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mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes have a logwatcher trigger ? renice everyything ?
mircea_popescu: there should also be a bdb based method but it probably would take longer to untangle
mircea_popescu: if the worst comes to worst diff blk00x.dat pre and post
mircea_popescu: but no one else ever ehard of this, and so we wish to see his block
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes the idea with the native cruftery is, he found a reliable way to wedge the bitcoind at a certain heright which just so happens to be the checkpoint
mircea_popescu: a damned sight more optimistic than you, this pessimist
mircea_popescu: g when their decks are awash. It is only that the other element in man, the lazy, cowardly, debt-bilking adulterer who is inside all of us, can never be suppressed altogether and needs a hearing occasionally."
mircea_popescu: sentiments make no appeal. Nevertheless the high sentiments always win in the end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firin
mircea_popescu: here asciilifeform : "I never read the proclamations of generals before battle, the speeches of Führers and prime ministers, the solidarity songs of public schools and left-wing political parties, national anthems, Temperance tracts, papal encyclicals and sermons against gambling and contraception, without seeming to hear in the background a chorus of raspberries from all the millions of common men to whom these high
mircea_popescu: an' tbh it wasn't much more than a passing remark anyway, so we've made more of it than its frail back can carry
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the original point wasn't that there don't exist profilers, but that it's rare for a language to put the bytecode in the programmer's face, and especially for a new and (at least in my perception) hip one.
mircea_popescu: well obviously profilers exist. just, people seem sorta shy to put the bytestream in your face so.
mircea_popescu: the sorts of tediums i have machines do is generally seen as closest to c
mircea_popescu: im {un/}fortunate to be in this position where thje actual business end of my mental life can in no manner by done by machines. so lisp is entirely useless to me.
mircea_popescu: still, this is like the first thing i've seen in nigh on 20 years making me almost feel like trying to code in it.
mircea_popescu: this would be the first compiler brave enough to expose itself to programmer scrutiny thus
mircea_popescu: You can see the compiled assembly code for any just typed in function
☟︎ mircea_popescu: actually julia sounds very interesting, have we discussed yet ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo that was the lulziest thing ever. "we'll break with 2.x but still have 1.x issues"
mircea_popescu: decimation except ruby came to peak and then withered before python managed to get a new major version out :D
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo no, it just wants to go on doing what it's best at!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform basically, this thread is about new guy trying to make sense of the batshit insane that is b-a.
mircea_popescu: of people with different characteristics. Animals are animals. It's a thing into itself, not some anthropomorphized cuteness. Fundamentally, we could present the problem in saying that you're a furry."
mircea_popescu: "You're thinking of animals based not on interaction with animals, but on interactions with human depictions of animals. Such as animals drawn by a person in a book, "animal" cartoon characters made to resemble people, people in animal plush costumes and so forth. All of this creates in you the false but deep seated impression that animals are residually a sort of people. This is not true. Animals are not at all a sort
mircea_popescu: like the us borrowed a uk gun, and then trying to understand why the damage was so bad asked the english
mircea_popescu: well it's engineering... if they test with it still frozen
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform throughout eastern canada too, or at least were.
mircea_popescu: trinque actually they'll fight you, too. more than one woman got scared shitless of flocks of geese
mircea_popescu: whosoever takes will take in the manner that it is given, and there you have your submission.
mircea_popescu: by its very definition, no less. to give, someone has to take.
mircea_popescu: and to complete your headspin : there is no altruism, either ever seen or in principle possible, outside of a domination/submission relationship.
mircea_popescu: tho perhaps some observer may think he understood the example better than the geese
mircea_popescu: but it would seem to me that even should i decide to take turns with the woman as to who's on top, this does not automatically preclude us from enjoying a D/s relationship.
mircea_popescu: which of these examples is "without submission/domination" ?
mircea_popescu: and to such a degree they kill their children with their own hands, at that.
mircea_popescu: i've not even met one million people yet i'd ever wish to meet again, wtf billions.