asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: lol, anybody with a kitchen knows that 'meat' isn't strictly flesh, yes

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: perhaps the ancient art of 'sword test' will be revived one day.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: strictly... to the skilled hands << against bare flesh ?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: close quarters, unskilled hands, unarmed target - blade has something to recommend itself over pistol

asciilifeform: 'medieval' pear << a gear puller is almost precisely a pear. visit a bicyclist's shop.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: and n2o not no2

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: for all i know, this is precisely how it is used.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: laughers can get all the laughing gas they could wish for, yes. i often see these bottles - emptied - lying on the kerb, fallen out of upturned student house dumpsters.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: can only speak for my case, but yes, the culinary shops sell NO2. where i live - in small cylinders approx. the size of a shotgun shell. i know full well which gas it is, because my sole use of it is in a miniature cutting torch.

asciilifeform: would someone care to explain why a previously-invalid opcode introduced by phoundation doesn't make a fork ?

asciilifeform: phoundation's 0.10 >> 'More script opcodes considered standard - more power for programmable money' << lol, hardphork?

asciilifeform: moar phunding needed.

asciilifeform: 'insufficient number and quality of bicorns issued to the napoleons'

asciilifeform suddenly grasps what the story was probably about

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: that was the question

asciilifeform: why would someone sit and formulate a 'plan' to talk to a whore ?

asciilifeform: ^ obligatory

asciilifeform: http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/ii18/drmabuse06/TimeTravelHitler.jpg

asciilifeform: what would have been the purpose of such an exercise ?

asciilifeform: as the necessary 'instead'

asciilifeform: i mean, it is approximately correct to say that it is discharging heat in the time between ticks

asciilifeform: heating the room.

asciilifeform: at some point you end up wondering what they're doing instead

asciilifeform: what happens to the rest of the time ?

asciilifeform: evidently not

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: mean to tell me that i'm the only one to 1) notice 2) say something on the net

asciilifeform: 3+

asciilifeform: just to underscore the sheer level of the braindamage i've uncovered - the thing won't build on any box with past 2+ yrs of glibc.

asciilifeform: i'd care to read'em. but nowhere

asciilifeform: where are the fossilized traces of folks doing it in insane matter, for lunatic reasons?

asciilifeform: where did the others go? ate their nagants from frustration ?

asciilifeform: this is sad.

asciilifeform: so the 'google finds unique strings' thing, sure - can we conclude that i'm the only one alive trying to build 'gnat' on 'gentoo' ? ☟︎

asciilifeform: the thing has a thoroughly spamatronic feel to it

asciilifeform: punkman: betcha that's a random number

asciilifeform: for all we know, they favour #b-a log on account of the sheer frequency with which sp4mz0rz and sc4mz0rz are mentioned here.

asciilifeform: google has extremely questionable motives and - at this point - competence

asciilifeform: the shitgnome destroyed the ability to use an entire language

asciilifeform already learned the cause of the error, but is looking to see who else was affected

asciilifeform: punkman: 'gnat "error: field 'info' has incomplete type" '

asciilifeform: punkman: does not appear to be...

asciilifeform: a few hrs ago.

asciilifeform: log of me crapping it in here

asciilifeform mindfucked, is searching for error msg, and #b-a log is #4 hit

asciilifeform: lol wut

asciilifeform: srsly, until very recently the common derp's sole item of 'knowledge' re: ar was that the fuhrer lives (yes) there

asciilifeform: i thought it was more ordinarily 'lives in argentina -> heil hitler' ?

asciilifeform: l0l!

asciilifeform: ain't happening. 'make world' on this box would take longer than the hardware's mtbf.

asciilifeform: no telling, also, what -else- will die

asciilifeform: http://pastebin.com/VkgE27Pd << undoes the shitgnomism, but wtf should i have to rebuild glibc and -everything- to use a perfectly ordinary proggy ?

asciilifeform falls down, stack overflowing

asciilifeform: can't afford children, etc

asciilifeform: the present-day crop of college kidz will never live in anything other than a kommunalka

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: we mostly have this already

asciilifeform: the wide kind.

asciilifeform: stake.

asciilifeform: (and yes, as far as i can tell, the recent glibc pant-shitting was -also- drepper)

asciilifeform: glibc

asciilifeform: shitgnome

asciilifeform: and yes, it perma-breaks the gcc 4.1 that is built as part of the gnat bootstrap.

asciilifeform: it was drepper.

asciilifeform: ^ we found the shitgnome.

asciilifeform: https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2012-03/msg01073.html

asciilifeform: the way printed on the box

asciilifeform: decimation: just for gnat to build, from source, on my particular, unremarkable gentoo box

asciilifeform: decimation: not even asking for an os

asciilifeform: to me.

asciilifeform: decimation: written in c, isn't a unix - hence uninteresting

asciilifeform: considering -who- typically dies of EtOH overdose, consider comorbidities.

asciilifeform: or field mouse

asciilifeform: is that value for man even

asciilifeform: wai wat ?!

asciilifeform: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7633136.html?sid=1e44c177a5b76671206084811186d30e << on earlier thread

asciilifeform: !s menstrual cookies

asciilifeform: beautiful idea.

asciilifeform: yeah this was described

asciilifeform: !s zoolag

asciilifeform: of the hows and whys of public executions in europe from 800 or so ad to present

asciilifeform highly recomments the historic tour 'seeing justice done' by p. friedland. one of the very few good works on the subject

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: aha!

asciilifeform: not the same, but related, as a ladder is to a staircase

asciilifeform: an exam is something like a punishment (for what? for having not yet demonstrated mastery, of course)

asciilifeform: but yes related

asciilifeform: and something else

asciilifeform: iirc it was 'disproportionate, unpredictable,'

asciilifeform: now that it came up, mircea_popescu did have a 'punishments' article that used something like that formula

asciilifeform: like soviet exams

asciilifeform: that is, reactive and unpredictable.

asciilifeform: the test is, in my imagination, an exam given in real time, in the flesh

asciilifeform: not quite

asciilifeform: incl. it.

asciilifeform: decimation: yes. and i can't say that i am interested in any future direction of 'c os' on 'c machines'

asciilifeform: but 'half a page of docs per line' is about what ought to be expected of 'therealbitcoin' when mature.

asciilifeform: fortunately we are not interested in usg certificates.

asciilifeform: see if you can produce one.

asciilifeform: mod6: i overlooked the std lib stuff, was satisfied with not seeing openssl, boost, bdb. but you are quite right, this is not a proper static elf