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mircea_popescu: meanwhile, keep a blog, keep it well backed up, so that if
phf asks, you can link him
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 20:47
phf: asciilifeform: you happen to have a djvu archive of теxника-молодежи?
mircea_popescu:
phf um, iirc i only kept one, the one with the minimum income thing. you want that ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 20:20
phf: would be nice if there was anything good about that sale
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:37 mircea_popescu:
phf most people who spent as much as i have with computers a) wear glasses b) have various complicated nerve and tendon damage, esp wrist, elbow etc.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:34
phf: asciilifeform: there seems to be a significant lack of modifier keys
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 15:52
phf: " Emacs actually comes with a builting Emacs Aptitude Test. Do you remap
mircea_popescu:
phf most people who spent as much as i have with computers a) wear glasses b) have various complicated nerve and tendon damage, esp wrist, elbow etc.
☟︎ ben_vulpes:
phf: i know, i meant 'integer' in the abstract, with numeric as the concrete implementation that i'd use.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-21 01:33
phf: well, now kat.cr is down too..
ben_vulpes:
phf: i'd like to stick these values into postgres, not hold them in memory in a lisp process.
mircea_popescu:
phf his question is not really formulated. "best" what, "least likely to be fucked up by the c compiler" ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 15:43
phf: so i push back on the guy, rme says "let's change subject", within minutes guy goes "it's late here i gotta go to sleep"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-20 15:48
phf: well, they don't realize anything changed. decade ago a newbie was younger version of you, today with some chance a newbie might still be a younger version of you, but much more likely it's a person who never knew you had to wash hands after bathroom there purely to turn everything that you've built to shit
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 21:03
phf: pascal, less so than above languages, but still more so than even C, since it has a standard notion of pascal machine. C can do 20 year old code, but within some narrow scope of posix, or more like "unix"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 20:44
phf: you look at ipython code now, read tutorials and you think to yourself "oh this makes sense, it is nice", but over the course of 5 years scientific computing with python went through 3 or 4 different suits. that's an unreasonable amount of cognitive overhead, considering that mathematica now supports all the same primitives that mathemaica in '95 did
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:24
phf: asciilifeform: it's a totally speculative exploration of north african pirate city states during the age of exploration
http://hermetic.com/bey/pirate-utopias/ it might appeal to your romantic nature
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 20:57 asciilifeform:
phf: re python: in my view, if you EVER end up breaking a language in such a way that 20 y.o. code cannot run, not only was your lang broken to begin with, but YOUR HEAD was.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:24
phf: asciilifeform: it's a totally speculative exploration of north african pirate city states during the age of exploration
http://hermetic.com/bey/pirate-utopias/ it might appeal to your romantic nature
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 18:08
phf: i'd live on a sub, if it had those 1970s stage set rooms with giant windows through which you can observe underwater marine life, but which you can also close if you're being attacked by the establishment
Joshua-I:
phf: it's not like consistency and rigor are foreign concepts to me just adding in some comments on the other side of the conversation
Joshua-I:
phf: it is if you want the goods
Joshua-I:
phf: eh I might be over abstracting because I tend to just jump from concept to api so I can get something done sooner rather than later
trinque:
phf: sure sure, just the physical thing without the Rand
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 15:54
phf: trinque: it's techno nomad, it's a thing. microship guy doesn't really try to solve same problem as orlol, it's all different people with personal interests and agendas that don't necessarily compose into a single stereotype
a111: Logged on 2016-07-19 15:51
phf: and the problem he was trying to solve is a lot closer to what you want to achieve, i.e. put lab on water, rather than recreate the lifestyle of late 6th century pirate nomads or whatever
mircea_popescu:
phf i have no recolection of this. testament to my interest in female anything aged 12, when i read jules verne.
trinque:
phf: mostly speaking to that, yes. this guy with the $maxint boat probably spends plenty of time off it too
trinque:
phf: there's a contradiction in someone that just wants to techmology, doesn't want to have to talk to anyone. Technology is a social enterprise; if social conditions are that bad, there are problems more fundamental than "can't have real computer" and such.
mircea_popescu:
phf i have nfi what any of the terms mean as used, for the record. we're in plebeconfusionland.
mircea_popescu:
phf do me a favour and inquire with whoever's in charge what it'd take for them to do a show in buenos aires ?
mircea_popescu:
phf there's this blondy that has an epic stripping/magic act, same principle. i wonder if it's the same one.
mircea_popescu:
phf> "Intel is pushing a neat technique that could block malware infections on computers at the processor level." kek << because that's TOTALLY where they should be blocked. check it out, intel found the solution to badly written "dao" : HARD FORK!!1
a111: Logged on 2016-07-16 20:29
phf: asciilifeform: that also seems to break setjmp/longjmp? not to mention various lisps and mls that abuse ret/call for compilation techniques
mircea_popescu: and as
phf can no doubt tell you, only orcs vocalize /ʎ/ as /ʃ/. and the worst kind, too.
mircea_popescu:
phf there's a very substantial difference between THESE notes, ie, business planning and whatever they are, daily minutia ; and the notes there contemplated, which are subject of science, and entirely useless if not verbalized.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-15 20:47
phf: i use a psion as an organizer, and i still can't get used to the fact that it looks ~good~ in direct sunlight. like it's some amazing novel technology
a111: Logged on 2016-07-03 18:53
phf: trinque: i suggested one, ascii couldn't get past first line
mircea_popescu: eventually people will build management trees on top of this. much like
phf's "make deedbot lines print out gray".
mircea_popescu:
phf many of them not really much work beyond "cylindrical kite". light wood structure + wax paper.
mircea_popescu: hey
phf you getting the historical log added to search ?
a111: Logged on 2016-07-11 16:48
phf:
http://btcbase.org/log/2016-07-11#1501087 << they have that. that's how you get a concealed carry permit (or just generally more gun rights) in strict jurisdictions. you donate money to some sherif in flyover states, go on the books as deputy, can now legally cary a gun in the city of new york, etc.
mircea_popescu:
phf yeah but it's been meaning the same in au bush and ozark rural communities and etc.
mircea_popescu:
phf about the same period, whole world was trying to do "romanian realism" with mixed results.
mircea_popescu:
phf too much material. us-audience film is a 2kb affair.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 01:20
phf: there used to be a generation of 70s anthropologists in u.s. who read gary snyder and did things with their hands, they would teach all these interesting retro technology classes. they are mostly gone now, i've managed to catch their last wave and got a distinct feel from them "kids these days fucking suck"
a111: Logged on 2016-07-08 02:01
phf: the lady is clearly special
mircea_popescu: s'the problem
phf, your alf-made interpreter barfs on unterminated data ? :D
mircea_popescu:
phf meanwhile dead cluj ethnologist had a superb "wood technology" class.
a111: Logged on 2016-07-06 12:05
phf: debugger is there, just don't listen to mp and carpet disable it, i've not actually ever touched php before, "knows enough" _literally_ copy pasted commands out of LAMP setup tutorial, etc.