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assbot: Logged on 14-01-2016 02:39:41; mircea_popescu: isn'
t that "you're not an alley cat until..." ?
ben_vulpes: unkempt-i-haven'
t-had-time-to-sleep-much-less-shave-and-no-my-farcial-hair-doesn'
t-have-complete-coverage-yet-thank-you-very-much
mircea_popescu: " According to his analysis, even a judge's decision that there is probable cause tosuspect a crime has been committed won'
t" << oh no, what ever more fearsome thing than when the fiction begins to fray.
thestringpuller: asciilifeform: buy one of those robots with camera and lcd ? << we have one of those in our office that rolls around and shit. it's actually not bad, although don'
t see why a conference call can'
t suffice...
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> in general people should be able to make their own decision based on keys, rather than pile up on you to review neh ? << i don'
t see a problem with doing it this way.
mod6: <+BingoBoingo> The coolest latest stuff seems to have not sync'd << because the two latest ones haven'
t been read or tested by me yet.
pete_dushenski: this is, recall, the guy who shows up to coffee dates sometimes ~hours~ early, just so he isn'
t late.
mircea_popescu: it's the equivalent of a bug going "oh hey, there's some food here. how come ? i didn'
t put it there ? well... i guess i'll just have some,w hat's the worst that can happen".
mircea_popescu: so hanbot is working out. she's on one of those balls. i go "hey... silbert picks up coinbase in all-paper acquihire". she starts laughing. she can'
t stop laughing. eventually she lets out "that entire work-out... just warm-up for this laugh."
thestringpuller: you can always choose C. the world isn'
t necessarily always binary.
assbot: Logged on 18-12-2015 22:48:39; BingoBoingo: ;;later tell adlai too late. If you want a beat you can'
t just mention diff increase in chan without dropping an encrypted dpaste full of qntra submission.
copypaste: I'm not saying they were illegal, was just demonstrating that IRC isn'
t just for trolling
adlai apparently can'
t, oh well
copypaste: hahaha, no. I don'
t drink that crap.
mats: i didn'
t expect my client to do that.
mircea_popescu: well, they're 10 cents a pop since teh torrents, seeing how they weren'
t made by dosney.
ascii_butugychag: (note that the proofs don'
t need to be about a commonlisp program per se, but anything that can be expressed as one)
mircea_popescu: obviously, not altogether for the reasons the idiots who are incapable to love anything like to pretend those who could love don'
t.
mircea_popescu:
t with aqueous NH4HF2. Engineering diddles things: computers, excimer lasers, and business lunches. It was a Pink solution."
mircea_popescu: "The next first job was creating ophthalmic implants. How is a 5 micron diameter hole drilled through 500 microns of implantable Plexiglas contact lens? It isn'
t. Nothing can drill such a 100:1 aspect ratio hole. Uncle Al put about 500 7 micron diameter holes through a foot-long Plexiglas rod, the long way, and said "dice it." Holes are a stuff problem, science: vacuum cast glass wool in plastic, dice, then dissolve ou
mircea_popescu: this isn'
t really real-time. this is "alligned apperture time".
mircea_popescu: "Orthogonal reactivity" to folks in lab coats, "idiot idea" to idiots in suits.) It was his first Personnel file Pink sheet! He wasn'
t supposed to succeed."
mircea_popescu: "Uncle Al's next first job, four years later, was industrial. Uncle Al was to isolate kerogen (the "not anything like oil") in Colorado oil shale (a calcareous marlstone, not shale). Low rank coal organics are like cured epoxy. They ain'
t comin' out. The literature was rife with researchers who tortured oil shale then sang like vultures about presumed stuff extracted. Uncle Al dissolved the rock to leave the kerogen. (
thestringpuller: asciilifeform off to spend every waking hour away from anything he cares about to make things he wouldn'
t use on a broken platform... << i'm going to use this to define "uranium mines" to people
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform incidentally, that wasn'
t even the outskirts. kinda midtown, the park is two blocks down from chacarrita, the cemetery. she lived nearby. i have a place a good 6 miles further north, right on the province border. the town extends past that, arguably.
mircea_popescu: so you're spending your youth, or at least every waking hour away from your child and his mother, to do things you wouldn'
t use on a platform you hate ?
BingoBoingo searching for an ulbricht appeal pdf that isn'
t locked into scribd
pete_dushenski: can'
t say i've ever had to reformat a usb drive for that...
pete_dushenski: apparently usb drives still come formatted in 'fat' which doesn'
t seem to like files >12gb, apparently.
