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mircea_popescu: in other news, "you charging passerbys for the sexual use of your wife is very bad because she'll lose mindshare. should give her away for free, and then raise the children. experts agree!"
mircea_popescu: im kinda surprised we're not hearing all about faux-bitcoin "mindshare".
mircea_popescu: also what "stealing the stealing" is. check out gcc, and it's "mindshare". because that's what we're calling reddit votes now.
mircea_popescu: "hey, some 8 yo might have died for some reason - wouldn't you like this list of washington apointees to decide who can marry in pakistan and when and wqhy ?"
mircea_popescu: and perhaps the best illustration in history of what ~exactly~ "flag of convenience" means.
mircea_popescu: The dearth of actually successful Open Source companies (where Open Source is part of a permanent rather than an exit strategy) makes it pretty clear that this "realistic" advertising strategy is not actually founded in much realism.
mircea_popescu: Uh, Eric Raymond explicitly created the "Open Source" label exactly to appeal to industry players who considered bothering with principles suspicious. So yes, Open Source is for people without principles. That's not Stallman's pitch, but an explicit design goal of the Open Source agenda. To replace the appeal to principles, a bunch of technical and marketing criteria are propounded.
mircea_popescu: Posted Jan 25, 2015 13:39 UTC (Sun) by dakas (guest, #88146) [Link]
mircea_popescu: or to quote the webexperts in derpxertises, "The elephant in the room is that GCC and emacs aren't competing against proprietary compilers so much as they are against LLVM and clang. Whichever one has better features and support for programming is going to win mindshare and without mindshare you are dead. This is compounded by the fact that there are several major corporations helping LLVM along so you need steady cont
mircea_popescu: i don't care about the site being down an hour a day, to save its guts.
mircea_popescu: during which we just established jack shit's taking place.
mircea_popescu: it can go straighht to ml, and it can be an early 2nd simpler project to handle via V
mircea_popescu: it occurs to me this;d be a fine project for a young gent. "here's this code alf himself wrote (in two hours). here's the problem. fix it without breaking anyhing!"
mircea_popescu: heck, the db shouldn't even complain, just hold the data
mircea_popescu: what does your factorizer do if the db returns "wait" or w/e it returns if a lock's active
mircea_popescu: mats lucky that the us was corrected up from the previous corection of 4.5
mircea_popescu: ascii_field go in as root, lock the db, dump it, unlock it.
mircea_popescu: the design as described is good, and it should be db-replicated
mircea_popescu: ascii_field so that db, can't it be snapshotted by a third thing ?
mircea_popescu: "I was amazed that they were able to persuade RMS not to block the conversion to C++, and as the article points out, five years of plugins have not led to disaster;"
mircea_popescu: ascii_field can't it be made to dump the product to disk along with some state every however long ? once a day ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field was quoting from a summary of that ast debate someone linked.
mircea_popescu: "i will now say some words about your position after which we disregard it and replace it with mine. MAGIC!!1"
mircea_popescu: "I recognize that you don't want me to "change the subject" to refactoring, but I don't see this as a change of subject."
mircea_popescu: ascii_field 24 hours is within range. even, maybe, a week.
mircea_popescu: software that's more friable than the hardware is a bad idea.
mircea_popescu: if multi hour outages are what you need, multi hour outages are what you'll get.
mircea_popescu: stop using whatever it takes, but the idea is, if a power outage a season means it does no useful work worth the mention, we can't have it. because we no longer live in the world of our forefathers, where shit worked. even obama gets power interrupted once a year.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn't fault you for ignoring them. i would fault you for "handling" an undefined concept in a weird way.
mircea_popescu: because that works now, and such nonsense counts as strategic design.
mircea_popescu: and his solution to it was a sort of "so i'll release just the tip"
mircea_popescu: anyway, basically stallman saw the problem of "if i release bitcoin then the twerps will get it and pretend to be using it, and then pretend to be improving on it and soon enough it will be indistinguishable from the sort of shit that it was made to kill. because the source of the shit drowning us is neither god nor the aliens nor unforseen circumstances - it's the lesser apes we insist on calling humans for no reason."
mircea_popescu: "open source people" used to mean something, like "burning man attendant" used to mean something. now it means something else.
mircea_popescu: just find out if you can put your hands on it and figure out if you want to.
mircea_popescu: i'm spending a lot more than 1k / mo on hosting. in fact i spend more on servers living space than on women living space, for my sins ;/
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla no you know, he's saved it there because that way, if we do something fishy, the record will be left behind.
mircea_popescu: and what exactly diverge you mean ? someone offered you half a rack for 500 except if you wish to touch it it's 19500 ?
mircea_popescu: jurov im not interested in what may happen as much as im interested in taking specific reasonable measures.
mircea_popescu: jurov in general, worth asking to get very clear answers because in principle i would be interested, but i have to clearly know what i'm interested in.
mircea_popescu: jurov but to be perfectly clear, this is a deal where you physically have access to the boxes in question and nobody else touches them
mircea_popescu: that's fucking exactly what trilema needs, an annoying dinger on people's phones ffs.
mircea_popescu: am i the only one getting spam from people trying to push blog-on-app "solutions" ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, iirc the french kid that was going to do one of the versions of the job board thing got upset and left in part because iho he was waitinfg for me.
mircea_popescu: o you didn't know ? grew upwards in larger size from previous.
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> or, alternatively, failing to do anything on account of waiting << i could give some examples of this, but of dubious actual substance.