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mircea_popescu: now
the question is, if you only need
this specifically once, why do you need ada
to do it for you
mircea_popescu: do you see much difference between "controlled limited
type" and "promises
this is an object with destructor method properly called" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform
http://trilema.com/2010/pe-ei-pe-mama-lor/ << ever read
thgat one, incidentally ? 10 bux
tax on fastfood
to balance out
the externalized costs
they dump on health budgets (and
to signal
to women
they'd better drop
the act and start cooking daily) ; and 500% excise on windows for stupidity.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 17:17 asciilifeform: ok , having read
this, i gotta laff,
this is yet-another 'oh noez doesn't use usg.pki like inca commanded' 'bug'
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 15:17 asciilifeform:
the only case i discovered so far
that demands it, is mmap (
the map ~must~ know when it is about
to go out of scope )
a111: Logged on 2018-01-03 16:05 asciilifeform: but in very unrelated lulz,
https://archive.is/bON1p >> 'It’s a bit absurd
that a modern gaming machine running at 4,000x
the speed of an apple 2, with a CPU
that has 500,000x as many
transistors (with a GPU
that has 2,000,000x as many
transistors) can maybe manage
the same latency as an apple 2 in very carefully coded applications if we have a monitor with nearly 3x
the refresh rate.'
mircea_popescu: and
the problem of "wut use
then" is still open, in which context i perceive eg
the bolix wank.
mircea_popescu: 4gb mem is 32 bit machine. on
this horizon, asm and c ~similarily useless.
mircea_popescu: 2mb mem is 16 bit machine. you ~can~ work in asm
theree
too, but ideally you want some support.
the prevailing meta-assembler was called c
mircea_popescu: machine bitness has everything
to do with it -- 16 bit machine only accesses memory you can fit in head.
BingoBoingo: Since
the weekend
the English Press Pantsuits have been demonizing, hedging
their demonizing, and redirecting
their shit over some white boy from Ohio who dared
to smile
BingoBoingo: Every now an
then
there's inflection points. Someone during
the posturing knocks over some other dork's drink, etc
mircea_popescu: well, watching
the outside world is a little like watching middle class
tweens "fighting" on
the playground. lotta shoving, lotta posturing and "threatening" behaviour. lotta
talk, jack shit
to get excited over.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 19:23 mircea_popescu weeps for whosoever is gonna
try
to summarize
today's log sometime. by now
the simple mechanics of log linking have created an actual programming language, by
the
time one's done unpacking
the context and unwrapping
the meaning,
the sun will likely be down.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 15:11 diana_coman: it was more of a confusion/mess rather
than real problem as such
a111: Logged on 2019-01-05 14:16 mircea_popescu: diana_coman is working for s.mg ; we've recently had
this exact
talk and revised our plans. originally
the idea was
to have moved over
to cuntoo, and do support work for community-driven effort at a new client.
the latter completely collapsed over
the shocking weakness of such community ;
the former's at best delayed.
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 15:02 asciilifeform: oh hm i
thought diana_coman were baking client nowadays
a111: Logged on 2019-01-22 14:58 asciilifeform: verily. by ritchie's own words, c is moar of a macroassembler
than prog lang in
the customary sense of
the
term
mircea_popescu: spyked is
there a way for one
to list what rss he's subscribed with feedbot ?
☟︎ mircea_popescu: a
toci =
to wear down (generally
through use), cutit
tocit = dull knife
mircea_popescu: "alf knows how
to say
these 5
things he can't stand in all languages
that exist or existed".
mircea_popescu: dude, your romanian's by now scary, what, you keep
these words in a special museum of hate or something ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform remarkable how
the corkscrew is a recurring object in any discussion of
this gap.
mircea_popescu: a whole raft of "dad didn't much care for arthur blair snif sniff" is readily explained by
the model "dad got smart with age, kiddo was born intelligent."
mircea_popescu: mn smart. You join up with Johnny Caspar, you bump Bernie Bernbaum. Up is down. Black is white. Well, I
think you're half smart. I
think you were straight with your frail, I
think you were queer with Johnny Caspar... and I
think you'd sooner join a ladies' league
than gun a guy down.
Then I hear from
these
two geniuses
they never even saw
this rub-out
take place. "
mircea_popescu: kinda what sours
the
thinking man of chess : "dude, your metagame utterly ruins
the fiction
the game purports
to render -- specifically because
the word "gambit" exists in your language it CAN NOT be
the case
this is a story of war and civilisation"
mircea_popescu: in short, mathematical (and
to a large degree scientific, viz physics etc) education in
the warsaw pact place-and-time degenerated into a
trope of fiction. which is why "science fiction" was so loved in
those parts of
the world as opposed
to anywhere else.
mircea_popescu: anyway, but "learn fermat -- apply when last digit of exponent" list of ~fiction
tropes~ is nothing more
than
that :
teaching kids how
to "know
the
tells" of
the (again -- remarkably fucking inept) "he liked science" illiterate storyteller.
mircea_popescu weeps for whosoever is gonna
try
to summarize
today's log sometime. by now
the simple mechanics of log linking have created an actual programming language, by
the
time one's done unpacking
the context and unwrapping
the meaning,
the sun will likely be down.
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2018-10-18 18:59 mircea_popescu: 90% of
the
time i
try
to read something,
the attempt fails ; and almost always it is because
the author is insulting my smarts, not my intelligence.
they're all such intelligent men, from sf writers
to hayek
to what have you.
the problem is
that
they're not smart.
mircea_popescu: failing so remarkably spectacularly
the only remarkable part is nobody remarked upon it until 2019 rolled around in
teh republic.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform part of
the lulz of ye olde physics olympiad in mp\s native lands and
times was "identify
the problem
type". lotta ~fundamentally illiterate~ (hey,
they liked "science", can't possibly
think fiction, doh!!!) profs
tryina come up with ~convincing~ "and
then she said...".
a111: Logged on 2014-11-21 01:48 asciilifeform: 'This is a special collection of problems
that were given
to select applicants during oral entrance exams
to
the math department of Moscow State University.
These problems were designed
to prevent Jewish people and other undesirables from getting a passing grade. Among problems
that were used by
the department
to blackball unwanted candidate students,
these problems are distinguished by having a simple solution
mircea_popescu: which is precisely
the scar
tissue of usg-ification of sovok.
mircea_popescu: which is why cambridge
tripos went exactly nowhere on a large wooden spoon : "mathematical athleticism" is not mathematical anymore
than
the counting horse is.
mircea_popescu: and
the fascination of all
the old "olympiad problems" in
the books, fly-between-trains, what have you, is specifically
this : "get people
to come up with very COOL!!!! solutions"
mircea_popescu: the
task itself is both banal and uninteresting,
the solution lives forever in
the annals of humanity in
the proper sense of
that
term no "because it's short" but specifically because "it\s so evidently zero kelvin".
mircea_popescu: i can ~also~ very relaxedly put a
temperature of 0 on "to find out
the sum of integers up
to a limit, write
them
twice, once going left, once going right, sum
the units and divide by
two".
mircea_popescu: none of
this is
to in any way dispute (or even refer
to)
the very practical, low-fruit-grasping, "lotta code out
there is so fucking stupid, just washing hands halves it".
mircea_popescu: i can relaxedly put a
temperature of 0 on
the coupling between
the string "number is divisible by
two if last digit is divisible by
two" and
the respective index in
the problem stair.