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PeterL: and happy b-day
to you. I guess it is a good day for a birthday
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 22:03:01; mircea_popescu: (Sometimes I
think
that perhaps one of
the best
things I could do with my life is: find a gigantic pile of proprietary software
that was a
trade secret, and start handing out copies on a street corner so it wouldn't be a
trade secret any more, and perhaps
that would be a much more efficient way for me
to give people new free software
than actually writing it myself; but everyone is
too cowardly
to ev
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 20:25:35; mircea_popescu: (have you ever noticed
that nobody ever fucking publishes
the names of
the agentura ? if say a police officer is ever NAMED he's either in a fringe local paper in a red state or else accused of something. it's never "the swat
team, composed of x y z and k" or so forth. )
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 21:56:53; mircea_popescu: ascii_field "At some point I may do a similar surgical extraction for GPG 1.4.10’s entropy gatherer, but
this is a very different project." << i have nfi why you'd be including "software entropy generators".
BingoBoingo: Win >> "Catlett said police have been unable
to reach him since
the charges were filed Monday."
mircea_popescu: start reading rms' side of
the "how i [didn't really] invent emacs" for
the lulz, stay for
the glory.
mircea_popescu: (Sometimes I
think
that perhaps one of
the best
things I could do with my life is: find a gigantic pile of proprietary software
that was a
trade secret, and start handing out copies on a street corner so it wouldn't be a
trade secret any more, and perhaps
that would be a much more efficient way for me
to give people new free software
than actually writing it myself; but everyone is
too cowardly
to even
take it.)
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field "At some point I may do a similar surgical extraction for GPG 1.4.10’s entropy gatherer, but
this is a very different project." << i have nfi why you'd be including "software entropy generators".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (have you ever noticed
that nobody ever fucking publishes
the names of
the agentura ? if say a police officer is ever NAMED he's either in a fringe local paper in a red state or else accused of something. it's never "the swat
team, composed of x y z and k" or so forth. )
☟︎ mircea_popescu: this one'd be equally nameless, if i weren't here
to break
the inane anon-government convention
ascii_field: the ones i was
thinking of were
the nameless chix who crapped out 'obamacare', which fills a book case, and similar
mircea_popescu: awww, look at her! intern gurl hired
to get people
to
talk
to
the phone people at her office, is now internets famous!Q
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> we have
this already. except it's armies of intern gurlz, vs. shanninizers (gurlz are cheaper) <<< you recall, i actually published
the minutes of how
this goes.
punkman: sad
turtles all
the way down
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 20:07:17; punkman: especially
this part, "Volatile is of very limited usefulness on a machine
that is out-of-order, multiprocessor, or both", SO WHY
THE FUCK DOES ANYONE BOTHER
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 19:56:04; mircea_popescu: a century of laws nobody read has really been long enough.
time for laws nobody actually wrote.
punkman: "Old gcc upgrade: Bug fixes, some speed, some intrinsics. New gcc upgrade: I AM
THE LORD
THY GCC AND I WILL BREAK YOUR SYSTEM. FEAR MY WRATH."
thestringpuller: volatile keyword was very useful for interrupts on
the Gameboy Advance
punkman: especially
this part, "Volatile is of very limited usefulness on a machine
that is out-of-order, multiprocessor, or both", SO WHY
THE FUCK DOES ANYONE BOTHER
☟︎ liquidassets: thank you danielpbarron I haven't
tried searching
the bible but hopefully 12 years of vacation bible school are still good for something
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 14:58:26; asciilifeform: but compiler optimization retardation is not limited
to
the effects described
therein
thestringpuller: buddy of mine who isn't into bitcoin (but is into crypto) said
this: hat's why I worry about "widespread bitcoin adoption" - read
that as: banks/govs hijack
mircea_popescu: this "we labeled
this function comprehension so now
the program is comprehending"
thing goes
to
the fucking core of
things, it's like
the only wife computer dorks ever had huh.
mircea_popescu: this is ALL
the compiler ever fucking does, are you kidding me ?
mircea_popescu: "It’s hard
to overstate how bad an idea it is for a compiler
to use strange heuristics about code structure
to guess
the developer’s intent."
danielpbarron: i search on biblegateway sometimes for key words, although i don't like
to actually link
to
that site since it's javascript nightmare garbage
danielpbarron: a little of both. In order
to use
the easy reference I had
to already have intimate knowledge of
the
text
liquidassets: NO MP you said it about shame being a personal
thing like guilt..or something. About
the girl walking down
the street feeling shame or not..
liquidassets: danielpbarron you seem
to quote
the bible frequently, is
this because you know it so well? or is
there an easy reference/tool
to use
liquidassets: I need
to get better at
this searching
thing...apologies
mircea_popescu: a century of laws nobody read has really been long enough.
time for laws nobody actually wrote.
