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trinque: if we want to get out the real tin foil for
a minute, somebody might suspect the "great powers" have been planning on how to restructure the middle east *together*
trinque: this guy's
a fucking cartoonist
trinque: lulzy, so US-istan is unique in its scam and plunder campaign for
a few paragraphs, then "lets get the rest of the major powers to all plunder saudi together"
mircea_popescu: actually -- to try and convice him to sign
a statement beseaching all the other teachers never EVER to try.
mircea_popescu: wasting his money." quoth the endearigly naive mr ballas. except the counter to this is in disgrace, the novel, of course : when
a teacher does finally, for incomprehensible reasons, try, the OTHER TEACHERS assemble
a panel to try and con
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
mircea_popescu: fucking idiots, "oh, in this very narrow sliver of experience that is our irrelevant if self-important life, x observation held so far, especially because he have no fucking clue as to statistics, logic, or anything else. THEREFORE IT IS
A NATURAL LAW OF THE UNYVERSE!!!"
trinque: adlai: what is this,
a gunzip exploit or something?
adlai: today is
a beautiful day, it hasn't rained in /hours/
mircea_popescu: it's not
a strategy for anything than for the pernicious insanity of "marketing matters".
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: for
a browser ? come on. it's not good. the only thing it had going for it were
a bunch of retards using it. now it doesn't even have that.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger because who knows, but it is under 10%,
a lesser opera by now.
mircea_popescu: which is in itself
a very amusing commentary on the toils and travails of the jwz gang. they... rescued netscape. and it did... netscape.
Framedragger: simple, high-entropy fingerprint of
a computer. In fact, the hash of the rendered image can be used almost identically to
a tracking cookie by the web server."
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.
mircea_popescu: wasn';t that supposed to be replaced with an inflatable matress or
a scooba goggle or something ?
a111: Logged on 2016-12-24 17:45 asciilifeform: this 'works' is
a pestilence and is largely why clueful greybeards from the meat world , e.g., mircea_popescu , unzip and piss on programmers simply for sport
trinque: oh sure, no argument here. but then go and rewrite
a compatible gcc
trinque: I thought asciilifeform had
a www on this
trinque: yes, one can memorize
a mapping between some phenomena and their effects, and this does not amount to "understands computers"
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.
mircea_popescu: however it's not just that nobody "involved" in "development" of $modern-software package can't make
a statement of any kind in this sense. it goes all the way back before the crays.
mircea_popescu: but yes, the thing V brings to light, slowly, and evidently painfully, is that the rot did not start within our lifetimes. there's almost
a century of subjugation of sense for the sake of convenience, inaugurated like all insanity during the war and maintained hence. the standard of "make
a statement about x" does not reduce to "here you go" "is it true ?" "well, at least in one case it is". properly speaking, there must be n
diana_coman: well, it started as
a set of holes in punch-cards - not sure what life support is that likely to get to
mircea_popescu: it's not of the nature of, we go for
a walk, and now the flat turns into rolling hills and we are in
a forest and the trail eventually takes us up to
a mountain. nothing of the kind. it's that we go up to the water line, wherein we don the scuba gear, and enter an entirely new world.
mircea_popescu: computer programming in
a practical sense doesn't flow logically from anything.
mircea_popescu: but it's
a hackathon not
a course in theoretical cs ; we're not at liberty to not write one line of code within the first six months ; we must start within five minutes. yes that which you say exists, but this different other thing also exists. why doesn't it ?
trinque: better to start from what an AST is, preferably in
a language where levels of AST are delimited in the same manner always
mircea_popescu: see, it's not
a question of saying something which is in some context correct ; it is
a question of saying something which while meaningful, is is no context false.
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
mircea_popescu: diana_coman consider someone who has
a perfectly functioning brain and no prior exposure to programming.
BingoBoingo:
A number of women make fine MEN in the model of Petrus.
pete_dushenski: which is why calling the open eulora bot coding competition FOR MEN ONLY "
a hackathon" seems... odd.
diana_coman: pete_dushenski, aha, social coding at it's best, used to be called
a party
mircea_popescu: diana_coman consider - there isn't
a general statement of "what is it exactly {} do". this is already
a fine and complete statement.
mircea_popescu: understand - most of the convention is opaque in
a proper sense. merely discovering that {} must be preserved, for instance, took time.
mircea_popescu: Te blestem pe tine, incepatorul rautatilor si al hulei, capetenia impotrivirii si urzitorul vicleniei. Te blestem pe tine, cel aruncat din lumina cea de sus si surpat pentru mandrie in intunericul adancului. Te blestem pe tine si pe toata puterea cea cazuta ce
a urmat vointa ta. Te blestem pe tine, duh necurat, cu Dumnezeu Savaot si cu toata oastea ingerilor lui Dumnezeu, Adonai, Eloi, Dumnezeul cel atotputernic; iesi si te d
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.
diana_coman: kind of curious what does pete_dushenski consider as "results" in such
a case: number of participants? the "atmosphere"?
a111: Logged on 2017-01-02 20:28 Framedragger: (and according to .kr banks, have
a few people sit at table and literally stare at teams, making notes. such conservative bank, hasn't changed them into robots yet)
Framedragger: We think that Key Escrow is
a Bad Thing; however the user should have the freedom to decide whether to go to prison or to reveal the content of one specific message without compromising all messages ever encrypted for one secret key. DON'T USE IT UNLESS YOU ARE REALLY FORCED TO DO SO."
a111: Logged on 2017-01-02 18:21 mircea_popescu: rather than everyone just using the cache like it were
a gpu
Framedragger: (and according to .kr banks, have
a few people sit at table and literally stare at teams, making notes. such conservative bank, hasn't changed them into robots yet)
☟︎ 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.
BingoBoingo: pete_dushenski: Yeah, and
a Petrus ended up owning that David too!
mircea_popescu: somewhere it will occur to someone that in
a model where men have the run of the land, hunting for beasts to eat and fuck, an amassing of domesticated cattle in the shape of symbolic "goats" (which you can both eat and fuck, and in practice would be mixes of women, cows, whatever) will result in
a very divergent approach : men hunt across the land for resources and women hunt across their backs for fleas.
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-
mircea_popescu: it might be jurov ? tis
a community run project, feel free to edit yourself.
trinque:
a better temporary fix is to just have the command write the file if absent, going with that to keep permalinks
mircea_popescu: Framedragger in general the problem is present, caching on
a different level than the application creates complex problems.
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 08:13 davout: people have been shooting fireworks *every single night* for at least
a month or something
a111: Logged on 2017-01-01 06:23 asciilifeform:
a+++++
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: my neighborhood sounds like
a fucking war zone
davout: asciilifeform: genesis is the reference, keepring it around is
a whole different story
a111: Logged on 2015-12-14 22:50 ascii_field: IT'S
A FUCKING REFERENCE CLIENT
davout: people have been shooting fireworks *every single night* for at least
a month or something
☟︎ a111: Logged on 2017-01-01 05:10 ben_vulpes: fireworks are just marvelous for
a fourteen month old's sleep
ben_vulpes: showed up asking questions at one of his places of work iirc, but cannot find
a line
mats: aren't there
a lot of addicts where you are, what's odd about
a car burglary
a111: Logged on 2015-12-20 20:26 jurov: they're not pathological, just black swans. with
a toupee.
mats: i wonder who will be the first person here to get
a tmsr related LEO visit
☟︎☟︎ shinohai: What
a Trumptastic New Year this shall be.