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mircea_popescu: spyked, perhaps another useful heuristic is the authority problem. if the specification of a user program CAN include a MUST statement, quo warranto ? if "the os", then it is not general purpose.
mircea_popescu: spyked, cleanly ie, simplest bijective. 1. all items in A are represented in B ; 2. all items in B have an underlying in A ; 3. there is no simpler relation in any case.
mircea_popescu: yes. gotta keep your tits close to the chest and the sharpie firmly up butt.
mircea_popescu: you don't understand the game of world politics and international intrigue of the web! you're supposed to not tell things! THERES TERRORISTS OUT THERE.
mircea_popescu: alf the beedog happines = long walks + icecream stops.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes, sooo, did you send login details to douchebag ? what do these cost in the end ?
mircea_popescu: then either phf or someone else can turn that text-only client into a webservice.
mircea_popescu: ped a "userland package" at all points in its existence, there's no substantial difference between "the office suite" and "windows + the office suite".
mircea_popescu: the jury is still out, as far as i'm concerned, on whether the os that loses control of a machine is still an os, meaning it's not altogether clear to me the basic-whatever combo they had at the time actually constitutes an os. but the problem FUCKING ISNT the naive perception at the time, "oh, it didn't hjave icons to click like windows 3.1". windows 3.1 was not an os ; nor was any other windows product an os. microsoft ship
mircea_popescu: (fun facts for the recently born : 1. most old zx-80 clone programs were games, whether you count by titles, or by total cpu time, or any other way ; 2. they did not return (mostly because to make a good one you had to fuck the kernel space, that zx80 shit was tight), you pressed the reset button to load the next item on the tape.
mircea_popescu: which is exactly what's happening with pre-republican computers.
mircea_popescu: god knows i have enough trouble as it is remembering what i ate yesterday, if i also had to remember what i was wearing while doing it we could just call it quits.
mircea_popescu: exactly how medicine does not consider whether you were fashionably dressed at the moment of symptoms, to establish whether your sartorial ineptitude maybe upset Sartrus, the god of suits.
mircea_popescu: ines, and through this separation allows complex, YET STILL SENSIBLE apparata be aggregated.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-17#1800914 <<< how it manages user interfacing is not even a consideration here. whether it returns control via pushing that specific-sounding button on the back left like the old tim-s ; or whether it has a software call implemented is irrelevant. not from a gui/ux perspoective, of course, but this is the fucking point of systems design as a discipline : that it does NOT consider other discipl
☝︎ mircea_popescu: but instead, it would be a particular-purpose os, "for those cases when the user wants the machine to not be 3 degrees from freezing".
mircea_popescu: if you modified it so it checked whether the machine temperature is within three degrees of freezing and did not expose the no-op in THAT case, then thereby it would be a general purpose os no longer
mircea_popescu: if however that os runs on a no-op single instruction cpu, then it is absolutely general purpose.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so what's that mean, that they were both riding dinosaurs into combat, big deal.
mircea_popescu: ascii_lander, to a large degree who said what in early church history is a cockularity poontest.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-04-17#1800909 << wasn't, no. and yes, the ti-89, sure. or my ancient citizen solar powered item which i haven't seen for 15 years at the least but which was revolutionary for its time and literally worked by degrees -- if you obstructed two of its cell it could still slightly power the screen so it did.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: admitting ad absurdum that there's a large number of nodes only knowing this set of peers.
mircea_popescu: the only guarantee is you won't have outside node talking to 2 locals.
mircea_popescu: so adding more nodes in bbistan helps, somewhat. it doesn't help the pipe, but it spreads the load among boxes.
mircea_popescu: resulting in this situation where if a large k nodes wnat to talk to the n group, each node in the n group will see k/n inbound connections on average.
mircea_popescu: not what i mean. here it is : if you have n nodes in ip a.b.c.*, each node from outside will pick ONE a.b.c.* node to talk to.
mircea_popescu: think about it, if 500 nodes want to talk to bbistan, each local trb will talk to 500/n
mircea_popescu: trinque, im not even sure it's so bad. spreads the load.
mircea_popescu: lobbes, ascii_lander the blockchain isn't even 50gb yet. so it'll work for years.
mircea_popescu: trinque, theoretically women are more clustered towards the mediocre. in practice however...
mircea_popescu: ckang, or she couldyou know, write under rahter than over tattoo.
mircea_popescu: jaxxie, get all your face in there ; get all the string in there.
mircea_popescu: ie, each convo was better jointly than it'd have been on its own.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron, so is it your inference the wireguard fellow got bothered by the wrongness of it all / jealous / whatever ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally, if any lord wants to sample lola's wares, i'll pay for your chicago hooker.
mircea_popescu: Melissalmao, if you want to hang around, you can voice yourself (say !!up to deedbot in pm).
mircea_popescu: aite, we'll see what trinque says about this when he has a moment. in the meanwhile Melissalmao Brittt dun fret, your cents are safe.
mircea_popescu: douchebag, somewhat suspicious, as it told me "<deedbot> mircea_popescu paid Melissalmao 0.02". is their key no good or something ?
mircea_popescu: Melissalmao, so it's not really a pimp, more like the house mother ?
mircea_popescu: so basically it's like an arthouse/halfwayhouse w/e, there's a bunch of you girls living together and trying to make ends meet ?
mircea_popescu was always impressed by how similar really devout religious people, doing the whole purity thing, and really dedicated whores, doing the whole thing, drugs etc actually are.
mircea_popescu: but besides that ? or is it one of those things, like being religious, takes up the whole day.