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mircea_popescu: in entirely unrelated but omfg i can't believe
this - cascadia dwelling derpy mother of slavegirl
that wants
to
think of self as "fiber artist" but otherwise crochets like any old woman since
time immemorial, landed what
to her appears as a very good deal. she sells her stuff in a senior citizen center gift shop. for a 15% comission.
to understand each other : she provides
the merchandise. she provides
the sales workforce. sh
mircea_popescu: i'm unpersuaded. yes
the breadbox is neither arbitrary nor undefined in
the bug discussion. here however, no such benefit.
there is no "size".
mircea_popescu: it's not directly clear
the notion of bit is even relevant
mircea_popescu: there is ~no reason
to use
the c representation or notion of number at all.
mircea_popescu: it's a cheap hack
to get
things cached
through "registers", sure.
mircea_popescu: you know,
thinking about it... what exactly is
the rationale even of
the concept of "int" ?
phf: top /r/bitcoin post is about some guy for bought bitcoin for $20
that he forgot about, now has $800k.
this is like
The Sun style bullshit "found million dollars in gradma attick"
mircea_popescu: "it wasn't a real company because we didn't count for shit in
the sale"
pete_dushenski: phf: if
the sale of a bitcoin company for 250k btc didn't get mentioned, a measly 86 btc sale doesn't stand much chance of crossing
the lips of
the peeple
mircea_popescu: so you like
templeos because it has persistence and graham because, apparently, gavin doesn't have
to work for a living.
mircea_popescu: weirdo guy going on about god something or
the other ?
mircea_popescu: phf
they mostly get mentioned derisively,
tho. it's a sort of
templeos/timecube/whatever,
they got
their alt-reality, sticking
to it, nothing happens in it, etc.
phf: so i don't read hackernews or reddit,
they are mentioned here a lot
though, so i decided
to check if a sale of bitcoin company for 86BTC (damn) is going
to get mentioned anywhere. nope. nada.
BingoBoingo: ;;later
tell davout delete xmlrpc.php from your wordpress install and you will be 95% of
the way
to securing your blawg
☟︎☟︎ pete_dushenski: heh fr.anco.is shows pingbacks in 'recent comments'. i'll
take
the free advertising.
pete_dushenski: aha. was speaking
to
two other points in s.bbet's history however : peak and present
pete_dushenski: ^updated. realised i'd left
the calculated p/e in months rather
than
the standard years.
mircea_popescu: "Ada.Text_IO is a "package"
that comes with Ada. (In Ada 83,
the package name is just
Text_IO, and for compatibility, Ada 95 also accepts
the shorter name.) We'll learn more about packages later."
pete_dushenski: ;;later
tell davout don't scare-excite me like
that next
time! (wait, what next
time?) also, i wanted
to show up here, but couldn't quite meditate and irc atst
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (contrary
to what noob scientists may
think, "a breadbox" is neither arbitrary nor undefined in
that sentence)
mircea_popescu: anyway, re earlier discussion, i guess it'd be worth belabouring
the point
that nothing
therein contained is an argument against using ada. it's still a great
technical solution, for bounds checking, for other reasons, it's still a great practical solution, for native linkability with c object code, for other reasons. same stands for scheme, still best option for a scripting language for bitcoind.
mircea_popescu: lol i guess you're gonna buy a new car with
the btc
thus saved ?
idioter: is
there any approximate information about when
the withdrawals will be made?
mircea_popescu: idioter yeah loads of btc moving since mpex sale. hold
tight, you'll get it.
idioter: hello. i made a withdrawal on coinbr.com from mpex about 4 days ago. i have been
told i need
to
talk
to mircea popescu about it.
mircea_popescu: this is WHY your "fits in head", btw. well justified cover for
the "on
the basis of
the pi we know,
the largest house
that can stand is 11 feet
tall"
phf: so doing awk
through my logs,
there's almost 10k lines "missing"
phf: about 2 minutes round
time, yeah
that's what i'm getting just doing an aggressive reconnect. note
that
there's possibly a lack of log visibility few seconds before it "quit"
mircea_popescu: Nov 27 03:56:48 * assbot has quit (Remote host closed
the connection)
phf: i feel like i have some code laying around
to do comparison, but won't have wandwidth for a bit
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the forever-bitcoin, ready
to be buried under
the sea or w/e, is not happening. because : "<mircea_popescu> how are you going
to define a sorting rule for a
type you don't know yet. <asciilifeform> by knowing it ?" is actually inescapable.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but at least
the whole "technology offers no solution for human problems" intuition now has much better footing in fact.
mircea_popescu: i am left without a solid basis
to protest
the use of magic numbers in code ;/
phf: culture
that percolated into mass media
through star
trek federation and such
phf: well, it was post-war boomers, left leaning hippie intelligentsia who grep up on asimov and such, in a country awash with free money, all
that euro gold
mircea_popescu: but hey, welfare works for as long it works, so does
this.
mircea_popescu: much of
the same substance as rms' "oh, all
things belong
to all people", ie, lazy reductionism.
mircea_popescu: im
thinking it was actually a delusion, driven by peculiar circumstance
that was both exceptional and unlikely
to repeat.
phf: of course, general purpose computer was always a device
that high cast professional would sit in front in order
to do computations, augmented by external systems or additional special purpose interchangeable boards. at least
that was a pretty shared vision from engelbard
to symbolics before
the microcomputer
☟︎ phf: the person
that i was a [big bank] vendor with is actually doing
that right now. a
trained apl-er and mathematician, having spent few years interacting with [big bank] decision makers now consults on a handshake basis for companies
that need a problem solved, but don't care if it comes with a pretty windows gui
☟︎ mircea_popescu: in short, and
to sum up :
there may never exist such a
thing as
the "general purpose computer"
mircea_popescu: even in countries far distant in
time and space,
that couldn't rightly spell it./
mircea_popescu: before
the "mentats" got into depression, heavy drinking and asscrack-cracksnorting.
phf: in which case
the kind of machines
that
the mentats are backed by require very particular characteristics, e.g. power above "novice usability" etc. so lisp machines and apl machines
mircea_popescu: incidentally,
this is exactly how
the
trade houses used
to work,
phf: (that's one of
the reasons i
thought one of
the more effective ways of organizing computer human interaction is have an equivalent of dune mentat backed by a computer, i.e. an advisor
to decision makers who performs computation and analysis. something like
that existed at
the height of apl, and i know a handful of now old apl-ers who sat on boards and were responsible almost exclusively for "running
the numbers")
mircea_popescu: yes. but it remains impossible for
this proggy
to be useful in
the abstract :)