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mircea_popescu: the part you don't seem
to at all grasp is
that ~nobody cares.
mircea_popescu: if judged by effects, fire is more pedagogic
than university.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile,
to be a consumer means - you get comfortable X, and no possibility
to scale it.
mircea_popescu: yeah, well. problem begins when consumer prefers
to pretend everything scales liniarly.
mircea_popescu: so buyer is getting literally what was promised him : a small USB stick
that allows you
to spend Bitcoin like a dollar bill.
mircea_popescu: it's not worth it
to
third party
to copy for one dollar ; and otherwise
the supply floats at
the pleasure of
the issuer.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the protection here is
that if indeed
this item is
to be used "like a dollar bill",
then
that's protection enough.
mircea_popescu: from which we find
that, remarkably, by mid sept 2016
trilema had published 68.8k footnotes and 68.8k images.
ben_vulpes: how'd you arrange for
the unique-over-blog handles?
mircea_popescu: this'd be
the exactly counterpart
to
the very common "mp is in heaven and i am in hell, life is so unfair" ever-so-common approach. "oh look, i
thought i
too had a blog ; except check out what a proper one actually does!"
mircea_popescu: deliberately,
too. some
things should be painful
to produce.
ben_vulpes: hey genuinely curious what you see in
that
ben_vulpes: why do unique footnotes over whole
thing matter?
phf: ben_vulpes: don't listen
to him, he's insane
phf: mp's footnotes have a nifty feature, where each footnote is unique over
the publishing history. would be hard
to do it manually
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu, BingoBoingo, pete_dushenski: recommendations for wp footnote plugin? footnotes-in-footnotes would be a grand feature if any can do
that and it's not a mp-wp-footnotes custom job
adlai: ARE WE
THE GODS OF OUR UNIVERSE?
adlai: anyway, it
turns out
that
there is 'free energy'
to be scalped off markets other
than s.mpoe[RIP]. who'da
thunk?
adlai: what do horse quarters have
to do with
the price of eggs in wottistan?
mircea_popescu: such pravoslavnic folk and
they can't find
themselves a stable situation.
adlai: "... and
then
there were none"
mircea_popescu: "one day, orlov got indigestion from a pea dish, and died. krilov, hearing such, died
too. spiridonov however died all by himself. and his wife fell from
the cupboard and also died. and his children drowned in a pond. and his grandmother
took
to
the bottle and started hitchhiking."
shinohai: thy rod and
thy staff
they comfort me
trinque: ah,
that's more like it adlai
phf: they are much better with
thought control, out
there in jew land. former ussr engineers, what do you expect.
adlai: sadly
the archiveception waned oiotoshic
adlai learned
that before pressing
the clock, he counts again liberties of each group.
this is as relevant
to irc as it is
to pokemon.
phf: when i hear
the word community ..., i release
the safety on my browning
shinohai: add
trilema.com
to
twitter bot and get 250k impressions in a week
mircea_popescu: Framedragger
there's
this deep pastoral root of his specific flavour ; he sounds in a sense like
twain, and like jerome k jerome, and like
the arab absurdists.
mircea_popescu: phf
the moral being
that communities belong enslaved ; and not in control.
phf: i'm hoping
that for my deeds dks will grant me a boon, "i asked 'er for a hair from her head. she gave me
three"
phf: Framedragger: alf's archive link ~is~ bitsavers, it's just not like 1 pdf. it's about 200 of
them, so you kind of need
to narrow it down a bit
Framedragger: phf: aha, bitsavers, noted,
thanks! alf's archive.org copy should do just fine..
there's even plain
text format, doesn't appear
to be garbled
phf: Framedragger: entire set of symbolics documents is on
the bitsavers, i can
track down relevant bits for you, but it'll
take a bit, since i was reading it on a lispm
Framedragger: phf: is
that spec available online somewhere (or, keywords) by any chance? curious
to
take a peek at some point.. is it published by symbolics?
phf: in related news i finally read genera's defsystem spec and not only does it ~makes sense~ it's also obvious
that first
takes on c-land defsystems was a pale imitation of original functionality, i.e. слышит звон но не знает где он
phf: indeed, and it's also very idiosyncratic,
to
the point where i don't
think anyone but Fare can work on it. on a whim i switched my system
to asdf 1.* (last release before peanut gallery
took asdf over) and not surprisingly everything works, ~except~ when project explicitly relies on asdf3 functionality, which is exclusively
test hooks, uiop and hardcoded "needs asdf>3" requirements
phf: i
think asdf is evil, version 3 is doing some straight up systemd shit. for
those who don't know asdf 3 comes with fare's own portability layer called uiop, which in a very systemd agressive and underhanded style is superseding existing utility libraries.
☟︎ phf: trinque: i was being fanciful. i used most of
the ircbot for a111, so had
to at least stackoverflow read it ;P
Framedragger: mircea_popescu:
thanks for reminding me of kharms,
that's *one* modern russian writer i've actually read (in .lt), good stuff. recall reading it on a bench in park with friend and a bottle of something strong between us. people smirked at us, i smirked back
a111: Logged on 2016-09-15 14:21 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the main cause of all
the
turmoil whenever we discuss
this particular
thing is
that you keep confusing syntax and meta-syntax. but it's finally clearing up, because eg. "where i could, e.g., (require "a591af34" is starting
to sound like sanity, which is
to say,
that you import primitives rather
than collations.
Framedragger: # wrapped up in a function so
that we have some protection against only getting
Framedragger: mein gott. decided
to deploy one of
the newer 'productivity web apps' for work, official install is
through docker, and *obviously* official docker install is `wget -qO-
https://get.docker.com/ | sh`. BUT LOOK at
the end of
that legit2000.sh is:
☟︎ mircea_popescu: and if you CAN'T do
this,
then
the solution is
to go, read. i also can't speak maori, but
this doesn't mean i sit around and make "maori sounding" noises.
mircea_popescu: in sanity, you are supposed
to a) be acquainted with functions, objects, structures, etc by name ; and on
the grounds of having read and wrote
them until
they revealed all
their secrets, no "we got
to second base" bullshit ; b) import
them, and
them only. which is why "require library" is so fucking idiotic.
mircea_popescu: the concept of "require" as "this particular primitive" is one
thing ; but
the way it's practiced and
the way fucking galls me is as "this particular collection".
mircea_popescu: the concept of "library" as "this collection of primitives" is meta-syntactic, and strictly personal idiomatic.
that a bunch of anglotards
try
this
thing where
they "all mean nigger in
the same sense - and everyone always does!" is just you know, anglotards being anglotards.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
the main cause of all
the
turmoil whenever we discuss
this particular
thing is
that you keep confusing syntax and meta-syntax. but it's finally clearing up, because eg. "where i could, e.g., (require "a591af34" is starting
to sound like sanity, which is
to say,
that you import primitives rather
than collations.
☟︎