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mircea_popescu: what exactly is "recycled" going
to mean if not exactly
this ?
a111: Logged on 2016-09-20 16:50 asciilifeform: phf: aha, before
the zombies
took over.
phf: by god,
trusted chinaman
turned out
to have his own agenda, what. who could've predicted
mircea_popescu: waste of
time
to
try and remove
the N from
the equation.
mircea_popescu: seeing how it
takes about
two hours
to
teach anyone
to suck cock but you can't
turn 99% of extant female population into fap fodder no matter what you do.
mircea_popescu: as opposed
to being limited in any way by
the width of K.
mircea_popescu: this way you can
turn N ugly cocksuckers + K pretty whores into irl satisfaction for N*c idiots
mircea_popescu: in general
the way
this works is : a) you put
two inch styrofoam panels on light metal rails with gloryhole ; b) you affix lcd eyeheight, and play porn on it and c) you get women lined up
to service behind
the wall.
mircea_popescu: if your crazy chechen cousin brought you a goat, you wouldn't want
to KEEP it
mircea_popescu: and
to ensure poverty for anyone involved with google,
the un, etcetera.
PeterL: seems like
that would be easy, just write a script
to give everybody
the same amount of money!
mircea_popescu: which, given
that it's not 2000 anymore,
they can't reproduce.
shinohai: mircea_popescu let
them pay for advertising like any other wanna-be corp. <<< nb and good point
mircea_popescu: let
them pay for advertising like any other wanna-be corp.
mircea_popescu: the way
things currently stand, being mentioned in qntra increases
the italian gdp by a significant ammount, which is unjustified by an mostly absent public interest in
the affairs of
the shithole.
shinohai: mircea_popescu does story merit a qntra just for
the lulz ?
mircea_popescu: needless
to say, qntra isn't going
to implement italian "supreme court" bullshit ; nor is "italy" a sovereign in any sense.
shinohai: Annnnd ben_vulpes coins a new
term for
the republic.
PeterL: what would
they use instead?
thestringpuller: after heartbleed OpenSSL should have been avoided like
the plague
PeterL: "just relax, spread wider,
this won't hurt a bit"
mircea_popescu: a mistake ~on
the level of a c
that included "automagic" memalloc.
mircea_popescu: phf i'm of
the same persuasion.
they should never have included "automagic" conversions.
phf: and it's definitely ~not~
the case of spreading works. python made a very right and sane distinction between strings and bytes. and
the interaction of
the
two requires awareness.
the mistake
that
they made is
to make
the conversion implicit, which lets people pretend like underlying problems don't exist, and when it breaks ~like it should~ blame it on python
phf: asciilifeform: having fixed a share of "unicode doesn't work in python!!1" problems, i'm pretty sure
that it's an operator problem
jhvh1: shinohai:
The operation succeeded.
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 14:52 phf: and for
the record, read in python doesn't ever fail, what fails is elevation from str
to unicode
that implicitly happens in places, like when you do "print" or inside
the html encoder or whatever.
the correct way is
to
treat "str" as a byte sequence, and explicitly do encode/decode when appropriate.
mircea_popescu: maybe
they fucked up
the
tools
that'd show it ; but i will not believe it's gone
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at soime point (maybe windows 95 ?)
they were adding a 2 byte "bom" at beginning of all "text" files
mircea_popescu: my first was "wtf is
that gunk at beginning of
text file ?" "oh, windows."
phf: come
to
think of it first proper exposure
to encoding hell was mp3 id3
tags
phf: i recon,
that is
the gist of
the joke
phf: "man sitting on a
toilet while wearing a horse mask glyph", which, by u.s. fraction of
the unicode lobby is augmented
to, "woman ..." "minority permutation ..."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the kind you push up and down
the hill in a great flurry
to "help with athen's defense"
phf: it's probably just
the japanese adding more emoji
a111: Logged on 2016-09-21 14:43 mircea_popescu: you'll end up in a bath
tub i'm
telling you.