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mircea_popescu: right. perfectly fine
as it is, but what is more tempting than to mess with an accomplished writer's words ?
mircea_popescu: ""It is demonstrable," said he, "that things cannot be otherwise than
as they are; for
as all things have been created for some end, they must necessarily be created for the best end. Observe, for instance, the nose is formed for spectacles, therefore we wear spectacles. The legs are visibly designed for stockings, accordingly we wear stockings. Stones were made to be hewn and to construct castles, therefore My Lord ha
mircea_popescu: 'the devil himself knoweth not the mind of men'
as the expression goes.
BingoBoingo: I run a node on 0.8.6
as a charity for the SPV wallet using freeloaders
BingoBoingo: trinque: Questions go so far
as to whether the thing even existed/happened
bitcoinquestions: mircea_popescu: Ah I see. Interesting. That is definitely the case
as of today. That being said, let's say I create a company that is able to provide hard drive space for cheaper, but I only accepted payment in BTC. If this company existed would your opinion change?
mircea_popescu: so : a) gavin is in no way involved in bitcoin development ; b) gavin's insanities have nothing to do with bitcoin's problems, and in no case are they solutions.
as you'd expect of someone who has nothing to do with it in the first place.
bitcoinquestions:
as I was trying to ask early - why do you not like the change to increase the block size?
BingoBoingo: School administrator was puzzled by the combatants being "A" students without long disciplinary records didn't see fit to issue discipline to either party
as the aggressor learned he wasn't fit to aggress.
mircea_popescu: i didn't beat him up, it was kinda incongruous. he had no real quarrel, posed no real threat and besides,
as far
as teh adults were concerned i was a silver spoony gentleman.
mircea_popescu: decimation> in particular with paragliding, I think that it attracts a certain set of folk who might not consider safety
as a top priority << i think paragliding is much like hunting, a sport intended for empty land.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: the best chemistry lab, were it to be maintained
as a collection of bottles going "stuff" "Good stuff!" "REagenT" etc 18:23:12 mircea_popescu: would not really work. << This is why other big cause of home explosion is meth "labs"
BingoBoingo: decimation: Well failures of the natural gas system tend to be more... catastrophic... I remember
as a child the day half of my hometown was evacuated because ditch diggers broke an incoming pipe at the edge of town.
mircea_popescu: bitcoinquestions in general a machine is secure if its secure. linux is not a magic pill.
as danielpbarron suggests, not connecting it to the internet helps a lot, but also makes it more difficult.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform not so foolish
as to think about 'homogeneous enforcement environments', knows that there are, e.g., vast deserts in usa where folks set off trucks full of dynamite for amusement, etc. << Sometimes law enforcement attention comes to these folks too.
decimation: in particular with paragliding, I think that it attracts a certain set of folk who might not consider safety
as a top priority
ben_vulpes: don't get me wrong, they're fly
as hell.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> so take up bobsleigh. better for your health. << or bicycles, more actual physical connection of your meat with the dynamic systems in question. airplanes and helicopters worth looking into
as well
gabriel_laddel: Why might one want to see the C ast? Let's say that we've got a codebase like the linux kernel, or opengl drivers. You know that somewhere you've got some stuff that talks to the hardware, but grep returns false positives. You instead pull the ast into memory, query across it for the bits your looking for. False positives now indicate something about the language (i.e., that I don't understand it
as well
as I though
gabriel_laddel:
As for PGP, I'm assuming that I'm going to have to spend a decent amount of time with the codebase and reading the spec. Perhaps not.
gabriel_laddel: "
As for what language I'll be using on any given project, it will be determined entirely by what is correct for the project."
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: Yes. Show me all structures that look like this. Pattern match against structures, rewrite them
as so.
gabriel_laddel:
As for what language I'll be using on any given project, it will be determined entirely by what is correct for the project. If I hack something out in CL, but switch it over to C, I'll do that. If it makes sense to release a protopye that is hacked together C+CL+CFFI I'll do that. In any case, both of these come after getting the #b-a distro finished.
mircea_popescu: so total noob here, but. the way cffi works is you compile your c stuff
as dynamic objects and then put the headers in your lisp program ? or what ?
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i take this is going to be lisp,
as in not scheme, not clojure, cl ?
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu:
as for now, I just want to have a clear idea of what the interface is, what the problems are etc.
gabriel_laddel: "
As far
as I can tell, were one to extrapolate from the given information to a set of concrete requirements we see that NixOS plans to rewrite the build scripts for every version of every project on unix. Again, this is insane. The correct thing to do in this situation is to realize the utter impossibility of the task that has been set forth and re-evaluate one's approach.[1]" << [1] links to the quote previously d
mircea_popescu: anyway : the quote you took carries a certain meaning in its original context (physics - esp "natural" is a term of art in physics) and is an entirely different thing in the new context (coding). i fully agree with the quote
as it is on the source blog
mircea_popescu: all the various foregoing rants are not directed at you personally
as if you were somehow in ther wrong on some score.
mircea_popescu: so yes, you can do just fine
as a human interacting with humans on broken structure. just
as long
as it's broken in tolerable places.
gabriel_laddel:
as for my id, I'm currently fixing <irritant to livelihood>. First chance I get I'm sitting down and sorting out the whole GPG thing.
