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mircea_popescu: or more generally, can't have static solutions
to process problems.
mircea_popescu: but
the
technical problems aren't at issue here - it's
the sociocultural compact of
the deliberately-ignorant
that are
the issue.
mircea_popescu: yes,
this would be very close
to
the lisp model of variables anyway.
mircea_popescu: so
then people will
try and optimize
that, and what people mean by "optimize" is always "here, i'll
take
the cream, you do
the work for me".
mircea_popescu: in principle
there is a strong argument
to say "alphabet size = machine word size" even if
this didn't hold on pre-8 bit machines. and consequently you ~could~ have a
type string
that always
takes 4 bytes and represents whatever
the fuck.
the problem is
that
this gives you a 400% memory allocation bloat for
that
type of string.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-29 14:43 phf: we had a
thread when diff was first discussed as a way
to do patches (i
think maybe before even v), where i was erring on
the side of no unicode support on
the grounds
that if we decide
to support unicode we have
to,
to borrow asciilifeforms, drink
the whole spittoon
phf: we had a
thread when diff was first discussed as a way
to do patches (i
think maybe before even v), where i was erring on
the side of no unicode support on
the grounds
that if we decide
to support unicode we have
to,
to borrow asciilifeforms, drink
the whole spittoon
☟︎☟︎ a111: Logged on 2015-10-31 16:24 phf: some hypothetical b-a os and internal consistency of
the whole model. if you say "we support utf-8" here, you're also saying "we support unicode x.y" everywhere
a111: Logged on 2015-10-31 16:22 phf: but i'm not
talking about diff specifically, i'm saying
that whatever decissions are being made about diff now are going
to influence
the kind of work we'll have
to do in
the future
mircea_popescu: but maybe
time
to make
the point
that
this cleanliness is not coincidental.
mircea_popescu: as far as i know it's all clean
to date, which is why
this discussion didn't spring naturally
mircea_popescu: speaking of above article, can i get a commitment
to never signing any V material which includes any non-ascii characters ? BingoBoingo diana_coman hanbot
trinque mod6 danielpbarron mircea_popescu mike_c asciilifeform davout ben_vulpes phf jurov
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: and it also goes re "trade". yes
the brits experienced a period of "hey,
trade creates wealth". guess what - it created out of burning china's empire. spain idem. and
the portuguese
too.
ben_vulpes considering "deskilling"
the entire mobile-app "api server" with judicious compilation of libpq
phf: ben_vulpes: it is rather unfortunate how much
time i wasted "following along", i know
things now
phf: afaik heroku invented
the whole "container"
thing, i.e. instead of oldfag unixing you have a
thing with many slots,
that
takes ruby code, provides postgresql, etc. so
that you don't actually need
to know anything outside of your rails world
ben_vulpes: entire
thing runs atop bezos' virtu-staxx
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: omg hate speech as if
to assume
they even have
their own boxes!
mircea_popescu: is heroku anything more
than a pretentious website and a few dozen boxes rented in a dc somewhere ?
ben_vulpes: whether
the investors made
the
tin woman, obvs
ben_vulpes: absolutely sole purpose is
to render savings moot.
ben_vulpes: ah,
the spontaneous generation argument
ben_vulpes: lj never
took 2 seconds
to return a simple html page...
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu:
try livejournal, i eat livejournal urls
ben_vulpes: but lookie at
the mircea_popescu citing sv's own propaganda machine
ben_vulpes: whatever, crunchbase
took 2 seconds
to return a page, i killed
the process
mircea_popescu: "m&a market" in
the sense of bullshit "tech companies" of
the software ilk is looking at a 99% contraction in 2017.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi how
they figure
trump's gonna be printing for
this.
mircea_popescu: talk
to shinohai Framedragger pete_dushenski who else had a bot
mircea_popescu: phf i'm sitting here
trying
to come up with something but i'm sitting here
trying
to come up with something but i'm sitting here
trying
to come up with something but...
phf: i've gotten
to a point with logs, where most of my log memories are stored in logs
phf: asciilifeform: oh i missed
that
mircea_popescu: oh wait, blonde chicks surf cuz
they're from california right ? and black chicks basketball. makes perfect sense. wanna bet
the swimmer's a brunette ?
phf: no idea, and
too lazy
to investigate. i found it because apparently valid unicode pistol emoji was changed from realistic looking gun
to a water gun
mircea_popescu: in other news, icann changed "domain lock" for
transfers
to... 60 days.
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] 1 Samuel 15:3 :: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all
that
they have, and spare
them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.
a111: Logged on 2016-11-28 21:16 mircea_popescu:
twenty years ago i was appalled at
the atrocity of
the original most serene republic sacking constantinople. now i am very much remiss
they left anyone alive or any one
thing standing, should have merv'd
the fucking place.
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] 1 Corinthians 6:9 :: Know ye not
that
the unrighteous shall not inherit
the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of
themselves with mankind,
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Leviticus 18:25 :: And
the land is defiled:
therefore I do visit
the iniquity
thereof upon it, and
the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
jhvh1: danielpbarron: [KJV] Leviticus 18:24 :: Defile not ye yourselves in any of
these
things: for in all
these
the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
a111: Logged on 2016-11-28 21:05 mircea_popescu: hardly. subcultures
that embrace comfort do lasting damage
to
the geography. which is how and why mexico is a shithole now -
the aztecs lived
there. which is why and how ukraina and
the dalmatian coast are shitholes now - byzantines lived nearby.
mircea_popescu: in proper
terms, "it's
too expensive
to 100%
test each individual unit"
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-11-28#1573903 <<
that is one of
the best games ever. i have many memories of high school drunken debaucheries, where a small clique would periodically dip out, one by one,
to perform
their next move in heroes on
the family computer
☝︎