asciilifeform: mod6: i must confess that i never once actually used 'doxygen' for anything. but saw the page linked yesterday, and it (at least if viewed in graphical www browser) does some nifty things, like unraveling class inheritances
asciilifeform: replaced with 'pet' (who, yes, may have pulled a borgia on poor old master. but quietly)
asciilifeform: yezhov's was a complicated matter. in the sense that he wasn't 100% 'pet', showed signs of being willing and able to bite stalin. so had to go.
asciilifeform: why would prof. lysenko here get desperate unless the cheques start bouncing ?
asciilifeform: not trying to frame this as a calamity, but as a force of nature
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: the only reason the usg-tronic 'department of fucking with bitcoin' is even theoretically of interest is that the machine isn't perfect. has some rust, sand in gears (as discussed, e.g., yesterday, re: mempool etc.) in effect there is a $maxint bounty by hitler for anyone who can demonstrably amplify the hiccups.
asciilifeform: the figure of lizardhitler in this affair was never disguised in earnest. he simply wore the traditional kabuki mask, pro forma
asciilifeform: the thing's a rogue's gallery of buterin, the 'ripple' folks, a 'law prof' devoted to digging up precedent for 'regulating cryptocurrency', etc.
asciilifeform: these are educated pseudoscientists, not 'tardstalk' denizens
asciilifeform: with shame i admit that i not only took degree there, but was employed for a spell under the same roof ('umiacs') with these mega-heroes.
asciilifeform: i bet the ee labs are already providing gratis fab & debug service for those
asciilifeform: not like there is any shortage of these.
asciilifeform: 'Feb 16: 10:30am AVW 4172 !! Guest Lecture by Vitalik Buterin, founder of Ethereum.' << can't believe i missed this lulzfest that happened half hour's walk from my house.
asciilifeform: it will be interesting to set the 'misbehaviour' triggers for the orphans crud to max once we have a respectably-complete network of therealbitcoin nodes.
asciilifeform: there will be a place where men 'speak like men,' and another, very different place, where monkeys are free to throw own shit at one another all day long.
asciilifeform: ultimately, the matter will be settled using the algo described earlier today by mircea_popescu:
asciilifeform: 'This effort didn't go very far at first, because Monsanto's marketing department reported that the only color customers wanted was red. Customers used red displays for calculators, so their only concern was getting cheaper LEDs. Marketing never considered other LED applications. Its conclusion that red was the only color wanted may have stemmed from asking the wrong question or asking the wrong people.'
asciilifeform: taken with the usual grain of strychnine with which one eats american academe, this is applicable
asciilifeform: as in, pull down a curtain and literally 'it vanished'
asciilifeform: in particular, how they will decide that what they cannot see, for whatever reason, isn't there
asciilifeform: i remember a course i had to do at uni, where we were shown various results re: the misconceptions about mechanics common among small children.
