asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: everything off by default << not quite true. try building 'xorg' followed by 'emacs' and see end up with dbus, other horrors
asciilifeform: except he is didn't need to take the dope
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i think BingoBoingo was referring to the american usage - artist (or compulsive bathroom cleaner, see the old 'meth' thread) who stays awake for two weeks straight on 'manic episode' etc
asciilifeform: just like it's not priapism till the fun is over and gangrene starts
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: gurl enlisted with ubuntu machine? or forcibly deloused of winblows upon induction ?
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: what possessed you to set up the experiment described earlier?
asciilifeform: other observation is that 'ubuntu' (with the above atrocities and many others) is no more 'linux' than wintel 'is what a computer is'
asciilifeform: 'dbus' is unofficially but quite thoroughly a poetteringism, for instance
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: brings down the networking stack... fucks up dbus and everything else... nfi why we care so much about systemd, in fact linux has been fucked over for years now << you will find that the ubuntu 'stack' that can 'go down' consists almost wholly of poetteringisms
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ...sheeit alf, what nao << not my fault if the poor sod contracted 'brainwater' and can't hold systems in his head
asciilifeform: still used for genuinely safety-critical systems worldwide (virtually all jet engine controllers, etc.) - language from hell, required you to specify ranges for integers, and the like
asciilifeform: naggum's -other- lang. the only one other than cl that had not only a standard but a -rationale document- for every page
asciilifeform: i suspect that mircea_popescu would actually like ada. not writing it, mind you, but seeing it written☟︎
asciilifeform: if i could fork myself, i'd be severely tempted to: attempt an ada bitcoind.
asciilifeform: lol, i still don't know why it needed the gui at all
asciilifeform: now, did the thing -need- a cross-platfom gui? don't ask me, i've never used it...
asciilifeform: for what 'qt' does, there is no real alternative (other than 'wx', which is arguably even more of a cthonian horror in some ways)
asciilifeform: srsly, whoever asked that, read the damn thing. there's conceptually by far more 'boost' than straight cpp in there.
asciilifeform: re: the question of ripping out 'boost': not happening short of a total rewrite. it's used for virtually all iteration constructs, heterogeneous data structures, and 100 other things in the turd.
asciilifeform: speaking of which, someone asked which robotic vacuum cleaner it was that had decent software. it was the one made by 'neato robotics co.'
asciilifeform: FCC Commissioner: Proposed Internet Regulation 'Mimics Obamacare' << astroturf and misdirection. regardless of which branch of usg is at the helm (fcc or verizon) - the train will still end up at the same stop: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=208
