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a111: Logged on 2018-05-22 21:47 mircea_popescu: so far that's even the reason empire crossed the threshold into oblivion ( i'm too lazy to dig up ye olde trilema where i say "state may exist for
as long
as it so closely mimmicks my will i can't discern it's there, and not one second past that" ) and now must be destroyed. had it had the sense (rather, the capacity) to maintain both forms, i'd nwever have even noticed it, and it could have continued to exist therefore.
mircea_popescu: the ~other~ good approach is 1. calculate average quality
as a real ; 2. calculate the integer piles of consecutive qualities this reduces to (you'll never get an irrational value through 1, which in itself is a very itneresting lemma) ; 3. try all pile pairs in some (random ?) order for producing either of the two expected qualities.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: so far, the correct approach seems to be : 1. select the outlier piles (highest q, lowest q). 2. mix the smaller of the two with such a fraction of the larger of the two
as can be done. 3. repeat. if 2 fails, move inwardly on the pair list.
mod6: i dunno, maybe? i felt like my arm was gonna fall off a few times. but never
as bad
as anything perm.
mircea_popescu: im right, im right. there's a reason we're using "two stacks of diff parities"
as stop condition.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-23 22:41 BingoBoingo: If you come to Uruguay, avoid the shrimp pastas. Very underwhelming
as a rule.
trinque: it's not
as though anyone's coming at me with quantum physics on an IRS form
BingoBoingo: If you come to Uruguay, avoid the shrimp pastas. Very underwhelming
as a rule.
☟︎ lobbesbot: diana_away: Sent 3 days, 18 hours, and 28 minutes ago: <mircea_popescu> what if we hard-forbid low ids, server side
as ad interim measure ?
Mocky: asciilifeform, at the time, wasn't trying to confirm correctness of problem statement, was trying to deliver useful feature
as described
a111: Logged on 2016-08-20 14:39 mircea_popescu: i have eight sets of "sb" (solid branch) : 503 q 222 ; 1466 q 3 ; 973 q 207 ; 983 q 252 ; 1651 q 258 ; 2963 q 189 ; 563 q 22 and 336 q 225. the first number is the count, the second the quality (depends on your mining, whatever) ; you can mix these, the game will floor the average quality. this means you can lose matter through mixing, so you want to mix stacks so
as to obtain the highest possible quality final.
mircea_popescu: most of these people ~are poor~. single clerical error in hr can destructure a firm through the simple procedure of "director" is now "inmate"
as can not afford to pay tax bills ?
mircea_popescu: but remember when politburo decided shit sandwich just
as good
as imperialistic-bourgeois decadent cured meats ?
mircea_popescu: support for they naive is not worth having. know what talking to a computer means
as part of your existing in the world, which is to say, outsider of the harem where some slave spawned you.
phf: asciilifeform: beat me to it, re puzzler
as graph traversal
mircea_popescu:
as the perdurant reader no doubt noticed, i'm a great restationist.
BingoBoingo: Boeing like schoolbus lacks a natural use. Might
as well repurpose either
as cabin in alaskan woods.
mircea_popescu: otherwise... i didn't even go by bus
as a jr high kid, wtf is this.
mircea_popescu: most of the bussing i ever did was via greyhound trip in mid 2000s, and deliberately for to meet various such people
as use the bus in the us.
a111: Logged on 2015-01-21 01:37 mircea_popescu: very common problem people have on the internet, the "everyone is
as stupid
as me / everyone's a goat the same gender and age
as me" issue.
mircea_popescu: seems there's the two strategies - either a very low bar of individuation,
as employed on 4chan's "anon" bla bla -- they're not anonymous, it's just the identity attaqinable is very simple
a111: Logged on 2018-08-22 14:34 asciilifeform: in other heathen lulz,
https://archive.is/yUvwS << 2017-style shitfork , rebranded
as a kind of faux-trb, 'Satoshi Vision' of... 'block size to 128 MB'
BingoBoingo: So there is a local holiday called "Dia de nostalgia" where the locals listen to old pop music. The Peruana is rather insistent that the holiday is today. Thusly she took me for a walk, is cooking soup, and is cleaning Casa Boingo. I am under the impression the holiday is later this week,
as the busdrivers and kiosk operators appear to be
as well.
mircea_popescu: there's no such thing
as "the innocent zek". inca exists because the zeks exist.
mircea_popescu: i only read usg productions
as literary fiction when it involves standing members ; otherwise it's liars playing liar. why would i trust CAMPOS more than the system he and his friends created ? or less, for that matter.
a111: Logged on 2016-08-20 14:39 mircea_popescu: i have eight sets of "sb" (solid branch) : 503 q 222 ; 1466 q 3 ; 973 q 207 ; 983 q 252 ; 1651 q 258 ; 2963 q 189 ; 563 q 22 and 336 q 225. the first number is the count, the second the quality (depends on your mining, whatever) ; you can mix these, the game will floor the average quality. this means you can lose matter through mixing, so you want to mix stacks so
as to obtain the highest possible quality final.
a111: Logged on 2018-08-21 18:26 phf: this is for scripting though, the constraints are presumably not
as tight. also gc is a kind of outer bound of a problem, can usually be special cased on a case by case. e.g. in erlang's case you can do region based allocation per process: cons
as much
as you want, collect everything when process dies.
