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mircea_popescu: and by
that penis i have represented a proper equality.
Ghaleon: people can look up
to
that
mircea_popescu: but im
the elitist asshole
to end all elitist assholes.
Ghaleon: your letter
to sec was an example of
that
Ghaleon: mp, yes,
the challenge is finding
that person who can build
the epic bridges and present
the right face... without going insane for long enough
mircea_popescu: Ghaleon as you approach mastery you'll notice
the leet asshole is an epic bridge builder
type.
artifexd: Standard of success? No. Measurement? Sure. "Yes compile" is further along
than "No compile"
kakobrekla: but 'did it compile' check is equal
to 'did i make any
typos' not 'is
the code fucking shit'
Ghaleon: hence
the
typical irc, leet jerk attitude is bout
to be extinct
☟︎ mircea_popescu: artifexd if you're limiting yourself
to successes you can measure you're more likely
to become obese
than get laid.
artifexd: Success in communicating via code is much easier
to measure
than in english. "Did it compile?" vs "Did he/she understand me?"
Ghaleon: as programmers we must rise up now and be better bridges between humans and machines, money is
the lifeblood of human energy,
thus we must improve as ambassardors
mircea_popescu: that's
trhe very point of having a language : abstracting
the audience.
artifexd: The audience of english is other humans, generally.
The audience of code is
the machine.
mircea_popescu: as opposed
to "lisp is crap,
they only run it on shit"
mircea_popescu: "javascript is really cool, it works on every shitty laptop out
there"
kakobrekla: alert('whats wrong with
the audience here?');
mircea_popescu: i never heard of a programmer
that judged
the languages on
the basis of
the machines involved.
artifexd: It isn't about
the medium. It's about
the audience.
mircea_popescu: possibly because
they never bothered
to learn english properly.
artifexd: For some people,
talking is not fun. Or maybe it is, but writing code is orders of magnitude more fun
than writing english.
mircea_popescu: one can prolly make a living for years just out of
that observation.
mircea_popescu: most experts are over 50 and don't hang out in
the right places, so
mircea_popescu: ten-twenty years ago
there was nothing really major
that depended on
them so.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [KCIM] [PAID] 2.17250000 BTC
to 86`900 shares, 2500 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: guy's worried
that all his shady work promoting various scams may land him in hot water.
assbot: [HAVELOCK] [B.MINE] [PAID] 2.42564200 BTC
to 4`100 shares, 59162 satoshi per share
mircea_popescu: that's almost enough
to start a fake bitcoin mining farm
artifexd: relevant quote "the Bitcoin network is performing enough computation
to generate SHA-1 collisions every 131 minutes!"
nubbins`: fun fact, we dumped raw sewage into
the atlantic until 2 years ago
nubbins`: try
to
turn
this shit day around
nubbins`: well, i've gotta get
to printing
mircea_popescu: you can just pour
them into
the
toilet, one ounce a day
nubbins`: unfortunately i can't even sneak em into
the
trash
nubbins`: impressed me with your knowledge of random
things
mircea_popescu: you put it in
the
tumbler, stuff
the
tumbler with rags or packing peanuts or w/e
to keep
the cans flush
to
the side,
then hook it
to dry for a while.
nubbins`: that's what we get for
taking donations without inspecting em first
nubbins`: you can
take a quart of old ink and mix it with a power drill for an hour and it's still shit
mircea_popescu: you can probably reemusify
them if you have an old washing machine
nubbins`: really old, starting
to separate
nubbins`: so now we have 15 gallons of "donated" ink
that's gonna cost us $2-300
to dispose of
nubbins`: brought em out
to
the dump
today, and
they wouldn't
take
them because it's commercial waste
nubbins`: about a
third of
them were usable,
the rest (10-15 gallons) aren't fit for use
nubbins`: which
they in
turn donated
to us
artifexd: I did discover him in my googling. I didn't expect you
to misspell his name
though so I
though you were
talking about someone else
mircea_popescu: whoa you don't know
the greatest mathematician
that ever lived ?
artifexd: Change line 9
to vary
the bias
to your hearts content.
chetty: they got
this wrong,
the bitcoin should be
the bite
mircea_popescu: neumann was
the later, and in
that context yes it can.
artifexd: True. But a generator
that never generates can hardly be called a generator.
mircea_popescu: in computational
terms,
the algo doesn't crash, it just never finishes.
artifexd: Unless
the bias is 100%, in which case
there is no entropy
to
tap so you can't get any entropy out.
artifexd: I recoded my
test for
that change and
the results are an even distribution regardless of flip bias. Cool.
artifexd: And if
there was no bias in
the coin, a straight forward flip would be good enough.
mircea_popescu: In response
to
the argument
that
Title III provides no explicit provision for disclosures under
the present facts,
the court noted
that "[Title III] does not prohibit all
that it does not permit".
jborkl: That is very generous of
them
ThickAsThieves: maybe make a sock
that isnt a sock, like call yourself Bitcoin Assets
ozbot: We have decided
to donate 100btc
to
those who lost funds from mt gox
kakobrekla: but i would need
to register a sock,
thats
the issue
ozbot: Let's
talk about BTC.SX and MT.GOX
kakobrekla: <mircea_popescu> i don't recall why
the chan log only starts from april 2013, but prolly cause lazy < like a year of bullshit isnt enough
MisterE: So I guess if you'e in a fund
that invests in a Russian company you could get screwed f
that
the Russian holdings are sanctioned...
wao-ender: let's use
telegram instead of whatsapp
FabianB: i don't
think
tencent would ever sell
VanCleef: more i
think aboutit my god
that whatssapp deal was such a bad buy
ozbot: imgur:
the simple image sharer
samson_: WTF has Crimea got
to do with
the US ?