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hanbot_abroad: mircea_popescu i guess medical tourism is
a main appendage ofze devil then
mircea_popescu: "If you withhold from your country Ethiopia the death from cough or head-cold of which you would otherwise die, refusing to resist (in your district, in your patrimony, and in your home) our enemy who is coming from
a distant country to attack us, and if you persist in not shedding your blood, you will be rebuked for it by your Creator and will be cursed by your offspring. "
mircea_popescu: so the italian dorks are playing empire in his ancient land ; dude fancies himself
a descendant of the fucking queen of sheeba in
a direct line. therefore he issues
a proclamation :
mircea_popescu: the pestilence even reached romania ; these fucktards who really have no good cause to survive managed to squeeze
a few "OLD STYLE barber shops" in between the slot machine/"sportsbets" nonense and the "
fuck my wife, two for one" establishments/courtyards.
mircea_popescu:
a beard, "you mean this thing overprocessed to look like groucho marx glued something on ?"
mircea_popescu: and, of course, bdsm. and all combinations -- including the typical 50yo moron with
a "slave" who's
a 20something female doing "rituals", such as inane bullshit where she "swallows the ashes". and so on in this theatrically tedious vein.
BingoBoingo: The Jazz zombie today's
a sort of extension of the higher ed bubble's "follow your passions" derpery.
mircea_popescu: what the FUCK, jazz in the past three decades ? this is like mc cain's love of his life (for the past 9 months). dude's been dead for
a year.
mircea_popescu: transparent in various sizes." cuz totally, that's what I'll do with
a... water bottle.).
mircea_popescu: there's self-evidently no reason such
a thing as an alleged Matt Micucci should exist, and definitely no good cause for it and similar nothings to aggregate, and for the resulting sadness to be labelled anyway other than "garbage".
mircea_popescu: c.
A somber vibe and universal consciousness are the common threads that tie each piece together"
mircea_popescu: "Trumpeter and composer Avishai Cohen’s sophomore release on ECM is
a reflective journey that grapples with the existential crises facing the world today. At barely 38 minutes, the album’s five tracks present
a delicate interplay between temporal precision and intuitive improvisation. Cohen deftly utilizes drummer Nasheet Waits, pianist Yonathan Avishai and bassist Barak Mori to communicate the raw emotions of his musi
mircea_popescu: meanwhile in "oh, it's easy, whatever it might be, adulthood, culture, public speaking, opening
a can of tuna. JUST COLOR BY THE NUMBERS!!!" postcards from ustardia :
ossabot: Logged on 2020-02-06 19:19:05 mircea_popescu: diana_coman, tbh, the reflection looks pretty cool ; there's prolly
a hook there to specify "no reflection past heightmap" or somesuch to get rid of the ultramarine legs
diana_coman:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-02-06#1957921 - thanks; re that hook, I haven't seen it really and I doubt it exists as such; thinking of it, it's more likely to be something of
a side effect again of how the water plane, terrain and character sprite interact; for the time being I'll let it be as it doesn't seem
a high priority really.
mircea_popescu: diana_coman, tbh, the reflection looks pretty cool ; there's prolly
a hook there to specify "no reflection past heightmap" or somesuch to get rid of the ultramarine legs
diana_coman: mircea_popescu: I'd very much like to finally move off koch-gpg and so ~anything in that direction is quite of interest to me; I'll gladly help re eucrypt too if/when needed, if that's
a block for anyone.
mircea_popescu: which is perhaps
a fine candidate of folding in (or at least, that's the general thrust of
my comment -- "why do i have to go outside of the v tool for v work ?")
mircea_popescu: jfw, re the whole
musl & locales issue, it might be an idea to signal to them, "look, we use musl, and we don't think this is
a good idea". irrespective of whether it does anything, at least that way they can't say they didn't realise "unanimity" is hallucinated etc.
hanbot_abroad: mircea_popescu i managed to get
a comment into your mod queue
mircea_popescu: re-writing the signature part starting with say diana_coman 's eucrypt could give us
a chance to ditch all the warts of
a very usgistani past, and even maybe implement PSS or somesuch.
mircea_popescu: there's
a lenghty pile of disadvantages to the current mechanism we use, not least of these being that it actually imports koch-pgp. it also does suspect signature shenanigans of all sorts, which could potentially present security risks
mod6: mircea_popescu: re: rss feeds & feedbot; will check it out. sounds like
a good way to stay abreast.
mircea_popescu: where "me" is just about
a wildcard, it stands for "anyone" because that's what the fuck "no separation from politics" means.
jfw: observe for instance how the gardener nearly missed
a couple patches anyway but I poked, not even being
a signer of any as yet
mircea_popescu: mod6, there's
a bunch of code shelves you might end up on, if you do the right and proper things.
