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mircea_popescu: i dunno, 've not been following, but anyway. i can't recall him doing something over the years.
mircea_popescu: and where the fuck were they with the "speculating" back when buffett had no option but to pretend like i dun exist.
asciilifeform: incidentally, last i heard - actual 'best korea' has considerably less incatronic, in practice, commercial life than usaschwitz
asciilifeform: briefly upstack : http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1658014 << i tracked down the heathen pit in question, for entomological purposes. the only possibly lulzy bit is that it turns out to be thestringpuller 's new home. ☝︎☟︎
phf: my point though is that i don't know an alternative to platonic postscript (which can be closely executed in adobe postscript, but also ghostscript, etc.) when it comes to doing graphics. in this case adobe postscript is a kind of c bitcoin
mircea_popescu: the 2-3 transition may be argued as "oh, like i wouldn't have figured that twirl on my own anyway". nevertheless, the 2-5 continuity doth revolve around warnock fellow.
phf: i think that might be a haskelism. a functional formalism 20 years after the original concept
phf: asciilifeform: i'm not familiar
phf: se in a physical printing world. i don't know any prior art to postscript, but i don't think publishing is it. most of the things postscript does simply doesn't make sense in a physical publishing
phf: i don't share the anti-postscript sentiment. i think it's a maxwell's equation of graphics programming. introduces idea of graphics state stack, with operations that happen inside state or in transition between state (e.g. "displace everything that i said so far by n pixels right") . pretty much all the graphics code (including for example opengl) is a variation on what postscript does. and most of the things postscript does simply doesn't make any sen ☟︎
asciilifeform: i dun recall, didja ever end up using it
mircea_popescu: no i know what hashlife is. was re above trinque surprise.
asciilifeform: possibly the only example of something that comes close, that i know of , is bernstein's gcd
Framedragger: i believe so :) http://btcbase.org/log/2014-10-24#892946 ☝︎
trinque: Framedragger: did I link this abomination or what?
asciilifeform: funnily enough the problem of 'how to store scans without losing ANYTHING' was long ago solved : 'djvu' (ancient bell labs thing, i use it every day)
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 15:23 mircea_popescu: anyway, there was a sort-of working js to txt item alf was demonstrating at some point. i dun recall where it ended up.
mircea_popescu: which is what i mean. ps (that eventually yielded pdf, and also what you apparently think is ps) yielded tex through knuth's reaction to it.
mircea_popescu: (including the only items with pit style monitors, other than in alfs home, that i ever knew of.)
asciilifeform: i.e. an unwanted set of human hands in between.
asciilifeform: 'manual' i did not mean 'same as gutenberg'
mircea_popescu: as usage i mean, not as the item.
mircea_popescu: more of a "i just wanna my printer to"
mircea_popescu: while i think it's broadly true that ps yielded tex and pdf in world and gutter respectively, it's not clear the ps folk understood reflow, or generally speaking the problem they were trying to approach.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 15:10 Framedragger: it'd really be great if there were a ~decent pdf2html tool, with no JS. and i don't mean just "extract and dump plaintext", i can do that, too.
mircea_popescu: i'm bitter because i misidentified some quote a while back
asciilifeform: i have no doubt mircea_popescu knew . but for l0gz/n00bs ^ subj.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i'm just fucking around!
mircea_popescu: i thought that's what a lem is.
mircea_popescu: girls going "i don't know how to tell you this" are in for a beating on the strength of that alone, meanwhile whole generation of dorks having not much to say at all fretting ineptly about ~the way~ they're saying it / "presenting themselves" expect this to somehow work.
mircea_popescu: i'll receive it as i'll receive it, that's my problem.
mircea_popescu: the content is never the problem. it always and universally goes to shit when they attempt to control ~the consumption~ of content. hence drm and css, hence return mid paragraph "because i don't want YOU to scroll horizontally" etc.
Framedragger: i see yer point :)
Framedragger: i disagree that visuals cannot add more than text all of the time. best way to depict broken css rendering is to depict it.
mircea_popescu: really. i don't want to watch some dork on video. i don't want to watch his stupid slides. i don't want to watch his facebook. really all this "rich content", diagrams-hyelogryphs-bs is only there because illiterate monkey has nothing to say.
mircea_popescu: i can't imagine why it wouldn't be.
Framedragger: mircea_popescu: yes, to text yes, hence why i said plaintext is the easy part ^. but you're right, maybe text is the way to go in these shitcases...
mircea_popescu: anyway, there was a sort-of working js to txt item alf was demonstrating at some point. i dun recall where it ended up. ☟︎
moli_: i really hope so
mircea_popescu: moli_ i think the media's just as petrified of saying my name today as years ago.
Framedragger: in retrospect i *should* have published screenshots. at this rate original pdf is sorta-better.
moli_: hi thanks for voicing, i just want to let you guys know bamb0u has been smearing your name on bitcoin core slack
phf: i'm not sure why jump through these hoops for static content though. position:absolute; left: top: still work
Framedragger: maybe i missed it.
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 15:10 Framedragger: it'd really be great if there were a ~decent pdf2html tool, with no JS. and i don't mean just "extract and dump plaintext", i can do that, too.
mircea_popescu: tell you what, if i wanted to put uncacheable pngs somewhere on the web, i'd have NOT needed 1k lines of six decimal place pt specifications nor inept matrices and their useless transforms. ☟︎
Framedragger: it'd really be great if there were a ~decent pdf2html tool, with no JS. and i don't mean just "extract and dump plaintext", i can do that, too. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: the funny bit is that i have 0 problem reading actual pdf, even have dedicated hardware for it
Framedragger: pdf almost saner in this instance. fwiw i did try with lynx, it showed the text. but yeah.
asciilifeform: or at least all tried thus far. ( i suspect that it doesn't like vertical display )
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 13:27 Framedragger: lang is fine??? i will remind peeps of http://fd.mkj.lt/stuff/towashitallaway.html
mircea_popescu used to have a very poor reaction / low tolerance to ineptitude in that vein "oh i shouldnt end up naked on the first date" from chicks who saw stupid americana on tv and imagined it's an example to follow back when he was 16. it deteriorated over time.
