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asciilifeform: ( there is unfortunately no such thing as a serial port that eats arbitrary baud rates. )
asciilifeform: best to think of it as 'in iron', rather than 'in verilog', other ways to specify the same circuit, get you same result.
asciilifeform: especially given as it is not quite so, and various sections have 'triggers' (particular signals that cause them to 'happen')
asciilifeform: (demo level: you start as mussolini)
mircea_popescu: certainly saw yugo clone as well
asciilifeform: '...A few dealers knew what they were doing and got their salespeople excited about it. Because of VisiCalc, one of the Burlington, Massachusetts, dealers became the most successful Apple dealer in the country at that time. Two of its salesmen ended up as two of the founders of Lotus (the original team that brought out 1-2-3). We only sold about 1000 a month for the first few months because we had
asciilifeform: can deal in 'human' concepts, that make sense on grid paper just the same as on the comp.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: if they 'banned stupid' -- would have to ban self, as a class, the entire yacht set
asciilifeform: lobbes: if you take work as a programmer where they program ~meat~ -- don't be surprised
trinque: to quote my old boss, one of his better observations imo is that spreadheets (and db as discussed in thread) are tools for classification and distinction
mircea_popescu: this seems about as unlikely as saying "in sane russia, sexually attractive women and women with pleasant personalities are the same woman"
mircea_popescu: this, however, is not as legit a reason as it seems.
asciilifeform: in what sense could a system that runs on excel etc. be described as 'high frequency' ?
mircea_popescu: so, with some regret, i will confess that no, high finance doth not qualify as that place where they have real software (tm).
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform same relationship as between script kiddie and trojan writers
mircea_popescu: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-10#1641453 << the hft trading folk are about as dumb as the "serious www publishing folk". the "implement from scratch" thing is a fiction, there to justify insane and unjustifiable expense. exaclty how and exactly why any third hand "outside consultant" in third world sells random dopes on "whole new cms!!11" for their "project" so it is "for srs professional". ☝︎
mircea_popescu: well, alfie, there could ALSO EXIST SUCH A THING AS A PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER
asciilifeform: it ~will~ exist, as a vtronic item.
asciilifeform: trinque: i entirely agree re above -- there could be such a thing as 'reusable encyclopaedia of data structures'. problem is, it dun exist yet.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: problem is, 'database' as commonly seen in sqlworld is not 'collection of btrees, rtrees, etc.' in encyclopaedic algorithmic form, but a misbegotten attempt at ai.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i always wished there were such a thing as an ac with a throttle
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu described argentines as borderline tards but i don't recall hearing a story like this about them...
a111: Logged on 2017-04-10 16:07 phf: tmsr work is primarily defined by its voluntary nature, if i had to do things same way i do it at the office i wouldn't bother. ascii doesn't know intricacies of psql from his day job, and i think it's cruel and inhuman to make him study psql ~as part of tmsr work~. it's not the kind of know how you get to learn by sitting down with a cup of tea and a large printout..
mircea_popescu: as asciilifeform correctly points out, there's not THAT much of a deal to insert an article once a day / a comment once an hour and otherwise serve reads.
asciilifeform is not and has not ever been employed as an astrologer, cannot comment usefully
asciilifeform: ( models of bad rngs, such as shitoshi's )
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's a narrow interest item, perfectly respectable in its niche. as bb says, ended up being a sort of shorthand for internet expert in here because randos and history.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> was 'ito calculus' authored by same 'genius' as 'igonvalue' ? << I see "ito calculus" as catchall for weaponized labels of Usagidiocy type
asciilifeform: was 'ito calculus' authored by same 'genius' as 'igonvalue' ?
trinque: probably about as southern as it gets, that one
trinque: phf: one thing they don't do is speak for the other, then proceed from there as if it'd been said
phf: then why speak to me at all? i was arguing in good faith, as an attempt to move on from our previous alteration
phf: if that was such an obvious assumption, then why evade addressing it? that would've saved the whole thread! my assumption was ~very obvious~ as you yourself state ~all through the thread~, because ~that's what i assumed~
a111: Logged on 2017-04-10 19:35 phf: but that's a roundabout way, and you could just read about it in a blog. if the position is that "we should study postgresql source code extensively, as a necessary prerequisite to writing our own database", then i would agree with you, but that doesn't seem to be what you're saying
phf: but that's a roundabout way, and you could just read about it in a blog. if the position is that "we should study postgresql source code extensively, as a necessary prerequisite to writing our own database", then i would agree with you, but that doesn't seem to be what you're saying ☟︎
trinque: the re-implementor of modern computing doesn't dispense with these as "you didn't really need that"
trinque: pg's versioned on-disk heap could've held trees as well as rows, eh?
