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ascii_field: very few folks have
the good fortune of a proper apprenticeship
mircea_popescu: jurov your "older dudes" are simply idiots. what he meant was "people who know
this"
trinque: this is not
to say
that college cannot provide
the experience, but
that
the shitty one I was paid
to attend did not
jurov: yes,
the diffrence is my older dudes were asking me something
they *did not* ever do
themselves.
trinque: mircea_popescu: exactly right
though; when college didn't provide
that experience for me, I left it and went
to work for
the entrepreneurs I knew, learned
there
jurov had
to explain and provide sample
that it's not really possible
jurov was asked
to extract relevant code from libxpm so
that
they can have color icons without dynamically linking it
trinque: it didn't select
the
text
that
time, but plonked me on
the paragraph
assbot: Patriarchy is a
thing because nobody likes living in a world populated by little girls on
Trilema - A blog by Mircea Popescu. ... (
http://bit.ly/1ASqBPD )
trinque: "my god...
two lines.... crossed!"
jurov: lmao. it involved building
the X, literally
trinque: just labor's
too expensive
trinque: I
tend
to
think
there's a lot more learned helplessness out
there
than actual uselessness.
trinque: in
the case where
the older dude has made something of himself already, he knows
tasks
the novice won't ever
think of doing himself, novice comes away having found out he can build an X
jurov: maybe it was not
the right older dude
jurov: worst
times in mine
trinque: best
times in my career have been when some older guy said "make X, and do it precisely
this way"
mircea_popescu: "finding one's way" and whatnot. all
the way
through
the 90s
mircea_popescu: ascii_field i'd say "wow, check out
the weird divide between eastern europe and
the us", but it's not it.
tons upon
tons of livresque reference
to
this exact
thing, in english
too.
trinque: sure, make candles of 'em; but if we're going into long-term biodiesel production human stock's not nearly
the best choice
ascii_field: while
the biodiesel still has arms and legs, it does not want
to go
to
the reactor pot.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: but,
to quote
the standard ru prison
tattoo, 'dum spiro spero'
trinque: on
the one hand
this is "what's
to be done with all
these walmart morons" and
the other is "what's
to be done with healthy humans"
ascii_field: why
the fuck are you
telling yourself
to do
things you're clearly no good for ? << who wants
to be biodiesel ?
☟︎ ascii_field: from student's point of view -
to get himself credentialled/blessed for something closest
to wtf he feels like doing
mircea_popescu: trinque well entirely different consideration,
this. i was looking at it from
the subjective perspective. nevermind what
the world
tells you
to do. why
the fuck are you
telling yourself
to do
things you're clearly no good for ? it's as if at
the orchestra auditions everyone wanted
to play
the instruments
they sucked at.
trinque: mircea_popescu: point of my statement was
that if
the person's put
to what
they're actually best suited for,
their opinion if it matters at all isn't worth hearing until
they've felt what it's like
mircea_popescu: ascii_field for as long as i can remember,
the entire point, of school, and of intellectual activity of young people, was
to find wtf
they're good for.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
the part about 'that was pretty much
the only point of interest'
mircea_popescu: ascii_field which part ?
trinque sure, yes. so
then, depends who you ask ?
trinque: even if it's just some physical, menial
task
mircea_popescu: contrary
to what
the guy claims,
the bugs he found appear
to be in
the power rangers "consensus" library, not in conformals'.
trinque: anyone remotely useful
tends
to actually enjoy
the structure of being given a worthwhile
task
mircea_popescu: "TLDR I ran afl-fuzz against libbitcoinconsensus
to discover interesting Bitcoin scripts and used
them
to search for Bitcoin reimplementations vulnerable
to forking.
