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mircea_popescu: well... plenty of subjects are actually rather cooperative, which makes the instruments more... ergonomic.
mircea_popescu: there's a balance to be had between "shared context" and "mass hysteria". a meeting of autonomous minds is one of the very best ways to achieve that balance.
mircea_popescu: but it can't be started from the glibc i don't think. that's the middle.
mircea_popescu: and then... x person says this doesn't work. what now ?
mircea_popescu: yeah but then you end up with something that works for you
mircea_popescu: mod6 building glibcc "by hand" is not the trivial taks you make it out.
mircea_popescu: you can't go "oh i don't use libnss anyway". you probably are.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: mod6 what i mean is, for as long as you use any sort of function touched, whether you yourself use any of the libnss "functionality" or not, its gonna be there
mircea_popescu: that either side is generally ignorant of the equivalencies is nothing short of hysterical, but hey. "specialisation drives performance", i'm told.
mircea_popescu: (this may be a polichinelle's secret for which everyone here just happens to be polichinelle, but : the history of discussion, problems and criticism of languages as approached by IT types almost exactly mirrors a very similar effort in teh humanities)
mircea_popescu: the reason "différance" exists is (in the context of our discussion) exactly to show that the spellchecker problem is np
mircea_popescu: "Confirmation can be tricky depending on what you mean by it. It’s trivially true but most people understand it to be interrupting confirmation. Which is egregiously … reprehensible. Despicable even."
mircea_popescu: paulgraham.com fucking autoreloads itself wtf spammy idiocy is this.
mircea_popescu: ie, "you go design a better army and a better war over there with your wooden horse, toy sword and military costume, while we're gonna beat these assholes over here"
mircea_popescu: at any rate, THIS is why i ask people "well, can you do it on a cpanel box" well before.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "you're supposed to have been", jesus who the fuck came up with english grammar. "o i know, we'll save on predicative modes!!1"
mircea_popescu: it is humorously posited that this is the very explanation : they were trying to crimp your style specifically.
mircea_popescu: the string "tango" was for ununderstood reasons banned on a very popular (among the females) chat application of the 80s, at a time you'rew supposed to have been in kindergarten.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.01 << what sort of great moment is this!
mircea_popescu: in any case, it is perfectly wrong to imagine scbl has the magical quality of magical quality (and then move on once the horde shows it trivially breaks). for one thing, c was a very intellectually respectable thing, back when i was a kid.
mircea_popescu: which has been an early theoretical proposition which we've so far been verifying.
mircea_popescu: much like how this place is readable PRECISELY because it's not facebook or w/e.
mircea_popescu: if this mechanism is correct, then it follows that yes, the only reason gabriel_laddel thinks much of scbl is that no one else does.
mircea_popescu: this is unresolvable, except if one actually and deliberately enacts the positive feedback loop of "torture those in pain, beat those with welts on their body" etc.
mircea_popescu: a) idiot interacts with system ; b) idiot forms malformed internal representation of system ; c) sane person has no incentive to fix b) ; d) system evolves ~always~ to match its representations.
mircea_popescu: but THIS is what the utility of that ancient "horror' and "unexplainable ancient cruelty" was : it kept this very significant problem of badly alligned incentives in check.
mircea_popescu: the incentives are badly alligned, and the habit of beating children (a subcase of, oppressing the oppressed FOR THE REASON that they're already oppressed) went out
mircea_popescu: this spellchecker underlines it. nevertheless... différance
mircea_popescu: trilema is filled with examples : i spell this the french way this time for stylistic reasons. what now ?
mircea_popescu: and if I write the dict, there isn't a way to write a program that can import it at all.
mircea_popescu: there isn't a way to write a program that can import a dict and fix my grammar.
mircea_popescu: in scbl, and c would be what c was in the 70s. ie, coupla hundred k's.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115422 << this, i will point out, is in no way related to any inherent property of either (unless you mean lisp is inherently going to fail), but simply a function of context. had the linux kernel been implemented in sclb, and had the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy to the tune of > 10 mn lines
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suppose we should go beat her up, stupid fucking whore.
mircea_popescu: we're like brothers off the same mother over here. and check out how variant the fathers!
mircea_popescu: (and yes editors, which trilema doth employ, send the corrections with "did you mean to X" half the fucking time)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it has nothing to check against, i gotta do it by hand.
mircea_popescu: and consequently the notion of "spellchecker" is undefined for me.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? " << this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow, as a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: what bothers me is that i see no way to either dismiss it, or pick it.
mircea_popescu: what happens if assbot dies ? we must lose scoopbot titling too ?
mircea_popescu: i would definitely read the essay discussing the merits of either side. i just realised i actually don't grok this shit.
mircea_popescu steps away slowly and in terror, letting the parties involved decide.
mircea_popescu: last time anyone "in computing" had an idea the year prefix was still 1.
mircea_popescu: none of this "i'll fix the details later, i'm in the middle of doing sexy work now". fuck you and fuck your "ideas".
mircea_popescu: i want it to complain to the dev about every.single.problem. EVERY SINGLE PROBLEM. and it must be as a fucking clickbox, in his face.
mircea_popescu: i don't need to fucking remember to ask it. i can walk away from the terminal if i need some space.
mircea_popescu: Adlai yeah, for that matter emacs does something very close to this, bar one fatal fucking flaw : pull. it should really be push.
mircea_popescu: the computer's job is to be a most humbly abject slave, perpetually and consumatedly on its knees following you around, with the dedication and unwavering insistence no dog can summon.
mircea_popescu: the computer's job is NOT to be the fucking master, and make its own decisions a la windows. the computer's job is NOT to be a solipsistic retarded geek and just do its own thing like anal children do.
mircea_popescu: ort what I can figure out about the context ? b) iterate you through all locations ? c) change it back ? d) run a trace see what happens ?"
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "why are the holes not marked or filled?" << ftr this is not what i was contemplating. what I was contemplating is, why the fuck don't defaults pop up. bring back the fucking paperclip, put it the ONE place where it makes fucking sense. "hey john, I see you changed FuckOff() from bool to int. This function is called 82 places in 22 files. Would you like me to a) check all places where it's called and rep
☟︎ mircea_popescu: kakobrekla might be an idea if assbot ignores scoopbot_revived