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mircea_popescu: phf funny that he spent any time on bbsen / early mailing lists and dunno what tourist is
mircea_popescu: no real way to make this work otherwise, sadly. unless of course one's willing to write ~a 3d simulator via html5
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it occurs to me, btw, that wrt the problem of the space for the right sidebar hanbot actually has the perfect fucking solution. check out thewhet.net : there's those selectors uptop, can have n overlays this way.
mircea_popescu: how can be!!! THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD must be more important than this!!11 waaah!
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo o wow don't tell me the "bitcoin crashes because usg postures re its own paper bitcoin-ersatz" thing failed to last the week
mircea_popescu: phuctor is like teh eternal flame of the republic by now
mircea_popescu: it's the context, not the substance, that controls here.
mircea_popescu: strongest rebuff i know of the whole "ustards, psssh." angle.
mircea_popescu: anyway, in other lulz, what is the winklevoss / silbert / etc usgian dorks claim to fame now ?
mircea_popescu: fine illustration of birthday paradox. if names were 4 characters long and randomly distributed, there'd be 13k people with the same name
mircea_popescu: ugh. between the blog and the log he didn't find anything ?!
mircea_popescu: and the product of this ("obviousness") is reallyt the lest fungible item there is.
mircea_popescu: it is a very false idea that what we say here "is in the open" and thereby "anyone could" etc. the prb devs can't, notwithstanding their own delusions of information and ability.
mircea_popescu: it's not just the direct effect ("generic enough to be re-usable"). much more important are the second order effects. (if you never went to school, you'd never even HAVE KNOWN what computers are, and consequently...) sort of thing.
mircea_popescu: yeah a blockchain-and-mempool testing harness would be a mighty fine item to have.
mircea_popescu: you won't see 239 cuz it timeouts at 240 lol. and if you wait enough might even see 278.
mircea_popescu: well i fucked it up, said tanks twice. first one is metals.
mircea_popescu: their problem, however, is that they have nfi what they're doing, like that dog driving van on trilema.
mircea_popescu: same exact thing with the docker people -- if theior problem was that they wrote spr1ntf it'd be one thing
mircea_popescu: mp goes hunting. if mp goes hunting without a rifle and bullets, mp has fucked up the tanks part of engineering. if mp goes hunting in unknown martian planet, ends up eaten by hunter-eater, mp has fucked up river part of engineering. if mp goes hunting in zoo, shoots english bobby through overpenetration, mp has fucked up tanks part of engineering. if mp goes hunting in hunting place and hunts quarry but misses his shot, tech
mircea_popescu: seriously though, trivial failure mode. compiler wil lcomplain if nothing else.
mircea_popescu: how this would work -- i've no idea, but technically i suppose it's there.
mircea_popescu: yes, if you meant "maybe alf typos the code and doesn't notice" then yes, expect.
mircea_popescu: but i wouldn't say "when i pull trigger i expect round to discharge". because i don't.
mircea_popescu: "we're expecting her to deliver my child in june". that's expect.
mircea_popescu: no, it means actual expect. something you want and will take time.
mircea_popescu: i expect girl to shave. ie, tomorrow. i don't expect anything out of the floor.
mircea_popescu: expectation is the equivalent of the continuous tense, you may have expectations out of your household. but no expectations are involved in fuckgoats. if the current is what it was specified it'll work and if not it will burn. what do you ~expect~ ?
mircea_popescu: the meaning of pile is that they are defined, specified, circumscribed.
mircea_popescu: people are utterly resistent to doing this, principally because hopemechanism/bad engineers.
mircea_popescu: for the docker guy ? make pile of tanks (what he's engineering for) ; river (what he's engineering against) ; metal (what he's engineering with).
mircea_popescu: no, because docker rat fails to correctly pile up his materials.
mircea_popescu: there's no expectation involved. for these tanks on this river out of this metal this is the bridge.
mircea_popescu: (materials, here, means : the river ; the metal ; the tanks)
mircea_popescu: not so. these are the materials, this is thereby the bridge.
mircea_popescu: engineering is specifically the practice of eliminating expectations from human behaviour. it is the hopeless adventure.
mircea_popescu: this is no kind of argument against having test suite.
mircea_popescu: to be fed to node to be tested from block 1 onwards, can set own difficulty then.