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BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> is there some rule that "experts" in anglosphere must be ludicrously inept at their chosen expertise,
as per their own lights ? << Yes, if every "expert" sucks then tournament market doesn't need a very sweet pot for the winrar.
mircea_popescu: which is the original point of
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-08-17#1523089 : if for whatever reason you're unwilling to bias against pangloss, notwithstanding that this is both shown by experience to be a most productive, useful and eficacious heuristic
as well
as deductively sound ; nevertheless at the very least you can't bias FOR it.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: Framedragger the problem here is moreover default trust. so you wake up one day and you see... "gnupg". nomina nuda. you look around, theres' "werner koch" idem, nomina nuda. you look, there's "tor" with "shari" and "isis". names, hollow
as can be. but the natural tendency of the brain, to see movement in a succession of stills and meaning in noise and structure in names convinces you these are THINGS.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: is there some rule that "experts" in anglosphere must be ludicrously inept at their chosen expertise,
as per their own lights ?
phf: pretty much everyone here was subjected to dpb's harsh judgement at one point or another,
as is right and proper, he keeps us in check
phf: dating is the same kind of sorting
as choosing between coke and pepsi at a grocery store
phf: this looks
as outdoorsy
as SUVs are designed for sport
BingoBoingo: What you submitted at this time however was not that. You presented the signed block
as basically "take this
as what it is" and "here are other people doubting it" leaving unrepublican b00bs to wonder wtf?
BingoBoingo: danielpbarron: There's prolly a way to rewrite what you submitted to news it up, but
as you presented it it wasn't news. Maybe a "look how unlucky this guy is" angle would help? All those misfortunes may very well involve malice on the part of persons other than him. Such an angle could be very newsy.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform no , no, the ones that appear manually cranked are just the same 3-4 bots "sold" on "underground forums", but with exceptionally inept operators. such
as ahmed.
mircea_popescu: you'll laugh, but the point is not so much untinkable
as not valuable. ~all of them, if actually given access, will happily post links "for google to see" and that's all.
mircea_popescu: phf they prolly put you behind cloudflare/homebrewed equivalent
as a service or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: best i can discern two things : 1) derp wanted to discourage old coinbases accumulating (had intuition about the blockchain bloat didn't want to address or know how to) ; 2) fees would have been HUGE early on without this,
as in, "fuck you, you wanna transact it's 50 cents. i dun care your 1k btc is enough for a pizza slice ie 2 bux"
mircea_popescu: yes, the proposition that "sane answer" === "i made a mistake" necessarily implies that
as a precursor.
mircea_popescu: do that and let them starve, it'll count
as a job well done.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-22 11:43 jurov: noone can't ever use vanilla autotools and ftjam
as documented. it's absolute necessity to prove own intelligence and DRY-adherence by creatively rigging the build system.
jurov: you always use the most immaterial point and use it
as counterargument "phee jurov doesn't want to clean his guns manually"
a111: Logged on 2016-08-18 22:32 asciilifeform: 'The situation is somewhat akin to a retarded girlfriend trying to flood your apartment, that not only opens all the faucets and stops all the drains, but also takes the "extremely clever" measure of puncturing the water pipes, so she can then preciously inform you that "turning off the faucets won't help" and you must work with her to somehow create a raft out of your widescreen TV so
as to navigate the marshy terrain that used to b
a111: Logged on 2016-08-22 03:02 mircea_popescu: basically, seems to me most, or at least a good chunk of autoconf problems
as described by alf come from the fact that it tries to parse, rather than compile. in the abstract sense of these terms.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-22 09:35 jurov: it can stay
as a historical record, but it's currently frozen with #b-a wot and redoing wot synchronization is exactly such kind of nontrivial change
jurov: noone can't ever use vanilla autotools and ftjam
as documented. it's absolute necessity to prove own intelligence and DRY-adherence by creatively rigging the build system.
☟︎ jurov: it can stay
as a historical record, but it's currently frozen with #b-a wot and redoing wot synchronization is exactly such kind of nontrivial change
☟︎ phf: fwiw trb and eulora have opposite goals
as far
as exposure
mircea_popescu: except it will appear to, for a briefd interval at first. then it will create friction between purists and inclusionists, which is just about
as dumb drama
as livejournal disputes.
mircea_popescu: basically, seems to me most, or at least a good chunk of autoconf problems
as described by alf come from the fact that it tries to parse, rather than compile. in the abstract sense of these terms.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: phf yeah. i have a problem in that i want to impose eulora
as standard for republic code ; but nevertheless automake IS a humongo pile of perl.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-21 01:06 mircea_popescu: the song goes "uite-asa
as vrea sa mor, cu paharul linga mine, cu cobzarul linga mine, intr-o crisma din obor, sa scriu cind o fi momentul cu vin rosu testamentul. sa-i tragem o betie de pomina sa fie"
phf: asciilifeform: do you have a gnupg1 version, that can be used
as a trb-like base? i want to go through an execise of reading a diff between some version that can be relied on with all the disclaimers and whatever's in the trunk
danielpbarron: so invalid address is a thing like nlock is a thing. What is the republic's take on that? I know nlock isn't well regarded, but what is the harm in rejecting invalid address? or is there no such thing
as an invalid address?
phf: william gibson predicted everything, i claim
as far
as futurists go, he's been on point for a few decades now
znort987: or more practically, is there a page where the wot
as used in #trilema can be explored ?
znort987: after the great schism, was the wot forked
as well ?