☟︎ mircea_popescu is looking forward
to when congress finally buys some "quill"
to keep up with
the "ever increasing needs" of
the legislative process.
mircea_popescu: all
the appetites in
the world and five bitcets will buy
them a cup of coffee
ascii_field: the
thieves' hands are of finite-length, yes. appetites - no.
ascii_field: recall
that
to
the 'aml' folks, ~all~ money is american
mircea_popescu: lost in all of
this bathwater, any actual money
to wash.
the us is about as poor as argentina.
mircea_popescu: "CHICAGO, IL – November 10, 2015 – Narrative Science,
the leader in advanced natural language generation for
the enterprise,
today announced
the launch of Quill for Anti-Money Laundering (AML). According
to recent research from KPMG, spending in North America
to combat money-laundering activities has risen by 71 percent over
the past
three years and is predicted
to keep increasing."
mircea_popescu: if only
the soviets had "technological innovators" such as
these
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field> ^ our filipinos! <<< exactly like
the mechanical
turk of yore,
the faux ai scam is still with us.
ascii_field: 'PS. If you got
this far you just read 818 words
that I wrote late one night after midnight with a
tired jack russell passed out in my lap.
Thank you for being interested in what we are doing.'
phf: but if kernel
treats your wm same way it
treats apache server...
phf: mircea_popescu: in x11, wm is a separate process, so it should fall under usual scheduling rules. i.e. if it misbehaves, kernel will
take control away from it
ascii_field: 'Narrative Science is
the leader in automated narrative generation for
the enterprise. Powered by artificial intelligence, its Quill platform analyzes data from disparate sources, understands what is important,
then automatically generates perfectly written narratives
to convey meaning from
the data for any intended consumer or business audience, at unlimited scale.'
ascii_field: 'PrivateEye enlists computer vision
technology
to actively protect computer or
tablet screens against unauthorized viewers by detecting and alerting
the user when an eavesdropper attempts
to read
the display.'
ascii_field: and just when i
thought
that
the snake oils couldn't get any more laughable,
ascii_field: when i woke up,
thought
that it would also be interesting if you could play 'as'... plague
ascii_field: speaking of
this, i dreamed last night
that i was playing a pc game called 'plague', where you are - as printed on
the crate - a fella
trying
to escape from plague, and score points also for containing
the spread
thereof in various ways
mircea_popescu: <ascii_field>
the successes in
the software world, few as
they are, are largely successes of EXTERMINATORS. << my view also.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla
tell you what, of all
tech companies, all bitcoin companies, and all companies in general, mpex stuff has
the most women involved.
ascii_field: the successes in
the software world, few as
they are, are largely successes of EXTERMINATORS.
ascii_field: YES you can get mighty good results from:
teenager-REMOVAL,
tard-removal, jwz-removal, microshit-removal, webdev-removal.
ascii_field: and even
to
the extent
that
they do -
the actual causes are misunderstood.
ascii_field: engineering
types (and financial folks even) have masturbated
to
the u.s. space program for generations, but
the facts do not wholly support
this.
ascii_field: 'Otherwise,
the hour-long meeting is sober and revealing, a brief window on
the culture. For one
thing, 12 of
the 22 people in
the room are women, many of
them senior managers or senior
technical staff.
The on-board shuttle group, with its stability and professionalism, seems particularly appealing
to women programmers.'
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 17:17:39; mircea_popescu: afaik dumbass osen (such as windoze) end up looking choppy because
they handle
the swap poorly and
the windows manager ends up conflicted with some higher priority item on "memory" access
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 17:16:33;
trinque: I read
this guy as saying it should drop everything and move
the cursor
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 17:16:10; mircea_popescu: i mean.... when is a desktop ever
that loaded ?
assbot: Logged on 04-12-2015 17:15:37; mircea_popescu:
trinque i've not yet observed
the mouse cursor lagging on any system
that i can recall since mice became a
thing.
kakobrekla: and for mp > For one
thing, 12 of
the 22 people in
the room are women, many of
them senior managers or senior
technical staff.
kakobrekla: John Munson, a software engineer and professor of computer science at
the University of Idaho, is not quite so generous. "Cave art," he says. "It's primitive. We supposedly
teach computer science.
There's no science here at all."
kakobrekla: "It's like pre-Sumerian civilization," says Brad Cox, who wrote
the software for Steve Jobs NeXT computer and is a professor at George Mason University. "The way we build software is in
the hunter-gatherer stage."
ben_vulpes: "The so-called “Cadillac
Tax” will be levied in 2018 on companies
that offer
the “richest” benefits."
ben_vulpes: "As part of
the Affordable Care Act,
the
tax is intended
to help fund expanded coverage for
the uninsured and
to contain health care spending by discouraging employers from offering overly generous benefits." <<
thou shalt not enjoy life