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mircea_popescu: and
the inept robber and
the underpaid policeman also engage in "the same kinda stuff"
PeterL: but isn't it
the same kinda stuff ALF is always complaining about?
mircea_popescu: PeterL sounds like
the usual cocky bullshit infantile idiots with a useless degree and
too much reddit exposure spout.
davout: meanwhile,
the bitbet auction best bid is at 41 btc
mircea_popescu: davout>
tl;dr: FROM_UNIXTIME() yields localized strings, not GMT <<<
time implementation is dumb. see also
davout: PeterL: keeps going until one hour elapses after
the last bid
davout: best bid for
the bitbet assets so far: 34 btc
davout: best bid for
the bitbet assets so far: 33 btc
davout: best bid for
the bitbet assets so far: 30 btc
davout: best bid for
the bitbet assets so far: 26 btc
davout: best bid for
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phf: correct way is
to have n bots running on different machines, connecting
to different freenode hosts,
talking
to each other as
they get messages, and
then submitting a shared answer
phf: can of course not have a sequential id/entry mapping, but i
think
that breaks expectations
phf: i assume assbot handled
that by having a short reconnect cycle and simply losing a message or
two during an outage
☟︎ phf: bigger concern is not really losing entries, but having invalid id numbers. bot keeps log a b c d bot reconnects and misses a handful of messages g h i j, now in order
to insert e f back into
the log need
to shift g h i j ids forward so if i references h, it's now refering f instead
ben_vulpes: i don't...just pointing out
the hoops poor d00d had
to jump
through in order
to publish
the
thing.
ben_vulpes: this is all immaterial. i don't disagree
that it's a nifty "all in 1".
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform:
try rotating
to landscape
ben_vulpes: this is /precisely/
that of which i complain
ben_vulpes has been reading
through it on
the mobi
term for dayz, but...miserable css makes mobrowser shit itself
ben_vulpes: for lo,
trinque labors over
the unicode
ben_vulpes: sorry phf i only respond
to un-prefixed commands
phf: hence me
talking about "bot is brittle, don't update refs, etc."
mircea_popescu: perhaps. now
the counterfactuals clause is certainly kicking in
mircea_popescu: under a
thin veneer of bullshit he hides all
the socialism you could possibly wish for.
mircea_popescu: i am not discussing
that he was ineffective, ie, an engineering question. i am discussing
that he is evil, ie, an ethical question.
mircea_popescu: that has exactly nothing
to do. i don't like in
that way.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
the more rms i read
the less i like him.
the more i
think about rms,
the less i like him.
mircea_popescu: "you work for microsoft, you get raped in
the parking lot and left
to bleed"
mircea_popescu: outright
terorism. genuine article rms would have firebombed microsoft offices
mircea_popescu: are you familiar with how "animal rights" moved from a laughable nothing
to a point of policy ?
mircea_popescu: and it is not clear
to you
that a brian-less 1984 would have lead
to anything less
than a complete domination right ? after all, at least he gave winston
the book, right ?
mircea_popescu: i can't see him as anything more or anything else
than a decoy.
mircea_popescu: "that is exactly
the spirit
that we must
teach
them not
to have."
mircea_popescu: but when it came
to individual versus group, he
took
the usg stand. also every
time.
mircea_popescu: each and every
time at issue was something irrelevant, he
took a principled stand.
mircea_popescu: wait, i'm supposed
to get excited about
the campbell can of soup on
the left because it is blue ?
mircea_popescu: and yet, "that is exactly
the spirit
that we must
teach
them not
to have."
mircea_popescu: the correct solution generally is
to strangle
the moderates.
mircea_popescu: in any conflict,
there's moderate positions, and
then
there's extreme positions. if
the moderate position is represented (such as here by rms),
the problem is papered over, and
things continue until we fall over.
mircea_popescu: and for as long as
there's a rms
to fuck up
things, we'll be waiting.
mircea_popescu: we could just as well have conversed about
the pike carrying gate's head.
mircea_popescu: linux is still nowhere, and microsoft is still derping. he was no antidote. not anymore
than mr. brian was antidote
to 1984.
mircea_popescu: "that is exactly
the spirit
that we must
teach
them not
to have." <<< mno, pure evil.
mircea_popescu: no dickless washington bureaucrat is or could ever be as bad as
this abominable imbecile.
mircea_popescu: rms is
the
true enemy of
the republic. he's
the mr brian, if you will.
mircea_popescu: hey could lock, another little room. But
the point is
that people usually don't bother
to
think about
that.
They have
the idea: “This room is Mine, I can lock it,
to hell with everyone else”, and
that is exactly
the spirit
that we must
teach
them not
to have.
mircea_popescu: hing
they
thought might get stolen and
they wanted
to lock it up, but
they didn't care about
the other people
they were affecting by locking up other
things in
the same room. Almost every
time
this happened, once I brought it
to
their attention,
that it was not up
to
them alone whether
that room should be locked,
they were able
to find a compromise solution: some other place
to put
the
things
they were worried about, a desk
t mircea_popescu: In
the years
that followed I was inspired by
that ideas, and many
times I would climb over ceilings or underneath floors
to unlock rooms
that had machines in
them
that people needed
to use, and I would usually leave behind a note explaining
to
the people
that
they shouldn't be so selfish as
to lock
the door.
The people who locked
the door were basically considering only
themselves.
They had a reason of course,
there was somet
mircea_popescu: so
thinking about it, phf really deflated my article. fact remains : cpu is cpu, it will do what it will do. whatever
the fuck you call what it does, it's what it does. yes ada is well mistaken
to speak wrong mathematics, but
then again it's not a mathematics shop. you want
to use your lengthier,
thicker and more nodular math cock
to mock
the poor engineers, go ahead, but
the fuck it does.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Did you just google
the string "horseface"
mircea_popescu: having meanwhile googled
the abomination, i can confirm it is sarah jessica parker
phf: unless it's a sarah jessica parker joke
that i'm somehow missing
phf: mircea_popescu: i'm
thinking
the 1970 something movie