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mircea_popescu:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160917/#348 << it's entirely unclear to me why you think the hieroglyph is noteworthy. sure, in the context of "let's draw hyeroglyphs", it's as good as many other alternatives. in the context of "let's describe basic trigonometry", it's not particularly useful. and you'll realise this the moment you break out of tedtalktardism "i'll rely on the margins of the box as drawn by magic hand for absolut
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-09-17#1543401 << sbcl codebase ~is~ cmucl codebase, so all the same people who wrote above wrote majority of sbcl. newman's work in adding sane bootstrapping is reproducable by doing early diffs and perhaps should come as vpatch on top of cmucl since it's particularly clean. but here's the thing, the way cmucl does bootstrapping is borrowed directly from a lisp machine, and breaks down precisely because the
☝︎ deedbot: adlai rated gabriel_laddel 1
<< has been helpful both in private and in [re]public
deedbot: adlai updated rating of phf from 2 to 3
<< another one bots the lisp
scriba: Logged on 2016-08-26: [06:09:42]
<BingoBoingo> ;;later tell adlai You work step 1 yet?
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-17: [02:03:09]
<asciilifeform> unless folks ~publish~ the magical bug-inducers, i am inclined to agree with the old iddish proverb
deedbot: asciilifeform rated covertress -1
<< insistent idiocy
deedbot: ben_vulpes rated covertress -1
<< snr
BingoBoingo:
<ben_vulpes> just two weekends ago i had to excise some rust-welded nuts that didn't have clearance for a socket wrench.
<< PB Blaster!
mod6:
<+asciilifeform> ... diana_coman ?
<< yeah, heard it went fairly smooth.
adlai: lamport's DnD example is perfectly logical: (apply #'
<folder> file) -> "label this file as belonging to that folder", (apply #'
<folder>) -> "show me what you got"
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> eventually there will be separate 'underground' suppliers for ~reasonable building materials, just like you can only get actual food in usa from 'special' suppliers.
<< At the moment they sit on the shelf next to unreasonable building materials with smallest difference in price tag.
adlai: "That all happened twenty years ago. In retrospect, thinking of programs as automobiles wasn???t so bad. Automobiles are pretty simple. If their car stops working, people expect any good mechanic to be able to figure out why and fix the problem"
<< Welcome to the 21st Century, where the computers still don't work but now they're in everything!
mod6: asciilifeform hoards screws, and regrets nothing
<< im with ya. they don't make shit like they used to.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-16: [19:47:07]
<mircea_popescu> ACTION just found out that phillips and torx heads respectively aren't mere "let's arbitrarily change standards to try and extract spurious rents via alleged intellectual property" ; but in fact have proper reasons to exist. a) phillips head is self-centering ; which is to say driver does not slip out of screw being driven. this was major
ben_vulpes:
http://log.mkj.lt/trilema/20160916/#242 << plausible, sure, but what has actually happened is that a) the chicoms have diddled the phillips female bit such that it cams out at the slightest provocation and than on top of that the zamac used to replace it wears after so much as a single slipped drive and b) torx is a convenient workaround for the shit metals
adlai: Estimated Next Difficulty: 248,537,181,620 (+10.05%)
<< nice
adlai: "verification is economically feasible only in a small number of applications???mainly, for fairly small programs that perform lifecritical functions. Verification techniques are being used successfully to help debug programs, at Microsoft and elsewhere"
<< please, tell me more about these small, lifecriticial, microsoft applications...
BingoBoingo:
<trinque> asciilifeform: thunked a lady with both that and sicp once, and she actually read them
<< This is the difference. The fucking.
mircea_popescu: "7) Paranoid folks like to recompile just again, to be sure that the new system has no artifact from the old running Lisp. These instructions also build the very-optional parts like CLX at this stage. If you want to do that, activate the for loop near the end."
<< i'm not sure paranoid is the word here.
BingoBoingo:
<adlai> incidentally, on a slightly related topic: a friend has taken me up on my (foolish, drunken) offer to help teach him programming. i'm tempted to start with a "sheet of paper + mccarthy" approach, since he's yet unspoiled by algol; has anybody tried teaching in this manner?
<< Don't skip to 12 without working the other steps. Only 13 can be skipped to.
adlai: "I was having dealings with a corpse, so she has no cause for complaint."
<< excellent argument for gutting cmucl rather than sbcl, unless you get off on the screams
trinque: Therefore, under this system there should be no need to resort to hairy hacking when fundamental internal structures are to be changed, or to "compile it with itself a few times until things settle down".
<< what the fuck?
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-17: [00:40:56]
<adlai> mircea_popescu: sbcl dies on too many (for all i know, just two, in the precisely bad timing) ~outgoing~ queries
mircea_popescu: "2011 FBI report finds “broadening U.S. military presence” responsible for rise in terror attacks"
<< hurr. "today we discovered that if we go attack some people, they'll attack us right back."
phf:
<**> Out of memory: Failed to allocate object of size 40000008 [10/10]
pete_dushenski: 'EVERYTHING MUST GO IN THE DISHWASHER AND THAT MUST BE FINE.'
<< chez moi i throw everything in the dishwasher, which i then run when full and empty thereafter, while the girl does this 'wash by hand as you go and air dry on the rack' thing for reasons i don't fully comprehend.
scriba: Logged on 2016-09-15: [17:37:23]
<ben_vulpes> mircea_popescu, BingoBoingo, pete_dushenski: recommendations for wp footnote plugin? footnotes-in-footnotes would be a grand feature if any can do that and it's not a mp-wp-footnotes custom job
pete_dushenski: 'but eventually relented and traded the garburator for a hood over the stove,'
<< current place... doesn't have range hood. smoky ? smelly ? open the windows and patio doors and get a cross-breeze going
pete_dushenski: 'I was dead-set on finding a house with a garbage disposal, or "garburator" as our sorry ("Sorry!") neighbors to the North call them,'
<< l0l! love the souble dorry. also, i've never lived in a house or condo with a garburator and may never.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: 00007fd9b506c000 5972292K rwx-- [ anon ]
<< what's in there ?