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 01:07:28; mircea_popescu: and nobody seems to rub the lispers' face in this, either. what, there's some sort of chivalrous convention i don'
t know about going on ?
assbot: Logged on 13-01-2016 00:57:41; mircea_popescu: that wasn'
t opengl
gabriel_laddel: As for why a lisper didn'
t write his own OS from ASM? Well, you've read Stan's blog.
gabriel_laddel: Some 'lisper' who 'gets it' will implement a 'lisp' on top of another system and declare that "for such and such political/business reasons, the system we're basing our lisp on won'
t change its foundations, and therefore we're safe to write code on top of it"
mircea_popescu: (note that i'm not discussing performance. i'm not going hey, why doesn'
t lisp-gl push out 2x the fps of directx in 2001. just, it should be abel to do it, at all.)
mircea_popescu: and nobody seems to rub the lispers' face in this, either. what, there's some sort of chivalrous convention i don'
t know about going on ?
☟︎ gabriel_laddel: phf: "because can still attach c program outputs" + "zen doesn'
t support most of the modern x11 extensions, that you might want for running something like firefox". We have CLIM irc, a listener (repl), an editor, dired + other. I don'
t particularly want to run c programs. You'd just end up reinventing CLIM anyways after you notice that "gee, it would be nice to have draggable crossbars in my GUI and geometry".
mats: and then he disappeared forever (I didn'
t render any payment, though)
phf: i know you do clim, but running clim through zen is essentially simultaneously trying to debug two 70% speed/coverage projects. even simple handwritten xlib proggies don'
t work out of the box.
phf: also zen doesn'
t support most of the modern x11 extensions, that you might want for running something like firefox. in fact last time i checked it didn'
t support xrander, which is an old image composition extension that might as well be standard
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 22:59:46; jurov: also, i can'
t imagine taking notes on math analysis lectures using "plaintext" only
mircea_popescu: and don'
t tell me "oh i can not keep maps in head o noes"
mircea_popescu: you don'
t have to run the graphical client! for all it cares you can talk to it by hand.
mircea_popescu: nothing, as long as you don'
t expect me to run the program
mircea_popescu: not even. it's just that i'm so allergic to "dynamically linked" bullshit that i barf at the very notion of a computing system that might need "expansions" because people don'
t want ot learn to read and write
ascii_butugychag: with the difference that i don'
t have to catch stroustrup and hang him upside-down and soldering iron to get new mathematical notation when i need it...
mircea_popescu: "kinda most of the stuff except what we don'
t understand"
trinque: can'
t write matrix multiplication in lisp eh?
trinque: if it is up to you entirely to invent the notation, I don'
t know why one would go to one with non-obvious evaluation order and all manner of other problems I thought lisp solved
jurov: also, i can'
t imagine taking notes on math analysis lectures using "plaintext" only
☟︎ assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 20:57:40; trinque: mircea_popescu │
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1367833 << i can'
t discern which side you're taking. << the side with mostly (if not *entirely*) plain english, and even better, represented as an explicit tree with s-expressions. that one can parse the hieroglyphs when he's habituated to them... fine, but I thought we were after "fits in head" here. how much skull-space does that
BingoBoingo: Wasn'
t it clear? he's ~user1675@212.158.180.119
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 05:28:22; trinque: why create syntactic barriers to understanding when you can just kill the folks you don'
t want in your math club, anyway
trinque: mircea_popescu │
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1367833 << i can'
t discern which side you're taking. << the side with mostly (if not *entirely*) plain english, and even better, represented as an explicit tree with s-expressions. that one can parse the hieroglyphs when he's habituated to them... fine, but I thought we were after "fits in head" here. how much skull-space does that
☝︎☟︎ PeterL: what traffic, aren'
t we killing off 90% of population?
mircea_popescu: traffic isn'
t so big a problem - easeir to make autoflown heli than car.
punkman: can'
t fit many girls in two seater
PeterL: <mircea_popescu> houses don'
t need a fucking pool
punkman: "a flurry of various machine making machines." "houses don'
t need a fucking pool, they need a runway." << I love futuristic-mp
ascii_butugychag: the megastate didn'
t end up with air superiority because of the gods' whim, though
BingoBoingo: NO gavin, you still can'
t see your penis without a mirror!
mircea_popescu: (fwiw, /me doesn'
t even recognise such distinction can be had)
mircea_popescu: "Any lecturer who serves his time will probably graduate hundreds, if not thousands of students. Mostly they merge into a blur; like those paintings of crowd scenes where the leading faces are clearly picked out and the rest just have iconic representations. This anonymity can be embarrassing when some past student hails you by name and you really haven'
t got the foggiest idea of who he or she is. It's both nice to
mircea_popescu: no you don'
t udnerstand because the specification is the code.
mircea_popescu: Not only does it lack coverage, but the deep structure wasn'
t thought out well
mircea_popescu: next guy that comes along and needs a socket interface can'
t use this one.
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately, his quickly-built socket interface isn'
t general. It just
adlai doesn'
t actually care much for regex
mircea_popescu: anyway. this bullshit won'
t be either mined or relayed by trb.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:16:36; adlai: there's no a-priori reason why fork proponents can'
t stake their reputation on pgp-signed contracts to buy up their alt after it's launch... reminscent of the $20 XPY floor
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo there's no end of these "bitcoin experts" who have weekly opinions and who are to be taken seriously provided you don'
t examine anything past last week.