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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes just have it silenty discard all patches
that aren't sealed properly for
the narrow definition of properly neh ?
ben_vulpes: any suggestions on where up
the
tree
to nuke a branch and reduce complexity?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes
to my eyes "the situation" ie,
the developer's own private choice, illustrates
the natural
tendency of one
to cruft up his workbench.
ben_vulpes: i was a bit surprised
that sb-ext:run-program did not signal a condition when
the program so ran exited with something other
than zero.
ben_vulpes: i explicitly
tested error code downstream of sb-ext. it's not
that it "doesn't pass error codes" it's
that error code is surfaced in
the process struct
that sb-ext:run-program returns
ben_vulpes: the situation's a good example of
the
tension between writing code
that does one
thing really specifically well, and fits-in-head, vs a larger program
that handles eg conditions and
the concomittant complexity
ben_vulpes: so i'm writing some
trivial conditions for when it does fail, which means handling eg missing gpg keys
ben_vulpes: sb-ext, and rail at me for using an implementation-dependent sub program library if you will, does not seem
to signal error conditions when external programs exit with nonzero code
mircea_popescu: anyway alf has it -
there's no need
to handle what you list other
than by not using
them
ben_vulpes: what guarantees have i of
this "should"?
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i'm happy
to implement post-patch hash checks
ben_vulpes: "help" is
the motherfucking dog whistle of
the left
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform, mod6: subject of "making
things 1000x more complex" i embarked on handling various conditions a v might encounter (missing pubkey, unsigned patch, mismatched hashes after a press...) and i daresay
the volume of code must increase!
mircea_popescu: it's hard out
there for a cuck when
tryina make da money for da lulz
BingoBoingo: What I have found interesting is
that
the professed liberals only began reacting
to it when I posed
the possibility after 24 hours."
mircea_popescu: anyway, it's mildly amusing
to watch internet people act under a very earnest notion
that
the portion of any one
thing
that
they ran across has, grace
to half a minute's meditation, formed a complete and useful image in
their heads.
mircea_popescu: disqus is a pos ; but if you give it a day and a half eventually it jumps
to
the spot.
BingoBoingo: WTF, of course he's happy
to "begin anew". All his old shit is gone and now he gets
those sweet gentile insurance premiums.
mircea_popescu: also looks like
this is
the first
time anyone read
that article since 2014. who knew nobody gives a shit about wikipedia.
mircea_popescu: ^ from
the history. check out what isn't a reliable source. epic shit.
mircea_popescu: (cur | prev) 01:18, 10 May 2014 Agyle (talk | contribs) . . (4,611 bytes) (-40) . . (removed reference
to mpex.co, not reliable source, and didn't seem
to verify information anyway. see WP:RS.) (undo)
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo ahaha check out all
the effort
they put into it. "the website", really ?
ben_vulpes: i only really know what one of
the courses is, am content
to let
the chefs work
their surprise magic
ben_vulpes: i'm not even going
to start on
the five courses currently under preparation
diana_coman: mircea_popescu> i went around distributing
tinned biscuits
this morning. <- it gave me
this fleeting image of a red-hatted mp with a huge jar going round
the neighbourhood
ben_vulpes: i assume good mushroom, $girl went out and selected
them from
the hipsters herself
mircea_popescu: it's somewhat regrettable we can't house visit and
try
these.
mircea_popescu: how's
tinned biscuits you ask ? why, you
take a gingerbread round, put it in a jar lid, cover it in rum and
there you go -
tinned biscuit!
mircea_popescu: i went around distributing
tinned biscuits
this morning.
ben_vulpes: where 'convince' is something along
the lines of "no seriously you have all
the ingredients it would be a sin
to not make it. also i want it. so..."
ben_vulpes: and i have 'convinced'
the girls
to make
the
traditional family coffee cake
ben_vulpes: there are several dozens of eggs worth of quiche in
this house right now, and myriad cakes
mircea_popescu: in other lulz, "To all BNet visitors, due
to unprecedented scamming on
the BNet Forum, we have been forced
to shut
the facility down. We are looking at alternative systems
that will allow us
to restart
the Forum under a much better security protocol. We hope
to be able
to restart
the Forum sometime in
the New Year.
Thank you for visiting
the Forum and hope
to see you again
there in
the New Year.
To all who had signed up, we
BingoBoingo: Particular example was offensive, but "sitting in a car" seems like its on its way
to becoming
the new "nailgun accident"
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo anyway, it's particularly offensive because
the dood was
the stereotypical lush-with-hallucinated-war-stories.
ben_vulpes: in other nyooz, $offspring issued his first low-ambiguity ASL gesture
this morning: 'food'
ben_vulpes: ah yes, eight is a better number
than
ten.
