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phf: gabriel
_laddel: i was drunk when answering you last time. i like the idea of a self-contained lisp system with ux built on top of xproto/xlib/zen, because can still attach c program outputs, and stream own output to unix systems proper. i've been building my own tools to be essentially a combination of cmucl repl, that spawn xlib windows on demand. not sure if you know but x is essentially a binary network protocol (described in
mircea_popescu: looky : run diana
_coman's bot, turn of the gfx altogether, it's 100% bash
jurov: ascii
_butugychag: you see, quaternions are not in his wot and it's problem of the lusers who use it
ascii_butugychag: mircea
_popescu: i did say many times that a canonical representation of whatever is, rightfully, sexpr
ascii_butugychag: for some reason i wonder if mircea
_popescu has watched 'ascii starwars'
ascii_butugychag: mircea
_popescu prolly writes his electrical schematics as netlists every time, etc
ascii_butugychag: jurov: my understanding is that mircea
_popescu is so allergic to 'visual thinker'-ism that he barfs just thinking about any such thing being intrinsic to some aspect of whatever discipline
jurov: mircea
_popescu with all your hate of english why do you suddenly deem it fit to express math concepts unadorned?
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag you know that thing as displayed is actually meaningless.
jurov: !up ascii
_butugychag
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 20:57:40; trinque: mircea
_popescu │
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1367833 << i can't discern which side you're taking. << the side with mostly (if not *entirely*) plain english, and even better, represented as an explicit tree with s-expressions. that one can parse the hieroglyphs when he's habituated to them... fine, but I thought we were after "fits in head" here. how much skull-space does that
trinque: mircea
_popescu: your comment about symbolics murdering the competition and saying "here is the spec" for example.
trinque: mircea
_popescu │
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=12-01-2016#1367833 << i can't discern which side you're taking. << the side with mostly (if not *entirely*) plain english, and even better, represented as an explicit tree with s-expressions. that one can parse the hieroglyphs when he's habituated to them... fine, but I thought we were after "fits in head" here. how much skull-space does that
☝︎☟︎ ascii_butugychag: i've something that beats mircea
_popescu's huqsvarna motorcycle
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag let's see... anywehre you go, there's a ~1k lane highway available. and it's on ~ 50 or 100 levels. so 50k lanes at a minimum. what fucking traffic.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 19:44:32; mircea
_popescu: it was actuallyt about ~same as a car.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 19:40:10; mircea
_popescu: are you seriously going to tell me that the compiler fails to identify this optimization ?!
PeterL: * <mircea
_popescu> they need a runway. << Why not both?
PeterL: <mircea
_popescu> houses don't need a fucking pool
BingoBoingo awaits mircea
_popescu paying out bounties to Unilever for the death of his enemies.
ascii_butugychag: if mircea
_popescu imagines that his gateway to the bowels of hell will be dug by six dudes with shovels, he is smoking something strong.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 18:48:43; mircea
_popescu: bwahaha. symbolics - wanted to be ms, got raped.
adlai: !up ascii
_butugychag
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 17:58:22; mircea
_popescu: it is also fundamentally why math "is hard". for every non-retarded young adult who believes math is hard you have a case of a child who developed his own, highly personal set of shitty symbols, and then never received a good explanation as to what the difference between his and "everyone else"'s is, so got lost.
adlai: !up ascii
_butugychag
assbot: Logged on 11-01-2016 00:40:01; mircea
_popescu: i think i'ma just use adlai to denote lazy from now on.
adlai: ascii
_butugychag: agreed, but for such a mega-classic, it's unbearably un-googleable. anything about "80/100% solutions" (spelled however you like) turns up corporations priding themselves in the quick, dirty, and incomplete.
mircea_popescu: ascii
_butugychag if we do force a longer chain which breaks that softfork we HAVE to also steal all their money.
BingoBoingo: <mircea
_popescu> anyway, if the toomims take thgeir fake hashpower to this thing it'll be a perfect exit for that set of scammers and good riddance. << I alway thought the Toomims hashpower was real? Who claiming fake hashpower would claim so little?
ascii_butugychag: mircea
_popescu: speaking of crackpot ideas, re: your pool: how about ~preferring~ high-S ?
