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assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 13:30:52; copypaste: I've seen current professional book scanners,
they are huge and cost $10K USD minimum
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 04:57:52; ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what kind of os would one run on
that kind of hardware? old 'nixy'
things?
punkman: "A wealthy, elderly man, for example, could
technically marry
the father of his daughter’s children.
This would enable an estate of any size
to pass
tax-free into
the next generation on
the older man’s death. After his elderly “husband” had died, of course,
the younger man would be free
to marry
the daughter, with
the estate
thus secured intact."
☟︎☟︎ thestringpuller: "BitPay and Coinbase are forward-thinking companies." My lulz for
the day are complete.
copypaste: "Your job is
to
turn pages and press a red button."
copypaste: well, maybe it's a good
thing for Communist countries. It gives people something
to do.
copypaste: I am again
thoroughly convinced
that KickStarter is nothing more
than a platform for clueless derps
to make money on even more clueless derps
☟︎ copypaste: i doubt
they needed
that much money just
to make a foot pedal
punkman: the foot pedal seems like a nice
touch on
the Czur
punkman: yeah
this design seems nice for quick document scanning
copypaste: this Fujitsu product has been out a year already, and since it's not a KickStarter
there's actually a chance of getting what you ppaid for ;)
punkman: page
turning is
tricky indeed
copypaste: I
thought it had all
the moving parts of a pro one; automatic page
turning and so on
copypaste: Oh, actually, it's not
that impressive.
copypaste: I've seen current professional book scanners,
they are huge and cost $10K USD minimum
☟︎ shinohai: Perhaps
there are equally disturbing
truths concerning boat maintenance somewhere.
assbot: Sean Parker on
tech industry's 'tricks': 'Social media feeds our narcissism' |
Technology |
The Guardian ... (
http://bit.ly/1OBdOfL )
phf: ben_vulpes: yeah, you can do macroexpand on loop
to see what's going on underneath,
though it's probably least readable macroexpansion
phf: ok, on
this incoherent note, i'm going
to sleep
phf: placed in
the form
that's
the result of macro expansion of loop
phf: probably can be cleaned up, but where's
that catch being interpolated when you do (loop named foo...)
phf: oh yeah, re lisp, i've not had a chance
to use it, but i'm pretty sure i have a bunch of code
that does (loop .. do (catch :foo ... (loop ... (throw :foo ...)))
phf: in fact in v's case $verified serves no other purpose, but
to do
the whole for:else:
ben_vulpes: (loop named foo ... (loop named bar ... (return-from foo
thinger))
phf: but speaking of v.pl, lines 92-102, is precisely
that pattern
phf: named loops in common lisp? i don't actually know
the feature
ben_vulpes: it's an interesting gem demonstrating how
the design of a language determines how people
think about solving problems in it.
ben_vulpes: i just discovered named loops and returning from inner loops
to arbitrary outer loops and am just startled at
this particular codification of
the pattern.
phf: but
then you potential run into sentinel issue
ben_vulpes: looks like ad hoc implementation of common use cases with arbitrary language features
to me, but i've also spent a bit of
time with
the loop macro lately
phf: otherwise you need
to do foo=NULL; for(...) {...}; if(!foo) { ... }
phf: or rather an escape out of loop means
that nothing was found and
the alternative should be
taken
phf: i
think
typical refactoring done elsewhere is
to put
the whole for loop into a small function, replace break with return and
then assume
that any escape out of loop is an error
phf: like for example, for stuff in
things: if right(stuff): break; else: error("can't get
the right stuff")
ben_vulpes: today i learned
that one can else in a for in python
assbot: Logged on 15-05-2014 00:24:14; mircea_popescu: in which alan cox fucks up
the pty.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: what kind of os would one run on
that kind of hardware? old 'nixy'
things?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: but in any case, "rabbit hole" is misused in
that context.
mircea_popescu: imo conspiracy
theorism is a discrete pathology. now,
that derps run off with it... sure,
they run off with everything.
phf: perhaps
to mount on a wall, framed retro style?
mircea_popescu: pretty much. a deeply seated, apparently deliberate but certainly defiant opposition
to data integrity.
mircea_popescu: makes me
think of
the argentines a lot.
this very speciffic "wool pulled deeply over eyes" going
through
things.
mircea_popescu: he's
the same sort of idiot who parks in
the nuclear core
twice, ~~~discovers~~~ "nothing happened" and announces
there's a conspiracy re nuclear cores
to make proles believe
they're bad for you when really NOTHNING HAPPENS
mircea_popescu: you know,
the one red
thread here is, a certain mental pattern of
the imbecile. "hearn spoke
TO BANKS" says
the idiot who, after asking
two awkward hermit females and a distant relative, gladly reports "i asked WOMEN".
mircea_popescu: it hinders
the least effort, bs approach of
the ustarded "media", ok
mircea_popescu: i have no idea how
the russkis imagine "great wall" works on people who follow
torrents
ben_vulpes: funny, i was just having a conversation with ladybird about how "teh h0rr0r" of
the holocaust (mostly concentration camps) is
the entirety of what americans are
taught about wwii and hitler and de and politics of
the
time generally. another instance of "stealing
the having been stolen from".
assbot: Logged on 10-11-2015 02:39:56; mircea_popescu: asciilifeform what was
that all about ?
mircea_popescu wonders at just how dumb black folks in
the us gotta be. seriously, a negligible minority being cast into
this "infiltrated all levels of power!!!" role and
they don't figure out what's next ? WAKE
THE FUCK UP YO!
THIS IS ~~~exactly~~~ WHAT HAPPENED OT
THE JEWS, 1915-1935.
ben_vulpes: "In each case, I was not
the instigator, only
the one who fought back. But being unapologetically white and male worked against me in every case."
mircea_popescu: these people are
the same fucking idiots
that created "the banks" of Bitcoin cca 2012.
hanbot: mircea_popescu well at least
those marriages could be dissolved with
this guy's plan. walk her up
to some chicks, "listen, i know
this is weird, but
this woman won't leave me alone. would you stay with me a while so she'll maybe leave?"
mircea_popescu: megging is
totally a
thing, i suspect half
the marriages happen
thrugh
that method