This discovered
two bugs in btcd by Conformal. See
the bitcoinconsensus_testcases repository for
the discovered Bitcoin scripts."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: ascii_field dude i must have missed some memos here. last i recall,
that was pretty much
the only point of interest. i blinked and now everyone seems
to be running around
trying
to pretend like
they can do
things
they most obviously can't.
trinque: ah I dunno, depends when you ask
them
ascii_field: i can't imagine
too many folks would be
the least bit interested in discovering what
they are 'best suited for'
mircea_popescu: "why do you
think you're an olympic athlete ?" "~~~BECAUSE~~~ I'm a quadriplegic. If I weren't, I wouldn't give a shit about
the olympics, like everyone else."
mircea_popescu: nobody goes "you know what ? maybe
this shit's really supposed
to be done by someone who, unlike me, is not actually an imbecile."
mircea_popescu: guy in
the oval office'd be best suited
to carry heavy loads. stuff like
that.
mircea_popescu: just because some
twerp is in
the doctor's room at
the hospital doth not mean he's a doctor.
mircea_popescu: it works like so :
the
things people do shed no light on
the
things people can do. not anymore, at any rate.
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the Principality For
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mircea_popescu: trinque i imagine
ti must be useful when you're
trying
to exploit overflows.
trinque: no need for
two, it's not as
though it uses
that distinction for any benefit
trinque: undefined in js means
the property or varname hasn't been given a value, whereas null is a value meaning... no value
ascii_field: js is one of
the great crimes of
the '90s 'digerati'
mircea_popescu: (obv null and undefined each get
their own special equalities)
trinque: of course you've got null
too
mircea_popescu: nevertheless,
the dumbass page jumping when click behavuoyur has been fixed
trinque: unless newhash = undefined is meaningful
to it
mircea_popescu: trinque well,
took a while
to figure out wtf actually needs
testing in
those
two pages of blerg
trinque: mircea_popescu: you can just use shitty javascript
truthiness for
that
trinque: DA
TOUCHSCREEN UBUNTU KOMRADE, PRIDE OF SOVIET UNION
ascii_field: poor schmucks are almost certainly running 'systemd' from
the looks of
that demo screen
ascii_field: ^ contains some
tidbits not found elsewhere
ascii_field: jurov: as far as i can
tell, not so much embargo as 'not enough
to go around, so members-only'
jurov: sooo, russia and china put export embargo
to
their crown jewels.
ascii_field remembers
the astonishing - even for
that era - hype around 'transmeta'
jurov: "x86 sparc" ofc
this was
tried. cue "transmeta crusoe"
ascii_field: <mircea_popescu> bitcoin is
the gold standard for everything else.
that's actually what
the word bitcoin means <<
then very clearly we don't have bitcoin yet
mircea_popescu: and not even a female child at
that. katrina did way better
than you.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field
the only reason you're not walking
through walls is also,
that you're pushing with
the strength of a child.
mircea_popescu: bitcoin is
the gold standard for everything else.
that's actually what
the word bitcoin means.
mircea_popescu: you don't want
the hard sort of
thing you're
thinking about. you just want an impredictable sort of
tandem.
ascii_field: to
take extant bitcoind as gold standard for anything whatsoever - is lunacy
mircea_popescu: clearly
the largest use of
tandem computing in
the history of humanity, by any measure, by a very fat margin.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu:
tandeming without a single point of failure - 'trusted' vote counter, etc. -- requires something like 'millionaire protocol' and purpose-designed iron.
thestringpuller: williamdunne: seems like d00d
thinks GPG is a
toy or marketing ploy.
mod6: <+mircea_popescu> i don't get why
they'd make a x86 sparc. <<
this is scary. i'd
think you'd lose all ops/clock-cycle optimizations doing some
translation between
the
two right?
ascii_field: machine
that is -intended- for
tandem operation in single yoke with identical units made by foreign skeptics operating from docs - must be purpose-designed.
mircea_popescu: (this is not as lulzy as it sounds.
there MUST be a fractal pattern somewhere
that also makes a machine)
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 17:41:50; ascii_field: from standpoint of boobytraps, an example of 'worth writing home about' would be a machine 1) with pedantically open spec,
to
transistor level 2) with provisions for
tandemming with implementations of same by other, foreign makers
mircea_popescu: independence is built EXACTLY out of having access
to all
the flavours of idiocy
assbot: Logged on 11-05-2015 17:41:02; ascii_field: at any rate,
the reason
to hold off creaming your pants on
this occasion, is
that 1) it's yet another von neumann
turd 2) enjoy
trading usg boobytraps for ru variant
ascii_field: they did it for same reason dec included x86
translator with alpha