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mircea_popescu: don't resent it ; instead, let's examine what this "ima publish" entails.
mircea_popescu: or did you just make to try and ruin the republic thereby, "here's an engine, it sorta works, im never making it work correctly haha and fuck you" ?
mircea_popescu: "i've not been planning on publishing the whole thing" << why not, are you planning to what, sell it ?
mircea_popescu: so that THIS also becomes an "unowned random bit of nothing" and we just sink into idocy ervery year a little deeper ?
mircea_popescu: gah. i feel like in a spider web, every move to improvement resulting in worse shittifyication.
mircea_popescu: (the a above may seem minor, but both apeloyee and some random noob yest ran into th eexact problem. only one survived it far we can tell.)
mircea_popescu: there's also c) where it helps the mind mature into something that'll eventually be able to usefully v, but that's a secret.
mircea_popescu: and b) correct linkage. such as above displayed, arbitrary byte, such as so on.
mircea_popescu: the important points here are a) scheduling. if we're in the middle of a conversation, low ranking rando won't make any friends by dumping comments re paste. if you had the decency to put it on blog, he can leave you a comment, which you can read when you have the time. major efficiency boon for everyone.
mircea_popescu: can't imagine why not, ada still uses fixed calling, you can't call by pointer-to-string or shit can you
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform who is going to read anything but non-auto adnotations.
mircea_popescu: oh thank you mp, i see now what you had been trying to tell me for the past two hours because that's the sort of a mind i am. will fix now!
mircea_popescu: thing has no way to underline byte error from tester to author and you give it a passing grade ?
mircea_popescu: how do i do anything beyond "here's a doodle, click 80 times in inept trees of documents like it's 1980 all over again and steve jobs hasn't yet come to put into abject slavery all sorts of retarded academiacs who really thought they had something to say" ?
mircea_popescu: neverfmind artistic. it's as functional as a hammer in a pot of soup.
mircea_popescu: basically, looks like a tripod site. if i want to link you to the "c" in Read(s,c); what do i do ?
mircea_popescu: which is why it's even interesting to have one as an intellectual activity.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform neh, because it's your fucking blog, reflecting what you know when you write it not what you come to find in writing it
mircea_popescu: And in this here FFa post we will be taking Comba Mult version x from y date and together with last week's X, Y and Z, and make this pile
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform if that's your node level you are well advised to make posts for them rather than for the combo.
mircea_popescu: (and no, even if it may seem comfortable, the confusion is antiproductive)
mircea_popescu: if you have a problem with confusing phase 2 and phase 3, this blogposting is exactly the pill required to resolve it.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it is! it is EVERYONES! idea of readable. there's no other fucking readable.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think it is the right thing, minus that she should prolly change that Recent Posts divbox to float right with the content rather than be fixed. but this is a one byte fix
mircea_popescu: there's no intention for blogposts to be liquidshit. once published they stay ; you want to change post another one.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform so if you are, then what she does is correct (minus that overlaid in the way right bar). consider a line like if (!from || from->stackCount < quantity) { OutputMsg(csString("Not enough ingredients for bundling! Bot stopping.")); Error(); return false; } else { worldHandler::MoveItems(from->containerID, from->slot, toContainer, nextEmptySlot, quantity);
mircea_popescu: so you want a) arbitrary long lines on b) arbitrary narrow display in c) fixed point that nevertheless d) do not truncate ?
mircea_popescu: imo this is the correct usage of html, make the code line as long as it needs.
mircea_popescu: (can trivially set theme to overflow right, ~like her does)
mircea_popescu: consioder that for i in {1934360vii..1..12viii}; do usrix= << you can't fucking beat adnotated codelines jesus god.
mircea_popescu: but this aside : adding the code as text files, linked from the post is perfecty acceptable.
mircea_popescu: in preference of 1. a paste,forumdiscussion tuple ; 2. a github/medium/slockit/livejournal/slideshare/oglaf drawing etc ; 3. any other thing.
mircea_popescu: now, 4 can flow to 1 as it can flow back to 3, and 3 can flow to 1 as it can flow to 4 and so on and so forth. but the important point re these four phases is that they must be explicitly followed, for great personal as well as republic-wide gains of productivity and GDP.
mircea_popescu: phase 4, when you are done writing code for A WHILE. it doesn't mean the code's good or bad, it means you personally will be doing other things. in this interval typically people discuss your 3 and stuff happens outside of your hands.
mircea_popescu: phase 3, when you are done writing code FOR NOW. this is traditionally the "refactor break". this is also when you publish, explaining other than the code what you did and why, in detail. this included "i tested so and so -- i didn't test so and so" as it includes "i asume so and so". countrary to patently false subjective intution, this is the MOST valuabler of all the phases.
mircea_popescu: phase 2, when you write code. this is the excited state, "fuck this shit ima bang something out". it's like prototyping, not even clear whether something comes of it after all. many excited discussions here fail to progress past 1, "oh, I SEE what you meant!" is often their death knell.
mircea_popescu: phase 1, when the mind reads. this is the normal state, whether you're trying to understand another's implementration or the republican design or clicking on tit pictures, you're in phase 1.
mircea_popescu: but yes, if you change version you're in a different situation than here contemplated.
mircea_popescu: there's a lot of various mechanisms that conspire to work together, just, gotta get human element to stop orcing it all up
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform esp with the trilema-style js links youi can link to arbitrary spot
mircea_popescu: the "here's how to add a new activity to foxybot" one does, yes.
mircea_popescu: but coding is coder-centric not code-centric. leave aside teh faux modesties of githubs and other usgtardations and set things on their proper footing : coding is all about the coder.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform not a matter of the thing. a matter of you. "ima spend a week banging on this next month, and then maybe i pick it up agaion next year" is the scheduling form ; and this means there's a post sometime next month
mircea_popescu: and more generally -- gotta organize your own process to interop sanely with others.
mircea_popescu: no. that's when you stop altogether. when you stop working on it FOR NOW
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yes but this is notoriously bad arrangement. put them in a single node in a place organized for this.
mircea_popescu: just like in physics you can't say "5", a number, gotta say 5 WHATS ; just how BingoBoingo can't say "VAT", just so programmer can't say "here'\s code"
mircea_popescu: a snipped of code IS NOT SUFFICIENT. you gotta say ALL SORTS of things. such as this, yes, how it was tested and for what. and so following.
mircea_popescu: re the "I don't even know whether he tested it or how otherwise;" bit -- this is the sad effect of publishing pastes/github links etc.
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo it's also only functional if we really have enough of a bottom line to make weekly wires feasible. nobody's wiring 300 bux
mircea_popescu: this is pureblood fixing, much like prices were established back when the jews did it, before socialists murdering them all and taking over.
mircea_popescu: if more than 1 customers option to pay via wire, the price is lowered by 1% in rounds until only one is left standing.
mircea_popescu: each of its customers has a choice : can either settle the amt due in bitcoin, at the proposed rate, or else can offer to make wire payment, for the TOTAL amount only.
mircea_popescu: every fixing day (arbitrary day of week we choose), tmsr.isp lists the TOTAL it has to pay, and makes a bitcoin/usd offer. it can be arbitrarily anything, but in practice it'll be the output of !~ticker --market all Volume-weighted last average: bit (which is fucking ridiculous already, we're tracking bitfinex who the fuck came up with this) or else whatever rate whatever exchange the isp uses.
☟︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: (if you do. govts are notoriously iffy about ACTUALLY living up to the part of their promise where money flows back out)
mircea_popescu: so if you pay vat on the racks, see how exactly you qualify to get it back.