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mircea_popescu: incidentally, the demolished man is an excellent piece, inasmuch
as it's pretty much an exact description of both the ideal
as well
as the practical implementation of "modern democracy, civilised & globalized"
as teh bureaucrats perceive it.
a111: Logged on 2016-10-03 18:23 mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161003/#340 << yes.
as we speak diana_coman is busy at work making snapsnots of linuxen. because it's obvious from practice that the way this goes is "i can't install eulora on linux" "we tested this" "but i can't". then upon extensive and expensive research it turns out... THEY CHANGED THE FUCKING DISTRO. breaking software. because why not.
ben_vulpes: this gulf between computers
as toys and computers
as devices to be used by people who can patch, understand what the machine is doing stretches wider every day.
mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20161003/#340 << yes.
as we speak diana_coman is busy at work making snapsnots of linuxen. because it's obvious from practice that the way this goes is "i can't install eulora on linux" "we tested this" "but i can't". then upon extensive and expensive research it turns out... THEY CHANGED THE FUCKING DISTRO. breaking software. because why not.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i suppose the solution everyone uses is to declare a special class made of arbitrary length bitfields and define procedures on it such
as these.
mircea_popescu: absolute minimum defensive coding for unix ; taught
as such decades ago in fucking romanian.
mircea_popescu: i dunno man. "This looks (to me)
as good C code
as it gets. However, this code triggers undefined behavior: after the first iteration of the loop frees the node pointed to by head, it is undefined behavior to perform the tmp != head comparison, even though head is not dereferenced." << if this looks like good c to him he would have flunked my higschool class.
mircea_popescu: i suppose a machete esp in the rula style
as seen there is a very credible cavalry sword.
trinque: they are there
as blessings!
PeterL:
as far
as mathematical/scientific papers go, asciiifying this one was not too bad.
mircea_popescu: PeterL for the record, traditionally "not equal" is marked
as != not /= because ! is the logical negation and also because / has other meanings ; while "less than or equal" is =< or <= or somesuch, not _<. why invent unexpected symbology ?
a111: Logged on 2016-10-02 06:11 adlai: asciilifeform: how much value is there in getting the Gizmo Explorer
as a first educational toy in this field, given that I currently have no idea what to do with it other than pilling and whatever else you suggest?
adlai: asciilifeform: how much value is there in getting the Gizmo Explorer
as a first educational toy in this field, given that I currently have no idea what to do with it other than pilling and whatever else you suggest?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so the notion of pigging the spam is not entirely without merit ; impossible
as it may be.
mircea_popescu: especially
as they're now getting imported into fucking foundational work
mircea_popescu: whole piece seems pretty much the #trilema talking points. including "giving away your power" unreferenced ballas -
as - processed stuff etc.
BingoBoingo: Not cross stitched. Needle point is for directing the silk worms
as they spin parachute.
phf: pure
as a lisp exercise
phf: i suspect that the text marshaling that shell script does (
as far
as overhead over "pure c") is insubstantial compared to otherwise demanding and ~~cpu level sha256
mircea_popescu: "While we would fire Ben over this, node.js is an open source project and one doesn't necessarily have the same levers." aka "we've not yet managed to steal ben's work, but will posture
as if anyway!!1"
mircea_popescu: "This isn't merely a legalistic concern (though that too, certainly), but also a technical one: we believe that empathy is a core engineering value—and that an engineer that has so little empathy
as to not understand why the use of gendered pronouns is a concern almost certainly makes poor technical decisions
as well."
mircea_popescu: to install them
as top brass in existing offices would a) mean that women are disgusting cocksuckers ; b) mean that niggers don't have the right to vote and c) prevent any maintenance work from ever happening in all of wash dc.
ben_vulpes: hmfic also wants to install 'their friends' at managerial payrolls. wouldn't do at all to bring them in
as toilet scrubbers in the 'white house communications agency'. 'but but i'm more important to just be a cog in an existing organization -- we need our own new best shiniest!'
mircea_popescu: gotta make a new one for each new generation of fucks, because well,
as seen recently they have all the social skills of a mollusc and so can't work with anyone else but "their friends"
mircea_popescu: "Here’s what I learned from my mentors: If someone makes a mistake, or does something you don’t think is right, you talk to them about it privately and give them the opportunity to correct it. This not only gets the mistake corrected, but it offers a learning moment to the person, increases their understanding, and keeps them “on board” with the overall project.
As a leader you’re being empathetic to that person and
mircea_popescu: actually it seems to convert <font color=lightgray> into <span style="color: #000000;"> ;
as none of the font tags are actually ever closed, it results in span overflow and death.
