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mircea_popescu:
phf well they weren't priceless antiques yet. and i doubt many people seriously saw a putin future back then.
mircea_popescu:
phf wut srsly ? i take it YOUR soviet state wasn't friends with china back then huh ?
assbot: Logged on 22-09-2015 00:17:16;
phf: i think ping pong balls and badminton shuttlecocks (oh man european sport hobbies) was closest we've gotten to plastics
mircea_popescu:
phf what fuse, stick a length of shoelace in there, good to go.
mircea_popescu:
phf yup, it was so bad at some point sports suppliers refused to sell ping pong balls to boys.
BingoBoingo: <
phf> for effective flame thrower you really want a gelling agent << polystyrene
cazalla:
phf, she wouldn't believe them anyway eh
BingoBoingo:
phf: By Philadelphia saturation levels I assume you are referring to the "cream cheese" which helps them bulk to their size?
ascii_field:
phf et al: from my (admittedly very distant) perch, my understanding of usg's engineering problem is as follows
ascii_field:
phf: the light bulb miner iirc was suggested here.
assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 22:55:01;
phf: presumably it's either glibc and small binaries or no glibc and the entire stdlib attached to the thing. ocaml at least doesn't do any sort of "tree shaking"
assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 22:57:48;
phf: have you already dropped ocaml from your evaluation based on that article you posted couple of days ago?
assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 22:32:40;
phf: asciilifeform:
phf: they all have fuckin' ~huge~ binaries so far as i'm concerned << i don't think i was too picky at the time, i.e. cmucl dumps 20mb images, and my main concern was audio latency anyway. oh i also used mlkit for that reason, it uses a combination of frame based memory management and gc, so you can have realtime guarantees.
assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 22:33:17;
phf: never the less later that was reason why i looked at ocaml, with some flags and afair abandonment of all stdlib packages, you can get it to produce binaries in the low 100kb range. entirely useless.
assbot: Logged on 19-09-2015 22:40:54;
phf: if b-a was a 1912 revolutionary clique, pete would be a hotheaded guy with a nagant, shooting up chandelier to announce our arrival. "comrade mats was questioning comrade lenin's communique, so i gave him nagant to the gut."
phf: asciilifeform:
phf: they all have fuckin' ~huge~ binaries so far as i'm concerned << i don't think i was too picky at the time, i.e. cmucl dumps 20mb images, and my main concern was audio latency anyway. oh i also used mlkit for that reason, it uses a combination of frame based memory management and gc, so you can have realtime guarantees.
☟︎ shinohai: Tablets are shit too, imho
phf mircea_popescu: <
phf> talking about it or presenting second hand revelations as some sort of ultimate truth completely contradicts the original intent. <<< it is altogether dubious any original intent even exists, or that "intent" as a category is at all adequate to discuss the matter. perhaps a decent approach towards what "existential" sanely means in the context is provided by the "causes not purposes" dichotomy. there is no inten
mircea_popescu: <
phf> the translations are universally bad, but gave westerners first glimpses of "eastern thought" << and by westerners we mean, of course, americans.
mircea_popescu feels compelled to point out re
phf's worthy evaluation of topic that a significant part of eliade's said evaluation was drilling a local dude's daughter.
ag3nt_zer0:
phf: are you just referring to that east vs. west chapter? I ask because though he explores eastern esoterism he was actually a practicing sufi
ag3nt_zer0:
phf: interesting. becauseas I understand it guenon used to travel in the theosophist circles in france until he rejected them in favor of a more rigorous "traditionalism" - he even wrote a book about it - Theosophy: history of a pseudo religion - I think it was called... so i guess it could be asserted that he was still "unconsciously" operating under some of their errors but 1) it seems odd to think that a person with an
mircea_popescu:
phf tito was, like stalin was, originally, a hood rat.
mircea_popescu:
phf capone was a dollop tho. stalin didn't get tito, tax evasion or no tax evasion.
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 21:24:02;
phf: i suppose one half of b-a should start on a linux distro and the other work on cl-emacs naggum always wanted *ducks*
assbot: Logged on 14-09-2015 19:51:41;
phf: anton_osika thread reminds me of thomas jefferson arguing for debt relief while heavily indebted, he also uses "this is best for the people" argument, with the main difference that the debt question was at the time open, where's what osika is arguing against is the core idea of gpg contracts. the point of the thread has been fully answered in gpg contracts article and with a poetic take in hanbot's story, both
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 22:29:17;
phf: quitting school? that's a paddling
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 23:11:06;
phf: that's actually mikhail brin in checkered shirt on the left of the large woman in questionable outfit
mircea_popescu:
phf so it is. i find it an excellent picture because it so drastically sets him apart.
mircea_popescu:
phf regarding it with adult eyes... it is kinda not age appropriate neh ?
