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The20YearIRCloud: I didn'
t realize that it was possible to do that, are the speeds typically much higher than what their clocked counterparts are?
decimation: 'we don'
t do it because no chips and tools' 'no chips and tools because no demand'
decimation: yeah that's a good point, why doesn'
t samsung or some chinese vendor bust this stuff up?
decimation: I can'
t imagine that this business model of making enemies of your customers will survive
assbot: Logged on 01-10-2014 03:13:19; asciilifeform: phun phact. traditionally, the folks who write cpu manuals (how many people here have seen them alive? dead tree manuals) don'
t have access to original design specs.
decimation: indeed, for instance from the yegge article: "We retired Mailman. That's because we have the Quality With a Name — namely, Suckiness. We suck. We couldn'
t find anyone who was good enough at Emacs-Lisp to make it work. "
gabriel_laddel: asciilifeform: I see. What I don'
t understand is why CLers haven'
t just ditched the web.
decimation: ?? what part isn'
t the problem? 'automatic parallel-ization?
gabriel_laddel: decimation: re, the problem with lisp... this isn'
t CL's problem, and not a real problem anyway. Compare to writing ~ALGOL on c-machine.
mircea_popescu: decimation i don'
t get this. all machines are multi-core
mircea_popescu: because marginal hires won'
t ruin your codebase quite as badly ?
mircea_popescu: "(yeah, there are a bunch) are going to have to realize that if Lisp is ever going to be massively successful, it needs an overhaul. Or maybe a revolution. Contrary to what some might tell you, it doesn'
t need a committee, and it doesn'
t need a bunch of money. Linux proved exactly the opposite. Lisp needs a benevolent dictator. Lisp needs to ditch the name "Lisp", since it scares people. And Lisp needs to learn from th
mircea_popescu: saying that the only thing this apple's good for is the pigs doesn'
t amount to a suggesting feeding the pigs.
mircea_popescu: "Every 15 years or so, languages are replaced with better ones. C was replaced by C++, at least for large-scale application development by people who needed performance but desperately wanted data types too. C++ is being replaced by Java, and Java will doubtless be replaced with something better in seven years — well, seven years after it finishes replacing C++, which evidently hasn'
t fully happened yet, mostly becau
assbot: How A Bigger Blockchain Is Less Secure And Why Block Size Ain'
t Gonna Increase Any Time Soon | Contravex: A blog by Pete Dushenski
mircea_popescu: "these are my children" ? "this is my house". most property owners don'
t own their own torens title bureaus
mircea_popescu: (there's an extra bit in there, where people with a lot of exposure, financial, intellectual, emotional, w/e also run full nodes - but generally they also won'
t be following patently insane notions a la "let's make the blocks infinite")
pete_dushenski: thankfully, i had made a back-up but i was pretty choked for a minute cuz the auto-save didn'
t include that last article about gavin's retardation
pete_dushenski: TheNewDeal: surprised they didn'
t make a pitch to increase the blocksize limit << lol
mircea_popescu: in other words, back to the topic : i think the people arguing that c is just the way to talk to the c-machine, aka von neumann machine have it wrong - c is just the way average people abstract. fortunately that fit into an already existing machine, but if it hadn'
t it'd have been forcibly fit anyway.
gabriel_laddel: I don'
t understand what you're getting at. (emacs) Lisp still has to store things in files.
mircea_popescu: We have 50 million lines of C++ code. No, it's more than that now. I don'
t know what it is anymore. It was 50 million last Christmas, nine months ago, and was expanding at 8 million lines a quarter. The expansion rate was increasing as well. Ouch."
TheNewDeal: surprised they didn'
t make a pitch to increase the blocksize limit
thestringpuller: ;;later tell nubbins` hey instead of refund can I just get another poster :( the USPS can'
t find it
cazalla: mircea_popescu: mebbe qntra publishes a summary, then i can "watch" it too <<< i can'
t sit and watch that guy for 2 hours
TheNewDeal: somehow they don'
t know how to link to a video
mircea_popescu: thickasthieves: usg is just alarmed hacker haz more dataz than them, so jelly <<< AAAANNDD they don'
t even quote trilema. not like it's been a secret over here, for the past half year or so.
mircea_popescu: lol what is this, "if you remember the 60s you weren'
t there" ?
thestringpuller: i think there are all male universities still around...but I don'
t know who would want to attend
mircea_popescu: so you can'
t have gentlemen's clubs but you can have all cunt university ?!
nubbins`: half those people in the room don'
t know what the fuck a computer is
nubbins`: i don'
t think the phrase "blew my mind" has a literal meaning
BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> which kinda explains the unholy proliferation of the "vlogger". derp that can'
t be bothered to write shit down because it's too much work, and so instead he wants everyone to see past his out of shape flesh and obnoxiously poor vocalisation. beause that's somehow not a lot of work. << Why Vlogger's can'
t be relevant
mircea_popescu: which kinda explains the unholy proliferation of the "vlogger". derp that can'
t be bothered to write shit down because it's too much work, and so instead he wants everyone to see past his out of shape flesh and obnoxiously poor vocalisation. beause that's somehow not a lot of work.
nubbins`: 'cause sorry bru operating expenses don'
t ya know
fluffypony: even the ones that aren'
t used for meat
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform "Suppose you want to support strings and have a string comparison instruction. You might think that "it's done in the hardware", so it's blindingly fast. It isn'
t, because the hardware still has to access memory, one word per cycle. A superscalar/VLIW assembly loop would run just as quickly; the only thing you'd save is a few bytes for instruction encoding. On the other hand, your string comparison thingi
decimation: I hadn'
t made the connection between french elite absurdity and Nietzsche - an interesting connection
mircea_popescu: <mircea_popescu> i don'
t really like the mr trololo treatment << this was re the seuss link
decimation: the french revolution wasn'
t only caused by the socialists, it was also caused by the pathetic derpiness of the 'nobility' and monarchy
decimation: my understanding is that early analog cell phones weren'
t even trunked, they had a dedicated channel while connected
mircea_popescu: <asciilifeform> because modern111!1111 browser won'
t build there << what is the "modern browser" for ?
hanbot: news doesn'
t call for it so often, i don'
t think.
thestringpuller: probably not a need since the intended audience isn'
t retards
mike_c: probably can'
t curse as much as on the forums
mircea_popescu: whoever makes it, either makes it to spec or it won'
t work. period and enforced.
mircea_popescu: you can'
t install airplane flaps on your car. somehow this is perfectly comprehensible. why should you be able to use a noncompliant usb stick ?
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller the "working group" hasn'
t yet heard of bitcoin
mircea_popescu: <nubbins`> you can do minimalist without stooping to using browser defaults << i don'
t think that's stooping.
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller nah can'
t be bothered. but also am not depressed.
cazalla: anyway, while driving such long distances, i got to listening to let's talk bitcoin episodes and in one of the latests, adreas concedes bitcoin isn'
t for africa but maybe now philippines, argentina
ninjashogun: I don'
t htink that's the sole purpose of letting me speak.
ninjashogun: What I mean is that that is the meaning of the sentence "things you don'
t understand and things that are random don'
t share much common ground" gramatically. (though i understand you're just being rhetorical). after you factor out the double negatives.