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assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 15:00:28; mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115422 << this, i will point out, is in no way related to any inherent property of either (unless you mean lisp is inherently going to fail), but simply a function of context. had the linux kernel been implemented in sclb, and had the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy to the tu
assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:41:31; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? "
<< this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow, as a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-04-2015#1115871 << If the "rules" of human language are formalized it becomes much easier to break them in interesting ways. One could use the output of a shannonizer to inform word choice for his story, enforcing that each word is followed by one of the top 10 least likely words in the whole of the language up to this point. I suspect that such a tale would be great fun to re
☝︎ assbot: Logged on 29-04-2015 14:29:15; mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "why are the holes not marked or filled?"
<< ftr this is not what i was contemplating. what I was contemplating is, why the fuck don't defaults pop up. bring back the fucking paperclip, put it the ONE place where it makes fucking sense. "hey john, I see you changed FuckOff() from bool to int. This function is called 82 places in 22 files. Would you like me to a) check all places where
gabriel_laddel:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com//?date=29-04-2015#1115832 << We're discussing the same thing. If the program has "marked" all instances of $WHATEVER I can trivally add "Would you like me to a) check all places where it's called and report what I can figure out about the context ? b) iterate you through all locations ? c) change it back ? d) run a trace see what happens ?" on top of it.
☝︎ pete_dushenski: "Police made at least five arrests for charges including burglary and flourishing a weapon."
<< flourishing! how poetic.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field Click here (big!)
<< could be replaced with Click here (28588 digits) ?
mircea_popescu: " When the "people" of earth finally get the message that brainpower is the limiting regent in life they'll soon start to change their tune - or find themselves living in a ~leper colony/africa."
<< this is not how things work
mod6:
<+jurov> the libnss was done as binary plugin to glibc
<< so there is no possible way to just build glibc by hand and not include libnss? or there are basically so many things that use libnss that even if you did, stuff wouldn't work anyway?
mod6:
<+mircea_popescu> ~whether one even uses libnss or not~!
<< so even if we didn't even call "whatsMyIP()" or w/e it is, this would still be a dingleberry attached to glibc.
mod6:
<+ascii_field> the patch, note, did not remove all (there is a 'what is my ip' thing in there )
<< ah, i recall. ok and this is what initiated the conversation about SHA256 addy's as opposd to dotted quads right?
BingoBoingo: "The hardest part was often reaching Fernández and Castiglione. “I had to call Brenda four times today,” she said with a smile."
<< lol
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> [00:54] how the everliving fuck is cpanel used with anything other than php/static wwwtron
<< fwiw asciilifeform i went through a very similar saga on a very similar popescuian box. i just thought that "this was how things were supposed to be" and labored in silence.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> [13:23] that's prolly put i nthere special for shooting down ben_vulpes dating attempts in kindergarten.
<< i dun get it
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform load average: 0.00, 0.01, 0.01
<< what sort of great moment is this!
mircea_popescu:
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=29-04-2015#1115422 << this, i will point out, is in no way related to any inherent property of either (unless you mean lisp is inherently going to fail), but simply a function of context. had the linux kernel been implemented in sclb, and had the past 20 years been spent with scbl being "the cool language", you'd be having zhe pronouns and assorted idiocy to the tune of > 10 mn lines
☝︎☟︎ mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "Why isn't there grammer/spellchecking for my comments? "
<< this i can readily answer. because I am what's called "a creator of language", which is to say one of those people who, through his usage, ENACTS the rules all amateur users of language MUST follow, as a mark of their linguistic inferiority. like fucking shakespeare.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel "why are the holes not marked or filled?"
<< ftr this is not what i was contemplating. what I was contemplating is, why the fuck don't defaults pop up. bring back the fucking paperclip, put it the ONE place where it makes fucking sense. "hey john, I see you changed FuckOff() from bool to int. This function is called 82 places in 22 files. Would you like me to a) check all places where it's called and rep
☟︎ mircea_popescu: "And, as everyone knows, the best way to get amazing results is to set arbitrary goals without any basis for believing they can be reached. So I set out to search faster than grep by thirty percent."
<< damned straight. it's exactly how i manage. especially those... contractually obligated, shall we say.
mircea_popescu: gabriel_laddel: 1. A WoT host has been mentioned a few times in the logs - MP's new hosts
<< yeah i had sent teh guy an invite. all it takes is for him to actually show up etc.
BingoBoingo:
<trinque> sure, big bottleneck there still
<< Irony of ironies, bottleneck is the part of the bottle that broke such that poison exposure happened
BingoBoingo:
<trinque> if I represent a grammar in SQL tables you cannot fuck it up
<< You want to throw a stake down on that???
gabriel_laddel: "how in lips could you take the ast of a view against one table"
<< This ends up being just hacking at sexprs with the full language at your disposal.
trinque: "I can't query over all commits"
<< man I yell about wanting to query the state of everything constantly
Adlai: Why must I manually declare my local variables
<< scoping
gabriel_laddel: 7.
http://log.bitcoin-assets.com/?date=28-04-2015#1113989 << When I change the argument list, rename a procedure, use an unnamed reference why are the holes not marked or filled? Why must I manually declare my local variables and functions? Can't the current top level expression be searched for occurrences then factored out on a keystroke? Why must I balance strings, whatever the level of nesting or escaping? Can th
☝︎ danielpbarron: would be interesting to learn how it was censored
<< lots of people all clicking "this account is offensive"
TomServo: +asciilifeform | since quitting bsd ('04)
<< I'd love to hear more about this. Or why the preference for linux?
assbot: Logged on 05-02-2015 01:42:33; decimation: then I heard this podcast:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2013/02/glenn_reynolds.html << "Guest: It's funny--one of my friends, who has been a long-term, upper level bureaucrat in Washington said to me his favorite phenomenon to see is these people coming through these usually politically-appointed jobs and, he says: They think everybody loves them. And then they leave the job and they realize that eve
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> 'What's a manager to do with a heap of stuff that isn't managed and doesn't wish to be?' 'Burn it ?' (from mircea_popescu's site)
<< pure gold
<< This is how I've been getting exercise these past couple weeks. Shovel and glyphosate + troclopyr... Actual fire comes later
mircea_popescu: "I tried to take the conversation out of feelings and into logic by claiming that"
<< roosh is a fucktard srsly.
pete_dushenski: "Orioles will play Wednesday's game vs White Sox with NO audience in the stands."
<< heh. one for BingoBoingo.
mircea_popescu:
<mircea_popescu> move cpanel's apache to a diff port, and allocate 80 to yours.
< mircea_popescu: ascii_field: i'd be open to a purely gnumake-based thing
<< this before make starts building static or only after ? :D
mircea_popescu: ascii_field: trinque: and if any of you produce a 100kB patch, and i barf on general principle
<< there is a problem here. the code as it is is pretty long. just a simple "remove most of it" will be in the kbs.