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mircea_popescu: in the same vein,
i have now spent in excess of $300 buying no less than nine "pc sound systems" over the past 2 years.
i have nfi why
i decided to just buy one of the cheapo, two speaker things. and then replace it and so on.
trinque: heh,
I'll not link the shithub
mircea_popescu: "The "college is a scam" train is one on which
I'm all aboard, but that doesn't mean each individual professor has to be scamming students; there's no reason why he can't do a good job and teach his students something that they aren't going to get simply by reading the text. If a student can skip class and still ace the class, the kid is either very bright or the professor is utterly useless. Right? Either way, the kid's
adlai: trinque: took me a moment but
i lol'd
Framedragger: this one time,
i was scriptifying cheap flight booking. was amazed how less-laggy the simulated/automated 'browsing experience' (website didn't like bots, needed to convince it by running part of actual browser) was (cf. manual clicking on airline's website). got depressed
Framedragger:
i suppose you also avoid the 'why does a multibillion clock machine lag on key press omfg' fail as icing on the cake.
mircea_popescu:
i dunno how cool it is, but let me tell you it is very productive
Framedragger: (
i at least check that my webpages look good on lynx/elinks)
Framedragger:
i guess you meant conceptually dead, and with definite practically-dead event horizon in sight
mircea_popescu: Framedragger you are aware firefox is dead for all practical purposes, yes ? in fact
i don't know any browser that lost market share at its speed, except of course netscape back in the day.
Framedragger: certainly nothing of huge import. some of those are definitely a bit snakeoil'y, but not completely useless.
i don't know how much you care about e.g. browser fingerprinting. right now html5 canvas leaks badly,
i.e. "The adversary simply renders WebGL, font, and named color data to a Canvas element, extracts the image buffer, and computes a hash of that image data. Subtle differences in the video card, font packs, and even font and graph
a111: Logged on 2017-01-02 22:10 hanbot: <mircea_popescu> but
i am well and truly at a loss, who owns it ? no idea. maybe lobbes ?
i somehow du nthink it was mike_c- <<
i'm pretty sure it was his, yeah.
trinque:
I thought asciilifeform had a www on this
a111: Logged on 2017-01-02 21:40 mircea_popescu: if the same archbishop inquires as to why
i poured cement the way
i did
i can answer without ado.
a111: Logged on 2017-01-02 21:22 mircea_popescu: 90% of my audible output was "your question can not be answered in that general form". tears were shed, of rage and frustration. towards the third day
i recited from the molieben of st naggum, the part where he says c makes people lie, and there was THANK YOU! GOOD GOD!
mircea_popescu: and since
i'm on a moldy tome kick, let's note down ܝܳܠܕܰܬ ܐܰܠܳܗܳܐ ie joldath allaho. in syriac. because yes, even as egypt was mostly christian in its recent history (just as all of the "arabic" middle east), allah exists in arabic as a corruption of a syriac notation of a greek interpretation of a hebrew name for god.
hanbot: <mircea_popescu> but
i am well and truly at a loss, who owns it ? no idea. maybe lobbes ?
i somehow du nthink it was mike_c- <<
i'm pretty sure it was his, yeah.
☟︎ trinque: yep. other than a system built atop simple first principles (scheme or forth-a-tron)
I don't see that a sensible approach to learning can be had.
diana_coman: heh,
I specifically avoided saying "group statements together" because
I did not know how much/whether they knew about statements
mircea_popescu: if the same archbishop inquires as to why
i poured cement the way
i did
i can answer without ado.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: god knows
i can explain math in such a manner ; what the fuck is so special about algorithmics.
diana_coman: first in 9th grade when first introduced to procedural programming; 2nd and even more clearly a few years later when
I got into functional programming - it required a change of thinking simply, it wasn't natural in either case
diana_coman: mircea_popescu, ftr
I saw and even experienced this sort of trouble but unrelated to C++ as such - related to *programming* in itself really, regardless of language
pete_dushenski: right. which is why people don't want to talk to me and why
i'm talking to you lot of bots!
mircea_popescu: and by "perfectly functioning brain"
i don't mean they're qualified to work the cash register. suppose one day the bishop of vad comes to you and asks you that. the man knows plenty of things, what do you say to him SO THAT YOU DO NOT LIE.
diana_coman: mircea_popescu,
I don't think
I basically get enough of what it was that was going on there to comment much further
mircea_popescu: that
i can't answer for. but some kind of model as to why deleting inside curly braces works, but not outside they've formed.
diana_coman: the way
I see it is that they are basically constraints - of all sorts and not necessarily of some overall design/rationality/logical stuff; if you insist for some reason to do something in that environment, then you have to work within those constraints, as nonsensical as they might be
mircea_popescu: "
i read about the types, none make any sense, they just keep declaring, what the fuck is it and how should you know!"
mircea_popescu: 90% of my audible output was "your question can not be answered in that general form". tears were shed, of rage and frustration. towards the third day
i recited from the molieben of st naggum, the part where he says c makes people lie, and there was THANK YOU! GOOD GOD!
