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mircea_popescu: my definition was "any compound of elements from
this list".
mircea_popescu: oh it has
to have carbon ? so co is organic ; h20 inorganic ?
PeterL: I would never use an inorganic solvent like dihydrogen monoxide
to clean clothes!
PeterL: carbon
tetrachloride is an organic solvent,
they don't lie
PeterL: chemically digested and separated pigs ear - debatable wether
that would still be a pig ear
PeterL: it's just a protein, you could get
the amino acid building blocks from pigs and synthesize it
phf: everything i need
to know about javascript i learned from mochikit, which was written by a bunch of sane hackers back before "javascript library" was a
thing. ~first~
thing
they implemented is comparator, iterator and printer protocols (they gave up on numerics as braindead). because javascript doesn't have
those.
they were also
the last ones who even bothered
to.
phf: ben_vulpes: well, json integer is number without fractional part, but from my reading of "standard" it's not mandatory
to
treat number as such. as far as numerics it has
type "number", which is up
to client
to interpret. here on rum island we do not believe in rum
PeterL: why not just use strings of ints, it's
the same
thing, right?
ben_vulpes: "but you can just staple a bunch of digits
together and make an int, right? RIGHT?"
ben_vulpes: i mean hey
that's pretty amusing as well,
that js doesn't have ints.
ben_vulpes: 'jq' is
this mostly-c-thinger
that parses json.
ben_vulpes: in json you mean? or are you
talking about
the jslib 'jquery'?
phf: i know
there are all
these asm.js extensions
that add uint32 and such
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform black people are like 11.5%. of
those,
two
thirds are wiggers, and
the remainder just
too obtuse
to admit
to it, wank it
to "rap" and otherwise
try
to show up on
time for work.
mircea_popescu: the net result of a collection of idiots whose bills are paid by govt being...
the collection itself.
phf: the progression from "feel
the bern"
to "Hillary just so it's not
trump"
to "ohmygod
there's
trump stickers everywhere outside of my panera bread plaza :o:o:o"
mircea_popescu: nothing quite as lulzy as
the libertard waking up
to
the cold reality
that a) nobody likes him ; b) everyone wants him dead and, AND, paramountly, c) his "being nice" has exactly 0 impact on a and very slight impact on b.
mircea_popescu: the problem is
that in
the consumer "mind", easy always beats good.
phf: grok
things like "oh, it was armor pick up in
this corridor, and let me see
there's
two exits, but
the guy would be going for quad next, so he'll
take exit 2, so naturally you want
to intercept blah blah blah"
phf: like i remember watching fps speed runs and
tricks on youtube back when it started and it was wholy unsatisfying experience. you want
to be able
to fly around and look at
trick from different directions
to know what's going on. not
to mention pro level duels, where half
the info comes from sound, you want
to be able
to figure out what player B did
that player A reacted
to, so you have
to pause, rewind, and switch
to other player,
to
phf: even in rts you want demos, rather
than flat rendering
mircea_popescu: then average wowhead started doing it
too, mostly for
the pretense, and
this is what gave us
the lulz of
mircea_popescu: there is some legitimate space for
this, in high performance rts
type of games where watching a high ranked player play is very instructive.
phf: i
think i watched notch livecoding a wolfenstein clone in java on
twitch. it was mildly entertaining, because he was writing everything from scratch (i.e.
tick locked mainloop, ray casting onto an awt canvas, etc.)
mircea_popescu: turns out it wasn't
the
tv making people stupid - people were stupid
to begin with,
tv fit like a glove. with its demise -
the cowsies moo for a replacement. so
they watch others play games.
mircea_popescu: a sort of youtube for obnoxiously voiced dorks
to stream
their voice and upper-left efigy atop game video captures.
jurov: undergrads are content with reflashing
tv dongle and listening
to cops
mircea_popescu: his question stands lol. gl finding an undergrad
that's not an imbecile.
jurov: are
there any engineers left capable of
this? other
than alf?
mircea_popescu: oh btw, apparently brasil can't keep drones out of stadiums,
try as it might.
there's always half dozen flkoating about, and
the "heads of state" muppets in attendance might as well get used
to it.
mircea_popescu: speaking of "actionable steps
towards better itnernet", do i have benchmarks yet ?
mircea_popescu: you recall ? was some foss "expert" blog article, in which he detailed some bugfixing he did, except it was of
the nature of "i removed undigested corn kernel from shit on wall - all better now"
mircea_popescu: nono, some idiot/genius explaining how he "fixed" something or
the other in kernel
mircea_popescu: lemme link
to
the previous instance of me losing it over
this. where was it.
mircea_popescu: ah nm,
they're putting a large ack limit in conf so as
to... BYPASS
THE MAGIC NUMBERS BAKED IN.
shinohai consults
the voynich manuscript
PeterL: is
that a weed or some kind of fruit?
mircea_popescu: anyway, feel free
to publish
trash piece. derp has exactly no clue, EVERY single
thing he says is remarkably stupid and pointedly wrong.
mircea_popescu: "david seaman, a crypto blogger". way
to go. "nobody on a stick" etc.
BingoBoingo: In
the one where
the entire
thing
turns into
the DAO
mircea_popescu: ethereum "publicly
traded company" ? in what alternate universe.
jurov: today is IPO,
tomorrow is GLORY
BingoBoingo:
https://archive.is/E7JJG << Delusion Update "Instead, Seaman noted, Classic is an “insecure orphan chain” being promoted in a way
that would be illegal if Ethereum were a publicly
traded company, which it could eventually be." and other lol
mircea_popescu: ie,
there's an allowance
the olympic lizzards make for each country
to participate. many of
them spend many
times more on
their
teams ; but for shitholes from
the country of africa it's actually lucrative in
the sense of, pay fiddy bux
to local derp
to spend a week in a hotel for
the first
time in his life ; cash in on
the olympic committee millionz.
BingoBoingo: Like someone paid for
the dude
to be last place. Not even with reasonable expectations
they could do otherwise, but solidly knowing what would happen.
BingoBoingo: Not like grotesque fat, but like WTF? Why bother sending someone when your best swimmer is 20-30% worse
than
the next worst country's swimmer?