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copypaste: <blink> probably exists on
trilema, but nobody notices it, more
than likely
ascii_butugychag: does anyone recall emma goldman's famous words re: dancing &
the revolution?
copypaste: no, just in
theory. all
the widely used implementations have dropped it, at least by default
mircea_popescu: <copypaste> <BLINK> still exists - in
theory. << in practice. even used on
trilema.
ascii_butugychag: ps is a 1980s
thing, and was invented for perfectly valid reasons,
the malicious bugginess of crapobat etc. are not inherent in it.
trinque is merely making
the humble claim
that HTML > PDF
ascii_butugychag: trinque: i have yet
to see even a sane implementation of, e.g., mathml.
trinque: so we use our brains and wrap whatever you don't want broken in a box with
the above CSS
ascii_butugychag: scaling down pixelwise is idiocy if it results in an equation where i cannot read
the sub- and superscripts, say.
copypaste: CSS has many rules, what matters is how
they're implemented.
trinque: no, I have not read a book on
tex
trinque: you're asking if it can scale
things down
to fit
the page?
trinque: CSS has a "don't pagebreak
this when printed"
mircea_popescu: this "page" nonsense is related
to written matter like excel spreadsheets are related
to business
copypaste: e-ink eschews
the need for real paper
ascii_butugychag: i own a printer. and i intend
to keep owning a printer. i like paper. and i don't ever want
to see a motherfucking pagebreak in
the middle of an equation.
ascii_butugychag: i have yet
to see a pill against pdf proposed here
that doesn't reduce
to mircea_popescu's broomstick.
ascii_butugychag: pdf can die when i can
type in integral sign and not have it EVER pagebroken.
copypaste: i have no idea how
they managed
that.
ascii_butugychag: mocsny had examples, e.g., man
takes 'viagra',
turning cock into a mechanism, in
the sense
that you walk into a forest and are not content
to sit on ~any~ old surface, if you are
there long enough you start making chairs, polishing
the wood, etc
copypaste: that's what i
tried first, but it got all misformatted
mircea_popescu: copypaste dpaste al;ways better for
text. and do you kno what deedbot is ?
ascii_butugychag: mircea_popescu: dan mocsny had a spiffy essay on man and mechanism in
this sense, but afaik it is lost
to history
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag
this
thing,
that we were discussing. seems
to me
to make
the echo sounds
typical of a huge cave, even if we only found a little hole.
copypaste: thought you guys might get a kick out of
this. i'm reading a highly contested law where i live (philippines)
ascii_butugychag: that's
the whole notion of a mechanism -
that it does something quite specific, in a quite-specific way,
that is defined in advance
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag nope.
there isn't a person in every cunt, yet
they all work.
ascii_butugychag: this works for knights of
the round
table, but not so much for menial mechanics
mircea_popescu: this happens
to be how sexuate reproduction works, also, which makes me suspect it's a peak behaviour.
mircea_popescu: and an important
thing
to point out is also
the b-a model.
ascii_butugychag: by being ~extremely~
tight, and, importantly, well-specified, in what input
they accept.
ascii_butugychag: the few precious
things
that ACTUALLY WORK, consistently, every
time - your cpu's adder,
the bus, etc. SHIT on postel.
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: 'Low-level
things are likely
to work correctly since
there’s
tremendous pressure for
them
to do so. Because otherwise, all
the higher-level stuff will collapse, and everybody will go “AAAAAAAAAA!!”'
