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mircea_popescu: it is with great sorrow i say the above, no sort of anticipation.
mircea_popescu: why do you think i myself have anything to do with it ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel your protest is not unlike protesting everything on earth gotta spin around the sun.
mircea_popescu: if nobody had taught poettering how to write, the loss ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform most mathematicians hate teaching anyway
mircea_popescu: yes. empty "goodwill" is closer to a crime than to a good thing.
mircea_popescu: "The fuel, as usual, is the emotional blackmail of people of goodwill, the uses of mass mobilization to exploit that goodwill, then, finally, to render all such goodwill meaningless."
mircea_popescu: so... let them pick sex partners. that's the only education they either can have or need.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a) you can't educate "a class". individuals only ; b) you can't educate people you don't, most intimately, know ; c) there's no education outside of the educated's choice.
mircea_popescu: there is really no substance to the institution of marriage outside of this.
mircea_popescu: how about you educate your children pre-puberty, and whoever they feel like educates them post ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel think about it. why would you want to spend time with an idiot if you're not fucking her. and what else is an idiot if not one in dire need of some education.
mircea_popescu contemplates a future where the only tuition is prostitution.
mircea_popescu: incredible the amount of innovation simply sprouting forth from the ground once someone says "nobody asked you anything" @ the usual barnacles.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes well, yes, tomorrow. but can't hurt thinking about.
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell agorecki how's the learning coming along ?
mircea_popescu: what's needed is a fucking ISCS. the intellectual state of computer science.
mircea_popescu: just biding their time, waiting for a good opportunity, honest! wanted to do maximum damage, and as we all know, ~MAXIMUM~ damage is always in the future.
mircea_popescu: because truly, it was waiting for salvation! resisting through culture!
mircea_popescu: incredible that this "free world" thing has waited patiently, and incredibly quietly, for 25 years for us to show up. i imagine it will be very hurt in its hopes and aspirations when i spit in its mouth.
mircea_popescu: For instance: #include <stdio.h> int main(int argc, char **argv) { printf ("Hello World\n"); } compiles to 985,018 bytes. This is almost all libc overhead.
mircea_popescu: imo nsa of 1999 was much better organised than the crap of today.
mircea_popescu: "You don't have to boot frmo the CDROM. And if you need a router you have a network and therefore can connect to another machine."
mircea_popescu: just don't put anything coniferous / wallnut in there.
mircea_popescu: not very useful, for your thing will not be either that wet or that basic. very acidic
mircea_popescu: and i did add the wood clippings, ie, me cutting off an apple and a pear tree into shape over a coupla years, after having been neglected for 5ish
mircea_popescu: ideally you start it with a good offering of herbivore droppings.
mircea_popescu: also rots. also provides nutrients. can be split up over the yard beforer first snow.
mircea_popescu: then they will wish to know why isis comes and beheads them
mircea_popescu: then went to supermarket and bought feed for the poor yard.
mircea_popescu: which means about 20 in a year, which the neighbours helpfully PUT OUTSIDE BY THEIR DUMPSTERS.
mircea_popescu: they had to murder the connection to buy themselves another 16 hours, because OMFG THEY'RE DOING WHAT ?!?!? NOW ?!?!
mircea_popescu: then the ability of the wankers to poison the chain becomes nil : sure, whatever nodes listen to them listen to them. the infrastructure does not.
mircea_popescu: which is to say, i wish my node to connect only to people on THIS list, and let anyone connect to it.
mircea_popescu: the entire idea of what we are building here is NODE HIERARCHY.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: to think that it's not already in there for crying out loud.
mircea_popescu: have a -checkpoint=111 -checkpointe=113 which takes blocks 111 to 113 hashes them dumps hash.
mircea_popescu: "The exchange sheds further light on the latest work" << yeah. it sheds the following light : "work" by these wankers consists these days of outputting random strings from pre-made texts and trying to do a cute seleciton thereof.
mircea_popescu: <chetty> is it just me or does that machine sound a bit like mp? << o.O
mircea_popescu: roduced for "reasons". and so he is in the unenviable position of one whom we do not doubt that behaves as one that is guilty - ie, must have known, said nothing ever.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the thing that boggles my mind is that rms ~must~ have known about the fifth column << you would have expected to read about it on his trilema, yes ? of what is this expectation built, if not out of the existence of trilema, and of the existence of mpoe-pr at my orders, and of the culture this engendered ? rms does not read trilema ; in his ignorance, trilema does not exist and same thing can not be rep
mircea_popescu: and as decimation points out, yes we've agreed an ant's insane.
mircea_popescu: it all makes perfect sense, looking at it now. they look like patently insane if considered on the merits, but if considered culturally they are simply "i just work here" and "this is how the world works". about as insane as an ant.
mircea_popescu: this is also why poettering et all so plainly expected it to work etc/
mircea_popescu: e world were dreaming about in their cells twenty years ago, like my grandfather looking at the sky waiting for "the americans" to show up.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> linux ecosystem was drepperized so long ago that scarcely anyone remembers. << kinda why everyone is reacting with so much disbelief at the sudden "this is not acceptable". they had been doing it forever, gavin as a marginally retarded peripheral agent of the idiocy got totally blindsided by an armed insurection. that we'd pursue it is i suppose plainly unthinkable, the sort of thing the rmcgraths of th
mircea_popescu: before that existed, python worked fine, and static builds were trhe default and so on.
mircea_popescu: and i base myself on the fact that they worked pretty well in practice until the new generation of "reformist" idiots got involved, and put 'locale' as a concept in c.
mircea_popescu: "Nobody must use them except for very few exceptions and for those larger code size is ok."
mircea_popescu: " nobody used the code for real " ; "I personally don't care at all how big static binaries are."