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 17:11:33; adlai: but funkenstein
_ is holding some for him, if that altchain even exists outside of his computer
BingoBoingo: mircea
_popescu: I need to know for the jokes!!!
adlai envisions an aging mircea
_popescu, tired of 'systems analysis', finding his final calling with the shakuhachi. (it's also quite good for spanking)
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:37:02; ascii
_butugychag: (he has the virtue of not building towers of own shit, like farm swine, but that's the beginning and end of it)
ascii_butugychag: adlai: ask mircea
_popescu to write one up for you, if you need this
psztorc: ascii
_butugychag: What exactly are you talking about?
adlai: but funkenstein
_ is holding some for him, if that altchain even exists outside of his computer
☟︎ adlai: mircea
_popescu doesn't own woodcoin, either.
ascii_butugychag: folks who want to convert their btc into a usg-alt that mircea
_popescu will sell 1,000,000 of for a penny each the day of the phork, can go ahead any time...
adlai: "hard limit" = MAX
_BLOCK
_SIZE === "I don't accept a block larger than X", soft limit = relevant only for miners === "I produce blocks up to X"
BingoBoingo: <ascii
_butugychag> << li poly batt. has no memory effect. but what it does have is rapid cycle wear (and evens shelf rot) << /me seriously interested on data on catalytic caps for FeNi batteries, for 2025 wizard tower
thestringpuller: LOL ascii
_butugychag sounds like my piano teacher! (who is also russian). "Who needs score? Play jazz learn from memory"
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 16:33:39; mircea
_popescu: and if ytou think anyone reads those fucking things while being directed...
BingoBoingo: <ben
_vulpes> in case its not clear BingoBoingo i'm a fan of your work << ty ben
_vulpes
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 14:01:05; mircea
_popescu: "In connection with the offer of the above securities, the Stabilising Manager(s) may over-allot the securities or effect transactions with a view to supporting the market price of the securities at a level higher than that which might otherwise prevail. "
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 13:58:38; mircea
_popescu: i have absolutely no idea what these bundy dudes must be thinking to elevate the usg charade into relevancy through participating. but then again... can't trust one to think that's not got a pubkey, can you.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 13:32:43; mircea
_popescu: "f course, a full charge won't be that important most days," << god fucking help them once memory effects and other such things start taking a toll. the full prospect should read " As previously announced, the Bolt's 288 cells will be able to go over 200 miles on a full charge about 20 or so times. Good fucking luck with your new disposable car!"
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 07:38:29; ben
_vulpes: jokes through the roof
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 06:18:05; ben
_vulpes: my personal phone goal is an engineering team that is on call so that i don't have to have a phone
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 06:02:19; pete
_dushenski: some fat needs to be trimmed around here, whether that idjits going back to wherever the fuck they came from (ftr no one is "from" alberta) or they can learn that business isn't this thing where money and clients rain down from the sky and it's all you can do to beat them back at the door
pete_dushenski: ;;later tell mircea
_popescu "acorss" lurking in your last piece
pete_dushenski: ben
_vulpes: no mention of ios or osx versions in that piece. presumably this matters, no ?
pete_dushenski: ben
_vulpes: aha. an update from the glitzy trenches. cheers
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 13:25:03; mircea
_popescu: "Put another way, grep sells out its worst case (lots of partial matches) to make the best case (few partial matches) go faster. How treacherous! As this realization dawns on me, the room seemed to grow dim and slip sideways. I look up at the Ultimate Unix Geek, spinning slowly in his padded chair, and I hear his cackle "old age and treachery...", and in his flickering CRT there is a face reflected,
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2016 03:58:23; *: mircea
_popescu gives up in frustration. if anyone recalls the damned thing say.
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: Is there and armed insurrection in iqaluit?
punkman: you just need to kill more people pete
_dushenski
BingoBoingo: pete
_dushenski: Face it. Canada impaired your maximum potential to be interesting at this time.