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asciilifeform: gabriel_laddel, for instance, probably believes that he has 'hardware that works.' just as i did, in 2008
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: because you haven't hardware that works.
gabriel_laddel is working on it, but money, time, lazy etc.
ben_vulpes: why can't i have software that works.
gabriel_laddel: I'm just leaving this in the logs on the off chance someone decides to play around with it.
gabriel_laddel: ftr, when using manardb you'll have to force it to init on reboot by creating a junk mmap'ed class.
gabriel_laddel: OSICAT is a unix bindings library, download/build that program, it'll CFFI some stuff and kosher.
ben_vulpes: watch this be an os x problem
decimation: http://www.slideshare.net/curryon/bjarne-stroustrupwhatifanythinghavewelearnedfromc < his talk does show the marks of one bruised by reality
ben_vulpes: Symbol "MREMAP" not found in the OSICAT-POSIX package.
ben_vulpes: no sir it does not appear to
gabriel_laddel: does manardb not work out of the box?
gabriel_laddel: ben_vulpes: wtf why are you grepping for that.
trinque: he doesn't hate the world enough to say it should change
asciilifeform: he takes the hardware as a given
decimation: stroustrop appears to 'hate' garbage collection because (correctly) hardware fucks him
ben_vulpes: this is why i don't talk to programmers i don't know about programming.
gabriel_laddel: me: "lisp makes meta-programming trivial" him: "if it did they'd rule the world already, and therefore I don't have to consider your argument"
decimation: the most amusing bit to me was his little diatribe against garbage collectors
trinque: gabriel_laddel: did you punch him in the dick?
asciilifeform: naggum had a thing re: 'job-creating systems'
gabriel_laddel: trinque: I met the guy who wrote that. Ugh.
decimation: actually I did go through the slides on that stroustrup talk
trinque: asciilifeform: obligatory reference to fake stroustrup interview
decimation: asciilifeform: my experience is that much of this kind of thing is only learned by 'tried, fucked me'
asciilifeform: which is to say, in this case, whether he has already had the flash of realization that the shit he is working with sucks because of 'anthropic principle' - that is, if it weren't a crock of shit, he would not have his job...
ben_vulpes has maybe touched the penile bit
asciilifeform: i can usually tell from talking to a fella who programs - for three minutes - whether he's 'seen the elephant'
trinque: "JS and JSON, therefore ..." << is the process of "design" that shat all this
ben_vulpes: some engineer somewhere in some corp decides to play with it for a week, people who wrote dumbthing get email of concern from said engineer, decide to advertise as "running bigcorp"
decimation: from my own meatwot, the 'benefit' to mongo is that it can scale, because it 'runs twitter' or some shit
ben_vulpes: client blew their budget on ie8 css compatibility in a half-assed single page js app
ben_vulpes: was at one time
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: lemme guess, you're stuck maintaining one of those things ?
asciilifeform: and it is also an interesting case study: what kinds of brokenness produce these waves of 'kids who tried their best' (tm)
ben_vulpes: that's triggering decimation
trinque: not that sql's great, but every "db" in that whole wave of shit can be forgotten
decimation: ben_vulpes: http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2015/07/19/why-you-should-never-ever-ever-use-mongodb/ < some mongodb hate, made me think of you
gabriel_laddel: manardb does everything but that...
gabriel_laddel: trinque: does elephant allow you to redefine classes without restarting?
asciilifeform: on the real machine, you could actually execute the examples in the docs browser.
trinque: so now I'm going to grow to like this, and then I'm going to be stuck later wondering why something I've done is slow
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: http://www.loper-os.org/pub/smbxman.jpg << all but the blue (interlisp, xerox) and orange ('chinanual', for the original mit lisp mach)
trinque: I've done horrible things working with trees in SQL
trinque: I get a tree, in a database!
asciilifeform: gave me his 'alpha', too
asciilifeform: was given to me, for phree, even
asciilifeform: it takes up most of a shelf
asciilifeform: i have the paper
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: they were, iirc, the first hyperlinked manual (one was expected to read them on the machine - but it came with a paper set!)
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i may yet end up with a set because of this reason.
ben_vulpes: such as i have not seen in my career to date.
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: the symbolics books are a marvel of writing.
ben_vulpes: trinque: go, read. a marvel of technical writing.
