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mircea_popescu: l approach for one hobbist in finland to lift into his own head the gnarl of 386.
mircea_popescu: considering also "Simply, I'd say that porting is impossible. As already mentioned, it uses a MMU, for both paging (not to disk yet) and segmentation. It's the segmentation that makes it REALLY 386 dependent (every task has a 64Mb segment for code & data - max 64 tasks in 4Gb. Anybody who needs more than 64Mb/task - tough cookies)." i'd say it actually broadly lives up to the original design -- linux is a fine non-professiona
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html << early history of linux is probably important since we're doing so many start-of-world things. note how it was never intended to be an os, it was intended to be a "a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones" in order to... "it was a project to teach me about the 386".
mircea_popescu: anyway, the fact that none of the early bloggers were actually literate minds shows. to give up the power of literature for the lure of "oral history" ? madness.
mircea_popescu: jesus christ why is peterme.com orange ;/ and what the fuck is this, one self-promotion item from jan 2017, another pushing a book from august 2016 and a third from april ? jesus christ these people lack any insides already.
mircea_popescu: (guy, notably, is the ~only ustard "literary critic" to have actually read joyce's manuscripts. and you have to hear of this from me because the pantsuit is busy discussing the pseudoachievements of black chicks or w/e the fuck they do.)
mircea_popescu: or they despise themselves so much (as the direct and also necessary result of spending all their time involved with absolutely nothing else) that they automatically discount anything that happens to them by like 99.9999999%. because, as the wise timuruc once said, "if you were a millionaire you wouldn't be talking to me"
mircea_popescu: yeah, aerosmith's "permanent vacation". brain checked out.
mircea_popescu: if they all lived in palaces it'd be one thing, but i've seen the louse traps.
mircea_popescu: imagine the waitresses of today. loose hundred dollar bills and trips to costa rica are such a common everyday occurence in their lives, they don't even have to go chasing. let opportunity chase after the broad instead, is it postmodernism or innit?!?!?!
mircea_popescu: o yeah speaking of which, hey douchebag whatever happened to that tea chick ?
mircea_popescu: (since it's catholic easter, here's easter egg bonus lulz from romania : roti is how you say wheels.)
mircea_popescu: and in other indian news : rotimatic is a roti prata maker. it weighs 18kgs, has about 50 sensors and 500 motors.
mircea_popescu: phf kinda what that ended up with, "let's see how deep it can possibly get"
mircea_popescu: oh, i guess not. a111 dun read its own lines sometimes does it ?
mircea_popescu: "marci" totally watched too much that-lesbian-interest-flick-with-the-older-woman-and-shoes, w/e it was called.
mircea_popescu: for a full-time editorial position in any capacity under Jane Pratt, with or without someone else's name crossed off next to mine, felt like an honor."
mircea_popescu: "Four years ago this month, I found out that Jane Pratt — the editor that had made me want to be an editor since I was 12 years old — had chosen me to be the beauty director of her new xoJane beauty spinoff, xoVain. OK, so I was actually her second choice — her first had fallen through — but that was OK. I had previously not even pitched to xoJane because I was so intimidated and sure I'd be rejected, so getting hired
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (for the young reader : xojane was some bullshit wanna-be "platform" for imaginary "cimmunities" that got bought by the suckers (time warner) in 2015 and frozen in 2016. because myspace wasn';t enough or something. and huffington post, well, need i even point out, it was exactly the same thing, ran by a nigger somewhat more dextrous still. adriana made out ok from the swindle.)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah, i'm not objecting to the thing itself, just mostly thinking out loud.
mircea_popescu: in vaguely related news, " <p>Personally, I love personal blogs. I’m a sucker for HuffingtonPost, xoJane, and all those other sites with tons of juicy and interesting content.</p>" sez idiot giving advice on how to be blogful ; his page has js-disabled copy-pasting. which evidently works.
mircea_popescu: nevermind the "my lawyer advised me not to comment on the pending case" ; rather instead "sorry your honor, that won't look good on my blog"
mircea_popescu: whereas i find VEHEHERY objectionable the usual "oh, what kangaroo court said is what i ~really~ am, that defines me". and so following.
mircea_popescu: "maybe i don't have much to say ; and maybe what i have to say isn't even that interesting ; but at least i give it my best shot, and i am aware there's nothing else that's me."
