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mircea_popescu: machine's problems must be solved by machines ; software is the standard they are led to much like the erect cock is the standard women are held to.
mircea_popescu: go, make "zero surprises compilation" on intel pentiums.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i don't think "zero surprise compilation on all machines" is a notable or even desirable concern.
mircea_popescu: Framedragger was planning to use it as a snide "you're leaking ip" for noobs' benefit
mircea_popescu: this has been a random sampling of the ips leaked by people connecting today. Framedragger, any idea why only 1 in 4 is in your list ? evidently the ips are routable ; can you check if you talked to them and htey didn't respond, or just didn't talk to them ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform iirc yeltsin won this dispute in practice.
mircea_popescu: jesus turns out the "our democracy" folk had been living in a full on play-by-the-ear dictatorship since the 70s ? they have nfi how anything works do they ?
mircea_popescu: also, amendments to the constitution aren't made by congress.
mircea_popescu: i had a ~9 lb laptop cca 1995 that could almost play master of orion
mircea_popescu imagines how sad things would have been if the computers of the 1990s were tablets instead.
mircea_popescu: i think the trilema.io is actually trilema.com or something.
mircea_popescu: hey, you should hear the latin they speak at "ivy league" "classics".
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform yeah i think this was mostly dreamscape reinterpretation of my one time at some renaissance faire.
mircea_popescu: nobody could speak arabic but "they had been told" by a politruk it's ok to go blawhahelabalawala while waving arms in air
mircea_popescu: myeah. the locals were kinda wtf, why does there have to be an "artificial river" ie this muddy trench and they gotta wear weird clothes
mircea_popescu: which reminds me, i had a dream last night, mosul had been actually conquered by teh coalitioderacy of dounces and they were rebuilding it.
mircea_popescu: there's a "ukraina" which does ~same as the "us army" does, ie steiner angriffs every other day.
mircea_popescu: there's also a band which thinks it's tmsr ; and other such things. there is, as previously mentioned, a small island thinks itself "the republic of china".
mircea_popescu: i also like the game development <-> apple / google arrow schematics.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i think we should just stop playing now, dat usg is just too competent.
mircea_popescu: and in other news opengl managed to break my machine. gooo team gui!
mircea_popescu: incredible that we're still stuck fighting the fucking spanish. won't these idiots just go die already ? they fucked up an empire five centuries ago ; they're still here looking for gifted empires to fuck up.
mircea_popescu: because, of course, "Sepan los nacidos y los que van nacer que nacimos para vencer y no para ser vencidos."
☟︎ mircea_popescu: then walter_ is gonna ask me about standards, apparently on the basis of his impression that such a thing as standards can even exist without l1 signing off.
mircea_popescu: they're gonna say it as if it's fact ; on the basis of the hordes of idiots they spawned not being capable of distinguishing fact from writ from fiction. if it catches on good ; if not the "democrat" socialist horde has no memory anyway, so they'll be right there next week importantly sprouting a novel ream of nonsense. as if it were fact ; as if they mattered.
mircea_popescu: don't tell me you don't understand "how the world works".
mircea_popescu: which isn't particularily surprising, who the fuck actually wants kerry or mccain.
mircea_popescu: it is safe to say the non-sanctioned republican party wll spend the remainder of its short, unappy life running for an ever more evanescent cover.
mircea_popescu: "the tax that's not a tax" very psychiatrically sound.
mircea_popescu: anyway, i guess in desperation bash script to curl for trilema.com/2016/ and then hit each article once.
mircea_popescu: it's not just the recent comments ; headers change daily also.
mircea_popescu: there must be some way to tell wget to not get files you already have.
mircea_popescu: well, run a wget, you have the whole list of articles conveniently given in archives.
mircea_popescu: i dunno. in truth the maintenance of mp-wp is a bit in the air right now ; but if you want to make a patch by all means.
mircea_popescu: the problem would be that because of how the theme works with the recent comments thing all articles "change" whenever a new comment is added/
mircea_popescu: and if a girl is passed out, is it logical to assume she's not into getting laid, or that she's really wet for you, or also no way to tell ?
mircea_popescu: if a website doesn't provide "last modified", is it logical to assume that it never changes or that it just changed ?
mircea_popescu: your tool i mean. since it's redownloading when it shouldn't.
mircea_popescu: yeah '; what i'm asking is, are you trying to get a signal when there's new comments ? because otherwise trilema articles do not change.
mircea_popescu: though trilema articles don't actually change. do you mean the root ? or the comments ?
mircea_popescu: same place the written record left by the hittite empire went.
mircea_popescu: archive.org belongs the same place wikipedia.org belongs.