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mircea_popescu: wasn'
t this ancient us army crap from like the 1950s ?
mircea_popescu: if the us lost 400mn heads tomorrow it wouldn'
t stand.
mircea_popescu: all these proteins are created, mostly in the liver, on the basis of blueprints, which are encoded genetically. which means that if your father didn'
t have anywhere a marker for smallpox, and he had you with a woman who also, you are immune to vaccination : it won'
t express anything.
mircea_popescu: the indians didn'
t stand a chance. if you think vaccination works in aboriginal population you're a very special sort of lovely.
mircea_popescu: dude... what scientific discipline isn'
t stillborn in the land of the suto ? seriously now.
mircea_popescu: same reason al schwartz doesn'
t make his way here ; and same exact reason i dunno, lew rockwell can'
t pass my idiot filter.
mircea_popescu: anyway. i don'
t buy into this "people good but evil govenrment corrupts". as near as i can see, "people suck and government does the best it can, as their product."
mircea_popescu: "we control the vertical and the" "how come i can'
t have a fucking gallon of gas ?" "oh sorry about that... nothing we can do."
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform anyway, re the derp circus : as long as you publish on the internet, there's going to be some "businessman" trying to republish your content, and spam it around. none of this is particulary surprising or worth the mention or anything. not like original publication isn'
t firmly established. so let them beat up the wall until they've had enough or the bezzle runs out, whichever.
trinque: but on the subj, I didn'
t put together a bot and the wot mechanics to like, run in there and make my name!
ben_vulpes: fella probably doesn'
t know the source is kicking around
trinque: I don'
t know what they think this does.
mircea_popescu: anyway. hyenas are not cats, like lions are, but dogs. even if they've adapted into as much catness as possible. so the two aren'
t actually sexually compatible.
mircea_popescu: (the animal doesn'
t actually exists outside of plinius, but still.)
mircea_popescu: "but mp, if you don'
t want ground ammo just don'
t keep crates of ammo in your kitchen" "o ya ? how about i don'
t keep a grinder."
mircea_popescu: this is like you know, "this coffee grinder - doesn'
t grind coffee". this is pretty serious - what the fuck does it do then ?
mircea_popescu: young mps idea of what a compiler does was, "well it basically completely unwinds the code, so it's all flat, and then checks everything". then young mp saw the first "runtime error" and locked. then told teacher this isn'
t real programming and he's not interested.
mircea_popescu: trust-but-verify doesn'
t specifically mean "always check".
mircea_popescu: aand in other lelz, "I can'
t imagine any foreigner writing down 3 lines of non error text for my life of it. Greeks are not easy to be mastered and he is using them without a mistake. what is considered to be an exception even in between Greeks."
Framedragger: asciilifeform: "Everything pertaining to Automake was nuked" - so nice. i used to doubt (or maybe i still do - in itself a healthy habit, perhaps) whether i didn'
t *get* something fundamental in modern s/w development. (maybe i still don'
t, of course). "shitloads of build targets and convoluted build chain? maybe there's no way more elegant? i must be a truly stupid person."
mircea_popescu: here's a stray thought : if i can'
t implement EC in a page on your cryptolib IT IS NOT A LIB!
mircea_popescu: Framedragger he's working on it, if you didn'
t guess from all the "scriptable cryptosystem" talk.
mircea_popescu: incidentally, asciilifeform : we'll end up with a v-stdlib won'
t we ? prolly starting with v-cryptolib as a nucleus.
mircea_popescu: i have a flag about it but it doesn'
t link to anything apparently so i dunno what i was thinking.
Framedragger: nasa's coding manual (which doesn'
t allow recursive code - because the rovers are, you know, sorta far away, and you write in a turing complete language) may have it - i wonder
thestringpuller: What happened to not banning gribble! Don'
t disenfranchise the nice bot!
Framedragger: well fwiw i'm not overusing it. i don'
t subscribe to the "resolve cosmetic conflicts by doing more redundant work" thing, either;and i don'
t do it
mircea_popescu is slowly turning into an ancient dragon of the "i hate your kind ; i just don'
t hate you personally. yet." persuasion.
