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mircea_popescu: which is why a flimsy repackaging of "popular advice" that doesn'
t even work on the fucking plane is horribru. not only it doesn'
t work in practice, but the mind that tends to make such confusions is probably in a very poor state to think about anything.
mircea_popescu: dna is exactly this : worst code ever, wouldn'
t even parse, let alone compile.
gabriel_laddel: as for my id, I'm currently fixing <irritant to livelihood>. First chance I get I'm sitting down and sorting out the whole GPG thing. As it stands I was not particularly happy with the documentation it supplied and wasn'
t sure which parts I'd have to rewrite. My previous key got destroyed in a failed backup becuase I didn'
t spend enough time on it the first time around. Also, I don'
t think gossipd is happening via w
gabriel_laddel: the /feeling/ didn'
t do anything. It is merely a signal.
mircea_popescu: these kids are so fucking stupid i can'
t believe i've just read "when you meet the right someone it'll feel special" in code-words.
mircea_popescu: it doesn'
t exist 30 years later, which 30 years have been spent doing what exactly ?
gabriel_laddel: Seriously. Where is the tree of all hardware as nodes with drivers as sub nodes? Oh, it doesn'
t exist? right.
mircea_popescu: the sad reality is that the earlier "linux is a failure but doesn'
t have to stay that way" is slowly coming to the sobering reality that "it is a failure and systemfuck it."
mircea_popescu: "There are very few classics in the field of computing. We are at the very beginning of this journey and it hasn'
t even begun to get interesting yet. IMHO, the Cathedral vs. Bazaar isn'
t in anyway a dilemma or a classic. Linux was a failure 20 years ago, it is a failure today and any posturing otherwise is just that. "
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i didn;'
t mean you, i'm stikk in shock over the quote above
chetty: it's more like expecting tramps to ballet. spontaneously.//you mean they don'
t? I see in the movies all the time
gabriel_laddel: ^ Correct. I ended up using it because I needed to quickly build a linux distro and someone told me it could do some things it couldn'
t really do.
gabriel_laddel: yeah. also, they don'
t document anything, or so much as tell you that they're going to move the whole C toolchain.
mircea_popescu: i imagine you know, if you can'
t say it for yourself, you're stuck trying to find people to support you
mircea_popescu: fuck (not heck. fuck!) it's probably even why people don'
t enjoy writing comments and specs. because they require "this is great" and "im so fucking proud of this" ands "i bet you wouldn'
t have come up with this in five lifetimes" to be either worth reading or worth writing
mircea_popescu: it is i suspect off this festered, metastasized modesty that people can'
t make good summaries, introduce anything properly or generally package well
gabriel_laddel: The last message from me in that thread contains a brief discussion of the "why" of lisp, that is, what separates it from being 'just another language'. Figured I'd post it in here because your previous trilema post discussing reverse polish notation and Erik Naggum + many #b-a messages didn'
t communicate to me that lisp has 'clicked' yet for many people.
decimation: asciilifeform: actually that's not a bad idea, it doesn'
t take much breeze to keep mosquitos away
decimation: w.r.
t. home builders, any home that's younger than 30-40 years has been built in a carefully-managed chumpatronic environment
mircea_popescu: decimation i kinda wonder why water circulating systems aren'
t used for cooling much.
decimation: yeah if all you need to do is heat boiler, then you don'
t need electricity
mircea_popescu: whenever something happens, or doesn'
t happen, it starts or doesn'
t start here.
mircea_popescu: decimation eu mostly heats on gas, these micro units that mostly don'
t need power. either because battery or ingenious.
decimation: mircea_popescu: yeah can'
t run a/c but you could run fridge
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> those who don'
t, typically own a small (5-10kW) genset on wheels << i have no idea what this would do. suppose a 2kw air conditioner unit, or fridge, or even washing machine.
decimation: why propane? can be stored for a decade; doesn'
t leave nasty shit in the engine
mircea_popescu: rk that he disapproves of that kind of conduct–on the contrary, there is a definite strain of sadism in him, over and above the brutality which a writer of that type has to have. Kipling is a jingo imperialist, he is morally insensitive and aesthetically disgusting. It is better to start by admitting that, and then to try to find out why it is that he survives while the refined people who have sniggered at him seem
t mircea_popescu: if tomorrow your street loses power, you can'
t simply ordered a truck without wheels dropped in front of your property. for various pseudolegal and regtulatory reasons that essentrialy reduce to
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes perhaps you don'
t understand what "the town" means.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: kakobrekla: and, as shown here, 'opaque' plastic - isn'
t necessarily ideally opaque << actually, only metals are opaque properly.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: it most certainly cannot be true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in. but quite likely true that he cannot get a pogo shipped in for 18 usd per. <<< it doesn'
t even reach that. the value of ME running pogos is minimal. there are N+k**p things i can do to halp bitcoin.