mod6: Yeah, not that we would want stuff from nonpersons, just in the case where, as we've seen recently (even with my own blog) where it was down for
a few weeks, or months as people are between hosting or such.
mircea_popescu: if some shit someone vomited that nobody could be arsed to mirror disappears, this is
a great and wonderful gain for everyone.
mod6: jfw: This might be fine, but what if I'm not the guy? Meaning, let's say that there are threads on my blog, people publish stuff in the comments, or wherever on there, i dunno, pingbacks somehow. If someone else takes over, I get hit by
a bus, blog goes bye bye from non-payment, what happens to thread on new guys blog?
mod6: But again, if there is going to be
a future solution for this in the form of some kind of existing bot extention, then I'm all for that. At least it would, presumably, notify the gardener (somehow) that there is something to inspect.
jfw: perhaps
a comment thread on your own blog where someone proposing
a patch can "officially submit" it?
mod6: Anyway, sounds like there might be
a solution to this between what billymg and lobbes are working on + maybe another added step?
mod6: jfw: aside from
a possible mp-wp (future) solution to the issue; several clicks notwithstanding, I mearly worry that somehow, the gardener may simply overlook or miss one.
jfw: "It puts it on me to chase these down" - this seems to be the core of it; why not leave it to the sponsor(s) of
a patch to keep their blogs online & organized enough to find patches (category, code shelf or whatnot)? It's then, what, couple clicks per patch or
a wget to import to your own collection - trivial compared to the effort of actually reviewing the patch I'd imagine
mod6: Ah, alright. Maybe that's it, just
a few moving parts here.
mod6: Now the idea to make
a bot that would somehow interact with blogs, is an idea I hadn't thought of before.
mod6: I fully agree, mailman is
a ancient artefact back from, probably literally, the pre-september internet days. Yes, it's quite, well, frustrating to say the least.
mod6: yes.
a bot that would do this over irc, is basically what I've been thinking about.
mod6: I dunno, anyway, I thought it could be good for people to go ahead and submit
a vpatch, and seal to the bot, where it can be checked for L1/L2, and stored for the future, all in one place, making less work for the gardener.
mod6: Not that I love having
a centralized bot, either. It's just, I'm not 100% sure what the best way to go is on this. The mailing list was centralized, it worked fine.
mod6: Now, I've thought that over
a bit; the first thing that came to mind was deedbot. However, I think that deedbot probably isn't the right place for developer doodles. Plus, each one costs actual money.
mod6: I find it fairly easy to go and dig stuff up in there if I need to do so. I tried to stand it back up, several times, in fact, since it's home on Pizarro went down. But I haven't been successful there. Upon speaking to jurov about it, he suggested instead that we create
a bot for this purpose instead.
mod6: For me, I've always liked the mailing list. It's cumbersome, and it's had it's pain points in the past. Everyone, at one time or another, has had
a problem getting things stuck in its queue, etc. However, when it works, it does work pretty well. I like how it checks the WoT on submission, has an archive, and we can all go back and look at it years and years later.
mod6: Regarding your question re IRC bot for vpatch submission: I've thought about this quite
a bit. And I struggle with this.
mod6: mod6_phexdigit_fix << This one I'd like to put in for sure, as it seems, at least according to my own analysis that this is
a legit bug (does anyone disagree with this analysis?). Just would need
a simple regrind at this point. Can do this month as well.
mod6: asciilifeform_whogaveblox << I'm more open to comments on this one too, I don't see
a big issue with it being in the tree. I'm also using this one in
a test environment (for quite some time now). Haven't seen any issues with it at this time. It would need
a simple regrind. Can do it this month as well.
mod6: mod6_excise_hash_truncation << This one in particular is nice, and I've been using it in my test environments for
a while. I'm fine at this point with adding it in, it just needs
a regrind (again). Can work on that this month.
mod6: Let me work through these here. Glad you're going to try out
a build. Please do let me know how it goes. I did just find three 'gotchas' on CentOS (6.10); whereby 'bison', 'flex' and 'patch' all need to be installed manually. Apparently these are not
a part of the default system.
jfw: Re item 4, why is
a bot needed for vpatch submission? Don't blogs already cover all the aspects - publishing, commentary, discussion, referencing, notification? (Perhaps your article will clarify, in which case don't mind me.)
jfw: mod6: glad to see progress on the keccak tree. I intend to take
a look at the patches and try
a build, might not be for
a while though. What I'm not seeing though: what is the status of asciilifeform_aggressive_pushgetblocks, mod6_excise_hash_truncation, asciilifeform_whogaveblox and mod6_phexdigit_fix ?
