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mircea_popescu: tbh, i tihnk what happened here was : original mpwp was sha, then hanbot reground it
mircea_popescu: omg maybe it's a false trinque reaching ersatz levers!
mircea_popescu: "it’s not a stop game in itself" -> "it's not in itself a game stopper"
mircea_popescu: ftr date should be at top, in the byline, with the author's name under the title~!
mircea_popescu: encoding issue ? did some magic utshits make it in maybe ?
mircea_popescu: solving any problem consists of carefully loading very finely defined borders of issues in one's head. the hobbyst approach relies on a sort of "generally speaking", consisting of "people" and "having trouble" and "in the general area". as you might imagine, the mismatch is deeply irritating to the first set.
mircea_popescu: PeterL you know there are limits to this hobbyist approach.
mircea_popescu: i was just thinking, it's so rare for one to take a hint.
mircea_popescu: maybe if we keep going in this vein we can get the un to sponsor trilema.
mircea_popescu: certainly, but most us army grunts have to buy their own whatever, silly string.
mircea_popescu: they're not unrelated scales, of course, but they're related backwards.
mircea_popescu: now, the fence separating the 2nd scale 0-epsilon from the rest of the world doesn't necessarily keep inside 0-epsilons on the first scale.
mircea_popescu: suppose there's a measure of human fitness, not quite IQ but anyway, just as insanely, a positive integer scalar. suppose there's a measure of human confusion, going from 0 (full pantrsuit, actually believes socialism is a thing, etc) to 1 (actual republican).
mircea_popescu: soviet survives while it can keep the large mass of epsilonians inside.
mircea_popescu: no, it just somehow manages to deliver 100% of what needs delivery to the marginal. it does nothing to you, and the fact that it manages to keep kazure captive is of no consequence
mircea_popescu: how the empire manages to ~DELIVER~ right around the fence is one of the most remarkable mysteries.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform very much, technology sufficiently primitive is indistinguishable from lottery
☟︎ mircea_popescu: not to mention it readily explains a lot of other things, such as why we opress the stupid, the poor, the "alternatively" sexuate, the bizarrely literate etcetera.
mircea_popescu: which is why the whole wot thing works so well for it.
mircea_popescu: hm, this "write line as long as you wish, program will split" fix turns out to not play so well with logreader...
mircea_popescu: just because it happens that in all other cases of "you're in charge of so-and-so-chapter of defense budget/film budget/family budget" one gets a fixed number to work with, whereas here the number's not aforeknown... makes entirely no difference. it's still budgetary exercise, that superficial difference is meaningless given the substantial identity.
mircea_popescu: specifically, writing software is not some kind of hired work, like polishing boots or cutting hair. writing software is a dignity, in the exact sense there contemplated : republic gives you, ivan ivanovich, a budget of so many lines, as if it were so many bitcoins, to ~EXPEND~ in a defensible, meaningful, useful an' rational fashion ( hence
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-07-07#1832667 discussion ).
☝︎ mircea_popescu: though if you're willing to spend money on silver tootpick why not just fix the holes.
mircea_popescu: silver ones were kinda common during one of the silver crazes
mircea_popescu: broke them all trying to stab various butts & parts over time.
mircea_popescu: and it shames me to admit just exactly how i came to not have any.
mircea_popescu: i'm having for breakfast leftover sandwiches that were originally made for camping on the beach, so i figure... what the hell... and made myself a little model campfire out of toothpicks in the middle of the table.
mircea_popescu: in other similar news, star quest tcg is a pretty fucking great game. polished and shit, apparently you can still have web development that's not crap
mircea_popescu: fwiw, memory never was anything other than "personally advantageous". them wetram cells gotta pay the glucose bills.
mircea_popescu: then ten years later memory's faded and nobody alive can untangle the yarn anymore.
mircea_popescu: and the smalle third brother is reference-by-memory, where i say dumb shit like "that @@ discussion" instead of putting in a link.
mircea_popescu: however much time you might need to think, there isn't very much time altogether, because we can't sit around with an unresolved dilemma of both "this is the grapher use it" and "don't use it, doesn't work".
mircea_popescu: so if it's built around patches and the patches are different what difference does it make that two different patches might apply the same tranforms to the same files ?
mircea_popescu: the only reason i can imagine someone'd have the problem you describe is if they built their thing around the primitive "file" rather than around the primitive "patch"
mircea_popescu: let me ask you this : is your visualizer essentially a by-file processor ? because this'd be wrong, the concept of "file" is meaningless, entirely just like "new line". text administration flows by viewport and so on.
mircea_popescu: i don't understand this, you mean patch A having changes a, b, d, e (ie, 4 different patch sections) and B having c, d, e, f ?
mircea_popescu: how are you distinguishing those more than one patches of the same content by the same name ?
mircea_popescu: moreover, how can "more than one" vpatch be ~identical~ ? items of the same name and contents are the only items that have the same hash, which is the only basis for identity.
mircea_popescu: and thusly keep transactions in the republic denominated in the currency of the republic.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: the correct solution is to distinguish selling and buying auctions. change the "A#285" lede into either "B#285" or "S#285" and then if it's a S have it work as it works now, but if it's a B have it work ~reverse~, so smaller bids overbid larger bids.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform she holds on to a post. you know, just as when punished ; you pull. she ends up winded and you end up sweating.