mircea_popescu: that i never ended up using because... there hasn'
t yet been a power outage.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: my plaintive cries << it's not a bad plan i don'
t think.
ben_vulpes: but now says he can'
t even get a pogo shipped in.
ben_vulpes: fwiw there aren'
t many orcs in the rural bits of ussa, and one can shoot trespassers on sign in those provinces too
ben_vulpes: asciilifeform: i don'
t buy the malicious usg. thing is purely reactive, and only within the logic of itself.
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2014 17:33:21; asciilifeform: people don'
t seem to grasp the fact that the situation in 'shall be delivered' is as inevitable as that first street drunk who electrocuted himself in the 1870s (?)
mircea_popescu: and to "fuck you charlie, read or don'
t read but the light stays out"
mircea_popescu: the plane CHANGED their life. it didn'
t come about to make 1900 a more-1800-than-1800.
mircea_popescu: well, let me change this from something we don'
t know to something we do know.
adlai doesn'
t have this expectation
mircea_popescu: no, you imagine specifically that you aren'
t, and that this is specifically why it matters.
adlai: also i don'
t follow why you think that i have this expectation, or that it affects my problem(s)
adlai: don'
t worry, i believe the same nonsense about my discovery
mircea_popescu: a) it's not "spit in cup" and b) it still doesn'
t really work.
mircea_popescu: is it possible through pure chance to miss an infection because it just didn'
t happen to go to saliva ?
pete_dushenski: this isn'
t my area of expertise and i'm working from my own understanding of human motivations
adlai isn'
t aware of a major exchange that with a satisfactory history
mircea_popescu: i can'
t begin to imagine how people think actresses are to be taken seriously if it's plain obvious that should a drill sargeant manifest and yell "STRIP!" she'd start trembling like an eight year old.
mircea_popescu: i don'
t write any c, either, or c++. i've never written either java or javascript. i sometimes to a little bash, and always to dig up natural language strings in natural language dialects. or otherwise mess the mup.
mircea_popescu: imagine me like a guy that has no poem to write. k ? so i don'
t write in italian. splendid language for the best of poems, and even for talking melodicly about the tv shows.
mircea_popescu: i think it's a fine language! i just don'
t have anything to do in it.
mircea_popescu: they'll sell for way more than the gpg "dev" got to sell out the thing she doesn'
t represent.
assbot: Logged on 12-01-2015 21:22:05; mircea_popescu: "4. You don'
t deserve to know any of that. It's none of your business. I invited my readers to chip in on a project--or not. I did not invite you to worm your nose into every aspect of my life, hunt down pictures of my home, call me names, or tell me I was worthless, arrogant, greedy, and undeserving. But you want to rip me bare and expose how awful you're sure I am. I get it, you want me transparent
phillipsjk has never quite understood why geocaching is supposed to be exciting "because you don'
t know what $Gaint_Obstacle you will encounter!"
phillipsjk: I don'
t understand the complete implementation details, but how do they how to convert the signatures without messing with the merkle tree? Have a table of weird transactions?
mircea_popescu: a) she didn'
t choose ; b) you don'
t actually see a "that" there.
mircea_popescu: could it be just 25k worth of fraud which really "isn'
t all that much" especially seeing how "everyone deserves a living wage" ?
mircea_popescu: i suppose "resonance chamber" isn'
t actually a good enough answer.
mircea_popescu: "in a sense, Windows is a result of the way C++ builds environments, like Unix is a result of how C does it." << and in this sense... their merging would be expected at about the time "most people" couldn'
t if press explain exactly what the ++ stand for.
mircea_popescu: (to dampen that : fry likes wilde more because wilde was a fag than because wilde was good. which he wasn'
t THAT good. but nevertheless, THIS point is sound in this context)
danielpbarron: oh btw, the pogo running with swap space hasn'
t crashed yet, currently at 87k
mircea_popescu: might be a bug specific to the 9.8o but then that doesn'
t explain how all the others worked
mod6: so far. it's really weird still though, because i wasn'
t having this problem before. and we've always been using an old ssl.
danielpbarron: i should add more stuff like that so it isn'
t all command line copy paste