asciilifeform still puzzled that mircea_popescu won't pick a favourite here

asciilifeform: this seems like a bind until you realize that what is taught now is 'solve with unicorn tears, milked out of your arse'

asciilifeform: not so odd.

asciilifeform: ruler, pencil

asciilifeform also solved quadratics by hand because programming is a cheat

asciilifeform: not even during.

asciilifeform: dug it up after uni

asciilifeform: nah

asciilifeform: even winblows user could handily pop the dos shell and 'bitcoind sendtoaddress .....'

asciilifeform: i never really grasped what the gui was for

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: let's put another way, lowest version you would be willing to use for daily life.

asciilifeform: i could go on.

asciilifeform: no confiscatory 'health care' ripoff

asciilifeform: no mandatory cars to maintain

asciilifeform: 1.20 dollars a day << ehehehe - no. not comparable figure with usa 1.20/diem. ro didn't have to pay rent, had no ruinous tax, cheap non-synthetic food even in the depths of collapse

asciilifeform: if mr o is shilling, he's an uncommonly frugal and ascetic shill.

asciilifeform: and has contacts there.

asciilifeform: also if i recall he did a tour of duty in u.s. finance derpatronics industry

asciilifeform: the folks in his wot - do.

asciilifeform: *min

asciilifeform: at minumum!

asciilifeform: gotta speak languages.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: but i have about the same amount of use for the information as a chimp does for pentium

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: no need for muppetry, i get same notes from ru armchair generals

asciilifeform: dulles

asciilifeform: donate btc for ze war effort!

asciilifeform: 'Full fathom five thy father lies; of his bones are coral made; those are pearls that were his eyes...'

asciilifeform: meaning, rigorously, that for all valid machine ints i, i <= $maxint

asciilifeform: this is precisely what i mean when i say that one thing or another costs $maxint

asciilifeform: at certain point, there is a phase change, and the debt is repayable only in: meat.

asciilifeform: correct side, conventionally, is the one with the chixxors & coke, rather than fleas and reddit

asciilifeform: organisms with simple nervous systems, they are; while on the correct side of the tinted glass, will continue to think they are 'someone.'

asciilifeform: crapolade - in, aye, as appendices

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: even plausible that usg permitted this to avoid hastening axe-time, sword-time, bitcoin-time

asciilifeform: anyone care to see the turdlets in?

asciilifeform: zapzapzap

asciilifeform: undata: with or without wagner/cyanide ?

asciilifeform: aha

asciilifeform: fail.

asciilifeform: ;;google ideas are soldiers

asciilifeform: had problems.

asciilifeform: more or less as described.

asciilifeform: the public face of what happened

asciilifeform: didn't know this?

asciilifeform: unknown!? lolechelon

asciilifeform: wasn't irc sync phased out then ?

asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: don't confuse this item with phil z's pgp book

asciilifeform: each of us, i suspect, has his own use for book.

asciilifeform: where'd they put nubbins` ?

asciilifeform foretastes beer

asciilifeform: noway

asciilifeform: lol!

asciilifeform: who else, i wonder, wishes for one of these

asciilifeform surprised how much interest from folks who aren't him

asciilifeform: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koraktor

asciilifeform: koraktor!

asciilifeform: vomit book?

asciilifeform: !s triple power over the forces of hell

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: pipe << popular in usa in certain circles, in the '70s, i'm told

asciilifeform: othernubs`: can we lift font there?

asciilifeform: othernubs`: see ubiquitous 'lions book' that we're imitating: http://v6.cuzuco.com/v6.pdf ☟︎

asciilifeform: fixed font only, if that needed saying

asciilifeform: glossy, indestructible.

asciilifeform: k&r paper.

asciilifeform: lol, was it really?

asciilifeform: barest that can walk.

asciilifeform: just the pieces necessary for function.

asciilifeform: nope

asciilifeform: 1978.

asciilifeform: ideally this should be precisely the kind of paper found in the 1st edition of kernighan & ritchie's 'c'.

asciilifeform: (e.g. multi-dest sends)

asciilifeform: result must not only build but actually function

asciilifeform: yes

asciilifeform: make sure result builds.

asciilifeform: snipsnip.

asciilifeform doesn't buy even half of mr. bush & co.'s fairy tale either.

asciilifeform: now if only someone of actual consequence were willing to share what he actually uses...

asciilifeform: '...Obama is still more popular than Ebola, but not by much.'

asciilifeform: http://cluborlov.blogspot.com/2014/10/how-to-start-war-and-lose-empire.html

asciilifeform: 'axe-time, sword-time, coming closer...'

asciilifeform would do it himself but lazy, hence the impetus for the whole proposal

asciilifeform: i'd sorta like all the gui-isms snipped

asciilifeform never once in his life used the qt ver

asciilifeform: ;;later tell mircea_popescu care to share your 0.6 patch set for the paper codex?

asciilifeform: which'd be the earliest that would interoperate with the majority of extant nodes?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: ?

asciilifeform doesn't recall seeing it, possibly he never bothered publishing

asciilifeform: decimation: i think mircea_popescu does?

asciilifeform: kakobrekla: depends

asciilifeform digs through notes

asciilifeform: when exactly did the worthwhile patches end...

asciilifeform: mebbe we ought to do 0.1 ?

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: othernubs`: wait 0.6 is qt already

asciilifeform: othernubs`: out

asciilifeform: i think someone even asked before

asciilifeform: i've had folks write in who guess 50s or even more.

asciilifeform: lol

asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: what was your guess?

asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: why