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diana_coman: trinque, I'll add it
to
the list; what should I pack and send exactly, once it's done?
a111: Logged on 2014-10-10 00:58 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: 10k line/250kb limit. if you overrun it you get shot << chuck moore (of 'forth' fame) seems kinda in favour of
this. as am i. a kind of 'environmentalism' i've been advocating for many years (intellectual pollution doesn't blacken mere lungs. it makes everybody - stupider. measurably.)
a111: Logged on 2016-06-10 21:34 asciilifeform: imagine if programmers actually had
to answer for
their pollutants.
a111: Logged on 2015-09-02 22:09 mircea_popescu:
there is clearly a problem here. ideal objects (such as software) are not comensurate with physical objects.
this attempt
to "engineer programs like screws" was a reasonable first hack at
the novel an dunexpected problem,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's
the perfect
tool for ONE job, as my recent header illustrates.
mircea_popescu: "i can't do any ffa work because i'm working on a manner in which
to do it
that wouldn't produce
the idle inquiry of loc 6 months in"
mircea_popescu: this "structured data" argument is good enough in
the general, but consider what it'd have cost you
to actually have all
that pre-structured, rather
than bash-prototype
a111: Logged on 2019-01-29 17:34 asciilifeform: comments ( grep -P '^\s*--' )
turn out
to be 1835 ln in libffa and 390 in ffacalc.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-04 22:13 mircea_popescu: much unlike naggum's mythical perl, doods sit around doing nothing all day with
their reward circuitry so blownout,
they literally fail
to understand
that no, "your message was
too long" is an inacceptable reaction
to
the situation where "my phone is uselessly broken"
mircea_popescu: inwashes people, destroying
their value systems and
their
trust in
their own understanding and appreciation of
the world
they live in, but if you're very good at it, you can create a new world for
them in which all of
this makes sense.
mircea_popescu: "a person's behavior is shaped by
the rewards and
the punishment he has received while not
thinking about his own actions. few people habitually engage in
the introspection necessary
to break out of
this "social programming" or decide
to ignore
the signals
that other people send
them, so
this is a powerful mechanism for programming
the unthinking masses. rewarding idiotic behavior and punishing smart behavior effectively bra
mircea_popescu: much unlike naggum's mythical perl, doods sit around doing nothing all day with
their reward circuitry so blownout,
they literally fail
to understand
that no, "your message was
too long" is an inacceptable reaction
to
the situation where "my phone is uselessly broken"
☟︎☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: this is remarkably fucking
true about, you've guessed it, ~social media~.
mircea_popescu: ing
the programmer with a very strong sense of control and accomplishment
that a perl programmer does _not_
try something else."
mircea_popescu: can be very hard:
the perl programmer is very good at solving his own problems and assure you
that he's on
the right
track -- he looks like any other programmer who is stuck, and
this happens
to all of us, but
the perl programmer is very different in one crucial capacity:
the
tool is causing
the problems, and unlike other programmers who discover
the cause of
the problem sooner or later and
try something else, perl is reward
mircea_popescu: equiring more perl --
the perl programmer who veers off
the road into
the forest will get out of his car and cut down each and every
tree
that blocks his progress,
then drive a few meters and repeat
the whole process. whether he gets where he wanted
to go or not is immaterial -- a perl programmer will happily keep moving forward and look busy. getting a perl programmer back on
the road is a managerial responsibility, and it
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "most people, when faced with a problem, will not investigate
the cause of
the problem, but will instead want
to solve it because
the problem is actually in
the way of something more important
than figuring out why something suddenly got in
their way out of nowhere. if you are a programmer, you may reach for perl at
this point, and perl can remove your problem. happy, you go on, but find another problem blocking your way, r
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2019-02-04 16:59 mircea_popescu: im sure eg spyked would love ot give it a gander -- maybe he
thereby learns asm and becomes as smart as ave1 for one, and maybe it helps his adalisp for
the other.
spyked:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-04#1892309 <-- funfact: /me reads plenty of asm on his saecular assignments, mostly
to maintain & debug shit software stacks
that crash in weird ways. haven't written any asm in a while
tho, and dos asm especially has been a challenge last
time I looked at it
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2019-02-04 16:49 mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-04#1892247 << see how comms
trip you up ? had you ~said~
this much i'd have said very different
things, because i entirely don't see
the problem with a cl blogotron.
spyked:
http://btcbase.org/log/2019-02-04#1892287 <-- yes pl0x, it would be much help. my biggest issue atm is having
to do manual greps after <link rel="pingback" href="..." />, haven't been able yet
to get something reliable
that doesn't require parsing html
☝︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but what if
there's some secret sauce in
there!
hanbot: inb4
this becomes
the "whisperers"
thread all over again
mircea_popescu: well, let's put it
this way : no later
than at
the chestnut
tree cafe i shall.
mircea_popescu: and so on. wtf, i can't dedicate my life
to documenting my past life because
then who's gonna produce
the future.
mircea_popescu: and
then when he gets
to romanian he's gonna want fain backups, and conceivably, wtf was
http://btcbase.org/log-search?q=%22dtng%22 and also,
that one
time when i sat down
to read my collection of pif, what was in
those large year-bound
things, and could i perhaps dig up
the "casino" roulette
thing i made by hand
to get all
the other kids's
turbo chewing gum "surprise" dollars, dms an'
turk lyrasi
mircea_popescu: "You will lose
the right
to bear arms, not because
they hate you, but because you aren't worth it, and you will lose
the right
to speak freely, not because
they're affraid of it, but because you wouldn't know what
to do with it if you had it. "
mircea_popescu: i must say, it's pretty weird
to read 13year old stuff and not find something
to object
to.
mircea_popescu: btw, how's global warming been faring with
the mini freeze
they got last week ?
mircea_popescu: i guess ima put
this in
the report, "lost cto
to binge reading ancient html site"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not like
the femstate's bankruptcy were discovered last
tuesday.
hanbot: kk. scheduled for
tomorrow evening.
a111: Logged on 2019-02-03 17:20 mircea_popescu: hanbot pick a laptop, bake
the man's cuntoo. (principal issue,
that gentoo->cuntoo "bridge", see if his sig matches).
a111: Logged on 2019-02-03 17:24 diana_coman:
trinque, it's possibly best
to run your latest script and
then hand over everything you need, fresh and clear? not a big issue otherwise
to rummage and pack
that dir but I don't even recall if I did not
touch it further after
that point when I sent
the genesis patch so I'd rather not introduce artefacts
mircea_popescu: there's
this place we visited
then,
that can not be found now anymore.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it grew
to at some point include a forum also, and i put a buncha cr pics from first
trip
there, which was
teh ~only reason i considered over
the years digging up archives, but was
too lazy.
hanbot: spyked: (snip) <-- for some reason, I
took zenofeller
to be a proto-trilema. I archived some of
the posts, I
think some of
them can still be dug via archive.org << oh sweet, i'ma happily wade knee-deep in
these again awhile.