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mircea_popescu: my socialism sees
through corporate pretense. like
the damned
thing does by default, except in
the crazy us implementation.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform bank clerk in charge of
the particular real estate, sure.
mircea_popescu: tax penalty = you get no offsets
this year. or somesuch. you get bonus next
tax bracket. something.
mircea_popescu: see, if ~I~ were running
the socialist state,
there'd be a
tax penalty and a 6 mo administrative (ie, no judge involved) jail sentence for keeping property empty a full quarter.
mircea_popescu: dude
that copper
thieve shit... used ac unit is 200 bucks, contains 8 bucks worth of scavengeable metal.
shinohai: So airbnb acquired Changetip. I guess now when people lose 67 cents sleeping on your sofa you can convert it
to satoshi right
there.
ben_vulpes: there've been a few squats around
town, but with
the recent explosion in dirt-demand,
they're all getting shuttered and replaced with apartments.
ben_vulpes: and not because people price
their houses sanely, no. but because apparently all of california is moving here and will buy at any cost.
ben_vulpes: turnover ~2weeks, unless
there's a full renovation in swing.
ben_vulpes: tisn't how
things work in my part of
the world.
phf: oh yeah need
to call grandma
phf: i haven't but i'll add it at some point soon. didn't have a bandwidth
to hack on anything non-trivial
phf: ;;later
tell asciilifeform which bookmarkable log url
thing?
phf: you mean
the recent log bookmarkable url
thing?
a111: Logged on 2016-04-12 05:55 ben_vulpes: more like "we don't make much over here, and you don't ride bikes, so i don't
think
this cult is for you"
mircea_popescu: punkman i'm not advanced enough
to mix my own ; generally just get premixed whatever greater minds
think fit and proper.
mircea_popescu: o, recall
the guy
that made a passport pic of chetty ?
punkman: I don't really like
the sweet neem
thing, definitely don't use it in currys
punkman: oic, guess
there's a lot of different ones called curry leaves
punkman: curry leaves are common in europe aren't
they
mircea_popescu: then went and fondled
the foot
tall guys and omfg my kbd hand and everything smells like curry and im salivating
mircea_popescu: in other news, i planted something
that was supposed
to be "curry", which i had nfi is even a plant wtf, isn't
that a spice mix ?
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the longstanding rule has been
that one can use whathever
the fuck one wishes, and reap
the benefits of maintenance down
the road on
their own ass.
phf: can always switch
to sbcl overnight, harder
to switch back, since sbcl like any high profile project attracts, accumulates and integrates cockroaches.
phf: but none is
the answer
to why cmucl, and i don't
think
there's one. mostly why not? it's a question of discipline for me, can i move slow and not freak out against deficiencies. i
think
that "looking for silver bullet" is just a waste of
time, and
there's no way
that i can possibly explore entire cmucl solution space, until a whole new set of base capabilities is required
phf: there are some arguments now (and some successful projects)
that solve gb/s with
threads, but
this whole idea
that
threads are a solution
to gb/s ~in
the compotent circles~ is a novel
thing. schedulers are getting better, some patterns emerging,
tooling is better etc. people coming out with "perhaps doing it with async is not best option anymore". but for years gb/s was achieved with async, reactor pattern, fork/exec
phf: tcp had non-blocking mode for a very long
time
mircea_popescu: i
thought lisp exiosts so you don't "Get a hang somewhere"
phf: asciilifeform:
threads are
the worst possible solution
to gb/s log demand
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform hey, in geek world
the one-girlfriend guy is king.
mircea_popescu: rare
to see in lispen battle, a deployment of
THAT
tank division.
mircea_popescu: pretty sure cmucl's not married
to endian-ness. nfi about sanely written
tho
mircea_popescu: "can be ported
to new cpu with minimal sweat" is not distinct from "windows claptrap one exe"
phf: asciilifeform: i don't
think lisps support cross-compilation in general?
mircea_popescu: suppose
the language's compiled.
the compiler has no reason
to know about non-native microcode.
phf: mircea_popescu: von neumann machines are a lot more similar
than dissimilar. difference between x86 and arm is a very
thin layer
mircea_popescu: this is why i'm even using arm or w/e in
the first place.
mircea_popescu: mk let's rephrase. if i used a non-x86 box i'd want
the
thing
to be native for
that box not an addon
to x86.
mircea_popescu: im unconvinced multibox support is a good idea. if i am going
to run on non-x86, i sure as fuck don't wantall
the x86 stuff in
there.
phf: i
think since 2009 or so
phf: well,
that's
the only one
that you keep mentioning, and i heard you about it :)
phf: what are
these "missing but necessary pieces"?
a111: Logged on 2016-04-12 14:46 phf: by day
to day i mean non-lisp stuff, but yeah, even
taking
that
thing live revealed a lot of annoyances in cmucl (asciilifeform will say
told you so)
mircea_popescu: "there's
this open source project which is also a game and
they're really into doing a partnership with a cs dept and would you wanna
talk
to
them ?" works neh ?
a111: Logged on 2014-09-22 23:59 JuliaTourianski_: what projects in
the BTC space do you guys like? if any...these conferences seem
to be full of frat boys wanting
to be men, with projects...many of which seem
to be solving
the same problem
that doesn't exist.
mircea_popescu: and on
top of which
the beauty of wot-access-control, perhaps nto apparent yet, is
that if you're hit with something it'll be both complex and readily documented. as opposed
to
the faux-real-world, where one still gets 90% brute force ssh attempts and crap.