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo not even sure. the decay was evident in the 90s. might
as well say the berlin wall falling did its damage.
BingoBoingo: Well that's because Facebook, dying
as it is did its damage.
BingoBoingo prefered quiet desk drinking
as is in the logs.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-21 00:53 phf: russians have a concept for it, "квасить" to drink socially in a controlled manner. failure at квас is seen
as a character flaw. a grownup is supposed to go be able to go at it for like 5-6 hours without the embarrassing "passing out face first into the salad" eventual outcome. when you're in your 30s, you should be able to do it for 5-6 hours, then be able to freshen up and do work, etc.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: alf or jurov might appreciate the benefits they recieve from serving
as an object of your worship just so long
as you ask nicely. Both have long histories of lording.
BingoBoingo: shinohai: Higher power is an intentionally vague term. Any of the other lords of TMSR would probably be happy to serve
as your higher power if you ask nicely.
mircea_popescu: the song goes "uite-asa
as vrea sa mor, cu paharul linga mine, cu cobzarul linga mine, intr-o crisma din obor, sa scriu cind o fi momentul cu vin rosu testamentul. sa-i tragem o betie de pomina sa fie"
☟︎ phf: russians have a concept for it, "квасить" to drink socially in a controlled manner. failure at квас is seen
as a character flaw. a grownup is supposed to go be able to go at it for like 5-6 hours without the embarrassing "passing out face first into the salad" eventual outcome. when you're in your 30s, you should be able to do it for 5-6 hours, then be able to freshen up and do work, etc.
☟︎ BingoBoingo kinda envies those who can do sobriety
as a part time thing. And russians who can be sober even while drinking.
mircea_popescu: and that rather goes for you too : the log is here to make you less stupid. spend at least 100x
as much reading it
as you spend writing into it, and certainly do not eat anything in any day you've not read at least a thousand lines.
mircea_popescu: "On Thursday following their acquisition by Univision, Gawker media announced that their former flagship Gawker.com would be shuttered next week." << lol. "all the 'jouralists' have been reclassified
as actresses (which is what they always hoped for anyway), playing ugly betty in the 194 unilever sitcoms currently under production. this translates to a 85% pay increase across the board, and their spoken lines will be drastica
mod6: But yeah, will certainly be reviewing those and regrinding them
as needed if they pass the vetting process and are added to the tree.
phf: mod6: i don't think you understood what we were saying, but certainly nobody's expecting you to grind vpatches
as a "service to others", so please don't
mod6: and i guess furthermore, if it's needed for me to regrind these four vpatches
as a service for others...
mod6: so if i see the "dump priv key" patch out there on btcbase or found somewhere else (it's not included in the patches in thebitcoin.foundation's site), then i'd pull that vpatch down, regrind it myself, and place it into patches where I can apply it myself
as a "WILD" patch.
mod6: <+phf> asciilifeform: i did, he said something about "this being work in progress and don't want to commit" or somesuch << i could regrind them, yeah. ideally, each who want to use these unexamined items should do so on their own accord, placing them in their patches directory
as a "WILD" patch. Until the day when the foundation moves forward and folds them in after examination and testing.
☟︎ mod6: <+phf> there's periodically things that claim to be vpatches, but they don't have genesis. i think a notable example of that is v.pl, which has been published
as v.pl, and then followed up by vpatches that are supposed to superseded each other rather than form a chain. generally i've seen that pattern a lot, people publish something, than publish a second vpatch, that doesn't build on previous vpatch, but su
phf: so i think mircea_popescu has alergy to broken thinking, which is there plenty. retrofitting "equivalent solution" in this case is going to mask the fact that the process was not v, but something else entirely made to look like v post factum. you might
as well export git history into v patches
mircea_popescu: i'm sure he will ; but the important point here is not that
as much
as the principle of teh thing.
mircea_popescu: and wtf with the argumentum ad populum. i care "what people do" about
as much
as i care about "probable results"
mircea_popescu: there's places for flexibility ; but this isn't one. i dun even wanna think about "creative" solutions such
as "retrocreate a genesis". just god damned it already, take the code, sign it, and then patch on the basis of that.
phf: there's periodically things that claim to be vpatches, but they don't have genesis. i think a notable example of that is v.pl, which has been published
as v.pl, and then followed up by vpatches that are supposed to superseded each other rather than form a chain. generally i've seen that pattern a lot, people publish something, than publish a second vpatch, that doesn't build on previous vpatch, but supposed to replace it
mircea_popescu: "and
as it isn't ready or willing to allow clients to cash out... BANKING IS NOT A TAX (says the SCROTUK)
mircea_popescu: i have eight sets of "sb" (solid branch) : 503 q 222 ; 1466 q 3 ; 973 q 207 ; 983 q 252 ; 1651 q 258 ; 2963 q 189 ; 563 q 22 and 336 q 225. the first number is the count, the second the quality (depends on your mining, whatever) ; you can mix these, the game will floor the average quality. this means you can lose matter through mixing, so you want to mix stacks so
as to obtain the highest possible quality final.
☟︎☟︎ covertress:
as I've spent a very busy few sleepless days/nights out of the country, I'll say my goodnights now
mircea_popescu: their very tpical hockey sticks machines work just
as well over climate data
as they work over washing machine readings.