Framedragger: (virtue signalling i suppose)
Framedragger: (but i thought this protects me from gobmint spying!)
Framedragger: that i don't understand, either. all them web designers, too, gotta protect those PNGs in transit
mircea_popescu: "oh, it has advantages!11". i'm sure it does. you also miss out on trilema links. let me know when those advantages even it out.
Framedragger: i wonder if it's due to the cert. probably yes. yeah, sad!
mircea_popescu: i don't even care, myself!
mircea_popescu: i do ?
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why the specifics need even be discussed. who cares WHAT was in the dumpster girly put on her head ? point remains, FREE!!11 is a garbage heuristic.
Framedragger: anyway, why mircea_popescu prefers one shit-CA over the other, i'm not sure
Framedragger: i don't recall but i believe you can define ~all the params for DH key exchange in ssl, i think
Framedragger: i've seen ~sane uses of ssl, with self-signed pinned cert (verified via side channel). it happens.
asciilifeform: i have nfi why folx volunteer to use ssl.
mircea_popescu: well, i can only hope they're paying him enough to compensate.
asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i have nfi re the actual meaning of the linked text. simply translated.
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1657831 << i dun wanna let this slip by . so : '12 May , the dept. of IT and information defense of the ru ministry of internal affairs detected a malware attack against PCs belonging to the ministry which were running Windows.', ☝︎
mircea_popescu: i learned c at some point, but this left no trace somehow.
mircea_popescu: apparently i lived a whole life without doing these strange conversions.
mircea_popescu: i have nfi what this is. so what does it do, changes the string 9 to the numeral 9 ?
asciilifeform: i dun see how this is unclear, if i walk into bezzlebroker with 1% of what house costs, i can't walk out with 1% of a house.
mircea_popescu: and i have like a suspicion north korea would take dollars if available.
asciilifeform: 'hi, this is pyongyang? i'ma a schmuck in usa, i want to buy a square metre'
mircea_popescu: or w/e, north korea, i guess.
mircea_popescu: i don't see it. piece of orbital rubbish 1/10^9 of planet doesn't go "you know what, your force isn't enough to move planet a meter, but i'll move 2*10^9 meters because hey, i'm just piece of rubbish not planet!
mircea_popescu: seems to me same old thermodynamics applies at "work" and at "home". maybe i've just not had the right wife yet ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't comprehend this logic. how exactly is economy supposed to cease functioning once you enter your own door ? does water, strictly flowing downhill at the office, change its mind at home ? do you see it jump out of the sink, against gravity, and figure "oh, but of course, i'm not at work anymore duh!"
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 12:40 phf: i will probably get this wrong, but as far as i understand, here houses are sold any arbitrary number above list, and it's whatever seller can get away with
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1657737 << as i understand it, house 'buying' (virtually nobody actually buys , in usa, they take out massive mortgage) by a human, is not a financial transaction in the usual sense, in the sense you buy petrol . it is instead a fat-harvesting transaction, where you pay 100% of what the lizards weigh you to be worth. ☝︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 12:36 phf: i moved into a new place closer to the lizards, had a funny exchange in the lobby. this lady "got lucky" and "bought a house at list price" because apparently "everyone's scared because of the upcoming impeachment".
Framedragger: lang is fine??? i will remind peeps of http://fd.mkj.lt/stuff/towashitallaway.html ☟︎
a111: Logged on 2017-05-18 12:28 phf: i think the word chip is ruined for marketing purposes by clipper
asciilifeform: http://btcbase.org/log/2017-05-18#1657733 << y'know php, i naively thought that market for, say, key escrow, was also ruined by clipper. but turns out no! goxes, keybases, etc. abound. ☝︎
asciilifeform: i'd rather write in befunge.
mircea_popescu: i had to talk of javascript. who the fuck thinks like this, i wish to know, "oh, i'll htmlencode a string and then replace some of the escaped items".
mircea_popescu: http://trilema.com/2017/how-i-fixed-phpminiadmin-v-19170312/#comment-122063 << holy shit almighty, would you look at that ?
ave1: I noticed, very elegant
ave1: my division was many times slower (as I did a shift N left on every iteration)
ave1: yes I have registered...
ave1: aha, I also tried division first
asciilifeform: only reason i haven't posted one yet is the square, presently making a proper one
ave1: Yes I was thinking that too
ave1: I've come up with this mod-exp function:
ave1: Hello, I've been reading the ffa code
mircea_popescu: it's a cannonical example of what gui is/needs to be, obviously command line works but fuck me, really, i will type select so and so by hand each time all the time ?
asciilifeform: all i got is a txt full of schema and various crib sheet...
asciilifeform: i've not used it
mircea_popescu: i spent five whole minutes belabouring under the misapprehension that it's metasyntactic reference, some sort of prototype and you gotta replace the a and b.
deedbot: http://trilema.com/2017/how-i-fixed-phpminiadmin-v-19170312/ << Trilema - How I fixed phpMiniAdmin (v 1.9.170312)
mircea_popescu: i don't imagine these people are all trillionaires and so couldn't possibly care less about a million-ish item, chiefly because the us has no trillionaires.