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mircea_popescu: if computers-were-magic(tm) then the thing would produce a virtual infinite space and the viewport would be dragged around across it, so you could follow diagonally
mircea_popescu: "but what is monitor size ?" "dunno, best add a js lib"
mircea_popescu: so if "nested = 12 pixels" then you get a limit of 100 or so.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes it can't not exist because monitor is finite and it stupidly decided to nest by magic number allignment.
mircea_popescu: yeah, and derpy "liberal" chicks who don't know how to dress or be useful in the house are in danger of becoming sought after.
mircea_popescu: he didn't want to say naggum-c because i said it already.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform which is the problem. if it's gonna happen at all, then why not have it happen right off.
mircea_popescu: "if i allocate what i think it should be the program crashes"
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes yes. you are asking yourself to come up with a number which will be larger than the largest number of nested comments people may wish to make. if you're going to think like this might as well become a c++ specialist.
mircea_popescu: they insulted his ancestors or something, i dun recall.
mircea_popescu: yea einstein, you got yourself a nobel prize in global warming in the making there.
mircea_popescu: it's fucking annoying, too, "dude, whenever you increase your dataset your correlation goes down" "so should pick better data, right ?"
mircea_popescu: if i wanted to arab i'd be in cairo, they have fine mosqs.
mircea_popescu: yes well. by the time "scientist" is unable to ~comprehend~ what the fuck the numbers say about his data, i don't care what fucking calisthenics he does.
mircea_popescu: no ~serious familiarity~. just the average came-with-apartment bipedal cat's "hey, open fridge door, take out food it's how food works"
mircea_popescu: no serious familiarity with statistics, nothing even remotely useful.
mircea_popescu: no fucking concept of analysis, i'm not discussing hyperpeels or any nuttery, just merely the concept of hey, if it's a function i can derive it, find the inflections, DRAW IT. yes with the fucking draughtsman kit.
mircea_popescu: and most research anything have the numeracy of a stripper.
mircea_popescu: send them all back to fucking school, 90% of their time ends up spent doing insane chewing gum and spittle equivalent of unix pipes.
mircea_popescu: their fucking problems are "how to put this into excel"
mircea_popescu: most chemists active in research today would greatly benefit from having half of brain cut out replaced with programmer.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform rd is definitionally not heart of usg. try "health and human services expert analyst"
mircea_popescu: the funny thing being that nonsense converges. "civil" and "common" law systems end up giving almost identical "solutions" to the same problems notwithstanding they start from opposite priors. similarily, life of usg mandarin is very much like life of say japanese company man.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes you also don't have the sort of job they do. what's office drone in heart of usg do, something TO STAND OUT ? holy shit.
mircea_popescu: im pretty sure he published a log backup url somewhere.
mircea_popescu: did i recount the famous episode of my mother fishing btw ?
mircea_popescu: (you're invited to go fishing, discover fish will eat your bait and not bite)
mircea_popescu: anyway. i'm not proposing your life choices are invalid. i am saying the form of the argument is broken. it's easy to pretend like you know better than fish while not being fish. in point of fact fish does as best he can
mircea_popescu: use the dust for lube, write your life's novel / memoirs / whatever.
mircea_popescu: buy : 1 month rent in slum ; 1 typewriter ; 1 stack of paper ; 1 sugar bowl, fill with pure cocaine ; 1 medium dildo.
mircea_popescu:
http://btcbase.org/log/2017-01-27#1608353 << it'll very likely stay there forever, for the simple reason that a bitcoin miner that's proper is worth money so can't be given away for free, and if it's going to be improper then alf's 2012 argument prevails and just keep the old one.
☝︎ mircea_popescu: at some point the pile of chain overweighs the disinclination to read code.
mircea_popescu: nobody's forcing anyone, they just get gently encouraged.
mircea_popescu: piece of code A which has been read 8 times by 5 peoiple is thereby better, no questions, more valuable and more useful, than the SAME EXACT piece of code A read by its author alone.
mircea_popescu: the more time people spend ~actually reading~ the same piece of code, the better. "i might have read it so it's as good as read" open source bs doesn't qualify here.
mircea_popescu: there's no need for that tight coupling of intent anyway, not like we're trying to drive through an intersection here.
mircea_popescu: it's always way the fuck better to say "i don't like what you did because" than to say "i don't like what i think it might be the case you say you intend to do because".
mircea_popescu: consider the fine case of mod6 's vtron since he said something. so he built a vtron, then later we decided didn't like how it works, he put the time in to understand the thing, fix it... all this happened because he made the first one ; and wouldn't have happened if we were just sitting 6months ago holding dicks and discussing it theoretically.
mircea_popescu: now, this excursion in unrelated scary things complete, let's get back to it : give people the benefit of the doubt. if they fuck it up it's their problem not yours.
mircea_popescu: and plenty of people knew it would take off, which is how we're here.
mircea_popescu: perhaps your understanding of incentive is not so strictly correct. pedophile who primes 9yo girl is not necessarily wrong in evaluating her sexual value a few years before it customarily becoems apparent.
mircea_popescu: there is some merit to this view. not as much as you imagine though. gavin was there, in 2012, and giving "talks" to the nsa, in 2011, and wondering out loud if that's certainly not why satoshi stopped talking to him.
mircea_popescu: do you have any fucking idea how many bridges we crossed when we got to them to get here ?
mircea_popescu: everything in the us is 2.2 these days. but whatever the actual value might be.
mircea_popescu: people aren't objects and vice versa, you gotta context switch.
mircea_popescu: it's safe to assume he's not about to do something stupiud in all the places it's not exhaustively clear what he actually means to do. and if he does do something stupid all the better, we get to laugh at him later.
mircea_popescu: er, when discussing things people do, especially their plans, a best scenario is to be employed, becuause people aren't fucking amelia bedelia and if they are we want to find out.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform at issue is your very poor (through being inflexible) best scenario/worst scenario context switching. so : it is the habit of engineers to consider the worst scenario when building a house, which is how houses end up 3.5x structurally stronger than thyey need to be. because holy hell, what if rocks fall or the ground moves or there's very wet snow or some idiot gets confused and parks his car on your roof. howev
mircea_popescu: the two items discussed were "modularize wallet" and "remove btc address signatures". they're in the 2-5 hour range for a very careful single engineer.
mircea_popescu: in the time everyone spent arguing with various phantoms they could have actually done all the work that was therein contemplated.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform why the fuck are you so obstructive anyway
mircea_popescu: i thought you wrote all this shit on a touchpad anyway.
mircea_popescu: Browser shots Sorry service is down for maintanence << dude they're not even trying anymore, the web's deader than shannen doherty's career