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phf: problem with parsing urls is not regex or no regex, it's
that you can't reliably parse a url without resorting
to heuristics OR doing nlp on context. all ; , : ) are valid constituents of url path, query and fragment, so you can't know where url ends and context begins.
mircea_popescu: certainlyt most of
the people i cared
to hang out over
the years are stiff.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but
they'll never build such a
tower of babel as
to actually
touch
the definitive-complete-actually-happens-clockwork.
mircea_popescu: hey,
there's no objection
to your very valid criticisms in locus.
mircea_popescu: which goes directly
to your "correct program for all electrically-possible inputs".
there is never going
to be a very interesting program which
takes an ennumeralbe list of inputs. such is
the sad fate of
things.
mircea_popescu: but
this is a purely mental exercise, and of no particular physical relevancy, really.
mircea_popescu: sentient is in any case not
the proper word.
the point is
that if observer future behaviour is modulated by
the observation,
this is one class of
thing. such as is
the man, or
the cat. and if observer future behaviour is not so modulated,
then
this is another class of
thing. such as a rock.
mircea_popescu: the point is
that interaction changes a system and observation is not priviledged.
mircea_popescu: you not familiar with
the scandal where einstein wouldn't
take
the heisenberg uncertainity ?
mircea_popescu: you forget or simplky dunno
the ridiculous phase
towards
the end where he was refusing various bits of physics on
the grounds
that
they insulted his religious notions ?
mircea_popescu: this approach is so utterly naive as
to rather call
to mind britney spears.
mircea_popescu: for all you know,
the cause and effect chain breaks down and
the pistol jams BECAUSE you
tied
the cart
to
this arrangement
mircea_popescu: biggest problem with everett's notions of qm, and why bohr was a respected physicist whereas everett was a sort of h. ellison, was
that he purports
to have some sort of q-independent causality.
mircea_popescu: this isn't how it works. decent gigs, like slutty chicks, aren't "earned", especially not in
the linear, old mia farrow view of earning.
phf: but
the question of link hijack remains, i will revisit it after i refine
the annotation mechanism a bit
phf: behavior was obviously buggy, with an equally
trivial fix, i.e. fragment < last-t-a-entry-id
phf: "there is nothing wrong with your
television set. do not attempt
to adjust
the picture. we are controlling
transmission."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: i have learned
that: a)
there is ~0 demand for
the
things i know how
to do among honest-work folks b)
the folks who ~are~ hiring reversers, CAN'T FIND
them << "socialism works" in other words.
mircea_popescu: but
that is
then. now - people link
to whatever
they want and it's what it is.
mircea_popescu: i can see why pre-dragon log would link
to itself rather
than build an outside dependency. who even knows how long
the old log website will last.
phf: original purpose was
to let me read log references without leaving
the log reader, but jurov later suggested doing a more exhaustive link fix for deprecated urls
mircea_popescu: davout for my curiosity, did you move
the hotwallet funds or did you pass
the codebase along with
the hotwallet ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: generally, it's
the one
thing most hideously implemented anywhere.
mircea_popescu: phf i bet you
the reason ghetto beats regexp is
that regexp is horribly implemented in w/e you use.
mircea_popescu: contrary
to what
the disney cartoon re-enactions of "the dinosaur age" may show for cinematic value, most dinosaurs died of organ failure, not of being eaten by a supposedly functional superpreditor
that in point of fact was barely adequate
to count as a manatee in modern
terms.
mircea_popescu: either
that or we'll mesterul manole all over
the place.
mircea_popescu: phf
this sounds
to me a lot like "we'll build actual programming language on
top of
this approximating processor
thing".
phf: maybe human hitler is ok, just as long he's not
the venusian variety
mircea_popescu: i'm not even sure
the word want may be
thus prostituted.
mircea_popescu: it is altogether dubious, however,
that priest-like organisation may exist in world bereft of some sort of hitler.
phf: danielpbarron: my impression is
that in all seriousness asciilifeform pines for a
technology priest status in an hierarchy
that's at
the very least not rotten
through and
through, i.e. building machines for non-lizard-hitler. he despairs since one is not available. as such "become crust punk" advise is
totally inapplicable
to him
mircea_popescu: davout i have nfi what you did here. for one
thing, shareholders don't get 86,
they get 86 + 1% of resolveed bets - 13.37
☟︎ danielpbarron: and since it's not all-year-round, and since no week is even
the same really, i don't really get sick of working
danielpbarron gets
to sleep adlibitum for most of
the year -- has seasonal job, very little sleep during
that season, and zero personal
time
to speak of
jurov: create a business, deduct expenses etc...but
that discussion's dead horse, i guess
☟︎ trinque: "why is it so hard for an mp
to build his superorganism?" is a more interesting question
to me
than "why not moar mp?"
jurov: no, it's just because you have cut yourself from most exits by forbidding yourself
to pay any
taxes
trinque: back
to
the
thread, considering people in isolation is an artifact of
this world's
thinking.
trinque thinks of ender wielding legions as
though
they are part of his extended body
☟︎ trinque: asciilifeform: seems exactly
the right
thing
to happen right before another power vertical is established
trinque: jurov: who
the fuck are you
talking
to,
the audience?
trinque: I'd say it has everything
to do with
the architecture of human societies.
trinque: asciilifeform: seems on
the order of magnitude of
the number of countries.
trinque: (in all fairness
to
the rabbits, I'm aware of at least one instance of a rabbit eating
the ears off his weaker brother)
trinque: one's a pile of fungible derps;
the other pointedly isn't
trinque: the lottery metaphor doesn't square with
the wolves and rabbits metaphor at all.
punkman: asciilifeform: but briefly back
to
thread, imho it is important
to understand
that asking 'how
to be mircea_popescu' is a fundamentally broken question, not unlike 'how do i win
the lotto' << hey we just had
the answer
to lotto. you cheat.