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mircea_popescu: nope. why would i even bother with www except for a blog
mircea_popescu: apache is a piece of shiot. so is nginx. so is everytrhiong else.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: gentoo is a piece of shit. debian is a piece of shit. centos is a piece of shit.
mircea_popescu: linux doesn't work. any of it. picking some random idiocy to make an example of is futile.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform well actually it wouldn't run, especially if you kill that port in firewall.
mircea_popescu: and if python.h fails, you prolly don't have th epaths set up right, it'll fai lthe same with or without some derpy package manager.
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> move cpanel's apache to a diff port, and allocate 80 to yours. <
mircea_popescu: then have python drop the statics in /home/whatever and apache will automagically serve them ?
mircea_popescu: move cpanel's apache to a diff port, and allocate 80 to yours.
mircea_popescu: you want a python script to be executed on page load ?
mircea_popescu: you can just have your python run off cron, and dump stuff into mysql
mircea_popescu: ascii_field: i'd be open to a purely gnumake-based thing << this before make starts building static or only after ? :D
mircea_popescu: unless some sort of consensus can emerge the public'll just split
mircea_popescu: trinque merely calling things shit is no golden bullet.
mircea_popescu: i doubt the magical patch that fixes the 1001 things will fit in 100kb for instance.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field: trinque: and if any of you produce a 100kB patch, and i barf on general principle << there is a problem here. the code as it is is pretty long. just a simple "remove most of it" will be in the kbs.
mircea_popescu: dun let me get in the way of meta-linux, by all means!
mircea_popescu: i am still awaiting your gentoo canonical build being published / your canonical web hoster being enacted on this or any other box etc.
mircea_popescu: this discussion makes me not feel so bad about havin sniffed varnish all day.
mircea_popescu: and before anyone doubts that there can be such a thing : you COULD fuck a woman with a 3 inch drill bit attached to a percution drill.
mircea_popescu: and never are heard from again, except for muffled cries in the solitude of the night.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform welcopme to linux world alfie. i hear it's where the smart boys go.
mircea_popescu: it's kinda how america ruined itself, too, ironically enough.
mircea_popescu: as they say, "nothing ruins a start-up quite like a bad money source early on"
mircea_popescu: after the deal your incentive is to sell more future income for its present value.
mircea_popescu: while before the deal your incentive might have been to realise future income,
mircea_popescu: essentially, you(before the deal) and you(after the deal) are different and irreconciliably so.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne no, but i also don't ask it to sent me to college.
mircea_popescu: yes, yes. but is it a mutual agreement of that kind, where you're teh slavegirl.
mircea_popescu: like, guy going to homestead in 1800s utah. if he goes, there's going to be his homestead. if he doesn't go... there isn't going to be.
mircea_popescu: case I : causal. this satisfies both implication : with investment there NECESSARILY exists return ; without investment there NECESSARILY doesn't exist return.
mircea_popescu: same thing with "investing in children". sure, you send schmuck to college, and someone 20 years later is going to be well educated.
mircea_popescu: while it's true that the somebody who wins might even be the guy, the fact remains that someone'd win whether the guy bought or didn't buy ticket.
mircea_popescu: case II : coincidental. guy buys lottery ticket. someone wins the lottery.
mircea_popescu: the relation between the "investment" and the "return" is purely hallucinated.
mircea_popescu: guy pays fortune teller for good stuff in the future. good stuff happens in the future.
mircea_popescu: williamdunne let's go through this, it will be instructive. so, case III, halucinatorily related.
mircea_popescu: does your expenditure CAUSE the return ? is it merely coincidental with the return ? is it merely halucinatorily related ?
mircea_popescu: all the derpy parents that "invest" in their children are making a stylistic choice of words, nothing more. it's a waste not an investment.
mircea_popescu: there is such a thing as tools that make people smarter.
mircea_popescu: Adlai how about b) and make it good enough so its effect upon the world is to make more people of the like adlai can stand
mircea_popescu: the angle being discussed is : give a man a hammer, suddenly he's looking for nails.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> the tool does not drive the fucking user << o really.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes i suspect in this sense git may be TOO easy to use. at least in some aspects.
mircea_popescu: <trinque> the idea needs further development before anyone executes << he has a point, and while attempted executions would prlly be useful iterations, it IS a timesink.