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a111: Logged on 2018-04-11 15:29 asciilifeform: speaking of which, apparently
AS OF TODAY gentoo portage latest ver DEMANDS gpg2.
trinque: the cumulative work on gentoo was wasted cycles if portage is undesired,
as most of the work was around capturing portage in a given state
spyked: for the moment all my notes are in a text file that's going to grow into a blogpost
as soon
as it has a head and a tail
a111: Logged on 2019-06-22 13:57 mircea_popescu: the sort of "before publishing, I'm making sure" idiocy is exactly, but i do mean exactly, of the same substance
as the fat girl's "this donut has no calories". it uses the exact same parts of the brain in the exact same way.
mircea_popescu: responsibility is a fine and great thing indeed ; but it's not mechanizable,
as part and parcel of why we have a wot
as it is rather than
as the lulzentreprise everyone else imagines it to be.
diana_coman: I rather saw it
as "can't do this alone, need help but won't ask because it should come naturally"
diana_coman: oh, I don't know if it's re self-worth; rather interpreting the "not fully load-in-head"
as "not read"
mircea_popescu: in any case the "i am of the republic, i will now base my self worth on the qty and amt of loading-in-head my works get" is,
as of yet, a recipe for eternal sadness. this is a new rather than old republic.
diana_coman: re reading of stuff I guess there is also the difference between one reading and full load-in-the-head; it struck me that people would want others to do more load-in-the-head of what they produce so
as to get finer-detail feedback
mircea_popescu: and this paroxistic-avoidant approach worries me universally, phf is stuck in the exact same rut, for instance. i have never in my life seen this approach to things work. not once, not FUCKING ONCE, and this is all the more indicative
as it's one of the most commonly deployed broken strategies.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: rather than in the normal, and correct manner in which things are discussed,
as they are noticed, to get to their bottom, which is then gotten to and marked
as such and things move on, with the bottom in question an ever-reliable reference always at the ready for having been correctly found, and always visible just under the skin of things, for having been correctly found.
mircea_popescu: whereas usg.blue reads not-at-all, never ever no matter what ; and usg.red reads always-aforehand. both of these idiocies, equally idiotic
as they find themselves, are therefore always found in some uneasy truce. but you can't properly notate "read on 2nd pass"
as "didn't read" or "won't read".
mircea_popescu: this is exactly cosubstantial with the
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-22#1919401 inquiry : "reading everything aforehand"
as a strategy is just
as dysfunctional
as any other idealism aka premature optimization. there's a fucking reason republican doctrine is "do it by hand first, automate later, and those parts that actually need it and benefit from it, rather than randomly and abstractly like the pantsuit do".
☝︎ mircea_popescu:
as i sit here now, there's things around me i've never read. serial numbers on smoke detectors, handling and caring labels on rugs, brand names on plaster and wall insulation facing inside, towards the wall. i am not about to tear the place apart to read all possible strings around me. i might, ~if need be~, of course. but not before.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-22 16:43 asciilifeform: re: loose ends: fwiw asciilifeform did in fact add the final missing piece to
mipstron. BUT! can't test with the
dummkopf's orig linux image as he... guess wat, his system had little-endian word accesses but big-endian byte read/write ! so his image in fact will boot on NO existing mips, nor any afaik other emulator.
mircea_popescu: you don't mean "pls try again"
as in, issue command again ?
as opposed to "put !!v strings in again" ? do you ?
mircea_popescu: in this context then, if we decide we like the "packages" abstraction, for whatever reason, the obvious solution would be to maintain ebuilds of various vtrees
as packages, and emerge them into a desired pile together.
mircea_popescu: the fundamental problem here is the implicit dwim-ism involved in "i don't have a vax/dec/cuisinart, i have a COMPUTER,
as in the abstract"
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 03:43 mircea_popescu: all joking aside : the best answer i could produce for the
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-01#1916471 question stands
as "choose between steamos and ubuntu", which in plain terms is "do you wish to make your computer a supernintendo and buy
virtual cartridges for it ? or would you rather make your computer a mobile phone ?"
