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mircea_popescu: let's move it in a different field. you acquainted with
the happenstance
that iconoclastic civilisations prospered intellectually whereas iconocladic civilisations failed ?
jurov: i have videos and podcasts as anyone, but
this?
jurov: as compared
to pretending "text is everything and forever will be"?
mircea_popescu: and i
think
the sort of idiots running around pretending "everything;'s something!11" are doing deaf people a major disfavor.
mircea_popescu: eh, while i can appreciate
the
theoretical beauty of
this "fuck you, i'm a dragon" approach, i do not credit it any. in fact, i
think it only exists because
the context is of
the "fuck you, dragons" nature.
jurov: and
they hate
the 1:1 attempts
to
translat speech into signs
jurov: not for prelingval deaf,
the "grammar" is purely visual
jurov: signs are
teh best!!1
mircea_popescu: (In linguistics, an adjunct is an optional, or structurally dispensable, part of a sentence, clause, or phrase
that, if removed or discarded, will not otherwise affect
the remainder of
the sentence.)
dignork: jurov: afaik it was russian project where
they
tried
to build complex software, like space c&c.
mircea_popescu: obviously it's an adjunct. everything can be an adjunct
to speech.
mircea_popescu: an' i'm
tellin' you, "visual" is not a complete language.
jurov: and woinder if
they have known what we know of retina, how would it end up
mircea_popescu: well actually, yeah,
this is what i do :) my fucking
thesis was on
the limits of knowledge.
jurov: but i consider
things like drakon editor a feeble attempt led by gut feeling of russina mathematicians
jurov: you don't
tell me what i can do and don't. i already combine charts and
text for production code
mircea_popescu: and if you can't do
that, which is
the absolute bare minimum of communication, you can't do anything meaningful.,
mircea_popescu: only because
there's a
textual context
to generously support it.
jurov: there was
the cad example, for curves
that meaningfully stand for something
mircea_popescu: this is where anything but
text fails : no abstractive power.
mircea_popescu: i
think
the bitrate approach misses
the fundamental point here. you'll never beat
the bitrate of "put out random pixels" with any bitmap approach.
jurov: even if,
the knowledge is not yet being used in practice
to achieve better bitrates
mircea_popescu: that somehow didn't emerge. so wait, reverse engineer
the retina ? in what sense ? it's pretty well described as is
jurov: but everyone is so used
to
text, it will be hard
mircea_popescu: that said, feel free
to draw out your love and other emotions, preferably directly on
the object, with sticky matter.
mircea_popescu: the day someone makes derp++ and starts iterating splines in a cube conditional, we can revisit
this.
jurov: i concede all
the other attempts were feeble, but it may not be
the ultimate case
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2015 00:04:10; mircea_popescu: i can accept
that SOME PEOPLE actually need
their monitor
to graphics. so make a gamestation. otherwise, we're fucking literate, we're not women, nothing beats
text. ever.
adlai: what really amazed/disappointed me was
that NONE of
the initial press coverage of 'soylent cream' mentioned 'soylent green'
☟︎ cazalla: i'll have
to check
that one out
cazalla: i enjoyed it but it's not exactly up
there amongst my
top fav cult films,
that spot is claimed by a chinese ghost story and
the young and dangerous series
adlai spent >90% of his lifelong screen-watching-time in
the army
adlai: hmmaybe? i just watched whatever
the other sergeant said was a movie we had
to watch
adlai: usually i like cult films but
this is an exception, if it wasn't for hours of boredom
that had
to be staved off somehow i'd never have even finished it
adlai: cazalla: battle royale << i'm sorry but
that was a
terrible movie, basically Running Man without arnie = worthless
cazalla: i'll give you one guess as
to who i am quoting
cazalla: in
the June
timeframe —
to have a scheduled hardfork
to increase
the block size in it. I probably won’t get
there. It’ll probably be in
the release after
that, but we’ll see.
cazalla: I’m actually, right now, working on just getting consensus among
the five, what I call, core developers —
the five developers who have push access
to
the git code. I
think I’m getting close
to convincing
them
that we have a plan
that will work. I’m probably going
to have
to write some more code . . . I
think we have a year
to eighteen months. I would love
the next release of bitcoin —
the next major release, which will be sometime
davout: kakobrekla: you're not coming
to BA btw?
cazalla: davout,
that 20mb block size limit
thread derailed 50 pages back
davout: ;;rate justusranvier -10 not sure whether
the guy is malicious, stupid or both. either way...
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davout: ;;rate justusranvier -10 not sure whether
the guy is malicious, stupid or both. either way...
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davout: !rate justusranvier -10 not sure whether
the guy is malicious, stupid or both. either way...
davout: ;;later
tell mircea_popescu hory shet, i was just
thinking about
this, how every single bitcoin noob and nigger displays
this particular feature, he has "found a problem", and "wants
to fix it"
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mircea_popescu: not
to mention i still distinctly recall my cat-ish mistrust as an 8 yo boy confronted with "special symbols". why exactly something like $ is even needed, or useful, is imo still open
to debate.
mircea_popescu: for
that matter, it is unclear
to me
that
the notion of "fonts" adds any value whatsoever and is anything other
than shitgnomism, 80s flavour.
mircea_popescu: it's so apt
that, you know
that ilf of ilf & petrov fame also was an initialism ?
mircea_popescu: the world was apparently content
to wait fifty fucking years for us
to come along
ben_vulpes: it's a
trillion dollar project if you swallow
the whole spitoon of what constitutes modern computing.
assbot: Logged on 10-03-2015 00:04:10; mircea_popescu: i can accept
that SOME PEOPLE actually need
their monitor
to graphics. so make a gamestation. otherwise, we're fucking literate, we're not women, nothing beats
text. ever.
BingoBoingo: No idea if
they have? can
they afford a
tld?
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mircea_popescu: <decimation> other
than being a megalomaniac and/or sick fuck << kinda
the definition.
ben_vulpes: y'no see
the
tag, and
the drapes, and
the
tag, and
the being of in
the bathroom?
cazalla: asciilifeform,
towel or gown is my bed
cazalla: my staffy lived for 16 years and she was only permitted into
the laundry
cazalla: i love dogs but a dog in
the house.. i dunno mang
ben_vulpes: also
tonight
the beast acquired a new
trick: "hold
the fuck still while i put
things on you"
ben_vulpes: why is suspend
to ram such a big deal?
decimation: more interesting are all of
the server motherboards, but it seems like support is limited
to old opterons
decimation: the main issue are all
the peripherals.
they sort of work.
decimation: asciilifeform: re: old macbooks < apparently coreboot supports
the old 1,1 and 2,1 macbooks
cazalla: not
that i'd buy one, but at least
these new mac laptops have 16:10 display.. with all
the 16:9's doing away with master race 16:10's, it must be coming back into fashion
decimation: because unlike reactionaries, nobody on
the left can actually claim
to legitimately vest sovereignty in a particular person - all leftist government are of a
temporary and emergency nature
decimation: on another note, another lesson
to learn from
the french revolution:
the problem with being a lefty populist is
that
there's always someone else who is a little more left and a little more populist
decimation: other
than being a megalomaniac and/or sick fuck
decimation: mircea_popescu: re:
terrorist < eh, I don't see it. what does it benefit
the
terrorist
to even bother?
ben_vulpes: the
troll who
trained shanley? blocking
trolls?