jfw: This while pulling in not just
a bignum lib as dependency (gmp) but also arbitrary-precision float & complex math libs (mpfr, mpc)
ossabot: Logged on 2019-02-17 10:03:36 mircea_popescu: "/* The count field we have in the main struct object is somewhat limited, but should suffice for virtually all cases. If the counted value doesn't fit, re-write
a zero. The worst that happens is that we re-count next time -- admittedly non-trivial in that this implies some 2M fdes, but at least we function. */"
ossabot: Logged on 2019-02-17 10:06:03 mircea_popescu: anyway. seems gcc has
a baked-in "max 2097152 symbols"
mircea_popescu: perversely, this "superior" code's even more inscrutable than ye olde asm. which civilised people could in fact read, unlike the
current shit mircea_popescu: on the contrary : the "terseness" supposedly achieved by if (
a(x) > b(y) ) z sorta constructions is not merely standing on its own ; but it creates personal investments. now you can't comment your code, either, because you're so clever you saved five bytes of text at the cost of five megabytes of object code. so if you then write
a sentence explaining wtf you did, well... you're
a sucker now, aren't you!
mircea_popescu: it doesn't even fucking save memory, the five bytes this'll save over
a lifetime is dwarved by the five megabytes in extra libc needed to support the insanity
mircea_popescu: if (
a(x) > b(y) ) z is not "more compact" or any "cleverer" than ax =
a(x) ; by = b(y) ; if (ax > by ) z. it's not "more conservative", it's not anything but fucking stupid.
jfw: mircea_popescu: I get the sense this is more about the user than the tool then. I'd reckon it's equally dumb to call
a function with global side-effects from an "if" test, since it's supposed to be just asking
a question, not "doing things"
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-05 08:05:45 mircea_popescu: so apparently in php, != is
a legitimate op in if expressions. = however, IS NOT. == MUST be used.
jfw:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-01-05#1956632 - "if ($
a = 1) ..." worked for me, though in the stupid C sense that the operator has elsewhere, yes. Tried Python and apparently it syntactically forbids single-= in an "if" statement, probably because it has this strict statement vs. expression distinction
hanbot_abroad: mircea_popescu i'd say it's better than what i ended up using, from the woman's fault, "The term of art for this would be stramula. It comes from
a seminal Romanian-language piece on the topic (in which language mula is yet another derogatory term for
a stupid woman, not that there's any shortage of these ; whereas stra- is
a prefix indicating primacy on the decendency line, sort of like grand in grandfather)."
mircea_popescu: the great advantage of the totalitarian worldview is, after all, that it's
a totalitarian worldview.
dorion off for
a while, meeting with broker dealer here soon, bbl.
mircea_popescu: dorion nothing wrong with approaching individuals, on the contrary, prolly right thing. nothing wrong with having
a clear center, concrete, highest advantage, etc.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-24 23:51:58 mircea_popescu: so you know, as far as the life prospects, the future evolution, however you will name the sum-total potential of
a person's existence, understanding how to command line is more important than meeting their father. it'll certaily do
a lot for them, and it certainly CAN do way the fuck more for them.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-24 23:49:03 mircea_popescu: the fundamental problems are that cli-iliteracy is
a serious, life-changing disability. in terms of severity, blindness compares, deafness does not. obviously the afflicted are scarcely aware, but this doesn't mean they're not afflicted.
ossabot: Logged on 2020-01-24 23:47:43 mircea_popescu: obviously to
a large degree you'll have to support your people, so you'll be working with their things to begin transitioning to sane things as
a matter of necessity.
dorion: plus, banks and brokers have their balls in
a regulatory vice which takes away
a lot of the principal's agency. So our thinking was to approach the principals as individuals and consult them personally, not "their" company.
dorion: e.g. law firms and banks here pretty muuch all have terrible practices and they know it - to
a degree, but we were thinking helping them harden their windows systems was carrying too much opportunity cost and there's already competition there.
spyked:
http://logs.ossasepia.com/log/trilema/2020-01-28#1957569 <-- imo this gap between code and text is resolvable: code, as written by human, is ~also~
a particular representation of an ast. so whatever tool is able to eat an ast (immediately brings to mind "the compiler", as it stands) should also be able to print it back formatted according to user-defined rules.
billymg: oh nm, so when selecting code to copy paste the 'iv' for
a footnote isn't also included
billymg: > make
a select/dblclick NOT also catch the footnote literal anchor << i'm not sure what the select/dblclick is referring to here
mircea_popescu: will have to say what others think. imo if you can manage to make
a select/dblclick NOT also catch the footnote literal anchor, footnotes in codeblocks are great things
billymg: agree, i was hoping to have
a fancy demo of footnotes within codeblocks until i ran into the issue of the (()) false positives in some code samples
billymg: this tag business is
a hard task!
mod6: Alright, well looks I am buying 'Server-
A' since there were no bids. Will pay 0.01700000 BTC to jurov (Foundation Treasurer).
BingoBoingo: mod6: I don't know that it's
a big deal. I strongly suspect you are buying it at the reserve price.