78200+ entries in 1.885s
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform listen : if coders didn'
t have to worry about whether THEIR PROGRAM EVEN HALTS
mircea_popescu: In fact there are lots of great reasons for bloatware. For one, if programmers don'
t have to worry about how large their code is, they can ship it sooner. And that means you get more features, and features make your life better (when you use them) and don'
t usually hurt (when you don'
t).
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo actually, they didn'
t come up with duralumin
decimation: "But suppose everyone wrote their own subroutines? Isn'
t that a step backward; away from the millenium when our programs are machine independent, when we all write in the same language, maybe even on the same computer? Let me take a stand: I can'
t solve the problems of the world. With luck, I can write a good program. "
decimation: one wonders what the point of using open source OS's would be if you can'
t read C
mircea_popescu: decimation you don'
t understand. for him, matter of life and death. that's how he eats.
mircea_popescu: arguably c doesn'
t do much to help the programmer not be stupid. then again, it doesn'
t actually force them to be dumb. sort of like asm, and nobody really hates asm.
mircea_popescu: <TheNewDeal> So I'm reading this conversation about programming languages from 7 days ago (28-10-2014). There is a lot of trash talking about OOPs, like C++. I don'
t see anyone mention C. Is C just not worth mentioning? <<< c is really not ~that~ bad.
devthedev: thestringpuller: I may just sell it, I don'
t have as much time as I'd like to devote to it.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> don'
t look for the 'incompetent c contest.' it's right there on your desk. << It's everywhere
BingoBoingo: Don'
t worry everyone has until new years day to learn C and enter
TheNewDeal: So I'm reading this conversation about programming languages from 7 days ago (28-10-2014). There is a lot of trash talking about OOPs, like C++. I don'
t see anyone mention C. Is C just not worth mentioning?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu: Worse. Drudge didn'
t spend the entire 1990's getting merit washed.
decimation: asciilifeform: re: verizon dns << didn'
t they announce that they would helpfully insert friendly cookies in your
http stream?
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> such coincidences. << Well, more than even killing Coindesk isn'
t a point of Qntra ending gawker?
mircea_popescu: <jurov> if i did not set up alarm, wouldn'
t have noticed <<< i imagine this sounds better in german :D
jurov: if i did not set up alarm, wouldn'
t have noticed
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu lol i learned it auditorally so spelling wasn'
t a problem
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu i can spell your name, just can'
t pronounce it!
mircea_popescu: that "put some rope on them, they're imobilized now" convention doesn'
t really work irl.
mircea_popescu: PeterL use example, dude tries to open a door by bashing his head against it. bystander "that's not how you open doors" other bystander to first bystander "you don'
t understand how the world works!"
pete_dushenski: mircea_popescu well if i came back positive in my assessment, i'd send myself down the post-partum path. wasn'
t really in the mood for that.
mircea_popescu: PeterL it's an expression, referencing the case when putin handed obimbo's butt to him for the nth time and the english propaganda yelled "putin doesn'
t understand how the world works!"
mircea_popescu: pete_dushenski tuna doesn'
t smell. everything else does.
ben_vulpes: it worked so i didn'
t poke at it further
mircea_popescu: which is why the "terrorist" members of the public don'
t want the government to have "capabilities"
mircea_popescu: the "i don'
t plan to use the capability" thing makes me wonder : isn'
t it strange that "infertility" isn'
t the leading thing in dating sites and comedian's routines re dating sites ?
bounce: I don'
t *plan* on using that sort of thing, but if I'm building a phone it's gotta have the capability
bounce: used a faxmodem. good for talking to gov'
t but also for bypassing phone queues
bounce: those things aren'
t loss-free
mircea_popescu: bounce i'd be happy with os stacks that didn'
t make world depend on internet etc.
bounce: and do a network side that isn'
t as full of holes as the current crop, and do proper separation, and provide a full off of the wireless side while leaving the other functions available, and so on.
mircea_popescu: bounce aren'
t phones one of those things you gotta make 1mn units min ?
mircea_popescu: johntraveller one major thing is that qntra doesn'
t/can'
t quite follow chinese language news atm. if you can bridge that gap there's glory in there.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform strange that he tried to copy bitcoin but didn'
t manage to think of the assbot voice.
mircea_popescu: we don'
t have a plan either. who the fuck needs plans when you got wmd.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform everyone eats what they can. it's just that for a few that doesn'
t come out of a can.
mircea_popescu: so basically "this" isn'
t really anything, is it ? random wave at a rave.
mircea_popescu: johntraveller isn'
t the lesswrong crowd flamingly libtard ?
bounce: looks like the nvidia part isn'
t the problem, but the intel part is.
bounce hasn'
t fought with xorg in a long time. not impressed by that bunch though.
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> the age-old mistake of provocateurs - thinking their master's promises are to be kept <<< this, srsly. as all the various prettygirls are to soon find out, their choices aren'
t exactly what they thought they would be.
mircea_popescu: people worth under a bitcent aren'
t even worth knowing.
gribble: Error: Could not retrieve your key from keyserver. Either it isn'
t there, or it is invalid.
gribble: Error: Could not retrieve your key from keyserver. Either it isn'
t there, or it is invalid.
cazalla: jurov: and it would help to give the context what did you ask <<< i didn'
t get answers to my questions, we just talked about bitcoin a little
BingoBoingo: cazalla: It won'
t show the interesting stuff for another 20 hours or so
mircea_popescu: open source is for when you know how to code, not for when you can'
t find a job with any of the closed source sweatshops.
mircea_popescu: directly equivalent to "don'
t you worry your pretty head, the black holes won'
t devour your soul along with anything you ever touched."
mircea_popescu: as an aside : socialism, in mathematical terms, is defined as "don'
t you worry your pretty head, power laws don'
t exist"
nubbins`: er, wait, isn'
t it actually .. yeah
mircea_popescu: it's just this thing, a dude that's scared shitless ain'
t fucking anyone,
nubbins`: "fuck you, ghomeshi, i want to leave" followed by a "fuck me? FUCK YOU" and a throat-slitting probably didn'
t seem wildly implausible at the time, either
mats_cd03: 'i sucked a dick ... to get outta there ... i didn'
t like it' -victims
mats_cd03: jian didn'
t do anything wrong, which is why lucy doesn'
t matter
The20YearIRCloud: people think they are, but they aren'
t, it says on the TV show itself that it's a documentary
bounce: the arrester wires aren'
t that much of a problem. it's the catapult that's a pain to maintain.
mircea_popescu: bounce there are reasons you can'
t have a decent meal in teh uk.
nubbins`: well y'know. if messy ghomeshi had sense, he wouldn'
t be in the pickle hes in
bounce: of course some OS on phone. won'
t function without it.
bounce: actually kinda weird. can'
t cool except move heat away and causing extra heat in the process
nubbins`: half the roads aren'
t wide enough for cars
mircea_popescu: bounce you don'
t understand how the building works. if they used stone it'd sink into the ice.
nubbins`: so he removes the deck from the side of the house, pulls it into the middle of the roof, and WALLS OFF THE ENTRANCE so the deck can'
t be removed
mircea_popescu: ;;later tell enky srsly, "we love bitcoin" "comments are closed" and "don'
t send donations in BTC that coinbase can'
t process" on the same page ? what is this!
mircea_popescu: wasn'
t this supposed to be like all big deal discount "largest sale night of the year" etc ?