asciilifeform: i have reason to suspect that he may be recently dead ( stopped showing up in the few remaining places where he showed up in recent yrs )
asciilifeform had a chum who joined... masons. reported: 'erryone 90+ y.o. but me'
asciilifeform: the other nitpick, as i understand 'mensa' was (is?) moar of an opium den, place where folx would sit around playing games, than a political action thing
asciilifeform: according to al, 'mensa' was actually entertaining, and iirc even a reliable source of quality fuckables. but asciilifeform has no direct knowledge of subj, 'за что купил за то продаю' etc.
asciilifeform: how else. fish only needs hook while in the sea, and no longer needs when in packing plant or in the shop.
asciilifeform: it's the californirasty, not the (afaik quite heterogeneous) socialclubs.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: betcha even 'alcoholics anon' and ship-in-bottle societies etc. in california, do ~same
asciilifeform: trinque: afaik unrelated to the al who is subj of thread
asciilifeform recalls most recent contact with al, a reply re 2013 snsa prospectus, featuring phrase 'you will be either bought or killed by usg' iirc
asciilifeform: iirc he actually showed, for ten seconds or so.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: d00d spent his entire working life in the midst of usa's deindustrialization autolysis. where was he to ever see, hear, smell, example of goodmanager.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: until today i did not even notice that it had +m...
asciilifeform: ( i'd even dare to rule out the 'shown the instruments' hypothesis, given as their crypto per se was a joke from day1. but asciilifeform was interested in re the voice codec. turns out -- open problem, to this day. )
asciilifeform: meanwhile in log-archaeology, http://btcbase.org/log/2014-09-19#836087 >> subj www still alive! but no one ever saw working device; according to authors (last post 7 july '17..) they never found an anti-gsmlossiness algo that worked worth a shit.☝︎
asciilifeform saw an earthquake back in orcistan as a boy; unremarkable by world standards, but it dropped a chandelier, and impressed
asciilifeform: if a fella who balks at mention of pgp and wot reg , is hosting a trilema mirror, than who knows, anything possible, cats lie with dogs, lions with lambs..
asciilifeform: gone are the 'luxurious' days when we would get a fulltime ninjashogun every quarter!11
asciilifeform: trinque: i betcha we share a single preet with a buncha '13337' scum bois, and his desk is a bit overfilled, behind schedule, lol
asciilifeform: BlueAngelHost has quit (Quit: Page closed) <<< ahahaha that was quick.
asciilifeform: BlueAngelHost: for what purpose did you come here? why do you imagine that you will find an audience for your provocateur nonsense here ?☟︎
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: not readily. he spent 20+yrs flaming perpetuum-mobilists, alchemists, aetherists, etc., will need a bit moardetail to remember which piece this was
asciilifeform: afaik this particular trick cannot be taught to mouse. but asciilifeform is not an expert.
asciilifeform: unfortunately wrong animal : c programmer is not a pitt, but moar of a caged mouse, ~incapable of toilet training, will leave trails of droppings where he goes.
asciilifeform: if you ask a c programmer why he thinks it is acceptable to define , e.g, string, as 'pointer into a potentially infinite row of crapola, maybe someone forgot the null terminator' he will ~always bring back answer of 'stfu, terrorist' (i.e. 'never thought about it, and don't intend to')
asciilifeform: so can haz a hypothetical contrary ? i.e. how would it have looked to have 'standard interface' to a thing which itself has no intention of obeying any standards ?☟︎
asciilifeform does not, then , disagree. but thought that orig thread was re 'they did not make a standard ffi to talk with c-land, and thereby perished'