trinque: what'd you expect as a response to that first bit?
phf: the "glue" point is a strawman, because you don't know how i write my code. as far as problem/solution though
trinque: the database as (extremely poorly) implemented by sql rdbms is a generalization of the glue
a111: Logged on 2017-04-10 16:51 phf: most of them ~also use sql~. but likewise there's no such thing as "the database" there's also no such thing as "the database company uses to store its data". banks typically have 50-100 different large data stores, that serve different purposes
phf: most of them ~also use sql~. but likewise there's no such thing as "the database" there's also no such thing as "the database company uses to store its data". banks typically have 50-100 different large data stores, that serve different purposes ☟︎
phf: and you're wrong as far "everyone uses sql11". merril lynch is famous for storing massive datasets in kdb. deutsche bank uses kdb as well as a handful of other datastores (i have some knowledge here), also two of the banks that i consulted for used object stores. that's just the projects that i consulted
phf: trinque: you've asked a question, that i was about to answer, but it turned out to be a rhetorical question, that you then used as a platform to make a political point, yes
phf: another alternative to doing the sql way is column stores (as an aside allegro cache is really more of a column store), where something like kdb is going to be a reference (the apl approach to databasing in general, of mmaping files with fixed size entries that you can offset into).
phf: allegro cache is actually a lot closer to how btcbase does it, than the postgresql way. internally the two are very different. if you treat both as "a database" you're not going to learn anything
asciilifeform: as it is, sql db is a very effectively opaque black box, full of liquishit, that reliably generates full employment for millions of 'perlists' who memorized the trivia.
trinque: phf: you can avoid the point as you choose. "there is a better land and we'll be there someday; don't eat til we get there, best food on earth, they have." has sunk many companies, and many people
a111: Logged on 2017-04-10 16:19 asciilifeform: and if folks insist on trying to bring it down, i will ban as much of ipv4 space as i have to.
asciilifeform: and if folks insist on trying to bring it down, i will ban as much of ipv4 space as i have to. ☟︎
phf: tmsr work is primarily defined by its voluntary nature, if i had to do things same way i do it at the office i wouldn't bother. ascii doesn't know intricacies of psql from his day job, and i think it's cruel and inhuman to make him study psql ~as part of tmsr work~. it's not the kind of know how you get to learn by sitting down with a cup of tea and a large printout.. ☟︎
asciilifeform: as soon as i figure it out -- it's gone.
asciilifeform: Framedragger: 'In sessions connected via a Unix-domain socket, this parameter is ignored and always reads as zero.'
shinohai: Better known locally as "Poke Salad"
BingoBoingo: Tomatoes also go well eated whole like an apple so long as consumed no further than 100 feet from the vine
a111: Logged on 2017-04-10 01:05 mircea_popescu: but as a side point : i went to town yest, bought jug of milk. guy kept trying to warn me it's not milk! i bought it anyway. it is FABULOUS buttermilk. best i ever had. also got a strong sheep cheese and a mellower one. i am happy like i've not been in a long time - finally, food! like god at home made it!
mircea_popescu: in fairness, i also wasn't nearly as much of a lord a decade ago.
mircea_popescu: but as a side point : i went to town yest, bought jug of milk. guy kept trying to warn me it's not milk! i bought it anyway. it is FABULOUS buttermilk. best i ever had. also got a strong sheep cheese and a mellower one. i am happy like i've not been in a long time - finally, food! like god at home made it! ☟︎
asciilifeform: which is sorta opposite, as i understand, to your hypothesis
asciilifeform: as a 'neato but sorry, -ev' item.
asciilifeform: the monkeys, as discussed in old thread, could easily win, if there is not enough for men to eat on the island.
mircea_popescu: well, on top of a world ontologically constituted as "12 men on monkey island" attempting to construct alternate world hallucinatorily constituted as "men and money teams compete for island special olympics". ☟︎
asciilifeform: phf: a bolix-style machine that -- hypothetically - could have cost-competed with the 'i can't believe it's not butter' state of the art, would imho count as 'resolve'
phf: there's only one computer asciilifeform acknowledges as "resolved", and that's the computer built by asciilifeform. i suspect similar dynamic was at the root of smbx/lmi
asciilifeform: i don't actually see it as resolved, even today.
asciilifeform: there is such a thing as an actual dispute.
mircea_popescu: but anyway, leaving this hot coal for a while also, consider THE FUCKING INDIGNITY. you're telling me the dozen was split up by a convenient application of... a socialist marote ? same thing sunk lisp as the international ?!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform and the rest just happened to fall into s or lmi randomly as the wind blew ?