BingoBoingo: It's a tale
as old
as time. Chicken company went bankrupt. Food gets low during a cold snap while the paperwork to get more food is en tramite. Chickens starve
phf: Mocky: it's an affectation, old time lispers used to refer to any kind of allocation
as consing, but in c terms the implication there is malloc + whatever collection facility, not just a fire and forget malloc
phf: this is for scripting though, the constraints are presumably not
as tight. also gc is a kind of outer bound of a problem, can usually be special cased on a case by case. e.g. in erlang's case you can do region based allocation per process: cons
as much
as you want, collect everything when process dies.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: (not for me
as much
as for these fine fellows, they still like their middle earth etc)
mircea_popescu: 20% to research, 80% to phrasing research results "in such a way
as to not..."
mircea_popescu: 1600s, whatever, "renaissance" amirite.
as fucking if, in england. aaanyways.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, infinitesimal calculus was exactly this, never published
as such but merely used, "by the claw we know the lion" etc. you familiar with all that ?
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 15:41 mircea_popescu: "when you read a text and can distinguish the absurdities it contains from the actual sense, you may claim you have an anachronistic understanding of the matter ; but when you read the text and clearly see the ~necessity~ of the absurdities, their fundamentally-required-ness, and the circumstantialness of the sense, you may claim meaningful understanding of the item"
as the witticism goes.
mircea_popescu: in point of fact, newton was alchemist with strong religious notions WHO ALSO DID some math and published some physics observations. but
AS A RESULT and FOR THE PURPOSE of his teological and alchemical studies.
mircea_popescu: the post-clinton america, intellectually
as well
as factually, is only useful to orcs&niggers anymore ; and pointedly not any longer useful to people.
mircea_popescu: you're supposed to share libraries with thinking people so they can point out to you the obvious stupid. this is unrelated to the "you're not supposed to fucking call this
as a function, you're supposed to read it
as an algorithm, understant it, and implement it yourself"
Mocky: the deskilling goes hand in hand with proliferation of library-ism and github-ism. library in reality is the natural outcome of experienced practitioner isolating code that has no business freely mixing with other code. for use primarily by same person. but today the 99% see library
as opaque boxes meant to pile up and put a little shit pile of new code on top
a111: Logged on 2018-06-27 23:41 asciilifeform: generally -- the industrialist saw the artisan
as a headache, and killed him. nao we get to 'enjoy' the fruits of de-artisan'ed industry.
Mocky: stepanov strikes me
as guy trying to do the right thing for a library to be used by millions of programs, while also being resigned to the shityness of c++ and of average developer
mod6: Whomever the user is, must also be in the wot
as part of the script requires that the executor to enter in a password for the user, then PGP encrypting that temporary password to the user in the WoT.
mod6: Ok, so I think I can help with this here too --
as soon
as we have an SSH key. There is a script to do at least the useradd part of this, which I can attempt to run with the given key.
a111: Logged on 2017-03-30 14:38 asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: i will also nitpick : 'erlang' does not belong in the list, it was a 1980s product that worked quite well in its industrial niche (large telco switches) but was later stolen and used
as a totem by the folx from yesterday's thread (
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-03-29#1633873 )
a111: Logged on 2017-03-30 14:43 asciilifeform: anyway erlang is imho only worth discussing
as part of a larger pattern -- industry after industry independently discovered that c -- and its entire approach to logic -- is poison
mircea_popescu: if you think of it
as a potentials map, suddenly it becomes evident : large cancerous accretion mass drives all other things closer together
a111: Logged on 2016-02-15 17:58 asciilifeform: specifically how there is no place in usa where one can 'i will pay double for non-monsanto but i don't give a fuck about 'gmo' and i sure
as fuck don't want to see homeopathic crud in the shop'
a111: Logged on 2018-08-16 16:35 mircea_popescu: asciilifeform the probable "cause" for there not being sane dict for living langs, you realise, is that there IS such a thing
as a cannonical body of greek, but "who is to say what anglovomit does not make the cut".
mircea_popescu: ye olde hope of the "democratic" "paficist" panworldism : if nobody can
as much
as fart without involving ~everyone else, "world peace".
mircea_popescu:
as it is, the politics carefully (and secretly) constraining it, all that's left visible is harmless nonsense, a la "saudis buyers of luxury cars"
mircea_popescu: in a sense, there's never been things that were contained of
as little thingness. really, 1ppm or less ? such performance takes surprise, fear and a fanatical devotion to the pope.
mircea_popescu: i suppose the best illustration for this problem is ye olde bullet.
as proper a quanta of civilisation
as one might ever pick.
mircea_popescu: then "consumerism" is the perfect hidey hut for this state of affairs -- "oh, we're dedicated to the production of things" "yes, for
as long
as they lack any substance".
mircea_popescu: in short, it's better because it produces no things and lots of words -- the ideal state for the jwz. that's what neil simon wants of life, yes, a situation where no things issue but
as many words
as possible.
mircea_popescu: there's this nonsense that emerged
as a replacement jolly-joker philosophy out of the french revolution. they had a major problem picking something to believe in, and eventually settled on "humanism" in the "enlightenment" sense of the term.
mircea_popescu: he same role
as the chunk of wood on dog's collar, prevents it from going through the bars"
a111: Logged on 2018-05-04 16:30 BingoBoingo: more heavily to the end of the year?
As it is I am still effectively paying out of my diminishing savings to live amongst the retards.
Mocky: so instead the interface
as methods that keep track of the info for the tasks you actually want to do
Mocky: apparently stepanoff wrote the generic list processing for Ada but saw that c++ would be more popular so then wrote stl
as researcher at HP