trinque: ebuilds are on their 6th or 7th format revision; they're
as much imperative code
as they're declarative metadata
mircea_popescu: i personally doubt such a thing
as a lisp portage can be made. but then again i have no coding experience.
diana_coman: fwiw re gprbuild and legacy c/cpp-ism: cal3d lib builds with gprbuild absolutely fine; CS however not at all and it's not a trivial thing to port it either
as far
as I could tell at a quick look.
mircea_popescu: if gotta-have-python anyway, why am i wasting spyked's time with hutch&hoot, might
as well use python for scripting.
mircea_popescu: trinque, do me a favour an' state the problem in yoru own words so
as to see how synced we're here
mircea_popescu: i am not even disputing that. i think large projects (ie, again, eulora) used it
as a ... well, default evil. "gotta use something, wtf can do".
mircea_popescu: and the reasons we wanted v were very much specifically and centrally "so such a thing
as portage is can NOT be had, and such problems
as it solves can not be solved"
mircea_popescu: if we wanted fucking portage we could have just imported portage. but i think we just
as deliberately did NOT want it ; we wanted v.
Mocky: in practice it's 2 players only and considered a feature of the physics engine, even so often laggy
as hell
trinque:
as for me, I will still have to batch my efforts since I am not independently wealthy
bvt: after ffa I will have a look at other things (like ripping out kernel rng, having another look at gnat-arm64 internals,
as it seems there is no ongoing work on this front atm). i expect to get something useful
as a result, and maintain it in long term.
mircea_popescu: the procedure, transparently from empirical data
as well
as doubtless following their bayesian deductive logic would be, that since they no longer have the capacity to nuke anyone, it then follows they'll necessarily win a nuke war -- in the imagination.
mircea_popescu: which makes me believe republican format otp should actually come
as xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx [yyyy] blocks
a111: Logged on 2019-06-22 06:47 mp_en_viaje: we have no workable bitcoin nor any sort or kind of measurable progress towards one ; we have no working os, and not only is there no progress towards one but
as best
as i can discern the situation's rather turning in the direction of "buried in concrete" ; we eminently do not have any sort of meat acquisition system going, while pizarro can't get customers and all dpb can be bothered to do is ~USE IT~ to try and get meat for th
mircea_popescu: the sort of "before publishing, I'm making sure" idiocy is exactly, but i do mean exactly, of the same substance
as the fat girl's "this donut has no calories". it uses the exact same parts of the brain in the exact same way.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform, yes, just
as long
as we're not looking at june specifically. not to mention managing BingoBoingo / pizarro, such that the man has nfi what the cost structure's like and so following.
a111: Logged on 2019-06-22 06:58 mp_en_viaje: and yes ima negrate dpb just
as soon
as i get to my main keys, he's too fucking busy to
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-12#1918049 while
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-20#1919091 all day long ? because what, what the fuck's this republic, everyone's suburban helicopter mom, to roll eyes at while eating her sandwiches and thinking about how to steal shit from the house to curry favour with a bunch of morons in school ?
a111: Logged on 2019-06-22 06:58 mp_en_viaje: and yes ima negrate dpb just
as soon
as i get to my main keys, he's too fucking busy to
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-12#1918049 while
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-06-20#1919091 all day long ? because what, what the fuck's this republic, everyone's suburban helicopter mom, to roll eyes at while eating her sandwiches and thinking about how to steal shit from the house to curry favour with a bunch of morons in school ?
mp_en_viaje: one gotta train, yes, out of the question such a prince naseem idiocy
as the figther who doesn't train. but training alone does not make the pie.
mp_en_viaje: bvt, so what's your idea going forward anyway ? are you basically going to be doing some ffa
as you fiat overlod permit now and again, so by the end of 2019 you can look at having completed chapter 22 or somesuch, and that'll have been it ?
