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mircea_popescu: google is now serving "filtered" results and no way
to
turn
the shit off anymore ?!
trinque: sounds like a great way
to get sprayed with shit and piss on
the way down
assbot: Special forces soldiers and
their dogs
take part in
tandem parachute freefall | Daily Mail Online ... (
http://bit.ly/1GQt80R )
decimation: asciilifeform: a dog is a useful asset in
the military, for a variety of
tasks
decimation: a white communist and a black algerian living in
the suburbs could both sing La Marseillaise and mean exactly opposite
things
decimation: oh, re: La Marseillaise < I find
the lyrics hilarious, especially in modern
times
decimation: wait, I
thought dragoons were horse-mounted infantry
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: ceremonial, and... at one point
they outnumbered rockets... Hence NIke Hercules
trinque: you can't buzz your enemies with a rocket,
turning back at
the last moment
decimation: heh.
to annoy countries across
the ocean
decimation: asciilifeform:
the 'long range aviation command' still flies
those
things
ben_vulpes: <asciilifeform> [04:55]
that
the fella actually
thought he was 'using pgp' << wait wut? who biffed at
this epic scale?
ben_vulpes: mircea_popescu: you're not
the poor sod who'd starve without coding either.
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu is colorblind,
that's a kind of crippled
mircea_popescu: i would certainly not use my only fucking remining blinker
to code omfg.
decimation: mircea_popescu: if one day you have a stroke and could only blink one eye, you might find
the skill useful
mircea_popescu: "you can enter
text quite fast using gesture
typing" basically you lot just aspire
to be cripples.
adlai: another solution is dictation, but it seems
that for years
to come,
the best way
to dictate code is via a human
typist
adlai: i'm guessing
the ones for hire have hardcoded, monolithic parser-compilers, from countless hours spent
translating
the same encoding... sure, it's impressive
to watch, but useless when a new alphabet pops up
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: I live on
th other side of Illinois North/South Axis, still more lawless, especially if diversity is invoked
adlai: the real competition should be "who can learn fastest a new randomly-generated
telegraph encoding"
adlai: develop a good compiler-compiler for new daily
telegraphies, and you don't even need crypto!
decimation: asciilifeform: we don't even have
typistgurls in
the usa anymore
decimation: asciilifeform: I
think ru still uses
telegraphy in aircraft
mircea_popescu goes back
to catching up oin
the log for
the 3rd
time
today
decimation: the fancy ones have alternating dots and dashes when held
together
decimation: asciilifeform: probably
the 'keyer' electronics
decimation: typically
the way
the keyer works is
that one side is continuous dashes and
the other is continuous dots
decimation: she doesn't have anything
that is slowing down
the propagation along her myelin sheaths :)
adlai: although i have a 'standing desk', which places a lower limit
to
the motor control necessary for all computer use
adlai makes no a-priori constraints on intoxicant choices, since supply, demand, and
the
threat of violence are strict enough already
BingoBoingo: adlai: Do you indulge in any aqueous intoxicants which push both your peripheral and centeral nervous system
to functional minimums
ben_vulpes: adlai:
this distraction
thing is a human factors problem.
decimation: my understanding is
that in
the ru high speed
telegraphy is something of a minor sport
adlai: my goal is
to increase
transaction costs for distractions, and decrease
them for productive activities - and have some reasonably real-time control over
the productivity gradient
adlai: BingoBoingo: on
the contrary, i
think of all
this as 'stoner-proof productivity'
trinque: even if all it does is edit
text, check email, and
transfer files
BingoBoingo wonders if he is
the exception planning his interface not around his most capable moments, but around his least...
adlai: see why i'm so curious about
the lispm :P
trinque: need
to find a good place
to call place-existing-windows
trinque: and in fact
this sucks, since emacs changes it several
times after making a new frame and loading shit
trinque: adlai: I'm just farting around with window
titles
adlai has often pondered how
to get stumpwm more aware of what
the windows are doing, but
the ways he imagines doing
this involve
teaching stumpwm more about
the programs
than
they like
to reveal programmatically
trinque: adlai: but! it improves daily as stumpwmrc and
the repl side by side are a binding
trinque: adlai: neh once I extract
the
tasks
thing from my config maybe
trinque: might jack
the "tasks" back into helm
trinque: I'm building
that now around stump
trinque: I want an uppermost level concept of
task,
then several layouts for
that
task
BingoBoingo: adlai> being able
to fully operate a keyboard-drived ui (stumpwm, emacs) with one hand would be a huge step
towards using
the laptop conveniently in most any position << You'd be surprised what you can do when you surrender
to WIMP, your keyboard has a clit, and
the ETOH has reduced you
to half f a lizard's funtioning brain mass
trinque: adlai: I've got most of what I do in stump down
to a single-handed binding
decimation: if not single hand, why not single finger? or
two? can do with morse