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mircea_popescu: da fuck is embarassing about
this ? i say "i'm sorry, who are you again ?" a dozen
times a day, if it's a day i mostly sleep.
mircea_popescu: be remembered and also
toe curlingly embarrassing
to admit
that you cannot recognise who you are
talking
to."
mircea_popescu: "Any lecturer who serves his
time will probably graduate hundreds, if not
thousands of students. Mostly
they merge into a blur; like
those paintings of crowd scenes where
the leading faces are clearly picked out and
the rest just have iconic representations.
This anonymity can be embarrassing when some past student hails you by name and you really haven't got
the foggiest idea of who he or she is. It's both nice
to
mircea_popescu: "The right
thing
to do was
to carefully implement one, common base mode for process interaction, and
to carefully put in hooks for customising
this base mode into language-specific modes" << and in
today's installement of intelligence is no defense from stupidity news, "if you
tried wrestling with a wild pig in some mud you found in
the forrest and got raped,
the correct
thing is
to buy some earth from
the supermarket,
mircea_popescu: they
try
to hack it
togetgher with bs like
the internet
taskforce "we believe in rough consensus and working code", but it's structurally nonsense.
the only reason it sort-of appeared
to work was because it was unwittingly implementing some wot/ba features.
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 00:40:01; mircea_popescu: i
think i'ma just use adlai
to denote lazy from now on.
mircea_popescu: anyway,
the point oshivers' not aware of is
that
THE ONLY way
to have 100% solutions is with
the power of
the wot as deployed by b-a
mircea_popescu: no you don't udnerstand because
the specification is
the code.
mircea_popescu: enough
to allow for quality extension. So *he* does his *own* 80%
mircea_popescu: Not only does it lack coverage, but
the deep structure wasn't
thought out well
mircea_popescu: next guy
that comes along and needs a socket interface can't use
this one.
mircea_popescu: covers
the bits
this particular hacker needed for his applications. So
the
adlai: you may need
to recalibrate your
tokenizer's fuzzyness
adlai: provided you know which manual has
this preamble, sure.
adlai found it by sifting r^Nrs authors for
the familiar name,
then sifting his bibliography
adlai: ascii_butugychag: agreed, but for such a mega-classic, it's unbearably un-googleable. anything about "80/100% solutions" (spelled however you like)
turns up corporations priding
themselves in
the quick, dirty, and incomplete.
adlai waits for
the man
to show up
mircea_popescu: that we'll doublespend all
the
txn
that
they see as conformant, and
then impose
the longer chain with
the doublespends.
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag if we do force a longer chain which breaks
that softfork we HAVE
to also steal all
their money.
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> anyway, if
the
toomims
take
thgeir fake hashpower
to
this
thing it'll be a perfect exit for
that set of scammers and good riddance. << I alway
thought
the
Toomims hashpower was real? Who claiming fake hashpower would claim so little?
mircea_popescu: not every inconvenience is good enough
to call out
the
troops.
mircea_popescu: anyway, if
the
toomims
take
thgeir fake hashpower
to
this
thing it'll be a perfect exit for
that set of scammers and good riddance.
ascii_butugychag: but would conveniently drive an additional nail into
the enemy's skull
mircea_popescu: certainly not against it enough
to precipitate a chainwar
mircea_popescu: eh, i dunno if you recall
the discussion at
the
time, but anyway. i am not really
THAT against
that soft fork, because like it or not
this situation with ambiguous s-ness is not so good.
mircea_popescu: so basically
the renegade miners
that got scammed into mining a fork got all
the mining competition and none of
the benefits.
mircea_popescu: meanwhile i will continue
to honor payments on
the actual bitcoin chain.
shinohai needs
to review last night's logs for more info on
trb mining pool possibility
mircea_popescu: i have no fucking idea what
they imagine
this will do. suppose 90% of
the miners move over. i will not honor any of
their payments, not on mpex, not on bitbet, not anywhere else.
that's
the whole market.
mircea_popescu: they're more
than free
to make
their own altcoin, like everyhone else
throughout
the years. glhf and all
that.
mircea_popescu: anyway.
this bullshit won't be either mined or relayed by
trb.
mircea_popescu: derps so fucking desperately need moar brandings and
things. plox
to make a website. with
the cssen
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:16:36; adlai:
there's no a-priori reason why fork proponents can't stake
their reputation on pgp-signed contracts
to buy up
their alt after it's launch... reminscent of
the $20 XPY floor
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:11:33; adlai: but funkenstein_ is holding some for him, if
that altchain even exists outside of his computer
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:07:24; psztorc: BingoBoingo: you see,
that's
the
thing when it comes
to death
threats,
though.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I need
to know for
the jokes!!!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo
there's no end of
these "bitcoin experts" who have weekly opinions and who are
to be
taken seriously provided you don't examine anything past last week.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:08:33; adlai: psztorc: out of curiosity, did anything ever come of plans
to build a market for exchanging such coins? rather
than manually arbitraging between businesses on either side
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:05:10; psztorc: I bring it up because it is in contrast
to XT, which no one really liked.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:57:11; psztorc: So, "bitcoin classic", with a 2 MB blocksize limit, is likely
to have >60% hashrate at
this
time
tomorrow.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:57:00;
thestringpuller: from my studies, I
thought
that jazz musicians routinely passed down songs via audition rather
than sight (via score).
adlai envisions an aging mircea_popescu,
tired of 'systems analysis', finding his final calling with
the shakuhachi. (it's also quite good for spanking)
mircea_popescu: it's only
there like
the clothes are
there on woman :
to make conversation.
mircea_popescu: you have
to "interpret" and "read it with feeling" and"
this isn't what liszt meant" and bla bla.
mircea_popescu: musical notation is a joke
to pretty much every serrious musician. it is a "pons asinorum" of sorts and not much else
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:48:30; adlai: clef notation is worse
than useless, because it sparks endless bikeshedding about whether E sharp "ever is or could be equal
to" F
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:37:02; ascii_butugychag: (he has
the virtue of not building
towers of own shit, like farm swine, but
that's
the beginning and end of it)
thestringpuller: so we have
to live in vaults because some fucker wants
to launch a nuke cause "hey
this will fix
the world!111"
thestringpuller: the forkers
think it's all fun and games until an ecological disaster occurs.
then who is expected
to clean it up?
mats: i
think i would enjoy it, at least a little bit
psztorc: Well,
that's
the news, so
to speak.
psztorc: Instead, I'm just going
to finish my own project.
adlai only
trades altcoins in
the middle clef
adlai: psztorc: have you considered asking fork proponents
to help build such a market? i
think
the antifork crowd are more content
to
take a more patient role in
this game of chicken, because
the "burden of forking" is on
the other camp
ascii_butugychag: adlai: ask mircea_popescu
to write one up for you, if you need
this
adlai: there's no a-priori reason why fork proponents can't stake
their reputation on pgp-signed contracts
to buy up
their alt after it's launch... reminscent of
the $20 XPY floor
☟︎ psztorc: ascii_butugychag: What exactly are you
talking about?
BingoBoingo: psztorc: You have
to understand A-flat minor is best key, and
this drama is all about Gavin's diminishing ability
to see his penis