mircea_popescu: seems to me a modicum of self respect is nevertheless an absolute requisite for even showing face in a public forum.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so how does this check out ? he had no copies of the old one or what.
mircea_popescu: (anyway, remind me of the ocarine dood once i signal i'm done reading mazepath. which may take the year or something)
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "first blog" is autodisqualified. what's this, like "hot girl's first body" ? what are we, snakes ?
mircea_popescu: all fine and good, except the penultimate article is "Happy (belated) 2018! Posted by Kevin on January 6, 2018 So, I kind of missed my annual/placeholder Happy New Year post this time around…"
mircea_popescu: but, of course, "you can find anything on the internet -- if you put it there yourself."
mircea_popescu: i would really like a list of "all personal blogs older than a decade" right about now.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: did the whole thing become uninteresting, tritely self-referrential ?
mircea_popescu: also 2018 is the year trilema actually took over my leisure reading needs. by now it's so old i've forgotten a large enough proportion of it the odds of hitting an interesting article loading my own blog actually exceed the odds of hitting something interesting by picking up a torrent, or opening the internets.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yer site's 502 for the past half hour or so.
mircea_popescu: ah check it out, trilema has the header with the head errant today.
mircea_popescu: phf see, it never stops. it's not something one can turn off at will, sadly.\
mircea_popescu: yeah but i suspect that's a large part of why it went nowhere.
mircea_popescu: phf i don't get it, why would we adapt the way we do things to what'd be convenient for the machines ?
mircea_popescu: except first is practical nonsense, and second presumes thingd about directories, which is untenable.
mircea_popescu: it does, yes. the old french word for it is agincourt.
mircea_popescu: the original "many keys" solution to that proved untenable.
mircea_popescu: rather, there's a shared understanding that's applied by degrees. because the sty is so dirty you have to peel layers off, as the only possible approach.
mircea_popescu: can you turn around and say, "fg tree shows people didn't at the time understand v isn't married to the underlying format" or something ?
mircea_popescu: for that matter, pre-solution to binary issue, even fg tree was sad.
mircea_popescu: otherwise, all v versions of anything were in fact rewrites.
mircea_popescu: in fact, the only legacy pantsuit item almost-v-ified would be wp, and that's STILL not done in spite of being two degrees of magnitude simpler, because of all sorts of "holy shit, svg"
mircea_popescu: or possibly everyone regarded trb as a messy pile which isn't properly v-ified even today. like mpi, or like gentoo
mircea_popescu: there's no dispute that understanding of v has evolved ; but i don't happen to see the uncertainity.
mircea_popescu: with this mechanism no actual changes to v need to be made, it's a "soft fork" as it were.
mircea_popescu: ly not modify previous lines, but this is to be enforced by public arbiter, ie, sometimes it will make sense to.
mircea_popescu: anyway, the seemingly correct solution is for convention to be changed, so that 1. genesis author creates a comments.txt file or else it's not a proper genesis ; 2. all subsequent patches MUST include an edit to the comments.txt file of the codebase they are pressed upon, which 3. must consist of adding one line at the end consisting of whatever text the patch author deems useful to add and may not be null and 4. should ideal
mircea_popescu: but in the general approach to the problem, 1. all specification will sort items into "always" "sometimes : as per conditions" "never" and categories ; and 2. all refinement of specification will move items, but ONLY from the left to the right and not the other way around.
mircea_popescu: ie, "your patch must do two things to count : build off a valid tree state ; and explain itself in plaintext in the comments file for the project"
mircea_popescu: trinque seems the logical place this is going is "make comments file addition mandatory for each patch"
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform note that this hash is not opposable to anything. you can hash the system time for all the difference it makes.
mircea_popescu: i expanded on that to allow comments in the manifest, in the spirit of literate (
mircea_popescu: the trinque original (which im too lazy to dig out atm) was "concatenate your whole codebase, hash it, add the resut on a new line of manifest.txt" pretty much.
mircea_popescu: exactly how she ended up chained to a tree in the swamp, also.
mircea_popescu: and none of the three is the "wrong" answer ; just, they lead down different paths and gotta pick something to talk about.
mircea_popescu: i have no issue with it, can be added now without any serious loss. the only thing not clear to me is whether you don't want to add it, can't add it yet or haven't gotten around to adding it yet.