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: only need one - for the woman
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: re statice, what parts wouldn't make sense? the thing is explained in painstaking detail.
asciilifeform: gives you a pass, and one for the woman
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: statice may or may not make sense without access to the live animal
assbot: Logged on 20-07-2015 01:01:54; ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: attended another costco today
asciilifeform: http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=20-07-2015#1207034 << ben_vulpes is a recent convert to 'costco' ? ☝︎
ben_vulpes: trinque: have you started reading the statice manual?
trinque: I have an inkling of being able to do the same thing in lisp, but you know, grew up in the congo, working on it
trinque: asciilifeform: reasoning with sets and their relationships is why I use the db heavily in work
PeterL: The river running through my town has a "don't eat the fish" rule because of some toxic spill upstream from 20 years ago
BingoBoingo: <decimation> it's actually almost impossible to tell exactly what kind of fish you are eating in the us << Catching own fish is possible
asciilifeform: and folks come to think that it excuses them from knowing jack shit about data structures and choosing right one for a job
asciilifeform: it is a malignancy - in every way, from forcing me to touch and think about turdlangs, to being chock-full of opaque mechanisms and slow as fuck at its fastest
trinque: runs directly contarary to your idea of knowing the cost of an operation
asciilifeform fucking loathes db and everything connected with the notion
asciilifeform: author was trying to keep dbisms to a minimum.
trinque: I'll admit I got a bit uncomfortable seeing a keyvalue table
asciilifeform: that is, an attempt to simulate 'proper computer' in this specific way.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: background for thread: 'elephant' is this thing that tries to magick away the fact that db exists, by allowing you to mark an arbitrary lisp data structure as 'persistent' and churning it to db behind the scenes
mircea_popescu: using packages starting with the letter "e" ?
mircea_popescu: if not that, what is he expecting
asciilifeform: trinque: so long as you were not expecting to transplant patterns of lisp to db use - you will be reasonably happy with 'elephant'
mircea_popescu: and to round off that joke, i guess : http://41.media.tumblr.com/b9ef786cc8939eb428859b4018f9eade/tumblr_n1q1hy0e411syt00ao1_1280.jpg
trinque: this is an experiment to see whether I can transplant my standard patterns of db use to lisp
asciilifeform: but otherwise the thing worx.
asciilifeform: you may get more of 'this' than you expected.
trinque: yeah, I expect this
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes et al: must warn that abstractions don't actually work. that is, the underlying limitations of your db will 'leak out'.
trinque: ben_vulpes: took some very minimal notes, may share when I feel like I know what I'm doing
ben_vulpes: <trinque> asciilifeform: got elephant working with postgresql, wasn't too bad << share!
mircea_popescu: "see gavin, in theory we're millionaires.
mircea_popescu: "listen dear, the arab prince has a friend. would you..."
mircea_popescu: "well... uhh... i'd never... you know we're behind on the mortgage and that nsa check is late..."
mircea_popescu: old man schmuckssen calls over his wife. "honey, there's an arab prince at the door, wants to fuck you silly for a million bucks. what should i say to him ?"
mircea_popescu: "daddy, daddy, i heard these mean kids use two unknown words. theory and practice. do you know what is the difference ?"
ben_vulpes: http://cnsnews.com/blog/melanie-hunter/pregnant-wnba-star-asks-20k-month-spousal-support-her-wife << ahahaha child support hits the gays
mircea_popescu: after reading b-a log for the first time, little gavin schmuckssen went to his father
asciilifeform: (what i meant earlier was that tx only needs to get to the destination - miner. if it cannot get there cheaply and easily, it will get there expensively and painfully. but it will get there.)
mircea_popescu: did i ever recount the joke about practice and theory ?
PeterL: with my scheme, just set the max-size to 0 and it turns the mempool off
PeterL: yeah, but it makes sense to have -some- relay built into reference version
asciilifeform: mempool is by far the weakest link in the chain we have today
mircea_popescu: dude stop confusing can and will be. alf can pick up prostitutes in buenos aires, too.
mircea_popescu: just thought the guy may enjoy the notion ?D
asciilifeform: PeterL: more than one way to get tx from originator to miner
asciilifeform: it is more or less the obvious solution to 'how to keep a public tx pool'