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mircea_popescu: shinohai so apparently trump is aware neither button works wortha shit ?
mircea_popescu: well, i thought it was being proposed as a forward looking heuristic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform that many problems admit retrospective solutions is not at issue here ; the whole content of "i suspect the notion of "shouldn't even be having" is 100% pantsuit wank." is that "alien problems" are an artefact of the retelling of history (esp if with a purpose) rarther than of the making of history.
mircea_popescu: far be it from me to impugn fiction as the primary driver of engineering effort.
mircea_popescu: that's the major point here, that a categorical split ("oh, either problem or aproblem!") is based on no equivalent phenomenological split.
mircea_popescu: something was abolished, yes, but not THAT, and more important NOT LIKE THAT!
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform but now merge these factual observations, which are correct BUT SUPERFICIAL, with your own knowledge on and around the scheuristic point of "coffin liners".
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "if you're watching it-- it's fior you" means, also, "if you have this problem, it's not an alien problem", or otherwise put "a study of alien problems is necessarily useless ; other than to prepare one for a life spent trying to write for jezbel"
mircea_popescu: but the fact that such a planet could never exist is left unadressed -- the needs of fiction are fictive.
mircea_popescu: anyway -- an alien problem is a problem with a banal retrospective solution that doesn't exist. it works well for fiction, where one can say "and on planet x, people all walked with their nose in a clothespin, then our hero came in, told them to ditch the clothespins, AND THEREFORE WAS A HERO. AND IS!" ie, establishing shot.
mircea_popescu: check it out... somehow dc'd but the protected name still avail.
mircea_popescu: here it goes : "did you know, women, that before pantsuited hilarity clinton was invented, you had problems XYZ ? and that afterwards, these were resolved ?" "nope" "we'll... it's all recorded for all enternity-till-year-end on jezbel" "Where is this wonder ?" "oh, DO WE REALLY STILL HAVE TO ?!?! IN 2018 ?!?! WE'VE ALL MOVED PAST THAT!!!"
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so entrepreneurial witch doctor applies self to inventing problems he could actually solve, so as to flip "doesn't" into "does or doesn't".
mircea_popescu: witch doctor has gotten "99% of the way there" -- the only problem is the tail.
mircea_popescu: now consider the case of witch doctor. guy comes into office, outputs a string ; witch doctor responds with some activity and some instruction ; problem does not get better.
mircea_popescu: consider the case of a doctor. guy comes into office, outputs a string ; doctor responds with some activity and some instruction ; problem gets better or doesn't.
mircea_popescu: but the statement is that this is an in-universe, ie, fictive model. it dun work except as such.
mircea_popescu: well since you squeeze me, here it is : i suspect the notion of "shouldn't even be having" is 100% pantsuit wank.
mircea_popescu: phf he's the proverbial fox hunting dog that the fox ~doesn't even have to bat its tail~ for him to fork off.
mircea_popescu: consider the greater problem here asciilifeform : i give you a set of 1mn units of blockchain. you are to reconstruct their order.
mircea_popescu: you know, not a great graphs mind myself, but it seems to me our problem may admit better solutions eventually.
mircea_popescu: (not a great lisper myself, but it seems to me here he got caught in the "since i won't be implementing the posix and gnupg bs yet, im not going to put the thing dependent on tyhem at its right place either, because i wanna fuck myself over")
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform when building a tree, first load up the sig folder, then apply it as a mask on the patch folder, then proceed building with only the patches that passed.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform question is, on the practical score why not rule out unacceptable sigs first ; and more in the general... well...
mircea_popescu: poor esthlos, he was just looking for comments, not for insanity from bearded hell.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: don't tell me it came out as "blockchain never had 1mn blocks so why should we care"
mircea_popescu: ;; It's simple to determine which vpatches have parents;;; just scan linearly. Performance is O(n^2). << this hurt me painfully.
mircea_popescu: because yes, normally i have the above linked mask applied on the inanity the world produces.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform many things i use are deliberately set up so either it works or it fails. in thsi case "couldn't make text flow sanely - aborting".
mircea_popescu: what happens when two dudes with diff magicnumbers comment on the same bit of code ?
mircea_popescu: anyway, absent this logical rule, we'll do what, add "wordwrap(magicnumber" in the unloved v style manual ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at some point phf will implement a wordwrap ; which can be done for browser window.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: i don't get it, if your ;; is followed by 8kb of text this breaks something ?
mircea_popescu: also breaking my automation in the process, because THIS it didn't see before.
mircea_popescu: maybe your wrap(60) or whatevert it is makes text take up 40% of my screen and bs like that.
mircea_popescu: but hey, baby-did-its-first-travel folk think going from france to spain travel! similarily to how "i crossed state lines! went from upstate ny back to city THROUGH VERMONT!!!11)
mircea_popescu: ReadErr hey, asciilifeform learned romanian, BingoBoingo learned spanish, nothing bad happens.
mircea_popescu: ReadErr not to mention speaks multiple languages. "esl" is a thing even.
mircea_popescu: shit, there's no orc, there's no fu, i gotta ediut this
mircea_popescu: phf i thought it meant "toxoplasmosis is a kind of meeting of the minds also!" tbh.
mircea_popescu: little did we know that whatsoever you bring to the masses, the masses also bring themselves to.
mircea_popescu: phf i can't understand why this would be, after all ubuntu came about as an attempt to bring linux to the masses.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "whole day slashed and burned -- fucking with computor" ?
mircea_popescu: ag3nt_zer0 do it again, a) write down the specifics and b) don't wait a month.
mircea_popescu: this made sense to them -- and if it makes sense to you, the whole rest of that dumb shit probably also will.
mircea_popescu: TO SAND! mechanisms, out of the fucking hood, in the desert.
mircea_popescu: they had all sorts of (utterly nonsensical) "cars of the future", their features being that they were "warlike" (in a dysfunctional, anti-mechanicistic, looks-are-everything-and-hot-beats-cute girl pov) and that they had mechanisms exposed
☟︎ mircea_popescu: asciilifeform this "i gots to see what goes on in engine" thing is very present, though. /me watched a half hour of "mad max, the version with the crazy south african hottie who got black gangraped so much in that beautifully democratic country, she's all about cutting out her tits and painting her face into wall-like appearances, EXACTLY like the native girls of the accursed africa -- and just like them, will NOT think of ty
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not THAT much you can do on that sorta engine "yourself". it's really the simplest thing
mircea_popescu: compare/contrast with "this wife is great -- every night..."
mircea_popescu: "this car is great -- every 50 miles you gotta pop the hood"
mircea_popescu: i'd like to meet this esl tard who reads jezbel and works on his car himself.
mircea_popescu: in other news, veyrons on sale starting around 1mn fiats.