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mircea_popescu: phf i dunno, doesn't register
as antagonism in my head, just pure fear. which is weird, but w/e.
pete_dushenski: <sl_>its not necessary for me to tear down linux, its necessary for linux to demonstrate some worth << sounds an awful lot like "what is the value of the sun to me" or at least a very ustardian sort of "passive resistance is teh real resistance"
as per campus banana hanger,
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-28#1549948 ☝︎ phf: plan9 standardized on quotes
as a way to print/read filenames with special symbols (like space and newline) in it, but none of the filter tools support that convention, so awk print $1 will happily render "foo\space, grep will grep for "foo\newline with rest of filename cutoff in both cases
mircea_popescu: catvorg_cultist
as pointed in the logs, non-bash is simply not used ; so the fact that dumb holes like that weren't found is not actually much proof they're not there.
mircea_popescu: amusingly, "always use quotes" and "don't use the sh wordsplitting" is good advice for sh just
as much.
phf: sh (bourne shell) is almost never actually deployed on systems anymore. when people say "sh" they usually mean "posix compliant subset of shell language that was once implemented
as sh, and now written into the standard". on linux sh is bash in compatability mode, on bsd sh is ksh also in compatability mode. fwiw busybox supports posix sh, but doesn't have bash
mircea_popescu: (in case anyone thought "let's add fluoride to water" is some sort of novel insanity :
as american
as apple pie. this schmuck added radium for the EXACT same purpose - it'll strengthen your teeth, cure gout and female anoyingness.)
mircea_popescu: what the everloving fuck ELSE is snakeoil but "stupid shit that behaves
as advertised and yet is not useful for any usecase"
a111: Logged on 2015-04-02 14:58 asciilifeform: 'Boneh, in joint work with Matt Franklin, constructed a novel pairing-based method for identity-based encryption (IBE), whereby a user's public identity, such
as an email address, can function
as the user's public key. Since then, Boneh's contributions, together with those of others, have shown the power and versatility of pairings, which are now used
as a mainstream tool in cryptography. The transfer of pairings from theory t
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a111: Logged on 2016-09-27 16:39 mircea_popescu: this doesn't matter so much, future cryptosystem will be made on the basis of rng ; rng can work with pubkey
as entropy source.
mircea_popescu: well no, at least that's an actual thing.
as opposed to theoretical pieces badly written by idiots.
mircea_popescu: very apt observation re the value of bitcoin
as forever-time-anchor btw.
pete_dushenski: ben_vulpes: also, i'd humbly suggest ch add at least one layer of embedded replies. also, one excellent habit that i picked up from mp was to answer any and all comments on the blog. it's a two-way street this internet thing and responding with something
as simple
as a "cheers" is encouraging for readers.
pete_dushenski: eu-expansion capital. it's all to evident that, like the romans in palestine or usd
as world reserve or facebook
as #1sm, it's a temporary occupation.
diana_coman: it doesn't strike me
as specifically eu per se
pete_dushenski: lol! and yet this doesn't strike you
as surgical mengelism ?
diana_coman: fwiw pete_dushenski I flew with Ryanair and I would advise against them unless you are either a. desperate b. really curious of how a plane can feel like the old-times local bus for local peasants, chicken and other animals combined; they have the most obnoxious "service" I ever saw filled with loud and frequent "offers" to buy all sorts and *advertisement* in the cabin; not to mention interesting fees such
as "fuel fee" (I wou
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mircea_popescu: the problem with the political notion of "primitive" is that well, it's the "global warming" from before global warming. there ~is~ a scientific notion of primitive, but it's deeply political inconvenient (such
as, primitive society uses hieroglyphics rather than alphabet. making the chinese primitive.) wheres the politically convenient version ("guys in next town over are primitive, because our footbal mascot is a beaver and
mircea_popescu: well, if you don't use windows, there's ~no minimum specs, i've had it run on ten year old laptops. if you do use windows it's unclear
as of yet, some people have had problems but seems to be on random hardware
Framedragger: and in general builds an argument against the notion of "primitive"
as widely used in western anthropology.
mircea_popescu: ie, if you people are going to herd rather than critically analyze, it might
as well be that YOU are the reason the account has to be banned.
Framedragger: i guess that twitter acct thought it was funny that FGM could be anything other than bullshit. at the point of lol'ing at those tweets i took this
as a given
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: hm. on actually closer inspection, that thing's easier to parse if one reads till end of extract. one of the points is that the notion of female genital mutilation is used to represent african tribes etc.
as inferior culturally, sexually, etc.; thesis seems to disagree with this portrayal of that tribal culture. this does indeed not sound original. but, i guess you're right, it's more like meh, and not a lol-worthy outrag
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mircea_popescu: arguably about
as tenuous a basis in reality (what is "a processor" ? really ?)
mircea_popescu: so it is. then again, it has to be pointed out that all these "studies" are derivative work of literary criticism and phenomenology
as the philosophical discipline (80s variant, see eg stanford's "it is the study of structures of conscxiousness"). consequently they consist almost entirely out of terms of art.