mats: usg, like wheat (the latter as described in mircea_popescu's essay 'when you become wheat') thrives in a half-destroyed world ☟︎

asciilifeform: there is, iirc, even an english transl somewhere!

asciilifeform: phf: aha!

asciilifeform: they are - successes.

asciilifeform: to the engineers, those aren't failures.

asciilifeform: <mats> the rest of the world failing around you is the early warning system << distinguish the natural (drought) from the usg-engineered (just about everything else) failures.

asciilifeform: ^ orlov's 'you will not be told when collapse has happened, only when it has happened to ~you~'

asciilifeform: phf: entirely other fella, but familiar theme, aha

asciilifeform: http://pelevin.nov.ru << that one

asciilifeform: him.

asciilifeform: learn fucking languages.

asciilifeform: nor ever expect one!

asciilifeform: but afaik no english ver

asciilifeform: the book was, iirc, 'love of the three zuckerbrins'

asciilifeform: trinque: which is a catgurl or the like.

asciilifeform: trinque: nah you see his 'avatar'

asciilifeform: (as most already do)

asciilifeform: mats: 'work' also inside the machine.

asciilifeform: which were not removable except at great peril.

asciilifeform: (fucking assigned receptacle/inverse, as case may be, but seeing their idiotbook simulacrum at ~all~ times in the goggles)

asciilifeform: wilbns: v. pelevin had a hilarious sf yarn where people not only did this, but fucked this way

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-08-2015#1241705 << recall 'gametool' and 'gamewizard' ? ☝︎☟︎

asciilifeform: still a thing..?

asciilifeform: then again, a back door may be found for it to safely walk through, like google's employment not-iq-really-fuck-you-not-iq tests

asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=18-08-2015#1241709 << this will be ruthlessly suppresses because it is RACIST ☝︎

asciilifeform: spiffy.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: l0l!!

asciilifeform: fortunately, this is not difficult. (on your desk, at least.)

asciilifeform: trinque: there are things that could be had today only if you were to recreate the world of yesterday.

asciilifeform: http://www.madwizard.org/images/content/el/modplayer/fasttracker2.png

asciilifeform: ever.

asciilifeform: *didn't crash

asciilifeform: was more or less superior in every way to the linked example.

asciilifeform: didn't need a heavy multiprocess operating system,

asciilifeform: for one thing, 'fastracker' didn't crack, didn't need window dragging or tab flipping,

asciilifeform: (to, e.g., 'fasttracker')

asciilifeform: there is no modern equivalent.

asciilifeform: (though it is debatable whether the output was 'music')

asciilifeform: me.

asciilifeform nostalgic from the naivete of the 'encryption' section in 'swag'

asciilifeform to this day considers any programming environment that can't display a full reference to the language on demand, optionally searchable by keyword at current cursor, to be inferior

asciilifeform: what could be easier.

asciilifeform: bbbut... it even had built-in dictionary of keywords

asciilifeform: phf: now, turbopascal 7 for msdos - ~happened~ !

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/DATATYPE/0033.PAS.html << lifecoin !

asciilifeform: delphi happened under winblowz and therefore for me never happened.

asciilifeform: ^ in case anyone thinks idiocy was invented yesterday

asciilifeform: http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/DATATYPE/0026.PAS.html << lulzy derp

asciilifeform: http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/MISC/0209.PAS.html << eliza.

asciilifeform: these, one might add, are SELF-CONTAINED (with exception of msdos and occasional bios call.) no 'libraries'

asciilifeform: (yes)

asciilifeform: http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/MISC/0004.PAS.html << movie player.

asciilifeform: http://www.retroarchive.org/swag/MISC/0168.PAS.html << try & write this for modern system (NO WWW IDIOCY) in this many lines.

asciilifeform: http://www.retroarchive.org/swag << proper archive. ☟︎

asciilifeform: http://web.archive.org/web/20080704193847/http://www.bsdg.org/SWAG/STRINGS/0096.PAS.html << example

asciilifeform: http://web.archive.org/web/20110227081730/http://www.bsdg.org/SWAG << better.

asciilifeform: ferfuxxake

asciilifeform: gotta 'javascriptate' everything, aha

asciilifeform: i mean, wtf.

asciilifeform: now why didn't this schmuck make the entries linkable

asciilifeform: do it!11

asciilifeform: ^^^

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 'that is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even death may die' (tm) (r)

asciilifeform looks for the copy of 'gold bug' virus that some derp threw into swag and claimed as 'universal decompilator'

asciilifeform: holy fuck.