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ascii_field: mircea_popescu is, i think, accustomed to smashing idiots' skulls and instinctively reaches for the designated hammer. but i'm not an idiot and don'
t expect things.
mircea_popescu: you don'
t want to be in start-ups, don'
t. do not expect you get to open your mouth.
mircea_popescu: you don'
t want to do webwork, don'
t. do not expect any sort of actual pay.
mircea_popescu: you are stubbornly missing here that what you'd like the world to be does not matter one whit, and whatever way you dress that masturbation up doesn'
t change its masturbatory content.
ascii_field: but i thought mircea_popescu didn'
t care for those
mircea_popescu: inasmuch as he doesn'
t get to put his name on the thing.
mircea_popescu: oh, i don'
t recall, 200 pesos for the labour or something it was
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: wasn'
t speaking of 'salary types'
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i don'
t think it is 'emo' to question my priorities when, after giving away my work to apparent applause for a year, i mention starving and audience suggests 'web dev'
ascii_field: the ones that don'
t reference items in the sea of c shit - work.
mircea_popescu: i wouldn'
t, personally, give a rats ass either way. if yes, sure. if not, whatever, i have no problems riding a horse.
mircea_popescu: and no, i wont bother the bitfury guy, or anyone actually involved in doing things with this inept nonsense. for the same reason i shouldn'
t have queried ben_vulpes yest.
ascii_field: they won'
t package or test or guarantee so much as 1 working unit.
mircea_popescu: umd will let you tack on 100 cpus to some prototype run they got, won'
t it ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field we can make 100 cpus TODAY, and on tech that didn'
t even exist in 1960.
mircea_popescu: that stupid bitch didn'
t look like something dogs would fuck
mircea_popescu: well i can'
t find it. anyway, fucktarded outdoor thing in ba, "siempre se vuelve al primer amor" trying to sell italian classes. depicts an ugly chick in flats holding a huge red heart.
ascii_field: don'
t have the thread handy, but at one point i explained how computing is tricky because its very existence as its current thing - that is, vlsi - is predicated on mass uptake
mircea_popescu: this is like saying "abundance makes lazy apes want to watch tv". guess what ? it doesn'
t have to! nobody forces you to misuse your freedom!
mircea_popescu: maybe phf, but the dude's not even bothered to collect the pile of mushrooms he earned doing i don'
t recall what for eulora
ascii_field: (7 is black magic and i won'
t even come near it)
mircea_popescu: well we can'
t hire mod6 mostly because if we do the foundation ends.
mircea_popescu: Thing 5. We're trying to create a sane os. This led to gentoo being cut open, libc being cut open, gcc being cut open, and we're still barfing at the results. I don'
t even want to think about it.
mircea_popescu: but the spots on my spleen were because we can'
t seem to pin this down for five minutes.
ascii_field: and no, i don'
t expect any takers. and don'
t intend to 'emo' the non-takers
ascii_field: anyway my objective wasn'
t to 'emo' people - recall, i have two bits of emotion register.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i appreciate the sentiment, i really do, it's pure love "oh im sorry i couldn'
t do more". fine, but don'
t let it consume you.
mircea_popescu: and as always is the case in life, if one doesn'
t manage to make one thing work, one'll sooner or later meet the same thing later on, with worse downside and less upside.
mircea_popescu: if i cared what kenyans value anything i might ask them. as it is, they don'
t even get a voice in blockchain size.
mircea_popescu: you asked me. if you weren'
t looking for an answer, wh yask me ?
mircea_popescu: your notion that "oh, what is my participation in B's cool worth" is akin to the dumb polack chick in A going "what are my good looks worth, i can'
t make hollywood rent control"
mircea_popescu: you can'
t be in this cast if you can'
t make rent. and no, wondering "What my youthfull good looks are worth" does not work with that show
mircea_popescu: you're approximately in the position of a 20something woman who wants to be part of the cast of friends but doesn'
t have the rent.