BingoBoingo: The stupidity
that hits a critical mass and becomes "Hussein Bahamas presentes: How
the World Works"
BingoBoingo trying
to
try
to describe examples of
the sort of infectious stupidity
that makes losers hold up loser "heros" instead of actual heros
BingoBoingo: Where what is proper is
that
things in
the bar get old because bar gets old
BingoBoingo: Or why bars get filled fake old crap just because one bar filled with old crap managed
to open a second location back in
the day.
BingoBoingo: Screw get softer, except some people make
tougher OMGWTFBBQ wood screws for
the purpose of framing more
thing whish probably ought not be wood of wood.
mircea_popescu: yes but if
they know
this why do
they also insist
to suck cunt of all
things.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu:
They fail
to point it out because
they suck and
their heros need
to suck.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo how
the fuck all
these mytologizing gimps fail
to point out
that loch ness' job was
to bring down al capone, AT WHICH JOB HE FAILED ? he's like
the che guevara of
the gynecaeum i swear.
BingoBoingo: I mean in St Louis
they also got governor elect's wife
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
they do have a point, man at wheel is uniquely vulnerable, law doesn't much help.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Nah
that one was a "Lives matter" activist
turned state legislator
phf: mircea_popescu:
triad?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Parked car predators know no limits after Micheal Brown put all
that fear into poor Ferguson police officer back in 2014.
mircea_popescu: phf ftr you definitely gotta see
the recent
triad if you haven't already.
mircea_popescu suspects
the proper romanian expletive
to discuss
these dorks would be "sa-mi bag pula-n ei de figuranti ; ma pis pe ma-sa si-i dau foc."
phf: haha, well, we're on
the same page. i have a soft spot for shoulder pads, because
that's your 80s moscows, blade runner, so i just can't see
them in
terms of "hear me roar". but i
think we had
the whole sean young
thread before..
mircea_popescu: heh. did
this one also
torture martians / rape baby seals or is he from
the other side of
the Great Delusion.
mircea_popescu: but hey, provincial
towns gotta copy new york don;t
they.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo and has been, since at least
the 70s. we used
to call
the 2nd area "the bronx"
BingoBoingo: BUt anyways,
the US is divided into
two areas. Ones where you can sit in your car, make phone calls, and smoke all
the cigarettes you want in said car; and places where if you sit in your car
too long after car stops a child puts a gun in your face.
mircea_popescu: so, predictably,
they just parasithized it, because of
the wanna-be-woman faggotry, some wanna be woman "as historical essence" and some "as current fashion", so you ended up with
that wham idiot doing shoulderpads and girly hairdos ; and sir what's his face,
the fat ugly one doing "historical hats like queen liz"
mircea_popescu: ie, "feminist" made not "political-identity-gay" made. mostly because at
the
time gay==faggot,
there wasn't a "political-identity-gay" machine.
mircea_popescu: they did
tend
to go mostly with lion's made hairdos for womenz.
mircea_popescu: i
thought shoulderpads were
the first dry run of
the whole "i r lion hear me roar!"
thing.
phf: aah, i see your point,
though i'm not sure about
the definition of a
thing in relation
to "really into". a
thing is a fad. gays started
this particular fad, "everyone" was on board for a bit, until
the aids epidemic. i
think shoulder pads for example are androgynous, likewise a fad
BingoBoingo: Well,
there are many deserts of stupid and only so much coal. Most of which goes into lighting
the desert of stupid
mircea_popescu: it has all
the cachet and all
the panache of a "christian rockstar" -
the result of a
trainload of philistine running out of coal in a desert of stupid.
BingoBoingo: WAS, stooges
tend
to lose
their
toughness when
the age out of
the stoogery in USG land
mircea_popescu: it's not even deep enough, because not only "he's all
tough and shit like lock ness monster" claim holds , but
the fducking monster ISNT
TOUGH.
mircea_popescu: how can i distinguish
this story from "roger ver, who once had
the most bitcoins of anyone on
the planet,
thinks
thedaoattacker would make a fine bitcoin developer" ?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu>
the fucking point is - whatever some old fart with a good old fart story
the other old farts eat up
THOUGHT,
the street
tough didn't
think he made a good "fiedl operative". in positive fact he made a good victim and no more. << /me read it as old fart who was was befroe becoming old fart
thought child robber would make good field operative. But
the crime as I read is he doesn't figure
that
the child already is a field oe
mircea_popescu: once
that went away, "the androgyny
thing"
that never was a
thing
to begin with ~if you weren't really into fucking boys~ also went away.
mircea_popescu: phf but my idea is...
the "androgyny"
thing only exists because gay dudes masquerading.
mircea_popescu: the fucking point is - whatever some old fart with a good old fart story
the other old farts eat up
THOUGHT,
the street
tough didn't
think he made a good "fiedl operative". in positive fact he made a good victim and no more.