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punkman: I remember his "The Future of Programming"
talk, made me sad
mircea_popescu: bitcoin - error only counts if generated by
the right software on
the right hardware on
the right data spot.
mircea_popescu: but in any case - i'm perhaps
the worst market for any language. sort-of like a grasshopper is no market for leather goods.
mircea_popescu: lol. i
think we did something with it in school. dun recall so well.
mircea_popescu: i don't write any c, either, or c++. i've never written either java or javascript. i sometimes
to a little bash, and always
to dig up natural language strings in natural language dialects. or otherwise mess
the mup.
mircea_popescu: imagine me like a guy
that has no poem
to write. k ? so i don't write in italian. splendid language for
the best of poems, and even for
talking melodicly about
the
tv shows.
mircea_popescu: i
think it's a fine language! i just don't have anything
to do in it.
gabriel_laddel: mircea_popescu: have you grokked
the "why" of lisp yet?
mircea_popescu: "Even when
there were still plenty of Neanderthals, it must have sucked
to be one.
The Cro-Magnons would have been constantly coming over and beating you up and stealing your food."
mircea_popescu: "I
think
that, like species, languages will form evolutionary
trees, with dead-ends branching off all over. We can see
this happening already. Cobol, for all its sometime popularity, does not seem
to have any intellectual descendants. It is an evolutionary dead-end-- a Neanderthal language."
mircea_popescu: "i'm married - gotta make sure my kids have no better anything
to look up
to
than i did"
mircea_popescu: (which incidentally makes me curious, if you get usg advance on promise
to deliver and
then fail
to deliver, do you hjave
to repay ? or go
to jail ?)
mircea_popescu: and defo more
than
the lousy one year salary gavin got for attempting (and failing) some
mircea_popescu: they'll sell for way more
than
the gpg "dev" got
to sell out
the
thing she doesn't represent.
mircea_popescu: and no doubt once
they sell
to facebook / washington mutual / obama's pubic hair,
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform um.
this seems
to me just a completely inept, disorganised kid.
mircea_popescu: actually...
the swj shit is what
the left likes
to
think
the
tea party.
mircea_popescu: "It's all crap.
This SJW shit is
the
Tea Party of
the left. "
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk
trusting summaries, especially when "graphical" is a sure path
to perdition.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2015 21:22:05; mircea_popescu: "4. You don't deserve
to know any of
that. It's none of your business. I invited my readers
to chip in on a project--or not. I did not invite you
to worm your nose into every aspect of my life, hunt down pictures of my home, call me names, or
tell me I was worthless, arrogant, greedy, and undeserving. But you want
to rip me bare and expose how awful you're sure I am. I get it, you want me
transparent
phillipsjk: I
think GPS recievers include maps now, but still.
phillipsjk has never quite understood why geocaching is supposed
to be exciting "because you don't know what $Gaint_Obstacle you will encounter!"
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: See,
there is some gold buried in
the bitcointalk forum. Sifting
through all
the noise is a pain sometimes
though.
phillipsjk: Is
the space padding ignored when computing
the merckle hash
then?
phillipsjk: It
took me 3
tries
to /msg assbot (mis-typed msg)
mircea_popescu: phillipsjk non compliant signatures are non compliant in
trivial ways,
phillipsjk: .... but how do
they plant
to canvert
the signatures without...
phillipsjk: I don't understand
the complete implementation details, but how do
they how
to convert
the signatures without messing with
the merkle
tree? Have a
table of weird
transactions?
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."
phillipsjk: A careful reading of
the logs shows
that mod6 was careful
to use
the pre-f revision of debian SSL.
mircea_popescu: signatures are a major vulnerability. mostly because nobody in fucking crypto except for us understands
the actual constraints.
mircea_popescu: hey anyone remembers
these bits i quoted some weeks ago about
this woman
that did a kickstarter-like
thing for her oyung adult novel
mircea_popescu: aawww,
troll was a ... woman ?! ethnic ?! NOT POSSIBRU
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu: heh i do. i actually made a buck on
that scam.
assbot: Logged on 24-02-2014 18:09:12; mircea_popescu: "So above you see pankkake continue
to smear
the company ActiveMining (by calling it an investment scam, associating it with
the known 'LabCoin scam', saying
the CEO is facing jail and accusing me of being a scammer (!)) after Ken publicly refused
to pay pankkake's blackmail money demand."
mircea_popescu: ironically, irc was a big
thing when i was a
teen.
then pretty much forgot about it. only rediscovered it in a frustrated attempt
to make sense of
the ever mounting idiocy
that bitcoin appeared
to be.
☟︎ danielpbarron: when i was in college, i sorta made a fool of myself by giving a presentation about irc in some computer class;
the presentation was supposed
to be about some online business we were supposed
to have come up with in a semester. In retrospect, it was exactly
the right
thing
to present; kids growing up without awareness of irc is not helping
them
Guest70720: they are endless, it's like reading
the blockchain...
Guest70720: i'm still
trying
to understand how
this irc
thing works. I've been lurking for quite a while but mostly on
the blogs and forums
assbot: Looking for investment in my new startup "Facade".
The model is simple, I
take your money, do what I want for a year
then you write it off
mircea_popescu: a) she didn't choose ; b) you don't actually see a "that"
there.
mircea_popescu: you ever walk behind couples wondering why she chose
THAT loser ?
mircea_popescu: could it be just 25k worth of fraud which really "isn't all
that much" especially seeing how "everyone deserves a living wage" ?
mircea_popescu: 723 backers £12,927 pledged of £3,500 goal 0 seconds
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