asciilifeform: funnily enuff, if working rng were standard on pc, 128bits from it would give unique-gensym ( the supposed problem , according to the gcc nitwits, with mktemp , is collision ) without O(N) searching ( as in mkstemp) with probability ~1☟︎
asciilifeform: the new Official truth was already being enacted.
asciilifeform: phunphakt, even decade++ ago, asciilifeform nearly came to blows with pantsuit-professor over elementary fact that some languages considerably less expressive, esp in re civilized approach to philosophy, than others
asciilifeform: eng. linguists used to call 'lcd language' , a 'pidgin' ( not to be confused with the homophonic bird ) , but iirc this term is now pantsuit-verboten
asciilifeform was actually assigned it in last yr of linguistics at uni. remembers today : 0
asciilifeform: how come nobody signs up to learn, say, igbo, native tongue of the illustrious prince419mbwembwembwe...
asciilifeform: and there is something very harvardian about it.
asciilifeform: re 'bostonism of star trek', i recall reading that it is ~officially~ a plot point, that the starship had no toilet. erryone shits in pants, and it is teleported out. this is automatically what i think of when hear 'star trek'
asciilifeform: ... or is it moar of a general-purpose 'workout', a la stalin's generals, i.e. 'yes guess what, generals are removable'
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: is there a detectable ideological line in the producer purges ? what did e.g. weinstein make , and what is his 'replacement' making ?
asciilifeform: i.e. when they start installing the ideologically-correct replacement producers
asciilifeform: the entertaining part will be act-2 of that play
asciilifeform: hey don't we have a boston rezident ? mats ?
asciilifeform: but admittedly i only have naked eye observation. i have not the first notion re what they dream.
asciilifeform: all i know is where their 'mecca', for king and slave alike, seems to be -- not in the frozen old puritanistan , but in sf
asciilifeform: afaik mit is already hollowed out by termites; observe that google/palantir/rest of the squid are not based in 'media lab' but in the west.
asciilifeform: right, but they did make a switch from 'salvation through prayer' to 'salvation through wunderwaffen'. and these are, nominally, made in svistan
asciilifeform: somehow i thought they moved it west, like su moved capital to moscow from peterburg
asciilifeform: ( hey phf , how is kanzureistan this time of year ? )☟︎
asciilifeform: i haven't even been to west usa, even.
asciilifeform: somehow i never actually met the 'troo believers', only the cynical распил profiting folx
asciilifeform: entirely like-so. which is why asciilifeform for instance approaches every diseased kid who finds his way in here, as potentially-treatable patient
asciilifeform: ( disregarding, even, the hieroglyphs : picture eurolang with declensions , but instead of inflecting nouns per se, they are standalone words, 'particles' . and instead of 6 or 7, there's a coupla dozen. )
asciilifeform: i don't know of any practical reason to; but strictly for mental muscle build, it is notbad