Framedragger: i don'
t see why this necessarily yields some kind of conceptual moral failure or whatever
mircea_popescu: so collaboration, inasmuch as it's a private act (your tulpas, your friends, w/e) needn'
t be on v ; just like it needn'
t be on github, or on git. lots of code development happens on the holy napkin.
mircea_popescu: V is a publishing mechanism. it allows people to interact that don'
t know each other. it is very much like bitcoin : to achieve this glorious ends it has some costs.
mircea_popescu: "don'
t go to frat party barefoot, here's a car" is a shitload better than "don'
t go to frat party barefoot, here's the bus to church"
trinque: "automatic merging" meanwhile isn'
t even a thing. that two hunks in a file didn'
t collide has no bearing on whether they semantically ought to coexist.
ascii_zimbabwe: i dun have this now only because it doesn'
t play well with trb.
mircea_popescu: fatlogic. so fat woman isn'
t going to tell him all he wants ot hear ; this is a skinny chick skill only.
mircea_popescu: but in any case : you couldn'
t just BUY a hotel reservation. you had to get tickets.
mircea_popescu: as older wouldn'
t be relevant to the story, being later. who knows, maybe she grew up to worship my footsepts.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway. i imagine in typical style of the poor peasant girl, they tell themselves the reason they don'
t get to go to the seaside is because they're better than that.
BingoBoingo: Why wouldn'
t you want to know how polyurethane foam is being abused
shinohai wouldn'
t be surprised if this thing has fix-a-flat titjob
jhvh1: asciilifeform: (seen [<channel>] <nick>) -- Returns the last time <nick> was seen and what <nick> was last seen saying. <channel> is only necessary if the message isn'
t sent on the channel itself. <nick> may contain * as a wildcard.
thestringpuller: nah. this book was launched as part of a "touring strategy" because 5 wheel solutions can'
t get any actual work
mircea_popescu: i dunno what trump is gonna do ; maybe he hangs everyone ever involved with the democratic party. maybe he doesn'
t. if i end up in power however - i do.
alice_: i'm p sure there aren'
t interesting folk around tho
alice_: (not judging, i don'
t mind)
alice_: i don'
t mind, just saying ;)
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: I finally acquired a pair of needlenose pliers that don'
t seem to suck
mircea_popescu: this isn'
t no kids left behind club ; but on the contrary.
shinohai: "i lost the passphrase for the gpg key i created yesterday and i can'
t decrypt the msg mircea_popescu sent me...is it ok if a create another key and register with this?"
mircea_popescu: yeah well... if only the original authors of the us had a way to prevent the current fucktards from using it in a way they hadn'
t anticipated.
mircea_popescu: yes they weren'
t originally digitized. if you think 1960s microphones and buzzy electronics make for a better quality...
jurov: the studio mastering has to shoehorn the record into vinyl's deficiencies (so that the tracks don'
t touch etc)
thestringpuller: from all my ventures into being an audiophile at some point the analog tech produces sounds your ears can'
t even hear
mircea_popescu: stupidity on an epic scale not only didn'
t end carly fiorina's career among her own kind - but actually made her hillary's best friend
thestringpuller: I don'
t understand it, cause bluetooth traditionally sucks for audio fidelity
thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: from what it sounds like they can'
t make money on the 3.5mm jack, so they gonna make a USB lightning adapter?!?!?
shinohai: Wasn'
t "Spells of Genesis" another Voorhees enterprise?
thestringpuller: well tale of the desert isn'
t bitcoin based. that's a knights tale by the same guy
mircea_popescu: remarkably enough, the don'
t mention the ~only bitcoin game worth the mention other than eulora, that being a tale in the desert.
mircea_popescu: no, you don'
t "identify as a pony". you pretend to be interested in a preteen cartoon show because a) trying to talk with preteens online and b) if you do it enough maybe it normalizes.
phf: err, my memory doesn'
t go further out, but i suspect eggdrop was first case of wordpress plugin ecosystem with similar implications
trinque: Framedragger: ftr I don'
t subscribe to the "bot checks to make sure it doesn'
t resend lines" party