As it stands I was not particularly happy with the documentation it supplied and wasn't sure which parts I'd have to rewrite. My previous key got destroyed in a failed backup becuase I didn't spend enough time on it the first time around. Also, I don't think gossipd is happening via w
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel i actually was kinda disinterested in fucking
as a young adolescent, was taught by older girls.
gabriel_laddel:
as for the fight in our realm, I'd like to buy 10ks of AMD opterons K8 chips and reverse engineer them. Give designs to China.
gabriel_laddel: Seriously. Where is the tree of all hardware
as nodes with drivers
as sub nodes? Oh, it doesn't exist? right.
mircea_popescu: "For instance, for ELF executables, we set the RPATH in the executable such that it will find a statically determined set of library dependencies at runtime, rather than using a dynamic mechanism such
as the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable to look up libraries" holy shit.
mircea_popescu: in MPWorld this is implemented
as a sort of api, and languages either talk to it or are stuck doing 100% of the work themselves.
gabriel_laddel: yeah. also, they don't document anything, or so much
as tell you that they're going to move the whole C toolchain.
mircea_popescu: the best chemistry lab, were it to be maintained
as a collection of bottles going "stuff" "Good stuff!" "REagenT" etc
mircea_popescu: btw, anyone read "[Date: 1601.] Conversation,
as it was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors." ?
decimation: in the us, the chumpatron is often kick-started by a government regulation that is sold
as 'efficient' or 'safe'
decimation: well, in the case of the us (
as asciilifeform mentioned) natural gas is much cheaper to install and pretty cheap to run
mircea_popescu: and in principle can heat/cool to any arbitrary temperature,
as long
as your compressor's up to it.
kakobrekla: mitsubishi is the shit
as far
as these heatpumps go
mircea_popescu: "It is no use pretending that Kipling's view of life,
as a whole, can be accepted or even forgiven by any civilized person. It is no use claiming, for instance, that when Kipling describes a British soldier beating a 'nigger' with a cleaning rod in order to get money out of him, he is acting merely
as a reporter and does not necessarily approve what he describes. There is not the slightest sign anywhere in Kipling's wo
mircea_popescu: in fact argentina is about
as close you can get to china without having to fuck azn looking women.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the thing is, argentina-chinese trade relations are about
as close
as us-canada
mircea_popescu: mebbe i am confused
as to how things actually work thar.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: kakobrekla: and,
as shown here, 'opaque' plastic - isn't necessarily ideally opaque << actually, only metals are opaque properly.
mircea_popescu:
as you might imagine, it's more expensive to run than just use the grid.
ben_vulpes: i grow to suspect that you see all of the ussa
as a homogenous enforcement environment.
ben_vulpes: out in the woods, the sop (
as i understand it, not having pulled this particular hat trick myself) is to fire a warning shot, shoot the invader, and then call the sherrif.
ben_vulpes: <mircea_popescu> [] like, the node, which is an always on demon, and then various things connecting to it : such
as other nodes, on the eth card, or the user, always on the specifically delegated interface, etc ? << working towards this is the root my plaintive cries about what it means to "bitcoinate"
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2014 17:33:21; asciilifeform: people don't seem to grasp the fact that the situation in 'shall be delivered' is
as inevitable
as that first street drunk who electrocuted himself in the 1870s (?)
mircea_popescu: charlie going "i am willing to work with planes
as long
as either the light stays on or x or y"
mircea_popescu: the generalexpectation being, that it will meld into people's lives
as they are, making them more so.
mircea_popescu: when the airplane came about, everyone hailed it
as a "great civilizing factor"
mircea_popescu: italians,
as their states were disintegrating, called this spezzatura
mircea_popescu: your average soviet bureaucrat would avoid committing to paper
as much
as 1+1=2 , if he could get away with it. and sensibly so, because... you never know.
danielpbarron: speaking of netbsd; that's what i'm researching
as a candidate to replace archlinux for the pogo
mircea_popescu: might
as well insist you find burglars by inspecting livestock exclusively.
jurov: and i can submit company papers to kraken and we'll see. but it will need really good agreement
as to who is liable
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski to quote adlai above,
as far
as the young actors are concerned, "it'd take half the theatre to make it worth their while" :D
mircea_popescu: but, apart from that, your life, live it
as you think fit.
phillipsjk: The source does not have a graphical summary. You can think of it
as a "map". Maps are known to be wrong on occasion.
phillipsjk: "The requirement to have signatures that comply strictly with DER has been enforced
as a relay policy by the reference client since v0.8.0, and very few transactions violating it are being added to the chain
as of January 2015. In addition, every non-compliant signature can trivially be converted into a compliant one, so there is no loss of functionality by this requirement."