asciilifeform: or something.

asciilifeform: 1nf0rm4t10n t3chn0log1stz!

asciilifeform: (anyone still awake, straight to that dusty thread)

asciilifeform: thestringpuller: education << http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=15-04-2014#626237 ☝︎

asciilifeform: '...and _does_ an operating system that forces the programmer to check to see whether the operating system did what it was asked to do every damn time you ask it to do anything actually give any relevant form of support to anyone?'

asciilifeform: c >> obligatory >> http://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3141310154691952@naggum.no.html

asciilifeform: libs authored by, in many cases, what can only be down's syndrome cases

asciilifeform: 'c' does not force man to be dumb. but hardly anyone actually gets to program in 'c.' normally folks program in c+libs

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: afaik they self-volunteered for gassing (for no reason i know of)

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: http://cryptome.org/2014/11/wind-river-security-crypto.pdf << what wind river was dinged for ☟︎

asciilifeform: !up Vexual

asciilifeform: on pdp-10.

asciilifeform: e.g., http://www.loper-os.org/?p=55

asciilifeform: sure they were.

asciilifeform: what about them?

asciilifeform opens koraktor, bound in human skin, and searches for a death spell for google

asciilifeform: fail.

asciilifeform: ;;google koraktor

asciilifeform: i like to call it 'koraktor'

asciilifeform: satan preserve us from 2nd editions.

asciilifeform: 2nd edition << bloat

asciilifeform: full of bell labs c lore

asciilifeform: it's a real riot.

asciilifeform: yes!

asciilifeform: ^^

asciilifeform thought k&r 1st ed. was on the #b-a required reading shelf, or the like.

asciilifeform: 'too tough for people' is a poor angle. there are people who can lift a 'volkswagen.'

asciilifeform: it means that even 'competent' c programmers are playing.

asciilifeform: dear glub, 'learn c', k&r 1st ed. is what, 80 pages?

asciilifeform: and mine, and his.

asciilifeform: don't look for the 'incompetent c contest.' it's right there on your desk.

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: !s underhanded c contest

asciilifeform: actually we had a fun occasion for mentioning c recently.

asciilifeform: just as usg is worth mentioning.

asciilifeform: unfortunately is worth mentioning.

asciilifeform: decimation: this - straight redirect to spmoogle

asciilifeform: decimation: unrelated. that was an ip over wireless thing

asciilifeform: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/405686 << re: ancient mircea_popescu thread

asciilifeform: but what of the reddit dogcatcher? he noticed?

asciilifeform: еггог!

asciilifeform failed to parse above

asciilifeform: ferglubssake, i write the broadcasts, does anybody read'em?

asciilifeform: luer lock off the shelf!

asciilifeform: more of a phactory.

asciilifeform: oh wait

asciilifeform: give the man his money back.

asciilifeform: obligatory: tigerfibel.

asciilifeform: lukschen kugel.

asciilifeform: frederiiiicus reeex...

asciilifeform: eh everybody knows that one.

asciilifeform exhausted his deutsch

asciilifeform: hande hoch!

asciilifeform: schweinhund.

asciilifeform: mittengrabben.

asciilifeform: achtung mircea_popescu. broadcast in.

asciilifeform hopes he isn't the only one to get the ref

asciilifeform: when do we get on with one of us proving p==np and the others throwing him off a boat?

asciilifeform has seen 'anything even remotely like #b-a.' but they're all dead.

asciilifeform: what's a 'nope' ? never published at all?

asciilifeform: dig his grave << they usually give you the spade.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: man with sapper spade can entrench himself in less than an hour.

asciilifeform: ;;google treason never prospers for the reason

asciilifeform: 'is it still a cult if the comet is parked in orbit and the magical juice will take you there?'

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: knapsack.

asciilifeform: amines.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: actual shovel, like actual computer, is not field-portable.

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: avoid the ones with folding handles.

asciilifeform: there's an american firm, iirc, that makes passable copies of the classic ru one

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo owns a sapper spade?

asciilifeform: nope, that's a sapper's spade.

asciilifeform: 8=>

asciilifeform: any encoding.

asciilifeform: at the risk of bringing everyone back to childhood msdos 'hello world': what's the smallest bitwise recognizable porn?

asciilifeform: microdot.

asciilifeform sizes up for 'spoilsports and haters, all of you' tatoo

asciilifeform: not that this is any kind of gurantee. s. ramanujan is a tragic figure for a reason.

asciilifeform: even the successful crackpots (at least, the ones publicly known about) were never more than a few steps away from a 'trunk line' wot mentor.

asciilifeform: re: maths wot << it is important to understand why this happens. ☟︎

asciilifeform: aha.

asciilifeform: sqrt(2) !

asciilifeform: mentioned for this reason.

asciilifeform: i suppose this was inevitable. the moldbug generation wants to run for u.s. office...

asciilifeform: old posts load, but no way afaik to find them now.

asciilifeform: google usenet search dead?!

asciilifeform l0lz at serenissima cult essay, where he is listed as 'expert'

asciilifeform: (spoiler: pretty much everyone who is known to matter, is in leibniz, gauss, etc. 'wot.')

asciilifeform: ^ behold and quiver.

asciilifeform: http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu

asciilifeform: but was filled in the past (e.g., pythagoras)

asciilifeform: the maniacal fuhrer position is, afaik, open at the moment

asciilifeform: (just one example)

asciilifeform: cult << incidentally, mathematics (as a professional or even amateur pursuit) fits more or less every extant definition of 'cult'

asciilifeform: bounce: it's all packets, probably less than 1km from where you stand.

asciilifeform: (gone are the days when a live monkey had to plug a tape recorder into your pair)

asciilifeform: incidentally, these are usually accessed via www now, and quite a few have been loudly pwned

asciilifeform: even the automagic bugging machine mandated at every telco switch is specified, in grindingly pedantic detail, in a dead tree standards doc

asciilifeform: (in usa, naturally)

asciilifeform: 'POTS' (voice telephone) service exists pretty much at the decree of usg, mainly for its own purposes

asciilifeform: although, on second thought, not sure if it was pumping the full 14.4. there's auto-rate in there.