mp_en_viaje: we have no workable bitcoin nor any sort or kind of measurable progress towards one ; we have no working os, and not only is there no progress towards one but
as best
as i can discern the situation's rather turning in the direction of "buried in concrete" ; we eminently do not have any sort of meat acquisition system going, while pizarro can't get customers and all dpb can be bothered to do is ~USE IT~ to try and get meat for th
☟︎ mp_en_viaje: leaving aside how a rate of progress of 0 items / week for week after week after livelong week puts extremely low demands on my time and attention -- far, far from requiring it be a central locus of my focus, republican 2019
as seen so far would have worked just
as well if i gave it an hour biweekly, and i don't mean twice a week, i mean every other week -- there's just no need to keep the engine running on big brutus for the "j
☟︎ BingoBoingo: Aite, the shared machine UY1
as been given some new IPs, going to start bringing sites online
mircea_popescu:
as a factual matter, you know going into the game that sooner or later, this sorta thing will happen.
mircea_popescu: wine necessarily fucks around with the stack,
as part of what it DOES.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform oh, there's no such thing
as sorta-clean toilet.
mircea_popescu: it didn't work ALWAYS, and yes, precisely dr. dos problem
as you describe it.
mircea_popescu: in other lulz : you may build and even install a proper wine (ie, configured without the derp-ass gcc "stack protection", that evidently doesn't work) ; and it'll even work, system-wide. however that doesn't mean playonlinux won't stick to its sadder, older version. and of course you can't just force-copy symlinks over in its holy directory, because they're all brokenly relative, and gns resolution works
as shown in that p
a111: Logged on 2019-06-02 15:50 mircea_popescu: remarkable just how useless computers are these days. so first, i chugged in 2gb of ubuntu. the moment it came up it wanted to get a further 450mb of "updates". then it turns out ~every game out there has pretty much outsourced its distribution (and, i suspect, debugging, such
as it is) to steam (with a minor gog presence
as well). so you gotta install steam. that's only 50mb or so, but a third layer by now.
mircea_popescu: in other, ongoing lulz of the endless saga : "*** stack smashing detected ***: <unknown> terminated" << wine (
as bundled with the shitty ubuntu in question, v 3.0-1) abuses "stack protection" to
crash perfectly fine programs (in this case, king's bounty - warriors of the north).
mircea_popescu: ~same look and feel
as that klonk, "we hacked up some old slot machines" "why ?" "dunno"
mircea_popescu: the yacht-
as-it-was-used was a better-alternative-to-airplane+airport-plebcombo. slower (in the good sense -- anyonre recall the "downshifiting" 90s thing ?), not much more expensive (if you travel business class and 5 star hotel, you end up paying for summering in the carribean ~same
as the cost to own yacht, give or take), infinitely more pleasant.
mircea_popescu: the yacht-
as-a-place-to-live thing was, whatever, poor village farmhands imagining among themselves a consensus
as to how riveters work goes in the big city up on those tall buildings.
a111: Logged on 2017-02-03 05:29 phf: my mom had one of those "papa escaped the purges by burning all paperwork but life got tough when they took our governess" piano teachers, who would lament about being forced to teach peasants and brown folk, not on racial grounds
as much
as "you have to have a bidet in your house for 3 generations, before you can touch a piano"
a111: Logged on 2019-06-19 16:02 mircea_popescu: exactly
as per
http://trilema.com/2013/what-is-art/ ; "why is this science ? cuz hilary says so. and who the fuck is hilary ? she's the one scientists claim god has anoin^H^H^H^H like very much and agree with"
BingoBoingo: Kinda the point. They try to min-max for unimpressiveness so
as to NOT be read
mircea_popescu: go hunting the africans, basically,
as principal tropical activty.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there's exactly 0 connection between the 99% and any productive activty. in fact, you need about 500k or so people to run the entire world
as it now stands