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mircea_popescu: yes, there is a brief nail of time where in finland irc was dating rather than bitwashery.
mircea_popescu: right, so. in a sense, what passes for irc here is actually an invention of here.
mircea_popescu: dcc carried more ~meaningful~ discolored bits than anything else, though the later torrents far outweight it
mircea_popescu: originally irc of today was implemented by bbs and the irc was principally a sort of edonkey, basically conversations around warez metadata.
mircea_popescu: especially seeing how the hood is merely drawn on, and the actual box is inside one wheel.
mircea_popescu: people don't want to rewrite "traditional X" because "traditional" is always a way of saying "gui". and nobody ever wants to redo that.
mircea_popescu: fuck that ; trad irc client will connect in the manner lobbes is building atop trinque 's design. fucking sql queue, what.
mircea_popescu: imo that's a sort of herodotus bestiary item, web-footed whale.
mircea_popescu: sing ye beedog the anger of ave the viking upon encountering bsd sockets again.
mircea_popescu: ave1 it's warts you know, not warths nor wraths (though this one's quite funny).
mircea_popescu: ada threading still seems as promising as it did weeks ago. few things survive this long lol
mircea_popescu: ave1 i very much hope you don't think your own work is a waste for this reason.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: which may permit further 2nd pass data processing. but that -- open to reader.
mircea_popescu: it'll passively show network congestion too i think, because of the hourlies.
mircea_popescu: i do not think we want more moving parts than those two
mircea_popescu: i spenta while trying, but the sad truth about impotence is that sooner or later one has to come to terms with the facts of the matter. i just... can't.
mircea_popescu: i can't quite manage to find 20something dicklets offensive anymore.
mircea_popescu: "as long as the fridge works, why do i need to understand adiabatic cycles! MYSTICAL SCIENTISM CLINTON FOR THE WIN!"
mircea_popescu: i expect he's aware, seeing how notwithstanding he and some chicks (married to other dudes) he lists are in "antactica", the extended network of "play partners" etc eventually points to edinburgh.
mircea_popescu: sounds like what happens when you teach ustards the letters and no more. sooner or later they'll find an old translation of a greek thesaurus and start mixymatching it up.
mircea_popescu: and that word is of course "floccinaucinihilipilification".
mircea_popescu: n world, where he's like smart and in control and shit. what fucking perl script, one needs wetware for this much self-referential lulz.
mircea_popescu: "Oh! Before you go, there you are: Floccinaucinihilipilification: The act or habit of describing or regarding something as unimportant, of having no value or being worthless. Doms around the world, might wanna include that one in your dirty talk when trying to be a fancy degrader. Didn't want you to leave without learning something new ;) got extra points if you actually read the whole word." << dude's seriously off in his ow
mircea_popescu: more than half of them are in a box with a cardinal in nine or ten digits!
mircea_popescu: it's not like, generation is like dropping balls, with there being a coupla boxes at the age of 0, and maybe a dozen boxes by age 6, and at MOST fifty or so boxes by age 25. and so by the law of large fucking numbers, every single fucking 25yo out there is in a class with at best MILLIONS of other, perfectly equal and entirely interchangeable balls.
mircea_popescu: 27yo male. that you will not find anymore as X as. because this is now a thing, 20somethings are distinguishable in that absolute sense.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile at the lulzfarm, "What do you need to know about me? I'm one hell of a kind. Seriously. You might like me or not, but you'll surely not find anyone as annoying/amazing as me. I consider myself a "mystic scientist" because, what is the supernatural world but unknown knowledge? I'm an engineer, a painter, a thinker, a bookworm, a weirdo, a kinkster, a traveler, a constant horny sensualist."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: seems uy to uk as fine as can be had, that's what, 3 intercons.
mircea_popescu: incidentally ave1 what was your process there ? did you compile a higher language original (what, c ?) and then desasm the resulting object code ? followed by a handpass through the result, neating & trimming things out ? or did you start with a blank page and a legal pad ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-18#1851155 << speaking of which, what's our next step here ? 1. wanna do cpu timing/load comparisons on the two libs ? 2. say that given the nature of the task (many different folk are expected to implement clients on various platforms) thin c is better than straight asm because more widely spoken and also presumably more portable/less friable ? 3. something else ?
☝︎ mircea_popescu: (by soup i mean, don't send them in order of size, but in some random order each hour)
mircea_popescu: people finally wised up to the fact it's insane to bitflip a single variable into the ground "to save space". i suspect ~same realisation i nthe wings re udp
mircea_popescu: what it is is certainly <1kb say. wasting the occasional portion of a kb is not so unlike wasting the occasional portion of a 64 bit register to represent a boolean value.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: moreover, it's not clear to me that varying the packet size AND the packet count rather than just the packet count is a wise move. it's not clear to me what it buys, especially considering there's externalities (udp packets under a certain size travel better than over ; this for technical reasons unrelated to other considerations).
mircea_popescu: and no "my design, in being inexistent, therefore can not be broken" doesn't work for ideal objects. THESE can be both absent and broken, pandora's blessing.
mircea_popescu: come to think of it, if large bulks of memory have to cross call boundries, something ELSE is almost certainly fucking broken
mircea_popescu: who even does this. in c of all things, what, is it a death wish that can't be otherwise expressed ?
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-09-18#1851102 << this is such, SUCH terribly bad practice, srsly now. scope the fucking memory handling, so both ends always happen in the same context. either the caller allocates and then also deallocates, diana_coman style, or else the callee allocates and deallocates. none of this insane scope bridging jesus christ.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: diana_coman: to round this whole thing up: 2 days ago it seemed I had only the gnat.sockets/ thin layer option which wasn't fit for purpose; now I have 2 more options: << it's been an epic few days! (what happened ?)
mircea_popescu: well, i certainly prefer it to the alternative, whereby ghost-of-mp long after floats about the land
mircea_popescu: this may even be feasible, i don't imagine the wotscore lookup is that expensive. i dun see anythinf wrong with it, if anyone's annoying easy enough to fix the score.
mircea_popescu: so you'd want " if you don't, it kicks, and if it kicks you multiple times a day it also bans you." ammended to " if you don't, it kicks, and if it kicks you multiple times a day and your wotranking isn't >1 it also bans you." ?
mircea_popescu: nothing wrong with seeing what happens with a really long one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bans are currently free, i don't maintain the list.
mircea_popescu: not that i'm even for a second proposing this is impossible. #eulora famously had one moron who "played" the game for months, merely creating accounts, never actually went in.
mircea_popescu: by the time they do that, "why are you not just being normal" becomes quite hte question
mircea_popescu: this situation where "i idle in 560895409860 channels and have last read anything 176 weeks ago" gotta fucking cease.
mircea_popescu: this is the whole fucking point here, pierce the "convenience" world.
mircea_popescu: the problem with "kick only, no banning" is that the same sort of idle morons that currently idle here would just go to war with the bot with their autoreconnectors ; deedbot would kick the same idiots over and over and oever again, possibly for the next 5 years.
mircea_popescu: it all sprung out from the "how would the deedbot pizarro service look like" consideration.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the point certainly isn't to force people to be more like x, in any case.
mircea_popescu: so i kinda tend to sit at term when ima read logs. maybe this is just my own workflow bias speaking.
mircea_popescu: i personally fucking loathe it, because often i want to answer, and then if i can't i have to savew it, which works poorly.