☟︎ mircea_popescu: it's hard, C
i mean, in that it is nonsensical. nobody appreciates truly just how nonsensical it is (except eg naggum, he wrote about it) because nobody actually keeps slaves, in the proper sense of the term, and thus nobody gets to see an actual, balanced human mind interact with the ball of insanity.
mircea_popescu: fwiw
i personally "shoulder surfed" as
i hear it's called two diff people who tried their fucking best to do it. in the end managed as much as to get a command registered and to say hi world! but that was all. well over 30 hours of brow sweat.
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski eh
i'd much rather discuss teh comments there!
Framedragger:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-02#1595160 << right! (well, some duplication is not bad in itself - os can be dumb about higher-level cache but may want something for optimising/aligning disk
i/o and so on. but this sometimes leads to complexity it appears, and may be unwanted in the first place (e.g. in phuctor)...)
☝︎ Framedragger: without being snarky,
i think one guideline would be "announce more than 0 days in advance" :)
pete_dushenski:
i'm no hackathon expert (perhaps Framedragger or others can corroborate) but if
i wanted eulora hackathon results
i'd set up a meatspace booth, get red bull to sponsor, and invite teams.
pete_dushenski:
i always have to laugh whenever some review writer says "objectively speaking... etc etc". dude, wtf are you on about ? did your parrot tell you to say that ? jeez louise this is science for the people is it.
mircea_popescu: mine are in ~/src/client/foxybot ;
i expect unless specified otherwise you just put them in there
pete_dushenski: the only thing in setting up eulora that
i haven't figured out yet was where the foxybot code goes.
mircea_popescu: but
i am well and truly at a loss, who owns it ? no idea. maybe lobbes ?
i somehow du nthink it was mike_c-
a111:
I haven't seen mike_c-
jurov:
I consistently provide contact info.
I think mike_c has eulorum.org
pete_dushenski: btw who manages the eulora wiki ? it's very well done and
i might just suggest that the ubuntu instructions be updated slightly ('cs-forupload' instead of just 'cs')
trinque: imma flip it back to the old way for now.
I need to finish some things with that site generator. one sec.
BingoBoingo reading the novel formerly called Disgrace which
I shall call "Africa: Country For Old MEN, and by MEN we mean Petrus" can't help but think poor dumpy Bev ought to take Dave Lurie as Bev's wife
a111: Logged on 2017-01-01 05:18 mats:
i wonder who will be the first person here to get a tmsr related LEO visit
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-01#1595094 << wallet needs to be fixed, which yes reduces to not much reuse of the current item, but you can't have trb without a means to pay. the miner is iffier business, and really
i can't conceive why it'd be a priority. let it be, do useful things besides.
☝︎ a111: Logged on 2017-01-01 05:18 mats:
i wonder who will be the first person here to get a tmsr related LEO visit
davout: in other news imma sink some time in documenting the merciless wallet code excision that
I think is the right(tm) approach for TRB
ben_vulpes: davout:
i thought like 5 people lived there
mats:
i don't remember reading anything about alfs encounter
shinohai: Just so it is logged,
I hate all religion equally.
mats:
i wonder who will be the first person here to get a tmsr related LEO visit
☟︎☟︎ phf: ah. not too exciting, but definitely has city life. though
i'm surprised people venture outside with those insane crosswinds
phf: mats:
i don't quite remember, but
i think you're located somewhere exciting?
mats:
i guess americans are very azn too
trinque: thanks,
I'll have to be off for now.
trinque: it is the empty set that explodes in circles in my mind, not that
I deny that it must be named first. that the definition of all things has void as a dependency induces virtigo when looking out at the world.
trinque: no, and
I perceive that proceeding further will require more than a casual understanding of mathematics.
mircea_popescu: and it just goes on from there, "the real number 4 is the root of polynomials in my daily life and so
i believe in it ; but the number 4+
i priviledges the properties of abstract spaces over things much more important to us and therefore...
i do not consent to its existence." hurr.
mircea_popescu: and on the other hand, "the number four told me to headbutt a door!". really, it did ?
i suppose, perhaps, if the number four is followed by a double-sifr and occurs on your blood test result sheet right where the locals wrote "glucemia" it may be said "the number four told me to stop eating icecream", but it is rather forcing the point.
trinque:
I would say then that
I have something political signified by the symbol god in my table, and have no allocated term for the other thing
trinque:
I can see the distinction there.
mircea_popescu: "
i gotta borrow trinque for a minute.
i scrubbed the expiry off my pgp key, which of course makes a new pubkey even if it is the same modulus as before" not "
i gotta borrow trinque for a minute.
i have a refreshed (nonexpir) pubkey as of 5 min ago"
trinque: asciilifeform:
I will inspect the key then pop it in
mircea_popescu: "but they're both written down with letters". so what if they are. if
i shoot an hour of a woman fucking half a dozen men, thereby
i've constructed a woman ?
trinque:
I'm saying a man creates "apollo" the symbol as an act of will
trinque:
I suppose for now there is an equivalence between god and golum in my perhaps thick skull
trinque: as all gods of which
I'm aware are written (willed) narrative, there's an interesting membrane there