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phf: the only
thing enemy will drink is amontillado
mircea_popescu: "mircea_popescu: giving inept infantrymen good horses doesn't create an elite cavalry regiment, it just creates a lot of injured horses. giving stupid people smart
things doesn't make
them smart. it'll just make a lot of broken smart
things."
mircea_popescu: wehn i linked
to it, i linked
to an item put
there a week or so ago.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 02:51:34; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: after
the
thread!
mircea_popescu: had i met linux as a boy i'd be pissing with froth on
the entire stupid stack.
mircea_popescu: that behaviour is certainly
the l;argest contributor of wy i am even vaguely interested in computers at all
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 02:28:35; gernika: boots up
to C:\.
Then
they just have
to
type in
the name of
the game
they want
to play and hit enter.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform more in
the sense
that
the blondy
teen
that is always clenching her jaws shut is vaguely interesting in a way her verbose airheaded cogeners are not
mircea_popescu: The upshot of
this is
that you can run a client
that is a year old, but pretty much after
that 1 year anniversary you'll be dropped off
the network (even if
there have been no "real" changes in
that year)."
mircea_popescu: Anything
that is more of a soft fork will kick in immediately (as long as it doesn't drop pre-fork clients off
the network). Anything on
the p2p layer (ie. hard forkable) will be kept in
the wings until
the next fork date (as roughly estimated from block height) and
then is enabled.
mircea_popescu: Every 6 months, either on March 15 + September 15 or on April 15 + October 15,
the Monero network will have a hard fork. 30 days before
the fork we will have a code freeze +
tag + release, and if
there are no major changes we'll have an increase in
the protocol version (ie.
that's at a minimum). A similar fork system
to Bitcoin will apply, whereby a rollover
to
the new code after
the
trigger block will only occur if a
mircea_popescu: "Basic bottom line: every 6 months
there's a hard fork. You get 1 hard fork's grace before you have
to update or be left behind.
gernika: I would have checked
then even numbered answers
gernika: I sadly DID NOT KNOW about
this program in junior high and highschool.
phf: like some game enthusiasts
trying
to get source from electronic arts, good luck
gernika: Wonder if
the Soft Warehouse guys still live, and if
they have it.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 01:40:57; asciilifeform: so far, EVERY SINGLE SI FAB ON
THE PLANET and ALL
THE DESIGN
TOOLING (with
the exception of chuck moore's...) runs on winblowz
mircea_popescu: but it also has very little regard for you know, "the reader has come
to expect"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform one of
the funniest protests (sexually repressed women generally) bring
to my sexual
themed writings is "oh, it would never happen like
that".
gernika: asciilifeform - I haven't
tried it. Running it on an old
thinkpad. Got msdos 6.2 working in parallels - but parallels is literally a virus.
mircea_popescu: oh, you're not so very engaged by
this reality ? FUCK YOU BITCH LMAO
mircea_popescu: reality beats fiction mostly because fiction has
to be
things reality does not.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 01:33:36; asciilifeform: on account of how you can't really write an engaging yarn about inhabitants of
the real
thing, as we have it
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 01:29:13; asciilifeform: no one is banning linux. instead
there is a 'linux foundation' (see log) which will sign 'legit, non-terrorist' kernels for you
mircea_popescu: in local news, argentina GDP fell 4.9%
today because one of
the lengthy queues accidentally merged with its own ending, resulting in 84`755 people spending an average of 8 hours following a very intricate 12 mile pattern
through
town for no apparent purpose.
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 01:20:23; asciilifeform: from sneeze meds
that are less meth-worthy
to floor cleaners lacking acids
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 01:05:59; *: asciilifeform once heard allegation
that virtually all major product names, esp. in usa, are purchased from one particular firm specializing in names...
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 01:00:40; asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: dulap ~still~
trailing by 35 blx
phf: how else would you ensure
that linus is not mean
to anybody?
phf: what isn't. at some point freedos was legit in a poc||gtfo kind of way, i.e. "we did it for
the lulz", but now it's positioned as
the only legitimate way
to run dos programs.
that you of course purchased from GoG.
gernika: it starts - but
the screen is filled with garbage
gernika: Tried derive.exe on freedos
too - doesn't work either.
phf spent more
time with duke nukem
gernika: asciilifeform aha. so
that's why comander keen doesn't even work.
gernika: boots up
to C:\.
Then
they just have
to
type in
the name of
the game
they want
to play and hit enter.
☟︎ phf: at some point you had SAIL and Augment basically design by men for men, lisp machines, xerox park as products of
that. later you get
two bit hacks selling imperfect copies of
the glimpsed
technology,
thats your 80s and 90s. at
this point
there's already "no grasp", but
the control is limited, basically a byproduct of commercialism. now you get
the next stage, which is when
the bureaucrats are getting involved
phf: yes nobody will be able
to build freewindows10
phf: that's obvious with hindsight, but imaginary in
the same sense
that лихие 90ые were imaginary, or really any other "interesting
times"
phf: i know
that my computing rug is slowly being swept from under me
phf: i don't know how much of
this concern is driving cause vs. purposes, i.e. real limitations experiences by you vs. building civilization from first principles anathema millenials style.