ascii_butugychag: 'How many problems did you have with hardware compared
to OS compared
to end-user apps? According
to most evidence I got, JavaScript does whatever
the hell it wants at each browser. Hardware is not like
that. CPUs from
the same breed will run
the user-level instructions identically or get off
the market. Memory-mapped devices following a hardware protocol for
talking
to
the bus will actually follow it, damn it, or ge
BingoBoingo: PeterL: Well, maybe
this is a job for
the indians or Chicoms
ascii_butugychag: it has
the smell of good engineering and
thereby became enshrined in
the old canon
PeterL: I have had a reactor make a foof sound as it lit fire, not a pleasant experience (and
that was just a simple combustion of
THF, nothing explosive)
ascii_butugychag: after
the successful
test of malleus h., i've been
tempted
to write one
mircea_popescu: and i specifically discuss
the president rather
than
the "mayor of
the palace" because really, having dagobert cut
to pieces in
the public place is a worse stigma on
the obnoxious pepin
than actually shortening him a head more would have been.
ascii_butugychag: re: malleus
thread: did mircea_popescu ever write an article about
the error of 'postel's law' ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_butugychag numerous examples of pretorian guard heads
that
thought going with
the usg is safe beheaded.
PeterL: seems like a nasty chemical
to work with
PeterL: BingoBoingo, I don't particularly want
to go FOOF myself
mircea_popescu: and mexico makes for a much better example, in
that direction.
mircea_popescu: but be
that as it may : as
the oathkeepers article derrided here yest nevertheless correctly points out: other people's problems,.
to be resolved by
those self-same other people.
mircea_popescu: i don't agree
that brazil works as an example for your purpose.
mircea_popescu: and while i have no particular
taste for violence, i do wish
to see obama, or his successor, raped on camera.
mircea_popescu: local police is what currently stand between random acts of violence and
the us president being raped on camera.
ascii_butugychag: local police are all
that presently stand between average u.s. pgp user and a dhs
torture chamber.
mircea_popescu: it would be a forced mistake for
this gendarmerie
to appear. and forced it must be.
mircea_popescu: not so. you're wrong in
this reading, and
the usg itself very clearly proves
they understand
this (for instance in
their attempts
to hide behind
the
tired local sheriff dioscussed on qntra)
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 16:35:36; mircea_popescu: “This cop needs
to be shot and
then displayed for all others
to see.
Time
to let
these Nazi
thugs who really runs
the show here in
this country. We need
to string all of
them up and make an example for
the next generation
that
these acts will not be
tolerated.
They answer
to us, not
the other way around.
Time we start asking
the hard questions and lay
the hammer down on
those who
truly deserve it.”
mircea_popescu: will come in handy once we actually have / can afford
three men working on any one
thing.
assbot: Logged on 15-11-2014 00:27:45; asciilifeform:
there was a
three-man system
mircea_popescu: ironically... i believe if one were
to add up
the number of usg agent deaths as evident from prosecution attempts, and
then compare
that figure with
the number of usg agent deaths as reported by
the usg for various statistical purposes, a 10:1 difference wouldn't even be surprising.
mircea_popescu: August 12, 2014 — Armed with an AK-47, ammunition, and propane canisters, Douglas Lee Leguin set a fire,
then called 911
to report it. When
Texas officers and firemen responded
to
the call, he shot at
them in order
to bring attention
to his political complaints. Sovereign Citizen"
mircea_popescu: September 9, 2014 – Eric Frein, an anti-government survivalist, is currently a fugitive wanted for shooting
two Pennsylvania State
troopers in an ambush, killing one and wounding
the other. According
to
the State Police Commissioner, Frein had
talked about committing mass murder in addition
to killing officers. He was recently added
to
the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list. General Anti-government
copypaste: ah, i meant
the first one, my client was scrolled up
mircea_popescu: this 31 yo guy who
together with his 22 yo wife shot a coupla cops and
then got killed.
mircea_popescu: “This cop needs
to be shot and
then displayed for all others
to see.
Time
to let
these Nazi
thugs who really runs
the show here in
this country. We need
to string all of
them up and make an example for
the next generation
that
these acts will not be
tolerated.
They answer
to us, not
the other way around.
Time we start asking
the hard questions and lay
the hammer down on
those who
truly deserve it.” Jerad Miller, M
☟︎ ascii_butugychag: speaking of which - anybody else
try my malleus mikehearnificarum ?