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BingoBoingo: Never mind
that unlike dragons, gnomes are
too handicaped
to bring results liek dragons. "I R gnome, If I sit on gold liek
the dragons do Imma be a dragon
too"
BingoBoingo: gnomes sit on gold because deep down on
the inside
they want
to feel like dragons
a111: Logged on 2018-10-19 00:51 asciilifeform: 'i'ma sit on
this gold' 'why' 'because i am gnome'
phf: well, symbolics macsyma existed for a decade after
the dod one. i've
tried a few papers from 80s digests,
that had macsyma code in
them, and
they all assumed symbolics and
they all refused
to run on maxima (because of missing stuff)
phf: but i know for a fact
that macsyma source is lost, which is a
terrible shame
phf: ivory is basically part of symbolics's digital age, and i don't know of
the existence of e.g. somebody's home folder
that you just need
to but on
the right machine, and you can bring up
the "rebuild
the ivory from first principles" workspace
phf: oh yeah, i've meditated on
this problem (even given
that some
things, e.g. pal
truth
tables are available), unfortunately i suspect
that ~~everything related
to ivory is lost. (possibly
the mit guy has a copy, but
that's a dead end sealed shut. will have
to wait for
the estate sale and such)
phf: oh i
thought
that cpu looked familiar, yeah i guess it did
phf: given how sparse
the materials are, if you're rebuilding
the hardware, you might as well start with CADR instead of 3600
phf: you overestimate
the loot :> i have a lot of 3600 shit, but almost nothing on ivory. i have a handful of relevant documents
though,
that i can needle out
phf: i had a point in my head, until i realized
that it doesn't resolve
to anything concrete when it comes
to a pile of IMG_123123.JPG, have
to go one by one
phf: nah, i just need
to go
through
three different scan archives,
to find where it was
phf: asciilifeform: i'll
try
to do it
this weekend, i also have a backlog of vpatches i need
to push. my flight is on
the 30th and i'm moving out of my current apartment. so
things have been busy
phf: it lives in
the "miscellaneous symbols" block (like
the other symbols i use for annotation), which has been in unicode since '93.
there are more appropriate symbols in higher planes, but
they either don't render, or have forced emoji equivalents, or render differently on different systems, etc. etc.
a111: Logged on 2018-11-14 04:58 mircea_popescu: ♖<< is
this a chess piece (rook) ?
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2018-11-14#1872157 << yeah it's a rook. in my mind it's associated with archives behind castle walls, but it's not particularly correct, since a rook is a siege
tower. maybe a bishop would've been a better a choice
☝︎ lobbes: amusingly, few weeks ago I was
talking with some bums outside of
the $work-tower while smoking.
They mentioned
they had been bumming rides down from W. Virginia, were headed
to... Miami! for
the winter
BingoBoingo: Not
that
the Pichis actual use
the shelters
BingoBoingo: Now I'm in
the opposite geography. Everywhere rural in
the country sends
their bums here because "there's shelters"
BingoBoingo: It is a long walk if
the bums are set on
the one particular small
town
BingoBoingo: Low bum population is a perk of being rural enough
the local authorities have
to drive
the bums 20 miles away
to
the county lockup
BingoBoingo: The one in my Hometown still mostly functioned as it did when I was young, save
the winblows
toilets have even less space assigned
to
them
than
they did in
the past.
BingoBoingo: There is a national library and
the different Facultads have libraries, but
the general "Public Library" as pushed in Anglostan by Carnegie doesn't seem
to exist here
BingoBoingo: Get far enough out and it's
the Pichis with
the week's dumpster finds unwashed in
the saddest streets
BingoBoingo: There's
the camera heavy antique street.
The kitchenware heave antique street.
The book streets.
The music cd streets.
BingoBoingo: Well,
the market is centered on
Tristan Narvaja, but it branches off into
themed side streets
BingoBoingo: Like
the flea markets back home most of
the book
tables are clogged with mass market paperbacks and low effort "nonfiction"
topic books.
BingoBoingo: There's
the oldbook shops and a couple good streets in
the feria. Feria is where I found my copy of
the Código de Comercio
BingoBoingo has
to find where
the spanish language print warez lives, what I had ben considering 'general purpose' warez dumps are clogged with
translations and adaptations
BingoBoingo: +1 language means
there is now +1 literary canon
to attack
BingoBoingo: Not everything in print can be Popescu's work on
the Urban-Rural dispute or Russel's 'Wasp'
a111: Logged on 2018-11-16 17:32 asciilifeform hopes
to live
to write a b00k like
that
ave1: I plan
to write it up an publish beginning next week
ave1: btw
the udp code now also runs on aarch64
ave1: busy
these days, I've been looking for a new job (seems
to be
the
theme of
this year...)
a111: Logged on 2018-11-16 17:32 asciilifeform: ( i actually have a b00k by orig designer of z80, where he actually walks
through
the die,
transistor by
transistor, as if it were picasso )