mircea_popescu: 1. a dozen mentally retarded girls were afraid of their own cunts ; 2. so much so as to need to be 50 before they'd finally deflower ; 3. except they did it in such a manner as to replace the insulatory function of that with various other ersatz-hymens created out of material collected in the environment ; 4 but because they were mentally retarded no possiblity of meaningful communication was open to them and so 5. therefore
mircea_popescu: market is not weighing machine to start with. it gets there, but it starts as something else. derping about "justifying commercially" is the EXACT equivalent of not talking to girl for nerd reasons.
asciilifeform: pretty sure that, e.g., d. moon, saw 'finally we take this tech private, make an honest corp' as breaking off from mit
asciilifeform: you could redefine this, if you wanted , as 'problem of individual'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: this was borrowed tool. if i'm gonna spend $, may as well hire gardeners.
mircea_popescu: but more appropriately i think you could say "cowardice expresses itself in fundamentally defective individuals, as well as in those who spend too much time in cowards' company".
mircea_popescu: which'd be ~why~ specific republican artefacts (above approximated as firehose) result in the "educational split" so to speak.
asciilifeform: could just as easily say 'left-handedness expresses itself in fundamentally defective individuals'
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: y'know those 20 ft chainsaws for trees ? i was using one, it sucked, chain slipped maybe 5 times in 1 hr. are there such thing as decent one of these ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i currently find the notion persuasive. jane and jennifer are both interchangeable as 3 yos, but as they progress to age 23 it becomes apparent jeniffer jsut never had the tits in her.
mircea_popescu: all kids appear healthy, but the brains of a precious few are deffective, and as aging exposes them to the challenge of correct diversification, it turns out they ~were all along~ schizophrenic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i expect rms did no such thing ; but that he correctly believed that if structured as ~radical~ socialism, socialism may be made to appear palatable to intelligent people ; at any rate more so than the commodified variant.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: this was pre-gnu rms, as far as is known -- apolitical
mircea_popescu: slaves, idem. if you couint every nigger at mit, derping about "we're one, man" and "i should have money anyway" then yes you get the figures, but if you count THAT as slavery god help youi.
asciilifeform: just as 1850s usg ain't today's.
mircea_popescu: seems a lot of retarded one-man-ism that gave the world 5k "airplane inventors" and just as many canvas-made planes that didn't work worth a shit.
asciilifeform: the other idiocies follow from 'we can make roman aqueduct in empty field, and with 0 book-larnin', and it will be Just As Good'.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-04-09#1640945 << gnu's confinement ( from poverty ) to 'commodity' (i.e. unix) hardware was a forced 'exile from eden' and the derp response is to postulate 'we're JUST AS GOOD, US TOO!1111' etc. ☝︎
mircea_popescu: this might even fix it, but it's not certain, given the festival of adhoc magic numbers trb is also known as.
trinque: that this is reported as "insufficient funds"... mkaaay
Framedragger: (as the corpus of text expands, it becomes something like a fractal derrida and is heavier to manage in mind, at least in my mind)
mircea_popescu: as per that ancient "pi digits are also random, especially if you don't know what pi is" lemma.
BenBE: mircea_popescu: http://hackaday.com/2010/02/06/hardware-based-randomness-for-linux/ - unfortunately link to original page is down. Also using a FPGA port (done by a friend, verified against dieharder as a starting point).
mircea_popescu: BenBE do you also know the FUCKGOATS, so as not to ever again use a "prng" for as long as you live ?
mircea_popescu: but to be perfectly clear : rfc 4880 is not technically weak. it is politically subverside, and deliberately so. it consists of the same material that has schneider running around trying to convince people turning their computer in for an ipad is "the way to bright future of socialism", or of the uk cocksuckers that covered up rotherham droning on as to how they have to have everyone's keys to "catch criminals".
mircea_popescu: for a moment there it read as "i don't like $newguy, he might do something stupid." which is silly, let him do the stupid first, not like him after. wtf preemptive dislike.
asciilifeform: and no i am not interested in giving it away as an ornamental flower on some low-effort pile of ?. there is a reason the source is private.
asciilifeform: 3) they can serve up whatever as 'your' pubk to others
Framedragger: and presumably sadmods as well in the future (again, not yet cached)
BenBE: asciilifeform: it's not totally broken (as with GnuPGs normal WoT) in that it makes transparent to not expect too much from it, appart from account associations.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger we're not discussing the stats but the meat of the matter. same stuff as is in the link i gave him above (http://trilema.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/phuctor_snapshot.html) 3mb or w./e it is
Framedragger: rsa truncates, etc etc, other methods (pg notify / etc as mentioned by trinque) require asciilifeform's intervention