mircea_popescu:
phf i don't mean cutting class. i mean quitting. permanently.
mircea_popescu:
phf and there's nothing wrong with the process per se, as a distraction. but you have to admit the only way it was an acceptable behaviour when you were 16 was because YOU ALSO WENT OT SCHOOL.
mircea_popescu:
phf: well, i have a 2.4 box that runs "if your dodgy stack fails, this must remain" operations, like email << this design hasn't been recently reviewed i would guess.
mircea_popescu:
phf you mean a number not a pointer, and using it to be a function is abuse ?
trinque:
phf: haven't found starfleet yet, nor even a used Firefly in a junkyard
trinque:
phf: the germans weren't that great once upon a time, then they came around
punkman:
phf: and in 2006 it had that nice rng bug
assbot: Logged on 12-09-2015 10:18:46;
phf: ascii_field: mircea_popescu: go give ben_vulpes a unix and laptop co-designed with it, then he can throw away the crapple << there's three apples in my mind, 90s one, the early 2000s one when programmers migrated from linux to a unix that Just Works, and the post iphone explosion apple. the first two are dead (10.10 is the final reason i froze my setup and migrating my entire stack away). but my point is that
mircea_popescu:
phf they can go discover the moscow school of psychology for all i fucking care. idiots.
assbot: Logged on 11-09-2015 14:20:34;
phf: i was in moscow few weeks after iphone 5 release and saw status games golden youth would play with it, polished girls coyly extracting iphones to pretense that bought it in new york just last week, iphones on tables at expensive cafes, etc. i've seen more iphones over a weekend out then in moscow then i've ever in the states. nothing like that was happening after 6 came out, of course it's my impressions, but i
punkman:
phf, bringing hookah from other shop down the stree?
mircea_popescu:
phf yeah, they exist like buenos aires night life exists.
mircea_popescu:
phf you know they supposedly have those torture hotels in tokyo
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 20:41:27;
phf: trinque: modern christian position on divorce, on a role of a woman in household, on a role of man in household, on premarital sex, all sham. fundamentally there's no belief in the bible. no first world christian guy would even consider living according to bible in, say, muslim style. so what constitutes badassery? hunting from a back of a pickup, or "i was linebacker 30 years ago"?
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 20:08:37; trinque:
phf: I can see that point, but I see the problem as a matter of what rules are imposed, not that they are imposed.
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 05:48:38;
phf: asciilifeform: you know if midnight commander has something like su or sudo vfs?
assbot: Logged on 04-09-2015 05:48:38;
phf: asciilifeform: you know if midnight commander has something like su or sudo vfs?
mircea_popescu: <
phf> i don't know understand why everything needs to be made so idiotic. << heh.
trinque:
phf: could amount to nothing, but that part's not much up to them
mircea_popescu:
phf i think 2/3 of the benefit regulars derive from being here is this sort of thing
ascii_field:
phf: what do you have that is readable without a backlight?
mircea_popescu:
phf this screen rightnao i have at 6300K and 0.375 gamma
assbot: Logged on 03-09-2015 19:17:20;
phf: i have a hand rolled version of instapaper that takes html articles and adds them to a periodic readinglist.mobi. same for b-a logs. in fact i read most of the stuff on kindle, far away from a real computer..
trinque:
phf: I see the beliefs themselves less relevant than the command structure implied by them
trinque:
phf: I know christians that believe the man's the head of the house, and that one is to follow the bible literally
trinque:
phf: eh, I don't think you know my rednecks
trinque:
phf: also elaborate if you would on how the "badass christian patriarch" is false?
trinque:
phf: I can see that point, but I see the problem as a matter of what rules are imposed, not that they are imposed.
☟︎ ascii_field:
phf: 'dx' was imho the only usable machine from them
ascii_field:
phf: it is better to use a really good computer proggy, like 'derive', than a shit calculator
ascii_field:
phf: it isn't about 'retro name' but about the only programmer's calculator ever made
ascii_field:
phf: if you're ~connected~ with more than a handful, you are flagged.
BingoBoingo:
phf: Also I end up having to replace the fan annually, but probably because I take it out to smoke cigarettes with me.
BingoBoingo:
phf: My 120e does with a different wifi card
trinque:
phf: yeah, this is mostly a mobile terminal
ben_vulpes:
phf: one day i'll find an interesting question, i swear
trinque:
phf: and if that useful computation is DNS?
assbot: Logged on 01-09-2015 22:21:22;
phf: asciilifeform: what about something like this
http://paste.lisp.org/display/154647, put a flag on sighup, put a couple of checks (i'm not sure if my guess as far as mainloop is correct) for the flag, do a stop the world snapshot. can have it running normally, periodically send kill -HUP ...