mircea_popescu: you can'
t sell it. if you keep it functioning well and in good shape, you can have an empire on the basis of it.
phf: i don'
t know what that means, money's not cool, it's barelly adequate at purchasing cool (a highly debatable point)
ben_vulpes: there's an old thread around the shop: "ain'
t nobody motivated by money in the bank"
ben_vulpes: doesn'
t necessarily mean it's -ev to advertise, just that someone else is deriving value from your media buys as well.
trinque: do you benefit from a world where bitcoin functions or don'
t you?
ascii_field: see, it is this 'noble' thing that i don'
t grasp
trinque: sure, that market distortions happen doesn'
t mean they don'
t happen in a useful direction. it only means that other things will suffer greatly, that things are imbalanced.
ascii_field: ben_vulpes: we are speaking of cases where there isn'
t even an 'it' prior.
phf: luckily for you today only you can get a new and improved PATCH from me that will at least let you create context, since i only finished it like last night, i don'
t yet know if it will actually encrypt, but it might
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: I don'
t follow. again, as though I were five?
ben_vulpes: ascii_field: don'
t mind me, i'm just trying to learn the violin.
ascii_field: and you can'
t somehow beat microshit and crapple by competing on an imaginary playing field
ascii_field: and all questions of os aside, you will need to bake own silicon if you don'
t like running usg blobs.
PeterL: wouldn'
t that make strings take up twice as much memory?
ascii_field: but what if - per last night's thread - you decided that you DON'
T WANT TO REPRESENT STRINGS AS CONTIGUOUS BYTES ?
phf: thestringpuller: it wasn'
t actually forced. started as a final project in william arbaugh's (the guy who did the smooth handover wireless implementation at umd) class, where we were writing a malloc for the teaching os as a final project, only three mallocs came anywhere near the spec, since mine was one of them i had the opportunity to say that the whole thing was a sham "shit code written by retards", etc. and that you can have orders
mircea_popescu: ascii_field god damned weren'
t you going on about how it needs sbcl machine bla bla ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: i don'
t hate'em, but i did search in vain for signs that somebody was ~thinking~ rather than merely piling intel xeons ten metres high
mircea_popescu: ascii_field so you hate them, that's fine, but you can'
t impugn the whole subdiscipline just because idiots somewhere
mircea_popescu: this is like complaining electric engineering didn'
t invent any new type of electron.
ascii_field: poor old j.c.maxwell gets no rest when this comes up, but i'ma have to use him as example again. he didn'
t even bother ~trying~ to build a radio...
mircea_popescu: i don'
t care you sat on your tatched roof in mongolia and thus "dreamed" of skyscraper.
PeterL: but without the 17th floor you can'
t build the 18th floor
ascii_field: 'fundamental' is an actual thing. it doesn'
t resolve to 'very spiffy', it has a meaning
ascii_field: and it - for the most part - isn'
t happening.
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: yer looking in the wrong end of the funnel. yes, women still wear stockings, but american south no longer can have plantations, because the fiber doesn'
t grow out of the ground.
PeterL: There is also chemistry research at, for example, Dow Chemical, which they don'
t publish but instead use to make themselves money, does this not count?
mircea_popescu: my god, ceo is going to go the way of nigger and handicapped within my lifetime isn'
t it.
mircea_popescu: <jurov> i tried to sync my 0.5.4 to core 0.11, it won'
t sync << this is a horribru error message.
shinohai: I can'
t say for certain until I clone my drive, had to idle it for a bit.
shinohai: I can'
t get core to not crash 0.11 xD
shinohai: jurov: I have had same results. it won'
t sync against new core.
jurov: i tried to sync my 0.5.4 to core 0.11, it won'
t sync
☟︎ mircea_popescu: anyway, this "can'
t have X, can'
t have non-X" sorta thing will necessarily resolve itself in time. there's no other way.
mircea_popescu: there should, i imagine, be a way to extract significant cheating out of the fact that we don'
t intend to support random gunk.
mircea_popescu: these aren'
t abstractions as much as they are infections.